Poor code can bring road deaths LOQUENT reasons for a strong federal labor code, especially as it would ap- ply to the trucking industry, are outlined in an article by I. M. “Casey” Dodds in the “March issue of The Ontario Teamster. The article is also severely eritical of the government’s watering down of the original code. Dodds is the Canadian director of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Outlining his support for a strong code, Dodds relates the following: On March 27, 1962, a trans- port truck on Highway 401 was following another truck be- tween Toronto and Windsor. The first truck pulled off to the side. The driver of the second truck pulled off onto the should- er, rammed the trailer of the first truck and was killed. The accident occured at 5.30 a.m. It appeared that the driver was suffering from driver fat- igue and assumed that the light- ed truck in front was on the travelled portion of the road- way and moving. . “The evidence is clear. People die almost daily because of a disregard for the public by some segments of the trucking _ in- dustry.” Dodds suggests that while drivers themselves may. play some part in such accidents, “someone has to dispatch them” and “someone must also be aware of the time it takes to deliver a load from point A to point B.” The industry “must share a major portion of the blame. If it will not police itself and es- tablish decent conditions then it is up to the government to step in.” When the federal labor code was introduced “the labor move- ment was lulled into the feeling that there at least was an act which would truly help the working man. “We were disturbed that it would not cover employees out- side federal jurisdiction, thereby omitting about 90 percent of the. work force. We were hopeful, however, that the example set by the code would be followed by the provinces.” But now “the worst possible thing’ has happened. Labor Minister MacEachen “has ob- viously succumbed to the effec- tive lobby of the trucking indus- try and cast aside the legitimate complaints of this union.” Under the watered-down code, shipping and transport indus- tries can get an 18-month de- ferment of the section on hours of work by application to the minister of labor. It need only be shown that the hours of work will be unduly prejudicial” to the employees, or “seriously detrimental’ to the business. Longer suspension can be ordered by the cabinet, after an inquiry, and the order may set out the hours to be worked. “Frankly, this is not good enough,” writes Dodds. “We still believe that the truck driver is entitled to spend as much time with his family as the next man and, therefore, is entitled to a 40-hour week with a living wage.” =e .. “The industry can and should be required to establish these basic standards. Only greed and selfishness prevent it from so doing.” World Festival of Youth in Algeria from July 28 HIS summer the 9th world festival of youth and stu- dents for peace and friend- ship will be held in Algiers from July 28 to Aug. 7. Algiers will be the meeting place for 15,000 to 20,000 young people who, despite different be- liefs, ideology, race, nationality and color, will join together in support of peace, friendship, mutual understanding and _ in- ternational cooperation. The World Federation of Democratic Youth is one of the festival’s main sponsors. “In addition to the opportun- ity for political encounter, par- ticipation in the festival is a rich cultural experience. Information is available from the Canadian 9th World Youth Festival Committee, Box 166, Postal Station “M”, Toronto 14, Ont. Revisits Hungary i - atter 5 years, notes progress By ROY SCHAEFFER RECENTLY returned from Hungary where I was able to attend the April 4 cele- - bration of the country’s libera- tion by the Soviet army 20 years ago. The whole nation celebrated the defeat of the Hitlerite forces. Towns and _ villages were bedecked with the na- tional colors — red, white and green — and the Soviet flag was also to be seen every- where. .There was a special session of parliament, in which Istvan Dobi, chairman of the presi- dium, sent a congratulatory message to the Hungarian peo- ple. The USSR’s Anastas Mi- koyan also spoke, citing the re- volutionary tradition of the ‘Hungarian people and_ their bonds of friendship with the Soviet Union. In the diplomatic gallery of — parliament I sat near the Soviet woman cosmonaut Val- entina Tereshkova and_ her - husband Andrian Nikolayev. I met Janos Kadar, the prime minister, Istvan Dobi and Mi- koyan, who with Premier Kadar signed my _ invitation card. ga I left Hungary 40 years ago — a country of three million beggars, as a Hungarian poet called it after the turn of the century. I visited it again for the first time five years ago, and the changes I have found since 1960 are impressive. There are new paved roads everywhere. One, like our 401, is now being completed to Lake Balaton to accommodate more and more tourists com- ing to Hungary from all over the world. ; Modern apartment buildings are mushrooming, and not only in Budapest. Canadian- A view of Budapest. type shopping centres are to be seen even in the villages. People who never dreamed of having an automobile are now buying them. Peasant families I visited in 1960 have autos now and showrooms are trying to fill 24,000 orders this spring in Budapest alone. I visited the 18,000-acre state ranch at Babolna, with its 2,000 prize cattle, hundreds of famous arabic horses, mil- lions of spring chickens, and ultra-modern, scientifically- equipped, automated hatch- eries. Everything was _ spotless. The workers and farmers now getting modern apartment homes on the ranch — 180 families — were celebrating their liberation from the feu- dal barons whose serfs they were only two decades ago. Department: stores every- where are filled with the good things of life. People are well- The writer of this article, Roy Schaeffer, is the editor of the Kanadai Magyar Munkas (Canadian Hungarian Work- er), a weekly newspaper. World War II. May 21, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE” fed and well.dressé children are aiming least a Grade 12 edu Adult education is spre People are hapP. laugh at themselves 4 fun of party and gov" mistakes and of the of peace. They talk abo dirty war of America? rialism in Vietnam. — I visited Hungary’ coal mine at Pecs, # 120,000. I talked 10 engineers and geologl® them young and full their socialist economy: The miners are high They have everything care can offer and © taurants with rich Hu food at little cost, 5¥ by the government apartments and sum tages are modern a! Here and at mé@ places I met former = friends. They are content in Hungary: *— no economic insecurity I saw a military P4 received an annivers¢ from the comman of the armed forces, Czinege. Not once threaten anyone 10 speech about peace saw a finer military almost five years of in the Canadian 4 Here and there i0 lobbies and restaul! remnants of the fori. class still predict thé collapse of socialist P one stops them or P! tion to them because ple know their powel ver be shaken. This will be felt bY dreds of Canadian © who are going to VW gary this summer from organizat‘ons and Cc?