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'WE WOULD BENEFIT’

Victoria urges trade with China

VANCOUVER, B.C.

% Earl Robinson, U.S

- folk singer and composer (Lone-

some Train, Sandhog, Ballad for Americans) will be the featured guest artist at the Centennial Annual Labor Picnic at Confederation Park, North Burnaby on August 10.

Round of free ice cream for kids at Labor Picnic

A Family Day Annual

LABOR PICNIC

From New York:

EARL ROBINSON Folk Singer, Balladeer

Champion wrestlers Family sports National dishes Food galore

Games, ponies, and merry-go-round

AUG. 10 — 12 Noon

Confederation Park North Burnaby

At- a certain time on the afternoon of August 10, all youngsters present at the An- nual Labor Picnic in Con- federation Park will be lined up to receive a free round of ice cream, picnic manager Bill Stewart announced this week.

“We want the kids to en- joy this picnic, and remember it from year to year,” -said Stewart. “That’s why our pony rides and other amuse- ments for youngsters are going to be run at. bargain prices, even if we take a fi- nancial beating.”

For families, a cakewalk should prove a big attraction,

VICTORIA—“China in the past five years has entered into a petiod o development which will of necessity be accompanied by an increase in the standar in that country. The opportunities for more direct trade with China should grow in pt

to the increase in economic wealth and living standards.”

This conclusion appears in a pamphlet published last week by the provincial Department of Industrial Development, Trade and Commerce, and titled “China: An Expanding Market in International Trade.”

“A small percentage gain in per capita consumption by some 630 million people could provide a very large market for B.C. products such as fertilizers, chemicals, pulp, paper, and fish products,” says the government report, prepared by J. L. lAnson, Bureau of Economics and

Statistics.

“Higher standards of lit- eracy will create a greater demand for forest products (newsprint and woodpulp); similarly, greater demands for housing, food and consumer goods will result as per capita incomes increase.

“The indirect benefits to British Columbia of increased trade. with China would be very important.

“Passage of shipments of wheat and machinery from other provinces through our ports would bring additional income. The export industries of two of B.C.’s most import- ant markets, Japan and the United Kingdom, are being helped through increased trade with China.

“The increase in sales en- joyed by these industries benefits B.C. indirectly since such increases create a greater demand for B.C. products such as fish, lead, zinc, cop- per and aluminum. B.C... as an area largely dependant on world trade stands to bene- fit from any overall increase in the total volume of world trade.

“It is obvious that the great need is for increased personal contact between Canadian business representatives and the Chinese trading corpora- tions. Visits, such as the re- cent trip of the Chinese

trade delegates to this coun-.

try, should be reciprocated.

A Soviet technician is shown here instructing

workers in the _ operation

machinery.

Almost every country in the world, except Canada and the United States, have business delegates in China.

“Proof of the value of per- sonal contact is furnished by the recent sale of wheat to China. The successful con- clusion of this contract un- doubtedly was greatly helped by the initial visit of the Canadian trade commissioner in Hong Kong to mainland China.

The report says that op- portunities exist for “con-

In a run-off vote Jack Cody, of the gas workers section, defeated appointed president Art O’Keeffe by 48 votes for the key post of business agent and financial secretary of In- ternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 213. The vote was 1,174 to 1,126.

The local was put under in- ternational trusteeship five years ago and up until the present election all officers were appointed by Washing- ton.

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