Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 7, 1956, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and Dally except sunday by the a Snipes free company limited. 300 Carlton Street Manitoba authorized As second class matter by Post Uffit department Ottawa. I us be editor Victor St ton president publisher l Uxter associate editor r. A Malone Vicc president. We. Lord general manager Winnipeg saturday july .7, 1956 or. Miner and the car or. Roy Milner s announcement on Friday that he will resign As Canada s transport controller at the close of the 195fi navigation season is a matter for regret. Or. Miner pave no reason for his resignation but he May Well believe that five years is Long enough to have served in this difficult and thankless Post. As transport controller or. Miner has been responsible since 1051 for the movement on Canadian railways of Grain Metal pulpwood and other bulk goods. Although each succeeding year brought new and Complex problems he has done a commendable Job. In his trying Post. Or. Miner has been frequently criticized by politicians who had an axe to grind notably Kcf politicians from Saskatchewan and by some farm leaders for what they claimed was his failure to make pro per provision for the movement of wheat in Western can Ada. It now appears from the evidence that or. Miner gave before the agriculture committee on Friday that the move ment of wheat in some parts of the West for a six weeks period this Spring was not As efficient As it should have been. This was caused or. Miner said by the failure of the Canadian Pacific railway to co operate with him in provid ing an adequate Supply of Box cars where they were needed. This is a serious charge even when it is considered in the Light of the subsequent prompt action taken by or. N. R. Crump president of the car. To provide the necessary Box cars after or. Miner went to him personally to complain. By its Cavalier attitude and its evident disdain for the needs of Prairie Farmers the railway has clearly exposed itself to Sharp and legitimate criticism in Western Canada. For this the car can blame itself alone. Prairie farm crisis meetings in Moscow the spider and the Fly the chinese communist government seems now to have almost Leaden footed change of policy on form non. Two years ago the whole emphasis of its Public statements was on the invasion build up. Or. Chou in Lai. The foreign minister filled the air with threats and strove mightily to convey the impression that Only the timing of the assault remained to be decided. But last week or. Chou while pretending that nothing has changed addres sed a very different message to the chinese nationalists. It can be reduced indeed m very simple language you walk into my Parlo said the spider to the from the communist Point of View the new policy has a Good Deal to commend it. Why then have they been so reluctant to test in the Formosa Case the principles of peace Ful co existence which or. Chou Long ago subscribed to in his dealings with the South asians the answer is perhaps that As newcomers to the scats of Power the chinese communists Are abnormally Touchy in matters of sovereignty. Sharing with the nationalists the conviction that Formosa is part of the National territory they angrily refused and still refuse the american demand for a formal no Force pledge in the Island dispute. But they were ready at band eng to offer a general declaration dedicating themselves to peaceful courses in International relations. They have now apparently reconciled themselves in practice to the policy of peaceful attraction outlined by or. Chou. A no one presumably has More to fear from communist Goodwill than Chiang Kai Shek. Communist threats and High tension have served to bind the nationalists to their Leader. But the Low tension of an endless siege is hard on the morale of defenders. The nationalists can no longer Hope for an Early return to the Mainland. Recent events in the United nations have Given them reason to fear that their govern ment will become progressively isolated. Or. Chou quite deliberately plays on this fear with his talk of a Stab in the Back. In the next breath he offers magnanimously to forgive and forget. Those who desert will be duly rewarded Vith appropriate meanwhile any who care to visit on the Mainland will be free to come and go. All patriots communist or Kini mining Are of one did they not in photograph i Roe i Roa altar Jack Ablett a Simy report on rents labor s Tongue in Cheek policy communist pot boils Over by Edward Crankshaw soviet leaders now t Leader who was Lucky to esl have their hands Lull. At Home in preparation for the next session of the supreme soviet the de Stalin izing. Action is for the first time being officially broken to the pub Lic at Large. Outside in at least three of the satellites there is an atmosphere of mounting crisis. The soviet leadership will have to make up its mind pretty quickly whether it is going to persist with the pol icy of thaw in which Case it must prove itself ready to move still farther and faster or whether it will try to put the lid Back on a pot that is boiling Over with unforeseeable consequences. In either Case events will not stand still for them. The Pace is now being set by the satellites above All by Poland and Hungary. For the time being the soviet Union itself is in fairly smooth Watne 1 Ber Alizag in ters though conflict inside the Nas found it higher russian leadership May at any time break out in to the open. But events in the satellites arc moving very fast Cape with his life during the purges arising from. Tito s defection but nevertheless survived and has now become a powerful symbolic figure. If the thaw is to continue if the russians that is to say decide that they must give the poles More Gomulka will soon be in the news again. Meanwhile the Moscow poles Are introducing into the struggle the sinister element of anti semitism evidently in the Hope of appealing to endemic anti semitic feeling in the country. In Czechoslovakia a country addicted to caution and Tion the situation is not yet out of hand. But the Central tie Tovie Union committee of the party re l Ondon the British la Bor party has just announced that in the program which it will Lay before the country at the next general election there will be a proposal for what it Calls the largest Public ownership project yet undertaken in this by n. A. D. M. Indeed. Of immediate Public con Cern is Poznan and the work ers demonstration. But in fact there Are two struggles going on in Poland simultaneously. The revolt against abominable living conditions on the part of this is nonsense hut they the workers living Condi have tire comfortable feeling j Lions forced on them by the that the Bluff will never be Kremlin s demands for excess Ever moves out of them. There Are thousands of mid called. By the Lime labor can cry tact eco Between a third Ana a sly half of the electorate would find their rents put up by re die aged and elderly couples now living in old rambling i peal and they would not i houses that used to Accomma like it. Date their entire families while i Small the party will Call for the i More their entire children get into Power which will not be before 1959 or 1960, Liq rents acts if the tories do their duty Are Likely to have been dead for two or three it is this that explains Why years. And ent irely Danirl rapid were i the labor leaders have agreed if they moved to a to accept their party commit manageable two or i taking Over by local govern room furnished apart i ment councils of ail houses that were let by private land lords to tenants and that were subject to the rent restriction acts As of january 1st, 1956. There Are six Mil lion houses in that category out of a total of 14 million houses in Britain As a whole. The labor document says that a labor government would pay compensation to the landlords but Only Accord ing to the value of the pro Perty As an investment with a rent controlled tenant in pos session account will be taken of the net income attainable by the landlord the condition of the property and its prob Able length of life if it remained in private ment which could be within the clutch of the rent restriction acts they would actually have to pay a far higher rent than for their pre mean Young tee s silly policy report. Then reasoning is a the tories people will be living in these houses under entirely differ ent contracts of rent from those who lived in them on is one. The revolt of the intellectuals against the rigid party leadership is the other. The first economic and Are going to make themselves j list 1956, the base not political although rus Sia and Edward Ochab first unpopular with rent Reform but b labor can hardly deny that rent restriction creates a grave social problem so in they Hope that they might gain from the argument that Public ownership would pre vent you having to pay higher rents to greedy landlords and solve this problem by plan. Ning with the word plan Ning marvellously unde nationalization might then appear As the vague Al Dale proposed in labor s re Secretary of the polish com peal. Labor thinks it will be Able to blame this fact for thwarting its plan to save some people from rent in by implementing pub Lic ownership. For this reason the labor leaders have written a pre face to their policy document declaring that the tory government May repeal or re Vise the rent restriction acts matters of detail May have to be dealt with Al though this document is there fore being widely hailed As meaning that even or. Gaits Kell s labor party still be that formula is meant years past fight together against the japanese invader no signify that the compensation longer does or. Chou talk of running dogs of j would be very measly indeed today he addresses himself to responsible Kuomintang Mili tary and political the nationalist government As might have been sex pc led. Has rejected the communists invitation to negotiate in piping with lofty contempt. But As the months pass nationalist soldiers who still regard the Mainland As Home May be increasingly tempted to test or. Chou s sincerity. As a greater orb attracts a lesser so May the communists Hope by their new policy gradually to draw Formosa into the fold of their chinese Empire. There is not the slightest reason to believe that or. Chou s latest statement will induce or. Dulles to agree to the sino american negotiations at the foreign ministers level repeatedly demanded by the communists. No change in the China policy of the Eisenhower administration can be expected until after the presidential elections. But that policy is not Well suited to the Long haul and it is bound to be weakened by anything that weakens America s Formosa ally. Force has failed the chinese communists patience is far More Likely in the developing International climate to bring them Rich rewards. The things they say at Ottawa a selection front the remarkable records of Hansard j. H. I Cri Ruson Coe everything you get for nothing is not Worth a cent so we All know what it is Worth. A. W. Stuart i have never yet seen the tory that Given rope enough will not hang himself. Vav. B. Nesbitt i would like to assure Hon. Members of the House Well had better quit making political speeches. Donald Carrick the government has car ried out the proceedings in connection with the pipeline including closure in a Way that commends itself to every fair minded person in this coun try. C. D. Howe if every Little twerp excuse me some one who is just out of Kinder during the last election Many labor candidates were impressed by the fact that even their most Ardern sup porters often told them that they did not want any More Why then has the parly issued a state ment of this kind part of the answer is that or. Gaitskell has to show la Bor militants that he is a real socialist who believes in some policies of nationalization and he has been looking around anxiously for any that might have certain saving graces. The saving Grace of this proposal for the nationalization of rent controlled property is intriguing it is that by 1959 or 1960 it will be quite impossible to put it into effect. This is be cause everybody knows that within the next year the tory government will revise or re peal the rents acts which Are at the moment making these six million houses such a so Cial problem. There is no doubt that they Are a social problem. Their rents Are fixed very broadly either at 1939 Levels or else at 1914 Levels plus 40 per cent. This makes them such a bar to live in that nobody i Ter native to a tory policy that i lives in More nationalization is bound to be unpopular and than Ever the most interest might even get Back some of policy document itself but the their old Glamour. The sober Tongue that is so plainly in or labor leaders agree that the Cheek. Sent full size House while of course couples with growing families Are often crammed with appalling discomfort into those same two or three roomed furnished pay ing much higher rents than their parents do for a Large House. Moreover this appalling nonsense of a housing Situa Tion Means that the 1939 level rents paid to landlords Are in sufficient to finance adequate repairs Survey after Survey has shown that rent restricted houses Are decaying into j he w ads Public ownership ing thing to observe is not the slums at an appalling Rale. Sir Winston Churchill s govern ment did introduce an act in 1953 that would allow land lords to add a Little to the rent to meet part of the additional Cost of repairs but the act has not worked successfully. The obvious solution is to repeal the rent restriction acts altogether at any rate for All but the very Slu Miest houses in the Slu Miest districts. There would then be a free Market in housing while rents of restricted houses would Rise sharply rents of i u r n i s hed accommodation would almost certainly fall. It is an open secret that the tory government is bracing itself to do this next year. The reas in Why it has not re pealed rent restriction before is of course political. With six million of Britain s four teen million houses rent res my nist party have come to stand As symbols of oppression and privation in the eyes Oje the workers. The other is political. A bit Ter War is being fought out be tween the polish intellectuals including Many party Mem Bers who Are determined never again to submit to the mental prison of the Post War years and the stalinist die hands grouped round Ochab who Are determined to cling to Power but can Only do so by police methods in the Teeth of opposition. The relatively Liberal pre Mier or. Josef Cygankiewicz seems to be caught Between these fires. The hidden figure of the of to Issue a vicious threat 1o any czech who May think of taking inspiration from Poz Nan. Meanwhile the party and government leadership it is reported have been summoned to Moscow to join the Hun Garian leaders at the Behest of soviet party chief Nikita Khrushchev. Although it is impossible to get any hard facts it seems Likely that the czech communist leaders Are also having to face the sort of criticism from the younger generation which is now assailing their opposite numbers in Hungary. It is known that in the mid dle of june at two widely publicized meetings of the communist youth organization in the most bitter criticisms were openly voiced against Matyas Rakosi hungarian party Secretary who has been trying desperately to Stem the thaw emanating from Moscow. His career perhaps his life depends on this. It is known that marshal Tito expressed in Moscow extreme disapproval of the Atti tude both of the hungarian and the czech higher Leader ship. Now after an apparently fruitless intervention by Mikhail a. Suslov the soviet party Secretary responsible for satellite affairs Rakosi and his top colleagues have been called to Moscow. And it is in Moscow under the Shadow of the Poznan Ris ing that the future of the thaw that is to say of so Viet policy As a whole is position is or. Wladyslaw i at this moment being decided. The old communist Oitim tit foreign serv Lre the struggle for Columbia Power 2 at stake uan Empire s Ransom Ottawa the disagree ment Between the United states and Canadian sections of the International joint commission Over the development of the Columbia River dates from 1951. By Grant Dexter Al Boundary and the Libby used in Canada for the Bene fit of canadians and not be in that year states proposed the United to build a dam on the Kootenay River in Montana near Libby. The Kootenay River of course rises in British Columbia and ultimately flows into the Columbia River. There Are about 50 Miles of River bet Ven the in iteration dam site. But there Are at least Miles of the River North of the Boundary in can Ada. In. Fact therefore can allowed to flow South. They speedily discovered two dam Sites on the Kootenay in can Ada provides most of the 1 Tjai just North of the internal drainage Basin which gathers the which would make the Libby dam horse Power possible. Birthdays August Johnson St. Vital Man. Born Harpling Halland Sweden july 8, 1869. Garten can get up Here and people elsewhere tha cheese from Oxford has Nei j Bander me As he likes i do ther manure nor mouse hair j not in it. J agriculture minister j. G. Ellen fair Clouti Gardiner i have sometimes Milton if the minister i thought if Cecil Rhodes had or. Martin wants to get this j his life to live Over again he unemployment assistance Bill i would not Send Rhodes Tschoi through the House he Jolly ars Over to Oxford today s scripture when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were Learned and ignorant men they marvelled and they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus. Acts at the outset the . Engineers proposed that the Libby dam be planned just As if no Boundary existed. Make the most of the River and Divide the Power fairly after Ward the Canadian engineers went into the Libby negotiations in Good Faith and j the in due course were completed. There would be a Good Deal of storage and flooding in Canada. Tonal Boundary. Dams built at these Points would raise the level of the River and re verse its flow. Instead of flowing South in streams. The gain in Power to Canada on these Rivers alone As a result of such a diver Sion would be about 6 million horse the equivalent of the entire St. Lawrence output from Lake Ontario to Montreal. At this government and Public opinion in the United states became greatly alarmed. The Northwest states face a Power shortage. The Prospect of millions of horse Power being diverted to the United states it would from . To Canadian Power flow North into Columbia Lake i plants was wholly a accept which is the source of the Columbia River. This opera Tion would pretty Well Rule out any Power development at Libby. Certainly it would Cut the Power potential from to about . The Cost per horse Power could be much higher. Further study revealed that but when the plans gassed j a the surplus water of the Exra you cot any storage bins you re not from the engineers to the res politicians the . Attitude suddenly changed. In Stead of dividing the Power the . Proposed to keep All of the Power and pay Only flood damages to Canadian landholders. The Canadian government was thus sharply confronted with the problem of dealing with the . On Power prob lems. Ottawa reacted Strong y the Canadian Section of the International joint commis Sion began to seek ways in which the Canadian Waters of the upper Kootenay could be Columbia including this Koot Enay water could be diverted by Tunnel out of the Columbia and into the Thompson River. The Thompson flows into the Fraser so that this water would then reach the sea in Canada at Vancouver instead of in the United states at As Toria. Engineering surveys have proved that both the Koote nay and the Columbia diver Sions Are entirely practical. And the gain to Canada in general Mcnaughton s phrase is an Empire s the Thompson and Fraser Rivers Are magnificent Power Able. There was of course a breakdown on the commis Sion. The . And Canadian sections could not agree. To avoid an open rupture Between Washington and Ottawa at least before the governments had carefully. Studied the situation the can Adian government last Spring proposed direct discussions with the . Government. The proposal was at once accepted. To be continued remembered words from Childe Harold s pilgrimage by George Gordon lord Byron thou glorious Mirror where the almighty s form glasses itself in tempests in All time Calm or convulsed in Breeze or Gale or storm icing the pole or in the torrid clime dark heaving boundless end less and Sublime the image of eternity the throne of the invisible even from out thy slime the monsters of the deep made each zone obeys thee thou guest Forth dread fathomless alone ;