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—From Crocodile, Moscow

Chief item of American exports.

(The wording on the signs reads: To Canada — To Eurone.

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On the

packing cases is inscribed: Crisis to Canada — Crisis to- Europe.)

Parley will discuss
_ famil y welfare topics

Drawn together by common problems and invited by the
Congress of Canadian Women to participate in a Women’s
Conference, representatives of many organizations and numer-
ous individuals from Vancouver Island, the Fraser, Valley
and the Kootenays will assemble with city women and others
from New Westminster and Burnaby at Dunsmuir Audit-
orium this Saturday, January 22 at 10 a.m.

Among the many topics to be
discussed will be the urgent need
for more kindergartens in public
schools, and child care centres for
working mothers.

Equal pay for equal work and
shorter working hours will win
lively support from representa-
tives of the» canning industry,
where differences of wages be-
- tween men and women is as much
as 22 cents an hour, with a 54-
-hour work week in force,

Other subjects will include the
right to full employment, increas-
~ed old age pensions, extended
education, cheaper transportation,

more hospital beds and world .
_ peace.

The conference will continue
all day, resolutions and discus-
_ sion to be summarized and com-
piled in a brief which will be
presented to the provincial cab-
inet February 4 by a delegation
representative of the conference.

After the supper hour the men

folk will be “gathered up from ™

their baby sitting” and taken to
the Ukrainian Hall at 805 Hast
Pender where they will “help to
raise funds as well as_ their
heels,” in an evening of dancing,
games, refreshments. Proceeds
will be used to help finance the
women’s delegation to Victoria.

PATRONIZE

CARNEL’S
COFFEE SHOP
410 Main St.

Now Operated By
GEORGE & WINNIFRED

GIBBONS

Burns’ Night will.

be held in city

-As they have done for the past
several years, admirers of Robert
-Burns in the city’s labor and pro-

~ gressive movement will. gather
this weekend to honor the 196th .

anniversary of the Bard’s birth,
January 25, 1759.

The celebration this year will
take the form of a Burns Night
to be held in Pender Auditorium
(lower hall) this Saturday, Janu-
ary 22, beginning at 8 p.m.

Tom McEwen will speak to-the
Immortal Memory and the pro-

gram will include Scottish songs |

and dancing. Admission to the
affair is 50 cents.

China, atom —
plan, UN issues

By JOSEPH STAROBIN .

Me

UNITED NATIONS

Two central issues — the peaceful uses of atomic energy, and relations with Peo-
ple’s China —are occupying United Nations attention as the new year’s activities get under
way. On both counts, the outlook is for definite progress, provided the United States gov-

ernment does not throw any money-wrenches into the works.

The international meeting to prepare a world conference of atomic scientists this

summer has opened at UN head-
quarters, with delegates from the

’ United States, the Soviet Union,

Canada, India, Brazil and France.
Dr. Wilfred Bennett Lewis, vice-
president of research and develop-

’ ment at the Ontario Chalk River

project, will be meeting with such
luminaries as Dr. A. Rabi of the
United States and the Soviet
Academy of Science member
Dmitri V. Skobeltsyn.

The latter’s arrival, on the heels

of the Soviet Union’s offer to | “to be slow to anger,” and exhor-

share the “know-how” of its first
reactor-pile for atomic power, is

_ considered here a measure of how

seriously the Soviet government
regards the UN Assembly’s unani-
mous decision on atoms-for-peace.
At the same time, the UN has
been buoyed up by the spirit in
which its secretary-general, Dag
Hammarskjold, returned from the
unprecedented visit to Peking.
Speaking to an overflow press
conference on January 14, the sec-
retary-general indicated that he
had been greatly impressed with

. what he heard (and saw) in the

capital of the New China. “It is
an experience from all points of
view to see Peking,’ he said, “an
experience which I ‘shall never
forget.”

Referring to his well-known
position that the UN must be
open to all nations, he said: +

“From the point of view of the
United Nations, it would be use-
ful if that very great country—
after all, it contains about six
hundred million people — were
directly represented here.”

On the specific purpose of his
mission, to facilitate the release
of the U.S. flyers held by China
on espionage charges, Hammar-
skjold felt that “the door has
been opened” and that it could
be kept open “given restraint on
all sides.”
he thought the Chinese leaders
were prepared to keep. this door
open, the secretary-general re-

‘plied: “J would say definitely yes,

if we are.”

.At another point, he was ask-
ed whether improvement of U.S.
relations with China would not
help in releasing the flyers, and
he said: “All problems of this

» type are much more easily solved

in a less frozen atmosphere.”
: x x x

It was thus quite obvious that

When asked whether.

‘set up.

the highest UN circles feel it is
now up to the U.S. to act.
Everything now depends on
whether President Eisenhower
and U.S. Secretary of State John

Foster Dulles can be moved to.

defeat the most adventurist circles
within the administration and
within the Republican party, led
by Senator William Knowland
and Admiral Arthur Radford.
Thus far, administration lead-
ers have simply been urging the
American people to keep calm,

tations of that kind. But such
measures, of course, do not add
up to a clear line of policy.
What is required is concfete
evidence of a willingness to seek
a modus vivendi with China, and
thaf- means abandoning projects
such as ‘the Manila alliance in
Southeast Asia, the maintenance
of Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa,
and the manoeuvres to scrap the
Geneva agreements on Indochina.
Hammarskjold made it plain

, that having taken the initiative

of a parley with Chou® En-lai, the
UN intended to continue the con-
tact. But he also disclosed his
own view that an overall U.S.-
Chinese settlement would not
come about by a single act or

. conference, but by a coincidence

of separate moves on each side.
“The final decision will, I
think, necessarily emerge as uni-

lateral decisions,’ the UN secre-.

tary-general speculated, “as part
of a general development more
than as a result of any kind of,
so to say, settlement.”

All of which makes it more
urgent than ever that concrete
moves be undertaken from the
western side to normalize rela-
tions with the New China. For
once this “general developmént”

gets started, there are likely to

be reciprocal initiatives from the

Chinese side.

land-Radford school win out in

U.S. policy, the prospect is for

much increased tension in Asia.
x KE

The Soviet offer to share its
knowledge of the industrial uses
of the atom made a big impres-
sion at the UN, coming as it did
on the eve of Prof. Skobeltsyn’s
arrival.

The U.S. has said it would give
220 pounds of fissionable mater-
ials to the UN agency when it is
However valuable that

, \

But if the Know-

may prove to be, greater interest
centres on the Soviet readiness
to share the know-how which has
already gotten a Soviet electric
spower generator under way.

This is especially true since
U.S. scientists have long been
bridling against the secrecies that
surround U.S: atomic ehergy pro-
cedures. Americans have been
told for so long that this was all a
necessary response to Soviet
secrecy, as well as alleged espion-
age dangers.

In offering to. share Soviet
methods with the rest of the
world, a lot of nonsense, some
of it with tragic overtones, has
been knocked into a cocked hat.

Continued

JOBLESS

when hundreds, of thousands of
unemployed Canadians rode the
rods from East to West and West
to East in search of non-existent
jobs.

Howe told Ontario farm imple--
ment workers a year ago, when
they were laid off in large num-
bers, that they should hit the road
—get out and find themselves
other jobs elsewhere.

Now the Toronto Globe and
Mai! repeats Howe’s “hit the
road” line. Discussing the plight
of a New Brunswick community
whose textile mill — on which
the whole town depended — has
closed down, and a Nova Scotia
community whose coal mine has
shut, the paper hands out this
callous advice:

“People in these circumstances
can pick up and move.” -

But unemployed workers in
1955 aren’t going to “hit the
road,” abandoning the homes they
have built or bought, tearing up
their roots in the communities
that they have helped to create.

Canadian workers. — those who
are working, those on part-time
jobs and those unemployed co
know that there is a better way.
to beat the threat of depression.
That way is to Put Canada First,
and organize and fight for jobs
and markets, for friendship and
trade with all countries, and to

help the sellout of Canada to

Wall Street.

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Here are the Canadian delegates to the United Nations (left to right, first row): Lester B. Pearson, secretary of state for external
affairs; D. M. Johnson, permanent representative at the UN; Mrs. K. G. Montgomery, alternate representative; G. D. Weaver, MP; L. Cardin, MP.
(Second row): T. H. Ross; Rev. A. B. Patterson, MP; Andre Gauthier, MP; Charles Stein, under-secretary of state; K. P. Kirkwood, department
of external affairs; D. C. R. Bedson, delegation secretary.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 21, 1955 — PAGE 12