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Vol. 15, No. 26

FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1956

VANCOUVER, B.C.

Authorised as second class mail by
the Post Office Department, Ottawa

yThe giant steel strike of
),000 United Steelworkers
America members in the
ted States may spread to
ada, Murray Cotterill,
madian union public rela-
s director said in Toronto
5 week. Some 5,000 of 7,000
ployees at the Steel Com-
hy of Canada in Hamilton
ve voted in favor of strike
wion, and two small subsid-
es of U.S. steel companies
Hamilton and Marmora,
Mtario, have already called
“ympathy strikes.”
in the U.S. the strike — cal-
when negotiations broke
Wn between the union and
“big three” of industry,
. Steel, Bethleham and Re-
blic — has cut railway
eight hauling drastically,
Maile oil and building and con-
Wuction industries face criti-
1 shortages of steel.
ffects of- the strike will
on be felt in Canada. Spokes-
"en for big business estimate
yat a strike of two weeks
uld not cause any “major
ain” but a long one will
se “distress’ and “an ap-
oach to catastrophe.”.
anada gets about a third
her steel supplies from the
S. and Canadian plants, al-
eady working above rated
acity, would not be able
relieve the situation.

Continued on page 8
See STEEL

* The tallest totem pole in
the world, carved under
the direction of Mungo Martin,
was dedicated in Beacon Hill
Park, Victoria, over the Can-
ada Day holiday weekend.

-H-TEST RADIATION
THREATENS

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They don’t know
what they’re doing

Food prices put |
living costs up

Increases in the prices of potatoes, coffee, fresh fruits, vegetables, meat and

other essential foods have produced the biggest cost-of-living rise in Canada since
1951, the federal bureau of statistics at Ottawa announced this week.

(In the United States too, the cost of living index is now touching the 1953 all-

time record high point.)

During May, the latest month for which figures are
index rose by 1.2 points to 117.8 from 116.6. This is the biggest monthly rise re-
corded since June, 1951, when the index increased by 1.5 points.

available, the consumer price

Continued on page 9 — See LIVING COSTS

e

THE REAL STORY x

Report from Poznan

By G. CRUICKSHANK
WARSAW

Government leaders are
in Poznan making a de-
tailed investigation into the
disturbances of last week
which cost 48 lives.

The investigation indi-
cates that the armed men
who were among the dem-
instrators were not Poznan
workers.

But there were people
mixing in their demonstra-
tion who were heavily
armed. Where did they
come from?

“Preliminary _investiga-
tion has shown that gang

leaders and saboteurs ar-
rested were connected with
the reactionary under
ground,” an official com-
munique -said the day fol-
lowing the demonstrations.
Three facts revealed to
me from an authoritative
source throw some light on
the character of what hap-
pened in Poznan.
1 Of the 48 killed it seems
a number were members
of the United Workers’
party, presumably some in
the Poznan district offices,
which were attacked.
3 During the disturbances
a group of workers came

to the Poznan radio station
with a request that they
should broadcast an appeal
to the Poznan working
people not to damage pub-
lic buildings.
3 It is said that of men in
possession of arms ar-
rested to date not one has
been a Poznan worker.

Further, what is being noted
here is the great similarity of
technique between the Kast
German disturbances of 1953
and those in Poznan.

As to the participation of
workers in the disturbances,
it seems that there has been
genuine discontent among the

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See POLAND