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Canadians Nigel Morgan and Alf Dewhurst have a chat with Janos Kadar.

cause that body, with some
accept us into affiliation, at
their 1958 provincial conven-
tion in Nanaimo and at their
1958 national] convention in
Windsor .

In 1950 we were suspended
from the Trades and Labor
Congress of Canada, allegedly
for being under “communist
domination.” Before we could
appeal to the next convention,
in 1951, which was our right
as a federal union, the CLC ex-
ecutive set up another union
to raid us and launched an
all-out attack. Our members,
who rejected the claim that
they were under “conimunist
domination,” fought back and
saved their union.

In 1951, we appealed our
suspension to the Halifax con-
vention of the TLC but we
were unsuccessful in setting
it aside: Therefore, and in
order to protect our certifi-
cation, we reorganized our-

Socialist construction proceeds in Hungary:
former Vancouverites happy they went back

By NIGEL MORGAN

No one can visit Hungary
today and fail to be impressed
by the way that Socialist
power has consolidated its
position with the people. This
is shown by the exceptional
results that are being achiey-
ed in transforming society, in
economic and cultural devel-
opment, and in the rapid ex-
pansion. of industry, agricul-
ture and trade, no less than
in the recent elections to the
National Assembly.

On March 21 when I landed
in Budapest, although many
signs of the havoc wrought by
the counter-revolution remain-
ed (including many bullet-

~pocked buildings) and al-

though less than two years
had elapsed since those fate-
ful days in the fall of 1956, I
found the people living in an

atmosphere of internal calm,.

construction and peaceful la-
bor. :

I had a chance of chatting
personally with many leading

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party and government spokes-
men; with many trade union,
youth, church and cultural
leaders; as well as a goodly
number of former Canadians,
whom I knew as_ neighbors
in Vancouver, or through
their activities in the labor
movement of B.C,

I met, for example, Peter
and Margaret Gourney (who
will be remembered by the
Pacific Tribune readers) and-
who were neighbors of mine-.
in the Grandview district of
Vancouver until they return-
ed to their homeland in 1950.

Their daughter, who used
to dance with my son at the
Ukrainian Hall every Satur-
day, has become a talented
ballet dancer in Budapest.

I found Peter and Margaret
full of enthusiasm for the
way their homeland is being
rebuilt. They told me how
conditiong have improved
even since 1956; how living
standards are steadily rising,
and how secure and happy
they are today in Hungary.
“Guess I’d be like many
thousands more worrying
about a job at my age if I
was still in Vancouver. Every-
body is working over here
you know,” Peter told me.

~achievements,

Today in our country-all ‘the
political and economic con-
ditions exist for speeding up
the building of our socialist
society,” Janos Kadar, first
secretary of the Hungarian
Socialist’ and Workers Party
confidently told Alf Dewhurst
and I across the dinner table
at Budapest’s picuresque Mar-
garet. Island on the beautiful
Danube:River. “We are rapid-
ly overcoming the falling
away. that was due to the
old mistakes and the counter-
revolution,” he assured us.

Mistakes were made while
building socialism, but these
mistakes were dwarfed by
said Kadar.
Citing irrefutable evidence of
the “outside instigations” of
the 1956 counter - revolution,
Kadar pointed to important
lessons the Hungarian work-
ing class and their peasant al-
lies had learned, stressing
that workers’ power would
never again suffer a similar
surprise attack.

One of the most encourag-
ing developments in Hungary
is the rapid progress this
country’s predominantly agra-
rian economy is making in
collectivizing the land. Some
35 percent of all land is

now being worked co-operat-
ively, we were told by Prime
Minister Munnich; 15 percent
is being operated by state
farms; and if all the coun-
try’s land is taken into ac-
count (including forests and
mountains) over 60 percent
today belongs to the socialist
sector. “Between January 1
and February 15 of his year,”
he proudly stated, “47,000
families farming between
them some 518,000 acres form-
ed new cooperatives or joined
existing ones.”

In fact, the party has been
so successful in its campaign
for enrollment in the farm co-
ops that the government has
been forced to halt enroll-
ments for the time being to
give the cooperatives time to
consolidate their position and
test and review their experi-
ence, before this year’s crops
are harvested in the fall.

Discussions with pe ople
everywhere — in factories I
visited, in the countryside, no
less than in government of-
fices — showed me that Hun-
gary is moving ‘ahead at a
rapid pace, and more than
that the Hungarian people are
convinced that they are on

the right course.
June 5, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE

CLC barring of union
is just plain stupid

By JACK PHILLIPS 3
Secretary, Vancouver Civic Employees, Outside bik
To those of us who have been members of eo ae
these last 10 years or more, and to those of us who J

more recently. the policies which exclude us from the Cat

adian Labor Congress are just plain stupid! Also, they dont
make sense to the National Union of Public Employees, be

4,000 members, has voted: to
-selves as an independent union
Today, eight years later, W
are stronger, more united ;
have more friends in the labo
movement. is;
Our basic policies have Bt
changed since our suspensio®
because we follow sound trad
union principles and run of
affairs democratically. As ©
the past, we refuse to be dom
inated by any political grow
or faction or by any, clidit
from within or without the Ue
ion. On the other’ hand, W
refuse to join in or to be#
party to witch-hunting and
McCarthyism. . 22
In 1950 - 51 our membens
fought back, against gre
odds, in defense of the right
to run their own internal bus
ness and elect their own offt
cers. ae
Since our suspension, We
have made many cash doi
tions to Congress unions
strike and we have co-operat
ed with CLC unions in mally
other ways. We work very
closely with NUPE locals
Vancouver and we corre
with officers of other NUPE
locals in various parts of ti
province and across the coul
try. ee
We. believe that more and
more people in the labor move.
ment, at every level, are be
ginning to reassess the situ®
tion in a more sober light; tit
they are beginning to reali
that the times call for a unitel
trade union movement, ne%
dynamic policies and more i
ternal democracy. >

We have publicly stated @
several occasions that we want
to become part of the Nati
Union of Public Employs
and thus part of the Cai
Labor Congress. We see ®
barrier in the constitutions
these bodies, which we @
prepared to accept and abl
by. If there is a bottleneck,
is in the Executive Council &
the CLC. The sooner thi
harmful policy of exclusion &
set aside, the better for
labor movenient as a wh
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