702 TBE LS FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1957 oe id IWA ‘WINS 7.5 p.t union security fight International Woodworkers of America, B.C. Dis- trict, has accepted the compromise settlement hammered out only a few hours before a province-wide strike was scheduled to take effect. The one-year agreement gives some 34,000 Coast woodworkers a wage increase ‘of 13-cents an hour or seven and one-half percent, which- ever is greater. The union’s long battle for union security brought notable gains this year. Under the new agreement, all new employees must be.- come and remain members of the union. All employees pres- ently covered by compulsory checkoff will also be required to become and remain mem- bers of the union. Employees .with five years’ service or more, will be en- titled to three weeks’ vacation with pay, or percent of 1ed the 2% : 1 in heu of extra week. Improvements were. also won in stand-by time, logging categories, fare allowances and a number of other points. W oo dworkers~ interviewed this week by the Pacific Trib- une indicated that IWA mem- bers are already looking for- ward to next year’s negotia- tions, due to open in about eight months. A logger put it this way: “We made a fair gain this year, through the strength of eS our strike vote, but I believe that if negotiations had been handled more skillfully, we could have done better.” A millworker who was pre- paring to go on; picket duty as the strike was being called off, offered this viewpoint: “Next time, we’ll have to push harder to catch up-to the big increases being won in~ the building trades and other industries.” A trim sawyer and veteran of several IWA strikes, agreed that “if it hadn’t been for the overwhelming strike vote, we would never have made the gains we did.” A logging truck driver, pre- paring to leave for Vancouver Island, spoke about former IWA members who were bar- red after the 1948~split. “I think we should take them. all back, in now. Next year, we'll need all the strength we can muster to catch up on wages.” Generally speaking, the per- centage formula appears to be most popular with the higher paid categories, who feel they have been losing out in’ rela- tion to skilled workers in other industries. After the Bennett cabinet had threatened government workers participating in a strike with dismissal this sign appeared on the lawn outside the legislative buildings at Victoria. Here Soviet Communist party secretary N. S. Khrushchev and Premier Nicolai Bulganin are seen greeting spectators at Moscow air as they left this week on a visit to Czechoslovakia. Krushchev reaffirms policy of friendship, peaceful coexistence By SAM RUSSELL MOSCOW Soviet Communist party secretary Nikita Krushchev, in speeches made to meet- ings of Leningrad workers last weekend before he left on a visit reaffirmed the determination of the Soviet Union to continue its to Czechoslovakia, policy of. peaceful — co-existence and of seeking. relaxation of international tension. He said the Soviet Union was determined to break and would spare no effort to bring about an end to the arms race and to reach mutually ac- ceptable agreements on the banning of atomic and hydro- gen weapons. “All sincere friends of peace,” he declared, “may rest assured that the Soviet Union will continue to be a true and staunch champion of peace and progress.” Referring to dismissal of Georgi Malenkov, Lazar Kag- anovich, V. M. Molotov -and Dmitri Shepilov from their top Communist party and gov- ernment posts, Krushchev de- clared that this group “want- ed to seize the key positions in the party and the govern- ment in order to change the political “line of the party.” He said the Malenkov- Molotov - Kaganovich group actively opposed granting: the individual republics of the Soviet Union. more control over their own economic and cultural affairs and legisla- dion. They were against reorgan- izing industrial and -building management, and promoting a movement among farm work- ers to.catch up with the Unit- ed States quickly in milk, but- ter and meat production. “In the sphere of foreign policy the group, particularly Comrade Molotov, have been obstructing, by every means available, the implementation of measures to ease world ten- sion and consolidate world peace,” said Krushchev. “They found more conven- ient a policy of tightening the screws.” When they were rebuffed by the central committee “they took a course condemned by the party — one of plotting among themselves secretly — a course of factional struggle.” The central committee had unanimously condemned the anti-party group, and Shepi- lov who joined it, in fact prov- ed to be “the most shameless, double - dealing individual,” Krushchey ‘continued. He said that apparently a far from small role in this mat- ter was-the fact that all mem- bers of the group were par- ticularly guilty of the most flagrant errors and shortcom- ings in the past. : Turning to the _ future, Krushchev pledged the Com- munist party to follow the line laid down by its 20th Congress, and promised to fight more goods and houses at home, and more friends abroad. “In foreign policy, the Com- munist party and the Soviet government will continue to carry out Lenin’s policy of peaceful co-existence between countries with differing social ard political systems, a policy of friendship among Nations, a policy directed to. the strengthening of our mighty socialist camp. “We shall even more de- terminedly work for the eas- ing of tension in relations be- tween states and the establish- ment of trust between them, extending trade and cultural ties, eliminating all obstacles which hinder us from living in peace and friendship.” Removal of Maxim, Saburov and Mikhail Pervuk- hin from their positions as first deputy premiers as well for. the production of. the disarmament deadlock as their positions as’ mem- bers of the presidium ‘of the central committee of the So- viet Communist party, shows that there were more people involved than the Malenkov- Kaganovich-Molotov group. The attempt made in certain quarters in the West to pre- sent what has happened as 4 bid by Krushchev to eliminate his opponents and gain per- sonal power is completely . false. The decision to remove tle group was taken after a politi- cal battle waged in the open with more than 600 members — of the central committee ac- tually speaking’ and others making written contributions not one member supporting the group. ; Nor can it be argued that the anti-party group did not know what was involved in their opposition to the policy laid down at the 20th Con- gress in home as well as for- eign’ affairs. ; _Molotovy had been repeated- — ly reprimanded for his con- tinued opposition to renewing friendly relations with Yugo- slavia. “Now. central committeé members are addressing thous- ands of meetings all over the country explaining what has. happened. aid And at these meetings S0- viet Communists have approv- ed the decisions of the centra committee, making it quite clear that ‘the rank-and-file — members of the Soviet Com- munist party are determined that the policy embarke¢ | upon at the 20th Congress — shall continue. July 12, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE