—_—e | —— TT Vr To SOVIET CAPITAL BEING RECONSTRUCTED Moscow gets thousands of flats, schools every month three new os construction in Mos- cow is expanding with every year. -Multi-storey apartment houses are going up in the centre of the city as well as in its suburbs. In 1952 tens of thous- ands of Moscow workers’ fami- lies moved into new apartments. Some tall buildings have been completed and others are still under construction—the Moscow University, residential blocks, office buildings and hotels. Building work is going on ac- cording to a general plan of re- construction of Moscow, suggest- ed on the late Premier J. V. Stalin’s initiative. The general plan, designed for a period of 10 years (1951-1960), provides for construction of new apartment houses, schools, hos- pitals, stores, theatres, kinder- gartens, cafes and restaurants. Four hundred schools will be built in Moscow — three new schools every month. Apartment houses of 8, 10, 12, 14 and more storeys are going up. Every family is provided a 2, 3 and 4room separate flat, according to its needs. The unprecedented rate of housing construction is being made possible by organization and development of the building supplies industry. Two large plants for prefabricated housing construction, equipped with the latest Soviet engineering devices, were recently completed. In these plants all work processes are mechanized and, in some sec- tions are completely automatic. Daily output of these plants will amount to the number of sec- tions necessary to assemble an 80-apartment house. Industrial high-speed methods, with the maximum use of pre- fabricated sections, made at the factories, are employed in Mos- cow housing construction. Pow- erful machinery is, used on the building sites. Before the eyes of its citizens the Soviet capital is being trans- formed, becoming more beauti- ful and majestic. Mikhail Pos- okhin, a distinguished Moscow architect, stated that Moscow is nearing the time when a 100- apartment building with all con- veniences will be completed daily. FRANCES GILSTEAD LPP candidate replies to CCF rank-tile worker on unity re is a letter written by Mrs. Frances Gilstead, Labor-Progressive candidate for Dewdney, to B. Whitely of Port Coquitlam answering points he raised ina letter to her concerning CCF-LPP relations. WANT to thank you for your kind letter of May 17, 1953, in which you signed as a CCF committee room worker. Many of my best friends are CCF members and voters and I sincerely hope and trust we will some day see eye to eye on all those questions that divide us politically, if not personally. You say that you stand for the things I spoke about at the forum in Haney. That’s what gives me confidence in the - e program of my party, the fact that so many good people say we are right. The main question ha you pose is the ques- ; tion of unity. Believe me, my party, the LPP, is 100 percent in favor of CCF, LPP, labor and farm unity. We have always worked for such unity around a program of people’s needs and will con- tinue to do so. How- ever, such unity will not be.achieved by the LPP disappearing from the political life of our province. xf . To the contrary, the more the people. under- stand our program, the more the people vote for us, the more members we elect to Victoria, the easier it will be to bring about this unity and give the people of B.C. a new deal. If I didn’t believe this, I wouldn’t be standing as a candidate in Dewdney riding. ; Permit me to draw to your attention that with the alternative system of voting now in effect, the progressive vote need not be split, pro- vided there is a mutual desire of responsible people to get together and pledge mutual support to a common program of people’s needs. For example, if another candidate would publicly commit himself to fight for peace, for an end to American penetration and robbery of . British Columbia and ,for trade with any country willing to buy the products of our industry, it would be quite possible to get together around a table and discuss how to unite the progressive vote. ~ My party is the only party in this election that puts the interests of the people over and above narrow party interest. As far as my withdrawal is concerned, that is out of the question. I am in this fight for ever would be no point to my running in this campaign. Your candidate is running on the same basis and this must be the starting point of any unity talks, the fact that we are both running and have ma , vote and to win the seat. Otherwise, there . perfect right to do so. In closing, I wish to extend a cordial invita- tion to you and your friends to attend my public meeting in the Elks’ Hall, Port Coquitlam, Monday, June 1, at 8 p.m. Jack Phillips, well known Van- couver trade unionist, and a capable speaker, will also speak. W. A. KARDASH Manitoba Liberals have sorry record pene Campbell and his Manitoba Liberals ~ obviously hope to benefit by the snap election called for June 8 (one day before British Colum- bia goes to the polls), on instructions from Ottawa, Everybody (except the Liberals) looks upon the $3,700,000 increased grant to the municipalities as an elect bribe. There is good reason for the Liberals to fear public opinion. What the Liberals have done to our province, and our country, de- serves punishment far greater than a defeat at the polls. : Seven years of cold war; sending our boys to Korea; rearming the Nazis of West Germany; - huge military expenditures with all the graft; loss of markets for our farm products; the sell- out of our nation’s independence to U.S. billion- aires—such are the policies of betrayal of the Liberal party. ‘ Premier Campbell and his government sup- ported these policies and adapted their provincial _ policies to those of the government at Ottawa. What does the record shew? ; + Overcrowding in our hospitals and mental institutions continues. + Shortage of teachers and low salaries. + Contributions for education costs to muni- cipalities is lower than in any other province. + Old-age pensioners are refused a supple- mentary assistance and free medical and hospital care. + No assistance for housing program. + Our minerals, forests and oil are given over to U.S. billionaires. + Labor legislation is designed and used to undermine the organization of unions and weaken organized trade unions. + Opposition to a 40-hour week and two weeks vacation with pay. : : Campbell’s stock answer to any issues requir- ing additional expenditures is: there is no money. Yet money was not the problem when it came to paying the Winnipeg Electric Company a fabulous price “for shares, involving the payment of some $26 million more than the open market price was only five years previously. @ Wiiliam A. Kardash, for the past twelve years LPP member of the Manitoba legislature for Winnipeg North, is again standing for re- election. He is the only candidate nominated by the LPP. Moscow, shown here, capital. shown in lower pictures. . girl Vv The new eight-storey apartment house at 39 che sy is one of hundreds already built amen Two of the families occupying the new suk a All anti-American" sclosed that Et A U.S. war correspondent in Korea has di Canadian and European correspondents are a can” in sentiment. : in oi | Jim G. Lucas, Scripps-Howard writer, disclosed amen | to the San Francisco News, “There isn’t a single ? “ide” correspondent in Korea who is genuinely on ou «anti Lucas’ letter read in part: jci0 “For some time I have been shocked by the 5 of the anti-American feeling which exists am0 ; adian and European correspondents assigned be accidental. : : jnw? “My policy — until recently — was to see ester a say nothing. Now I’ve changed my tactics. _ 20 questionnaires to every European and Canadian © i? : in the billets, asking three questions: até cant sf! “J-In your opinion, why are the European ti- er) Fig : correspondents in Korea so violently ms done “9 What have we done that you: would ha ferently? 4 of “3. What other objections? : “They have reacted by being insulting, oF by anti-American?’ and saying, ‘We're simply tives. - PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MA TPT