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FSTIMATES, the allocation of

government spending for the
next year, have occupied the leg-
Islature for the past week. With
‘all the less controversial depart-
Mental votes now completed, the
fur can be expected to fly in the
Next ten days or so as estimates
Of the education, health and wel-
fare and labor ministries come
up for review.

Because the government’s new.

Plan for financing education, its
BCHIS policies and its refusal
to open the ICA or Workmen’s
Compensation acts for amend-

End war,
Catholic

unions say

By CAMILLE DIONNE
MONTREAL
“Canada should make every
effort to end the Korean war.”

| This was the major demand plac-
‘ed before the St. Laurent gov-

ernment by the Canadian Catho-
lic Confederation of Labor lead-
ership on, March 10. The CCCL’s
annual brief stressed that “much
could be done for peace if the
monies being spent on the Ko-
rean war were spent on improv-
ing the social and economie stan-
dards of underprivileged peo-
ple.”

The other main demand of the
CCCL, which represents 100,000
Quebec workers was that the re-
vision of the Criminal Code (Bill
93) be delayed for at least a year.
The CCCL declared that some
provisions of Bill 93 could de-

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See THIS WEEK

Continued on back page
See CCCL

Czechoslovak people
mourn death of
President Gottwald

; PRAGUE

On Thursday this week the
Czechoslovak people buried their
8reatest son, President Klement
Gottwald;who died on Saturday,
March 14, after a fatal attack of
Pneumonia and pleurisy.

In a statement announcing his
death, the Communist Party of
Czechoslovakia declared: “Our
People have suffered an immeas-
Urable misfortune. The beloved
leader of our working people,
Comrade Klement Gottwald has
Passed away.

“He led our people in struggle
against the Hitlerite fascist in-
Vaders. After our homeland was
liberated from the Hitlerites by
the heroic Red Army, he led the
Czech and Slovak people in the
building of a new society where
We are no longer ruled by capit-
alists and preyed upon by foreign
imperialists.

“With new energy our people
Will honor his immortal memory
by fulfilling the Gottwald Plan,
Our first five-year plan of con-
Struction. -We will devote all
Our strength, as he did, to more
effectively frustrate the criminal
Plans of the warmongers and
build our homeland as an invinc-
ible fortress in the camp of
World peace led by the Soviet

nion.

“The friendship and brother-
hood of the Czechoslovak and

Oviet peoples will live etern-
ally,”

Read the Clemens

PRESIDENT KLEMENT
GOTTWALD

Klement Gottwald was born
on November 28, 1893, son of a
poor agricultural worker. He
worked in Vienna as a youth as
a carpenter’s apprentice. In 1912
he joined the Czech Socialist
Youth movement.

He was one of-the founders
of the Communist Party of Czech-
oslovakia. Elected general sec-
retary of the Communist party
in 1929, Gottwald, inside and
outside of parliament fought for

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Clemens case

MLA URGES
GOVT ‘SEE
JUSTICE DONE’

STORY ON PAGE 7

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Put Empire Games
pool in city site,

says youth leader

STORY ON PAGE 7

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at the coroner’s inquest

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