AMGALIUVIALEEV SEL WR FEN
Montreal pipeline route. The
better alternative, the resolu-
tion states is the extension of
the pipeline from Winnipeg to
Montreal. Copies of the resolu-
tion were sent to the Canadian
Labor Congress, Ontario Pre-
mier Davis and the Ministry of
Transport.

woe oem.

YEAR-OLD STRIKE :
ENDS AT GYPSUM FIRM

MONTREAL — Employees at
the Montreal plant of Canadian
Gypsum Co. Ltd. have voted to
accept a new labor contract and
end a strike which began March
23, 1973.

More than three-fifths of the
83 workers, affiliated with the
Confederation of National Trade
Unions, accepted the company’s
offer to increase salaries by
$1.60 an hour over a 34-month
contract.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1974—PAGE 10

control legislation requiring ap-
proval by Rental Control Boards
prior to further rent increases.

A review of existing rents be
conducted.

A crash program of low-cost
public housing in sufficient quan-
tity and at low enough rents to
force the cost of housing down.

Co-operation with Ottawa to
subsidize interest rates to re-
duce mortgage rates to 6%. Na-
tionalization of all unused land.

partners from both countries can
get together and become better
acquainted with each other.”

The commentary underlines”

the fact that in the way of the
development of Soviet-American
trade and economic relations also
lie obstacles in the form of “the
opposition in U.S. Congress,
where many lawmakers con-
tinue, by force of habit to mix
up the prospects of trade devel-
opment with attempts of inter-
ference in the domestic affairs of
the other side”. ;
The article quotes Nikolai, Pa-
tolichev, USSR Minister of For-
eign Trade, who declared at a
news conference that the Sena-
tors who oppose the extension of
credits to the Soviet Union, are

-thinking in terms which have

long since receded into the past.
It points out in conclusion that
“the new authoritative Council is
called upon to play its role in re-
moving these and other obstacles
piled up by the opponents of de-
tente,”

“Perhaps we should have got an extra ten bob
; getting rid of the Tories!