Trade with —
USSR gets
Support

, Resolutions to the federal gov-
ernment urging Canada to send a
trade delegation to the Soviet Un-
‘ion are receiving enthusiastic sup-
_ port from meetings being held as
part of the celebration of Friend-
ship Month, according to reports
of officials of the Canadian-Soviet
Friendship Society.

More than 900 citizens have en-
_dorsed the call for the trade mis-
sion at meetings in Vancouver and
the Lower Mainland.

Meetings for the rest of the
month-long program include one
at the Finnish Hall, 2605 East
Pender, this coming Sunday, No-
vember 21, starting at 7 p.m.

The first in a series of discus-

uled for Wednesday, November 24,
at 4645 West 6th Avenue.

Drama Festival
in mid-March —

B.C. competition for Dominion
Drama Festival entrance will be

held from March 14 to 16, next
year, it is announced.

~ Held in Victoria last year, the
‘Tegional festival will probably shift
to Vancouver this year.

The all-Canada festival will be
staged in Regina May 9 to 14 and
Only three-act plays are eligible.
One-act. plays may compete only
for the trophy awarded yearly for
the best play by a Canadian enter-
ed in regional festivals.

Official drama groups, in oper-
ation for at least one year and hav-
ing produced at least one other
Play, may apply for Dominion
festival entrance. '

Last year the Calvert Trophy and
$100 for best presentation at the
- B.C. regional festival was won by
Trail Little Theatre.

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“That's what | always say. The workers will just have to tighten their belts.”

Bank president of two minds
about country’s trade crisis

Canadian workers have been
told that they should take wage
cuts so Canada can compete with
“Jow-cost” economies abroad. This
piece of gratuitous advice was de-
livered by H. A. Stevenson, presi-

‘dent of Barclay’s Bank (Canada) in

his address to the bank’s annual
eeting. ; :
high cost of labor will be
found the real stumbling block to
our trade,” Stevenson asserted.

Labor must “moderate” its wage

policy and bring it more into line

with the “exigencies” of the na-
tional economy.

There had been a retreat in
Canada’s economy, but certainly no
rout, he reassured his coupon-
clipping audience.

Main reason for the “recessive
movement” was the drop.in the
volume and value of Canada’s ex-
ternal trade, said Stevenson.

After delivering himself of his
belt-tightening advice to the coun-
try’s working people — and unem-
ployed — he touched, briefly, on

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the real cause of the crisis — Can-
ada’s dependence \on the US.
market. On this subject alone he
found himself in company with a
growing body of public opinion in
questioning the wisdom of favor-
ing the United States in our trade
policies.

| employment

CCL asks
gov't aid
on jobless

: OTTAWA
Unemployment is “decidedly
worse than it was a year ago” a
Canadian Congress of Labor dele-
gation told Prime Minister Louis
St. Laurent last week. :
“We are in the midst of an un-
mistakeable recession. It is no
longer merely a possible danger, as
it was a year ago,” said their brief.

“It is a fact and has been for the’

last eight or ten months.”

“It is no longer, as it was a year
ago, just a matter of coal and tex-
tiles and agricultural implements
and motor cars. The crisis in all

these is still with us, and has be-
| come worse; but it has also spread,

though usually in a milder form,
to a whole host of industries, and
affects every major sector of the
economy.”

The CCL brief placed the em-
phasis on the need for increased
purchasing power for the people
and suggested a number of ways
this could be attained. These in-
cluded higher wages, increased un-
insurance _ benefits,
larger old age pensions and family
allowances, tax revisions, more
public works, promotion of ex-
ports, increased farm purchasing
power, added aid to other coun-
tries and special help to depressed
industries and areas.

Meanwhile national surveys of
the jobless picture flatly contra-
dict the rosy picture of this win-
ter’s unemployment totals paint-
ed by Prime Minister St. Laurent.

@ Unemployment today is al-
ready much worse than at this time
last year. The government esti-
mate of job applicants at Septem-

| ber 16 was 243,517 — a figure not

reached until mid-November last
year. :

@ The highest figure of applic-
ants for jobs last year was just
over half a million. At the pre-
sent rate of increase, 750,000 is
considered a conservative estimate
by trade union leaders.

Continued from page I

KOOTENAYS

with Lands and Forests Minister
R. E. Sommers, who said on Fri-
day last week that “B.C. can’t lose
on the deal. We can either store
water and get something for it
or let it export itself down the
river and get nothing.” :

“Sommers overlooks the main
question, the question of Cana-
dian control over our natural re-
sources,” said Morgan. What his
government is agreeing to is a
policy of de-industrialization - of
Canada; building a storage dam
at Castlegar would provide a few
temporary. jobs for Canadian
workers, but it would also en-
able the U.S. to create thousands
of permanent jobs for American
workers — jobs that should be
created for Canadians right here.

“We must industrialize the
Kootenays and to do this requires
that we develop the maximum
power potential of the Columbia
system ourselves, and not sur-
render Canadian water power to
U.S. interests.

“Some 60 years ago the timber
industry in the U.S. Puget Sound
area tried to secure B.C. raw tim-
ber.to fill their manufacturing
needs. Had the B.C. government
of that day agreed, our present-
day giant lumber industry. would
have been strangled in its in-
fancy. But the proposal was turn-
ed down, and as a result this
province now has shingle mills,
sawmills, plywood and pulp mills,
as well as logging camps. \

“Today there is a resources

shortage in the: United States.

Give the U.S. control of our water
power, and we'll soon be forced
to ship our raw materials to U.S.
plants for processing.

“Develop our own power in
Canada, and we will be able to
build great basic industries here.
American capital will also flow
into this province, to build fac-
tories close to the source of cheap
power.

“We are not opposed to foreign
capital being invested in Canada.
The question is, what are the
investments being used for? At
‘ene time U.S. investments were
used to industrialize Canada. To-
day U.S. big business tries to pre-
vent the industrialization of Can-
ada and prevent the building of
basic ‘industries.
to buy ownership and control of
our natural resources, and par-
ticularly water power.

“The LPP opposes the Proposed
Kaiser dam power sellout on the
Columbia, but advocates the rapid

development, through the agency .

of the B.C. Power Commission,
of the maximum amount of water
Power to operate new industries.”

On Sunday this week the West
Kootenay Committee of the LPP
held meetings in Trail and Nel-
son and laid plans for a campaign
against the Kaiser dam deal
around the slogan: “Stop the Ex-
port of Jobs: Bring Industry to
the Kootenays.” Morgan will
speak over CJAT and CKLN radio
stations, and advertisements will
be placed in the daily papers in
both centres.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 19, 1954 — PAGE 7

The U.S. wants —

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