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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1959

Vou. 18, NO. 33 ‘VANCOUVER, B.C.

[STRIKE SCENE

WOODWORKERS

Strike entered.sixth..week Thursday... No. sign of
settlement. Some talk of appointment of a mediator.
Meanwhile 27,000 IWA members remain solid. Major op-
erations shut down 100 percent. Eniployers continue use

"_ IRONWORKERS

’ Strike in eighth week. First big break came this week
when Northern Construction Co. Ltd. signed a letter of
| agreement with the union, agreeing to any final contract

arrived at with other major firms. Some 1,100 construc-
| tion workers on the BCE Bridge River hydro project will

turn to work in a few days. On Monday union members
ejected an offer of 57 cents over 27 months, on grounds
that reduction in travel time and zones would cut off half
an hour’s pay every day. New proposals being considered
by both sides at press time. (FLASH: Strike settled Wed-

— ____ ELECTRICAL

. 4 ~ Some 1,200 inside wiremen taking part in a govern-
tient-supervised strike vote this week. Result known
sometime next week. The IBEW members seek a 35-hour
Week instead of 40 with no reduction in take-home pay.

TEAMSTERS

_ Pepsi-Cola plant on Lougheed Highway struck by 34
fivers and. other workers, members of the Teamsters

_ Union.
JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTE

Drive of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Trans-
‘port and General Workers to “take over” the Seafarers
|h ernational Union on the local waterfront hit a snag

when Skagway longshoremen, backing. the SIU, refused

The announcement that President Eisenhower has

OLD WARRIORS UPSET

BY TIM BUCK
invited

Premier Khrushchev to visit the United States in September and
that he, President Eisenhower, has accepted an invitation to visit

the Soviet Union soon

afterward is a most dramatic as well as a

most significant public demonstration that “the ice is melting.”

The fact that the visits will
take place is in itself, convinc-
ing evidence that tensions are
being relaxed. But that they
are taking place immediately
after Vice-President Nixon’s
visit to the~- Soviet . Union
proves beyond doubt that the
Eisenhower administration is
Foes psaie from its previously
\held arrogant position.

The fact that the visits sig-
nalize an important change in
the attitude of the Eisenhower
administration is one of the
reasons why the announcement
brought forth world-wide ex-
pressions of joy. It was almost
as though peace-loving people
everywhere burst forth in a
spontaneous world - encircling
“Hurrah!”

Along with the heartfelt re-
sponse of hundreds of millions
of people who have been sup-
porting efforts to-bring about
relaxation of ‘world tensions
and. meetings of the heads of
states, the mutual acceptance
of invitations is being welcom-
ed also by numbers of ‘men
and interests who until now
have been advocates of the
cold war — some of them ag-

the cold’ war to the limit of
United States power.

It is the break-through. The
pressures of the deep going
change taking place in the
world are over-coming all the
attempts to deny them and to
prevent them from finding ex-
pression. This is the essential
meaning of the exchange of
visits.

If this is emphasized and fhe
pressure of democratic demand
for peace is maintained, then
the conversations which must
be the focal feature of the
visits can mark a decisive turn-
ing point in world relation-
ships. Peace loving people
everywhere are hoping earnesti-
ly that this will be so.

It would be quite wrong to
encourage the illusion that all
sections of North American
monopoly - capitalism greeted
the coming exchange of visits
with enthusiasm. The an.
nouncement was met with bit-
ter hostility in some quarters.
It is evident that the interests
behind the open instigators of
war will do everything in their

Continued on back page

‘are removed from the ship.

See WORLD HAILS

gressive advocates of pressing! |

AT THE BIG LABOR-FARMER Picnic at Bear Creek

Miss B.C. Labor. (Story on back page.)

Ane oS ey e@_e@
i can?t visit Canada
: @ F e 6 |
until E'm imvited’—K
BY MARK FRANK
MOSCOW — At the big Kremlin press conference on
August 5, I asked Premier Khrushchev whether in light
of Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s reaction to his forthcom-
ing visit to the United States, consideration had been

given to the hospitality of the Soviet premier extending
his stay in North America to include a visit to Canada.

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Park last Sunday Elaine Hannuksela (left) was named —
Miss B.C. Farmer and Kay Tuchak (right) was selected as

Khrushchev replied: “One
goes visiting when one is in-
vited. The Canadian prime
minister welcomes my visit to
the United States, but while
welcoming this visit he did not
invite me to come to Canada.
Therefore I should not like to
burden myself and think how
to get out of this situation, the
more so since the question of
an invitation has not arisen.”

Khrushchev was in high

spirits answering _ questions
from newsmen for two hours.
Key emphasis was given to the
idea that he was travelling to
see President Eisenhower t¢
talk peace, not war.

(In Vancouver this week
Mayor -Alsbury - wired Prime
Minister Diefenbaker asking
that Vancouver be included in
Premier Khrushchev’s itiners
ary if he is visiting Canada).

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