Provincial gov't te take stand
on Sons of Freedom proposals

VICTORIA, B.C.—The-provincial government is expected to issue a statement this week
setting forth its stand on proposals for assisted emigration to the Soviet Union made by the
Fraternal Council of the Union of Christia Communities and Brotherhood of Christian
Doukhobors (Sons of Freedom) in an interim declaration last week.

Goldenberg heading
probe into lockout

Appointment of Toronto lawyer H. Carl Goldenberg as
chairman of an industrial inquiry commission to end the lockout
in the construction industry was announced this week by
Attorney-General Robert Bonner.

The lockout, imposed by the big electrical and construction

The. government statement,
it is reported, will incorporate
federal proposals and be is-
sued as a joint federal-pro-

vincial statement.

The of Freedom de-
claration asked for financial

Sons

assistance as “our portion of
the properties which were il-
legally taken away from us,”
and the government’s state-
ment is expected to propose
some arrangement for federal-
provincial sharing of costs.

The offer, however, is re-
ported to be conditional upon
firm assurance that the Soviet

government will accept the
Doukhobors.
$03 a es
SASKATOON — Some 34

Doukhobor families from the
Verigin, Canora and . Kam-
sack districts of Saskatchewan
are planning to emigrate to
the Soviet Union soon, accord-
ing to P. G. Makaroff. Saska-
toon lawyer.

Makaroff said’ the Doukho-
bor families, mostly from the
Verigin district, were not
members of the Freedom
sect, now negotiating with
federal and provincial gov-
ernments for assistance in
emigrating to the Soviet
Union.

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effect
since May 7, has halted work

contractors, and in
on some 220 big construction
jobs and the
Lower Mainland, and render-

ed thousands of electrical,
plumbing and other construc-

in Vancouver

tion workers idle. Two key
unions, Local. 170.. Plumbers
and Steamfitters: and Local

213, International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers have
been the main targets of the
organized employers’ lockout,
designed to enforce the big
employers’ hold-the-line policy
on wage increases. ;

Although numerous efforts
have been made by elec-
tricians’ and plumbers’ lead-
ers to end the deadlock
caused by the employers’ lock-
out, even to modifying or
“scaling-down” wage increase
demands, the employers’ have
remained adamant, preferring
to tie-up large scale  con-
struction jobs rather than. bar-
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unions In this they had had
the tacit “hands-off” approval
of the Bennett and Diefen-
baker governments.

On this industrial inquiry
commission IBEW. Local 213
is represented by one of its
executive officers, L. G.
Crampton, while Lecal 170,
Plumbers and Steamfitters, has
elected George Gee, ex-
business agent of IBEW Lo-
cal 213 .as its representative.

(George Gee was. arbi-
trarily ousted from his elected
union position two years ago
by an international union
“kangaroo” court for alleged
“communist sympathies.” )

Following the empicyers’
lockout, plumbers took strike
action in support of their
wage demands. As_ hearings
opened at mid-week, spokes-
men for the big contractors
among them former labor
leader R. K. “Roly” Gervin,
clamored for the plumbers’
strike to be called off and
work resumed immediately by
both unions before any agree-
ment is reached.

: troops

British Labor MP-
will speak in city

Harold Davies, MP, a lead-
ing member. of the “Victory
for Socialism” group in the
British Labor party and one
of those who helped to organ-
ize the great protest march to
the British atomic weapons
testing station at Aldermaston
last. Easter, will speak at a
public meeting in Vancouver
on August 28.

With him on the platform
at Pender Auditorium will be
Vincent Halinan, prominent
U.S. lawyer who was the Pro-
gressive party’s presidential
candidate in the 1952 USS.
elections.

Davies,

who is now on a

staged a two-hour
afternoon.

Carrying placards reading,
Mideast War” and “Yankees
Go Home—Leave the Arabs

Alone,” the ~young demon-
strators marched single file
through the downtown area
which was crowded with

Saturday shoppers. They dis-
tributed 500 leaflets urging
that Canada take a stand in
calling upon the United States
and Britain to withdraw their
from.  Lebanen’ and
Jordan.

The youth organization plans
to sponsor a radio broadcast
and car cavalcade during the
next week.

Socialist Youth Leagut |
stages placard

As part of the national peace campaign of the Socia
League of Canada, Vancouver members of that org
placard demonstration

six-week tour of Canada and
the U.S. will take as his
ject, “Peace and the middle
East.” In Los Angeles and 53 Mt
Diego he will share the plat :
form with Dr. Linus Paulifé |
distinguished American scien
tist whose initiative ae
his fellow scientists 12 ©”
U.S, to protest. against con
tinued H-tests. L

The meeting is being spine
sored by a number of ©
including Mrs.
Steeves and Cedric Cox ML
and leading members of
eral unions, among them
Jenkins, William Stewart
Reg Bullock of the Mal

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