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three-. : : : a t. HE long-awaited Speech from
fitmen a” Re: of cen ates pisaveomne fern T the Throne was delivered Mon- projects fall far short of providing
|) Men wilt te Peres, CPR fire: Wi ease eee eee day of this week amid all the tra- every Canadian with a job at wages

Rt iesel oe on freight and
tne being. comotives for the
. wi es itsel f on the ‘recom-
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teesaey . at firemen were un-

ment reached represents a signal

and under working conditions com-
victory for the CPR firemen.

mensurate with Canadian  stan-
dards. On the vital issues of mass
unemployment, expanded markets |
for Canadian goods and new in- Bat
dustrial construction to process our va)

ditional pomp and ceremony of
the opening of Canada’s 24th Par-
liament.

Measured against the flood of
Tory promises made on the hust-
ings, this “program” is short in-

Another basic lesson for labor
in the CPR firemen’s dispute is the
remarkable speed with which the

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a dieser iti yard and freight ee ee cian aire Acedi own resources, the people will find
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‘ide to a oo see had engineers and firemens unions. In order that “no Canadian shall the Throne Speech wanting

nel as of Ma an ae ik The first by Chief Justice Sher- suffer from unemployment” as Typical of Tory demagogy was

em. © “other a. and transfer wood Lett prohibited abstentions Dann. Maneater =D tebe nb ak es the advice in the Throne Speech

cautioning “all groups in our so-
ciety” to refrain from doing any-
thing likely to accelerate inflation.
The implication is clear enough.

from work and instructed Bro- pledged on the evening of victory,
therhood of Locomotive Engineers’ “seasonal” unemployment insur-
officials to “rescind” any instruc- ance benefits will be extended
tions they may have given their until July 1. To three quarters of

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CPR eeement provides that all

Match ae employed since
to April 1956 shall

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fill et in that capacity with

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Rings pray. of forces pitted ‘ t th
€ railway brotherhoods. however, is the conviction hati

ionists, that a
mechanization of Eng- many trade unionists, at
ee greater measure of labor unity in

| Seniority ..; : membership in support of the a million jobless workers this Tory Workers shouldn’t demand wage
: "eh hited 4 tights protected. Fire- firemen’s strike. The second in- generosity’ will look like feeding increases because that would in-
Mtfetence ig 1256 will be given junction on the same day by Mr. one small peanut to a hungry ele- crease prices and production costs.
& Ff other rail jobs. ee = hibited allofire- Corporate and monopoly profits,
Ti, Me strike Justice Manson pro phant. ; : P

a 3s lesso € has many far-reach- men from picketing CPR opera- The Throne Speech doesn’t say being sacred, required no such
Bi both - me for Organized labor, tions in B.C. what comes after July 1 for the “eae restraint in the Throne
the ; : : : : eech.

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projects are promised in the The essence of the Throne
Throne Speech are all. to the good
--the building of the South Sas-

Speech can be put in a few words.

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Men CPR issue was also one of
Machines. Unlike the
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Ten. ‘egardiess of vocation,
MOB ess “Pdosed to technological
ete hat they are primarily

With is that they, as a
the beneficiaries
a Victims of automa-
arbitrary decision of
Meee t#Zement to remove all

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‘ before katchewan Dam, the construction necessary to give a little. But just |
toy the last century, workers suUPpOrE. Sh ee ees KS of a railway into the Great Slave in case that little puts too heavy Be Ay
} Delay “4 Machines because they the atm ‘s aii action entirely. Re- Lake, expanded construction on a strain on our economy, we pledge i
. rely were the cause of peer Bes aie hesviie o8 harbors, airports, public buildings, our continued support of ; the 4
| story (ern That era in labor hae disunity, and the CPR was and housing. _ NATO alliance of the ‘free :
f Ludi -16) is known as the ‘ Nevertheless it must be said that world,” and hope we'll stay on top.
j te no exception.

Tom
McEwen,

HE May 6 edition of the

Peking Review features a
thumbnail sketch of a few of
China’s vast natural resources.
Many of these have been known
to the outside world for a long
time. They were one of the main
attractions for the foreign im-
perialists who ravaged China for
a century or more prior to 1949.
The full extent of these natural
resources has now been outlined
by China’s First Five-Year Plan
of geological surveys.

Iron ore deposits are now cal-
culated at 12,000 million tons,
putting China third in world iron
resources. Coal resources are ap-

China’s reserves are the second
largest of any country—the So-
viet Union has the largest. In
tungsten, China has the largest
deposits in the world, greater
than all the capitalist countries
combined. Its molybdenum re-
sources are also the world’s
largest and its tin deposits ex-
ceed those of Malaya.

These and other resources
listed in this vast survey of
natural riches — oil, petroleum,
pyrites, salt, and a wide variety
of rare metals — show China to
be one of the world’s richest
countries in natural resources.

Thus, when some cold war
smart alec, trying to counter the
idea of trade with People’s China
with the false argument that
China has nothing to offer, asks
what China will use for pay-
ment, this geological survey of
her natural riches is a good
answer.

Better still, unlike us in this
province in particular and the
country generally, who see our

clipped the claws of the pipe-
line speculators, the  profit-
gouging monopolists, the land
sharks and the trusts. Now the
vast natural resources of the
country belong to the people,
which is a hell of a lot more
than we can say of .ur own.

xt xt xt

As the old saying goes, when
“thieves fall out” ordinary people
get a better look at. the truth.
Fascist-minded U.S. newspaper
propagandist Fulton Lewis has
falen out with U.S.-sponsored
Radio Free Europe and is now
bringing some new facts of this
counter-revolutionary cesspool to
light.

Lewis has furnished a list of
the financial backers of RFE, and
in this great cause of the Dulles
family for “freedom” we find
Standard Oil as one of the top
contributors, tossing in more of
the long green than all the other
monopoly backers put together.

My Los Angeles correspondent
says it’s “quite surprising’ to

j n i roxi ely 44,000 million tons, rich natural resources being find Standard Oil of the Rocke- 4
j a 7, MAL UGRIEEIN rap reserves of up to given away and our jobs with fellers as a champion of “free- :
iI Scription Rates: 1,500,000 million tons when final them to the big monopolies and dom” anywhere, but then again, :
( One Year: $4.00 Sage are complete. trusts by Socred, Liberal and probably it isn’t. John Foster

} Six Months: $2.25 : “ies of manganese were Tory governments, the people of Dulles, who practically cwns In-

fl Publishea neaE Te Seager Serer s China own and control and de- ternational Nickel down Sudbury aa

j Room 6 ayeekly at 86" percen ane Chak noe velop their natural resources — way, is also one of the big cogs re.
a 426 Main Street aoe mee eee Sane for their own well-being and in Standard Oil, and, as every- J i]
‘ Bin Ouver 4, B.C. ran cane einhigencee deposi: advancement. one knows, Dulles is a great a
| ig'tie va pec monweanh ad sixth in copper resources, Over there in “backward” en Me “freedom” — for the aS

iq Year xcept Australia): $4.00 well ahead of Canada. In lead, China the common people have big trusts!

all ot Australia, United States
her countries: $5.00 one

year.

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