| AE Ail UP wid Np uiteg! oy iy UA UA UR Ait isk Vancouver, British Columbia, November 3, 1950 Price Five Cents Cost of co Id war in ee Living costs down ® Constantly rising food costs continue to cut the milk (up two cents a quart in Vancou- ver this week), butter, eggs and meat consumed by working Class families in Canada. But in the Soviet Union, by con- trast, food costs are going down and living standards are steadily rising. This picture Shows a typical Soviet family, the Krakova family in Kiev, at home. Price cuts over the past year have reduced the prices of foodstuffs on their table anywhere from 10 to 49 Percent. What about the price of foodstuffs on your table? LOST 3500 MILLION IN SOVIET Y CANA A | : ’ - TORONTO The Canadian government is turning down a $500 mil- lion trade deal with the Soviet Union because of its “Hate Russia” and “American First” war policies. Dyson Carter, president of the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society and re- cent visitor to the USSR, made the charge last week. “For years.” Carter declared, “Ottawa has kept silent on the truth about Soviet trade. But right now, the Soviet Union is buying enormous quantities of goods from Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, Finland, as well as China and the People’s Democracies of Europe. Ottawa has all the details of this trade and knows that.the USSR is prepared to purchase’ huge supplies here”. On the basis of the information made available to him in Moscow, Prague and London, Carter said the Soviet Union would buy from Canada freight cars, peacetime chemi- cals, “enough textiles to put our plants on a three-shift bas- is” home electrical goods, ships—‘so many we could open every closed shipyard in our country’—and hundreds of other items. The old argument that the Soviet Union has nothing we could use in exchange is absolutely false, Carter explained. “The truth is, the USSR is selling other lands many things We now buy from the United States at a much higher Continued on back page — See TRADE CIVIC WORKERS FIGHT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS Union rejects renegade president “We believe and will continue to believe that the membership of a union must have the right to clect their own officers and rep- resentatives, free fom outside interference.” This forthright statement, issued Tuesday this week by ‘authority of the execu- tive board of Vancouver Civic Em. ployees Union, Local 28, summed up the union’s opposition to Trades and Labor Congress union-bust- ing activities. The TLC’s hatchetman, vice- president Carl Berg, who came to PUL UCC en A LL hie balan Vancouver one month ago on a head-hunting expedition (he want- ed the union to dump organizer - Don Guise and secretary Jack Phillips, to be followed by resig- nation of all executive officers and holding of new elections) suf- fered some some bad bumps this week. gress payroll and act as Berg’s mouthpiece soon after the hulking TLC. vice-president arrived in By an overwhelming vote, a town. membership meeting last Monday accepted the : resignation of ex- president Sam Lindsay, who de- serted his post to go on the Con- While more than 600 civic work- Continued on page 6 See LPP LEADER - MULT Tr ie St tt Pat Tek Forthcoming Events Friday, N ber 3 — 8:30 pm. — . oe “Theater of Action presents “But Ye Nee People” at Clinton Hall, 2605 East Pender, in - o fund to send B.C. delegates to Second World eace Congress. Sunday, November 5 — 8 p.m. e i itorium to celebrate 33rd Concert-Meeting at Pender Auditorium to ¢ mativesenry of roundiy of the Soviet Union. Speaker: Tom McEwen. The clearest and most evident examples of the new high level attained by the forces of democ- racy; in political consciousness and material s(cialist achieve. ments, are to be seen today in the Soviet Union. As one of the fortunate Cana- dians who has witnessed those historic achievements “with their own. eyes,” I wish it were possible to convey in a short article the Gerat Soviet achievements prove socialist superiority By TIM BUCK picture of enthusiastic endeavor and all-sided progress that one sees everywhere one goes in the Soviet Union. I wish also, even more strongly if that were possible, that I could convey to my fellow Canadians the supreme lesson that is demon- _ strated by the socialist achieve- ments of the Soviet people; during their first five years of peace. That supreme lesson is simply that, as Stalin so often empha- sizes, “People decide everything.” Field Marshal Stulpnagel didn’t know that. He imagined that cities, power plants, buildings, mining machinery, blast furnaces, railways and factories, decided everything. Believing that, he assured Hitler in 1942 that his sys- tematic looting and devastation Continued on page 7 See SOVIET UNION: