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i e*tetary *S party, greets Premier Nikita Krushchev, first
f Arushchey°! the Soviet Communist party at Budapest.
‘ an t eo 1 calling that Soviet troops had freed Hungary

oticul azis, said the Soviet government had faced a
TUsh the *clsion in 1956 when it sent its troops to help
wl the ceunter-revolution, but it could not see Communists
: Pandon og Sons of the working class being murdered and

ey to the fascists, nor would it do so again.

URGES CANADA
MEDIATE. H-TEST BAN

i i i letter from Premier

Ott this week Soviet Ambassador D. S. Chuvahin handed a é ‘On
Nikita es External Affairs Minister Sidney Smith which asked Prime Minister John
Diefenbaker to act as a go-between with Britain and the U.S. to support the Soviet decision

to halt testing of nuclear weapons.
Diefenbaker, vacationing in Bermuda,

was unavailable for comment.

Krushchev’s letter reviewed action of the USSR in halting further nuclear weapon tests

Wages are too low
figures prove it

and said:

“The Soviet government calls
on the government of Canada
to support this initiative in
the common interests of all
mankind.”

In Washington President
Eisenhower said that planned
US. nuclear tests will go ahead
in the Pacific this spring and
summer.

Senator Estes Kefauver (D.
Tenn.) proposed that the U.S.
should announce a suspension
of all future tests after the
series in the Pacific is com-
pleted. Suspension should be
coupled with “a new and vig-
orous plea to the United Na-
tions.for nuclear disarmament.

“In the eyes of much of the
world the Soviet Union has
gained a great propaganda vic-
tory by its decision to stop
the nuclear tests,” Kefauver
said in a TV broadcast. “It
saddens me to see us lose the
respect of so much of the
world by not having been the
one to take the first step.”

From a meeting of scientists
convened by Cyrus Eaton at
Lac Beauport, Quebec came a
statement from Professor Leo
Srilard of the University of
Chicago, one of the men who
broke the secret of the atom.
He criticized the U.S. State
Department for questioning
Soviet good faith in banning
tests: “Unjustified distrust is
responsible for far more mis-
fortune in the world than un-
justified trust.”

Brock Chisholm of Victoria,
former director of the World

Continued on back page
See H-TESTS

“Rver wonder why it’s hard
to make budget ends meet?”
asks the Labor Statesman, or-
gan of Vancouver Labor Coun-
cil, in its current issue.

“The answer is simple,” says
the union paper. ‘Average
weekly earnings and salaries

FAMILY

are too small to meet today’s
cost of keeping a family.”

Proof is provided by using
family budget figures from
the Financial Post of February
1, 1958, and average weekly
wages and salaries at Septem-
ber 1, 1957, as issued by the
Bureau of Statistics:

BUDGET

(Yearly spending of an average city family —man wife
and two children)

Housing, furnishings, heat, etc
Food ie (Weide go a eigenen a Pe

Clothing

Recreation

Gifts, donations
Personal taxes

TODAY o Bees

Auto and other transport —__-
Medical and personal care ____

Smoking and beverages ____-_

Continued on back page — See LIVING COSTS

Ottawa bars entry

of Soviet MS serum

A bar on entry into Canada of a Soviet multiple sclerosis
serum is arousing the anger of many of this country’s 25,000
victims of the disease — particularly those who ordered and
paid for shipments of the serum on the understanding that it

would be allowed in.

For the past year shipments
have been entering Canada,
and some Vancouver patients
have been receiving treat-
ments by local doctors and at
Vancouver General Hospital.

Action of the drug division
of the National Health and

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Welfare Department in cutting
off entry without any notifi-
cation has caused hardship to
some of these patients, who
had found the drug benefi-
cial,

Canadian doctors all agree
the serum is’ harmless, and
may prove helpful to some
victims of the disease. Soviet
doctors claim good results ara
obtained in a third of the pa-
tients treated, fair results in
a third, and no change in con-
dition in the remaining third.

M. S. sufferers are urged
to send their protests to
Health Minister J. W. Mon-
teith, Ottawa, Canada.

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