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aa year foreign markets for
Voyers mie not dwindle as em-

V inere predicted, but actu-
feet Gaecd over 2,000,000 board
ae 0 International Woodwork-
Wi €rica secretary Carl
oe told a three-man conciliation
Week. M Hotel Georgia here this

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igsttuing the union’s case for a
Wage boost and other con-
Proposals < Winn said the IWA
a Were ‘catch-up demands
tic Settle table and unrealis-
Years.» Ments of the past two

w at cORciliation board was set
ed ay Conciliation officer fail-

arelye the difference be-
n Wa en and employer stands
Dosing ae: The operators are op-
Twa 2. °4Y increase this year. The
aby cents hous hike of 13 to
Oth
Uhion gp PPenings on the trade
bee nt included these:

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orbit ane of 100 miners at the
¥ a ver Mines, Alice Arm,
Sign of “ its fourth week with no
Members Settlement. The miners,
; bia of International Mine,
Skin Smelter Workers, are

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nerease. 22% -cent hourly wage

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capi nine-day strike of 160
Ndeq “s of Gordon and Belyea
Yoteg es Week when workers
erease, cept a $20 monthly pay

IWA official says
Markets available

of CIO Retail and Wholesale Em-
ployees Union, Local 535, also, won
three weeks paid vacation after
15 years service and a new pay-
day schedule.

@ <A 38-hour work week in-
stead of 40, with an increase in
pay, was won. by 450 bakery work-
ers in Vancouver and Nanaimo.
The pay boost brings basic baker’s
rates of $68.15 per 40-hour week
to $71.19 for a 38-hour week.

@ A 1953 agreement covering
fresh fish and cold storage work-
ers was signed last week by the
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union and the Fisheries
Association following acceptance
by union members of a Fishertes
Association offer. The agreement
provides wage increases of five
cents an hour for experienced
shed men, six cents for experienc-
ed cold storage men, and eight
cents for graders, together with a
five-cent hourly differential for all
night shift and graveyard work.
Two additional paid statutory holi-
days are provided, bringing the
total to seven.

@ The wage dispute between
150 striking municipal workers
and Saanich municipality was pub-
licized by the union this week in
a paid newspaper advertisement,
comparing Saanich wages with the
higher wages paid in Victoria.
The strike is now entering its third

week.

the futility of war.

B.C. Conference for Peace,
to be held in city June 20-21,

will be open to all citizens

The Citizens’ Conference for Peace, to be held the weekend of June 20-21 in Pender Auditorium
here, is open to all citizens of the province, the sponsoring committee points out in a press statement.

Registration fee is $1 and registrations may be mailed to Box One, 339 West Pender.

tion may be obtained by phoning MArine 9958.
Text of the call to the conference follows:

How can we end the wars now
raging in Asia?

How can we end the cold war?

How can we banish the threat
of world war and ensure peace?

How can we promote trade with
all nations?

These are the most serious prob-
Yems now confronting all of the
people of British Columbia.

We, a group of British Columbia
citizens, feel there is an urgent

Informa-

need for the people of our prov-
to these problems.
ince to find their own solutions

We believe this can best be done
through full, democratic discus-
sion.

We invite all organizations —
the churches, trade unions, credit
unions, cooperatives, women’s,
youth and veterans’ groups, cul-
tural societies, ethnic groups,
PTA’s and all other groups — to

send their representatives to this
conference to make known their
point-of-view. Resolutions are
welcome.

We invite all citizens to partici-
pate on their’ own.

We appeal to all men, women
and youth, of all views and faiths,
to come and speak their minds on
peace, confident that through an
exchange of views the cause of
peace will be'well served.

Korean truce ‘singular triumph
for world peace’ says Gardner

“British Columbia Peace:Council greets with enthusiasm the restoration of peace in Korea which
we see as a singular triumph for the cause of world peace,” said Ray Gardner, executive secretary, this

week.

“We express our sympathy with the Korean people who, for three ‘terrible years, have suffered in-

describable misery, and with the relatives of all those young men of many countries who lost their
lives in the Korea war,” continued Gardner.

“Three years of slaughter in
Korea have served to underline
what all other wars have proven:
The killing
solved no problems but only
created new ones. It is well to
mark the fact that, after all the
killing, the war still had to be
ended at the conference table
through negotiations.

“Let us draw a lesson from

this. The cold war, too, must
be ended by negotiation and,

this time, before any killing be-
gins. The negotiations should
begin at once.

“Let the leaders of the great
powers meet — as Churchill, Mal-
enkov, Pope Pius, the Archbishop
of York, the Commonwealth prime
ministers and others have urged.
Let them meet and negotiate a set-
tlement of the cold war. This is
the way to avoid a repetition of
the Korean slaughter on a bigger
and even more terrible scale.

“The truce in Korea is a tri-

umph for the people of the world
inasmuch as it was they — through
petitions. public meetings, letters
to their elected representatives —
who imposed peace in Korea.

“In mobilizing this great de-
monstration of public opinion,
the world peace movement play-
‘ed a leading and vital part. For
the first time in history the peo-
ple, through their own efforts,
have stopped a war. It is now
up to all of us to stop the cold
war and ensure world peace.”

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Reform of
currency
welcomed

By ARMOUR MILNE
PRAGUE

The press in the Western coun-
tries is trying to represent Czech-
oslovakia’s currency reform as the
reflection of serious internal eco-
nomic difficulties.

But.the Czechoslovak people are
enthusiastic about the measure be-
cause they know what it means to
them.

Ferdinand Kus,
Ostrava, told me:

“Some people took advantage of
the rationing system but now they
won’t be able to dodge work and
still draw unrationed goods.

Mrs. Kmejcova, a textile work-
er in the north Bohemian town of
Lovosice, has the housewife’s
slant on the end of rationing.

“No more queues,” was her first
reaction. ‘We are all convinced
that not only will we be able to
buy everything that we want but
that the bugbear of queues will
sort itself out very soon.”

The currency reform is at the
rate of five old crowns for one new
one. The new crown has an ex-
change rate of 1.80 crowns to the
Soviet gold rouble.

An official statement says:

“The Czechoslovakia crown
will not be bound to the U.S. dol-
lar, which is a currency of an
economy subject to depressions
and whose purchasing power
falls at an increasing pace.

“From now 'on the exchange
rate of the crown will be relat-
ed. to the most stable currency
in the world, the Soviet rouble.”

Wages, salaries, family allow-
ances, pensions and scholarships
are all being recalculated at the
new rate of one new crown to five

a miner from

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