labor movement in the field the attainment of peace, the d of human rights; and the " throughout the world. ‘ Said Knowles: “Without } ieee the future does not ex- i eae ae One would question that Ha €ment. But some questions j 8 nevertheless. un hy did Mr. Knowles have fy. 8° to Geneva to make it? é hy didn’t he make it at the i Convention in Montreal? ¢ “Nd why doesn’t he make it Ow, buttressing it with pro- Posalg ; binin or action by the trade Hettocts movement to make it lve? | gaive the officers of the CLC export of policies — one for thot » the other for domestic _ -*b0ses? N After all iti oth it is well to recall P00¢ ; € CLC convention did , i fact have a word to say lisen Peace although 56 locals calline separate resolutions eat. or it. It is well to re- e er this’ and those who | Btinic oe’ for it — the Nistration, bt oh also well to remember Bress e officers of the Con- Stute acquiesced in. a substi- 4eq , Solution which combin- ship desire of the member- hi or Peace with what the istration really wanted Z b jeontinuation of the cold se line with U.S. state Ment policy. ithe S One of the members of Ale / By WM. KASHTAN Addressing the 44th session of the International |, Labor Conference in ‘Geneva, Switzerland, Stanley iN Knowles, executive vice-president of the Canadian Labor | Congress, stated that the major concerns of the Canadian) FRONT |U.S. to bi ame for sun lapse says Senator of international affairs were | — establishment and protection | raising of living standards ‘without peace the future does not exist’”—why isn’t the trade union movement in the very | thick of the fight. for peaceful | coexistence, for universal. and total disarmament, for a cessa- tion of the tests and. the ban- ning of the bombs? Isn’t this trade union business of the |} first order? Isn’t it time, too, for the Canadian trade union move- ment to begin a_ systematic study of the question of Cana- dian neutrality? This issue was peremptorily brushed aside by the Inter- national Affairs Committee which, in its substitute resolu- tion, stated that ‘“‘this conven- tion. recognizes that-Canadians will not: be making a construc- tive contribution towards uni- versal peace by. unilateral dis- armament or by pursuing a policy of armed. or disarmed neutrality.” Canadian neutrality and dis- armament are two aspects of one coin — both leading to- STEACY PROTECTS CHAIN STORE The Hon. N. P. Steacy, B.C. <| Minister of Agriculture, has re- ‘!fused to take legal action against a Victoria chain. store for “loss leader’ selling, in spite of strong demands by the ‘| B.C. Federation of Agriculture. It is charge that the store ad- vertised grade A large eggs at 39c a dozen when the whole- sale price for that period was 44c a dozen. Such practices are prohibited under the Minimum Losses Act. The B.C.F.A. pointed. out that losses from the result of “loss leader” selling must be recovered from the income of the sale of other products, and therefore the consumer in the long run gains nothing by “loss leader” bargains. e B.C. FARMERS NET INCOME DROPS The net income of B.C. farm- ers dropped from $57,100,000 HARRY POLLITT CPC pays tribute fo Harry Pollitt Expressing deep regret at the passing of Harry Pollitt, chairman of the British Com- munist Party, Tim Buck. sent the following wire to John. Gollan, general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain: ‘Deeply grieved at the pass- ing of Harry Pollitt, our friend wards disengagement of our in 1958 to $55,300,000 last country from the dangerous | and comrade of many Years. 1 eave Pe? as and disastrous policies of the | We join with British workers : Cash income of tree and in symapthy at the loss of a great champion of socialism who embodied the finest qual- ities and traditions of the British working class. Speed the day when the cause of so- cialism which inspired him U.S. state department and the U.S. administration; and both leading towards peace. The question is urgent enough. And now it arises with new urgency in face of the small fruit growers dropped almost $2-million in 1959. In most cases the unit price of farm products was also low- er in 1959 than in 1958. G6 sity ternational Affairs Com- trod, Who was’ to have in- tio, 2 the substitute resolu- On Cyne Pecidey ey declared: “We | What © Play it safe.” Phat a he meant by it was Dn tw © Congress, could play Xo Ren tunes simultaneously. gCIQ we Meany of the AFL- men, © the U.S. state depart- Bement to those monopoly Ahe ‘SM Canada who want Way cctinuation of the: cold Bare © Congress could~ de- 4 Wher me too’. And to the Where of Canada and else- MNerec © want peace, the . §s leadership could say Co & A Th s. Want peace.” sting, e fa of “playing it safe” ACO, c) Be in the almost Ptticinan absence and non- Oticens 10n. of the Congress 2 0Ven, {nd affiliates in the Mp 4, "ts that have sprung. Cling peshout the country I or disarmament. is i, Y arent they there? Why Stan in "ade union movement Hive Se aside from such pos- Mocking opments? Who is i ls eir participation? What Ey Knowles means Pssume heen one must ‘union ‘movement;:ean in fact discussions going on between the U.S. government and the Diefenbaker government re- garding the placing of nuclear weapons for U.S. jet intercep- tors at some Canadian military bases. This is the end result of IMPORTS OF AMERICAN FOWL INCREASING Imports of dressed fowl in the first four months of 1960 were four times-as great as for the similar period of last year. B.C. poultry producers have will be taken up victoriously. We extend our sympathy to Marjorie Pollitt and the chil- dren.” Pollitt, 69; passed away while returning to Britain from a speaking tour of Aus- amit WASHINGTON—Once Pres-< | ident Eisenhower had taken | personal responsibility for the | U.2. flights it was difficult te ;see how Soviet. Premier | Khrushehey could have acted substantially differently at the Summit meeting. | Senator William Fulbright, |chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ; Said this in the Senate recently when presenting the report of his committee which inquired into the spy-plane incident just before the Summit conference. “Historically, the deliberate and intential assertion by a Head of State of the right to violate the territorial sover- eignty of another nation has been considered an unfriendly act of the utmost seriousness,” said Senator Fullbright. It was “quite unacceptable to any State to be in the posi- tion in which this Government put the Soviet Union last month.” Senator Fullbright, who, as committee chairman, has one of the most influential voices in U.S. foreign affairs said “It is perfectly clear that the U-2 incident and our handling of it were the immediate cause of the collapse of the conference.” He said the U-2 incident had “resulted in a worldwide loss of confidence in the United States.” charged that in many instances these American fowl were sold with the label ‘Product of Canada.” Neither Ottawa nor Victoria have indicated that they intend to do anything about it, in spite of farmer pro- tests. tralia and New Zealand. lron ore shipments “playing it safe.” But‘the.only way the trade “play it safe” is--when it be- gins. to activelylead the fight ® fo in this country. i J d There i “ tian way, nor can 0 apall increase there be. : : Reports from Japan indicate that the demand for B.C. iron ore in the next few years will rise sharply. At present Japan imports each year 14,390,000 tons of magnetite, the kind of iron ore found in B.C. It is now reported that by 1967, in seven years, Japan will need a total of 28,000,000 tons of iron ore from foreign sources, Japan is now building 40,000 ton carriers to cut freight costs and. inerease the flow of ores to Japan. In a recent let- ter to the B.C. Chamber of Mines Japanese ~traders indi- cated these boats will be used in B.C, trade. If this is understood and ap- plied the situation could well be transformed. In a recent radio talk, Joe Morris, president of the Inter- national Woodworkers of America, called for pressure of labor to end the massive danger now caused by the nu- clear arms drive. “Tabor demands,’”’ he said, “that a more earnest effort be made to construct a world that will provide a saner and hap- pier .life on earth this means a determined effort to achieve disarmament .:.” This approach ought to be desks, “ae does. mean. that translated into action. July 8, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page Photo shows. a_rotary excavator produced in the Soviet Union for extracting coal. by the opencast method. This excavator will mine over 500 tons per hour, even in winter. It is controlled by two operators at automatic control 7 .