TERT GORE ES : if i a a ia Cvetic, FBI informer, exposed as psycho PITTSBURGH Matthew (“I Was a Communist for the FBI”) Cvetic has been exposed as a mentally unstable alcoholic requiring psychiatric treatment. Evidence of Cvetic’s condition was sub- mitted last week by the Western Pennsylvania Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born in petitions seeking reopening of two deportation cases in which he testified. _ One of the kingpins in the U.S. Justice Department’s informer network, Cvetic was UE charts job program HAMILTON A 6-point "program to provide! -jobs and greater security is being United Electrical! pressed by Workers. High on the list of the union’s Pital, Psychiatic Division, 9n Feb-| demands, as charted by its district ruary 17, was discharged March 5 council meeting here last week, 2nd readmitted March 18.» are an immediate increase in un- employment insurance piry date. Other demands include income single and $3,000 for married persons. UE is seeking restoration of the tariff on U.S. goods at the pre-1947 level in order to pro- tect the Canadian electrical in- dustry against present heavy U.S. imports. District council delegates agreed that the gov- ernment must protect Cana- dian workers against dumping and unfair U.S. competition. New a hn i bridge | tax exemptions of $2,000 for ; his first admission, according to glamorized in a national radio program and a film bearing his He has been very despondent and ““T Was a Communist for the FBI” unsettled since (he resumed drink- trademark. - ing).” 6 Cvetic’s medical record “cor- roborates the charge of all the victims of this informer that his testimony is unreliable, that his motives are q:estionable, and that his use by the ‘justice de- : partment and other government Hospital records showed Cvetic | agencies calls for an investiga- was admitted to St. Francis Hos-! tion,” the committee declared. Cvetic, who has a police rec- ord of an indiciment for assault and battery’ on his sister-in-law, was revealed to have been a ‘mental patient as recently as March 19. Seas he ‘demanded immediate reopen- ling of all cases in which Cvetic i testified, and an investigation of restless, agitated, «the informer racket” by the U.S. “Patient is loym! benefits has a suspicious attitude, seems genate Judiciary Comittee. and continuation of supplementary afraid, admits drinking heavily of benefits. beyond the April 15 ex- Jate, is admitted as a chronic: Cvetic has testified -aeainsl, alcoholic,” reported Dr. W. y, hundreds of persons in politcal Kelly, who examined Cvetic on hearings and trials, as well as in 'denaturalization and deportation the Committee for the Protection DERE: ‘ of the Foreign Born. The disclosures about Cvetic are The committee petition quoted the latest of a series reflecting on further from the hospital record: |‘ cremiinlity of the U.S. Jusuce “Patient used liquor very heavily Department’s paid informers and for a period of five years, but quit , ?* ofesional witnesses. altogether 2% years ago and has! Harvey Matusow, another FBI been with Alcoholics Anonymous. ; informer, confessed. that he lied Patient has been doctoring for a repeatedly for the justice depart- nervous condition. He Seeeu nen at several trials, and gave drinking this past Sunday and | false testimony at legislative hear- Monday, February 13 and 14. . . .| ings. — This is the new bridge built to link Halifax with Dartmouth; Nova Scotia. It has just been opened to traffic. One mile long, it is the second longest suspension bridge in the Commonwealth, = TT TL TTT Te a, whole. 6 negotiations with Yukon Consolidated Gold Corpora- tion concluded recently with the signing of- a. new agreement at Mine - Mill Dawson. Bazic wages have been inereased by five cents an hour with a 10-cent hike to grade-one tradesmen and 13 ments an hour to special tradesmen. Other con- cessions were also won. * * *k Vancouver. Trades and Labor Council. will. submit resolutions asking federal health legisla- tion, income tax reform, em- ployment and extension of job- less insurance before the May 30 convention of Trades and Labor Congress of Canada in Windsor. Another resolution will call for a Bill of Rights for Canadians. x x * Pulp and paper iocals in B.C; are discussing a proposal to es- tablish a printing union paper, to be published in Vancouver under sponsorship of the Western Can- ada Council. * * x ' Building . Trades Council has opposed an application for an overtime permit on construction at Kitimat. x * * B.C. District News, Mine-Mill publication, runs a satirical “past history of Granby operations” in its current issue, in connection with the company’s . repeated threat to close down Copper Mountain. every time the union enters negotiations. The report, compiled by G. W. Anderson, FGHS (Fellow of Granby Histori- eal Society) reads: : : June 12, 1937—-Granby Com- pany re-opens Copper Mountain after being closed from November 15, 1930. June 13, 1937—Grarby -Com- pany starts closing down. 1938—Going to close down. . 1939—Going to close down. 1940—Going to close down. 1941—Going to close down. 1942—-Going to close down. 1943—Going to close down. 1944—Going to close down. 1945—Going to close down.. 1946—Going to close down. (Did close down. Union called strike July 3. Settled November 5). : 1947—Going to close down. 1948—Going to close down. 1949—Going to close down. 1950—Going tv close down. 1951—Going to close down. 1952—-Going to close.down. 1958—-Going to close down. 1954—-Going to close down. 1955 (February 4)—Going to close down. : 1955 (March 29)—Still operat- ing. IMPs voice ry views on shipyards Representatives of AFL and CCL shipyard unions met in Vic toria this week to discuss, Pre entation of a joint brief urginé government action to bolster west Coast shipbuilding when a specl® sovernment commission comes here some time this spring. | Vancouver Metal, Trades Cou cile secretary Ed Kennedy annowune ed that the courcil had stated its position ‘in letters to all B.C. mem bers of parliament and -had recelv’ ed several favorable replies. - “J appreciate that a Canadian merchant fleet is important {0° the security and economy of country,” wrote G. R.\ Pearkes (Cons., Esquimalt-Saanich). “Our shipyards, at the present time, de- pend almost entirely upon nav contracts. When these are com: pleted, some of the yards will u® doubtedly have to close dowm: © throwing hundreds of men out. employment unless: a Canadial merchant fleet has been establish ed: , “You may rest assured that ! will do everything I can to P& suade the government ‘to rebuild the Canadian merchant fe |which, only through indifference has been allowed to disappear. Howard Green (Cons., Vancou ver-Quadra) wrote: “As you prob ably know, I have dealt with this subject in the House on numerous occasions, the last being on Janu: ary 12. You may be sure I shall do everything possible here get action on this situation.” Harold Winch (CCF, Vancouver East) said that he expected 2 |bate but that “conditions do not look too favorable to having ™ government make any commit: ments.” “The main stumbling block at the ‘present time is the lack of trade with Vancouver with O% ental countries,” wrote J. L. Ma Dougall (Lib., Vancouver-Burrard): “Until such time as there is # change in this direction, I rather feel that the government may nol be too anxious to expend the neces sary monies to bring this (restor® tion of Canada’s merchant flee about.” O. L. Jones (CCF, Okanagat Boundary) wrote: “I agree W? the contents of your letter 3? would be pleased to do anythil: I can to re-establish this vital i dustry.” “This is a matter that will U% doubtedly be the subject of i cussion in the House, particulat in view of the serious unemploy ment situation which now cop fronts us,” wrote Colin Came (CCF, Nandimo), “The po? Deepening farm crisis U.S. ‘danger signal’ NEw yor’ The deepening U.S. agricultural crisis thay be an ominous danse’ signal of a coming major economic depression, of 1929 dimensio” the business publication U.S. News & World Report warned in * March 25 issue. Last year, the article revealed, U.S. farmers had the smallest} share of the national income on record—7.2 percent. “Their plight recalls the 1920s,” a subheading in boldface type underlined, ‘when agriculture slumped long before the big depression.” ie The article observed: “Thinking back to .the 1920s, ‘|!some economists now are wonder- ing if this long-continued trouble in farming may not prove to be a serious weakness for the nation as : History, especially - in the ’20s, shows that, when farm- ers suffer over a long period, other PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 8, 1955 — PAGE ‘people is affected by the droP » ‘farm income, the article report pe POS business is likely to be hit.” - ‘ Nearly a third of the Americ? on the basis of farm populatio” figures showing 21 million pe? living on farms and another million more in rural areas closelY tied to the farm. ~ ine Farm net income at $12 bille. Jast year was 40 percent lowe than in the peak year, 1947- further drop of about 4 pere to $11.5 billion, is being fore unofficially by federal experts 1955, the report added. ; ent, cast for ‘ é