Nate Levitt
dies in city

The progressive movement here
lost one of its staunchest members

on March 15 when S. N. (Nate)
Levitt died in his 65th \year.

Nate Levitt’ was born in Eng-
land but came to Canada with his
parents while still a child. He
lived in Calgary until 1918, when
he moved to Edmonton.

Levitt. worked as a_ba¥tender
fot some years, and early in the
thirties he joined the Communist
Party of Canada.

He came to Vancouver about 12
years ago, worked in shipyards
during the war years; and was an
active member of the Labor-Pro-
gressive party.

_ Although he had suffered from
ill health for the past two years,
Levitt continued working in the
Olgin club of the LPP and as a
devoted member of the United
Jewish People’s Order until his
. untimely death.

Interment took place in Schara
Tzedeck cemetery in Burnaby on
March 17. He is survived by his
wife, a son and daughter in Van-
couver, and a son and daughter
in Calgary.

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Protest lifts
border bar

TORONTO

Within hours of a telegram-pro-
test to Ottawa and Washington
from over 3,000 delegates attend-
ing the 15th United Automobile
Workers union convention in
Cleveland, three of four Ford Local
200 delegates originally barred
entry by U.S. immigration offic-
ials, were admitted at the Detroit-
Windsor border. The fourth mem-
ber, Frank H. Harris, former vice-
president of the Ford Local 200,
was still denied entry.

Blasting the U.S. action, Cana-
dian UAW director George Burt,
speaking for 200 Canadian dele-
gates placed a-resolution before
the convention urging an immedi
ate protest to President Eisenhower
and Health and Welfare Minister
Paul Martin. The telegram was
co-signed by UAW president Wal-
ter Reuther and _ secretary-treas-
urer Emil Mazey on behalf of the
four excluded delegates.

Burt charged that gangsters
had more freedom of movement

across the border than trade

unionists. He attacked RCMP
and U.S. immigration officials
for their interference, declaring

U.S. officials had acted on tip-
off information from the RCMP.

A spokesman for the U.S. im-
migration service said the RCMP
had supplied a list of 200 persons
who were to be questioned if they
sought entry to the U.S.

The three listed by the RCMP,
but later permitted entry were
Orlie Allen, member of the Essex
West Liberal Association; Carl
Anson, just out from a sanitarium;
and Roy Babcock, president of
the Windsor Unemployed Welfare

j Committee.

Burt indicated that the action
taken against the Ford local dele-
gates sprang from the militancy
of Local 200 members and _ their
recent victorious 112-day strike.

In B.C. recently five delegates
to the Mine-Mill Convention in
Spokane, Washington. were stop-
ped on orders from the U.S. De-
partment of Justice.

They were Al King, president
of the Trail Mine-Mill local, C.
Skinner, St. Morandini and Chick
Kenney, all union local officials.
A fifth stopped was Mrs. John
Petrunia, member of the Mine-
Mill Ladies’ Auxiliary.

Strong protests were lodged by
the union.

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UFAWU blasts
witch - hunting

“Recent actions by AFL top representatives in suspend-
ing Canadian local officers elected by Canadian workers have

exposed the lack of democracy

in many international unions,”

declared the officers’ report endorsed by delegates attending
the eleventh annual cenvention of United Fishermen’ and

1 Allied Workers Union here this

week. The report was signed by
president H. Stavenes, business
agent A. L. Gordon and secretary-
treasurer Homer Stevens.

“The rights of Canadian trade
unionists are trampled underfoot
by U.S. labor bosses whose only
qualifications seem to be their
ability to conduct McCarthy-like
witch-hunts,” the report continued.

“Asreements for Canadian work-!

ers are negotiated by foreign trade
unionists in a foreign country and
then shipped up here all signed
and sealed. 3 rs :

“The merger of two Canadian
labor congresses representing over
a million Canadian unionists de
pends almost entirely upon deci-
sions reached in the U.S.

“We recommend a policy of
Canadian trade union autonomy
which will guarantee Canadian
workers the right to run our af-
fairs without foreign controls or
interference. Our union should

ji] maintain its absolute opposition

to the labor-splitting policies of
so-called labor leaders who spread
the poison of McCarthyism. We
should at all times use our influ-
ence in the Canadian labor move-
ment in favor of democracy and
freedom from any form of racial,
religious or ponien discrimina-
tion.”

Loss of over $240 millions in.
export markets last year has a
direct bearing on growing un-
employment in Canada, said the
report. The union proposed a
strong campaign for expansion
of export markets, and favored
recognition of China, the Soviet
Union and other countries where

restrictions are preventing nor-
mal trade.

“Canada should develop an in-
dependent policy designed to in-
crease our trade instead of ac-
cepting the trade ruling of the
U.S. state department.”

As steps which would lead to
world peace, the report advocated
“an end to the mad race for super-
weapons” and “measures against
the manufacture and stockpiling of
atomic and hydrogen bombs.”

Alarm was expressed over grow-
ing U.S. contro] of many of Can-
ada’s natural resources.

“Power in the forms of natural
gas, crude oil and hydro-electrici-
ty are being exported to the United
States. Minerals and timber re-
sources are being subjected in-
creasingly to U.S. control and ex-
ploitation.

“The export of power and raw
materials is the export of jobs.
Canada cannot prosper on the ex-
port of raw materials. Our econ-
omy cannot thrive unless we re-
tain these resources for the con-
tinuous expansion of our indus-
trial capacity.

““We recommend a policy of
utilizing Canadian natural  re-
sources for the benefit of Canada
rather than. exporting them to an-
other country. Our aim should be
to export finished manufactured
articles, not raw materials. The
Canadian government. should lend
every-support to the development
of primary and secondary indus-
tries. Our union should press for
fuller use of our resources. as a
means of providing more employ-
ment and ever higher living stand-

ards.”

Frost echoes
Salsberg hope

TORONTO

Plans to harness atomic poweé!
for peacetime uses were givel
hearty endorsation in an unusué:
exchange between J. B. Salsbere
(LPP, Toronto-St. Andrew) and
Tory Premier Leslie Frost in the
Ontario legislature last week.

A bill to amend the Power Com
mission Act included: reference 10
a new “atomic” power source.

Salsberg remarked on its his |
toric character, expressing the |
hope that atomic energy would
used “for the health and lives of
people, and not for destruction.”

He was quickly followed DY
Frost who found himself “in eh
tire agreement” with the membe!
for St. Andrew.

“Tt is a depressing thing to read
of the great atomic experiments
that involve tests which, if put
improper use would destroy great
numbers of people, and perhaps
in the end, destroy mankind itself

. Lhope the day will come whe?
wars and things connected wi 7
wars will not be necessary,” B& |
said. 4

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of a shortage of cedar logs and #
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workers at Pacific Shake and
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