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Coldwell, Smith urge change in

foreign policy, Big Power talks U.S. beef tariff

OTTAWA

“The time has come when this parliament of Canada should take a new look at.

both our foreign policy and our defense commitments,’
the House during the one-day debate on foreign policy.
“imaginative lead’ by demanding *

> said CCF leader M. J. Coldwell in
Canada, he said,
‘that negotiations™between the two great powers (USSR

should give an

and U.S.A.) and the allies should be undertaken on every possible occasion.

One week after Coldwell
spoke, External Affairs Min-
ister Sidney Smith declared
_ he was “distressed” and “dis-

turbed” that unnamed, uniden-
tified spokesmen in Washing-
ton always turned down Sov-
iét proposals for high level
talks.

“The time has come to take
a new look in respect to our
relations' with Soviet Russia,”
Smith told the House. “It was
not the view of the Canadian
government to say ‘no or nyet*‘
to a Russian proposal. Russia’s
advances in science have creat-
ed an entirely new situation.”

While M. J. Coldwall offered
no criticism of NATO, the basis
of Canadian foreign policy,
and so verified Liberal Paul
Martin’s statement that the
four’ parties in the House
agreed on the NATO line, he
took notice of the new situa-
tion created by the iniercon-
tinental ballistics missile and
declared:

“Surely, capitalists, socialists

M. J. COLDWELL

and yes, communists, share
this common dread and should
seek a common way out of the
danger that overhangs the
world.”

Criticizing the government,
Coldwell said:

“The common people of all -

LPP outlines crisis
in Canadian education

WINNIPEG

“Some 140,000 pupils in Canadian schools are dropping

out of schools each year between grades 7 and 11,”

Manitoba Committee of the Labor-Progressive party told a
provincial Royal Commission on Education, pointing up the

crisis in Canadian education.

In a submission to the com-
mission the LPP went on to
point out:that out of an aver-
age 100 Canadian children in
Grade 6, 15 drop out of school
before Grade 8; of the 85 left,
only 70 enter Grade 9 and
about 40 of these drop out in
the next few years.

“Thus, only 30 of the 100
in Grade 6 ever completé mat-
riculation. Of the original 100,
only five enter university.
these five, one falls by the
wayside. Thus, the academic
result of a Grade 6 classroom
of 100 pupils is, four studen’s
who gain,a university degree.”

The LPP urged the provin-
cial government to make avail-
able to education 50 percent
of its costs to the municipali-
ties. “It is a shocking situa-
tion,” the party said, “when
the Winnipeg school sys:em,
for example, receives less than

13 percent of its educational

costs from the provincial gov-
ernment.”
The brief -explained — that

Winnipeg City Council had ap-

Of.

proved a motion initiated by
Ald. Jacob Penner that the
federal government be asked
to bear the costs of elementary
education throughout Canada.
“This motion,” said the LPP,
“received the endorsation of
the Canadian Federation of
Mayors and Municipalities, the
Canadian School Trustees’ As-
sociation, Canadian Teachers’
Federation and the Canadian
Educational Association.”

A complete review of teach-
er-training and the raising of
the economic status of teachers
is urged. by the LPP. Public
school attendance until . the
age of 16 shou'd be made com-
pulsory throughout the prov-
ince.

School Trustees Joseph Zuk-
en, Ald. Jacob Penner and W.
A. Kardash, MLA, for many
vears public representatives
from Winnipeg, are prominent
members of the LPP. Kar-
dash has been’ nominated for
the new Burrows constituency
in the coming Manitoba elec-
tion.

the '

‘and indeed our friends from

nations without exception cry
aloud for deliverance from
ever-pressing fears and for
peace in. our time and in the
years beyond our time.

“The CCF believes that this
parliament at this time should
seek a new approach in ex-
ternal affairs to. match today’s
scientific. developments, to
cope with the social and eco-
nomic problems that confront
the world.

Pointing to Canada’s role,
Coldwell proposed that the
“middle and smaller nations”
should take the initiative in
“demanding the elimination of
the dreadful threat of nuclear
war.” This country should
“sive leadership to the smaller
and middle nations in pressing
this point home,” he said.

(New Zealind’s new Labor
government declared through
Prime Minister Nash that it
would at once propose the
prohibition of nuclear weap-
ons. Prime Minister Nehru
of India has called on the
U.S. and the Soviet Unton to
agree on ending nuclear tests.)

Coldwell criticized the U.S.
government for. dismissing
Khrushchev’s proposal for a
high level conference as “prop-
aganda.”

“Canada,” he said, “‘accepted
this opinion, as did other na-
tions which followed the U.S.
lead.”

The CCF leader repeated his
former demands for the ‘recog-
nition of the People’s Republic
of China, although in doing so
he repeated the fantastic poli-
tical speculation that the with-
holding of recognition “has
driven” China “closer” to the
Soviet Union.

A hint of CCF uncertainty
about its support of NATO
was contained in the following
remark by Coldwell:

“We of ‘he CCF have sup-
ported measures that were, in
the previous stage of interna-
tional affairs, we believe, de-
signed to protect our people

unprovoked attack.

“That seemed reasonable and
proper, but we know now that
neither we in North America
nor the people in Russia can
find security in early warning
radar lines, jet fighters or
nuclear warheads on our guns.

“The only road to peace and
security, it appears to us, sure-
ly now lies in promoting un-
derstanding and by negotiation
arriving at mutual agreements
to live and let live.”

CENT A POUND

hits our

WINNIPEG

Just at the time when,Cana-
dian beef cattle were ‘begin-
ning to move back onto the
United States market, the U.S.
government has moved to up
its tariff by one cent a pound.

There has been a hundredfold
increase in Canadian beef ex-
ports. In 1956, 2,000 head were
shipped south of the border.
Up to this time, in 1957, 200,-
000 head had been exported.

The duty hike automatically
went into effect to stefh ex-
ports from Canada. It will have

farmers

the effect of cutting $1 a
dredweight off the return
Canadian farmers producll
beef.

When a large part of Ci)
dian beet production is ®
sorbed at home the existent”
an export: market assists
ers to secure a higher ret
for. their product.

C. L. Shuttleworth us!
toba’s minister of agricullll)”
said farmers in his pro
would be “hard hit” by ™
duty hike.

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