8 Continued ge Halibut set sail for the -banks and start production -under a quota that is set icintly for Canadian and. American fleets, antagonism that would endanger the future -welfare of the halibut industry might develop. Cooperation between the two countries has been re- sponsible for rebuilding of one of the most important fisheries in the world. - Several days ago both U.S. and Canadian halibut men had cecided to begin fishing, when it became apparent that the OPA would not change its ruling. At the last minute, however, the U.S. fieet was again held up when officials of the Fishermen’s Union of the Pa- ecifie requested buyers to make the maximum price the mini- mum to be paid. This move, however, would be illegal under the Sherman Anti-Trust law, fishermen were informed by Washington. As the situation stands now, “the fishermen have won nothing “by the tieup except assurances from OPA that an investigation into the question of prices will “be made, and possibly some ac- tion taken. Angry protests against pro- posals that the halibut season be closed until July 15 were this week registered by fishermen and vessel owners. This type of “squeeze-play’ would produce a chaotic condition, declared union representatives, since it would disrupt the entire B.C. salmon season this year. Half the 500 vessels kept inactive work as salmon packers after the haii- but season is closed. A very late halibut season, beginning, as the two governments suggested, on July 15, would mean that these boats would not be available while salmon were running. The proposal was withdrawn, pending negotiations which re- sulted in the present agreement of fishermen and vessel owners of Canadian fishermen and ves- sel owners to release the halibut fleet this week. 2 Hastings Bakery 7i6é EAST HASTINGS HAst. 3244 Let your Baker bake it for you! Purity — Quality s, be 3 £5 A Lebor- Progressive Candidate (= For = Vancouver East FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY will be chosen at a PUBLIC Nominating Convention to be held at EAGLES HALL 756 KINGSWAY Thurs., May 25 8 p.m. Principal Speakers: NIGEL MORGAN : LPP. Provincial~ Chairman MINERVA COOPER PP Provincial Secretary Deepsea _ LLM MMT Victoria Greets ‘Adopted’ City On Liberation VICTORIA, B.C. — This city, which “adopted” Sevastopol some months’ ago, last Friday celebrated the liberation of the Soviet Black Sea port. Soviet flags were ordered flown in front of the city hall by Mayor Andrew McGavin, while school children were given the afternoon off. Victoria City Council wired greetings to the Soviet govern- ment and the Sevastopol muni- cipal administration. A Soviet city may also be “adopted” by Vancouver if plans Giscussed at an inauguration meeting of the Vancouver branch cf the National Council for Ca- nadian-Soviet friendship, held in Hotel Vancouver this week, are realized. “The organization has in mind Cities such as Odessa and Ros- tov,” said Leon J. Ladner, K.C., chairman of the Vancouver branch, “but we have not made any decision.” = SNOT Continued Housing In preliminary discussion, the . number of homes to be built was set at 1.000. While this would not Completely solve Vaneouver’s housing crisis, it could g0 far towards solving the problem. So acute has the situation hbe- come that the Vancouver alder- men are now reported to be con- sidering the use of army tents to house homeless families. But Vancouver's Non-Partisan City Council, notoriously op- posed to-any housing plan~ that will cost money, has learned that it will be expected. to pay part of the expense involyed in any “tent city” so that action even on this admittedly unsatisfactory _ measure has been delayed. Families who need homes un- derstandably are not greeting the prospect of tent cities with any show of enthusiasm, although for entirely different reasons. A tent is no place to bring up children, and. most of the fa- milies facing eviction have small ehildren. Toronto Parley TORONTO—A city-wide con- ference on housing will be held here as a result of steps taken by Toronto Citizens’ Forum. ~The Forum meeting, which packed the University of Tor- onto School Auditorium, was ad- dressed by ex-Alderman Stewart Smith, Conroller R. BH. Saunders and H. Manning, president of the Ontario Property Owners Asso- ciation. : The meeting also adopted a resolution endorsing the Curtis housing report prepared for the Dominion government and urged Ottawa to proceed with it im- mediately as a wartime project instead of waiting till the end of the war. e HOY’S RADIO ELECTRIC SALES & SERVICE 605 E. Hastings HA. 1660 Specializing in Radio Repairs of all makes. Large stock of parts. Radio repairs specialist, Hoy Mah. * vision of _ they Continued Fascists the grounds that Lorimer had undergone a conversion by -July, 1942, while Farr had -been given his freedom be- cause he had been beaten up by his fellow internees - for his views on the war. Several facts stood out in the minister's explanation. Lorimer was released as far back as September 1, 1942, and Farr in October 1943, yet it was not until last month that the public received any intima- tion of the releases in the form of the minister’s reply to a ques- tion asked in the House by Fred Rose (PP, Montreal-Cartier). Fred Rose vigorously took issue with the policy shown in the releases. He could see no reason for the release of Farr and Lorimer, he said, declaring the treatment “of our fascists here’ was a test of our atti- tude to the external Nazi enemy. St. Laurent revealed that about 300 persons were now in- cerned, excluding those of Jap- anese origin. Of these 160 were Canadian citizens by birth or naturalization, and 141 were of German origin. _.Q@ne hundred and twenty of the latter had been born in Canada or were naturalized. There were two of Ttalian citizenship, and four naturalized W&talians. There are enly 31 members of the fascist National Unity Party still in- terned including Adrien Arcand. It is apparent from these figures that anywhere up to 75 percent of all interned fascists and Nazis have been released to date. The parilamentary debate on the subject was only one ex- pression of the grave public ap- prehension that has been caused by the releases and which has been indicated by many resolu- tions of protest. Federation Asks Holiday Revision All affiliates of the Shipyard General Workers’ Federation have signed a joint application to the War Labor Board for re- holidays-with-pay clauses, so that men who have worked 300 consecutive Gays will be considered as having already earned their holidays, Malcolm Mcleod, president, reported this week. z Under existing agreements, workers with 300 days credit are said to “qualify” for holidays. The proposed revision “earn” them once 300 days are put in, that is, they will then be eligible for back pay or holi- Gays for the previous year. Unions, LPP Aid Community Drive NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. — The drive for funds to aid the North Vancouver community eenter project is receiving the full support and aid of all or- ganizations represented in the community, including the ship- yard unions and LPP. “The trade unions are fully in accord with the project,’ states Norman MeSween, Boilermakers business agent for the Boiler- makers, We feel that it will fill a long felt want. We will give all the assistance we can.’ Worth Vancouver LPP Branch, an active participant in this unit- ed community endeavor, will en- ter a float in the May 24 parade in support of the project, carry- ing the slogan, “Unity builds the Community. Books and People by Kay Gregory Wrest people have their own ideas about what shoul done after the war, and businessmen are no excep America Unlimited, by Eric Johnston, president of United States Chamber of Commerce and self-styled. cay ist, has some very enlightening proposals—and possibly prising ones to those skeptics and defeatists who are vineed that we must inevitably fall headlong into a depre, immediately hostilities cease. : While some of Johnston’s statements are liable to 7 one’s hair stand on end—he says, for instance, that “bee we live in a capitalist society, all Americans are capita precisely as all Germans and all Russians are collectivis that they live in a collectivist society .. .’—he neverth -~ gives six vital factors which he feels will aid America, incidentally Canada, in the transition from wartime to pi time economy. He points out that the United States at the end oj “war -will have the greatest plant capacity in her his greater sources of raw materials, natural and synthetic, | ever before, the greatest number of skilled mechanics technicians eyér available to any nation. Further, there be a tremendous backlog of accumulated demands fo. types of commodities, the people will have large savings which they will want to satisfy their needs for all Igini| . goods, and there-will be an economic situation in many ¢ states _ tries requiring the direct aid of the United States. 4 : we one can dispute the theory that there are savings being accumulated by the people, nevertl it is a fact that after the war the people will want not those things they have been obliged to go without durin war, but also things formerly beyond the reach cf ma us which are nevertheless generally recognized as part oc! standard of living on the North American continent. | That capitalism realizes this and is seeking a Wi) provide means to maintain purchasing power is very ey in Johnston’s book. He declares that cooperation will b cessary between labor and management, business and ernment, industry and agriculture, if jobs and a secure {_ are to be assured the 10,000,000 returning soldiers and discharged as a result of the closing of war plants 7 United States. Perhaps Johnston will alter his views on the Soviet ¥ after he has completed his tour of that country, for whi mee as week on the personal invitation of Premier J Stalin. CBD 2 ON belongs in the same class as Henry Kais | a growing group of industrialists who realize the continued existence of capitalism will depend on its abil furnish something like full employment in a postwar 1 As Tim Buck pointed out in an article in last month’s Na: Affairs Monthly, “On the basis of the Teheran agret | there is now the possibility that capitalist economy w_ able to avoid a crisis of the sort which followed the first” war.” “The Teheran agreement opens up the perspective the productive power of the United States, Canada and B being put to work when the war is over, producing equit and supplies for rebuilding the devastated cities, 8 systems, industries and farms of Europe, parts of the § x Union, and vast areas of the Far East. It opens up =< spective in which, for the first time in history, the mi would cooperate in making good the devastation of 4 war. It even brings forward the possibility of extendin advantages of industrial civilization to backward areas out Subjecting them to imperialist exploitation .. - “Tf the policies indicated in the Teheran agreemel carried through and full employment is maintained, the gressive movement will be able to win far tee reforms. There ean be no separation of the two.”