Prisoners-of-war in North Korea hold inter-camp ‘Olympics’

A POW’s Inter-Camp Olympics, sponsored by the

Chinese People’s Volunteers and the Korean People’s
Army, was held from November 15 to November 26,
1952, somewhere in North Korea. Alan Winnington,
correspondent for the London Daily Worker, attended’

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endorse peace proposal

Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov this week endorsed the
proposal for a Five-Power Peace
Pact contained in a peace docu-
ment forwarded to all govern-
ments by the Congress of the
~ Peoples in Defense of Peace.

Premier Chou En-lai, of Peo-
ple’s China, supported the pro-
posal in a statement broadcast
over Peking radio, in which he
said: “In accordance with the

peace policy which it consistent--

ly maintains with the conviction
that nations of different systems
can co-exist in peace, the govern-

China holds that the recommend-
ation for Five-Power negotiations
is in complete accord with the
common demands of all the peo-
ple throughout the world who
cherish a desire for peace.”

The government of People’s
Bulgaria endorsed’ the proposal
in these words: “The proposal on
the conclusion of a peace pact
among the five great powers is
in full harmony with the policy
of the Bulgarian people.”

But in Washington, the U-S.
state department sourly describ-
ed the proposed Five-Power Pact

ment of the People’s Republic of as “unnecessary.”

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the games and interviewed American and British pris-
oners-of-war.
photographs of the historic “Olympics” and we take
pleasure in being the first newspaper in Canada to
publish three of them. The pictures are visual evidence

This week the Pacific Tribune

of the good treatment/POW’s received at the hands of
the Chinese People’s Volunteers and the Korean Peo
ple’s Army, in glaring contrast to the brutal treatment
meted out to POW’s on Koje Island and other PO
camps run by the Americans in South Korea.

received

Employers’ ‘hold wage line’
front cracked by firemen;
USSR, People’s China transit strike vote mooted

In the week before May Day the labor movement in Vancouver cracked the bosses’ “hold at
wage line” front on the civic field when firemen won a 3% percent across the board increase, plus

better deal on vacations and health insurance, through a decision handed down by an arbitration

poard.

(Following the award, Vancouver City Council abandoned its wage-freeze stand and_ offere

a 3% percent boost to outside workers, city hall employees and electrical workers.

workers have indicated they will
hold out for 5 percent.)

In this same week members of
the United Brotherhood of Car-
penters and Joiners, local 452—
who were on picket lines for
eight weeks last summer—won a
seven-cent hourly raise to boost
their pay to $2.17 per hour.

These breakthroughs against
the “stand pat” resistance of
employers pave the way for
other unions to win substantial
wage gains in the coming weeks.

AFL Street Railwaymen’s Un-
ion ‘has been offered a six-cent

_ hike for 2,300 transit workers in

a conciliation board award ma-
jority decision, but union offi-
cials have expressed disappoint-
ment at the board recommenda-
tion and may take a strike vote
of the membership.

Earlier this year Vancouver
City Council declared it would
not discuss a wage increase in
1953. A delegation representing
firemen, police, inside workers,
outside workers and electrical
workers appeared before council
to make a strong protest.

“This unity has paid off for the
firemen,” notes a bulletin issued

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by Vancouver Civic Employees,
Outside Workers.

Of assistance to all unions
seeking pay hikes has been the
long, solid strike of the CIO
Grain Workers Union; the five-
months strike of the Internation-
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