6,000 STRIKE Pulp, paper workers demand wage hike At Pacific Tribune press time 6,000 workers in British Columbia’s pulp and paper industry were scheduled to “hit the bricks” to win a 12% percent wage increase. The two unions involved, Pulp and Sulphite Workers and the United Papermakers, had previously voted ~85 percent in favor of strike action after turning thumbs down on a _ conciliation board’s recommendation for a Nine mills throughout the province were making prepar- ns to shut down Wednes- and it was expected only equipment in opera- Thursday morning at & p.m. (the strike deadline) will be for heating the mills in the event of a prolonged strike. digesters at Harmac Nanaimo stopped on tion t “Pulp Ult outside yes / Lo percent pay hike. Tuesday. Major mills involved in the dispute are Powell River, Can- adian Forest Products, Crown Zellerbach, Alaska Pine and Cellulose, MacMillan and Bloe- del, Columbia Cellulose, and Elk Falls. Present base pay in the in- dustry is $1.74 an hour. Jobless lines lengthen as shutdowns continue Jobless lines are lengthening in Vancouver and Central City Mission is turning away men from its doors every night as plant shutdowns and layoffs continue in all parts of the province, causing job seekers to flock to the city in search of non-existent work. Hardest hit centre in the province is Kitimat, where 1,700 workers were laid off by Saguenay - Kitimat Construc- tion Company, an Alcan sub- sidiary. If Britannia -Mine DR. JAMES ENDICOTT will speak and show, slides SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16 - 8:30 p.m. 1173 West Broadway Refreshments will be served Auspices United Jewish People’s p Order some 800 miners will be thrown out of work. Last week Crown Zellerbach closed six of its B.C. opera- tions and laid off 450 men. The company said it was advanc- ing its regular winter shut- down by six weeks because of “the high inventory of logs and the general slump in for- est products markets.” Recently 1,800 men were laid off in MacMillan and Bloedel plywood operations. The situation of workers not eligible for unefmployment benefits is serious. Manager Charles Daly of Central City Mission reported this week that the mission is’ turning away some 50 men a day who are broke; homeless and in need of a night’s lodging. He urged Vancouver City Coun- cil to convert the old library at Main and Hastings into a bed unit, but aldermen gave his proposal the brushoff. - -in the near future. Latest Walt Disney film showing spaceships approaching Mars (above) will be pre sented to television audiences next month. But while Hollywood Soviet scientists are proceeding rapidly with plans to launch a real spaceship to the Moo! indulges in fantasie> | Diefenbaker rejection of exchang i visit to USSR angers Canadians Canadians from coast to coast are expressing anger and disappointment at Prt Minister Diefenbaker’s rejection of a proposal. made by .Soviet Communist party sect@ Nikita Khrushchev for an exchange visit in the interest of world peace and strengthes®’) The offer of an exchange came during the course 9 exclusive interview, believed to’ be the first given a large Canadian newspaper, by Kh chev to Peter Dempson, Ottawa correspondent of the Toronto Telegram. of Canadian-Soviet friendship. Replying to the question about an exchange visit, the Soviet leader said, “We have always favored an exchange of visits between statesmen if such visits are well prepared and can facilitate a better un- derstanding.” The interview was facilitat- ed through the good offices of Soviet Ambassador Dmitri Chuvahin who channelled the newspaper’s 10 questions through diplomatic mailbags. In response to another ques- tion which directly involved Canada, the*Soviet leader was asked whether he was satisfied with the 1956 trade treaty be- tween Canada and the Soviet Union and whether there were any plans to step up trade. Khrushchey replied that “trade relations between the two countries have not been developed sufficiently yet.’ He that discriminatory restrictions in the shape of so- called lists of strategic com- modities seriously impeded the development of more trade. “So far,” he continued; “the trade between the USSR and Canada has mainly a one-sided character, and is practically emphasised - restricted to the ‘purchase of Canadian wheat by the Soviet foreign trade organizations for delivery to the far eastern dis- tritts.” \ Canadian firms purchase little of Soviet goods possibly because they are not familiar with the goods on the Soviet market. : His reply included a refer- ence to “a forthcoming visit to Canada by the delegation of representatives of Soviet foreign trade organizations” hoping this would play a posi- tive role in the development of Soviet-Canadian trade. Other questions put the So- viet leader by the Telegram ranged over world questions centering on the issue of war or peace. Khrushchev made the fol- lowing points in his replies: DISARMAMENT: reduction of arms, withdrawal of troops from Europe, banning of atomic and H weapons and immedi- ately a ban on nuclear tests. He emphasized the need for a start on things on which there could be ready agreement, siressing an immediate end to atomic weapon tests. WAR OR PEACE? The pres- ent situation is not a pre-war one. The world today is not in danger of the unleashing of a new war in the nearest fu- ture. In the days before the Second World War aggression went unpunished. Today the November 15, 1957 — . f yA d peoples block those who W i? imperialistic monopo™ to unleash such wars. the thirst for war, because # |g good business, the people opposed to war. ; “We deny the fatal inev |) ability of war. But it © be categorically declared (| there will be no war CM) It is known that in cé capitalist countries ther important statesmen wh? for war.’ How can one ams) for madmen?” Peace can b preserved if people safes” h it, and raise their voic=mil time. OM Le |v PEOPLE'S CO-OP 337 West Pender — MA. 5836 Store will remain ope? Friday nights until 9 p.m. till Xmas