* Comment to jobless compared to present needs these Auto Scant aid 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- / Comission a the Kellock Royal 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 ‘| Nees : vt ges H Oper ¢ rant ill fi a dieser iti yard and freight ee ee cian aire Acedi own resources, the people will find | deg i , : ‘“ ; : ing. ‘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 e CPR eeement provides that all Match ae employed since to April 1956 shall tema; - fill et in that capacity with g . 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. a th Issue in dispute, The most important thing of all, unemployed. What public works P eae 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. Th the : : | lang, Having promised much, it was te . “tile industry at the be- , i) Prue, Shall be et, Ne oe from its Men CPR issue was also one of Machines. Unlike the ne ©wever, working men 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 | Sst (0m, yard and freight 0 cked by a Royal Com- j Make, “CPort) was an attempt to My? cha y wa clas Nation“ Al « hen potective”~ measures re- fition Ee by the Royal Com- men’, ron CPR proposals for Moyne Seniority” in other em- :] Sified section of rail- *ts the victims of auto- | > to the key | “Cilic Tribune Phon eM = Paitor Utual 5-5288 Manag — TOM McEWEN ‘ 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. May 16, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5