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TORONTO “There will be 750,000 to a million unemployed in Canada by next spring unless there is a drastic change in national policy,” Tim

Buck warned at the 21st annual Toronto Labor Festival here.

Buck

reminded his audience’ how at last year’s picnic, on the eve of the

federal election, ke had warned of danger of unemployment. he said, “we are headed straight for a crisis:

change will prevent it.”

A cloudbtrst in the middle of the afternoon at the picnic fail- ed to dampen the spirit of thous- ands of picnickers at Palermo. When the thunderstorm passed over, they were asked if they wanted to hear Tim Buck speak er wait till next Sunday when the weather might be fairer. With loud applause they demand- ed Tim Buck. ‘ Then, as Buck stepped up to the microphone, the sun burst out to dry he grounds.

The LPP leader said there was no need for Canadians to go back to the conditions of the thirties. What is needed he said is“figh - ing for policies that will Put Can- ada First, along with building the consciousness in the hearts and souls of Canadians of the neces- sity of putting Canada first.”

Just returned from Europe and ©

the Soviet Union, hé told of the many opportunities for export trade for Canada he had seen in his travels. He spoke of how the

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45 EAST HASTINGS

Now, Only a drastic policy

shipyards of western Europe were building ships for the So- Every yard in Fin- land is working at capacity. They are building 22 “freighter in Sweden, floating canneries in Denmark. Ships are being built in West Germany and England for the Soviet Union. “We could have been building these ships here,’ Buck said. “There are tremendous markets available.”

Buck said, “Life has become an adventure in the Soviet Un- ion.” That country was showing “what society can do for its young people.” He pointed out that in 1953, 55,000 engineers were graduated in the Soviet Union, whereas in the same per- iod in the U.S. only 17,000 were graduated.

Buck took the example ot what he had seen done on the Var river in Slovakia as a typical example of the way in which the socialist countries were de- veloping their resources.

The Var river is a little stream about 100 miles long, about the size of the Grand river in On- tario. It used to run at the bot- tom of a deep gulley. The land around it was drought-stricken because the water all ran off with- out benefitting the land. The

solution was to raise the level of.

the water to that of the land around. Five hydropower plants, the smailest 30,000 HP, the iarg- est 120,000 HP were built along with the dams. “This is to be seen on scores of rivers,” said Buck. “The, country is being transformed.”

The LPP leader hailed the vic- tory of the peace forces which won peace in Indochina at Gen- eva. “Geneva was a great deal more than a compromise, al- though it was a compromise, ” he said. “It showed that it is possible for capitalist and socialist coun- tries to come to agreement, on all the issues in a war like that against Indochina.

“We are standing at the phe this year when USS. imperialism is being forced on the defensive.”

Buck stressed the significance of the Soviet leadership in the development of atomic power.

The evidence that the Soviet Union is on the road to com- munism is that it, the socialist

- power, has found how to use atomic power for peace.”

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Put bite on eoburben riders

BCE subsidiary wants commuter fare increase |

Hard on the heels of the B.C. Electric’s application for an increase in urbat transit fares came a request from another BCE subsidiary, the Pacific Stage Lines,

demanding a hike in suburban commuters’ fares.

Affected by the application of the

PSL would be the New Westminster, Deep Cove and West Vancouver runs 0 4 Mi stage company. Tickets would jump about 10 percent with those on the Vancouvely — New Westminster route going as high as30 “percent more.

Decision of the Public Utilities Commission on the earlier tran- sit fare application will not be made at least until next week, and Effie Jones, leader of the Opposition to the boost, has urg- ed citizens and public organiza- tions to keep up the pressure on the PUC. *

Meanwhile public hearings by the Public Utilities Commission on the earlier transit fare boost have made it clear that the B.C. Electric and its subsidiaries are not in‘need of any more rate, in-

* creases.

An analysis of the Vancouver sittings of the Public Utilities Commission prepared by Emil Bjarnason of the Trade Union Re- search Bureau shows that the BCER’s main arguments were ex- ploded during the hearings.

The company in its application to the PUC argued that it needed

reasons: to meet the rising wage bill resulting from wage gains by the Street Railwaymen’s Union, and to attract more capital for its expansion program.

The. Research Bureau’s report points out that the time-worn argument of rising wages was thoroughly refuted at. the hear- ings. “The B.C. Electric,was fore- ed to admit that all the SRU wage increases of recent years have been cancelled out by reduction in the number of men needed on the transit system,

In fact that total of the wages paid to the Street Railwaymen, in spite of hourly pay boosts, has only increased by one percent since 1950.

On the other hand, if the pre- sent application is granted, fares will have gone up 50 percent in the same time.

As for the argument that the Company needs higher returns to induce more capital to flow into its coffers, this was also ners to

increase for two main ©

EMIL BJARNASON

be false. The BCER spokesman admitted that the rate of profit has gone up every year since 1949 and as a-result, the market price of BCE shares has nearly doubled since that date.

This year the company is mak- ing money at a rate which will give them nearly one million dol- lars more profit than last year. Operating. costs of thé transit company have gone up very little in recent years but interest, divi- dend and income tax have in- creased steadily and in 1953, amounted to $17,000,000.

In his review, Bjarnason strong- ly scored PUC chairman Percy George, charging him with a “biased attitude” in favor of the company, and citing a number of instances of his conduct.

At the hearings, George fre- quently expressed annoyance. at labor unions - and community or-

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WORLD HATES U.S.

He is not for peaceful co-evist-

ence on the basis of the existing ©

frontiers in the world.

That is why the U.S., univer- sally respected in Roosevelt’s time, is hated and feared today.

It is not merely the bellowings

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‘Farm leader hits

pileup of wheat

“How any farm leader can say that a pileup of 1,100,487,000 bushels total stock of grain in Canada is a blessing is beyond the thinking of any farmer,’ said J. N. Galonsky, secretary- treasurer of the Manitoba ‘Farm-. ers’ Union, denouncing the atti- tude of agricultural officials and the government. He was refer= ring to Canada’s total wheat car- ryover plus the estimated new crop.

“While the rest of the world is selling grain, our agricultural of- ficials and government are say- ing that everything is fine,” he said.

Recent barter deals between Australia, Japan and Germany showed the world needs grain

/but cannot pay aopors for it,

Galonsky said.

of the generals and the politi-

cians—the mad mullahs of U.S. militarism — that frightens peo- ple.

It is the fact that the admin- istration has set before itself in foreign policy a series of aims which could only be realised by victory in total war.

If Eisenhower wants peace he needs to do more than pray. Let him recognize the People’s Re- public of China and agree to its admission to the United Nations.

Let him pray for peace and let him agree to the uncondi- tional prohibition of atomic and hydrogen weapons.

Let him recognize that the great anti-fascist war was a just and a necessary war and that the frontiers which emerged from it should not be redrawn in the interests of the defeated militarists of Germany and J apan.

Let him reveal the same sym- pathy with colonial declarations of independence as progressives of Britain did with America’s de- claration of independence.

Let Eisenhower prefer co-ex- istence to no-existence.

Let US. state policy pursue aims compatible with peace pray- ers and a great step to peace and disarmament will be made.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 27, 1954 —

ganizations for presenting ee own briefs instead of leavine up to the municipalities. fe He also refused to allow ae clippings from the opposition ‘ be read while admitting thos favorable to the company. The PUC head allowed es spokesman Harold Purdy pepeac: d ed time while severely restric tin: zs speakers for the other side. ‘he Representatives ‘both of ‘ municipalities and of communi’y groups protested at the hearings against George’s, evident bias. derman Elizabeth Wood of New Westminster and Councillor 4°” Blanchard of Richmond both ae cused him of favoring the BC k They were supported by 1 Thillips of the Civic Employe Union and Effie Jones of Civic Reform Association. ‘ie é Mrs. Theresa Galloway of 4 Local Council of Women made personal plea for George’s resi8 nation. : Two organizations at the ee ing, Vancouver Labor Cound (CCL) and Civic Reform Associ tion, raised the demand that th provincial government act take over the B.C. Electric.

Braaten

hits TLC

suspension

REGING Sections of the Trades jon Labor Congress constituti

adopted in an atmosphere of 1 baiting and war hysteria ‘dU the 1950 convention and usé bar seating delegates from t _ 5,000-member United Fisher and Allied Workers Uni? fs “should be thrown out,” Orv i Braaten, business agent’ for bi couver Pulp and Sulphite wee er§ local told delegates at +

: 69th TLC convention.

’ His proposal came followin& an hour-long appeal “made a UFAWU secretary Homer St ens against continued suspensio” recommended by the convention's committee on officers’ reports. £

Efforts to restrict Stevens’ P¥ ro sentation to 30 minutes W® a overruled by a two-thirds sta?

ing vote in favor of extension a

time. . Delegates applauded Re ens when he concluded speech.

Braaten declared “the re has come when the rank and 3 have to be taken into considel? tion. I think we are hiding be hind the constitution and I thi the clause should be throw? ou since it is like Taft- Hartley.” id

“President Perey Bengough end earlier that the UFAWU still he a charter of the Congress ae 4 that he would even go so far es to say that Stevens and busine agent Alex Gordon had ‘done good job.”

The officers’ committee recom mendation was that while s¥* pension be continued machine existed for re-admission, provie” ed the union “abided by the ©? stitution.” ke

Delegates were put in ‘the ast ward position of having to vier against the constitution in OF°° — to support the UFAWU plea.

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