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The story of American labor in 1947 told in

ee pictures, taken on pick-
et limes, at mass rallies and

conferences, tell the story of
American labor’s struggle to
hold its rights against big busi-
ness’ drive to destroy them.

@ Unvder-paid teachers who
left their school rooms _ for
picket lines in St. Paul to win
the biggest teachers’ strike ir
labor history.

Pearson-Roberts

Pearson

1. The National Film Board
has supplied film stock to
the USSR and has from
time to time aided in the
showing of Soviet films in
Canada.

2. The National Gallery has
shown a number of Rus-
sian exhibits during the
war and since and is very
glad to continue to do this
as time and opportunity
permit.

3. The CBC has devoted time
to the presentation of Sov-
jet cultural developments.

4. The Canadian government
has facilitated the visit of
three Soviet writers to
Canada.

To date there has been a
lack of reciprocity in this field
and we would appreciate any
advice the National Council for
Canadian-Soviet Friendship can
offer on working out rectprocal
exchanges of cultural material
on a mutually satisfactory basis.

e
third proposal was that

Canada should “plan the de-
velopment of the Canadian
North in such a way as to en-
sure a friendly frontier with
the USSR.”

The attiture of the Canadian
government on this question

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1947

strike - breaking
cops, these AFL
on a twoplay

@ Answering
Oakland, Cal.,
workers went
general strike.
@ Here’s how the coal miners
felt about the U.S. Supreme
court decision against their
United Mine Workers (AFL).

e This mammoth picket line
circled New York’s main tele-
phone exchange as 294,000 work-

was made clear by the secre-
.tary of state for external af-
fairs-in the address which he
gave in New York on February
26 of this year. After referring
to cooperation between Canada
snd the United States in ex-
tending our knowledge of Arctic
conditions, Mr. St. Laurent
went on to say:

“There are more than two
neighbours in the Arctic. The
development of the Northern
Polar regions is a matter of
interest to more countries
than the United States and
Canada, I would be glad to
see collaboration for mutual
assistance in this development
arranged amongst all the na-
tions which have these inter-
ests. No one of us is so wise
that he cannot benefit from
the knowledge about northern
areas on the widest possible
basis. I have no hesitation in
saying that my country would
be happy to cooperate in such
an enterprise provided it were
established upon a proper bas-
is of reciprocity. We are al-
ready exchanging meteorolog-
ical information om a recipro-
cal basis with our Russian
neighbors. Why not extend
the practice to other useful
information?”

€

E fourth proposal was that
Canada should “negotiate a

- 26, 1942,

ers left their jobs in a coast-
to-coast telephone tieup.

@ Overflow crowds greeted
Henry A. Wallace in a dozen-
odd cities as he lashed out at
the Truman doctrine.

Bottom row, left to right:

@ This Harrisburg, Pa. AFL-
CIO union rally against the
Taft-Hartley bill typified grow-

pictures

ing rank-and-file sentiment for
united labor action.

@ With the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers playing
the tune, Congress romped all
over the people’s interests.

@ Snow and cold didn’t stop
the landlord from evicting this
couple when Congress, pressed
to pass a-housing bill, respond-
ed by relaxing rent controls.

@ The first major strike called
after enactment of the Taft
Hartley bill was staged by the
Industrial Union of Marine and

Shipbuilding Workers (CIO)-
@ Remington-Rand tried wt
‘the

successfully to return to
good ol days’ of 1987 when its
Mohawk Valley formula was #
model for strike-breaking.

exchange sets out viewpoints

long-term treaty of friendship
with the Soviet Union along the
lines of the _ British-Soviet
Treaty.”

Both the United Kingdom and
the Soviet Union have recently
stated that the treaty of May
requires revision. The
cuestion of its revision has for
some months been discussed be-
tween the two governments. No
agreement on the text of a re-
vised treaty has yet heen
reached. In these circumstances
it would not appear to be real-
istic to propose that Canada
should negotiate a treaty with
the Soviet Union along the lines
of the present Anglo-Soviet
Treaty.

The Canadian government de-
sires to take every practical
step within its power to im-
prove relations between Canada
and the Soviet Union. I should
therefore be glad to receive
from you at any time concrete,
practical suggestions for the im-
provement of these relations.

Roberts

AY I link the third and
4 fourth proposals in order to
make this reply as brief as
possible? It seems to the writer
that negotiation of a long-term
treaty of friendship with the

Seviet Union, for geographic
reasons is of infinitely greater
importance to Canada than is
such a_ treaty between’ the
United Kingdom and the USSR.

Clear proof of this is found
in the statement of your min-
ister, Rt. Hon. Mr. St. Laurent,
which you quote, as well as in
your own declaration, while you
were ambassador to the United
States, that Canada has no de-
sire either to dig, or have dug
for her, any Maginot Line in
her Arctic ice.

One look at the map clearly
establishes why Canada should
take the initiative in seeking
with our neighbour on the north
an association comparable to
that we enjoy with the one to
the south.

That relations with the USSR
have deteriorated greatly since
the end of the war cannot be
denied. This council certainly
does not proceed from an
assumption of rightness on the
part of the USSR any more
than it believes that Canadians
are always in the right simply
by .virtue of being Canadians.
Friendship does not hinge on
perfection of agreement, but on

a desire for understanding.

It cannot be: denied that *our
self-interest is involved, for if
the two great powers who are

“Made easier

our neighbours should fall out,
our own country may well be
the victim of aggression on thé
part of either or both. To seek
now amelioration of our rela-
tionship with the USSR is not
appeasement, as hotheads SU&
gest, but the search for friend-
ship before no choice remains
but that of appeasement “oF

‘else.”

Two ways lie open and they
are closely interlocked. The
first is that of a_ treaty of
friendship between the two 80%
ernments, with the whole PUF
pose of establishing that state
of northern accord to whi¢
Mr. St. Laurent ana yourself
have referred in the past—i?
short to keynote our’ relation
ship.

The second, on the working
level, is the establishment
profitable trade relations 9"
the cultural exchange throug
which peoples come to know
one another. The problem is
admittedly difficult ana is 2%
by the constant
resort to ideological propagand
which features both sides of
this endless debate. But thé
goal to be won is worth gre
effort, more so than ever W)
the possible alternatives to 9°
cord are considered .in relation
to our strates!¢
geography. :

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