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a China fast — recognition or no
se! TCOgnition.’’

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if the market crisis in the industry,
5 crisis due in large amount to
bt the-one-track U.S.-dictated trade
af Policies of the Liberal govern-
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i Vention that while a few of the
, Dlg Operators are exploring the
Possibilities of British Colum-
dia's traditional Chinese market,
wt, the industry as a whole has not
io, yet swung into the effort. The
if Convention showed a growing
g Utitation with Ottawa's pro-
/“astination on -Sino-Canadian
a telations, Past president J. E.
mt Fletcher and newly-elected pres-
vy ident Harry S$. McQuillan both
SUrged getting “into China now’
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Hy ndustry.
fi) B. M. Hoffmeister, head of
MacMillan-Bloedel, wants to see
# offcial government ‘“‘recogni-
202” of China come first, then
@ ttade negotiations, Realistic men,
sthe majority of the boss loggers
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9 “2M wait until Ottawa is able to
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@ COnsideration, that while the
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jp V'thout B.C. lumber, it is highly
) Wuestionable whether Canada can
Set along without the great po-
‘ential market which mutual

‘rade relations with China can
Provide,

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WHEN even a bank president
calls for increased wages,
it is surely past time to consider
the occupation affected. Yet
that was the stand taken by
James Muir, president of the
Royal Bank of Canada, in his
annual address at Montreal this
month, in his comment:

“The present economic posi
tion of the teaching profession
is an anomaly. The economic
position of all teachers has de-
teridrated relative to other pro-
fessions of comparable training
and responsibility, and relative
to the working force as a
whole. . ...

“We as citizens must, through
government, business or indivi-
dual action, ensure that our
schools and universities are pro-
vided with sources of funds suf-
ficient to attract, to retain and
to replenish those human re-
sources of talent, training and
experience that teaching re
quires.”

What Muir is saying the
teachers themselves have long
been demanding. And in their
current negotiations with Van-
couver School Board, which will
influence the outcome of nego-

tiations elsewhere in the prov-
ince, they have resolutely reject-
ed an offer which fails to meet
their needs.

The offered incréase of an av-
erage of $400 a year for elemen-
tary and $500-$600 for secon’
dary teachers may appear at first
glance to be a substantial one.
In fact, it still leaves teachers in
the lower salary brackets earning

~ less than skilled tradesmen and

far less than their training and

“Support the teachers

ability can bring them in other
occupations.

The teachers deserve the sup-
port of all organized labor in
their stand for salaries commen-
surate with their training and
responsibility. But beyond that
is the broader fight necessary to
compel senior governments to
assume more of the cost of edu-
cation, to relieve the burden on
homeowners and raise the stand-
ard of education.

AUTOMATION
"MORE ANP MORE PRODUCTION
WITH LESS ANDLESS WORKERS" Go

Te Canadian Annual Review

went out of business a good
many years ago, but its volumes,
if you are fortunate enough to
pick one up, still make interest-
ing reading. They are interesting
less as an accurate record of
events than as a reflection of how
big business leaders of a bygone
day saw those events.

When they compiled their an-
nual volume the editors were
dealing with contemporary his-
tory. They included scandals
now almost forgotten which then
were making headlines across the
country and statements which
seemed the height of political

- wisdom at the time but which
their authors would now prefer
to have expunged.

Churchill’s characterization
“Bolshevism is not a policy, it is
a disease,” is often quoted today
by cold war propagandists. But
how many would recall the fuller
quotation which proves him to be
the crudest of demagogues and
the poorest of prophets?

You can find it in the 1919
volume of the Canadian Annual
Review, and this is how Church-
ill pictured the greatest social
advance in history:

“In its first stages, Bolshevism
offers a considerable attraction to
the worst elements in an unedu-
cated people like the Russian
masses. . . . They are able to
stop working; they are able to
take possession of what they can
find; they can enter the houses
of the wealthy and of the middle
classes and of the classes who
can read and write, and take the
food and the liquor and the cloth-
ing and the furniture; they can
trample down every vestige of
authority; and they can go off
and enjoy their plunder.

“But this only carries them on
for a certain number of weeks,
The plunder is soon eaten up or
wasted, and the accumulated
wealth of years can be consumed
or rendered unavailable in a very
short time. The truth is- reveal-
ed that the property of the rich
only meets, for a very few weeks,
the needs of the poor. ... By
the time this is discovered the
whole machinery of production
has been destroyed.” 3

I wonder how many of the
current descriptions of the social-
ist countries, the predictions
about their future, made by the
syndicated commentators of the
daily press will stand up any
better forty years from now. ~—

But if the statements made
during those years of travail and
the birth of a new social order
fail to stand up, neither do the
policies they express.

In the 1918 volume, in a sec-
tion headed, “Bolshevism: Its
origin, nature and world propa-
ganda,” there is this statement:
“Tf anarchy breaks through the
dam we are trying to raise, the
blood-red flood will flow west-
ward.”

The speaker could have been
John Foster Dulles, but it was
Field Marshal Mannerheim, the
man who climbed to power over
the dead bodies of Finnish work-
ers and a quarter of a century
later saw all his schemes collapse
wich the defeat of Hitler’s — and
his own — armies.

The policy for which he spoke
was the policy of the cordon
sanitaire . _ . the policy ‘of the
“containment of Communism.”
The policy of the cordon sanitaire
was destroyed in 1944, but not
before it had cost- millions of
lives and caused misery and suf-
fering the length and breadth of
the earth. é

Eisenhower’s doctrine for the
Middie East is the latest exten-
sion of the same policy continued
as the “containment of Commun-
ism.” How much more success-
ful wili it be? And how much
more does it increase the peril of
another world war?

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