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MONTREAL—The Far East c

By CHARLES LIPTON

A majority of delegates prob-
ably favored President Picard’s
proposals for prompt action
leading to affiliation. However,
as at last year’s convention, a
substantial minority expressed
doubts.

The situation has been mud-
died by the unprincipled ac-
tion of a number of interna-
tional unions in raiding CCCL

RC Carpenters ask
{anadian autonomy

i MAMLOOPS, B.C.—Formation of a Canadian section of the
ri. Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners was advocated
,° 16th annual convention of the B.C. Provincial Council of

Meeting banquet
on anniversary

Showing of a color film on
People’s China will be one of
the highlights of the concert
meeting to celebrate the ninth
anniversary of the Chinese
People’s Republic which will
be held Sunday, October 5,
from 1:03 to 4:30 p.m., at the
Russian People’s Home, 600
Campbell Avenue.

In the evening, starting, at

‘6 p-m., a banquet will be held

at the Forbidden City, 90 East
Pender Street.

Both the concert meeting,
to .which admission is free,
and the banquet, tickets for
which are $3 each, are spon-
sored by the Vancouver
Chinese Committtee.

in UN, repudiates U.S. policy

risis and affiliation to the Canadian Labor Congress were
Qi, Outstanding questions dealt with by 500 delegates attending the 38th convention of the
dian Confederation of Catholic Labor, here last week.

organizations in the chemical
and pulp industries in the past
two years.

Moreover, the CLC leader-
ship has not shown sufficient
zeal in pursuing unity with the
CGCCE,

After heated debate, dele-
gates united on a resolution
instructing their “unity com-
mittee” to meet with CLC
heads in order to negotiate
“affiliation of the CCCL to the
CLC with the status of a na-
tional union,” and to report
back to the next convention. It
was provided “that the ‘unity
committee will have complete
freedom to carry on these
negotiations.”

Delegates failed to adopt a
resolution which asked the
CCCL “to go into the oppor-
tunity of adhering or not to
Canadian political party that
is to be formed.”

This negative decision does
not restrain the political educa-
tion work of the CCCL, decided
on at previous conventions.
Nor does it restrain political
action by regional bodies.

One reason for the refusal
to adopt a more positive atti-
tude is considered to be a desire
to heal the rift in the conven-
tion’s ranks, threatening as a
result of the affiliation debate.

It was noted that delegates
would be more prepared to sup-
port a new political movement
emanating directly from the
trade union organizations and
embracing also farm move-
ments, popular political move-
ments in Quebec and other
groups, than one narrowly
based on the CCF.

(CCL calls for seating Ching CHINA ‘BRINK’.

U.S. planes
already used

OTTAWA—tThe gravity of the crisis provoked by U.S.
policies in the Far East was illustrated last week when the com-
mander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in Formosa Straits intimated
that the U.S. Air Force has already been in’ action against

Chinese forces.

Vice - Admiral Wallace
Beakley gave “official” fig-
ures of about three pilots and
five planes lost during the
last three weeks of crisis.

He said “Our boys got too
enthusiastic and pressed
things a bit too hard.”

Unofficial sources put the
losses of both pilots and
planes at double these figures.

Iceland ‘should make

charge of aggression”

Se
% Fuad Chehab (above), in-

Stalled this week as Leba-
non’s new president, pledged >
to end the fighting which pro-
vided the U.S. with its pre-
text for armed intervention
and to secure the withdrawal
of U.S. forces from the coun-
try. He announced that Leba-
non would seek closer ties
with other Arab’ countries.

TWO_GERMANYS CONTRASTED.

REYKJAVIK — Iceland
should charge Britain with
aggression at the present
United Nations General As-
sembly session, the Socialist
Unity Party paper in Reykja-
vik urged last week.

The party is one of the

- three in the government coali-

tion. Its paper, Thjodviljinn,
said: “This is no longer a dis-
pute of general rules of the
sea, but a particular act. of
armed aggression.”

Iceland announced last week
that. it would raise the dis-
pute over its new 12-mile fish-
ing limits at the UN As-
sembly.

The newspaper quoted the
captain of the Islandic patrol
vessel Aegir, Thorainn Bjoern-
son, as saying: “The British
warships ignore the rules of
navigation and behave as if
they were at. war.”

Memorial dedicated at Buchenwald

By PHYLLIS ROSNER

BERLIN — Before a crowd
of 100,000 people, East Ger-
man Premier Otto Grotewohl
last week dedicated a mem-
orial to the anti-fascists of
Germany and many other
countries who perished in the
infamous Nazi concentration
camp at Buchenwald.

Attending the ceremony
were men and women from
many countries who had
fought against fascism, who
personally or their loved ones
had suffered terribly in Buch-
enwald and other concentra-
tion camps.

At the opening ceremonies
the march past was led by
the Belgians, headed by four
women >carrying flags. One,
carried by a nun, was from
Nazi concentration
Breendork in Belgium.

The Belgians were followed
by the 2,880-strong East Ger-
man delegation waving flags
bearing the red triangle —
the same triangle political
prisoners. in the concentration
camps were compelled to
wear. One of the men had
éven donned the cap he had
worn as a_Buchenwald’ pris-
nor.

camp.

The 1,000 - strong French
contingent had an especially
warm welcome. Among them
were several priests and. nuns
who. éarlier held a_ special
service on the site of the
former camp where. 56,000
anti-fascists were murdered.

Premier Grotewohl began
his speech with these words:
“With love and veneration we
bow. our heads before the
dead heroes of the anti-fascist
resistance, before millions of
victims of fascist barbarities.”

He pointed. out that today
there were two Germanys,

September 26, 1958 —

one the German Democratic
Republic, a state of peace and
socialism, where the ~ great
ideal of the anti-fascist fight-
ers had been realized, The
other, Western Germany, a
centre of reaction where the
militarists and fascist have
again come to power.

“In their bloodstained hands
they carry the most terrible
weapons for mass destruction
in the history of mankind —
atomic bombs.” They were
“disastrously entangled” in
the NATO. policies and were
standing ready to avenge
their defeat of 1945.

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