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FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1955

Animals visit cosmic space

Both the Soviet Union and the United States have been con-
ducting experiments in which animals are shot hundreds of miles

into space.
at White Sands in New Mexico.

Photo shows a guided missile on a launching ramp

Animals live after
300-mile space trip

By RALPH PARKER

MOSCOW

Soviet scientists have sent animals up into cosmic space 300 miles
above the earth it was diclosed here this week. The animals were
shot up in specially constructed “space ship” cabins and returned
to earth unharmed, the leading Soviet physicist, Dr. G. I. Pokrovsky,

told IzveStia. He commented:

“We are now in a position to

state, with serious grounds for
doing so, that the day is not far
off when space ships will set out
from the earth for inter-planetary
travel.”
. The first task, he said, was to
pierce the dense layers of the
earth’s atmosphere and emerge
beyond it into cosmic space. This
required a rocket which could
reach a height of about 200-250
miles.

Every aspect of this problem
had been solved, he declared. Ra-
dio-controlled rockets have reach-
ed some 300 miles and safely
taken living animals to that
height and back.

The second problem was to
shoot out the “spaceship” or
satellite to circle the earth at
about five miles a second (18,000
mph). “So far this has been done
only in laboratories,” he said.

“In 1944 I myself obtained a
velosity of 25 kilometres per set-
ond (55,000 mph) — that is, three
times the speed needed to create
a satellite of the earth.”

A satellite the size of a billiard
ball could be seen through a
modern telescope. Dr..Pokrovsky
~ continued, but a bigger one would
be more practicable.

Multiple rockets would have to
be used to give it speed and they
could be used also to steer it.

CCL blasts
parade bar

Vancouver Labor Council (CCL)
this week blasted Vancouver City
Council’s ban on a Hastings
Street-to-PNE Labor Day parade,
terming it “a slap in the face to
organized labor.”

Last week Trades and Labor
Council (TLC-AFL) decided to
call off the annual parade rather
than submit to the city’s edict to
march along Powell Street.

CCL delegates were even
angrier than their AFL counter-
parts.

“We should parade up Hastings

_next year no matter what city

council decides,’ declared Jack

_ Guest (Grainworkers).

There was considerable support
for this sentiment, but George
Home, B.C. Federation of Labor
secretary, felt that labor “should
is take a position of defying the
aw.”

Home agreed that “these peo-
ple at city hall aren’t happy to
see labor taking a prominent posi-
tiontion in Vancouver” and sug-
gested that voters could change
the council in December.

Que. Liberal leader

hits sellout to U.S.

Georges Lapalme, leader of the Quebec Liberal party, ‘has been stumping the pr
in recent days to denounce in stringent terms the sell
Speaking at Rimouski, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence, Lapalme dea

U.S. trusts.

with the Duplessis “give-away program” in the following terms: “In three years the

By FRANK ARNOLD

MONTREAL i
ovince

-out of Quebec’s natural resources to

Hol-

linger North Shore Exploration Company, representing the Hanna interests of Pittsburgh,

will sell 10 million tons of our
iron ore to the great American
steel mills at a price of $10 a ton,
receiving for it $100 million a
year, with a profit of $30 million
annually, while the people of our
province, the owner of these rich-
es, will receive nothing but a
meagre pittance of $100,000 a
year.

“Through the fault of Duplessis,
the citizens of the richest prov-
ince of Canada will continue to
be ditch-diggers in the soil of
their homeland, when they might
have been receiving the high
wages which are the lot of the
American workers of Pittsburgh
and Cleveland.”

“When the financiers start to
reap the harvest, all along the St.
Lawrence,” Lapalme continued,
“the citizens will watch cargo
ships going by taking our riches
to the United States where iron
deposits are practically exhausted
and where manufacturers have to
turn to the province of Quebec
and Venezuela to find iron, with-
out which their economy would
be put in danger. But, while Que-
bec gives its booty for a song,
Venezuela, more practical, reaps
$3,500,000 each year in different
taxes on iron.”

At Riviere Du Loup, the Lib-
eral leader charged that the “Na-
tional Union government is giv-
ing away Quebec, piece by piece,
to large American trusts, and
people are beginning to wonder
if these interests are not really
dictating the policy of the gov-
ernment.”

On the question of iron ore,
he said: “The Ungava iron ore
should be turned into steel right
here in this province instead of
being shipped to American steel
centres, where it reaps big money
for foreigners.”

Lapalme’s tour, it seems clear,
is the Liberal warm-up for the
provincial elections due next
year. It is not the first time the
Quebec Liberal leader has sens-
ed the widespread and latent an-
ger of Quebec at the sell-out of
the province to U.S. trusts. La-
palme is acute enough to recog-
nize the tremendous political cap-
ital — and votes — that could

accrue to his party should he suc-.

ceed in identifying the Liberals
with defense of Quebec against
the U.S. take-over.

The only fly in Lapalme’s politi-
cal ointment is precisely that he
is the leader of the Liberal party
in Quebec. The Liberal party,
after all, is the instrument that
Canadian capital has used to hard
over all of Canada to the tender
mercies of U.S. imperialisin.

Lapalme learned what that
meant a few years ago, when he
began to denounce the Ungava
sell-out. He compared Quebec to
Tran and the looting of that coun-
try’s oil by foreign monopolies.

The axe was not long in falling.
Prime Minister St. Laurent him-

self made a speech in which he,

as an ordinary “citizen of Que-
bec,’ found nothing to quarrel
with in the Ungava deal. On the
contrary, he was delighted with
the terms. ... Lapalme’s criti-
cism of the sell-out of Quebec
abruptly ceased.

The Quebec Liberals only re-
turned to the issue during the re-
cent provincial by-elections. The
Labor-Progressive party, with
candidates in all three ridings,

made the “give-away program” to
the U.S. its main target. The LPP
denounced both the Liberals and
Duplessis for conspiring to sell-
out Ungava and keep Quebec
without the steel centre of her
own. ;

Under the impact of LPP critic-.
ism, the Liberals began to emit
anti-American sounds. In St. Hy-
acinthe particularly, where the
LPP ran a strong campaign the
Liberals inserted ads denouncing
the sell-out they put forward the
slogan “Quebec aux Quebecois,”
(Quebec for Quebeckers).

No doubt Lapalme~ sa
temper of ee He wor
probably like to foresta

move to the left by gute
working people. He does not
with favor upon any third PM in
movement making headway
the province.

But nevertheless the speeches
he is making have alrea ie
buted to extend and d deepen
feeling of Quebec for 2 new
tional policy — for the
adian, pro-Quebec poles’ 18
were first enunciated by the ™*
pbor-Progressive party.

Continued from page I

GENEVA

Great Powers, Buck said in an-
alyzing the significance of the
most important event in the past
12 months. “It was the climax
of six years battle for peace and
it transformed the entire climate
in the world.”

The LPP leader noted that only
a few days before the conference
in Geneva opened, External Af-
fairs Minister L. B. Pearson was
quite non-committal and = un-
friendly about V. M. Molotov’s in-
vitation to him to visit the Soviet
Union. -
_ But on the day the Geneva
conference concluded its deliber-
ations, Pearson’s tone had chang-
ed. He announced in the Com-
mons his forthcoming October
trip to the Soviet Union and also
assured the MPs that he was tak-
ing: an official invitation for a
Soviet parliamentary delegation
to visit Canada.

Similarly, Buck pointed out,
Fisheries Minister Sinclair's at-
tendance at the International
Whaling Conference in Moscow
was transformed into a demon-
stration of good relations and
friendship between Canada and
the USSR. “And now Mr. Sin-
clair is planning to visit Peking,
the first member of the Canadian
cabinet to visit that country since
People’s China was established.”

The change created by Geneva
was a result of two sets of deve-
lopments, the LPP leader con-
tinued. On one hand it was
brought about by the failure of
the U.S. world domination policy,
adopted in 1947 under the pre-
text of “containing communism.”
The other development was the

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remarkable growth of the sot!
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The stage was set si count
Buck points out for the P
tive of peaceful coexi
tween the capitalist and
sectors of the world. One
immediate results was the S* nie
ists’ conference, which
before the whole world the
mendous benefits which © so
crue from utilization
energy for peaceful purpos

“The race is no longer £7 fot
and’ H-bombs, as much
peaceful uses.of nuclear ©
ithe speaker added. ? ut

Tim Buck pointed oy be 2
ent need for new Canadi at
cies, following the Genev
ference.

“There is one iSsue upon #

all Canadians are uni ae
need for a national “nealth I

ance scheme.” a 1 st
Pointing to Prime Minis? we
Laurent’s statement ice a5
can’t have health ins d gp. bil
long as we have to spe? at ex
lion on armaments a d:
penditures. Buck emp

“Now is the iio ae at, alt :
money and use it 10 pind
of our people, by esta a sch
national plan for free m
vices to all people.”

sind

Only by a policy. oe dent op! a
our resources, build mf antl
Canadian gas pipeline & nt
our trade with all
the world, pariienarl
socialist half of the
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