ARTHUR ROBERTS MARY- JENNISON ARTHUR WRAY, MLA Soviels develop — new machinery for giant plan MOSCOW First accounts are appearing in the Soviet press of gigantic mach- ines being assembled for work on the hydroelectric schemes to which an important sector of the national economy is now being geared. A floating dredger, with a daily capacity of 40,000 tons, is being built. Canal-builders have under consideration a floating excavator which in the process of lengthen- ing the canal, hurls the soil onto the banks at each side. A new type of light steel excavator, weighing over 1,000 tons and run by 44 motors with a total capacity of 6,000 kilo- watts—equal to a small town's power station—is being built in the Donbas. New machines for cement mix- ing are being produced, and pro- duction of concrete for the Kuiby- shev Dam is completely mechan- ised. This unit can be dismantled and moved to other sites, and can continue production during frost. Bulldozers which replace the work of 300 laborers are being run by one man. Many other types of smaller machinery are now be- ing prepared for carrying out of the gigantic plan. AY GARDNER _ R Leading last week to attend the “J believe this Congress will mark a turning point in the fight for peace. We already know that the sale of the Word Peace Commitee have drawn in many millions of people in addition to those who signed the Stockholm Appeal, The struggle for peace has reached a new stage where those who honest- ly desire peace have to make a de- cision to join hands and act with all others who want peace. In this way the United Nations can be made to function as a peace organization rather than a war organization.” Farlier, at a sendoff rally for de- legates, Miss Mary Jennison, sec: retary of the Canadian Peace Con- gress and also a delegate to the world gathering, declared: “We are taking into our hands the hearts of the Canadian people. We know how deep the desire for peace is among Canadians. We hope we will be faithful to the trust that is being placed in our hands. We take with us the wishes, the hopes and prayers of all true Cana- dians to this world conference for peace.” Collection of signatures to the Stockholm peace appeal concluded in B.C. on November 6, and the total of signatures collected natio- nally, expected to be more than 350,000, is being cabled to Sheffield, this Saturday by the Canadian Peace Congress for inclusion in the report to be presented to the world congress. Following is an advance par- tial list of delegates accredited to Canada for the second World Con- gress and released by the National Council of the Canadian Peace Con- gress: Dr. Daniel Longpre, Montreal; Jean Pare, Montreal Peace Coun- cil; James Cook, steelworker, Ha- milton; Wilfred Duffield, autowor-, ker, Oshawa; Adelard Houle, hard- rock miner, Timmins. Mrs. Rae Luckock, housewife, of Toronto; Stan Thornley, rubber- worker of Toronto; Mary Clarer office worker, Turonto; Joseph Zu. ken, barrister, Winnipeg; Ray Gardner, journalist, Vancouver; Alec Gordon, trade unionist, Van couver. Frank Maricle, farmer, North Al- berta; Art Roberts, trade unionist, Drumheller Valley; Arthur Wray, independent Social Credit MLA, Al. berta; Misha Korol, Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, To- ronto; John Boyd, Slav Committee, a Canadian delegation G. Endicott, chairman of the Canadian Pea discussion of the new peace propo-, RAE LUCKOCK orld Peace Congress seen as turning point in struggle for peace representative of all parts of the country, Dr. James ce Congtess, told reporters as the delegation left Second World Peace Congress in Sheffield, England: J. E. ZUKEN TORONTO LESLIE MORRIS ‘ALEX GORDON Toronto; Kalervo Ketola, Finnish Organization of Canada, Vancouver. Leslie Morris, journalist, Toron- to; Robert Haddow, trade unionist, Montreal; Mrs. Mary Endicott, housewife, Toronto; Dr. James G. Endicott, and Mary Jennison of the Canadian Peace Congress, national council; Arthur Mould, London Peace Council. An official greeting from Canada to the congress, was endorsed by assembled delegates. It read in part: “This conference, representing the deepest desires of all true Ca- | oppose the World Peace Congress, nadians, longing for peace, pledges to carry forward the struggle for banning atomic weapons, for dis- armament, against ali forms of ag- gression and. war propaganda, re- cognizing that in so doing, the peace loving people of Canada march side by side with their brothers and sisters in all lands, towards the day when peace shall be pyoclaimed up- on the earth.” Greeting the Canadian delegates, Mrs. Jessie Street of Australia, a member of the World Peace Com- mittee, said: “We've reached a stage in the world of today when we've either got to live together or die to- ADELARD HOULE FYOHN BOYD gether.” Mrs. Street said that when the| world peace delegates meet in Shef- fieid it will be the collective con- science of the world in conference. Only the governments of one-third of the world’s population, formally she pointed out. DR. J. G. ENDICOTT Smith charges Toronto plot to tax tenants TORONTO “Mayor Hiram McCallum and his boss, publisher George McCullagh, are deliberately not telling the truth when they now try to deny the organized attempt to foist a 10 percent rentals tax on Toronto -tenants,” board of control candidate Stewart Smith charged here |! ast week. Smith is making a powerful bid to regain the seat he held for the people from 1943 to 1946. “The plot ‘was exposed when | Ald. Norman Freed in Ward 4 and by huge war-profiteering. His re- former Ad. Charles Sims in Ward 5| warned every tenant by letter. The response to this letter in the form of signed cards directed to city hall has already indicated the widest opposition to the proposed tax, Smith quoted a Torento Telegram editorial which stated: “Council may conclude that there is no al- ternative but to impose a “munici- pal tax... or to tax tenants a per- centage of their rents. The editorial quoted a university economist to back up its argument. “T challenge the mayor to deny that City Finance Commissioner Lascelles’ report, which is now on his desk, recommends an ‘occupan- cy tax,’ another way of saying a tax on tenants,” said Smith. Smith urged Toronto citizens to unite to defeat this new threat to their standard of living, already election to board of control, plus re-election of Ald. Norman Freed and election of Charles Sims would ensure defeat of the plot, he said. He added that already in the civic election campaign there are indica— tions of strong support to defeat the Tory old-guard at city hall. Former Ald. Charles Sims also vigorously attacked the mayor's tenant-tax plan in a radio broad- cast last week. “Tf this plan is put across,” he said, “it means that in Ward 5 some more than 15,000 families would pay anywhere from $5 to $15 a month extra. Just imagine what this tax would mean to old-age pen- sioners, widows—to old people who are finding it such a desperate struggle to make ends meet these high priced days.” Civic elections take place on Dec- ember 4 this year, instead of Jan- hard hit by inflation brought about PACIFIC TRIBUNE — uary 1. NOVEMBER 10, 1950 — PAGE 2