Li | | 1 AL Camille Dionne, Quebec secretary of the Labor-Progressive ty, is shown at the door of the U.S. embassy in Ottawa ‘aad the protest against U.S. intervention in Lebanon fanized by the LPP earlier this month. Turning point for labor seen by Buck BG PONTO — The world’s Be €s have been at a turn- ett this summer in the a for peace. The labor ment of Canada may be £ Same sort of turning a In the fight to win the — 1958, to defeat the Rent plot to use unemploy- prevent wage gains, lift the whole labor is ment to a higher level. e ae the keynote s ruck Pou Buck addressing 3,000 sth € at Metro Toronto’s Pe ual labor festival at ; ee last Sunday. ale ag first with the Mid- Bousy crisis, the LPP na- hatin leader said that “the eheg € of what had threat- to be world atomic war, the ae a great victory for Ing Ople. It marked a turn- Point.” Et Opinion,‘ the inter- a of U.S. and Britain in a ih and Jordan had been trom Point for imperialism, ee it had been com- to retreat. € reminded his audience Britain July 14, the U.S. and out ee plans all worked Which r invasion of _ Iraq, Could have touched off War. Point b Wor] qd ‘uation, Buck said he = is the drive to war had deep alted as a result of the es Contradictions of inter- fe eveen the impérialist Binizeg the world-wide or- n a movement for peace; of Ove all by the strength Worl Socialist sector of the t ig ee is so powerful This : € to stand up and say, i ar, and no farther.’ ” labor Ming to the Canadian that ; front, Buck charged M the economic crisis Set in last fall, the Clieve “biggest monopolies have de- cided to take advantage of unemployment and start an anti-labor offensive.” The question was: “Are the big companies going to be able to smash unions and — wages, or will the unity of ihe working class make it possible to tell the bosses, ‘They asked for it, and they got it?’” The working class, he noted, had made great gains in re- cent years. There are now one and a half million organized workers, class consciousness is greater. Even the Canadian govern- ment is reflecting the changes taking place. The capi alist class is “not so cocky and confident as it was 20 years ago.” The contradictions between the promises and perform- ances of the Diefenbaker gov- ernment reflect the contradic- tions of capitalism, said Buck. He traced the record of the Diefenhaker government on the Middle East crisis which on July 14 had pledged sup- port to U.S.. intervention; on July 16 had declared for a “prompt and positive” reply to Soviet proposals for a summit meeting, and on July 18 had called for discussions in the Security Council. The government had chang- ed its mind three times in five days, because it is torn between a desire to be free from U.S. domination and get the Yankee dollar. A whole conjucture of events — the desires of the people for peace, and good wages, taken together with the discussion about independ- ent labor political action — is creating the opportunity for a big turning point for the Can- adian working class. ‘Common need to stop H-tests North tells Tokyo conference TOKYO—The common need of fishermen in all countries bordering the Pac’ nuclear tests which strike “at a world food resource which is the joint property of a! was emphasized by George North of Vancouver, editor of The Fisherman, fic io halt inz the Fourth World Conference against Atom and Hydrogen Bombs and for Disarmament here last week. e North is attending the con- ference as a delegate jointly sponsored by a committee representing the B.C. fishing industry and B.C. Peace Coun- cil, Conveying greetings to the conference from the general executive board of United Fishermen and Allied Work- ers Union, Nor.h said: “We have long fought against war policies. The twin tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki stand as symbols: of murderous atomic weapons in action, tragedies which if re- peated in this day would be dwarfed by their giant mod- ern offspring. “Nuclear explosions in the Pacific have a direct economic effect on the fishermen of our province. Closure of vast areas of the Pacific means not only hardship and un- justified restrictions to the Japanese fishermen, but strikes at a world food re- source which is the joint property of all mankind. “Moreover, every time the fishing areas of the Pacific are reduced, it creates addi- tional pressure for new fish- ing grounds and a danger to conserva ion and maintenance of fisheries production. It creates new frictions, too. “In that regard, our fisher- men have a common bond and common aim with all fisher- men of the Pacific in seeing the tests are stopped. We have consistently campaigned for policies of peace for other reasons too, the reasons shar- ed by all delegates at this conference.” xt xt x Earlier, North visited Hiro- shima and Nagasaki and this is his account of his visit as he described it for UFAWU members in a report to The Fisherman: “Hiroshima, Nagasaki, two beautiful cities of Southern Japan, 13 years ago lay in ruins with a total of more than 300,000 dead and as many more scarred by the searing flames of the atom bomb. And though the echoes were heard in Vancouver, in Paris, London and other cities of the world, the cries’ of the victims have been too faint to reach our ears and touch our hearts. “J myself could speak that way until I visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saw the tragic souvenirs of August 6, 1945 in the great Peace Mueseum of Hiroshima, toured the re- cently consiructed Red Cross Hospital and spoke to patients still afflicted with atomic ail- ments and met men and wom- en whose lives and bodies have been scarred . by -the world’s most inhuman wea- pon. “Ninety - two patients are housed in the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospi’al, completed in September of 1956. But. in the short period since it was built, more than 14,800 per- sons have passed through its doors for :consultation. “Statistics are usually duli, because it always seems dif- ficult to transla'e a number into a, personality. That is why i: may not mean so much to say that in its two years, the hospital has had 445 pa- tients, 377 of them suffering from external troubles, and 168 internal, all of them casualties of the atomic bomb. “The three main illnesses in order of occurrence are anemia, liver trouble, and finally the dread leukemia. Seven new cases of this cancer oi the blood have been discovered already this year and 15 in 1957. It has claimed 14 lives since 1956. “But these are statistics ... ‘“Let’s visit some of the -pa- tients “Mrs. Mori, we are told, has been in the hospital since March 10 and the doc ors fear she has leukemia. Mrs. Mit- anda who entered the hos- pital. on June 23, and Mrs. Qda, who was admitted a month earlier, are both suf- iering from enemia. “And then we meet tiny Tokia Sakiguchi. her spine de- formed, also a_ victim of anemia. She seems to be only a child but expresses’ her thanks for our small gift of fcul with an easiness and clarity that explain her 18 years. “And Katzuko Ishii who wag admitted on April 26 is suffering from liver trouble but we are pleased to learn from the doctor that she is showing improvement. We asx her age and learn she is only 13 years old, born in the year of the bomb. “As I look at her I think of my own children and won- der how such a devlish thing can happen and still-not be on the conscience of a na- SON oe Indian film takes top festival award By N. E. STORY Vancouver’s ambitious and, on the whole, highly success- ful first International Film Festival concluded last Sat- urday by granting its high- est award to the Indian film Pather Panchali. This pro- found and poetic study of the Bengali countryside won the Cannes Festival-in 1955 and has since continued to accumu- late new honors for its direc- tor, Satyajit Ray. It is one cf the great art works of our time. Praised as runners-up in the features category were: Don Quixote (USSR), Le Porte Des Lilas (France) and The Cranes Are Flying (USSR). Other awards were as follows: Documentary: City of Gold (Canada); Honorable Mention: Journey Into Spring (Britain). Children’s: Little Black Sambo (Japan); Honorable Mention: Old Khottabych (USSR). Television: Onion Johnny (Britain); Honorable Men- tion: Skid Row (Canada). Experimental: No award. Also praised in the Docu- mentary category were Rem- brandt (Netherlands) and The Nearest Star (U.S.). The ex- perimental award was with- held because no entry explored new paths in film making. Features judges included: Frank Crawiey (Crawley Films, Toronto), Frank Bor- zage (Hollywood director) and Gratien Gelinas (famous Cana- dian playwright, Montreal). he Shorts judges were: Os- mond Berredaile (world- famous cameraman, Chilli- wack), Philip Bernard (Mil- waukee, U.S.), Prof. S. Reed and Sally Creighton. FOUR - TEN COFFEE SHOP 419 MAIN STREET Spotiess!y Clean Booth Service Trv Our “HOT” CORN BEEF ON RYE and other fine dishes LOUIE and MOLLY 7am. - 6 p.m. Closed Sunday August 22, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7