é Peaceful view of Mt. Fujiyama, Japan, which recently erupted violently. Japanese -are said to have been surprised on learning it was only the volcano and not a B-29 bombing raid. SSR To Build 500 Mile Gas | Pipeline, Saratov To Moscow MOSCOW —The Soviet government has launched a new one-year plan to build a new reserves of gas have been Giscovered. The result will be new comforts for homes that have endured severe cold and want during the war, and great upsurge of industrial power for Moscow. Saratov was high on the prior- ity list of the German command in 1942 as they thrust toward Stalingrad in an effort to out- flank ‘Moscow from the south- east. While the generals on both sides pored over military maps of Saratoy and Stalingrad, Soviet scientists, engineers, of- ficials and shockworkers of the gas industry worked at their maps of the same zone—indus- 4¥ial battlecharts which regis- tered the gains and losses in the quest for fuel. _ Aithough, only a few. score miles away at Stalingrad, the Wehrmacht had launched a most powerful onslaught, the gas -workers at Saratov kept at their work. In 1941 a gas fountain had een discovered near the city 4 fa = Greetings ... from P? TOSI & CO. Importers of Pure Virgin Olive Oil and Fancy Groceries 620-624 Main St. PA. peel) ‘ : Mill-Run Fir, 3530 <= HONEST VALUE FUELS 2239 CAMBIE — FAir. 0469 LOANS Jewelry, Radios, Furs, Guns and Valuables. B. C. COLLATERAL LOAN BROKERS LTD. 77 E. Hastings PA. 2959 on Diamonds, Silverware, Al mighty gas main or pipeline over 500 miles, railways and highways that lie between Moscow and the Volga city of Saratov, where crossing 90 rivers and five lakes and 26 Saturday, December 30, 1944—Page 15 Lists Needs Of People n Italy LONDON.—(ALN)—A mem- orandum reviewing the condi- tions and citing the needs of the Italian people in the face of a harsh winter has been presented 1o Premier Bonomi by the Italian General Gonfederation of Labor (CGL). The causes for the pres- ent conditions, the memorandum states, are the continuous in- erease in cost of living, the lack of food and unemployment. The CG demands outlined in the memorandum are : (1) ac- tion by Italian and Allied autho- rities to increase bread rations, particularly for workers and children; (2) a system of direct supply of all non-rationed foods and clothing, through the exten- sion of factory steres and con- sumers’ cooperatives, in order to curb the black market; (3) a flexible scale of wages to be in- troduced as of January 1, to be adjusted periodically according to living costs; (4) Payment of an extra month’s salary to all salaried workers and 192 extra hours to all industrial workers, based on total earnings including bonuses; and extension of this'payment to include agricultural workers; 5) revision of recent grants to yielding 700,000 cubic yards of gas daily. At times during the battle of Stalingrad almost the entire civilian population of Sara- tov was working 24 hours a day to build an emergency pipeline to the town to overcome the acute fuel shortage. Soon the city’s power station and many of its factories were working entirely on natural gas. Today 60 industrial enterprises in Saratov have been converted to gas. Since the battle of Stal- ingrad, 19 gas fountains have been brought into operation in the area of Yelshanke, a village 10 miles from Saratov. This year gas workers found new deposits near the villages of Kurdoom and Teplovka.- Local experts state that the two fountains re- . Union and that reserves in this vegion are more.than enough to supply the great industrial and civic economy of Moscow as well as Saratoy and other towns. It is believed that the gas main from Saratov. to Moscow will Erovide the Soviet capital with fuel at half the cost of coal from lower cost than oil or wood. is reported that the heating power of the Saratov natural gas ig much higher than the gas now used in Moscow. Moscow civic leaders are now setting up com- mittees to plan the re-equipment of furnaces and boilers in flats, houses, factories, offices, stores bath houses and laundries. WAND STUDIG “Anything With a Camera” 8 BE. Hastings St. PAc. 7644 VANCOUVER, B.C. HASTINGS BAKERY 716 EAST HASTINGS HAst. 3244 Let Your Baker Bake for You Purity — Quality the Moscow basin and at a much It government employees, which yently isesene dato Saseyeton the CGL claims were outdated 2 h 5 are the richest in the Soviet | Dy S82 Bie UASy Were hy xaso effect; (6) Extension to bank and in- surance workers of a 50 percent inerease in family allowances; (7) granting of the cost-of-living indemnity to pensioners and the sick; (8) payment for the two days off; (9) immediate execu- tion of worl which is urgent in giving employment to other man- tial and white collar workers. Commenting on the demands, CGL secretary Guisseppe Di Vit- torio stated: “Political changes must not cause us to lose sight of the living conditions of the working masses. Hor us, who are responsible for the defense of the workers? vital interests, there exists, independently of any poli- tical considerations, the problem of finding a way= of alleviating the hard lot of the workers.” The CGT proposals, he added, are es- sential “to avoid a permanent race between wages and prices— a race which the WOERSS always lose.” come OLD ESTABLISHE REGENT 394 West Hastings Street to the D RELIABLE FIRM TAILORS EVERY GARMENT ST RICGTLY UNION MADE | : ( GREETINGS to ] Gor « Good Hei a j DR. W. J. CURRY Suit or Overcoat | | LET A UNION MAN j HELP YOU With Your Insurance Needs Nothing too large or too small Phone PA. 6526 or Write Se MARSHALL A. JOHNSON 791 Dunsmuir Street Vancouver, B.C. (An active member of the United Office and Profes- sional Werkers of America, G.1.0.) Continued from Page 9 The- democratic coalition for which we strive on the home front, must correspond to the democratic coalition on the bat- tle front, i.e. the mobilization of all anti-fascist forces for victory and progress. INE@TEEN forty-four was a great year of achievement. The sum total of our country’s war effort, and the objective of a higher standard of life through far-reaching social legislation, lcom big in the record of 1944. 4 Nineteen forty-four also had its off days; its Tory putsch to seize power on the conscription issue, and drag Canada back to the chaos of 1917. Its hesitant steps to grant labor a partner- ship equal with labor’s contri- bution to the nation; its failure to give a lead as the senior mem- ber of the British Common- wealth of Nations in the vitally important prerequisite of demo- cratic freedom—*non-interference ated countries—these and more are some of the omissions of a ereat year. They are tasks that face us in our salute to the New Year. - As we take our farewell of 1944 and its historic indication of the high ideals and cause for which we fight, the Labor-Pro- gressive Party reiterates its con- viction in the concord of Teheran as a guide to 1945 and total vic- tory, and a path—the only path along which mankind will find peace, progress and security which is man’s birthright, and which are embodied in the Four Freedoms of the Atlantic Char- ter. Our 1945 resolve must be— make the principles of Teheran and the Atlantic Charter the ideal of the common people and a bond between us and Canada’s fighting men. They fight for the realization of these ideals—we fight to preserve them. Hail 1945! + N. S. Gill Fuel Co. New West, 810—FR. 3231 Mill Run Slabs, Edgings, Tnsides, 2 cords $10 No. 1 Fir Sawdust if, al STYLES VALUES QUALITY Always at the Home of UNION MADE Clothing — and Friendly Service. * Hstablished for. Over 40 Years 45 EAST HASTINGS ST. 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