be

The signing of the international agreement establishing the

neutrality of Laos took place

on July 23 in the Palais des

Nations in Geneva. Foreign Minister Chen Yi of People’s

China is shown signing the document,

Canada was also one

of the 14 nations which signed.

Toronto man reputed

Eichmann

The Canadian J ewish
News, a large weekly paper
ing in Toronto was a Nazi
port to accusations that a
Slovak businessman now liv-
ing in Toronto, was a nazi
collaborator in  Czechoslo-
vakia and co-operated with
Adolph Eichmann in a plan
to “solve” the Jewish ques-
tion in Bratislava.

Previous accusations
against the Toronto insur-
ance executive, Dr. Joseph
M. Kirschbaum, had _ been
made in the Slovak press in
Canada, and in a letter from
a reader to the Canadian
Tribune some months ago.

‘The Canadian Jewish
News says its original story
about Kirschbaum, publish-
ed May 11, is now confirm-
ed by the Council of Jewish
Communities in Czechoslo-
vakia, in a report received
by the paper directly from
Prague.

According to the official
statemént of the Jewish com.
munity in Prague, Kirsch-
baum directly helped Eich-
mann in the deportations of
thousands of Czechoslovak
citizens and Jewish refugees
from Austria to Auschwitz
and the crematoria.

Kirschbaum was secretary-
general of the ‘People’s
Party,”
party, the political instru-
ment of the Slovak Quisling
government established by
the nazis. The People’s Party
helped police Slovakia for
Hitler — under Kirschbaum’s
leadership.

Now the Czechoslovak
Jewish community officially
demands the extradition of
Kirschbaum for war crimes,

the Slovak Hitler

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‘including co-operation with
Eichmann for the deportation
of Jews to extermination
camps.

Sidney M. Harris, national
chairman of the Canadian
Jewish Congress-B’nai Brith
Joint Community Relations
Committee, told the Canadian
Jewish News:

“We have been disturbed
for some time by the stories

. about Dr. Kirschbaum’s
past, and we have accumu-
lated considerable informa-
tion which requires, we be-
lieve, further study and in-
vestigation.

“We feel the Canadian
government should take im-
mediate steps to check on
this information and to de-
termine whether Dr. Kirsch-
baum’s entry into this coun-
try was valid. If not, we be-
lieve that the government
should take procedures for
deportation back to his coun-

Rape of our resources

is increasing in tempo

By STAN LYNN
(Abridged)

One more big U.S. claim
has been staked on Canadian
natural resources on what
may be one of the largest
bodies of iron ore in the
world, recently discovered in
north-western: Canada.

Preliminary studies have
located the deposits from
the headwaters of the Crans-
wick River in the Northwest
Territories to the Snake
River in the Yukon Terri-
tory.

Crest Explorations’ Litd., a
wholly-owned subsidiary of
the California Standard Co.,
has already staked about
93,398 acres since June.

The ore is in a Jasper-

hematite bedded iron forma-"

tion, with beds as much as
300 feet deep. The formation
runs in an east west direction
for 32 miles and is from
three to 13 miles wide.

It is symbolic of the times
that an American firm
should make the discovery
and stake out the claim on
this huge deposit.

What will happen to these
vast sources of iron ore in
the Northwest Territories and
the Yukon?

The answer to this ques-
tion could lie in the re-tell-
ing of the story of Ungava.

When it was first consid-
ered feasible, after World
War Two, to develop the
tremendous iron ore reserves
of northern Quebec, it was a
Canadian firm with some
U.S. shareholders in it, the
Hollinger Consolidated Gold
Mines Ltd., which first stak-
ed out a claim.

The two Hollinger sub-
sidiaries which carried on
exploration in Ungava in-
cluded American investment,

Ore Company of Canada was
formed in November,. 1948,
under the stat laws of Dela-
ware, that the full extent of
the surrender to the U.S. be-
came known.

When the terms of exploit-
ation were first revealed,
there was a heatéd debate in

. the Quebec Legislature.

Under these terms, the
Hollinger North Shore Ex-
ploration Co., obtained a con-
cession of 3,000 square miles
for which it agreed to pay
the provincial government
$6,000 a year until 1951;
nothing for seven years;
$60,000 a year for another
period; and finally, $100,000
per year.

With the beginning of pro-
duction in 1953, the ore ex-
tracted yearly would he
about 10 million tons, worth
from $70 and $100 million.

Apology

Last week’s issue ot
the PT carried a feature
article on “Old Doc’
Douglas. In the article,
it was reported that Doc
had signed his name to
a note which financed
the first Ship.in* the
“loggers’ navy.”

Since that time, sev-
eral old time loggers
have pointed out to the
PT editors that, notwith-
standing Doc’s tremen-
dous contribution to the
labor movement, it
would be historically in-
correct’ to make the
above statement. _

The PT stands correct-
ed, and offers its apolo-
gies to its readers, to
Old Doc and to all the
old time loggers.

Even when the company P#™
its maximum fees, Quebee
would only realize ab
one cent a ton on the %
extracted and if productio?
reached 20 million tons 4
year, the province’s revenue
would be reduced to hai
cent a year.

This was such a raw we
that even Liberal opposill
leader Godbout was PI

‘voked enough to exclaim |

the legislature: ‘We hav
sold our national patrim

in mineral resources for

bite of bread and to a com
pany which is predominate
foreign.”

There is no doubt t®
British ~Columbia, with
vast hydro-power resource
would be in a position to
ploit these deposits in the #
terests of Canada and
create thousands of new jo?

for Canadian workers.

But the Bennett gover
ment is engineering 2 fabs
tastic sellout of its
the United States, of the ‘a
power that would be used °
the development of indu
in this province.

In all this, perhaps a
most ironic touch of all ie
with the news on an 4F a ;
in the Toronto Telegram
Canadian corporations Es
hot on the track ot oe
mineral resources—!n 4
Jamaica, Guinea, Nicaras
and Mexico.

.

Could there be 2 se
devasting comment 0 he
complete absence of eve? d
last shreds of’ patriot
among the monopolists
our country?

try of origin.” but it wasn’t until the Iron —
China’ ing steadily
By BERT WHYTE tables — which together with then demonstrate the truth of Big problems remain 1 i a

PT Staff Correspondent

The housewife poked at
the cauvlitiow ers,
squeezed the tomatoes and
carefully examined the cab-
bages, green beans and cu-
cumbers before. deciding
sae: vegetables she would

family’s din-
_ ner. Finally
she made
her purchas-
es and mov-
ed over to
the fish coun-
ter.

This tab-
leau, repeat-
ed_ endlessly
every day in Peking, signal-
izes an upturn in China’s
economy better than any
statistics could. For vege-

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grains make up the basic diet
of the Chinese people — are
now sold in unlimited quan-
tities at dozens of big markets
and hundreds of small street
stalls.

Instead of Hote wivek que-
ing for hours for a cabbage,
as they did just one year ago,
today they have a choice of
over 30 kinds of fresh vege-
tables. And it is a buyers’
market, as the care with
which people make their pur-
chases prove.

“The economic situation of
the country has already be-
gun to take a turn for the
better,” said Premier Chou
En-lai in his report to the Na-
tional People’s Congress last
March 27. pevelopce. since.

_ this statement.

Signs of the upturn: more
vegetables for sale; more con-
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stores; improved health of
the people; the opening of
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precedented natural clami-
ties, plus serious man-made
mistakes, and today is begin-
ning the slow climb back to

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