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Opening up a scenic wonderland on Vancouver Island’s

east coast is this new road near Port Renfrew, being
built by B.C. Forest Products. Terrain is so rough that
building costs run as high as $30,000 a mile.

UFAWU to host
Soviet delegation

Soviet: Fisheries Minister A. A. Ishkoy and a group
of his colleagues from the Soviet fishing industry are

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now on the

igh seas on their way to Canada aboard a

new Russian trawler, and will visit B.C. after stops in
Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick

ena Nova Scotia.

While in Vancouver Ishkov
and his party will be guests at
a buffet supper put on by the
United Fishermen and Allied
its Wo-

men’s Auxiliary on September

Workers Union and
8. That same evening the visi-
tors will attend a WIFU foot-
ball game at Empire Stadium
between B.C. Lions and Cal-
gary Stampeders.

Ishkov’s visit is a return of
that paid by Canadian Fisher-
ies Minister James Sinclair to
the Soviet Union last year.

The Soviet delegation will
arrive at St. Johns, Newfound-
land on August 22, and will
days inspecting
fishing facilities there. Later,
in New Brunswick, they will
see the world’s largest lobster

operation.

spend three

The visitors will leave the
east for Vancouver on Septem-
ber 5, travelling aboard the

spartment of transport’s new

Viscount.

For their first two days they
will likely tour fish plants and
technical facilities in the Lower
Mainland area. Then they will
visit the fisheries research sta-
tion at Nanaimo and _ inspect
fishways.

While here the Soviet dele-
gation will be entertained by
the Fisheries Association, Fish-
ing Vessel Owners and the
UFAWU.

In the party with Ishkov
will be deputy minister of fish-
eries Igor Semenov, Dr. Peter
Moiseev, chief scientist of the
Vladivostock fisheries research
station, and Alexander Verev-
kin, director of Sakhalin fish-
eries.

Accompanying them will be
Fisheries Minister James Sin-
clair, his deputy George Clark,
his executive assistant Alistair
Fraser, and deputy speaker of
the House of Commons W. A.
Robinson.

After visiting this area the
party will fly to Prince Rup-
ert, Namu and Coal Harbor.

CCF DELEGATION:

‘We came to Sor
Union as frient

Headed by William Irvine,
a group of Alberta CCF lead-
ers on July 31 met Nikita S.
Khrushchev, first secretary of
the central committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union and B. N. Ponomaryov,
raember of the central com-
mittee. The Canadians  in-
cluded Otto E. Wobick, Harold
E. Bronson, Floyd A. Johnson,
and Byron F. Tanner. At the
conclusion of their visit to the
USSR the group issued the fol-
lewing statement, which ap-
peared in the Soviet News Bul-
letin, published by the press
office of the USSR Embassy in
Canada.

We came to the Soviet
Union as friends and we met
with friendship. We feel that
nations who, in their dealings
with Russia, approach in
friendly spirit, they too will
be treated in a friendly way.

We do not wish to convey
the idea that everything’ is
perfect in the Soviet Union.
It we did the people here
would be the- first to deny it.
There are some things which
need to be done and they know
it. They had no opportunity
to do these/things until now.
During the current five-year
plan there will be great ad-
vances made in agriculture
end in home-building. When
zl] the essentials have been
amply secured they can pro-
ceed to the luxury stage.
What the Soviet Union needs
most is the assurance of peace.
With that and with her re-
sources, her man-power, and
her developing industrial
plant, she can then make spec-
tacular advances.

We came with some little
knowledge of your history,
past and current. The regime
which preceded the revolution
was intolerable and the revo-
lution which followed was in-
evitable. We also had in mind
World War II, the superhuman
effort you made, the epic and
victorious battles you fought
against the full force of the
Nazi war machine. But it was
impossible for us to compre-
hend the suffering, the sacri-
fice of life, the homes, plants,
and cities you had so labor-
iously built in your first two
five-year plans,

“Tf you bear to see the truth
veu’ve spoken twisted by
knaves to make a trap for
fools.

“If you can bear to see the
things you gave your life to

broken, and turn to build
them up with worn-out
tools:

According to Kipling, it

takes a man to fulfill the above
lines. And these are exactly
the difficulties that the So-
viet Union has had to face
since the end of the Second
World War.

When the hot war was over,
juhe cold war began.

You were forced as we of
the West thought we were —
to devote your major effort
+o defensive preparations. For
you that was a tremendous
disadvantage, for what you
needed most was peace so
that all your efforts could be
Girected to building a social-
ist society and to raising the
living standards of the people.

And yet with all this back-
ground of almost insuperable
Cifficulties, we find the Soviet
Republics far advanced in
science, technology, industrial
development, and in arts and
culture, which add meaning
and beauty to life.

There are no hungry people
in this.vast land. There are no
sick who have not access to
the best attention which mod-
ern medical science can give;
there are no children uncared
for; no intelligent youth with-
cut an opportunity for an
education. There is no un-
employed and no conflict be-
tween workers and your in-
dustrial program.

You have great natural re-
sources. There is no need to
follow the inhuman path of
imperialism which great na-
tions preceding you in history
kave followed.

And. for your young people,
for whose minds you have
provided, you have the great-
est resource of all.

You have built, and are in
the process of building, great
power plants and great. in-
dustries. Your leaders, your
workers, your planners, are
thinking and doing big things.
You found and applied the
secret of atomic power, which

weekend, 1916.

Vancouver International Airport’s
puilding, when it is completed, may display¥
the first plane to fly in western Canada, The pht
from the city archives, shows the plane after Wes
K. Hamilton made a landing on Lulu Island dt

August 17, 1956 —PACIFIC TRIBUNE

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port to the 20th
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the power to bu
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country. This wh
some of the fal
which has put
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in some countrié

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country, join ham
in your proposal
coexistence. We
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program of our
sought and ach
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be the end of m0
tion if not the e?
man race, and
could hope to 8?
war while ev&
stand to lose. W!
to follow such @
be the apex of
undeniable evideé
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with the Soviet ©
posing further t
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tinue to demand
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