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| Space trip
planned by
Russians

MOSCOW

Scientists of the newly-formed
astronautical section of the Cen-
tral Air Club of the Soviet Union
Will meet this autumn to discuss
the “possibility of creating an arti-
ficial satellite of the earth.”

It is already possible to send
Suided rockets into space equip-
Ped with radio apparatus “for ob-
Servation,’ states the report in

© newspaper Literary Gazette.

It revealed that research was
already being conducted in the
Soviet Union into the problem of
Sending “cosmic ships” into space
With people aboard.

One “cosmic ship” was already
being built, and biologists were
Studying the effect of space ‘i sht

- on human beings.
__It was not know how long peo-
Ple could stay in the cabin of a
Space ship, but while these prob-
lems were being worked out “it
is quite possible to send a series
of guided rockets into space.”

These could be equipped with
automatic instruments, including
Tadio and possibly television, to
transmit observations to earth.

Research workers were also
Studying the problem of the neces-
Sary food and water required for
a space journey.

Dealing with the power plant of
@ “cosmic ship,” the newspaper
Said that liquid jet engines had
Unlimited speed and could operate
at any height.

Canuck scientist
hack from USSR

A Canadian astronomer, head of
the time service section of the
Dominion Observatory in Ottawa,
w. S. McClenahan, has just re-
‘turned from a visit to the Soviet
Union and has lauded the work
being done by Soviet astronomers.

McClenahan visited Leningrad in
May and June for the re-opening
of the Pulkovo Observatory, 10
miles from the city, which had
been destroyed by the Germans in
the war. (Photo of the Centre’s
new telescope is shown above.)
He was the only Canadian dele-
gate. He said the Soviet scientists
urged greater exchanges and -co-
operation towards solving the mys-

teries of the universe.
He said a new instrument for

i Bt by photo-
making star observations
electric methods was shown to the

delegates.

|

200 picket parliament buildings

LPP demand on Seaway

received by

Prime Minister St. La

Progressive party calling for

locks at the International
LPP deposited the statement
distributed leaflets to hun
ed wide attention, stood beneath
the beautiful Peace Tower and
Sang O Canada to end the patriotic
demonstration.

Now the national leader of the
LPP, Tim Buck, has directed a
further request for any early in-
terview with the Prime Minister
or another government leader, to
Press the LPP’s case for an all-
Canadian Seaway.

‘They sold
says Tory

TORONTO

“They made no protest, they
Made no objection, they simply
prostrated themselves and sold us
' out.” This was the statement made
by George Hees, national president
of the Progressive Conservative
Party on the Ottawa government's
Policy on the St. Lawrence Sea
Way. The statement came after
the Toronto Globe and Mail had
needled: the Tory party for its
Silence.

(So far the CCF national lead-
ership has said nothing about the
Seaway deal with the U.S.)
“The recent announcement from
Ottawa means that the Seaway will
be built and operated zs the U.S.
government says it will be built
and operated,” said Hees. But like
the Globe and Mail, he proposes

Rapids.

dreds of onlookers,
ogcomie, Se

urent’s office last
the completion of

with the, government, picke

govern

week received the demand of the Labor-
the all-Canadian Seaway by building the
The delegation and picketline organized by the

ment

OTTAWA

tted the parliament buildings,

‘and in an inspiring conclusion that attract-

A statement issued by Buck for
the national executive of the LPP
following the successful demon-
stration in Ottawa declared:

“phe delegation and picket of
the Labor-Progressive party which
visited Ottawa on August 20 to
present a statement to the govern-
ment on the St. Lawrence Seaway,
and to demonstrate for Canada’s

us our?’

president

no steps to defeat the government

move and win an all-Canadian pro-

ject.
Hee:
ing the d
although Ca
thirds of th

id- Canada was accept
: “tictatorial terms of US.,
nada was bearing two-
e cost of the prolecs
ough the government ha
Ee Soot Canadians “that
Canada had the men, money and
ility to ¢ U
Pei and led the Canadian
people to believe that an all-Can-
adian Seaway would be begun.
“tm addition to a very serious
loss of employment, production of
materials, revenue and internation-
al prestige,” he said, “Canada has
been humiliated by her govern-
ment accepting dictatorial terms
from her neighbor on a project
that is common to beth countries.”

onstruct the Seaway un-,

vital interests, achieved their aim.

“The deputation was received by
the secretary to the prime minis-
ter obviously officially. While the
delegation found no member of the
cabinet officially in Ottawa to re-
ceive them, government sensitivi-
ty on the Seaway was shown in
the receipt of the prime minister’s
secretary of the LPP’s statement.
This directly contradicts the de-
liberately false news reports of
the press and CBC.

made for an interview at some
early date with either the prime
minister or another representative
of the government.

ket line in front of Parliament,

the motorcade of cars through the
streets of Ottawa, and the sym-
pathetic reception they received
from the public, were a tribute to
the members of the LPP who at

short notice, journeyed hundreds

party on the Seaway.

“t+ is highiy important that
the All-Canadian Seaway issue
be pressed. The government can
be compelled by public action
and pressure to build the key
section of the Seaway, the canal
and locks at International Rap-
ids, and so assure an all-Cana-
dian Seaway.” :

“A further request is now being

“The impressive 200-strong pic-

of miles to express the patriotic
and democratic position of our

Unions
role of

Laurent in taking away the right
unionists to strike.

mended acceptance of the com-
pulsory arbitration edict, then in
protest handed in his resignation
as chairman.

At the Trades and Labor Con-
gress convention in Regina on
August 24, John Bruce, Plumbers
Union leader, called the govern-
ment’s action “almost bringing us
to the fascist state.”

In Windsor, George Furt, Cana-
dian director of the United Apto-
workers Union, denounced the
action as a threat to the entire
labor movement.

Frank Hall himself, appearing
at the Regina convention, told the
700 delegates: ‘We think it’s less
important to save the railways- be-
ing tied up for six months than
have one man work against his
will.”

A protest resolution will be
drafted by the convention.

In Toronto, the Railroaders’ Voice,
shop paper of LPP rail workers,
issued a special leaflet which de-
clared: “The government broke the
1950 strike. It has broken the
1954 strike voted for by the work-
ers in observance of the federal
government’s own laws.”

The leaflet said Frank Hall
should tell the railmen why he
resigned. “Did he do so because
he advocated strike and was voted
down in the negotiating commit-
tee? Did he do so because he in-
sisted on the right to strike? Or
did he do so to help out the gov-
ernment? Railway workers have
a right to know the truth....

“Tt would have been far better
to have exercised the right to
strike and then :have parliament
meet and debate the matter, than
to give up the sacred right on a
threat from the government to call
parliament.”

The Railroaders’ Voice said the

Selling the PT

Islanders on

a sub binge
Dear Keader:

Hospitable is the word to de-
scribe the folks on Vancouver Is-
land. I was given a warm wel-
come by friends of the Pacific
Tribune in Campbell River, and
on our first day canvassing to-
gether we collected 10 subs and
renewals.

If Cumberland and Courtenay
tackle the sub drive with the same

- enthusiasm as
shown here,
there |. is no
doubt that all
these _ towns
will go over

OE TET TT TR TAT TTTAARTTTRE TTTTET slg

blast
gov't

The Canadian labor movement today stands united in its vigorous
denunciation of the strike-breaking action of Prime Minister St.

of the 145,000 non-operating rail

On August 19, the prime minister told the 14
unions who were demanding modest fringe benefits to bring them
closer to those enjoyed in other-industries, that he would call parlia-

ment to outlaw a strike if one were called. Frank Hall, heading
the negotiating committee, recom-: -

battle was not over. It put for-
ward a five-point program of ac-
tion “to fight against this anti-
labor action’:

1. Call special meetings of local
unions to denounce the govern-
ment move. tg
2. Cali on Frank ‘Hall to tell

what happened in the negotiating
committee.

3. Insist on winning al] de-
mands.
4. Call for an immediate re-

opening of negotiations and a gen-
eral vote of all rail workers to de-
nounce the government’s edict.

5. Call on the TLC and CCL
conventions “to condemn the Can-
adian government and to urge all
workers to vote against the candi-
dates of the Liberal party when-
ever they offer themselves for re-
election.” :

A similar appeal to rail work-
ers was made in a special issue of
Hi-Ball, shop paper issued by the
railwaymen’s LPP club in Winni-
peg. ‘

The 14 rail unions have been
negotiating off and on with the
two major companies for the past
eight ‘months’ without success.
Their main demands are for paid
statutory holidays, sick benefit
pay and other improvements in
working conditions. The compan-
ies refused to budge an inch.

Has H-bomb killed
frees on coast? —

What is the matter with the
trees on the Queen Charlotte Is-
lands? According to Charlie Val-
ley writing in the current issue of
The Fisherman, the leaves on trees
in exposed places on Skidegate In-

jlet and along the East Coast are

dead or‘half dead. They look as if
they have been roasted. Valley at-
tributes this to the effects of the
American H-bomb tests on the
Bikini atoll last spring.

A couple of other unusual things
have been noticed along the
coast. ‘Trollers fishing the West
Coast report that there are no kelp
beds to be seen this suinmer and
that the bottoms of their boats are
not growing the same sea grass and’
weeds as usual. As a result fish-
ermen are beginning to wonder
what is becoming of the plankton
in these waters.

Eisenhower signs bill
outlawing CPUSA

President Eisenhower signed in-
to law this week a bill effectively
outlawing the U.S. Communist
party and denying all bargaining
rights to unions alleged to be led
by “Communists.”

The Bill was rushed through the

their targets.

officially begins
September 15
and all
clubs through-
out the province are urged to
make their plans now and get oft
to a flying start.

Proposed quotas are on the low
side, but we hope that won’t pre-
vent clubs from putting everything
they have into the drive.

Rita Whyte

‘of Democratic Senators.
‘ting overwhelming support from

dying hours of the recent session
of the American Congress and is

The sub drive! cenerally regarded as an attempt

to throttle the rising protest in -

;the country against the result. of
Press U.S. cold war policies.

It was tacked onto anti-commun-
ist measures introduced by Attor-
ney-General Brownell by a group,
After get-

both Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, it was accepted by the
administratioh which had previous-

‘ly expressed misgivings about out-
-lawing the party.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 27, 1954 — PAGE 7