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EIBERAL L BLAMES UNION LEADERS FOE UNEMPLOYMENT

Rllssia Refuses To Move Army From Austria

Postal. customs Employees In ch'town And S'side To Go (in 40-llour Week

m'rAWA. (CP)- Mail handlers and carriers. customs and immi- gration officer! and operating staffs of other government do- partments in 180 communities will mm a five-day. 40-hour week April l.,At present they work 44- hours.

The list of communities was an- nounced Tuesday in the Commons by Finance Minister Abbott.

He said the change is being made in communities where the 40-hour coal: is the prevailing practice in prlwte employment. However. operating staffs of all departments will be granted the shortzweek wherever it is in effect for cleri- cal employees. E

Clerical employeu were granted the 40-hour week in certain com- mllnltics last fall,

special Exceptions

Mr, Abbott said, however. that the 40-hour week can not be put lm effect for federal employees in llospltlll! and other health sta- lions. fire protection services, penllentlaries, security and watch- man services, farms. fish hatch- eri-s. nntlonsl parks and historic

sites. light houses and heating

staffs.

Mr. Abbott said that the civil service oommiuion will make a continuous study to determine if additional communities should be put on the shorter work week. Communities which would qualify were those where more than 50 per cent of the industries or office workers were on the five-day 40- hour week.

The list of communities an- nounced included:

Newfoundland

Bell Island Wsbans; Corner lrook: Gander; Grand Falls; St. John's.

Nova Beotia

Glace Bay: Halifax-Dariimouth; Inverncu: New Giaqow; New Waterford: North Sydney; Plctou; apringiilll; Btellarton: sysney Ml- ries; Sydney-Polnrldwsrd; mn- ton: o.

Prince ldward Island

Charlottetown: Gummerside.

New Brunswick

Bathurst; Campbellton: ham: Edmuridston: Fredericton: Morieton: Newcastle: Baekvilie; saint '-t'--Lancaster: St. Stephen: Woodstocls.

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liussia's Trade Offers Seen Propaganda Move

By Harold Morrison lF':llmdJ':ln Prue Hi-I1! Writer) OTFAWA. (OP)-some federal ollzcmln suspect that m y 's lat-

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GIN! is say the govm-n- mon: has decided to consider Ill Sovlrt trade overtures I.I.jE1'ilLi.llO unlll proved otherwise.

That was the initial reaction TUFSGF-5' to the Soviet embassy anlloliilccment that a special at- tarilc will .bo posted to the embassy in an attellwt to stimulate trlde between Canada it Russia.

so far there have been no of- flrirll trade talks between this two collnlrirs, but D. B. Chiuvshin, new soviet ambassador. told newspa- per men Monday night tilt llusla is ready "right now" to start "CS0?-iiltionb for trade involving ships, textllu and many other commoditiel. l

llou'9Ve.l'. SIIDDICIOII WED U90!- ed nf'tr it became known tlmt a few hours before the press ossi- imnrv. two well-known west coast loll-wing unionists, William Hiaw- W and Ed White. called on Fish- erus Minister Sinclair. They are members of this Bhdpylrd General Workers Federation of Btiuil Columbia (COL).

'1'll”s' were reported to have de- mnndod fodelal subsidies for can- adlrs merchant marine. Federal Nllerts noted that ambassador Chlililhill mentioned 0 ' ' Oun- lliinli ships. .

Che-per llsswbero

"Ncvt to the United states. it costs more to build ships in cgn. lldn than any other part of the world,” said one high-placed of- flrlal, "Why do the ltustians want to buy ships from Canada hen they can get than oheapu gig. wticre.

"It certainly seems libs a Manda move. It appears that Stewart and White win go back to Vancouver and make

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Coming Events

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HANOI. Indo-China. (A!) - Prsnch Union forces today ssissd the offensive in northwestern Indo-Chins. Troops 4,000 to 5,- 000 strong broke out of Dlen Blon Phu in attacks on three Vletminli "elite" divisions long threatening that embattled fortrem.

The trench claimed the Oom- rnunlst-lsd rebels suffered heavy. unoountad losses. They described their own as "appreciable."

Union treops.,knocked out many rebel sun ernplaoementa in the surrounding hills and forced-the Vietmlnhwithdraw nine miles or more from Dian Bisn Phu. They, captured rtwo rebel hill positions in fierce hand-to-hand combat.

Dian nlen Phu is the last French stronghold in the Thai country no miles wmt of Hanoi. ,

"My aim is to destroy tha.e.n- alny," Gen. Rena Oolny. Prench commander in northern Indo- Ohins. declared.

listlrsil ssckville industrialist lliss

5ACKV11.Ll:. N. 3.. (CF) - Oherlss W. Fswoett. ll. retired in- dustrialist. died in hospital here Tuesday. His father founded the lhwcett Foundry. and the younger P ett was general manager whai the company was amalga- mated with Enamel and Heating Products Limited '00 years ago.

Mr. Fawsett served two terms as mayor of lackville. Ba and his sistsr eshblishsd Fswcett Memorial Hall at htount Allison University

Wesiemiowers Tum Down New Suggestion

I! DANE. DI LUOI

3113-I-IIN. (A.P)- Rumla refused Iiialn Tuesday night to free Aus- tria from Red troops in In in. d0Pendence treaty but offered to talk in 1055 about military with- drawal.

The Western powers. iqether wlth Austria. turned down Foreign Minister Molotov's new suggestion. But the Big Four foreign mum- ters' conference agreed to devote another session 'i'lurrsday-adjourn. ment day-to the Austrian issue.

7011180 Secretary Eden, State Secretary Dulles and Foreign Min- ister Bidault attacked the Molo- tov amendment as making no real difference to his original ocmipg. tion proposal. This would leave "001! of the four powers in Aus- ml '3 1008 as Germany is divided between the last and West

Attributing his military demands of Austria to the anti-Soviet. threat he sees in the European Defence community with west Germ-n troops. Molotov lashed back at the Allied ministers:

"It seems to us that if this EDC treaty is not ratified in 1954 it will so into the ash heap and we are not sorry about that"

Postpone Withdrawal

Molotov demanded that the West sanction Russia's continued oc- cupation of Austria in these words'

"In connect! with the delay of the conclusion of a peace treaty with Germany, the governments of the United scam, vnlteii Kingdom and France and the Soviet Union shall have the -right. after the coming into force of the treaty with Austria, to postpone. tem-

P porarily the withdrawal of their

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(By WILLIAM ITEWABT) (Canadian Press Staff Writer) BAHREIN. (OP) -- Rims Min- ister St. Laurent arrived to spend the night in this Persian Gulf principality before embarking on the Asian portion of this. world tour tndliy.

lsllreln. an island off the north-asst coast of Arabia. was roughly the half-way point in the Canadian Prime Minister's flight from Home to his next port of call. the Pakistani capital of Karachi. c

Shaikh Iaaa Ibo lain-ian Alkhal- ifa. eldest son of lshrein's ruler. greeted tile Prime Minister at the airport at 9:24 p. 'm. on his arrival after an uneventful flight from items. where he spent three days crammed with official functions

and eetinga with governmenti leaders. . Premier -Mario scelba accom-

panied his Canadian guest to Rome's airport on his departure Tuesday morning.

At Karachi. meanwhile, prepara-

complstss liATil coarse

Mr. Ian R. Stirling (above) for- merly of this city and now of the Department of Cltisenshlp and Ian-

migration, .Ottawa. this month completed 4th Course of the North Atlantic Treaty organisa- tion Defense College. The course is usually taken only by high ranking service personnel. but some civilians are accepted. The latter are generally top rankl person- nel designed for imports t posts with the N.A.'r.O organisation. Among the subjects studied are the makeup of N.A.T.O.. the Sov- iet bloc and general economic problems. The courses in the "De- fense College are of six months duration. Mr. sterling is expected to return to Canada this month He was one of five Canadians at

C 0' Alla saaaien in-Park:-g

Si. "Arrives At Bahrein In Persian 0 Gulf

tlons went ahead for the visit of the St. Laurent party. The Cana- dian Prime Miniser is to spend two days in Kareem and then will fly over 2,000 miles of Pakistani territory with stops at Peshawar and historic Khyber pass. meeting theh tribal chiefs of the country's mountainous northwest frontier.

President of Sr. F.X. To Retire March 31 h I

ANTIGONISH. N. 8.. (OP) - Msgr. P. J.lNicholeon. president of St. Francis Xavier University for the last nine years, announced Tuesday night he wouldt retire March 31 and be succeeded by Ray. 3. .7. Bomers. vice-preside-nt.. -vMsgr. Nicholson. an outstanding eduoetlonist. physicist and Gaelic scholar. said he has been appoint- ed pastor of st. Joseph's parish in Sydney. .

He gave no reason for his res- ignatlon, but the prmldential term

Jlgb generally considered a six-year

Propose Sala

roman. (Reuters) '-an all- psrty committee proposed Tues- day that tha salaries of British

laimsmciv of their father.

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Bandit Dressed As Cop Escapes With 311,000

Mr. Danlslfasld. "but then the '

snernbers of Parliament should be

ry Boost For

British Parliamentarians P 1

.............m.............. increased by 50 per cent to 51.300 a year.

In a report to Parliament. the committee recommended also that I , ' plan ” 'fbe' ed .for present and future mem- bers. The committee said expenses ilicurrod by most of the mem- bers of Parliament mowed their present paymmt of 11,000 aanu-' ally does not enable them to ketp

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case to take it to the Thai ease contained H.000 in and 02.01 in nos-ssgotisbli Ions. has said the man hel her the club on the 3155 omwmm ins ror"a"d- "u a you. .. -rioisnlarosulo N ihn algal myself." me said. said. an I'll take it.' no is and said. To geisg. "

themselves and their families in ” clrcunltalices: But it opposed my tax relist

concessions that would" put morn- belo "of Parliament into a different other at

salarisswere last

this point where, mfiorrnsr pur-

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be recommended

Urges (iov't Guarantee Small Loans To Fishermen

OTTAWA, (OP)--A New Bruns- wick Liberal suggested Tuesday the government should guarantee small bank loans to fishermen who need the money for repairs to their boats.

A. Wesley Stuart. (Charlotte), made the recommendation after saying that the situation of pruni- ary producers - such as farmers and fishermen - had been neg- lected during commons debste,on mounting industrial unemploy- merit.

He said incomes of ffishermen- like those of other-primary prod- uccers - had been dropping in

the last three or four years and,

needed some help to get ready for what is expected to be a good fish- ing season.

They needed help in the next two or three months. Flserroen were not looking for a "glft' 'or I "handout." They paid their bills when they had the money.

Gusrsanteed Loans

He recommended the govern- ment set up a system whereby small loans by banks would be guaranteed Jtishennen did not need large loans. because their needs were not great.

Government help had been given to other primary producers. Weat- em farmers. for example, had ra- ccivcd 006,000,000 from the govern- ment some years ago.

He had read that overproduction was the cause of unemployment. That was "the greatest fairy tale ever told." -Canada hld a huge surplus of wheat. yet '10 per cent of the world's population waa-un- derfed. There never was over-

bn of apsnsoods. p -. 0' problem 'WIs"on0' of all: log off of union dues. The ruult was

ltribuuorl- thelprig tag was high. while industri ' wages rose steadily in the last few years, in- comes of primary producers had steadily decreased. I 4

Sharp Differences

Sharp differences in United States and Canadian prices for the same article were a subsidy to Canadian lnddustry. An automatic washer-drier recently was advert- lsad in Detroit at 3800. The same day ,in Windsor. Detroit's Cana- dian neighbor city, the article was advertised at 0689.

He wondered when the people of Canada will "rebel" sgslrist high price tags. Thousands of cans- dians wanted cars. television sets and radio sets, but the price tag said . "No."

when prices brought in line with those in the United States. he added .there will be less unemployment in Canada.

Police Quickly iiuell lilois In llalian Strikes,

noses. (AP) - Oomrnunlata on strike rlotcd in Italy Tuesday but were quickly subdued in rough encounters with police ordered into action by the new government.

The demonstration! '"Qbvloualy aimed at banning the fledgling regime of Premier Marlo Decibe- laft one man dead. scores injured and more than too in jail.

Although the red--bossed strike was centred in name. the sharp- mt. rioting was In Milan where Communism ' ' t club-wielding police killed a 30-year-old worker taking part in an unauthorised de- monstratlon.

Police said the victurl had a weak heart and presumably died of a heart attack. The interior ministry in Rome aulmorted this

claim.

'rheatritelnP.ornewssa!a- hour protest for higher wages mashed by some minor violence. The situation draa:tl.sed the ma- Jsr problmns

of lba'a week-old rQime- acmmunlmi and par hike demands .

Ionian callieilc g Clisreli I Destroyed

M. ..3RUNO ..Dli.. IAC ..S'l'. JEAN. Que. (OP)-l-'irs'dastl-oyed the 54-year-old Roman F thelle church in this small community. about It mllh nertlroast of Chi-

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Commons Debate On Unemployment is Continued

CYPPAWA. (OP) -- A Quebec Liberal Tuesday blamed irrespons- ible labor leaders for much of the current unemployment.

If .unlon leaders were more sens- ible, said Jean Francois Pouliot. Temlsoouta, there would be fewer unemployed.

”Quite often the union leaders are most undemocratic." he added.

"They do not consult the mem- ber of their unions about the course to be followed. They impose their own views upon the men and the men have to suffer because of.the decisions made by s srns.ll num- ber of men who receive large sal- aries and who try to exploit hu- man credulity to its limit.”

Debate Continues

Mr. Pouliot spoke during the second day of I Commons debate on unemployment that was start- ed Monday by two motions of want of confidence in the gov- ernment. A Progressive Conserv- ative motion called for s parlia- mentsry committee to study the unemployment problem and recom- mend methods to meet it. A CC! motion called for direct govern- ment action.

Latat unemployment figures showed 524.000 persons looking for jobs through the national employ- ment servico at Jan. ill. The bureau of statistics estimated the number of Jobless at 260,000 on Jan. 23.

Mr. Poullot. noted for his out- spoken comments and sharp wit, said the strike of miners at Nor- arida, Que, is due to labor leaders who "h.ad.t.o show their useful- ness to the men."

"The only thing they have done is to cause them trouble and make them suffer for many months."

Mill Closes Dawn

The company had beerrwnlliigi to give the men. pay increases but the umonirsc mum on a-check-r

a. strike which started last August and depleted ininue' sarinn of the last several years.

The workers had been paid a "pittance" from union funds. he said. He hoped they would not have to pay it back.

In his home town of Rlviere du Loup. Que. he said a pulp mill employing 40 to so. marl closed be-

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-B. C. Revenues Ar Record High

VICTORIA. (clilmprltlsh Col- umbla government revenues reached a record high of 3161.765.- 53C in the fiscal year endlnif March 31. 1953. it was disclosed in public accounts tabled at the opening of the legislature Tue!- dsy. General expenditures were S153.-100.000. leaving a surplus of 58,364,625. '

Largest Oil Tanker Launched In Britain

WALLSEND. England. (Reuters) -A 38,m0-ton oil tanker. largest ever built in Britain, was launch- ed Tuesday by the Duchess of Kent and named World Harmony. The vessel will join the tanker fleet operated by independent Greek shlpowner Stavros S. Nimr- cbos. Her oil capacity is 11,500,000 gallons. .

Syd Kennedy

Awarded Bursary HALIFAX. (C?) ---S. R. (Syd)

Kennedy. the CBC's Maritime

program director, has been award- ed an Imperial Relations Trust bursary for study in Britain with the British Broadcasting Corpor- ation, the CBC announced Tues- day. Mr. Kennedy will fly to Lon- don Feb. 25 for a. three-month

BBC staff training and television COIIPIO.

DONDON. (Reuters) - British manufacturers will be pamitted to !XD0I'i UP to i200.000.000 (U600.- Minlll worth of goob to Roda

imslaly half the modltim listed by Rude. n a schedule prosenhd 1&0! to a

mutimi. 'niasaay..See.ria vessels sum of British llsnumhsers and alolll chlrch orjenu were and Iuainennm Ilemov. save . . .9. TM rchalrillt worth ---------- small lmia asoriin L5! dial on in list of "Static"

last Eus villg.i.&Vl.,::s.ilon aw esfarsalaanaiiunnara .

Derick xsstnccst-Amory. minis- tc assists at aiiebmsd at trade,

Mortgage Lenders critical

or llollsing Legislation-

OTTAWA. (W)-- 1110 head of Canada's leading group of mort- gage lenders said Tuesday the gov- ernment's mortgage insurance scheme provides no complete pro- tection -to the lender.

in fact, the housing legislation involves "real and substantial ad- ditional risks" without compensat- ing returns to the men who put up the money for mortgages.

J. T. Bryderi. president of the Dominion Mortgage and Invest- ments Association. told the Com- mons banking committee that when the word "insured" ia'ured in con- nection with the legislation, "it' might be assumed that there is no risk involved."

"This is not the case under this bill. As it stands, there can be virtually no instance where the mortgage claim in the event of trouble can be satisfied without loss to the lender where the insur- ance offered is relied upon."

Reduce Coverhgc

-Mr. Bryden underwent day-long committee examination as the leg- islation. to insure mortgages, per- mit banks to enter the lending field, reduce down payments and extend time to pay. went into its second week of committee scrutiny.

Further witnesses, representing co-operative unions, the Bank of Canada and chartered banks, will appear later before the commit- tee. Mr. Bryden. repnesentlng an as- socintion that lncludu in its mem- bership 24 life insurance. 15 trust and seven loan companies. said in- creasing the loan ceiling and with- drawal of the government's Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation from the. lending field will reduce the amount of homes which can be financed by his group.

The association's” membership was sincerely lntlliltvdvin solving: Carlsdajs housing shortage. 'nley'

0uesii9nsBi . Mr. lilcllham lie - Federal Elymenis

UITAWA, Feb. 16.. (special) - Detalls of Federal government payments to the Province of Prince Edward Island under agreements and statutory legislation are be- ing sought by J. J. xiekham. Liberal Member for Rings. in a series of questions inscribed to- day on the House of Commons order paper.

In his questions which will be answered by different government departments in the course of the next two weeks. Mr. Klckham asks:

"1. How much money was paid by the Federal Government to the Province of Prince lidwsrd Is- land in necticn with the Fed- eral-Provinoial tax rental agree- ments each year goes the coming into force of the agreementsf.

"2. How much money did the Province of Prince Edward Is- land receive each year since 1946 in connection with the social sc- curlty program. including old age pensions, family allowances. blind pensions and so forth?

"3. How much did the Province of Prince Edward Island receive by way of assistance in new con- stnrctlcn. repairs and equipment to hospitals in each year since i046. including all federal public health grants?

Mr. Klokham intimated privately that thanks to -the friendly un- derstanding existing between the Provincial Government of P.ll.'.l.

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-and the Federal Gcvvernrnarit. the

Province has done very well in the matter of federal suhidies and a a, He feels. however. that the precise .amounts of federal grant from the departments of finance, national health and wel- fare and others. should be a mat- ter of public record.