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Vancouver, British ‘Columbia, April 18, 1952

| Peace rally Friday
will launch protest
against bar on MP

A campaign of protest against the banning from Canada
of Mme. Isabelle Blume, Belgian MP, will be launched this
Friday night, April 18, at the B.C. Peace Council’s public
Peace rally to be held in Pender Auditorium,

Featured speaker will be Dr, Willard Uphaus, national
Co-director of the American Peace Crusade.

The meeting is a prelude to the third British Columbia

Peace Conference, to be held this Saturday and Sunday. April
- 19 - 20,

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Soviet government

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the itoon prices, testimony to steadily rising living standards a
Uttey a Ry the latest price cut, effective April 1, the peleis of
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* 15 percent, poultry 20 percent, tea 20 percent, coffee 10
Ms and jellies 10 percent, Fruit prices were also cut
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B.C. COULD

British Columbia’s 45.000 un-
employed workers, victims of a
capitalist “boom” which is mak-
ing millions for American share-
holders but forcing cutbacks in
two of the province’s primary
industries (lumber and fishing)
could be put to work again if
Canada would accept. Soviet
trade offers made at the recent
International Economic Confer-
ence in Moscow.

In his opening speech to the
conference, M. V. Nesterov, head
of the Soviet Chamber of Com-
merce, said his country was pre-
pared to buy $10 billion worth
of foreign goods from western
nations. Chairman Vassili Kuz-
netov of the All-Union Central
Council of Trade Unions said
Soviet foreign trade orders could
provide jobs for 1,500,000 to 2,-
000,000 workers for three years
and assure 4 livelihood for
about six million people.

Discussion was followed by
swift action, Led by Lord John
Boyd-Orr. a group of British
businessmen reached agreement
with a Chinese trade group for
an’ equal exchange of $28 million
worth of products, reached sim-
ilar trade agreements with the
Soviet Union, and began trade
negotiations with other coun-
tries.. Negotiations for trade
agreements were also started
among representatives of the
eastern nations and businessmen
from Pakistan, France, the Ne-
therlands, Denmark, Ceylon and
Egypt.

China and the New Democra-
cies made it clear that they
were prepared to do up to $19
billion in trade with western
concerns in the next few years.

The British goods to be sold to
China include about $9,800,000
worth of textiles. British textile

SHARE IN
si BILLION
SOVIET TRADE

representatives were particular-
ly eager to trade because of the
depressed conditions in their
own country.

The door is open for Canada
to share in huge orders from
the Soviet Union, People’s China
and the New Democracies, but
before that is possible Ottawa
must abandon the cold war
policies emanating from Wash-
ington. |

“Canada may become separ-
ated from the main channels of
international trade unless action
is taken promptly,” warned
Michael Freeman of Toronto,
one of seven Canadian delegates.

To the 45,000 jobless in Brit-
ish Columbia, and the more than
400,000 unemployed workers
across Canada, word that Ottawa
was prepared to cooperate and
trade with all parts of the world
would be good news. indeed.

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