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Sputnik hasn't yet

By LESLIE MORRIS

_ {Mm less than a month a new
Mternational word has been
oined—Sputnik. It is even
Pronounced correctly most of
the time — “spootnik.” This
©mely Russian word, which
traditionally has been used to
fescribe a travelling compan-
'n, now belongs to the world
long with soviet and katusha.

All the double-talk and ev-
‘Sons, grudging admissions
4nd official playing down can-
Not hide from the ordinary
People the amazing leap into
he future that sputnik repre-
“thts. This is one achievement
that can’t be buried in a press
%f propaganda.

Sputnik is visible to the pop-
ulated world. Because of its

degree equatorial angle of
ip ation around the earth it

Mvisible only in the polar
"gions, The earth rotates
Within the orbit of the sputnik

& map of its daily journey
Published in the Soviet Union
aie that it can be seen in

Countries on all coritinents.

8st performances by anti-

Met propagandists convince

that, had the tiny man-
hig moon not been so vis-
doy and heard by so many,

Nt would have been cast

its existence, just as it has
the Soviet ICBM.
ie the beep-beep is inter-
is Aa and universal. Truth

a S through even the sound
7a of the U.S. State De-
{ Ment. There it is, for all
See and hear.
vy its significance is also
sib] ing through. It was" pos-
by zed by a Soviet ICBM,

stead of a war-head it
on co eutnik. May all ICBM’s

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a is one area of human
% Y where the significance
> ae No. 1 has still to
Ogian: massive walls of
the © and ignorance. In
| ech en debate on the
| Rp : from the Throne in the
bea, . Of Commons, Sputnik’s

~beep, calling for a new

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penetrated Ottawa

look at world affairs, is not yet
heard. :

Prime Minister John Dief-
enbaker uses the Queen’s visit
to get as often as he can with-
in camera range. He is using
the royal visit to boost the Tory
party.

Lester B. Pearson, one of the
architects of the North Atlan-
tic Treaty Organization, the
most shameful and humiliat-
ing treaty ever to be foisted
upon peace-loving Canadians,
is given the Nobel Peace Prize.

He doesn’t deserve it. Cana-
dian NATO foreign policy en-
couraged aggression upon
Egypt. It helped to keep the
flame of aggression alive in
the world. To be awarded a
prize for throwing a bucket
of water on flames for which
you are partly responsible,
calls not for a_ life-saving
prize but some soul-searching
to say the least.

Lester B., the 20-year civil
servant, one of Billy King’s
bright young men, hoisted into
parliament from “the top”,
just as Louis St. Laurent was,
who never had to win his po-
litical spurs in the hurly-bur-
ly of political argument and
struggle among the citizenry,
shows no signs of learning
Sputnik’s lessons.

There are genuine, courag-
eous workers for peace in Can-
ada but they do not include
Mike Pearson. His articles in
the Toronto Daily Star, Van-
couver Sun and other papers
are filled with venomous con-
demnations of peaceful coexis-
tence.

- So the Liberals, licking their

wounds, facing a convention
next January, exploit Pear-
son’s peace prize to gain a new
leader. The crisis of Liberal
leadership (very painful in
Quebec) needed something
like that to hoist Mike into
top position in the party.

Truly, nothing is sacred to
capitalist politicians.

Sputnik’s beep-beep — a
call to peace and to reject once
and for all Dulles’ “brink of
war” madness, an appeal to
recognize the political facts of
life and for America to come
out in peaceful competition
with the Soviet Union instead
of fomenting war — is a more
powerful voice than Dulles’
stronger than John Diefenbak-
er’s political mugging or Pear-
son’s political poison pen.

——

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Fishermen demand Combines Act
inquiry be conducted in public

The United Fishermen and Allied Workers Uni
the fishing industry now being conducted here by the Re

be fully public.

on is demanding that hearings into
strictive Trade Practices Commission

The union this week sent a wire to Ottawa placing this demand before the chairman

of the Restrictive Trade Practices Commisssion after A. S. Whiteley,
ing officer at the inquiry here, said he could not make a rulin
would be conducted in private.

release
commented on a_ statement
made by the director of the
Combines Branch that although

A union press

the act provides for’ either’

public or private hearings, the
“inquiries . . . have invariably
been conducted in private.”
“This may be the desire of
large business concerns which
are guilty of malpractices un-
der the Combines Act,” the
release noted sharply. “It
may even be the position of
companies which are not found
guilty of price-fixing or other
illegal practices but which may
not want publicity on the fact
that they have been investi-
gated for such practices. Per-
haps this is why ‘inquiries... .
are invariably conducted in
private’.” <
The statement continued:
“The United Fishermen and
Allied Workers Union is not
a business, nor is it a company
and it is not connected in any
way with the marketing or
sale of fish to the public.
“The union has nothing to
hide. Its agreements are a
matter of public record. They
are all on file with the de-
partment of labor at Victoria.

“From time to time Supreme
Court justices have been call-
ed upon to arbitrate disputes

involving fishermen’s mini-
mum price and working agree-
ments. The union publishes a
newspaper in which it gives
full and detailed publicity to
every stage of negotiations.

“Since the union’s record
is already a public record, it
serves no good purpose to hold
these inquiries in camera.

“Moreover, the public is en-
titled to know what is hap-
pening in this most extraord-
inary ‘inquiry.’
unusual for the Combines Act
to be used against a union.
Therefore other unions and
all working people have a spe-
cial interest in this case.

The statement ended with
the reminder that the union’s
general executive board has
already termed the present
inquiry “unnecessary.”

“The board believes the
Combines Branch has already
sufficient information to judge
the need for the fishermen’s
union and to discontinue this
investigation,” the statement
said.

“The investigation was orig-

Canadian university
standards lagging

Indicative of the interest in Soviet science aroused by the
launching of the first earth satellite, an overflow audience
attended Westbrook Hall on Tuesday this week to hear Dr.

Cyril Reid, University of B.C. biophysicist report on his —

observations of the Soviet Union.

Chairs were hurriedly plac-
ed on the platform to accomo-
date the unexpectedly large
audience and many people
had to be turned away at the
door.

Dr. Reid, who went to Mos-
cow last summer to attend a
conference of scientists, made
a major point of the difference
between Canadian and Soviet
scientists.

In the Soviet Union, he said,
there were no purely academic
scientists, as in this country.
Soviet scientists carried on
practical work along with
their academic studies and, Dr.
Reid continued, he found them
to be very well rounded peo-
ple, versed in the arts, history
and current events, although
their studies were confined to
their sciences.

Moscow University, he re-
ported, turned away 90 per-
cent of its applicants because

-

it refused to lower its stand-
ards by over-crowding its ac-
comodation and over-Wwork-
ing its instructors. Other uni-
versities accepted one in every
four applicants,

He found many foreign stu-
dents at Soviet universities,
from India, China, Sweden,
Finland and France.

Soviet education was free,
students received stipends
during training, they had the
best equipment to work with

and every incentive was offer- ~

ed to encourage them ‘to enter
the sciences.

In_ answer to a question,
“What can we do in Canada
to improve our situation?” Dr.
Reid said instructors’ salaries
must be increased and our
methods of education reveiew-
ed because they were inade-
quate in comparison with So-
viet standards.

It is highly .

the commission’s presid-

g but indicated that the hearings

inally requested by six un-
named _ strikebreakers. The
whole thing should have been
-dropped a long time ago as a
nuisance attack. Neverthe-
less, union officers have been
instructed to answer fully to
all questions, provided union

members are presen: during
the inquiry.”

The union noted that the
fishermen’s organizations, in-
cluding the UFAWU, the Ves-
sel Owners and the coopera-
tives, have all indicated that
they favor public hearingss,
but “the companies, in the
main, favor private hearings.”

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