1S Pe Pak ee 1 i " rity ‘ 1498 HY Peat Feb On dats AMD MM UN: ii uff ft ft Ad, AOA RU LAL ROT EEE eee ef - "PRICE TEN CENTS Farm, labor leaders agree: CANADA USSR SHOULD S XCH viet delegation now in Canada ats nt he 12.man Soviet farm delegation which has been visiting the United States arrived in Can- w iri i Ontario and Quebec. Photo shows one of the dele... Vek for a tour of the eine desene on how to eat a watermelon at an lowa Falls picnic Year-old Mary Belrig. The Soviet delegates made a big hit with the Americans. from or Aleksandr Ezheviski, } The ; TORONTO denteg n° ‘sibility for unprece- Wake ey ansion of world trade resents” the Geneva conference ortnits Nada with new op- Fells, ed for employment and our people, Tim Deg SaNds oF LPP leader told L °Dle, Toronto working Moy pSathered at the 22nd : oo! on August 21. aitker me NO need for any maettmeny © Unemployed if the tke 9, Ut will adopt policies to Country independent a First,” he said. If the U.S. wants to make use of Canada’s natural resources, minerals, timber and oil, let them bring their industries and open up their factories here, to pro- cess our resources in Canada, and provide jobs for Canadian work- ers, Buck added. Canada’s future can and must De one of great industrial expan- sion and not sliding back to the position of an agricultural hin- terland and raw material source of supply for U.S. financial -inter- ests. The Geneva conference was the ‘Geneva provides opportunity ° expand trade, create jobs’ beginning of a new era, a world turning point,‘ the LPP leader said. When British foreign min- ister MacMillan exclaimed upon his return from Geneva, “There ain’t gonna be no war,’ he said something which the people of the whole world wanted to hear. Geneva was the final and con- elusive proof that organized ac- tion for peace is exerting a pow- erful influence on world rela- tions and on the policies of the Continued on back page See GENEVA GE DELEGATI i 5 NC TORONTO Top leaders of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the over 600,000-member Trades and Labor Congress of Canada last week said they favored the widest exchange of farm and trade union delegations between Canada and the Soviet Union. H. H. Hannam, president of the CFA and Gordon Cushing, secretary-treasurer of the TLC warmly endorsed the current visit of a farm delegation from the USSR. Asked whether he thought some good would come of the visit from the Soviet Union, Han- ‘nam ,whose organization repre- sents two out of every three farmers in the country (450,000 farm families) said: “Yes, 1 do. We have always taken a hand in greeting and wel- coming delegations from. other countries. We feel. this is the kind. of thing all citizens can help with, creating goodwill and understanding through such visits.” The Soviet delegation will be entertained at a reception on Hannam’s Triple-H farm: this coming Saturday. The CFA leader said he beliey- ed Canadian farmers would bene- fit by visiting the Soviet Union, indicating that the mechanics of an exchange would have to spring from some kind of invitation or initiative by one side or the othe:. Imediately following his con- tact with the Soviet visitors, Han- : nam leaves for a Quebec: confer- ence and then will head a dele- gation to a world farm parley in Rome during September. An exchange of trade union de- legations between Canada and the Soviet Union “would do a lot of good,” Gordn Cushing, secretary- treasurer of the over 600,000- member Trades and Labor Cno- gress of Canada told newsmen. One of the top spokesmen for the senior trade union centre in Canada, Cushing cited as an ex- ample of the kind of visits he favored, the recently concluded exchange of Soviet and U.S. farm delegations. Following an address to the regular meeting of the Toronto and District Trades and Labor Council, a Canadian Tribune re- porter asked: “What do you think of an af- ficial trade union delegation’ to the Soviet Union?” “I am very much in favor of it,” replied the TLC official. “Why, haven’t you got a Soviet farm delegation visiting the Can- adian National Exhibition here soon? I think a trade union dele- gation to the Soviet Union would do a lot of good. They could send one here too. Intermingling would be good for both of us. In- stead of us getting a lot of propa- ganda about the Soviet Union we would see for ourselves.” Cushing’s statement runs coun- ter to a ‘previously announced position by TLC -president Claude Jodoin who reported to the Wind- sor TLC convention last June that he had declined an _ invitation from Soviet trade union officials to attend the May Day celebra- tions this year in Moscow. While Jodoin reported rejec- tion on the grounds that there were “no free trade unions” in the Soviet Union, the position currently taken by AFL President George Meany is opposing ex- changes of trade unions delega- tions, he told delegates: “At the same time I am cer- tain we are all watching the pre- sent developments towards the. meeting of the leaders of the four great powers and are hopeful that such a meeting may result in an easing of world tensions.” Should an official trade union delegation go-to the Soviet Union, it will not be the first time such an event has happened in the history of the Canadian- Soviet trade union relations. For a number of years now trade unionists have visited the Soviet Union to report what they saw back to their fellow- workers. The last such delega- tion was a six-member group from the United Electrical Work- ers this summer. In 1937 John W. Buckley, then president of the Toronto and District Trades and Labor Coun- cil visited the Soviet Union in an official capacity.