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petition charge

out of a letter from National Jewelry Workers hassle concerning International Brotherhood

of Electrical Workers, Logal 213 developed in Vancouver Labor

Council on Tuesday this week.

Jewelry Workers, in a letter to council, referred to a peti-

tion signed by 321 electric workers charging undemo- cratic practices in the union, and supported the workers’ re- quest for action by the VEC.

Executive recommendation was to take no action, on the ground that it was an internal matter of concern to Local 213 only.

This storm of protest.

immediattely raised a

Bill Stewart (Marine Work- ers) declared that Local 213 had not held a union meeting in three years, and continued:

“Corruption doesn’t always

“an running away with $100,- 000. It can mean running away with a nickel. It can also

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mean refusing a worker the right to express his opinions.

“Labor must act to clean out corruption from its own house. If the executive feels this matter is too big for it to handle I’d suggest it be referred to the Canadian La-

bor Congress.”

VLC vice-president Tom Als-

bury left the chair to take part in the ensuing debate, and charged the Jewelry

Workers with making “unsub- stantiated insinuations.” He was supported by Norm Cun- ningham (SIU) and Fred Al- lison (IBEW).

Stewart challenged the chair on a matter of procedure, and a standing ,vote had to be taken, in which the chair was upheld by a narrow margin. More debate followed, enliv- ened by gavel-pounding, until finally the executive’s “no action” recommendation was carried by 62 to 41 on a*stand- several dele-

ing vote, with

Lummi wins canoe race

The Stommish from Lummi, Washington, won by a length over the St. Theresa from the Squamish tribe, North Van- couver, in the Indian War Canoe race watched by thou- sands at Deep Cove on Can- ada Day.

In third place was the canoe St. John from Burrard Re- serve, North Vancouver, which swamped but got back in the race after a bailing job and finished ahead of Warrior from Point Grey.

The event was sponsored by United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, which also provided the cash _ prizes awarded to winning crews.

.§. China ban

facing collapse

J.S. State Department policy with respect to China is being rapidly doomed

by the inevitable march of events.

Recognition of China by the U.S. will come in the next several years. The riots in Formosa constituted the rea next year present U.S. policy of isolating China is going to start to collapse.

These are the predictions

of William Worthy Jr., re- porter for the U.S. Negro newspaper Afro - American,

who visited China last winter in defiance of state depart- ment orders to him and his paper to abandon the trip. These on-the-spot impres-

sions, widely confirmed by diplomatic observers pose the necessity for Canada breaking with the U.S. policy of non- recognition if this country

too, is not to be faced with a

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LETTERS

“We danced a little bit and then stopped.

“On returning to our dormi- tory we were ordered to bed at 8 p.m. The girls began to say their prayers. Mrs. Jones gave Mary Kalmakoff a strap then all the girls began hol- lering at her an she brought Mr. Walker in and he gave 78 straps to the dorm girls, that means three on each hand to the dorm girls, and we started crying and in about five min- utes Mrs. Sinclair came in she started laughing at us.”

Other girls told substan- tially the same story in their letters, All expressed a desire to go home.

Larry Popoff, as befits a growing boy, had something to say about the food situation.

“Mom and Dad, please bring us some buns and cake which you will make, I hope. Please make some tarts and cheese. We are hungry here every day. We eat potatoes every dinner and supper. In the morning they just give three pieces of toast and some cereal, sometimes we get some bread and jam and cocoa and boiled eggs at supper .. . I hope we get out of this jail soon..1 pretty near forgot how my home looks like.”

collapse of policy.

This point is made in an letter to. Prime Minister Diefenbaker issued this by the LPP national ex- exutive,. urging expansion of

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ularly with India, Ceylon and Pakistan and making “Can-

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