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Endicott attends Prague meet of
committee studying peace pact

, TORONTO

Dr. James G. Endicott has left Toronto by air for Prague, Czechoslovakia, to attend a meeting
of a unique international body whose job it is to decide how to go about getting the five great powers
to meet and negotiate a Pact of Peace.

The committee opened its session March 14.

It has 21 members and was elected by delegates

from 85 countries at the Congress of the Peoples for Peace in Vienna last December 19.

That Congress adopted a solemn
Address to the Governments of
the Five Great Powers, calling on
them in the name of the peoples
of the world, “to open the nego-
tiations on which peace depends.”

The address said that, “Agree-
ment between the five great pow-
ers, the conclusion of a pact of
peace, will put an end to inter-
national tension and will save the
world from the greatest misfor-
tune.” ;

This task could not be left to
the World Council of Peace be-
cause there were at Vienna a host

of representatives not associated
with the organized world peace
movement. Consequently the con-
gress had to elect a special body
and this was composed ‘of eminent
citizens, some of whom are mem-
bers of the World Council of Peace
and some of whom are not.

The include: General E. Bux-
baum, Brazil; Ilya Ehrenburg,
USSR; Yves Farge, France; Pastor
Forbeck, Norway; Iftikhar Ud-In,
Pakistan; J. Iwaszkiewicz, Poland;
General H. Jara, Mexico; Profes-
sor F. Joliot-Curie, France; Goro

‘Hani, Japan; Dr. S. Kitchlew, In-
dia; Na Yin-Chu, China; Mao Dun,
China; Mme. Nabarawi, Egypt;
Pietro Nenni, Italy; Giuseppe Nit-
ti, Italy;. N. Tikhanov, USSR; Dr.
J. Wirth, Germany; Charles Zade,
Iran. Representatives from Brit-
ain and Africa were to be named
later by their respective delega-
tions.

‘Mrs. Mary Endicott aceompani-

ed her husband on the trip.

Dr. Endicott will also attend the
meeting of the World Council of
Peace in Budapest next month.

Stop Pro-Rec cuts,
extend mass sports
NFLY urges gov't

VICTORIA, B.C.

“Stop the cut in the Pro-Rec budget and institute plans for the
extension of mass sports and recreation in British Columbia,” is a
major demand in a brief distributed to all MLA’s by National Federa-
tion of Labor Youth. Ernie Lawrie, NFLY provincial organizer, visited
Victoria to circulate the brief and interview some members of the

legislature.

The four main points in the brief
deal with unemployment, appren-
ticeship, education and: recreation.

“Throughout B.C. the shortage
of facilities for recreation is shock-
ing,” the brief states.. “The num-
ber of indoor swimming pools can
be counted on the fingers of one
hand. Yet we have a population
of more than one million!

“This example can pretty well
be used for all other organized
sport in the province. Baseball,
track, soccer, swimming, boxing,
wrestling, skiing only involve a
fraction of the people that could.
be brought into a program of org-
anized sport. Those that bewail
the hooliganism of young people
on the streets would do well to
examine the sports program avail-
able.

“Canada with a population of
15 million came 23rd in the re-
cent Olympic Games. Hungary,
with a population of nine million,
came third. How did this hap-
pen? There is no mystery to it.
The federal government in Can-
ada spends one and a half cents
per person per year on sports
while Hungary spends just under
$3 per person per year.

“tn B.C. with the contribution
through Pro-Rec plus the federal
grant approximately 11 cents
per person is spent on sports.
This is obviously not sufficient
to carry on a really mass pro-
gram. Yet even this tiny amount
is being chopped in the estim-
ates for Pro-Rec; $57,000 is be-
ing cut from an already too
small allocation for sport. How

May Day parley
set for March 25

John Hines, secretary of the
May Day Continuations Commit-
tee, announced this week that a
conference of all organizations de-

sirous of taking part in the 1953.

parade will be held Wednesday,
March 25, at 8 p.m. in Pender Aud-
itorium. © :

A call has been sent out to trade
unions and fraternal organizations

' stressing the-importance of May
Day and the fight for civil liber-

ties, a Bill of Rights, and Cana-
dian independence.

can this be justified in the face
of the growing need for more
sports facilities? :

“The fact is that it cannot be
justified on the basis of improving
the recreation program. It liter-
ally means the end of Pro-Rec as
a mass sports organization. The
protest letters from the members
of Pro-Rec printed in the papers
testify to this. ‘

“We recommend that the gov-
ernment stop the cut in the Pro-
Rec budget and institute plans for
the extension of mass sport and
recreation in B.C.”

Fur, Leather
wins boost
at Leckie|

A seven-cent package increase
for 100 boot and shoe workers at’
the J. Leckie Company has been
won by Local 510, International
Fur and Leather Workers Union,
in renewal of a one-year contract.

Gains obtained included a
straight three percent pay hike,
extra vacation time, one extra
statutory holiday, a 50-50 medical
services plan and a system of in-
creasing the guaranteed minimum
wages.

The union negotiating commit-
tee consisted of president Harvey
Clarke, vice-president Walter Pet-
richenko, secretary Tom Buchan-

an, Kathleen Derry and John Be-
jaul. The committee was assist-
ed by district representative Jack
Brierley.

National campaign against Bill 93

Canadian

Mine-Mill

council established —

A Canadian Mine-Mill Council
was formed at the recent three-
day national convention of Inter-
national Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers held in Calgary.

First target of the new council
is a 20-cent across-the-board pay
hike for all Mine-Mill members in
Canada. ,

A national campaign in opposi-
tion to Bill 93, which was brand-
ed as “a threat to our civil liber-
ties,’ will be undertaken, with
each local proceeding to set up
a civil rights committee.

W. C. Muir, business agent of
Local 901, was delegated to pre-
sent the Mine-Mili case on Bill
93 before the parliamentary
committee at Ottawa, with a re-
commendation that Regional
Director Harvey Murphy should .

accompany him if possible.
(Mine-Mill will appear before-
the committee on March 31.)

The Wage and Contract Policy
committee under the chairman-
ship of Mike Solsky, Local 598,
Sudbury, won endorsement for a
program of the 40-hour, five-day
week, with no compulsory over-
time, as well as the proposed wage
increase. :

The convention was attended by
62 delegates, seven representa-
tives from ladies’ auxilia es, 11

observers, six visitors and nine
officers and members of the Mine-
Mill staff. :

A special resolution of support.
for coal miners in District 18, Un-
ited Mine Workers of America, in
the present depressed condition of
the Alberta coal industry, was
passed after addresses by frater-
nal ‘delegates Sam English and
Tom Mackie of the UMWA.

The convention endorsed the
B.C. District Union plan for divi-
sion of work for job security
against impending and current
layoffs, as outlined by Regional
Director Harvey Murphy.

Bylaws of the new council call
for a meeting at least twice year-
ly, and an executive of 11 mem-
bers. Eastern Canada will have
W. Kopinak, 637 Port Colborne;
Mike Solsky, 598, Sudbury; and
R. L. Stevenson, 598, as members.
Central division will be represent-
ed by L. M. Messmer, 881, Medi-
cine Hat, and R. Michel, 800, Cal-
gary. Western division members
are Ken Smith, 663, Britannia;

Doug Gold, 651, Kimberley; and.

J. Tees, 802, Yellowknife. Nels
Thibault, Harvey Murphy and Bill
Longridge will sit as international
representatives on the Canadian
Council.

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