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the employer, page 12.

Report blasts courts,
RCMP, labor board

For 14 months, members of Local 580 of the Retail, Whole-
sale Union battled strikebreakers and court injunctions trying
to win a first contract at Adams Labs in Surrey. A report
issued in the wake of that strike criticizes the role of the
courts, the RCMP and the labor board — all of which favored

Emergency housing plan

= An emergency situation like the current housing crisis re-
§ quires emergency steps be taken, says Vancouver alderman

Harry Rankin. And in his weekly column, Rankin outlines the

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steps that each level of government should take, page 2.

er. mayor Jack Volrich (left) addresses Orpheum audience. Among the performers from
the Odessa which entertained were the dance group (right), backed up by the ship’s band. All of

i the performers were regular crew members on the Odessa.

Vancouver gave the Soviet

| Cruise ship Odessa a spirited
| Welcome last weekend as over
| 2,500 joined representatives of

Vancouver city council and the

| Canada-USSR Friendship

Association in turning out for the

} Vancouver Welcomes Odessa

| Soncert Sunday at the Orpheum

Theatre.

Saturday, hundreds had

| Qreeted the ship as it docked in

Vancouver harbor and over 300
Attended a special reception

' Aboard the Odessa that evening.

But it was the huge response
for the Orpheum concert which
Odessa staff captain Georgiy

| Kharkovoy termed ‘‘simply over-
) Whelming.”’

The concert, which featured 17
berforming crew members of the

| Odessa and the Vancouver-based

Kobzar dancers, had been jointly
Sponsored by the Canada-USSR
Association and the city of Van-

} Souver, which had written off the

hormal rental fee for the city-

} Swned Orpheum.

The city sponsored the concert

| Xs part of its ongoing relationship

\With Odessa, its sister city in the

Soviet Union. Proceeds from the
concert went into a fund for
future exchanges.

' Vancouver mayor Jack
Volrich, who represented the city
at the concert along with
aldermen Harry Rankin, Helen
Boyce and George Puil, thanked
the large audience for showing the
Odessa ‘‘real Canadian hospitali-
ty.” =
Volrich called for a relaxation
of international tensions ‘‘so we
can get on with what we all want
— building closer relations bet-
ween Canada and the Soviet
Union.”

Canada-USSR Association
B.C. president, Dr. Hannah
Polowy, said that ‘‘real
understanding requires talking to
each other and sharing concerns,
opinions and expertise...this is the
only way to ensure peace.’’

The general secretary of the
Soviet counterpart of the
Canada-USSR Association, the
USSR-Canada Association,
Valeri Chebisenko, also spoke to
the Orpheum audience, and said
that he couldn’t help noting that
the ‘‘sentiments expressed in the

Over 2,500 attend Orpheum
oncert to welcome Odessa|

Canadian press are not shared by |
people.’’|
Chebisenko, who arrived in Van- }

the Canadian

couver with a group of Soviet
tourists simultaneously with

Odessa’s arrival, said that after |
reading Canadian newspapers, he |
was apprehensive about the}
greeting he could expect. ‘“‘I’m|
glad to say I was wrong,”’ he said. |

The gesture of friendship ac-

cording the Odessa in Vancouver |

is in sharp contrast to the cold war
treatment it has received from
U.S. authorities. While in the
Caribbean, the Odessa en-
countered numerous problems in
U.S. ports, and days before it ar-
rived in Vancouver it was inform-
ed that it had been banned from
nae of four Alaskan ports of

However when the Odessa left
Vancouver for its first seven-day
cruise to Prince Rupert and

Skagway and back to Vancouver, |

it had taken 449 passengers
aboard, filling it nearly to capaci-
ty

Vancouver will be the Odessa’s

base for its Alaskan cruises until
the end of September.

TRIBUNE PHOTOS —FRED WILSON

The central headquarters of the
Communist Party of Canada in
Toronto was firebombed and
burned to the ground Monday.

A neighbor of the Communist
Party’s Bethune Centre at 24 Cecil
St., Toronto, witnessed two men
jump out of a car and hurl incen-
diary bombs into the empty
building at.about.4.a.m..June 24.

“‘The whole place was gutted,
destroyed. There are only a few
bricks left,’’ Communist Party
general secretary William Kashtan
told the Tribune in an interview
Monday.

‘*We have no evidence of who is
responsible other than our political
instincts,’’ Kashtan said, ‘“‘And
that is that it was undoubtedly the
work of a fascist like group
stimulated by cold war propagan-
da.’’

The Toronto city fire marshal
has declared the attack arson and
the city police are cooperating, he
said.

The three storey Bethune Centre
had been empty for about two
weeks as an extensive renovation
project had begun. Designated a
heritage building by Toronto city
council, the Bethune Centre was
being carefully rebuilt to preserve
its exterior while adding a new wing
and renovating the interior.

The $300,000 renovation project
would have transformed the
Bethune Centre into the Tim Buck

U.S. crimes |
against Iran}

From June 2 to 5, 350§
representatives from 60%
countries, including three §
Canadians (see photo), §
heard testimony about U.S. |
support for the repressive §
regime on the Shah of Iran. |
Ellen Lipsius was a Canadian
Peace Congress representa-
tive at that Conference on®
U.S. intervention in Iran. Her
report is on pages 6 and 7.

Fiche mb guts
CP's offices

— Norman Bethune Educational
Centre which was to serve as cen-
tral offices for the party’s central
committee and also to house the
Norman Bethune School of Social
Sciences, including a public library
and research centre.

“Our building fund must
become a rebuilding fund now,”

Kashtan_ said. *“There..is nothing

left. We will need to make new
plans and build anew.”’

Because of the renovation pro-
ject, all party files had been remov-
ed. The party was concerned
especially, however, with the possi-
ble loss of the invaluable mural by
Communist artist Avrom Yanov-
sky which had graced the main hall
of the Bethune Centre. But “‘like a
miracle,” the mural, which had
been removed and wrapped in
plastic, suffered only water and
smoke damage and will be salvag-
ed, Kashtan said.

In Vancouver Thursday an
emergency meeting of the Com-
munist Party membership in the
Lower Mainland was held to hear
central committee representative
and chairman of the Buck-Bethune
Centre Building Fund Oscar
Kogan report on the attack and the
campaign to rebuild the centre.

Party offices all across Canada
report thousands of party members
and supporters responding to the
news of the burning with donations
to help rebuild the centre.

Northern communities
alienated by coal deal

“It’s disturbing but the only thing
I know about the coal deal is what I
read in the papers,’”’ Elmer Mer-
cier, mayor of Prince George said
Monday, typifying the alienation
felt by communities in the Nor-

~ theast as the Social Credit govern-

ment pressed ahead with plans for a

_ massive coal giveaway to Japan.

“Other people are planning our
destinies and we aren’t getting any
input,’’ Mercier said, adding that

he ‘‘sometimes felt like an outsider,

to the whole process. :
‘All the mayors in this region

should sit down and have the deal.

explained from one end to the
other,’’ Mercier said, voicing a de-
mand similar to that of Native
groups and the Prince Rupert com-
munity, each of which would be af-
fected by the development which
would see the building of a spur line
from the Sukunka coal fields to the
B.C. Rail mainline, the upgrading
of the CN rail to Prince Rupert and
a new coal port facility on Ridley
Island.

“‘There shouldn’t be a damn bit
of development until the benefits
for the Northeast and B.C. are

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