UBC INSTITUTE OF INDUST | Swen. \, Sen a RIAL RELATIONS DIRECTOR, Dr. Tait Montague. left, discusses the course on automation at the CLC Staff Seminar at Parksville, January 28, to February 2, with CLC Ex- ecutive Vice-President Joe Morris, centre, and Allan Watkins, a m Workers of Great Britain. who is v L ember of the National Union of Mine isiting Canada on an Imperial Scholarship. RCMP QUIZ Communist Office Visit The RCMP and _ Justice Minister Fleming have come badly out of the case of Win-- nipeg school teacher Lional Orlikow. David Orlikow, the New Democratic Party member of Farliament for Winnipeg North, was the man who rais- ed the issue and the man who had the last word. In a special statement after the RCMP belatedly con- fessed that its gumshoes had uncovered no ‘derogatory” information about Lional Or- likow, brother David said the whole issue could have been avoided if the RCMP and Mr. Fleming had acted with dis- patch in the first place. COMMUNIST OFFICE Lional Orlikow was ques- tioned by the RCMP after he arranged for a group of American students to visit among other places the Mani- toba Communist party office. A subsequent motion came before the Winnipeg School Board to have a $5,000 schol- arship for the teacher with- drawn. It was defeated amid a public outcry about such actions. Prof. W. L. Morton, head of the University of Manitoba history department, suggested that in line with other such cases, Mr. Orlikow would have difficulty entering the United States on the basis of RCMP information. Belatedly, RCMP Commis- sioner C. W. Harvison issued a statement making plain that Mr. Lionel Orlikow was clean as a hound’s tooth. He de- British Unions Total 635 LONDON — One hundred and eighty-two unions hav- ing a membership of 8,312,- 875 are affiliated with the Trades Union Congress, ac- cording to figures to the end of 1961. But the total of registered and unregistered unions is 635 with a combined mem- bership of almost 10 million. Registered unions total 394, but 286 of them had fewer than 500 members. The nine biggest unions held 54.1 per- cent of the total trade union membership. The funds of unions regis- tered with the Chief Regis- trar of Friendly Societies amounted to almost $300 mil- lion at the end of 1961. fended the RCMP action in questioning the Winnipeg teacher and accused Mr. David Orlikow of responsi- bility for the whole public uproar in having raised the issue in the House of Com- mons. FLEMING INFORMED Mr. David Orlikow recalled that he called on Justice Min- ister Fleming, Parliamentary spokesman for the RCMP, im- mediately after being inform- ed that his brother had been questioned. At no time during that in- terview, he told Mr. Fleming in a letter, “or following that interview was there any ap- parent effort by you to make inquiries about the matter nor were there any assurances to me from you that the RCMP was completely satis- fied with the information given to them by my brother or that they would not pass any information along to the American authorities. Had you done this, I would not have felt it necessary to dis- cuss the matter in public.” Added MP Orlikow: “Had you as minister of justice or Commissioner Harvison seen fit to issue such a statement two or three weeks ago, a good deal of the adverse pub- licity to my brother, the gov- ernment and the RCMP would have been avoided. The res- olution to the Winnipeg school board would never have been made and I am certain the matter then would have died a natural death.” Ripe for Commies Two stories from widely differing sources point the direction of another bitter ve in the Caribbean. An article in NEWSWEEK for January 2ist, is headed “Haiti, the Black Republic: ‘Snake Pit’.” An article in the January issue of the Inter-Ameri- can Labor Bulletin published by ORIT-ICFTU headquar- ters in Mexico says “The Haitian people are being led by the nose into the Communist camp.” NEWSWEEK makes some pungent observations. “Haiti is a snake pit” with tyranny, murder, torture and corruption rampant. _ “The nation has been ruled by an almost unbroken line of scoundrels and blackguards.” “President Francois Duvalier has been excommuni- cated by the Roman Catholic Church, but this action has had little effect on his activities ...” “Four million negroes subsist and some starve on average yearly incomes that range from $70 down.” The ICFTU article by Roger Rigaud complements this account. Rigaud says that Soviet Russia is infiltrat- ing Haiti with the collaboration of both Duvalier and Castro. Communist indoctrination is taking place within the army and the civil service, and by Cuban braad- casts directed to “Haiti’s tax-ridden, exploited, starva- tion-conscious masses.” The author condemns the western democracies for their. failure to provide an effective, democratic counter- force to the spread of communism. He says that “Creole © broadcasts must be met with Creole broadcasts. Cuban ~ trained Comunist-indoctrinated Haitians must be count- © ered: with American-trained democratic-indoctrinated — Haitians. Communist infiltration must be met with democratic infiltration. Dictator Duvalier must be re- placed with a democratic form of government.” “These formulations,” he continues, “cannot pos- sibly be reconciled with the continuation for a single day of present American policy.” And NEWSWEEK concludes with the pessimistic note that the misery and ignorance in Haiti are so dreadful that nothing resembling democracy is likely to emerge in the foreseeable future. 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