_ USSR buying

Canadian pork

: An estimated $1,500,000 trade deal between Canadian meat packers
and the’ Soviet government was disclosed last week, heralding a step-
- ping up of trade with our northern: neighbor. :
The Soviet Union has bought about 8,000,000 pounds of surplus
canned pork, which piled up when the United States closed its market
to Canadian meat during the 1951 hoof-and-mouth’ outbreak.

A Soviet trade counsellor,
Alexander Lobatchev, arrived
here from Moscow a few weeks
ago to “build up trade with Can-
ada” and is receiving a warm
welcome from Canadian  busi-

nessmen. i

“We are interested in trading
with USSR within the terms of our
government control regulations,”
said S. A. MacKay-Smith, president

of the Canadian Exporters’ As-
sociation:

' Prior to the canned pork pur-
chase the Soviet Union signed a
contract to buy $1,678,000 worth
of rayon woodpulp, and part of
the order has already been shipped.

Seek removal
of magistrate

Immediate removal of Stipend-
lary Magistrate L. G. Saul of Burns
Lake, who recently told a parley
of B.C. magistrates that he had
barred all Native Indians from
beer parlors in his town, was de-
manded this week by Vancouver
Labor, Council (CCL).

Dismissal of Saul was also de-
manded by Native Indian spokes-
man Andy Paull.

Bernard Isman, Vancouver Law-
-yer and past president of the B.C.
Command, Canadian Legion, said
that “the Canadian Legion and the
Army, Navy and Air Force Service
Clubs will fight this terrible pre-
--judice against British Columbia
Indians.”

Although the law in this prov-
ince gives Native Indians the right
to enter beer parlors, Magistrate
“Saul said the ban in Burns Lake
had been in effect for nearly two
years and has the backing of the
RCMP.

“He wears his baby shoes
for good luck!"

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LABOR
BRIEFS

A five-cent hourly pay hike, free
room and board on _ out-of-town
jobs, and other fringe benefits re-
sulted in settlement of a dispute
betwen 3,000 Lower Mainland car-
penters and building. contractors.

The new contract brings car-
penters’ basic pay rate to $2.22 an
hour. :

* * *

Mine-Mill Local 480 at Trail has
voted to ask for a government con-
ciliation officer to assist in negotia-
tions with Consolidated Mining
and Smelting Company.

Harvey Murphy, chairman of the
union’s joint bargaining commit-
te, has accused the company of
showing no desire to reach)a set-
tlement, and termed its proposals
“completely unacceptable.”

* * *

Vancouver Labor Council (CCL)
will probe reports of people being
refused admittance into B.C. hos-
pitals due to “lack of accommoda-
tion.”

‘IWA delegate L. Vandale cited
the recent case of a boy who died
at his home because his doctor
could not get him a bed in a New
Westminster hospital.

* * *

June 15 is the anniversary of the
granting of Magna Charta in 1215
by King John of England. This
charter, which provided for the
safeguarding of the nation’s liber-
ties, has a special interest for the
labor movement, whose rights are
now being threatened by Bill 7.

The League for Democratic
Rights announced this week that
it is commemorating Magna Charta
Day by’ stepping up its campaign
for a Canadian Bill of Rights.

x

Se *

Retail Clerks Union has turned |

thumbs ‘down on an offer from
management of two downtown sta-
tionery stores to end a strike enter-
ing its sixth week.

The stores offered monthly
raises of $10 and $12.50, and no
union security.

~ The workers who struck April 13
to enforce implementation of a
conciliation’ board recommenda-
tion, want a $15 monthly increase
and a union shop.

* *

*

Labor Minister Lyle Wicks said
in a radio broadcast this week
that when the legality of a strike
is in question, the “grave” ques-

‘ition of deciding whether to ask a

Supreme Court judge to “deter-
mine its legality” will not be made
by himself, but by the cabinet.

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Effie Jones
hits sale of
Larwill Park

“Vancouver City Council should
withdraw the scheduled June 23
vote on sale of Larwill Park to
the B.C. Electric,” in the opinion
of Effie Jones.

Mrs. Jones reiterated the charge
made by Ald. D. E. McTaggart at
a Kitsilano Ratepayers. ‘meeting
that the sale price of $430,000 is
only about half of the property
value. The ratepayers’ group took

ja stand for a “No’* vote on the

plebiscite.

“B.C. Eleétric leased Larwill
Park in 1946 for 10 years for $17,-
000 a year, which is what taxes on
the property amount to,” said Mrs.
Jones. “In return the buildings
erected by the company were to
become the .property of the city
after 10 years.

“These buildings are now valu-
ed at about $410,000. The value
of the land is estimated at $600,-
000. Recently the city negotiated
‘to buy the adjoining block for an
auditorium: site and was told the
land would cost $600,000.”

The BCER tried “a bluff” last
October when it made a “final of-
fer” of $292,000 for Larwill Park
and threatened to move the depot
if it wasn’t accepted. Public op-
position compelled council to re-
ject the offer.

Ald. McTaggart, chairman of the
Utility and Airport Committee, has
announced that he will oppose the
sale at council meeting this com-
ing Tuesday. Mrs. Jones will also
be present to voice her objections.

“All citizens who are interested
in-the welfare of our city should
oppose the Larwill Park deal,” said
Mrs. Jones. “I have been fighting
the B.C. Electric for many years
and will continue to do so. This
company dominates politics in
Vancouver and elects its stooges to
city. council under the NPA label.
It’’ time we, the people, put an
end to this situation.”

‘Win war by
preventing it’

TORONTO

“The only way to win the next
war is to prevent it taking place,”
Colin Cameron, CCF. MP for Nanai-
mo, told delegates attending the
Ontario CCF convention here last
weakened.

_Cameron declared: “It is ob-
vious that the vast bulk of the $2,-
000,000 defense appropriations are
earmarked to carry out defense
plans formulated long since. and
equally obvious that since the H-
bomb, the larger part of that pro-
gram must be obsolete. All auth-
orities agree that the only way to
win the next war is to prevent it
taking place.” :

Despite this striking keynote and
the pertinent observation in the
CCF Provincial Council report that
the spectre of unemployment is
leading to re-examination of an
economic system that can operate
effectively only under the stimulus
of war and preparations for war,”
delegates were thwarted in their
desire to discuss or adopt two re-
solutions dealing with the need
for cutting arms expenditures and
for trade with People’s China and
the Soviet Union.

A ruling from chairman David
Lewis, backed by newly-elected
Ontario CCF president Eamon
Park, staff representative of the
United Steelworkers of merica,
declaring that all 14 resolutions
dealing with “national policy”
would not be presented to the con-

vention because they would be go-
ing before the national convention.

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