702 RES FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1957 Youths visit China despite Dulles’ ban MOSCOW A group of American young people .attending the recent World Youth Festival here defied a U.S. government ban on visits to People’s China and left this week by train for Peking. John Foster Dulles, through the state department, had warned the youngsters that there might be “reprisals” if they took the trip. The threat intimidated a handful of the youth, but 41 ignored Dulles and boarded the Moscow-Pe- king Trans-Siberian express on Wednesday. The U.S. has ‘no diplomatic relations with China and -has refused permission to Ameri- can newsmen to cross China’s borders. A few reporters have defied the ban this year and there is a strong movement afoot in the U.S. to force a change in government policy. On Tuesday this week each American youngster attending the Festival received a letter from Washington, signed by Acting Secretary Christian Herter, which said that- their passports would be _ taken from them if they made the journey to China. Deplorable conditions’ at two laundries condemned Deplorable wages and working conditions at two city laundries —- Keefer and Grandview — were under fire by delegates at Vancouver Labor Council meeting Tuesday last week, and a resolution from Laundry Workers Union Local 292 asking that the firms be placed on labor’s “We Do Not Pat- ronize” list was referred to council’s grievance committee for action. Women workers at the Kee- fer and Grandview plants are paid from 45 to 60 cents an hour, men earn up to $190 a month (far below wages gen- erally paid in the industry) and employees reportedly are forced to work from 8 to 14 hours without receiving over- time pay, the union resolution stated. “These firms are a menace to the laundries which employ cutfits.” : ae n t On the drawing board is the United States’ first atom-powered mer- will be 587 feet long, with a 78-foot beam, and 29% feet draft. Contra if building will be let this year and work will start immediately. The was released in Washington last week. chant ship, shown above. It is expected to be in the water in 1960, and plans call for a 350,000-mile range with the initial load of nuclear fuel. The ship workers under union con- tracts,’ the Laundry Workers’ charged. “It is shocking that such Wage and working conditions should exist in 1957 in a strong trade union like Van- couver,” said Sam Jenkins (Marine Workers). ‘Workers area should take note of all hoteis scabby that patronize such PPP Dr. Cheddi Jagan, deposed and jailed four years ago by the British government | the People’s Progresive Party to a smashing victory in the general elections this week Pi ning a majority of the 14 seats at stake in the British Guiana legislative council. Jagan’s party won eight seats, anti-Communist forces took three, one went to the Uni w British Guiand Democratic party, and two are still uncertain. Jagan’s wife Janet won the western Essequibo River dis- trict, defeating her two near- est opponents by more than 2,000. votes. . Authorities in the British Crown colony had gone all- out to defeat Jagan, but the people went to the polls and showed their confidence in the People’s Progressive Party and its leader. In 1953 the PPP won a majority but British authorities, in defiance of the constitution, deposed Jagan as chief minister and threw him in jail. Victory at the polls does not LABOR AROUND THE PROVINCE Kitimat carpenters sign pat giving highest scale in Canada) The strike of 420 carpenters in Kitimat and Kemano is over. The settlement falls short of the unanimous recommenda- tion of a conciliation. board, but makes these carpenters the highest paid in Canada. The new two-year contract provides $2.54 an hour as of last April 1, $2.58 from Octo ber and $2.73 as of April 1, 1958. The cost of living in this area ‘is among the highest in Canada. 2B The United Steelworkers Union in Kitimat, which rep- resents some 3,000 workers at Alcan aluminum plant, is faced with a raid by four craft un- ions. The Electrical Workers, Carpenters, Stationary En- gineers and Sheet Metal Work- ers have applied for certifica- tion covering 215 men there. The Labor Relations Board will hold a hearing next Mon- day. If the board follows its us- ual practice, it will not permit the breaking up of a plant- wide certification. The craft unions are pressing their bid with an eye to the future. Al- can is expected to open a num- ber of large plants in the Van- couver area and the outcome of the Alcan dispute may. have a bearing on certifications for the new plants, $e es at Floorlayers’ Union, local 1541, a local-of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, has struck 15 flooring’ companies in Varicouver. Picket lines have been placed around ma- jor construction projects and are being ‘respected by the other building trades. The dis- pute is over travelling time and the date from whick an agreed-upon wage increase is to become effective. Pickets were withdrawn from two Vancouver schools, in order to allow the buildings to be ready for. the’ new school term. The school board has agreed that the floorlaying will not he done until after the strike is settled. it mt ce Claude Jodoin; president of the million-member Canadian anomie = GEORGETOW) © lature in British Guiana. i ae ernor Sir Patrick Rent since Jagan’s victory 10) has been empowered to 7.) any PPP victory by appoy) ing up to 11 councillors we would ‘serve as legish members. Labor Congress of Café will be the keynote spe at the. annual conventi0 the B.C. Federation of to be held in Vancouvel tober 24 to 27. 3,000 atte Labor Picnit Miss North Vanco" (Marion Woods) was OA ed Popular Girl at the 4% Labor Picnic in Confede!?,) - Park, Burnaby, on dos this week. Runner-up je Miss Vancouver Centre | ette Lowe). ; More than 3,000 peopl? 4 tended the picnic and en}? the races, Doug Hepht feats of strength and. aW | ing’ exhibition. ; Popularity Contest winners were W. J. 1 920 West 16th, North rf couver and K. Shipluk East 15th, Vancouver. August 16, 1957 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PA?