a a eee Saas ee ee a Ie LEER BRP PE NAR BEN ae ep ra Ra ER ISB ARNT ed SBR OTE NET che AER ais MRSC So ANOS REE NEE gh " 40,000 jobs a week— result of U.S. automation. WASHINGTON—John I. Snyder Jr., amanufacturer of automation equipment, told Congress Oct. 3 that ‘‘ automation is a major fac- tor in eliminating jobs. in the se “Now that we've gone to all this jeffort! hope they'll reconsider ‘laying you off... Bots United States at the rate of more that 40,000 a week.’’ Snyder, chairman and presi- dent of U.S. Industries, Inc., disputed an estimate given Con- gress the day before that auto- mation and other technological advances were eliminating a minimum of 200,000 factory jobs a year. He attacked the propagation of ‘«myths’’? about automation and pointed out that ‘automation is not only displacing people dir- ectly, but also indirectly through 3 what are called ‘silent firings’ in reference to workers who would have been hired for jobs taken over by automation. *"In the coming months and years, if we are to survive as a nation, we will need new so- ciological and economic ideas to solve the problems we face in this area,’’ he said. Soviet Moon plan proceeds The president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Prof, Kel- dysh, last week denied that the Soviet Union had abandoned plans - for a manned landing onthe moon in the near future. In a letter to an American space official recently, Profes- sor Sir Bernard Lovell, director of Jodrell Bank observatory, who visited the Soviet Union earlier this year, quoted Prof. Keldysh as saying his country had given up the project for the present but would be interested in a joint international attempt. Prof. Keldyshtold a Press con- ference in Prague that Sir Bern- ard ‘‘obviously came to this con- clusion by himself, as we had never said this.’’ He could not As the Italian Parliament opened debate last week on the Valiont Dam disaster, the gov- ernment faced stern questions from 30 Communist MPs and several other parties. The gen- eral question to which an answer is being demanded is: ‘‘Why was this disaster not prevented?’ The Communists are demand- ing a parliamentary inquiry in which ‘‘nobody will be spared’’ and tolerating ‘‘no indulgence, complacency, delays or petering out as has happened only too often in the recent past.’’ A.Communist Party White Paper has presented irrefutable evidence that the disaster could have been foreseen, Local people protested as early as 1958 when work on the dam began and the crumbly nature of Mount Toc’s South Africa’s outright ex- pulsion from the United Nations— and a possible trade boycott against countries like Britain if they do not stop selling arms to the apartheid regime—were dem- anded in the U.N. last week. Britain, the U.S., France, Japan and others should break off all trade and diplomatic re- lations with Verwoerd, demanded Tanganyika, a Commonwealth country. The Afro-Asian nations ‘‘and their genuine friends,’’ should seriously consider a selective boycott of goods produced by countries which have not imposed say precisely when the Soviet Union would land a man on the. moon, A Mexican newspaper recently quoted Lt.-Col. Yuri Gagarin, the first Soviet cosmonaut, as say- ing the moon project had been ready since 1961. A White House adviser on space problems, Mr. Edward Welsh, said in Washington that he hoped: the United States would land a man on the moon in this de- cade. But he told a Senate Appro- priations sub-committee that the budget cuts recently voted by the House of Representatives— if they stood—would cause ‘‘ some delay.’’ Dam scandal rocks ltaly soil was evident. The local Belluno district cou- neil asked unanimously that the dam should not be constructed. The Communist newspaper Unita was sued for alleged ‘‘false and tendentious reports’’ on the dangers in 1959—and the charges were dismissed. The White Paper recalls that just before the disaster the water level was being reduced ‘‘in order that it could assimilate the an- ticipated landslide without dan- ger.’’ One Italian newspaper, La Stampa, owned by the Fiat- combine, said the risk was **concealed or underestimated in order not to compromise the financial success hydro-electric work already in the phase of realization.’’ ‘Oust S. Africa’ says UN sanctions on South Africa, said Tanganyika’s foreign minister, Sheik Kaluta Amri Abedi. The minister spoke shortly after a letter from South African foreign minister Eric Louw to the UN general secretary was published by U Thant in New York. It once more defied UN resolutions on apartheid. The South African cabinet met shortly after the UN Assembly resolution was passed to decide whether to quit the United Nations. One hundred and six nations voted for the resolution against South Africa’s lone vote. of the - Speaks here JAMES BALDWIN, best-selling novelist and leading figure in the U.S. Negro movement, will speak in Vancouver’s Arlington Hall, 1236 W. Broadway on Nov. 2 at 8:30 p-m. Proceeds of the meeting, be- ing, sponsored by local civil liber- ties groups, will go to help the fight for racial equality in the U.S. Baldwin will receive an honorary degree at UBC on Nov. 1. Hit S. Africa racism in sport The International Olympic Committee this week called on mittee to get its government to change its racist policy in sport by the end of the year. An IOC official said that if S. Africa does not abandon racism in sports it will not take part inthe Olympic Games in Innsbruck and Tokyo. the S. African Olympic Com- }| Demand inquiry into monopoly in fisheries Eight points as _suggested terms of reference for the federal - provincial committee set up to inquire into the B.C. fishing industry have been sub- mitted to provincial labor min- ister Leslie Peterson by the United Fishermen & Allied Work- ers Union general executive board. The points listed by the union are as follows: * The growth and development of monopoly control by a com- bination of large fishing comp- anies and its effect on the fish- ermen, the allied workers, and the general public. * Resource policy followed by responsible government de- partments, including protection of Canadian Pacific resources. * The degree ofcapitalisation, the numbers of vessels and man- power employed in harvest power employed in harvesting limited resources. * The degree of vertical inte- gration from fish catching to pro- cessing and distribution. * The spread between produc- er and consumer prices of fish and fish products. * The availability or lack of complete statistical information produced by government depart- ments on costs and profits of all commercial fishing and fish processing enterprises. * Development of markets for the full potential of fishery pro- ducts available along the B.C. coast and Pacific Ocean, * Development of a Canadian deep sea fishing fleet in order to expand our fishing industry and provide year round employ- ment, At the same time as it was making the above proposals the union sent a letter to federal fisheries minister H. J. Robi- chaud in which it expressed con- cern ‘‘over the lack of definite Canadian policy regarding an all- inclusive treaty which could ade- quately resolve North Pacific conservation problems and provide protection for Canadian resources,’’ _ In its letter, the union charg- ed that Japan was exploiting U.S. *‘desires for co-operation in other fields—such as military and industrial bases’’ to win more concessions for its Pacific fish- ing fleet. Japanese fishermen have al- ready been allowed to invadetra- ditional Canadian waters and the union indicated it fears a greater sellout is being engineered. The union repeated its demand that the parliamentary standing committee on fisheries conduct full hearings before any further changes are contemplated in the North Pacific fisheries treaty. Grab in Canada’s north Cont'd from pg. 2 exploitation of our raw mater- ials and power in Ungava. Some of these alternatives, curiously enough, were elabora- ted by an American, John Greene, writing in ‘‘Steelways’’ magazine (published by the American Iron and Steel Institute) back in 1949, The U.S., explained Greene, ‘thas used its irreplacable na- tural resources lavishly. Canada, with a greater land mass to draw upon, has barely touchedits coal, oil and iron, the basic ingredients of high-speed industrialization.’’ *‘The Labrador bonanza,’’ he -continued, ‘*‘may outdo the one that launched the United States on its great adventure of indus- trial expansion in the late aB00S Sas Green suggested the Labrador finds could end Canada’s ‘‘callow youth’’ and predicted tremendous expansion of already-existing steel-making facilities at Hamil- ton, Ont., Sault Ste. Marie, and Sydney, Nova Scotia. For this, **Canada has coal in LUDWIG ERHARD, new West Ger- man Chancellor, repeated last week West Germany’s claim to all territories it held at December 31,1937. He also backed the NATO nuclear force under which W. Germany hopes to acquire nu- clear arms. Fee aS the province of Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, as well as Nova Scotia. The coal deposits in Alberta may be the largest in the world,’’ But it is a tragic fact that measured against this glowing dream of possibility, 15 years. of *‘progress’’ have resulted in: —Unemployment and stagna- tion in Nova Scotia; the closing of collieries; and even a royal commission proposal to develop the area as a tourist resort. —Similar stagnation in Alberta coalfields. —An almost 100 percent take- over of the Alberta oil fields by U.S. interests; similar plans for foreign capital for the Athabaska Tar Sands and Canadian oil in the Arctic. The tragedy of this economic emasculation can be measured in another way in the shame that in Canada in 1960, more than 500,000 of our citizens had to be listed as unemployed. There is no reason why the linkage of Canadian iron ore, coal, elec- trical energy, oil, aluminum and other minerals into a huge, raw materials -industrial complex would not make possible the birth of a dozen well-populated new cities in Labrador, Nova Scotia, or northern Quebec, Instead, we have Schefferville, with a population under 4,000 in Ungava, and the promise by IOCO and Wabush Iron that they will build two more company townsin the area, with a total population less than 10,000. One estimate of the total cost of getting the original Ungava operation into production was $200 million. The Wabush pro- ject probably cost a little more. The Brinco syndicate, with its monopoly on power, mineral and timber tracts, pledged to spend $1,250,000 in the first five years and a similar amount every five years thereafter. Its Twin Falls power installation probably cost about $50 million. Thus, the total inflow of capi- tal in the whole 15-year period of development and exploitation of Ungava may have been well under $1 billion—less than the amount Canada was forced to borrow to stabilize its finances after the balance of payments crisis in 1962. One year’s profits in iron ore soon’after produc- tion was underway, were esti- mated at $25 million. Has this been the total profit to Canada of a project once evaluated by Americans them- selves as giving Canada possibil- ities greater than those which led _ to the U.S, industrial expansion and population growth of the 19th and early 20th centuries? Not quite! On May 6, 1949, when Ungava’s huge industrial potential was al- ready known and when the Ameri- can IOCO was already on the launching pad, an anonymous Canadian Press item from New- foundland exultantly wrote: ‘¢Labradorite, the rock which the Eskimos call‘firestone,’ may eventually form the basis of a new industry in Canada’s 10th province. At the national handi- craft centre in down-town St. Johns, they’re turning out rings and other forms of jewellery set with stone.”’ The enthusiastic dreamer who filed this ‘‘exciting’’ news also noted that ‘‘clay, suitable for pot- tery-making, has also been found in the province...” ECCLES (British Daily Worker! ONWARD CHRISTINE'S SOLDIERS ... ‘ October 25, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 8