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* No ministers or

bureau heads .. . Here all of
us are ordinary workers.”

And Wang Chen, Minister
of State Farms and Land Re-
clamation, chimed in: “You,
Comrade Pai, are our leading
comrade here. We're your
subordinates.”

Speaking to both conting-
ents before they started work,
Chou En-lai said that the idea
that the leading cadres should
take part in physical labor
was to creat a social atmos-
Phere of complete equality
and co-operation between the
leaders and the rank and file,
with no _ division between
them.

“While working hard to
build a socialist society,” he
said, “we must at the same
time create conditions for the
great future of communism.
One of the prerequisites of
communist construction is
that all members of society
ardently love labor and com-
bine manual and mental la-
bor: We must set an example
for others by our own work
and endeavor to create such
social habits.”

They were organized into
the fourth detachment of gov-
ernment cadre volunteer work-
ers on the project. They ate
together in the mess hall and
slept on pallets on the ground
in temporary hostels.

On the first day, they trans-
ported rocks. Working in the
blazing heat, they passed sun-

China’s leaders better the lot of peasants, such’ as these tilling the soil.

fhina’s leaders abandon desks,
in pick and shovel gang on job

lo PEKING—One day recently, a new batch of voluntary workers arrived at the Ming
ltervoi €servoir construction site to join the thousands who are working hard to complete the
' Be On the outskirts of Peking before the the high water season sets in. Carrying a big
“8 at the head of the column marching towards the dam was Premier Chou En-lai.

scorched rocks up to the dam
They called out, “Ooop, a big
watermelon for you!” as they
passed a heavy one, and for
a smaller one they cried,
“Here’s a cantaloup!”

Premier Chou worked there
for three days. Despite an’ in-
jury to his right arm_ sus-
tained when he fell from a
horse in the early war years,
he first worked at passing
rocks, then helped transport
materials and pulled hand-
carts. He insisted that he
wanted to learn a little about
every kind of work on the
site. ,

Although they spent only
seven days at the Ming Tombs
construction site, many com-
rades felt they had learned
a great deal from their
“course” at the “Ming Tombs
University” and that they had
a good report card in three
subjects: labor, mind and
health.

Many of the leading com-
rades, of course, rose from the
ranks of the laboring people
and many had devoted most
of their lives to the revolu-
tionary struggles of the work-
ing people. But still, as one
of them aptly put it, they
“should go back to the furn-
ace to be tempered again once
in a while,” so that they “will
not get rusty.” :

Leaders, in their. opinion,
must be ordinary workers
and must share the feelings
of the working people.

| Beat Whyte's

~ SPOR

(Guest column by
BRUCE ..YORK)

HERE’S a little less than
T six weeks left in the
closest PCL pennant race in
years: During the last two
weeks. Vancouver, Phoenix
and San Diego have been so
close that a loss of a single
game has seen any one of
them falling from first to
third.

On their most recent show-
ing the Vancouver Mounties
appear to have a very slight
edge. But they have been
inconsis‘ent all year, with
only one player, Charlie
White, maintaining a steady
pace. Right now George Bam-
berger has been holding the
pitching staff together along
with Joe Hatten and Russ
Heman. Buddy Pederson has
started to get on: base a lot
recently and Ray Barker has
at long last produced some
base his. On the other hand
Joe Durham was in a bad
slump until very recently and
the pitching staff was having
its troubles including the two
top winners Irv Palica and
Art Cecerrali.

The Mounties have man-
aged to stay close to the top
mainly because of their solid
reserves and all round bal-
ance. If somebody goes sour
they seem to have enough
depth for somebody else to
carry on. This last week they
added some badly needed
right handed hitting power in
3%-year-old Jim Dyck. If he
performs anything like he
did in his opening three
games, then the Mounties will
have gone a long way towards
correcting their poor record
against left handed pitchers.

On their only showing here
San Diego appeared to have
more class than the Mounties,
winning four out of seven and
then taking five of seven
from them in San _ Diego.

TLIGHT

They are loaded~ with ex-
major leaguers and were get-
ting excellent pitching, some
of it from unexpected cast-
offs. But three weeks ago the

parent Cleveland club dealt .

the Padres pennant hopes a
severe blow by calling up at
the same time the best leéft-
hander in the league, Hal

Woodeschick and one of the
best power hitters, Earl Ave-
rill Jr. Woodeschick had the
best earned run average in
the league and tied for the
most wins. Averill was hitting
close to .350 and was second in
both runs batted in and home
runs,

The Phoenix Giants came
to town after taking four of
seven from the Mounties in
Phoenix. In the latter series
they set a new Coast League
record with 24 homers in a
seven game Series. In Vancou-
ver however, they were a
bust winning but one of six
and getting only two home
runs. Andre Rodgers, who
entered the series hitting .422,
got but four hits in the en-
tire series. As a matter of
fact only Willie McCovey of
all their power hitters show-
ed anything at all in Vancou-
ver. The Giants also looked
weak in the field and except
for Pete Burnside their pitch-
ing is very average.

After leaving Vancouver
the Giants again got their
batting eyes and are hitting
the cover off the ball, especi-
ally in the light air of their
Arizona home field. However,
I don’t believe that their un-
doubted power will be
enough. During August there
will be many double-headers
and I think that their weak
pitching staff will be unable
to hold up.

So I'm going to stick my
neck out and predict Vancou-
ver to win, Phoenix to come
in second and San Diego to
wind up in third.

Union presents plan
to end jobless crisis

TORONTO—A delegation

of members of United Elec-

trical, Radio and Machine Workers, led by UE national
president C. S. Jackson, visited Ottawa last week and presented
the government with a brief and 20,000 petitions calling for a
four-point program aimed to restore full employment.

The main points in the brief
were:

@ Create new purchasing
power by reducing income
and sales taxes immediately.
Raise income tax exemptions
to $2,000 for single persons,
$3,000 for married and $500
on dependent children. In-
crease old age pensions and
family allowances.

August 1, 1958 —

® Expand employment by
a new trade policy. Seek
trade with China, the British
Commonwealth, the Soviet
Union.

© Prime the economy by
construction of half a million
new homes.

® Meet the needs of the
unemployed.

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