MacMillan speedup reflected in. despite sales drop rising profits Pac Wim aff Daasenses Sill —— J coma re of TET RLS CIN S eae, Nt ah a sll Acssasssecasonaatil sursetin FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1953 Rising standards at home, @® Lumber sales slumped, but profits soared for MacMillan and Bloedell during April, May and June, a company re- port reveals. Speedup of the workers is the key to this - riddle. peace abroad, Soviet aims MOSCOW A rising standard of living at home and peace through nego- tiation abroad were the’ keynotes ’ ef Soviet Prime Minister Malen- kov’s speech to the Supreme So- viet last Saturday. Stressing the great public de- mand for top-level talks between the Big Powers, he reiterated that there was no controversial issue which could not be solved by peaceful negotiations. But, he continued in a passage which has been selected .for world-wide comment, U.S. states- men were making a big mistake if they thought Soviet peace ef- forts were a sign of weakness. _ “The United States no longer has the monopoly of the hydro- Ben bomb,” Malenkov. said. He announced that. the Soviet government was to give some $27 million to help reconstruction in Korea. ‘He called for an end to the policy of ignoring China, which should take its rightful place in the UN. ‘ On the German question, Mal- enkov said: “We are asked to agree to the rebirth of, an aggres- sive militarist Germany in order to preserve the peace in Europe. Fulfilment of the budget ad- - opted by the Supreme Soviet would be a great step toward the building of Communism in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union ,today, -said Malenkov, has a powerful and technically perfect heavy. indus- try, and industrial output is now 29 times greater than during the years 1924-25. ' MacMillan and Bloedel, the giant lumber trust which controls at least 25 percent of British Columbia’s key i” dustry, announced in its quarterly report that profits for the three months of April, May and June of this yeat soared to $4,173,950. This is a 23.3 percent increase ove the same three months of 1952. The report also shows that sales were down 21 percent over the corresponding period last year. “The only possible explanation of such a situation is a sharp reduction in costs per board foot of lumber produced,” a wood- worker told the Pacific Tribune this week. “These figures show conclusively that workers are be- ing speeded up to turn out a greater production for the same or even less wages. The profit figures of MacMillan and Bloe- del are the direct result of ruth- less exploitation of B:C. wood- workers. ‘While this situation exists in the camps. and mills, Garl Winn, ‘the American international sec- retary-treasurer of the IWA, is publicly advocating a policy of ‘co-operating’ with ‘the Jumber bosses, who are now mainly Am- erican. The Vancouver Province hailed this.as a ‘most sensible and statesmanlike act.’ “The employers’ propaganda sheet Forest and Mill, sent in the mails to all woodworkers, gave a front page spread to Winn’s speech. An_ editorial gloated that ‘a responsible official of the IWA has said some things which this néwspaper of the Forest Industries of B.C. has been earnestly stating for some time.’ “The recent five-cent ‘margin- al’ settlement negotiated by the IWA leaders is indeed a cheap _ settlement as far as MacMillan and Bloedel are concerned. Rank and file woodworkers are begin- ning to protest and to call for a policy of struggle against the ex- ploitation policy of the bosses in place of a phoney union policy of ‘co-operation’.” Continued from page 1 POWs well-treated by Chinese on the staff here.” : Major Hetherington said the returning Commonwealth prison- ers had had only a preliminary’ examination, and “it was pos- sible’ one or two cases might be discovered later. Doctors here said they were surprised that the North Koreans had kept prisoners’ vaccinations and inoculations up to date. Hetherington added, that from what he cauld see, the Chinese captivity. _ Proof in death figures PANMUNJOM The U.S. “atrocity” propaganda campaign against the North Koreans and Chinese was killed stonesdead here last weekend by two sets of figures just released. Only 481 non-Korean prisoners in Chinese hands died in But the Americans themselves admit that of the Korean and Chinese they held prisoner, 8,418 died. it now remains for U.S. authorities to prove their wild charges against the Koreans and Chinese. It also remains for them to prove that their own statements are accurate, since fully documented reports from their own sources show that many more thousands of prisoners were killed or died of disease than they show. Nobody among the Koreans or Chinese denies that some prisoners died during the’ terrible winter of 1950. have been a miracle indeed if they had not, with communica- It would tions and cities disrupted by the U.S. Air Force itself. 6 doctors had ‘looked after their prisoners well. “They seem to have been ef- ficient, even though they lacked supplies,” he said. “I> have just seen a man who had his toenail removed with a scalpel and none of the proper instruments. It was a nice, de- now been repatriated. / cent job,’ Major Hetherington said. He added he had also seen a “satisfactory” appendix scar. Dietary experts attached to the camp for treatment of expected malnutrition cases found they had nothing to do. The British prisoners of war shown in, the above photo have In contrast to U.S. press charges that North Koreans “tortured” POWs, the British soldiers, looking remarkably fit, praised the North Koreans and Chinese People’s Volunteers for their treatment of prisoners. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 14, 1953 — *Smelter Workers. Continued ROBESON country — and Paul has hurled this lie back in their teeth: “Has not the history of every country shown that it was Pr cisely those who sowed hatre against the Soviet Union wh? proved to be the real traitors to their country? Was it not thos? who advocated and worked f0F friendship with the Soviet Union who proved to be the genuine patriots? b “To those who dare to questio? my patriotism, who have the UF mitigated insolence to questio? my love for the true America and my right to be an America —to question me, whose fathers and forefathers fertilized \ very soil of this country W their toil and with their bodies to such people I answer t those and only those who work for a policy of friendship with a the Soviet Union are genuit American patriots. And al others who move toward a Wa that would destroy civilizatio® ° whether consciously or uncods ciously, are betraying the inter ests of my country and the Al erican people. “| believe the great majoritY of the American people wil come to realize their identity ° interests with the people of whe Soviet Union and the growing People’s Democracies. In this era of change, normal trade rele tions and ‘peaceful cooperatl® can be the only answer. “IT am and always will be at anti-fascist and a fighter for the freedom and dignity of all men We anti-fascists—the true lov of American democracy—hav’ tremendous responsibility. * are not a small band—we, ® millions. who believe in pac’ and friendship. If we mobilit with courage, the forces of wor fascism can and will be defeat® —in Europe, in Africa and i? United States.” x x * ‘: Last year? the U.S. State ‘i partment refused to let Robeson visit Vancouver ge at a convention of the inter tional Union of Mine, Mill? Invited by Mine-Mill to sim® a Peace Arch rally, Robeso? i —and so did 25,000 Canat’, who wanted to hear him. “ 9 ing can keep me from MY adian friends,” said the singer on that occasion. gre y! This Sunday, August 16, Oy Robeson sings again at ane at Mine-Mill sponsored concef of the Peace Arch. Thousé” nd Canadians as well as thous 10 of Americans are expect? atk gather in the international P to hear the great Negro ba 1 pace