B.C. fishermen are concerned for the pos:

sible effects of H-bomb tests on the industry.

H-bomb may destroy salmon

rn ; TACOMA
= he grim possibility that “prom-
Uous experiment with the hydro-

= bomb” may destroy much of
ene seafood resources is

S in a letter to the Tacoma

STribune by Superior Judge

- A. Richmond.

Week | Same fear was voiced this
man m Vancouver by The Fisher-
men, organ of the United Fisher-
oe ed Allied Workers Union,

ull report of which see back

page.)
“There are teeming millions of
people in the south Pacific whose
main item of food, besides fruits,
is rice and fish,” Judge Richmond
wrote. “I ask this simple ques-
tion: What right have we, or what
right has anyone, to destroy their
food.”

‘Fisheries experts have never dis-
covered, he continued, where sal-
mon go when they leave their
streams for the ocean.

“It is very possible, and high-
ly probable, that we not only
are destroying the food of these
millions of people in the south
Pacific, but may also be destroy-
ing the future of the kingly
Chinook, sockeye, silver and vari-
ous species of salmon... .
Judge Richmond urged “every
sportsman in the state” of Wash-
ington to “protest the continued

”

hydrogen bombing of our ocean.’

Canadian export firms
Seeking Soviet trade

Signing of two trade agreements with the S
enced Canadian exporters, who are now sen
Dmitri S$. Chuvahin in Ottawa. ‘
Among Canadian businessmen eager to engage i
on four types of ships the USSR has indica

*stimates

FaxposgomMittee of the Canadian
Chuy, €rs’ Association met with
BSR last week and presented
3 8 list of Canadian goods which

Country would like to export

th € Soviet Union.

gatig ed in the Exporters’ dele-
kay.g Were president Stuart Mac-

mith, Gordon H. MacDougall

HUB HUMOR.

“What'll | do now? He
Surrendered!”

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Sage ct for Spring. Suits,
Buy Sports Shirts, Sweaters.
and ours with FREE CREDIT
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By BERT WHYTE

oviet Union—involving dissolving pulps and hides—
ding lists of Canadian goods for sale to Soviet Ambas-

n trade are shipbuilders who have prepared rough
ted it is in the market for.

of Shawnigan Chemicals, R. B.
Spiro of Coleman Lamp and Stove,
J. H. Ferrie of Canadian Bronze
Powder Works, Vennor Roper of
Howard Smith Paper Mills and
Ivan E. Lenard of Canadian Brew-
eries.

Alaska Pine is the B.C. firm
which signed a contract with the
Soviet Union this month to fulfil
part of an order placed by the
USSR with federal officials. The

other firms allocated past of the

order are Columbia Cellulose and
an eastern firm, Canadian Interna-
tional Pulp and Paper.

Alaska Pulp and Cellulose Com-
pany will ship 3,000 tons of vis-
cose staple fibre pulp, valued at
more than $500,000 to Leningrad
at the end of this month. This
pulp is commonly used for the
manufacture of rayon cloth.

Canada is late in the bidding for
East-West trade. Britain and oth-
er European countries have signed
many big contracts in the past year.

Last month a Vienna meeting of
the United Nations Economic Com-
mission for Europe passed a reso-
lution calling for reactivating the
commission’s Trade Committée this
year. On April 20 trade talks be-
gan at Geneva behind closed doors.

In September a great trade fair

| will be held in Vienna, and the

Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and
Hungary will be represented in
strength. Fair promoters are hope-
ful that many East-West trade
agreements will result.

LPP leaders
outline policy

A series of public meetings
which will hear a report of the re-
cent fifth national convention of
the Labor-Progressive party was
announced this week by Nigel Mor-
gan, LPP provincial leader.

Morgan will address the follow-
ing meetings in the Fraser Valley:

_-White Rock, Wednesday, April
213) Port Kells Community Hall,
Thursday, April 22; New West-
minster, Hollywood Bowl, Sunday,
April 25; Websters Corner, Mon-
day, April 26; Hjorth Road Hall,
Whalley, Tuesday, April 27;
Brookswood Hall, Langley, Wed-
nesday, April 28; Mission, Friday,
April 30; Ladner, Tuesday, May 4.

LPP provincial organizer Alf
Dewhurst will speak at Victoria on
Tuesday, April 20; Lake Cowichan,
Wednesday, April 21; Parksville,
Thursday, April 22; Cumberland,
Saturday, April 24; Campbell River,
Sunday, April 25 (afternoon) and
Courtenay, Sunday, April 25 (eve-
ning); Port Alberni, Monday, April
26.

LPP Vancouver secretary Maur-
ice Rush and youth organizer Ernie
Lawrie will address a public meet-
ing in Ukrainian Hall, 805 East
Pender Street, on Friday, April 30.

Education

policy

aired

VICTORIA, B.C.

Choice of 43-year old Ray G. Williston, member for Fort George,
as new minister of education, will not be much comfort to those Socreds
who want B.C. to return to the little red schoolhouse. Speaking ‘as a
backbencher during the session just ended, the former school inspector
took some verbal swings at those members of his own party who. mark-
ed their political debut by assailing the school system and its teachers

Born in Victoria, Williston came up through the ranks of the

Labor scores
concession
to U.S. firm

“Yankee penetration in every
field of Canadian life was never
more clearly demonstrated than in
the awarding of concession rights
for the British Empire Games to a
San Francisco firm,” charged
Maurice Rush, city secretary of the
Labor-Progressive party, in a state-
ment to the press this week.

“The BEG is not a Ringling Bro-
thers circus,” said Rush. ‘Action
of the Games committee was right-
ly condemned by delegates to Van-
couver Trades and Labor Council,
but condemnation is not enough.
The people of Vancouver and this
province should demand that the
decision be changed and the con-
tract given to a Canadian firm.

“Adding insult to injury, BEG
officials have come up with the
lame apology that the Yankee firm
—West Coast Concession and Sup-
ply, San Francisco—will buy Can-
adian products ‘if possible’ and will
hire Canadian labor ‘except in key
positions.’ Such doubletalk is only
an attempt to conceal the sellout
to the Yanks.”

Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council delegates termed the
concession deal “a kick in the
face’ at a council meeting Tues-
day nighf. :

“We have heard that old tale of
‘key positions’ before,” said George
Gee, International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers. “American su-
pervisory personnel were on the
pipeline project. They even em-
ployed a whole ball team there. It’s
another fact that BEG bleachers
are being built with unfair labor.”

“Organized labor donated thou-
sands of dollars to help the BEG,”
said John Hines, Painters Union.
“Now we can expect to see most
of the money go south of the
border.”

“Tt is deplorable when we go out
of the country to get concession-
aires,” declared Ed Kennedy of the
Building Trades Council.

Jobless reach
post-war high

National Employment Service re-
ported 569,800 applications for jobs
at March 18, an increase of 10,800
over the total for February 18 and
a post-war high.

British Columbia registered a
drop in unemployment, with 3,000
fewer jobless in the Vancouver area
and 10,000 in the province, as com-
pared to a month ago.

B.C. jobless totals, however, are
still very high, with NES figures
showing 59,913 job-seekers, 27,000
of them in the Vancouver area.

In the middle of February Van-
couver had 30,292 unemployed and

the provincial total was 69,961.

teaching profession to be one of
the youngest school inspectors,
and had charge of the Prince
George School District, the largest
area in B.C. He served in the

RCAF during the Second World
War.

_ His appointment is construed as

signifying the government’s. inten-
tion to scrap the more- controver-
Sial sections of the Rolston For-
mula. Williston was not in the
House last spring when the much
criticized plan was introduced by
the late Tilly Rolston.

He is therefore in a position te
make a fresh start and gave his
opinion in a speech. to the recent
session as to what the method of
educational finance should be.

The “Williston: formula”
three parts: : :

@ A basic levy all through the
province of ten mills.

@ “Some equating factor” linking
the number of pupils and the
total assessment of each dis-
trict. :

@ Costs over and above the fotal
of these two to be shared with
the government paying 80 per-
cent and school boards 20 per-
cent.

The “equating factor” will work
much like the pupil-teacher grants
given under the present system and
will tend to level out differences
between rich and poor school dis-
tricts, rural and urban, large and
small.

Lack of such equalization was
one of the most criticized features
of the Rolston formula. Its op-
ponents charged that it would
create 78 different standards of
education, one for each school dis-
trict. :

If Williston’s proposals are taken
up, the system of financing educa-
tion will be a combination of the
fixed mill levy plus basic grants
recommended in the Cameron Re-
port of 1945 and the 80-20 percent
division of cost recommended by
the Union of B.C. Municipalities in
the Hobbs Report of 1952.

The government has already set
up the machinery for equalizing
assessments across the whole pro-
vince — originally urged by Dr.
Cameron. :

Addressing the 35th annual con-
vention of the B.C. Teachers Feder-
ation in Vancouver this week, Wil-
liston further elaborated his views
on education and forecast a general
reorganization of his department
to bring the provincial school sys-
tem into line with present needs.

He said four major problems be-
fore the department of education
were: 2
@ Financing of schools to relieve

the burden caused by existing
inequalities.

@ Teacher training, with a view
to coordinating UBC and Nor-
mal School work.

@ Reorganization of the curricu-
tum.

Construction of schools to keep
pace with the growing popu-
lation. :

He announced that a nine-man
coordinating board would be ap-
pointed to handle all departmental
problems and gave these six divi-
sional fields:

Chief inspector of schools, to be
given wide authority; teacher train-
ing; adult education; administra-
tion, charged with planning new
schools; registrar, dealing with cer-
tification; comptroller, coordinat-

has

ing finance.

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