4 q j Re ad / In, eteserererens Mess i Lotiny Vol. 16, No. 34 es FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1957 VANCOUVER, B.C. | O¢ Authorised as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa (ox believes jobless issue for legislature One.of the first demands Cedric Cox, CCE candidate for Burnaby in the September 9 byelections, intends to eRe if € is elected is for a special session of the legislature to dis- Css measures to provide employment, the Pacific Tribune was informed this week. Cox has already expressed his concern over lengthening Jobless lines and believes that the government must act to Vert real hardship this winter When unemployment figures ae expected to soar. Cox has also declared him- Self in favor of establishing : full trade relations with China 48One means of providing this Province with the export mar- «Kets it needs, particularly for Mber products, and so main- “Ning employment levels. Pd WW, S00-in-law of the late E. ©. yeh, who held Burnaby for 4 CCF from 1933 until his ath earlier this year, Cox the Plcdged himself to uphold 2 Whe Socialist principles for "eh Winch stood. ty Burnaby has a great labor Adition,” he says, “and I hope e Voters will enable me to Mtinue that tradition un- Token b i e y electing me’on Sep- ““mber 9. & 1 A pattern maker, Cox has a i. trade union record, as a of t Mg figure in establishment he Mine-Mill union at Trail Nd later as a. member of the €el Workers and Pattern akers unions, te Peter Gidora (above), 36- year-old Surrey mushroom grower, has been nominated by the Labor-Progressive party to ,contest Delta, one of the three seats to be decided in British Columbia’s “little el- ection” on September 9. As the father of four, he is con- cerned over the isswe of ban- ning the H-bomb which, he points out, “is intimately bound up with arms costs and taxation which diréetly affect ali of us.” For story see page 8. wrecked the union hall of the Gaspe Copper MURDOCHVILLE, Que. Organized professional goons backed by squads of armed Quebec provincial police, Mines strikers here on Monday this week, stoning and beating strikers, overturning autos and bringing terror to this community, on strike since March 11 for recognition of the United Steelworkers’ Union. Company. presi- dent is J. Y. Murdoch, notorious anti-union employer. The authorities and the com- pany timed the attack to coin- cide with the dramatic visit to Gaspe. of a union cavalcade of 120 cars and two buses which arrived last Sunday from Quebec City after an all- night 360-mile drive. The cavalcade was led by President Claude Jodoin gf the Canadian Labor Congress and leading officers of the CLC and Catholic Syndicates. The union leaders: were as- saulted by strikebreakers on Sunday when they took their place on the picket lines, and teargas bombs were thrown by police. - In a telegram to Premier Maurice Duplessis, Jodoin said: *“T have today witnessed a violation of the law by per- sons engaged by Gaspe Cop- per Mines in an effort to break a strike. Some 10 persons engaged in peaceful picketing on a public highway were in- jured by stones thrown at them from above. “This took place in the pre- sence of the provincial police force, who made no effort at that stage to restore law and order.” ; Jodoin demanded that Dup- lessis, as attorney - general, order an inquiry into “an at- Continued on page 7 See MURDOCHVILLE Syria nips plotted coup, accuses US. Checkmated ‘by. exposure of its intrigues against the Syrian government intended to effect a coup similar to that carried through in Jordan earlier this year, the U.S. govern- ment this week fanned a campaign of incitement against the Arab countr SYRIAN PRESIDEN KUWATLY Building trades hit hard by job slump Indiscriminate immigration policy of the late Liberal gov- ernment has accentuated Canada’s growing unemployment problem, and may result in a national jobless crisis this com- ing winter. In British Columbia 489,000 people were working at the end of June, an increase of 23,000 over 1956, but the in- crease in job opportunities failed to keep pace with the rising tide of immigration, and jobless lines are _ steadily lengthening. Hardest hit industry is the building trades, due to a drastic drop in home-building caused by the federal “tight money” policy which resulted in a drying up of mortgage funds. Nationally, the annual rate of housing starts dropped to 75,- 000 compared with a.1956 total of 127,000. (Non-residential construction is up 17 percent— not 117 percent as a typo- graphical error in this paper made it last week—but this has failed to absorb the grow- ing number of unemployed construction workers.) “Right now all but 40 of our members are working,’ Sam Jenkins, president of Marine Workers Union, told the Pacitic Tribune. “But the outlook for the future is not so rosy, and I expect Vancouver will face a severe unemployment problem next winter.” Continued on back page See UNEMPLOYMENT which has consist ently opposed the Eisenhower Doctrine. “While Washington loudly denied that the U.S. officials expelled by Syria has plotted with Syrian reactionaries, Syrian ‘army officers spoke over the Syrian radio giving details of the plot to assassin- ate Syrian political leaders and high-ranking army offic- ers. In Aleppo, 10,000 people at- tended a mass meeting, one of many held to discuss this plot, and called for breaking of diplomatic relations with the U.S. Changes in the Syrian high command followed a series of cabinet meetings at which army officers testified on the extent of the conspiracy io overthrow the government and told of attempts to involve them in it. Confronted with this testimony, the cabinet decided on a number of mea- sures to protect the country’s sécurity and independence. Immediately following this decision General Nizameddine, army chief-of-staff, asked to be pensioned off. The cabinet acted on his request, appoint- ing Brig. General Alif Bizreh to succeed him with the rank of major general after con- sultations . between Defense Minister Azem and army of- ficers. - In the past few days other high-ranking army. officers and police officials . whose loyalty was suspect have been transferred or removed. . The Syrian government’s strong stand has found warm support in the Indian press, typified by the Hindusthan ‘Standard’s comment that Sy- ria’s_ nationalist policy, “does not satisfy terms of the His- enhower Doctrine” which can succeed only by cutting Egypt ‘and Syria ‘from their present friendly contacts with the Soviet Union,”