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NORMAN

would blow over soon, that the whole thing was a “mis- understanding” or an “inad-

vertance.” Canadian opinion on this is summed up in a Stinging edi-

torial in the Toronto Globe and Mail of April 11. It de- clared:

“Canadians will read Presi- dent Eisenhower’s statement on the death of E. Herbert Norman with a mixture of in- credulity and disgust. No one expected the president to say anything memorable on the tragedy, but it might .have been thought that he would at least express some regret that a distinguished servant of Can- ada has been hounded to de- struction by the irresponsible and slanderous attacks of a branch of the United States - government . 2

abe paper called Kisenhow- er’s remarks “impudent and patronizing.” While lauding Pearson for his stiff protest it criticized his plea that ‘‘ev- erything must be done to main- tain and strengthen Canadian- U.S. friendship.”

This “friendship,” tire paper commented, had taken the form over the years “of a long series of insults and in- juries by those Americans in

Congress and elsewhere, who -

hold the actual power.

It must be the most one-sided love affair in international his- tory.”

Pearson, who in a second note of protest threatened to withhold further exchanges of security information, has come under fire for not having vig- orously denied the U.S. charg- es against Dr. Norman as long ago as 1951.

(Canada and the U.S. have an agreement whereby the FBI stations a man in RCMP headquarters in» Ottawa and the RCMP has its man in FBI offices. Lists of “suspects” are thus exchanged — a matter which has been condemned on several occagions by labor and civil rights groups.)

A question not raised in the last session of the House was this:

What connection did Igor Gouzenko have with this af- fair? What were the 33 words that Pearson himself removed from the published record of Gouzenko’s interview with Senator Jenner back in Janu- ary of 1954?

It will be recalled that there

CASE

LESTER B. PEARSON Two protests

was great indignation across the country that the govern- ment should permit a U.S. Senate investigating commit- ting headed by Jenner to come here to interview Gouzenko. It was Jenner’s committee that hounded Dr. Norman.

Justice Minister Stuart Gar- son tabled the record of the interview in the House in 1954. There were 33 words deleted because, Pearson said at the time, “they contained names of one or two persons on whom publicity might have an unfor- tunate effect although there was no new or substantial ev- idence against them.”

The suggestion that there’s more to the case than meets the eye,came last week from London newspaper columnists who say they find it hard to believe that the discredited charges of the U.S.. committee

- alone resulted in Dr. Norman's

suicide leap. in Cairo.

In reporting to the House on his second note of- protest, Pearson denounced the “slan- derous insinuations against the loyalty of a*high Canadian official.” He was applauded by the House when he declar- ed:

“There is a broader question of principle involved, the right,

to say nothing of the propri-~

ety, of a foreign government to intervene in our affairs in such a way as to harass one of our citizens who held a re- sponsible and important posi- tion in the service of our gov- ernment. sg

“Such intervention, I am sure the House will agree, is intolerable ‘and should not take place.”

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HOPES

Union is pressing its plan for immediate temporary ban on A and H-tests, which thus far has been rejected by Britain and the USS.

In submitting the Soviet pro- posal for suspension of all tests for a specified period, Soviet Deputy Foreign Min- ister Valerian’ Zorin contend-

ed: ,

@ Agreement on banning the tests would ease interna- tional tension and remove thfe suspicion caused by the con- tinuing experiments with wea- pons of mass destruction.

© Halting the tests would be an important practical step toward solving the atomic problem as a whole — banning of the use of these weapons, discontinuance of their manu- facture, and their removal from national armaments.

© Halting the tests would remove completely the serious danger to the health of hu- man beings caused by radia- tion resulting from the tests.

Zorin argued that British- U.S. counter-proposals for re- straint in making tests, regis- tration of tests in advance and restricted supervision of tests neither solved the problem of ending such tests nor -elimin- ated their harmful conse- quences. Registration, in fact, tended to legalize the tests.

Throughout the world pop-

continues to grow.

This week it found drama- tic expression in these devel- opments:

@A declaration by 18 West German nuclear scientists, in- cluding four Nobel Prize win- ners, that they will not help produce, test or operate atom- ic weapons. The statement won immediate and wide- spread support in West Ger- many.

@ An assurance by Pope Pius to Dr. Masatoshi, Japa- nese special envoy, that he in- tends to continue his efforts to have nuclear weapons ban- ned.

China, Poland support USSR on H-test ban ..

PEKING

China and Poland issued a joint statement supporting the proposal for an immediate ces- sation of nuclear weapons tests and for other disarmament

proposals of the Soviet Union. ~

The statement signed by Premier Chou En-lai of China and Premier Jozef Cyrankie- wicz of Poland also states that free. passage through Suez must respect Egypt’s unshak- able .sovereign right over the canal,

opposition to the tests -

MAJORITY

VOTE

Teachers may

rejoin

labor

Possibility that the 9,000-member B.C. Teachers Federation will restore its ties with_organised labor is indicated by the outcome of a vote taken among Van- couver elementary teachers this week. Results of the vote, announced on Wednesday, showed 531 in favor

of affiliating to the Canadian Labor Congress, 444 opposed and 73 abstaining.

= Since a two-thirds majority was required to instruct Van- couver elementary delegates to vote for affiliation at the BCTF Easter convention, they will vote individualy on the issue.

However, Al Drew, presi- dent of Vancouver Elementary Teachers’ Association, suggest- ed that delegates should vote according to the majority opinion in their own schools rather than their own personal convictions.

The vote showed a majority for affiliation in “35 city schools, a majority against ‘af- filiation in 22 schools, with four schools ‘evenly divided on the issue.

Possibility that-a motion to affiliate with the Canadian Labor Congress will gain ma- jority support at next week’s BCTF convention is indicated by the fact that Vancouver

_ opinions

¢ elementary teachers have re- versed their position. At last years’ convention, Vancouver elementary dele- gates went instructed to op-

pose affiliation, in contrast to ©

neighboring Burnaby whose elementary delegates went in- structed to support affiliation.

Despite strong support for continuing labor affiliation from Vancouver secondary

delegates, the opposition from Vancouver elementary dele- gates was decisive in defeat- ing affiliation by 304 votes to PTB,

As a result. the B.C. Teachers Federation, which had been af- filiated to the old Trades and Labor Congress of Canada for 13 years, severed its formal ties with organized labor.

A strong factor in changing among Vancouver elementary teachers was -the unsatisfactory outcome of their salary negotiations this year when they asked for $1,100 a year increase and were forc-

ed to accept a binding ‘arbitra-.

tion award averaging $400.

Club. workers end strike

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Vancouver club and cabaret workers, on strike since March 28, returned to work on Wed- nesday this week with a nine percent wage increase retroc- tive to January: 1.

- In addition, they will get a further five cents an hour in- crease next year under a new two-year contract.

Club and Cabaret Workers Local 740 struck two city clubs

with 9 percent increase

en March 28 and five other clubs retaliated by locking out their workers.

Clubs affected were Pacific Athletic, Arctic, Quadra, Rail- waymen’s, West Coast Central, Irish Canadian and Gulf.

Press Club, Elks Club and Moose Lodge accepted the union’s demands and were not affected.

MUSSORGSKY'’S

“Boris Godunow”

based on Alexander Pushkin’s opera

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