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iMLA'S PROTEST |

FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1957

LPP

WHALLEY, B.C.

Delta constituency commit-
tee of the Labor-Progressive
party this. week announced
the nomination of Peter Gid-
ora, 36-year-old Surrey mush-
room farmer, as its candidate

in the Delta provincial by-
election.
Born in Wainwright, Al-

berta, Peter Gidora came to
B.C. in 1943, settling in Surrey.
There, with his father George
Gidora and his brother Kostin,
he has operated a successful
mushroom culture farm.

Since coming to reside in

the constituency, Peter Gi-
dora has served in the pro-

vincial civil service for five
years during which time he
was an active member of the
tssondale Branch of the B.C.
Government Employees Asso-
ciation, and one of the associa-
tion’s pioneers in the struggle
for the right of collective bar-
gaining for civil servants.

Now back with his brother
on the mushroom farm, Gidora
still manages to crowd in a
lot of community activities
and plays an active role in all
ratepayers problems.

As a father of four children,
three boys and a girl, with two
attending school, Peter Gi-
dora has some strong views on
the need of greater education-
al facilities.

“Like myself,” he said in his
acceptance speech,” many of
our farm people are keenly
aware of the need of more
schools to’ free our children
from swing-shift attendance
and the limitations it puts
upon proper education.
~ “But from bittér experience
and an out-dated method of
School taxation, the farmers
fear that additional school fa-
cilities will result in addition-

.al taxation.

“T am in this fight to see.

that our children get the edu-
cational facilities and oppor-
tunities they. should have,
without any increase in taxa-
tion ‘upon their parents.

“We need much more sen-
1or government financial aid to

“the municipalities for schools

- and hospitals, and a drastic
reduction of the tax burdens
now weighing heavily on the
people.

“Impossible, you say! Look
at the billions we are spend-
ing on H-bombs and other ar-
maments. Could not that be

names Gidora
to contest Delta

spent to better purpose for
the people’s welfare?”

Asked about other points. of
his program, the LPP candi-
date listed a few.

“First, of course, is the ban-
ning of the H-bomb tests and
manufacture, not only as a
safeguard against atomic hor-
ror and devastation, but as a
means whereby billions of the
taxpayers’ dollars could be
used for peaceful and _ pro-
gressive purposes. ®

“TI. was glad to see that a
session of the legislature en-
dorsed a resolution calling for
the banning of the bomb, but
more resolute action is re-
quired. today to free the peo-
ple from this horrible threat.”

Other programmatic. points
outlined by the LPP candi-
date included:

@ Development of the Col-
umbia River Mica Dam pro-
ject under B.C. Power Com-
mission auspices,

@® Toll - free _ provincial
bridges and -tunnels and an
immediate tackling of the Pa-
tullo Bridge “bottleneck” to
facilitate Delta traffic.

@ A greater effort on the
part of federal and provincial
governments to restore diplo-.
matic and trade relations with
China and other Asian and
European countries. Extend-
ed trade relations with Com-
monwealth countries.

@ Financial aid to farmers
through the maintenance of
parity prices, and a rigid en-
forcement of anti-dumping
regulations against U.S. im-
ports.

Outlining his program in
greater detail, Peter Gidora
will be heard over New West-
minster radio station CKNW
on Thursday, August 29 at
7:35 p:m. and again on Sep-
tember 6 at 7:55 p.m.

Toronto unions plan

march on Labor Day

TORONTO
Metro Toronto trade union-
ists will hold a united mass
march ‘on Labor Day Septem-
ber 2. Labor unity will be the
keynote as well as a strong
affirmation of solidarity with
all striking workers across. the
country. In the evening Claude
Jodoin, president of the Cana-
dian Labor Congress, will be
guest speaker at a banquet.

as a democratic country.”

Coldwell also protested to
Livingston T. Merchant, U.S.
ambassador to Canada. He told
him that Mrs. Wolf’s deporta-
tion will “add to the anti-
American. sentiment already,
unfortunately, prevalent
some quarters.”

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Letters of protest were also

sent to Brownell by Harold’

Winch, CCF MP for Vancou-
ver East; Arthur J. Turner,
CCF MLA for Vancouver East;
and Leo Nimsick, CCF MLA
for Cranbrook.

The,.case became known to
Canadians as the result of
letters sent to newspapers and
leading persons by the Wash-
ington Committee for Protec-
tion of Foreign Born. © (The
Pacific Tribune published the
committee’s letter in the isSue
‘of July 26.) - \

Mrs. Wolf, 60 and a grand-
mother, has been a U.S. resi-
dent for more than 40 years.
She was. born in Victoria, B.C.
Her mother was a U.S. citizen.
The U.S. government bases its
case fof deportation on the
grounds of alleged membership
in the Communist party in
1938-39.

The case received wide pub-
hicity in Vancouver and Vic-
toria newspapers. Jack Scott,
Vancouver Sun _ columnist,
wrote that the circumstances’
of the case are “the kind of
thing that makes enemies for
democracy.” ¢

“In view of her record,”
commented Arthur Turner, “I
think it is stupid they should
carry on persecution of this
kind.” Following the Second
World War, Mrs. Wolf receiv-
ed a citation from President
Truman for her volunteer war
work.

In Saskatchewan, John H.
Sturdy, assistant to Premier
Douglas, wrote Brownell ap-
pealing’ “on humanitarian
grounds’”*and pointing out that
if deported ‘Mrs. Wolf would
find it difficult to find remun-
erative employment in Canada
and would find it equally dif-
ficult to adjust herself to new
surroundings under conditions
of enforced separation from
‘her immediate family. and
friends.”

Canadians rap
U.S. deportatio

U.S. Department of Justice efforts to deport to Canada a 60-year-old grandmoth
Mrs. Hazel Ann Wolf of Seattle, are being strongly opposed by leading CCF- MLAs 4
MPs. Protesting to U.S. Attorney-General Herbert Brownell, CCF national leader Be
Coldwell wrete that the proposed action is a “blot on the reputation of the United Sta

Peace float in PNE
calls for H-test ban

An estimated 300,000 people
turned out Wednesday this
week to watch the colorful
PNE parade which signalled
the opening of B.C.’s largest
annual fair.

Among the floats attracting
the most attention was one en-

tered by B.C.-Peace Council, ©

depicting an H-bomb explod-
ing over the heads of innocent
children.- “Ban the- H-bomb;
Stop all Tests,’ read the slo-
gan.

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nd

“You can’t eat a kilowatl |
no dams on the Fraser!” pr
claimed a float featuring
gigantic salmon, entered |
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union, The womel>
auxiliary of the union also h®
a float in the parade.

“Greater benefits throud!
organization,” was the message
carried on the float of Offite
Employees Internation
Union.

UNEMPLOYMENT

A recent drop in ocean ship-
ping rates*has strengthened
the competitive position of
Canadian lumber in-the Brit-
ish market, but the lumber
industry in the main depends
on home and U.S. consumption,
and shipments to these mar-

kets is down nine percent
from last year.
Pulpwood and newsprint

stocks are at an all-time high.

and some mills are working

five days instead of the usual

six. Coal mining is in a crisis,
and a drop in base metal prices
has caused some mines to shut
down, while development work
has been curtailed.

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“Are you working yet?”

“No, are you?”

Two . British immigrants
were talking over a cup of tea
at the White Lunch on Hastings
East. Like thousands of other
British, Italian and Hungarian
immigrants, they were discov-
ering that Canada’s streets are
not paved with gold.

“JT had enough money to last
mea month,” said one. “TI
figured I’d get a job right
away and send for the wife
and kids before the end of
the year. Now I don’t know
if I’ll ever get them out here.”

“‘T had three weeks’ work,”
said the second. ‘Then I got
laid off. Can’t blame the union
—I’m a carpenter and there
seem to be quite a few unem-
ployed carpenters around.” .

“What did they tell you

about the job situation in Can-
ada before you came out?”

August 23, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P.

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. to month. Action by pre

asked the*PT reporter.
“Jobs everywhere,”
the carpenter. “Told us
London there was' a big poo!
on over here, industry wi
crying for skilled worke®
Well, I can’t deny there se”
to be a lot of industrial a
struction, but there also se! :
to ‘be plenty of men to do a
job, and we can’t expect tO”
taken on ahead of your °
blokes.” 3
In some cases, of cours
Canadian employers have tit
to _use immigrants to com Wy
trade unionism — Murdo,
ville in Quebec, and Lev
Bres. in Toronto provide By,
good examples. Few Brit!
immigrants, with their 108
trade union traditions, 2!
themsélves to be used for er
purposes. With some of %
Hungarian “freedom fight,
brought to Canada . after f
counter-revolution in Huns®
last October, the reversé —
true. /
When Ed Kennedy, secret™,
of the Building Trades ©? 58°
cil, warned recently that via
couver may have 50,000 to |
000 jobless by next ‘Janey
he was voicing the fear ye
generally in the labor ™?
ment. io!
The unemployment situal i

grows more serious from mo? ‘|

cial and civic governmeyy
with the cooperation of jj
labor movement, is ne®
now to prevent a crisis nit? :
us this winter.

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