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Photo shows B.C. Peace Council delegation on steps of the legislature.

Big lobby presses MLA’s

to take action on peace

Carrying placards reading, “Ban the H-Bomb,” “Education not armaments,”
“School sites not bomb sites,” a 70-member delegation of the B.C. Peace Council
descended last Wednesday on Victoria’s parliament buildings to urge MLA’s to take

action for peace.

A brief was presented by
the delegation asking the Leg-
islature to adopt a resolution
that would “urge the Govern-
ment of Canada to continue its
efforts to achieve disarma-
ment, including the abolition
under international control of
all nuclear weapons” and to
oppose their spread to coun-
tries not now possessing them.

The delegation met with the
CCF caucus and interviewed
MLA’s in the corridors. The
CCF caucus assured the. dele-
gation that a_ resolution on
peace would be placed before

the House in the next few
days.
Social Credit MLA’s of

whom nine were interviewed,

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were in the main non-commit-
al. Most outspoken for peace
was Omineca MLA C. M.
Shelford.

Two parades were staged by
the delegation in downtown
streets in Victoria. CBC Tele-
vision carried a news film of
the delegation marching to the
parliament buildings and wide
publicity was given on the lo-
cal radio stations, including
“man on the street” interviews
with delegates.

Following un the delegation
to Victoria, 20 B-:C. Peace
Council members took to the

streets of Vancouver Saturday
with their placards urging
public support for their efforts.

This week the B.C. Peace
Council is appealing to all
citizens’ and organizations to
write their MLAs urging adop-
tion of a resolution by the
Legislature in support of ban-
ning all nuclear weapons and
for total disarmament. The
Council) has also announced
that it will step up its activ-
ity for disarmament to coin-
cide with the 10-nation dis-
armament committee meeting
in Paris in March.

No missile bases, han bomb

200 ask at Van. rally

A ban on atomic weapons and germ warfare, support
for disarmament and rejection of missile bases in Canada,
were asked in a resolution adopted by more than 200 people
at a conference in St. Andrew’s Wesley United Church,
Vancouver, Saturday, Feb. 20.

The conference, called by
the Peace by Peaceful Means
Committee, agreed to convene
a larger conference in the near
future to consider peace action.

Represented at the confer-
ence were Vancouver United
Nations Association, Society of

Friends, Women’s Internation-
al League for Peace and Free-
dom, Fellowship of Reconcili-
ation, B.C. Peace Council, Wo-
men’s Committee Against Rad-
iation, and a number of church
groups, ;

WINCH PLEASE NOTE: —

to CLC staff personnel.

In the memorandum Bell
says that unit labor costs in
Canada are lower than in eight
of the leading trading nations
of the world for which statis-
tics are available. These in-
clude Argentina, France, -Ger-
many, Japan, the Philippines,
Norway, the United Kingdom
and the United States.

The memorandum states:
ference to the fact that Can-
adian workers are being paid
so many times as much as
workers in Japan and else-
where in the world. This is of
course true.

“But there is never any ac-
count taken on the difference
in the productivity rate of
Canadian and foreign workers,
For example the output of a
Japanese worker in 1955 was
only $444 (US) compared to

Unit labor

“Time and .again one sees re- |

$4,259 (US)"by Canadian work
CES;

Canadian worker was 91% tim
es as great as for the Japanese
worker. On the other hand
wages per Canadian worker
was only 514 times as great 4
for the Japanese worker.” __

The CLC research official
makes the point that if a Cal
adian worker is getting paid
$12 a day for producing
units of a particular product,
then Canadian labor costs
($1.20 a unit) are obviously
lower than in the case of 4
foreign worker getting paid
only $4 a day for producing 2
units ($2 per unit).

The memorandum states that
in 1955 only Australia, Bel
gium and the Netherlands had
lower labor costs than Canada,
and these were very slight.

A special program dramatiz-
ing the role played by women
in B.C. history especially be-
tween 1910 and 1960 will
highlight the celebrazion - of
International Women’s Day on
March 11 in Vancouver. This
was announced by the Van-
couver International Women’s
Day Committee.

A special feature of this
year’s 50th anniversary cele-
bration of International Wom-
en’s Day will be the visit here
of two representatives of the
Soviet Women’s Committee.
It was announced this week
that the Soviet representatives

Plumbers demand

total disarmament
TORONTO—A strong stand
for total world disarmament
has been taken by a big Tor-
onto building trades local.
The executive of the Plum-
bers and Steamfitters Local
46, representing a membership
of 4,000, unanimously adopted
a resolution stating the union
“heartily endorses the idea of
total world disarmament and
asks the national executive of
the Canadian Labor Congress
to do likewise, and calls upon
the Canadian government to
take an unequivocal stand in
the Committee for . Disarma-
ment for the early implemen-
tation of total world disarm-

_}ament.”

Special feature for —
Int. Women’s Day rally

will be Doctor of Medical
Sciences, Professor E. A. Vas

iukova and Mrs. E. A. Korn-
ienko, a lecturer from the
Kiey Polytechnical Institute.

The finale of the Vancouver
rally calls for women to ap-

pear on stage in National dress

and a large number of women —
are expected to take part. The —

Committee has appealed to

those who have such costumes —
to loan them for this occasion,
or better still, wear them and —
take part in the program. Na- —
tive Indian, Japanese, Chinese, —

Scandinavian as well as cos-

tumes from the British Isles —
-|are particularly needed.

Those able to help are ask-

ed to phone TR 6-4226 as soon
as possible. ’

Radio CKLG Every
Saturday, 6:10 p.m.
730 on your dial

NIGEL MORGAN : 4
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costs here|
helow Japan says CLC

as a whole are lower, not higher than Japanese labor costs;
according to CLC researcher Russ Bell in a memorandum —

“The average output of the —

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