Paull Robeson, shown above at the international boundary in Peace Arch Park, where he gave concerts for three suc- cessive years, has finally broken the U.S. ban preventing him from visiting Canada, and will soon make a nation-wide tour. He y will sing in Vancouver sometime in May. Equal contracts sought Indians discriminated against, says union | Proposals to end discrimination against Native Indian workers were endorsed by delegates attending the 12th an- nual convention of United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union here last week. The officers’ report briefly oytlined Ways ‘in which Native workers suffer discrimination at the Peace Council reiterates call to end H-tests “Recent testing ‘of nuclear Weapons by the Soviet Union, Coupled with announcements of New U.S. tests this spring ,un- derlines once again the need to end these dangerous experi- ments,” British Columbia Peace Council said this week in a pub- lic statement. (The U.S. is preparing its 64th Nuclear blast. since the atomic €ra began. Of 76 nuclear ex- Plosions to date the United States has fired 63, the USSR 10, Britain three.) “It is high time the heads of all. governments heeded the Serious warnings of the world’s Scientists and entered into an agreement to stop testing atomic and hydrogen weapons,” the face Council statement con- nued. “No one can expect any coun- _ try to stop its own tests while Others continue; it must be done SY international agreement. But it must be done now and be- ore we reach the point of no return... _,. We believe that the Cana- dian representatives at the Present United Nations dis- &mament talks in London Should press for immediate 88reement to ban the tests.” present time. © “Native Indians do not receive’ paid transportation to and from the job on the same basis as non-Natives,” said the report. “Practically no Native wo- men receive a monthly guaran- tee while most non-Native wo- men do. No Native men receive a monthly guarantee while most non - Natives at out- of - town plants do. “Seniority, if applied at all at up-Coast plants, is generally dis- regarded by management in the case of Natives. “Women at in-town plants re- ceive uniforms which are laun- dered by the company. At out- of-town plants where most of the women are Natives, they launder their own. “On all these points, the wage conference worked out propos- | als which will make equal treat- ment mandatory. j “Proposals have also been sub- mitted to the companies demand- ing equality of accommoda- tion where crews board at the plant. At present, the order of ‘accommodation in certain plants is European Canadians first, Japanese Canadians sec- -ond, Chinese Canadians, and then Native Canadians. “Similar proposals were also drafted in the matter of hous- ing at up-coast plants. The union is requesting a reasonable standard of housing with same to have running water, proper sanitary facilities, electric dights, Continued on page 6 See UFAWU Eagle, wa tu tte Ty With, { A\| My if WM Meat HN jell LA dt mesUL tiny VOL. 15, No. 13. ae PRICE 10 CENTS VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MARCH 3@, 1956 Yukon says U.S. flouting : e ; sovereignty The Yukon Territory is pro- testing to the St. Laurent gov- ernment at Ottawa that Ameri- can contractors and military personnel, in charge of building the DEW line across the Arctic Circle are flouting Canada’s sovereign rights. , Whitehorse Board of Trade has charged that there is a “dis- regard of Canadian sovereignty of Canadian law and also of Canadian contractors «in the construction of the DEW line.” (The Distant Early Warning radar line is being built along the 70th parallel.) On March 8 the Whitehorse Star published an editorial. de- claring that Canadian airlines and surface carriers were being squeezed out of jobs by U.S. contractors despite the official agreement between the two countries; that Canadian cus- toms regulations are ignored by U.S. aircraft flying in from Alaska; and that Air Transport Board regulations are by-passed by U.S. airlines fly- Continued on back page See YUKON NOW, DID ICOME HERE TO DINNER OR AS DINNER?” se