n pram TR 6 8 ET Many leading unionists sign peace petition “Labor’s Stake in the Peace” will be the subject of a radio broadcast by Homer Stevens, chairman of the labor peace committee of Vancouver Peace Assembly, over CKMO at 7 p-m., Monday, August 21, it was announced this week. CHARLES STEWART GEORGE MILLER JACK PHILLIPS The labor peace committee this month circularized every trade union in B.C. with an appeal to support the Stockholm peace ap- peal. “The first response is good,” Stevens reported. Among B.C. unions which have endorsed the appeal to ban the atom-bomb are: Marine. Workers and Boajlermakers (CCL); United Mine Workers of America (Nanai- mo and Cumberland locals); United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union (TLC); Vancouver. Civic Employees Union, local 28 (TLC); and Vancouver Trades and Labor Council (AFL-TLC),- which passed a resolution calling for all nations to get together to ban the bomb. A partial list of leading B.C. trade union members who have signed the world peace petition in- cludes: F. E. Wilcox, president, division 101, Street Railwaymen’s Union (AFL), Vancouver; Charles Stew- art, vice-president, Division 101, SRU; Jack Eaves, business agent, Painters’ Union, local 1388 (AFL), Vancouver; George Kassian, execu- tive member, Painters; George Gee, business manager, local 213, Inter- national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AFL), Vancouver; James Robinson, secretary-treasurer, Van- couver City Hall Employees’ Asso- ciation, local 15 (TLC); H. Watts, editor, Labor Statesman; L. Bur- ton, president, Trail Civic Employ- ees, local 343 (TLC): Pearl Wedro, district organizer, International Fur and = Leather Workers (CCL); George Wood, president, local 505, Fur and Leather; John Turner, president, local 510, Fur and Leather; Mary Turiss, secretary, local 197, Fur and Leather; Tony Czerfusz, vice- chairman, local 197, Fur and Leather. Harvey Murphy, regional direct- or, Mine, Mill and Smelter Work- ers; Ken Smith, district president, Mine-Mill; Alex Gordon, business agent, Shoreworkers’ local, United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union (TLC); William Rigby, re- search director, UFAWU; George Miller, president, UFAWU; Homer Stevens, secretary - treasurer, UFAWU, Tom Parkin, organizer, UFAWU. James Thompson, president, West Coast Seamen’s Union; Don- ald Guise, business agent, Vancou- ver Civic Employees’ Union, local 28; T. Anderson, president, Civic Employee$; Jack Phillips, secre- tary, Civic Employees; William Stewart, secretary-treasurer, Mar- ine Workers and _ Boilermakers’ Union (CCL); William White, pre- sident, Marine Workers; John Cam- eron, president, United Mine Work- ers of America, Cumberland; Sam English, president, UMW, Michel; and Howard Lyons, member, local 452, Carpenters. PT subs increase, week's fofal 51 This week 51 subscriptions and renewals came in, a gain of 21 over the previous week. Good work, readers. Let’s keep it up. Grandview topped the list of city Supporters, with 4 subs, followed by Electrical, 3; Fairview, 2; Ship and Steel, 2; Capitol Hill, 2; one each for West End, North Vancou- ver, Forest Products, Bill Bennett, Norquay and Vancouver Heights, and 5 miscellaneous. . New Westminster led the provin- cial parade with 4 subs, Vernon and Nanaimo contributed 2 apiece, Victoria and Salmon Arm sent in singles, and there were 17 miscel- laneous, : MacMillan’s new pulp mill ... Nanaimo people call it the “skonk works.” NANAIMO, B.C. The sprawling octopus empire of H. R. MacMillan opened a $19,000,- 000 sulphite pulp mill four miles from here this week, and Nanaimo residents are holding their noses. “Where’s that godawful stink coming from?” gasp visitors, when EMPLOYMENT ADVANTAGES OVER-RATED ‘Big Barnsmell’ MacMillan annoys Nanaimo with pulp mill stench the wind blows an overpowering, foul smell through the city. “That’s MacMillan,” residents ex- plain, MacMillan boasts that the. pulp mill will bring prosperity to Na- haimo, but the fact is that the highly mechanized plant employs only 250 workers. That’s a peak i figure, and at present only a frac- tion of that number are. working. The business world sang praises to MacMillan in the daily press this week, but the man-in-the-street in Nanaimo used different words to describe the foul-smelling pulp mill planted almost on his door- step. Award of the contract does not mean that the United States has mastered the problem of making the “hell bomb” and will soon be able to announce to the world that it has produced the first of the terrible new weapons with which it hopes to impose the “American way of life’ upon the world. It does mean that the American people will be required to pay un- told new billions from their dwind- ling share of the national wealth to meet the cost of this fantastic new project. And not only the American people will feel the effect in lowered living standards and curtailed social security. The liv- ing standards of the people in every country committed to parti- cipation in the American dream of world conquest will be plundered to meet the cost. Some indication of what this cost will be is contained in the infor- mation that duPont’s task is to try to produce tritium, a new hydrogen gas which is triple the weight of © ordinary hydrogen gas, According to a recent article in the Saturday Evening Post, cost of one hydrogen bomb made with tritium at current cost would be $324 billion, over and above the cost of the atom bomb required as a trigger. Cheaper hydrogen bombs could be made with deuterium, or a com- bination of deuterium and tritium. Estimated cost of a deuterium H- bomb is a mere $4,500,000. But a deuterium-tritium combin- ation H-bomb would cost $132,328,- 410,000, equivalent to the total of the Canadian national income for the next seven years. The problem is that bombs using these processes DuPont gets contract for constructing H-bomb plant WASHINGTON Contract for construction of a hydrogen bomb plant has been awarded to E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company, the giant U.S. chemicatt and munitions trust President Truman’s order to American atomic scientists to begin the mass extermination even more destructive than the atom bomb, six months after quest for a weapon of might prove to be duds. In San Francisco last week, the Daily People’s World commented: DuPont's enthusiasm for the H-bomb and the A-bomb is W- derstandable. They are, in e& Sence, duPont’s weapons. By the Same token they are not the weapons of the American people. ‘DuPont’s staple commodity i§ death, and the H-bomb promises Mass production .. . “It is ‘in the interest of the People to seek prohibition and destruction of the atomic bombs that exist, rather than join dU- Pont in the ghoulish quest for # more murderous weapon.” STANTON Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries SUITE 515, FORD BUILDING, 193 &. HASTIAGS ST- . (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MArine 5746 —— a & MUNRO Se anit PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 18, 1950 — PAGE ?