ee a) 2 _ peace By ELSIE which declared: “Mankind’s . hope and social advance in every part of the world” Gibbs stressed that this reso- lution “would have a profound effect on Canadian public opin- ion.” He declared that “a strong stand for an immediate cease- fire in Korea by the Canadian government would be most wel- come by the people of Saskat- __UN protests — exclusion of ~ Mrs. Luckock UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. : Refusal of the U.S. government to permit entrance of Mrs. Rae Luckock of Toronto to sessions of the UN Commission on the Status “of Women has been challenged by - the UN Legal Department in an April 10 memorandum. Mrs. Luckock was to have rep- - yresented the Women’s Interna- tional Democratic Federation, a non-governmental body, at the April 3 meeting of the commis- ‘sion, but she was refused a visa for reasons of “security.” (Mrs. Luckock is also president of the Congress of Canadian Women.) ; Jan Dessau of France, repre- - senting the World Federation of ‘Trade Unions, was also denied en- , try on similar grounds. The UN Legal Department, re- ferring to the international “head- _ quarters agreement,” declared: - “Nothing in the text . . . reserves to the United States the authority to deny a visa to any of-the classes of persons specified in Section 11.” _ One of the organizations so listed. _ are non-governmental consultative - groups recognized by the UN like the WIDF and the WFTU. According to the agreement, signed by the U.S. and now re- E such -visas must be “granted without charge and as promptly as possible.” : _ The legal department also re- jected the U.S. view, that it could reserve the right to exclude per- - sonnel from entry to the UN, as being of a unilateral character and unacceptable. The UN’s official position fol- lowed a vote in the commission on the Status of Women 14 to 1 protesting exclusion of Mrs. _Luckock. Only country voting against the resolution proposed by the Polish delegates was the _ U.S. The Chiang Kai-shek fac- ‘tion and Britain abstained. | Lo, only through a comprehensive and Sask. legislature unanimously adopts resolution BEECHING - REGINA The Saskatchewan legislature made history on Thursday last week by unanimously adopting a peace resolution proposed by William Berezowsky (CCF, Cumberland) and Harry Gibbs (CCF, Swift Current) for lasting peace can be realized spectacular program of economic. chewan.” In ringing tones, he told the legislature: “It is time’ to stop the Korean war and get down to some intelligent think- ing.” William Berzowsky declared that modern imperialism was dis- integration. It was his opinion that Canada could do much in the UN to dissuade the big powers from interfering with smaller ones, and to get action to help the underprivileged areas in their economic, social and_ religious needs. : He said that UN soldiers were, in many instances, reluctant about fighting in Korea. It was no sur- prise, he stressed, that Canadian, soldiers who believed in freedom, |should be reluctant to fight the |soldiers of other peoples who were endeavoring to achieve free- dom too. When Liberal MLA M. Lop- ston asked him to clarify his Position on Korea, Berezowsky answered by quoting U.S. Gen- eral Van Fleet’s statement that if there hadn’t been a Korea it would have been necessary to invent one. He also questioned the spending of 50 percent of the federal bud- get on defense. He condemned the fact that huge expenditures could be made on defense projects but none could be found for the South Saskatchewan river dam and for irrigation and afforesta- tion projects. He also condemned: the shipping of our mineral re- sources to the U.S. in the name of defense. Berezowsky declared that the Soviet Union, while aiding Peo- ple’s China, was rébuilding the Soviet Union and contrasted this with the veto of the South Sas- katchewan dam. “Due to crazy war hysteria many people are not being treat- ed as they should be,” he said, referring to the fact that 300 people have been displaced from the Cold Lake area to make way for a $30 million guid- ed missile range. - Arnold Feusi (CCF, Kamsack) declared that government money could be ‘better spent in purchas- ing food to trade or to give to needy nations, in aid of backward. countries, in waging war on dis- ease, with the start of a national’ health plan in Canada. This action of the legislature followed the 200-strong Saskatche- wan peace lobby of March 6 which urged that the legislature adopt a resolution calling upon the federal government to take thé initiative in working for an immediate end to the Korea war. he Pacific ‘Has your organization | Sent its greetings yet? | MAY DAY ISSUE RATES: $3.00 - : special aunene orders now Tribune | $5.00 -° $10.00 | a i ERNIE KNO Knott condemns discrimination ~° : NANAIMO, B.C. Commending the Cowichan In- dian Players for their production, of Tzinquaw, the Native Indian operetta recently -performed in Vancouver, Ernie Knott, LPP fed- eral candidate for Nananmo, con- trasts the cultural achievements of the Cowichan Indians with the treatment they receive in Duncan. “The Commercial Hotel in Dun- can practices racial discrimina- tion,” he charges. “Indian women who drink from the same glass and pay the same price for beer as white women are not allowed, to use the same toilet. “The management provides two: powder rooms in the ladies’ par- lor, one marked “Ladies,” ‘the other “Indian Ladies.” NFLY to campaign for restoration of Pro-Rec grants Job opportunities, education standards and recreation facilities for young people in British Columbia have been “hard hit” by the cold war policies of provincial and federal governments, charged ~ delegates attending the provincial convention of National Federation of Labor Youth, held here April 4-5. “In the Nanaimo area there are 1,700 unemployed because we are no longer dealing with British markets,” said a delegate from. the Hub City. “What does the future hold for our young peo- ple there, unless our trade _poli- cies are changed?” “Around Vernon young farm- ers are watching their prunes rot on the ground, for lack of markets while B.C. imports Am- erican prunes,’ reported an- other delegate. “Young people are not staying on the farms. There is no future for them there, so they are leaving the district and going wherever they can find jobs—but these days jobs are hard to find.” — : Under the recent Social Credit government there have been {fur- ther cuts in already inadequate facilities for youth. Slashing of Pro-Ree grants has drastically re- stricted recreational facilities throughout the province. The convention decided to campaign; for full restoration of the Pro- Rec budget. NFLY will participate in the June 9 election “in a more pub- lic way than ever before,” by demanding “jobs and opportun ties, restoration of Pro-Rec cuts, a housing program and votes for 18-year-olds.” Starting from the point that “the Labor-Progressive party 1 the only party which fully repre sents the interests of youth,” the NFLY will support LPP can dates and will “work to get other youth to speak up on electiom issues.” Norman Penner of Toronto, NFLY national leader, told dele gates: ; “Today as in on other period in the history of our organization we have the opportunity to i crease our membership and bu our prestige. Considering the neW feeling that is in the world with the development of peace talks i? Korea we should enter this elec tion campaign convinced that the NFLY along with other youth cal do a great deal to influence I” outcome in favor of youth’s terests.” : CCF convention swings to right Webster succeeds Winch but will quit if beaten June 9 Less-than a week after a Liberal convention adopted a demogogiec “left” program in an attempt to win votes in the June 9 provincial elections, a CCF convention elected Arnold Webster as its lead and hastily constructed a makeshift electoral platform which leaned far to the right. ; Any “revolutionary fervor” which Harold Winch was once supposed to possess and which CCF followers believed was contained in the Regina Manifesto, the founding document of their was conspicuously absent from the speeches delivered by Web- ster and other CCF leaders at the convention here last weekend. For the sake of vote-catching, a few socialist phrases were ban- died around by some speakers, and delegates professed shock at the bluntness of the right-wing policy advanced by vice-president J. M. Thomas, although he was 6n- ly voicing openly the policy which has become the actual (if not admitted) line of his party. “The old pictures of the owning- exploiting-bloated capitalist ver- sus the poverty-ridden helpless wage slave proletariat is no longer a true picture,” averred Thomas. “We should recognize that capit- alism of the classical or Marxian sense is of the past in all indus- trialized countries.” Having thus “disposed’ of ex- ploitation and the class struggle, Thomas continued: “There will be no sudden transition to a socialist economy. . . . We must accept the role of reformers bringing about a revolution by the process of con- stitutional gradualism.” After a brief debate, the report: was received. But in his accept- ance speech, after receiving unani- mous endorsation as CCF provin- cial leader to succeed Harold; Winch, Arnold Webster apparent- ly felt it was necessary to use some “socialist” phrases to ap- pease those delegates who had been dismayed by Thomas’ open | call for a move to the right. “I want to correct any impres- sion that there is “not much dif- ference between the CCF and other parties,” said Webster. “The ‘purpose of other parties is to ¥ & many pall ne maintain a system of organized selfishness, ours a system of plan- ned economy.” A moment later he was defend- ing the achievements of-Coalition as opposed to Social Credit, “the most reactionary government or party in 5@ years.” Many advances in social welfare, education and labor were under attack, he said. “Tt is unusual for a Socialist to talk like a Conservative, but there are many precious things the CCF must preserve.” _ (In his acceptance speech at last week’s Liberal provincial conven- tion, Arthur Laing, new Liberal leader, urged delegates: “Get on your lists every person with a lib- eral mind and bring in labor. Show them that we are the party for them: *.°..2) Webster pledged to serve the people “with whatever resources of body, mind and spirit I possess. I can do no more.” But later he announced that if he fails to win a seat in Vancouver East, he will Wage boost won at Yellowknife YELLOWKNIFE, NWT A wage hike’ of five cents an hour plus other concessions: has been won by miners at Giant Yel- lowknife Gold Mines in an agree- ment concluded here between the company and Local 802, Interna- tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. The contract runs for two years but contains provision for reopening wage talks under certain conditions. _|rect grants to the schoo : through consolidated reve? PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 17, 1953 — PAGE immediately quit as party Jeade™ teaching job, from which he seek leave of absence. the CCF convention contained ibe planks similar to that of the 4” fore. It calls for a reducti early hospital insurance rates; #8 val and return to his $7,300 a yee will The platform adopted by erals, dra w, dayne wn up a fe on it completion of the PGE; rem of sales tax from all m province-wide automobile ac insurance plan to supply cove", at cost, highway development; © social welfare scheme . divorr™ ee any means test; moderP®” tion of hospitals, etc. ' Q canctl cident One new plank calls for lation of timber licenses and PY, lic control of all timber an ; B.C. The forests would be id- under public ownership “aS ™** ly as possible.” — The platform scores the Ros formula for education an a “6s that a CCF government would % sume increased responsibny é the cost of education t 1 poards ” e. Joseph Corsbie was re) 7 president of the B.C. vine brancl of the party. Harold pod was named the party’s orary president. Frank ™ zie was elected first vice-P: and Mrs. Jessie Mendels ed second vice-president. Six executive members are: Tom Alsbury, Colin George Home, William Jack Snowsell and Mrs. ©~ Steeves. : 2 c Delegates to the national, * Council are Alex Ma : Mrs. Steeves.