RC, TEXTBOOK USED Lwow Witte, Sor 0 uit USiastic, - Wondergui he exclaimed; Ve Ae been Waiting for that for a 18 time.” a Lazarenko singled out tah ¢ ee ne University of Bri- aig, Umi, with which he ane had already established € contact.” 2 He told me ; that. there had been an ex- change of ‘ between the two. uni- 1 versities. As head of the de- partment of et geology, he ee Was using in his classes ten 0k on minerology writ- Motes @ University of. British tg t: The department also ty . “/SPlay of Canadian min- SPecimens, Ly, tee oe University is named) af- ni an Franko, the great Uk-|. ity an batriot-poet, the centen- hateg Whose birth will be cele- Next year. N W tage” I suggested that the - lversi bodies of both Lwow Wenge’ 2nd UBC might be , din exchanging the ling fo Ivan Franko and Paul- dig, -280n, our own Canadian Digg. Poet, Prof, Lazarenko re- “p ; tage Uline Johnson? We al- be poet Of her. We study ite a at this university. e erature.» Come part of world Me tase te aie o' ly, tone University, which ranks Vig. ¢ the first five of the So- Yery moors 33 universities, is "sity Ych like a Canadian uni- Bo Ragged in 1681, it was under ot its Tule for the greater part ‘htt yeaistence and it was not ne » after a long struggle, Uesaine limited teaching in the t ar language was allow- i alist Franko, teacher, poet, St, Wwe Playwright and_lin- Nitteg Y88 himself never per- | ‘© teach there. Oday ; Ns ag’? im the university that * Elo eee his name, there is tithe Picture of Ivan Franko “ing Mag, utiful gardens outside te Stange eministrative build- € hij 28 out boldly against ~ the background. cy . mene versity has a total en- - No Stuac about 6,000. Some 1 Stthiy €nts attend classes and tend Number study by cor- b With ae receiving equal sta- (iit { hose attending classes. ae uehly fees are 300 rubles he Scho 5) a year and there * thoge Ships and bursaries V oth, Who cannot pay but © required academic wourses generally are rs, Beology, is himself keenly interested in Canada. changes of students and professors between niversity values UBC link LWOW ; Among the textbooks being used by students of geology at Lwow University is one N by a Unversity of British Columbia professor, I found on my visit here. Prof. Eugene Konstantinovich Lazarenko, president of the university and a profes- When I asked him about suggest- Soviet and Canadian universities he was Union’s 33 universities. Until the campus can be en- larged, its facilities are taxed to the limit—it must be remem- pbered that one-quarter of the city was destroyed during the Second World War. Now only 730 students can be admitted each year out of an average of 2,300 applicants. The successful applicants are chosen from those who pass the en- trance exams with the highest marks but .all others who pass the exams are sent to colleges and ~ special institutions else- where in the Ukraine where they can get equivalent status. i The people of Lwow are proud that their university, for the first time in its history, ig now a Ukrainian institution. Between liberation of the Lwow region by the armies of Bogdan Khel- mitsky and liberation by the Soviet army in 1939 it endured three centuries of oppressive Po- lish rule. Yet in all that time the Polish gentry were never able to erase the Ukrainian lan- guage and culture. In 1957, when Lwow cele- brates the 700th anniversary of its founding as a Ukrain- ian town, it will be as a flour- ‘ishing socialist city joined at last to the Ukrainian SSR. i Hee at city with something of the at- mosphere of Prague and Paris— in fact, it is called a “miniature Paris.” Its narrow winding streets and little “Toonerville Trolley” streetcars are in sharp and modern trolley buses. Eleven years ago, when: Lwow was liberated from the Nazis, nearly one quarter of the city’s ‘one million Jewish people had been slaughtered in the ghettos confined them. Today the Jew- ish people, about 10 percent of for the first time. During the war something like a quarter of the city was destroy- Lwow ‘itself is a lovely old|¢ contrast to the new wide squares] Lwow University (above) ranks among the top five of the Soviet ed. Today there are beautiful parks where some of the big buildings destroyed in the war formerly stood. The Hill of Glory where the heroes of the liberation lie buried is sacred to every citizen. Eleven years of socialism has brought a new vigorous life to this old region. Everywhere I went I saw new industrial building and new housing de- velopments. What brought this change most clearly into focus for me was the new Park of Culture in Lwow. Until four years ago it had been a dump ona hillside (I saw the pictures of it). The people themselves, by volunteer labor on their days off, have trans- formed the hillside dump into a beautiful park, complete with theatre, bandstand, children’s playground — and a big sports stadium, now under construc- try by force?” cation form. “The entire form smacks of a police document,” comments the current issue of Civil Liberties Digest, a mimeographed bulle- tin issued monthy by Vancouver branch of the League for Demo- cratic Rights. “The applicant is asked to give the color of his hair and eyes and his weight and complexion. He is also ask- ed if he has ever been: fined, imprisoned or received sentence for any violation of the law, ex- cluding traffic offenses. “Should any statement by the applicant be found to be false, in ‘the opinion. of the company, the employee will be subject to instant dismissal. This is in Port Moody, Cana- ada, in 1955!” Canadian Western Pipe Mills is a subsidiary of the Rheinrhor organization of Western Ger- many, capitalized at $6 million. Condemning the firm’s “load- ed” question, Civil Liberties Di- gest points out: “A militant trade unionist or a member of a cultural organiza- tion maintaining cultural ties with similar groups in the Uk- raine could be dismissed without a hearing, on the say-so of the company. “Tf the company objected to the Port Moody company asks loaded question “Have you ever held membership in any organization that advocates the overthrow of the government of our coun- This question is generally regarded by Canadians as “the Yankee $64,000 question” but Canadian Western Pipe Mills of Port Moody has included it in its employment appli- of the personal beliefs of its Canadian employees. We can well imagine how this company would deal with a militant trade union member who had been connected with a _ left-of-centre political party advocating social- ism. “Events in the United States make it all too obvious that once a government or an employer is given the wide powers of in- terpretation implicit in the $64- 000 question, then the liberties of all citizens are truly in dan- ger. . “We welcome this new en- terprise to our province, but we do not welcome this type of political third degree. Our liberties cannot be bought for $6 millions or an annual out- put of 60,000 tons of black and galvanised pipe. . “Our advice to Canadian West- ern Pipe Mills is short and to the point: ‘This is Canada. If you want to do business here, then you must respect our demo- cratic traditions. Your applica- tion for employment form smells too much like the Gestapo. The sooner you change that form, the better’ .” Seattle man charged - SEATTLE James A. McDaniel, 51, Negro trade unionist and former Pro- gressive party leader, was ar- rested here last week on two counts of making false state- ments in applying for a con- policies of a left-wing political party they could, even though it was a legal party, dismiss.an employee for belonging, or hav- ing belonged to such a party. “Implicit in this form is the central idea that the applicant is compelled to give the employ- er the sole right to make the de- cision on such matters. No em- ployer must be allowed to take this right unto himself. “Here we have a_ foreign com- pany abusing its welcome by setting itself up -as- prosecutor, tion. to which the old Polish regime | the total population, are free} Canadian Wwothen visit China judge and jury in the matter struction job in the Hanford ‘area. The charge carries a maxi- mum penalty of five years in prison and $10,000 fine on each count. McDaniel is charged with hav- {ing falsely stated on June 8, 1954, on an Atomic Energy Com- mission “personnel security questionnaire” that he was nota member of any of the organiza- tions proscribed by the U.S. At- torney General. He. is charged with having been a member of the National Negro Labor Council and the Washington Pension Union. Here three of the six Canadian women who visited China this summer as guests of the All- China Democratic Women’s Federation ars shown a children’s palace in Shanghai. ‘They are (left to right): Mrs. Betty Isserman, Montréal; Mrs. Hazel Wigdor and Mrs. Katherine Stefanitsky, Toronto. . PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 23, 1955 — PAGE 3 ong ciaeaionaAiaianeaniinLieiatin eee) onecetatiescionnes nai Po es sox So emis Seo Wh RR oR 6m NER UNRER TERHE ACROSS ne i st seater sebum ncaa aan RI ape eomgeien xe