Model of new community centre

Now that voters have
community centre,

given the go-ahead signal at the polls,
It will be built at Hastings and Lillooet.

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Hastings East will get this modern

Recognition of China
urged by new committee

; A “Committee for the Recognition of China’’
meeting in the Corona Hotel.
“We feel that the majority of
government of China,’’ a statement by the committee said.

peaceful world, others markets for Canada’s surpluses, others

cultural relations with the people
of China.

“The aim of this committee is
to work as actively as possible for
the promotion of the idea of the
immediate recognition of China.
More committees of this type should
be set up to make the Canadian
government realize more clearly
the sentiments of the people on
this question.”

Mor Cheolin, director of the
Chinese School of Language in

Vancouver, who has recently re-.

turned from spending two years in
China, spoke to the meeting.

“Before I went to China in 1951
many of my friends warned me
not to go and told me that I would
not be able to come back,” he said.
“I went in spite of this and am
now back to testify that China has
advanced greatly under her new
regime. i

“Those who cali the Chinese goy-
ernment a dictatorship are wrong,”
asserted Cheolin. “The object of
the government seems to be to
make the people masters of their
government, not slaves of it as
under Chiang Kai-shek.”

Reprisals against former land-
owners and missionaries had been
taken by some irresponsible offi-
cials but this’ was not a policy of

the government. Officials who had.

acted unjustly in such cases had
been removed from office.

“In pre-revolutionary Canton, I
could hardly bear the stench from
open sewers and flies, rats and mos-
quitoes plagued the people,’ he
recalled.. “Today. Canton. is a
beautiful city, iree from all these
vermin. Underground sewers have
been installed, pipes being manu-
factured right in China.

“Ttis wrong to ignore a nation
with nothing, but much more wrong
to try to ignore a nation of. 475,-
000,000, one with every kind of
resources from peanuts to uran-
ium,” argued Cheolin.

‘An executive of three was elect-
ed: Oiva Raappana, provincial org-
anizer of the National Federation
of Labor Youth, as chairman; Kim
Mah, restaurant worker, as secre-
_ tary; Charles Fern, business man,

as treasurer. :

Another well known member of

the committee is Mrs. Grace Knight,
_ prominent in the WCTU and the
Peace Council, who visited China
in 1952 to attend the Asian Pacific
Peace Conference.

EDMONTON

was set up here recently at a
It is believed to be the first such committee in Canada.
the people of Canada desire recognition of the present

“Some see in it hope of a
look forward to friendly

Vi o 1 :
Victoria City cutside workers

Harrison and the aldermen who
backed him up wanted the settle-
ment to take place under the Ar-
bitration Act which would have
meant costly and time-consuming

Popular gals?
They’re men!

Stand back, girls—the men are
going to show vou how it’s done.
The latest wrinkle in the annual
popularity contest held at the Un-
ited Labor Picnic is the entry this
year of men popularity candidates.
But don’t worry—it’s not going
to be a beauty contest—so push
aside those visions of polo shirts
and knobby knees.

_The Popularity contest, say pic-
nic organizers, is to choose the
most widely-known supporter of
the United Labor Picnic which is
to be held this year August 8 at
Confederation Park in North Burn-
aby. More than 25 entrants are
expected from the constituencies
of Vancouver (Centre, East, Bur-
rard, Kingsway) and Burnaby.

A grand elimination contest to
decide the five finalists who will
compete for the title at the picnic

on Saturday, July 31, at the AUUC
Hall, 805 East Pender. Each en-
trant will receive an award at the
dance. os

Finalists will be competing for
the “Labor Popularity Candidate
Plaque” which will be retained by
the Winner for a year. The winner
will also get a replica of. the

will be held at a pre-picnic dance, }

men

return to jobs —

VICTORIA
are back on the job again while

their dispute with council is referred to arbitration.

Council overrode Mayor Claude Harrison in a close five-four vote
after the outside workers union had stood firm on its demand that
the points at issue should be arbitrated under the Labor Relations Act.

hearings before a Supreme Court
judge.

First settlement move in the two-
week strike came from the union
which put forward new wage pro-
posals to council. City fathers
countered with the bid for arbitra-
tion which the union membership
accepted.

Civie workers returned to the
hereulean job of cleaning up the

accumulated garbage last Wednes-

day afternoon, immediately alder-
men had beat down the mayor’s
last attempt at blocking agreement.

Labor observers in the capital
feel that the workers now have a
good chance of winning an increase

over the city’s last offer from the
arbitration.

Setup of the arbitration board
awaits the return to the city of
Labor Minister Lyle Wicks.

On the laborfront

By WILLIAM KASHTAN

The latest Zovernment report
showing a decline in the number
of unemployed of 200,000 may de-
lude some people into thinking the
Canadian economy is now out of
the woods.

That would be a delusion.

There has no doubt been a drop
in the number of unemployed —
usual at this time of the vear. But
what is disturbing and shows the
continued symptoms of a deep-
seated illness in the Canadian econ-
omy is the fact that there are still
336,000 registered for work with
National Employment Service.

If one were to add the number
of part time workers and students
now seeking employment, plus
those still unemployed although
not registered because they have
run out of insurance benefits, en-
tirely different conclusions would
have to be drawn. :

For one thing it would show that
any decrease in unemployment in
one area is being offset by rising
unemployment in another.

It would show too that unem-
ployment is not seasonal at all
but promises to become an organic
part of the Canadian economy, re-
flecting the fact that U.S. policy
is succeeding in wiping out a num-
ber of Canadian industries.

Any temporary upswing as a re-
sult of summer activities may weil
be short-lived once fall sets in.
There is every indication of a
serious situation developing in
auto this fall which would have
serious repercussions throughout
the entire Canadian economy.

What it shows is that govern
ment optimism is not grounded on
fact—because government policy 1s
still one of “integration” with the
US. The mirage has become
quicksand in which the Canadian
economy is sinking deeper and
deeper into economic, political and
military disaster,

In his budget speech Douglas
Abbott made it clear that “integra-
tion” continues to be government
policy and that his optimism about
the future is promised on an up-
Swing in the U.S. economy. C. D.
Howe repeated this theme more re-
cently in the House of Commons
when he said:

“If the US. is in a position
actively to sponsor the expansion
of trade and to implement this
policy with appropriate legislation
there can be little doubt the way
will be open to further expansion
of trade. On the other hand, if
the measures currently before Con-
gress are not implemented, and if
steps to restrict #mports are adopt-
ed, it will indeed be. difficult to
look to the future with optimism.”

That little word “if,” qf it doesn’t
rain it May be nice.

James M. Minifie, Toronto Tele-
gram and CBC correspondent in
Washington, must thave had Howe’s

The fight for jobs|
is a political one|

‘if? in mind when he recently —
wrote that “restrictions on Cana
dian imports into the U.S. are 1B
creasing. At the same time {he —
U.S. is cutting into Canadian mat rey
kets overseas by huge subsidized =
offerings. .: . The free enterprise
farmer is competing on the worl
market with the. U.S. treasury.
There can be only one outcome.
(my emphasis—W.K.) ak
Minifie didn’t spell it out bu
he meant that the outcome means
economic disaster for Canada
her people. And he would be ~
right. The decline in unemploy- —
ment will be temporary unless —
new policies are adopted by the —
government — policies which are —
based on solid ground and not. 2!
temporary, short-lived expediency. —
It adds point to a basic fact that
the LPP has been hammering at
day in and day out—that what Weeks
face is a “made in USA slump
and that the way to get out of i
is to fight all along the line against
U.S. domination of our country.
The coming trade union convel
tions will have to face up to this
isSue if the interests and welfare
of the working people, farmers a2¢
middle class is to be advanced.
So far most of the unions have
concerned themselves. with ‘pro-_
grams directed to protecting thé
workers from the consequences 0f
an economic crisis. This is good
but labor must go further—to the -
root issue. The big challenge thes€
conventions face is to formulate
an all rounded program which ca®
‘truly combat- this Made-in-USA
crisis. The fight for iobs and full
employment is by and large @
political fight. The heart of such
a fight today is to Put Canada First. -

Union demands probe
of U.S. ‘dumping’. ,

PETERBOROUGH

A demand on government that 2 _
special parliamentary committee be
established to hold open hearing —
into operations of the electricé
industry has been made by dele:
gates of the United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers (U.
Meeting in quarterly conventio?
here recently the delegates declat
ed that “thousands of electrical
workers are walking the streets
because U.S. electrical products
enter our country under ‘dump:
ing’ conditions and through trick
ery to get around certain import
regulations.” : ft
The parliamentary committee, a
manded by UE’s delegates, woull
“investigate the whole matter.
importation of electrical products
into Canada, the monopoly tieUP
of American-controlled electrical
companies in Canada together with
restrictions imposed by parent com”
panies which have an adverse ©

fect on Canadian employment.” —

trophy to keep.

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