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UNIONISTS

Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
stressed how impressed he was
with conditions in both metal and
coal mines. Coal mining, he ex-
plained, was mostly mechanized
with all the heavy drudgery re-
‘moved. Miners, both metal and
coal, get chest X-rays. twice week-
ly as against once yearly in Can-
ada. The Soviet miner works
only a six hour day.

Allister McLeod, of Nanaimo,
a member of the International
Woodworkers of America, told
how completely free religion is in
the Soviet Union, “with congrega-
tions spilling out of the doors.”
Members of the delegation visited
a Greek Orthodox Church, Cath-
olic Cathedral and a Jewish Syn-
agogue.

Canadian trade unionists will
be interested to learn that the of-
ficial journals of the Canadian
Congress of Labor and the Trades
and Labor Congress of Canada
are on file in the library of the
Central Trade Union Congress
of the Soviet Union and that these
journals are only a fraction of
the enormous amount of informa-

- tion which is available to the So-
viet trade unionist and other citi-
zens.

On trade union freedom, metal
miner Ken Smith put it this way:
**Soviet trade unions practice what
every American and Canadian
worker felt he was establishing
when the CIO was being built;
but in the Soviet Union it works
in practice. It’s what we in Can-
ada would like to establish.”
‘Smith described as ‘‘tommyrot”’
the propaganda about Soviet trade
unions being “‘dominated”’ by the
Soviet government. “Rather than
the government dominating _ the
unions, it is the unions which
dominate the government,” Smith
declared.

Members of the delegation
were: Dewar Ferguson, vice-presi-
dent, Canadian Seamen’s Union;
Harry Colegate, member of Mas-
sey-Harris Local 439, United
Auto Workers; Nels Jacobson,
member of the Brotherhood of
Railway Engineers; Allister Mc-
Leod, member of the International
Woodworkers of America; Ken
Smith, B.C. president of Mine-
Mill; Pearl Wedro, member of
the International Fur and Leather

Workers; Arthur Roberts, secre-
“tary,. Hy-Grade Local, United
Mine Workers of America, Drum-
heller, Alta.; Archie Hamilton,
president UE Welland Local
523; Margaret Popoff, secretary,
Toronto Local Fur and Leather
Workers Union; David Bider-
man, member of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union
and president of the Toronto

Branch of the United Jewish

People’s Order.
City Chinese thanked -
for friendship message

Chinese Workers Protective As-
sociation in Vancouver this week
received a cable from the Chinese
People’s government thanking the
organization for the message of
congratulations, expressing the
desire for Canadian- Chinese
friendship, it sent on the second
anniversary of the founding of
the People’s Republic of China.

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LPP candidates

The Labor-Progressive party’s
two members of the Ontario leg-
islature, A. A. MacLeod (Toronto-
Bellwoods) and J. B. Salsberg
(Toronto-St. Andrew), both of
whom are seeking reelection, will
spark the LPP’s campaign in the
coming election.

Labor assails PUC,

demands cabinet
fire commissioners

A “‘full investigation into the Public Utilities Commission’’ was
demanded by Vancouver and District Trades and Labor Council
(AFL-TLC) this week, as public resentment against the PUC con-

tinued to mount throughout the province.

Release of —

The labor body decided to ask the provincial cabinet to intervene

to grant a six-week adjournment
in PUC hearing on increased do-
mestic and commercial electric
rates. :

A three-man delegation from
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union, led by Homer
Stevens, appeared before Vancou-
ver city council Monday this week
to ask council members to sup-
port iabor’s demand that the
present commissioners be fired.

“The PUC is ignoring the inter-
ests of the consumers and the
rights of city council,” said Stev-
ens. “It’s nothing but a rubber

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MONTREAL

clothes.

The delegates were segregated
Ferguson said, and he was locked
in a room for four hours.

“On leaving Canada for the
Soviet Union,” said Ferguson,
‘we were told by some people
that we were going to visit an
‘oppressed country’; however, we
discovered on our return to Can-
ada that the oppression is here,
not in the Soviet Union where we
were greeted as friends and neigh-
bors and completely unrestricted
in our movements.”

Ferguson said the delegation in-
tended_to raise a “strenuous ob-
jection” about the treatment it
received at Dorval Airport, about
the lengthy time it was detained,
and about the manner and method
in which it was held.

* eity council should call upon the :

stamp for the BCElectric.”

“J will not permit that state-
ment to go unchallenged,” in-

jailed Greek
(MP's sought |

terrugted Non-Partisan Associa-

tion Alderman George Miller.

“The record of the PUC is. LONDON
such,” continued Stevens, “that ‘A nuriber of leading British

trade unionists have sent a cable
to the Greek government expres?”
souiee iets ing their astonishment at Tec®

: press reports that the imprison®
deputies of the Union of the D
mocratic Left (BDA) are not we
be allowed to take their seats in
parliament. . :

(In the recent election, 10 ca
didates of the Democratic Le
were elected despite the fact that
all of them were either in priso?
or. exile.)

“These men have been demo”
cratically elected,” the message?
reads, calling upon the Gree”
government to issue an announc®
ment “that all ten EDA member®
of parliament now in prisoP Os
in exile, will be immediately 7
leased to take their seats in Po”
liament at the opening of ©
new session.”

The message was signed by i

secretaries of the Fire Brena q

provincial government to investi-
gate and if labor’s charges are
borne out the
should be fired.’

“The PUC is an official body
that has a lot of information and
facts not available to the general
public,” protested Miller.

“Can I take it then that council
endorses the action of the PUC?"! »
asked Stevens.

“No,” replied Miller, “city may
not agree with PUC on its manner
of acting or decision, but I wi 1 not
be party to a request that would
tear down the whole structure
of law and order.”

Councillors turned down the
proposal, arguing that it was a
matter for -the MLA’s and that
there would be no point in call-
ing for the resignation of Com-
missioners before .whom_ they
tvould ‘be appearing shortly to
protest BCElectric’s latest appli-

Gation® Union, Foundry Workers) ine

Stevens, interviewed by the Pa- ‘Servants — Clerical anit) Se
cific Tribune, said: “Council is Construction Workers; ano
waging a sham battle with the retaries of the Manel
PUC. How can councilors justify Brighton, Worcester and Lu 5
their position when city repre- trades councils and the Home
sentative McTaggart had to ad- Counties Federation. of Trad
mit it was impossible to present Councils

the city’s case without an exten-
sion of time which PUC refused
in the .most irresponsible man-
ner? A hearing before these Com-
misioners can be nothing but a
farce.” .

‘Arthur Horner, general secre”
tary of the 600-000-strong ;
tional Union of Mine worker :
has sent a personal cable askine
for immediate release of the

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National Di
of 400,000 in Peking

PEKING

More than 400,000 people took
part in the October 1 National
Day parade on Peking’s Tien An
Men Square in celebration of the
second anniversary of the found-
ing of the People’s Republic of

‘China. a

Column after column of heavy
guns, tanks and other equipment
rumbled across the specially re-
inforced pavement as flights of
planes whirled through the bril-
liant autumn skies overhead. The
military part of the demonstra-
tion was followed by contingents
from every section of civilian life
in which thousands participated.

There was 2 note of expectancy
in the great historic square, de-
corated with red banners and slo-
gans as Chairman Mao Tse-tung
and other government leaders
mounted the rostrum to the
strains of ‘The East is Red” from
the 700-instrument military band
and the thunderous’ applause of
the spectators.

Some 80 guests from various
countries in the ancient Chinese
capital for the. National Day cele-
brations were on the high terrace
in front of Tien An Men. They

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included Ilya Ehrenburg, world
famous Soviet writer, and Pablo
Neruda, exiled Chilean poet, both
executive members of the World
Peace Council, and delegations
from the Soviet ‘Union, Bulgaria,
Romania, Hungary, Korea, Czech-
oslovakia, Poland, Mongolia, Ger-
man Democratic Republic, Viet-
nam, India, Burma, Indonesia and
Pakistan. :

_ Commander-in-chief Chuh Teh,
after reviewing the troops, read
the order of the day: “I order
you to stand firm at your fighting
posts with vigilance, to strength-
en further the construction of the

national defense . . . and to strive .

to build up a modernized nation-
al defense force.” j

Young children led the civilian
part of the parade, contingents
vying with each other in the color
and ingenuity of their displays.
Doves of peace were prominent
in many of them. Every aspect
of industrial, agricultural

charts, sculptures and
paintings. Trade unions, cooper-
atives, women’s associations,
youth and students organizations,
democratic parties, all were rep-
resented in strength.

models,,

EDA deputies “so that {heya
take their seats in parliame? ue :
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president of the Democratic me
British-born Mrs. Betty Ambiel ‘
who has conducted a long figr
for her husband’s freedom)
ed: i
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election of my husband is =

The giant figure of a Chinese

volunteer, bayonet poised, carried
towards the end of the demon-
stration expressed the vigilance
and readiness of the whole Chin-
ese people to do everything neces-
sary to defend their hard-won
independence and prosperity from
any imperialist aggression and to

win peace in Asia and the whole
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