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Big welcome everywhere

By PHYLLIS CLARKE
Feaekai 3, : REGINA.
a ponewan lived up to its
ge zn. of friendliness during
Hee a to the province of nine
tural au of _the Soviet agricul-
he elegation. They made a

Of friends here. From the

© of their arrival to the mo-,

ie their departure from Swift
Exciter to the east, interest and
‘the ment about their presence in
Province mounted.
ig mo it was with the farmer
the te who was stopped in
or the Where he was swathing
Benge cee of an experimental
ly dis engaged in research, a live-
as epsion about common prob-
Tier “eveloped, despite the bav-
. “ot language.
‘on’ delegation through its
ete Viadimir Vladimirovich
ts Eetich, first deputy minis:
atke agriculture of the USSR,
in 5 to see large-scale farming
ers aparchewan. So the plan-
: a the trip took the Soviet
tare “ to three large individual
“ 1C,000 acre cooperative
* & Communi ‘e and
®Perimental ee, Sa a
Pst farm, that of Peter
2h nN of Milestone, set the pat-
Neighhone rso™ his family and
geet th. Were all on hand to
down ¢ e delegation. They sat
ON the pacer in a large circle
began. Wn and the questioning

See
le atskevich was interested in

vy
ste of all he could about the
a he farm, the crops, yield

nae humber of workers, type
Od of tile used and the meth-
Was ha age. He asked if wheat
of ord to-sell and if the yield
Whea; “2S higher than that .of
Tore gate: Y do you not grow
ing jy ‘S and market it by feed-
d “ O livestock,” He went on
issug som that this was a vital
Pe, € Soviet Union.

ed, :
Wheat 0" Pointed out that
that ae the main cash crop,

age € Was a problem of stor-
cient that there was not suffi-
sto, “@ler for increased live-
Quest;
We ee about tillage also
ae ty lcative of discussions that

Union "S Place in the Soviet
Party, “4 Member of .the Soviet
Romie nted out than an agro-

Westicn Maltsev, had raised the
Vowing Of cultivation without
€ver, ©: The delegation asked at
Mowing Visited whether any
Case ree Was doné, and in each
Ree co a Negative answer.
Ratio, this discussion the dele-
See hj, “CCOMpanied Pederson to
a. achinery and his crop.
Oe 9 ete the combine at work
SV, de the delegates, N. M. Gur-
Ci] Buty. chairman of the coun-
Ssp, p ae ters of the: Ukrainian
Mowing tis hand into the straw
bing ary Cut back from the com-
tact, yond a few wheat heads
be Rusgin vt? the Canadians and
Stratio, “US smiled-at this demon-
"Nching ° the efficiency of the

An,
ot acther fer

; mM visit :
Hey dolph 7 isited was- that

lore 4eebner of Weyburn.
tions “ Se a8ain discussed ee ques-
Went 8ricultural practices and
widition pee ‘the farm home in
Ter, 3, 1° Seeing some of Heeb-
_ oN cattle.

; W, wed farm visited was that
ey of son of Pense, presi-
we CMAda. Agricultural Institute
ane Partin) were the delegates
matber Cularly interested in the
an all + _, Vorkers (one hired
14 Hatvest = and the student son
entiacrg a employed on the
‘Mined ae They carefully
a new € machinery, particu-

Self-propelled swathe>.

Soviet delegates
view Sask. farms

While in Swift Current four
members of the delegation visit-
ed the Matador Co-op Far'm, set
ur) by war veterans in 1946.
With the 19 members and their

families they discussed the meth-
od: of farming and inspected
tha machinery.

In the course of the three-day
stay they alsc saw spraying against
warble fly at a community pas-
ture, a demonstration of the Noble
blade plough (which leaves. the
straw on top), and an attempt to
produce a new breed of sheep.

Just before the delegation board-
ed a plane for the East, Matske-
vich said:

“We are parting with sorrow
from the wide fields and the friend-
ly people of Saskatchewan but we
are also parting with joy for we
know we have made new friends.
We have spent in Saskatchewan
three extremely pleasant and valu-
able days. We saw some very
large farms where wheat was be-
ing harvested.

“We saw herds of wonderful
quality cattle. We saw how farm-
ers who are actively engaged in
theiz work cooperate with govern-
ment officials in order to learn
how to farm bette. We saw the
wide fields of Saskatchewan that
reminded us of some parts of our
homeland... .

“J hope we will meet again.
Whether it will be on the wide
fields of Saskatchewan or the fields
of the Ukraine I do not know, ‘but
wherever it is I think we will be
ready toa torture you with more
duestions ”

Invitations were issued to fed-
eral Agricultural Minister James
G. Gardiner and L. B. Thomp-
son te come to Moscow to see
Sovie: agriculture.

The Soviet delegation has usher-
ed in a new era in exchange of
agricultural experience and know-
ledge. The three cheers and a
tiger for the visitors led ‘by Gar-
diner on the first day of their
stay in Saskatchewan has echoed
‘throughout the province and is a
foretaste of the mutual friendship,
trade and understanding which
can be developed between Canada

Only union float in PNE parade

Vancouver Civic Employees Union, Outside Workers, entered the only trade union float in the

recent Pacific National Exhibition parade.

The float projecting the, idea of making Vancouver a

greater and more progressive city, featured a replica of the City Hall and a banner calling for a
united labor movement in Canada. It drew loud applause from spectators watching the parade.

City woman contrasts childhood
with life of Soviet children

: _ “T looked at the happy, clean and smiling children in
in Minsk, and could not hold my tears back. I could see my

Mrs. Barbara Bazigin of Vancouver,

a textile factory kindergarten
childhood—the whole past.”

wha has just returned from a visit to the

Soviet Union—her first visit since she emigrated to Canada 32 years ago—was contrasting
her childhood under tsarism with the life of Soviet children

“J was born in a peasant fami-
ly,” she said. “We lived in down-
right poverty, and my mother went
to work in the fields,. carrying a
baby in one arm, and leading me
by the hand. While she worked,
I lay in the shade of a cloth pin-
ned on four pegs. When I grew
hungry J cried and my mother

‘came and fed me.

“Growing up, I was given re-
Sponsibilities. I. cared for my
younger brothers and sisters while
my parents were at work. My

and the USSR.

school years came, but I had no

today.

time to go to school. I did: not
have the money to buy books, nor
even cotton clothing. I remained
uneducated, like .the rest of the
villagers. :

“Medical aid: was out of the

question. Numerous epidemics of.
.typhus and other diseases caused

@ great many deaths. Crop fail-
ures plunged the people into ex-
treme .poverty. The village was
left to shift for itself.

“Now, after 32 years, I returned
to my homeland as a Canadian

Charlie Valley had long militant career

CHARLIE VALLEY

The progressive labor movement
in this province has lost one of
its most militant members by the
death in Queen Charlotte City on
August 30 of Charlie Valley, long-
time member of the United Fish-
ermen and Allied Workers’ Union
and a founder of the union’s
Skidegate local on the Queen Char-
lotte Islands.

In addition to his union activi-
ties, ‘Valley was a member of the
People’s Cooperative Bookstore
and sold literature and loaned
books to the fishing fleet from
aboard his own boat.

A. warm tribute to Charlie Val-
Jey was sent to The Fisherman
by Rev. Lloyd C. Hooper of Queen
Charlotte Islands United Church.
He wrote, in part:

“ ‘Charlie’ to: all the Islanders,
was of an inquiring mind, little
interested in lazy thinking and
very interested in his community.
You could always be sure he
would raise questions at any meet-
ing. He was very interested in the
building of the new hospital. For
years he was associated with the
old hospital—for some time a di-
recto:.

Labor pioneer passes in QCI

“Charlie was recognized by all
as a good fisherman and respect-
ed by all—whites and Natives. de

“Charlie was also a_ historian
for the Islands. Born in 1892 of
Finnish parents, he came to the
Islands around 1910. I wish he
had written down’ all he knew of
its history.

“Although Charlie had no fami-

ly, yet we were all his family... .

“Charlie will be missed. To
some he,might have been a bit of
an aggravation. He said and wrote
what the thought and it was not
always, pleasing to certain people,
but those of us who got. to’: know
him knew that he was trying to
do what he felt was for him to
dow”

To this tribute The Fisherman
added: .

* “Charlie was a man with most
definie progressive ideas and ideals.
Many a fisherman will recall that
Charlie sold him or passed, along
a book containing some new, chal-
lenging thought, theory or fact
which expressed an outlook that
the future belongs to the working
people of the country.”

citizen, as a visitor. Speaking Rus-
sian, I freely conversed with hun-
dreds of people of different occu-
pations — collective farmers, fac-
tory workers, executives.

“In Minsk I visited a textile
family, met a former peasant wo-
man who is now the director, and
her staff composed of women. I
saw the factory kindergarten where

it any wonder that my tears flow-
ed when I contrasted these happy,
smiling children with my own past?

“Touring Byelorussia, our Can-
adian. delegation visited the Rast-
svet collective farm. There are
no-longer any illiterate peasants.
Many of the youth have graduat-
ed‘ from high school and higher
institutes of learning. : There is
free medical care for all...

‘J saw the great -achievements
of the Byelorussian people. Beauti-
ful new buildings, many of .two
and three room suites, cosy and
comfortable. ' Instead of shoes of
willow bark, people wedring good
leather shoes. Instead of home
woven, patched: clothing — good
quality fabrics. Instead of the ox
and the wooden plough—tractors
and combines. Instead of taverns
—schools, cinemas and palaces of
culture. Instead of the» sorceress
—doctors and teachers. Instead of
ignorance—books, radio and news-
papers,”

Mrs. Bazigin did not have time
to visit her native village of Niko-
lyovka in the 16 days the delega-
tion was in the USSR. But she
sent a telegram to her sister and
brother living near Moscow, and
learned that her brother graduat-
j ed from high school and has a
‘government job, while her sister
holds a responsible position at the
,Bitsa state farm.

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