‘sy dt: “4 ACROSS ¥ NATION Fight for new railway Policy looming in House ee Canada-wide demand by neck and farm groups for a Tailway policy has a focal a iM a vigorous struggle now Place in London, Ont. ae Powerful battle of Lon- pei workers to stop the Rallye of Canadian National Mohr. Carshop operations to ae sg » Winnipeg, Se ppcton has become the The a a whole community. ae - ey wants to make its ee 965, or 1966. at the ey amPaen has also spread : he city and has gained 3 peeretty and active support \ ea ont workers who faced etetion ar situation when CN op- hes . Were moved from there €w months ago, ast Week London city coun- unanimously agreed to spon- a labor - business - gov- Pan delegation to ask CN ent Donald Gordon to re- 4in and reyj revitali Operations. ize the carshop cil Sor €rnm a. delegation will be made ‘ Bear mbens of city council, ounci] On Railway Workers of Com and the London Chamber merce, one railway debate is un- ren pee chine up in the cur- Centre 102 Of Parliament. It will a oF government proposals Lislati €iSlation based on the re- Toronto: Streamline’? the railways. commendations of the McPher- son report is expected to scrap government regulation of freight -rate increases. This proposal is already under fire from farmers who stand to lose from grain sales if the rates go up. The farmers are also hitting out hard at govern- ment policy of branch-line aban- donment. Legislation in the current ses- sion of parliament is expected to create a new federal agency —a branch line rationalization authority. It would set the pace for shutting down branch lines, mainly in Western Canada. West- ern farmers recently urged Ot- tawa to nationalize the railways. A recent editorial in the West- ern Producer points out that the wheat sales to socialist count- ries has increased the net earn- ings of Canada’s railways. ‘‘The railways’ case for widespread abandonment of branch lines has been further weakened.” The upshot of the Canada-wide scene is that a vigorous strug- gle by London railway workers could prove to be a powerful embarassment to the Canadian government on its present rail- way policies. The London struggle could be a catalyst to start things mov- ing right across the country. Business man urges more Gnada-Socialist trade A st adign JON appeal for the Can- : an to ae to be opened up tries from socialist coun- Prominers pee last week by a Man, anadian business- If thj . me were done, said Cros- Keete, feed President of Lewis, treal ‘ Penfield Ltd. , of Mon- - ee could sell more nee ecchiet Union, China and ve sane Socialist countries, and ear oy better terms, Dor ee old the Canadian Ex- h Beoctstion in Toronto Bie must work toward With “s balancing of trade hess _ Socialist countries. ancing : Ntries need this bal- Or reasons of foreign € and prestige, . purchases, he said, a‘ 5 Part of every con- ae ee has signed. His S capital equipment Bods Orts semi-manufactured Can, ’ Created ans dumping duty policy coun oie ficulties for socialist i : » Said Lewis. Canada ties ie mate dumping du- industry Out requiring domestic €s' to show some evi- t = Senior TORONTO re “Thment : The Ontario goy- tang; Should assume full co. Ponsibility for the °cial welfare services © administration in the cal governments. the stand taken by the coe Party ina @ Y Provincial leader S of is ig ister op setUSon sent to the Min- _ fay UNicipal Affairs. ignore oe longer possible to a fr, Mequalities that res- Cc i antiquated system of Cal taxpayers withthe dence of difficulty or trouble caused by imports. Lewis noted that socialist na- tions in Europe represented a market 2% times as large as the ~ United States while China has a population of 600 million. European countries are making large sales to those markets on’ the basis of state-to-state trade agreements, * * * It was also learned last week that Cuba is seeking purchases of millions of dollars worth of chemical fertilizers from Can- ada, But the U.S. trade embar- go against Cuba has made Can- adian producers reluctant to disclose whether they have ar- ranged sales to Cuba. One businessman said: **Com- panies that have arranged sales are not subsidiaries of U.S. con- cerns, because subsidiaries would not do it.’’ * * * Alvin Hamilton, former agri- culture minister, will visit Chi- na this month. He said he had received an invitation from the China Committee for the Pro- motion of International Trade. gov't pay welfare’ cost of social welfare services,”’ ‘says the letter. International Nickel Company at Sudbury is adopting an atti- tude which would distribute costs of social welfare between 30 municipalites and taxpayers, putting the load on homeowners. “Provincial and federal gov- ernments have the necessary power to tax corporations like INCO. and similar monopoly en- terprises. We therefore call on you to stop evading this issue,” concludes the letter. ala Crisis of Confederation needs democratic solution, says CPC Our country is approaching the Centennial of Confederation (1867-1967) with the state struc- ture established by Confederation itself in crisis. This has arisen because of the failure to recog- nize French Canada as a nation, The French Canadian people are justly demanding this recog- nition and the establishment at last of full national equality be- tween themselves and English Canada. We Communists stand for the preservation of Canada as aunited country. The interests of each of our two national communities,as well as the common interest of Canada as a whole, call for the recognition of the existence in Canada of two nations, English Canada and French Canada, each with the right of self-determina- tion. ; This means, the right of each to arrange its affairs as it choos- es and to decide on the form of state it prefers, whether sep- arate or in voluntary union with the other. Unless this right is recognized from the beginning, for each of the two nations, there can be no voluntary union within a common federal state, and the partition of our country could become a menacing pos- sibility. * * * At our 17th National Conven- tion in January, 1962, we said: «