~ Canada could have tripled its
‘sales of wheat to China under
the second contract in the three-
year agreement had handling
facilities in this country been
more adequate, Trade Minister
Mitchell Sharp told the House of
Commons recently.

He made the statement in reply
to NDP Leader T.C, Douglas who
asked whether it was true China
wanted 55,500,000 bushels but
had to settle for 18,700,000 be-
cause Canada could not fill the
‘order,

*‘The Chinese Mainland auth-
orities were interested in obtain-
ing more at the present time,”

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Sharp said. ‘‘The Wheat Board,
having in mind its commitments
to its other customers, decided

that it could not safely enter

into a larger contract with Main-

land China at the present time.’’ _

When Douglas. wanted to know
whether this was due to the lack
of supply or the inability to handle
wheat at the port facilities, the
minister replied:

**As I have explained on other
occasions, there is no lack of
wheat in Canada today. The limi-

tations lie in transportation, the :

capacity of terminal elevators,
and so on.”’

French radio for Toronto

The French-Language Educa-

tion Association of Ontario says
those protesting against trans-
forming CBC’s Toronto radio
station, CJBC, into a French
outlet are motivated by financial
interests,

The association said, in aletter :

to the federal government, that a
minority of 163,000 French-
Speaking residents of the Toronto
area and the association had
fought for many years for a CBC

radio station in their own
language, é

The association felt that
artists, afraid of losing their

jobs, were behind many of the
protests.

OFL demands

David Archer, president of the
Ontario Federation of Labor,
recently urged Ontario’s Select
Committee on Cost of Consumer
Credit to force all credit sales
to show effective annual interest

charges,

Toronto Peace Centre
Opens coffee house

Peace Centre in Toronto (56
Birch Ave.) has launched a
coffee house called The Shel-
ter and described as ‘‘a non-
profit centre for entertain-
ment and discussion,’’

The opening night program
Jan. 11 will feature Ann Cas-
son and Douglas Campbell (a
star of Stratford, Minneapolis
and Broadway) in scenes from
great plays.

The three-day-a-week cof-
fee house will offer talks,
Panels or forums on Fridays,
folk songs Saturdays and plays

and dramatic readings Sun-
days,

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~ Ronald Fraser, CBC vice-
president for corporate affairs,
has explained the switch to
French broadcasting on the fol-
lowing grounds:

* There is no justification for
carrying two English-language

stations operated by CBCinTor-_

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* No extra costs to the CBC
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way to distribute a French-
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credit changes

He said the government should
set maximum rates on credit,

make credit sales show total
dollar amounts of interest, ser-
vice and other charges ‘‘clearly
and separatély,’’ and disallow
bonus or ‘balloon payments”

— on mortgages,

In a brief to the committee,
Archer asked for the establish-
ment of minimum wages below
which a worker could not have
his wages garnisheed by finance
or other: companies collecting
on credit sales,

He said the provincial govern-
ment should consider controlling
advertising of finance companies
the way it polices liquor adver-
tising.

Recently, terms of credit buying
in Canada have been coming under
increased fire from widely diver-
gent sources. Many financial and
merchandising firms employ hid-
den ‘‘carrying charges’’ which,
in some cases, amount to more
than 30 percent per annum,

Union

AGENCY

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The United Fishermen and Al-
lied Workers’ Union last week
charged that Senator Tom Reid,
chairman of the International
Pacific Salmon Fisheries Com-
mission has ‘‘put forward a
theory which is right up the al-
ley of the Fisheries Assoc-
iation.’’

NAZI TRIALS

Cont'd from pg. 5
while the selection was being
made for the gas chambers.
**To such music,’’ Shirer con-

-tinues, ‘recalling as it did hap-

pier and more frivolous times,
the men, women and children
were led into the ‘bath houses’
where they were told to undress
preparatory to taking a‘shower’.

Inside the ‘‘ shower-room’’ was
perhaps ‘‘the first moment they
may have suspected something
was amiss, for as many as 2,000
of them were packed into the
chamber like sardines, making
it difficult to take a bath.’’ The
massive door was shut, locked
and hermetically sealed.

Up above, ‘‘where the well-
groomed lawn and flower beds,
almost concealed the mushroom:
shaped lids of vents that ran
up from the hall of death’’, or-

derlies dropped into them ameth- °

yst-blue crystals of Zyklon B.
sips. aie * *

Was the fact that Auschwitz
was a death factory known to
German personnel? Undoubtedly
it was. In testimony at the Nur-
emberg trials, one of the camp’s
commanders, Rudolph Hoess, ex-
plained:

‘*We were requiredto carry out
these exterminations in secrecy,
but of course the foul and naus-
eating stench from the continuous
burning of bodies permeated the
entire area and all the people
living in the surrounding com-
munities knew that extermina-
tions were going on at Ausch-
witz.”’

The I.G. Farben chemical trust
knew also. It built a synthetic
coal-oil and rubber plant at Aus-
chwitz to use slave labor. The
Krupp interests followed suit with
a fuse works. When prisoners
could no longer work, the gas
chambers awaited them,

Farben supplied the patent to

" two other German chemical firms

to produce Zyklon B crystals,

And correspondence to the SS
from I,A. Topf and Sons of Er-
furt, dated Feb, 12, 1943, con-
tained the following:

‘SUBJECT: Crematoria 2 and
3 for the camp,

‘We acknowledge receipt of
your order for five triple furn-
aces, including two electric ele-
vators for raising the corpses
and one emergency elevator. A,
practical installation for stoking
coal was also ordered and one for
transporting ashes.”’

But as Shirer says: ‘‘in the end,
even the strenuous efforts of
German free enterprise, using
the best material and providing
faultless workmanship, proved
inadequate for burning the
corpses,

“The well-constructed crema-
toria fell far behind . . . espe-
cially at Auschwitz in 1944 when
as many as 6,000 bodies °«» nad
to be burned daily. For instance,
in 46 days during the summer of
1944 between 250,000 and 300,000
Hungarian Jews alone were done
to death at this camp.’’

Authorities were forced to re-
sort to mass shooting. Bodies
were thrown into a ditch, partly
burned ‘and bulldozed over with
earth,

The current Auschwitz trial is
a postscript to Nuremberg. -

The theory put forward by

Senator Reid claims that astrike

creates havoc in salmon conser-
vation by allowing too many
salmon to spawn and he there-
fore proposes that strikes be
eliminated in the industry.

HOMER STEVENS, secretary-treas-
urer of the UFAWU, whose union
last week answered the latest at-
tacks on the rights of B.C. fisher-
men and shoreworkers.

Answering his attack the union
states: 5

**Our union membership con-
siderers the right to strike as
our last resort to obtain a fair
price for salmon. We don’t like
to have to strike, but the record
will show that the longest and
most bitter struggles have been
forced on us by price cutting
tactics of the Association and
their refusal to bargain in good
faith. Now Senator Reid, posing
unproved conservation theories,
echoes the Association’s long
standing demand for elimination
of strikes,’’

The statement debunks each of
the contentions of the Commis-
Sion which seeks to shift the
blame on the fishermen. It points
out that the Commission could
have ‘‘reduced the spawning pop-
ulation’’ it was complaining about
if the UFAWU nd Native
Brotherhood had been given a
chance at the sockeye during last
summer’s strike.

The statement adds:

In shifting the blame for the
small 1964 sockeye run Senator
Reid very frankly exposes his
desire to avoid any method of
settling price disputes *‘which
destroys profits and injures the
resource if only temporarily.’’
We see no sign of concern over
wage rates and working condi-
tions of fishermen and allied
workers as long as‘*‘profits’’ and

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*‘Such class prejudice is not
only provoking an anti-Commis-
sion attitude among Union
members but also casts great
doubt on the ability of the Com-
mission to take an objective view
of the real problems involved.

‘«Mr. Loyd Royal and his staff
spent several hours pumping out
a ‘theory of dominance’ to ex-
plain how the 1963 and 1959
strikes caused a failure of the
1964 sockeye run, This fantastic
theory requires a lot of time
to explain because fishermen
know the 1964 run is related
directly to the 1960 and 1956
cycle year and there were no .
strikes in those years.

“In answering the Commis-
sions fantastic charges we are not
disparaging their past achieve-
ments nor the value of their
future plans for enhancing the
Fraser salmon runs.

‘¢Our union has long advocated
the expenditure of more funds
in construction of fishways and
artificial spawning channels, We
support the plans for overcoming
the heat wave problem. We favor
more money’ for research into
some of the serious problems
of survival of juvenile salmon.
We may even, in future, be able
to suggest specific programs for
partial harvests. with financial
benefit for research and con-
servation programs, during
strikes and lockouts,

**But, we do not echo the voice
of the Association and we believe
it is a shame for the Commission
to echo proposals for elimina-
tion of the right to strike. We
do not like strikes but we re-
fuse to be hung down in legal
chains for the benefit of the
big four fishing companies.”’

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