me

on

ban

—

a eS

a il a ie il E
TRTSUINIS:

vest restcasent

bsaseuizil MUU aaSaes cast peeahianany Muenunuselllhe

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1952

End of the 81-day strike of
Vancouver painters came this
week when employers agreed to
grant an immediate 20-cents
hourly wage boost, plus another
10 cents next January and im-
portant concessions on out-of-
town expenses,

Painters will receive a $15 in-
crease in the out-of-town living

TLE calls
for probe

of firings

Vancouver and District Trades
and Labor Council (AF'L-TLC)
is asking the Trades and Labor
Congress of Canada to investi-
gate the firing of six employees
of the Toronto Symphony So-
ciety after they were denied ad-
mission to the United States.

The action, taken Tuesday
night this week when Carpenters
Local 452 raised the issue, came
after a circular had been read
describing the dismissal of the
musicians as a “blatant example
of totalitarianism, a challenge
to democracy.”’

Meanwhile, in ‘Toronto, the
Daily Star notes that “the pres-
tige of the TSO (Toronto Symph-
ony Orchestra) is being jeopard-
ized in Canada and the United
States” by actions such as the
- arbitrary firing of the six mu-
sicians. The paper also scores
U.S. immigration officials for
maintaining secret border-cross-
ing lists.

In an editorial carried in its
issue of August 26, the Daily
Star commented that the ques-
tion, when it was raised by Dr.
R. S. K. Seeley, provost of To-
ronto Trinity College, at a
Couchiching conference had
touched off applause and discus-
sion which ‘indicate that wide-
spread feeling exists among
Canadians on this matter.” Seel-
ey announced that he wé6uld
boycott TSO concerts next sea-
son,

“Pe nipln von 9 1S NS
Gasca? = Chenge year store, ay
ood wy THE HUBS

:
i

fo) — (+). () — {.} ——____ (.} - («]

45 E. Hastings

City painters end
long’ strike after
major gains won

The HUB has sold
Union-Made Men’s Wear
and extended friendly ser-
vice for over 50 years,

“Lt

2o——10 0 -—T0F10

allowance until January 1, after
which the contractors will pay
the men’s entire expenses on
such jobs.

Painters agreed to settlement
terms at a Sunday afternoon

meeting and contractors finally -

accepted the terms on ‘Wednes-
day morning this »week.

The interim agreement brings
brush painters’ wages up to
$1.90 an hour and spray ‘paint+
ers $2.| After January 1 rates
will be $2 and $2.10.

Other news on the trade union
front:

@ Victoria carpenters, on
strike for close to three months,
voted almost 100 percent this
week against accepting a con-
tractors’ offer of, $2 an hour.
Vote was 294 to 8 to hold out
for another dime.

@ Strike of 40 Vancouver
film workers remains stalemat-
ed.

@ A strike of 600 Vancouver
piledrivers was averted Sunday
when a 10-cent hourly hike of-
fered by General Contractors’
Association was accepted. Other
concessions on out-of-town board
were included in the agreement,

Clemens still
unable to talk

It may be several weeks be-
fore Clarence Clemens, Negro
longshoreman who was the vic-
tim of a beating at the hands of
two Vancouver city policemen
July 19, is recovered sufficiently
to press charges against the of-
ficers concerned. After © six
weeks of treatment in General
Hospital, Clemens is still unable
to talk, and can only move one
arm slightly.

The League for Democratic
Rights and several trade unions
have demanded a public investi-
gation, and when Clemens is
able to lay charges it is expect-
ed that the police commission
will be forced to order a probe.

The LONG and

the SHORT of itis...

Vancouver, B.C.
1010

|

The Soviet Union is building for peace, not war,
apartment houses, like those shown here,

In every Soviet city great blocks of moder
have already been built or are now under construction “

part of the huge plan to give the Soviet people a more abundant life»

Continued from page 1

Soviet plan doubles
ups school, hospital building:

Fulfilment ‘of the fifth five-year
plan will be a big stride for-
ward in the development from
Socialism ‘to communism.”

The draft directives call for
a total increase of industrial
output for ‘the five-year period
of about 70 ‘percent and an an-
nual increase of production of
the»means of ‘production of
about 13 percent, and of ar-
ticles of consumption of about
11 percent.

In 'the new five-year plan per-
iod the Kuibyshev hydroelectric
power station on the Volga, with
a capacity ‘of 2,100,000 jkilo-

“watts, will be put into opera-

‘tion as well as a number of
other big hydroelectric stations.

All kinds of new technical de-
velopments are outlined, such as
building great heating centres

-in towns to supply domestic

needs of hot water and steam,
tapping of new oilfields below
the surface of the sea, and gasi-
fication of the shale deposits in
Esthonia to supply the capital,
Tallin, with cheap gas,

The nation’s oil refinery plant
capacity is to be doubled, crack-
ing’ plant capacity is to be in-
creased 2.7 times, production of
‘ocean-going itanKers and cargo
vessels almost 'trebled.

The ‘heavy emphasis that is
being laid on housing construc-
tion is shown ‘by plans to double
supplies of (building materials
and to treble output of furni-
ture. Other signs of the ener-
getic’ measures taken to meet
‘the growing requirements of the
working people include encour-
agement to be given ‘to food and
various light industries.

Tremendous increases in ag-
ricultural production are sched-
uled. They are to be achieved
mainly: by application of more
Scientific farming methods, in-
cluding tapping of new sources
of irrigation and general appii-
cation of new irrigation sys-
tems.

It is also intended to complete
mechanization of main field
work in collective farms, and
the labor-consuming operations
in the other branches of farming
to be extensively mechanized.

The plan envisages an‘ in-
crease in grain yields by from
40.to 50 percent, of cotton from

50 ito 65 percent, of sugar beet

from 65 to 70 percent, of grapes
from .55 ‘to 60 percent, of tobac-
co from 65 to 70 percent and of
tea by 75 percent.

The nation’s trading commun-
ity is called on to prepare for
an increase in the turnover of
retail trade of some 70 percent
by 1955 over ‘the 1950 level.

Refrigerators, radio and TV
sets, vacuum cleaners, washing
machines, bicycles; watches and
other such consumer goods are
to be made available in much

greater quantities to meet the °

public increasing demand . for
such articles.

A’ sixty percent increase in
the national income is expected
by the end of 1955. The promis.
ed further rise in living stand-
ards by lowering the prices of
consumer goods is to raise the
real value of industrial workers’

“and employees’ wages by at

least 35 percent over the 1950
level by 1955, to provide the
farming community with a 40
percent increase of the real
value of its income in cash and
kind.

The state increases its con.
tribution to social insurance
funds by some 30 percent,

The volume of the State capi-
tal investments in ‘housing con-
struction is ‘to tbe doubled while
Continued aiid is ito Ibe provided
to workers building their own
houses with state loans. In. the
field of public health more ‘hos-
pitals, Sanatoria, rest homes,
Kindergartens and nurseries are

to be built.

More doctors (plus 25 per.
cent), extended sports facilities
and extension of secondary
school education to all dwellers
in large towns, with the promise
of extending it 'to smaller towns

and country districts too in ‘the °

next five year plan, are sched
uled. This last measure will re
quire a substantially greater
number of school teachers and
the building of nearly three
quarters more schools than in
the previous five year plan.

Such, in barest outline, is the
fifth five-year plan. “The pres-
ent (fifth) five-year plan,” the
draft states, “once again demon-
strates to the whole world the
great vital force of socialism,

housing,

the fundamental * superiority of
the socialist system of econo?
over the capitalist system. T
five-year plan is a plan {0%
peaceful economic and cul
construction.” And then the

statement goes on with a remilr
der that the plan will help

wards the development of e¢
nomic relations with all 1ands
willing to trade on a basis %
equality and mutual advantas®

ee
a

Eye Witness Account off
My Visit To The
Soviet Union

An ADDRESS

By

oO.

on0 10

ox (010:

—=—omer———0r

$=) — (>). (. — (Cs)

(MRS.) OLIVE
WILKINSON

‘Member, Anti-Fascist
_ Committee

a

Saturday, September
8 p.m.

LOWER HALL
PENDER AUDITORIUM

Collection Only

Auspices: Canadian Soviet-
Friendship Society

:
|

‘Golden Gate Cafe

136 E. Hastings St.
“OPEN FOR SERVICE”

| sae a i area a

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 5, 1952 — PAGE 12