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Hurl Charges In Spy Probe

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Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies and the Labor party leader. Dr. Herbert Evatt shouted angr y at each other across the was of Representatives Thursday night about an alleged cash payment to lormer Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov. In one of the stormlest parlia- cntary scenes within memory, vatt thundered that Petrov. who lou t political asylum here last Apr 1, did not hand over documents In hi possession until "he got E5. 611.200) in hard cash,." In a statement a few hours ear- lier outside Parliament. the Labor party ehiet alleged Menzies had made a "deal" for political gain with Petrov, buying the documents in order to influence the Austral- ian electorate improperly in the last general election May 29. lVA'l'1' STAFFEBS NAMED Three members of Evatt's statf were named as sources of informa- tion to the Soviet embassy in the .....m:.......m.......m

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disclosed at a government espion- age hearing last month.

. Menzies began Thursday night's fiery exchange by declaring he had kept silent about the Petrov documents during the entire elec- tion campaign.

A rowdy background of cheers and jcers frequently drowned out the angry exchanges and Menzies twice was reminded by the speaker of the House that his time had ex- pired.

Afterlbeing ruled out of order earlier in the.day during a debate on strengthening the powers of the espionage commission. Evatt step- ped outside to make his accusa- tions against Menzies. He de- manded in particular to know why the "vital fact" that Petrov had been paid was withheld until after the election.

SILENT DURING ELECTION

Menzies retorted in Parliament: "I remained silent from the begin- ning tc the end of the election cam- paign. Now Dr. Evatt in his rhetor-

ical fashion asks why I did not talk about the .65,000, but does not ask me why I did not tell the House of the contents of the Petrov papers. If I had, Dr. Evatt might not be here now."

The prime minister said Evatt's accusations were "hysterical" and mostly followed the Communist party line.

In the afternoon debate, Evatt said the government had unneces- sarily "g l a m o r i z e d and spot- lighted" Petrov and his blondc wife. both of whom sought asylum after working as secret police agents in the Soviet embassy. He accused the espionage commission as well of "smearing the names and reputations of some people connected with the case."

in Thursday's debate, the oil- position leader asked Menzies what financial arrangements had been made for the maintenance of the Petrovs. The premier replied that the answer was "perfectly clear"- they were "being malnalnad" by

Australia.

Communist Party In

WASHINGTON (AP)-The Sen- ate Thursday night voted 85 to 0 to outlaw the Communist party in the United States.

It approved and sent to the House of Representatives legisla- tion making persons who wl fully loin or remain members of the Communist party and commit any act designed to carry out Commu- nist party purposes subieet to pen- alties of up to five years in jail and s 310.000 fine.

Both Attorney-General Herbert

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Brownell and FBI director .l'. Ed- gar Hoover have opposed outlaw- ing tha Communist party at this time. Browneil argued it would un- dermine present internal security laws. Hoover said it would serve to drive the Reds underground.

The measure also would make it illegal for any Communist party n b to hold office in a labor union.

It was put forward by senator Hubert Humphrey (Dem. Minn.) and 10 other Democratic senators as a substitute for an administ .- tion-backed c of ” ' John Butler (Rep. Md.) aimed at denying government sanction to Communist - dominated labor unions.

About a dozen anti-Communist bills have been recommended to Con ess by Brcwnell, with Irel- iden Eisenhower's beckinl- but legislation to outlaw the Commu- nist party was not among there.

WN, CANADA.-v FRIDAY. AUGUST 18, 1954

N. B. Opensl Probe lnio Fish Price War

TREDERICTON (CP) New BrunIwlck's minister of industry and development Roger Pichette has gone to the northeast tip of the province for an on-the-spot per- sonal study of a fish price war wblch has closed seven of eight large packing plants and left 1,000 jobless. Three more small plants closed Thursday. -

The cabinet met on the problem in response to appeals from'thc Caraquet - Lamequc - Shippegan areas and Premier Hugh John Flemming announced the min- ister's investigation Thursday. The N. B. tishermenis loan board has first mortgage on all 48 vessels of the dragger fleet operating out of the north shore ports.

The plants closed Monday after a price war in reverse. with com- peting plants bidding the price of fish to higher levels daily until all major operators but one an- nounced they could not stand the pace. The plant still operating is one of a large U. S.-owned chain, Gorton Pew New Brunswick Ltd, at Caraquet.

FACTORY PRICES RAISED

When the week-long price war opened. north shore plants were paying fishermen Rat cents a pound for large and market (me- dium) cod; Ills cehts for scrod and 255 cents for flounder. Dragger- men found they could get an aver- age ot 3 cents a pound by lending their catch at Prince Edward Is- land or Nova Scotis ports. and the factories began raising their prices to coax the fleet back to the N. S. ports.

As the competition for fish grew keener. Mr. Pichetts announced that fishermen selling .outside”,tne pi-ovincr were ibrefaising their con- tracts with the loan board. which required them to sell their catch to New Brunswick factories: But by then the factories were war- ring with each other, and when the U. 8. company began paying 4 cents for all types of cod and 335 cents for flounder. the others gave up the battle and closed.

As Mr. Pichette arrived Thurs- day nlght. there were indications that the effect of the rice disloca- tion might spread is or afield to plants on the Gaspe coast of Que- bec. with fishermen serving them deciding to run across the Caraquet for tha'higher price.

The packing plants fillet

and

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OTTAWA, (CP)-Prime

liament will not have to step

strike. The

meetings

see them reopen

Monday in Ottawa.

Then he left to continue an in- terrupted vacation at St. Patrick, Que.. expressing his belief a settle- ment will be worked out before the end of next week.

Mr. St. Laurnt appeared to have shelved plans for an emer- gency session of Parliament after talking to the opponents in the multl-million-dollar dispute. He met them in separate sonferences at which he appealed to them to resume negotiations and got their reaction to his own expressed view that there would have to be more compromise.

WILLINGNEBS SHOWN

Spokesmen for the railways and their 146.000 non-operating union employees. summoned here Wed- nesday by the cabinet. imme- diately indicated willingness i0 start new talks.

The company group gave un- qualified assent. The union offi- cials. only a small group from their. general negotiating commit- tee. had to lake the proposal back to a committee meeting in Mont- real. promising to give an answer today.

But the prime minister told re- porters after the meetings that he expects the union answer will be yes.

And Frank H. Hall. spokesman. said:

"When the prime minister asks

chief union

Approv igwls received yesterday om by the Department of s and authority granted pt the tender. of 6188.100 tied by Mathsson

and Macblilian for the construc- tion of the causeway across the North River near Charlottetown. Tenders were opened by Hon. Dougald MacKinnon on July 15 but had to be submitted to Ottawa for final approval by the necessary authority there. owing to the joint nature of the work between the Dominion and Provincial Govern-

freeze the fish.

News Briefs Front

PARIS. (AP)- The United States has submitted the draft of a pro- posed Southeast Asia. defence treaty to prospective partners for com- merit and suggestions, it was leani- ed Thursday.

HANOI, Indo-Ohina. (A P) - Hanoi blossomed with ant.i-Viet- mlnh street banners aimed so ob-

viously at the international arm- istice control commission that they brought mutters of distaste from some Indian members and sneers from the Communist Polish.

ST. HSYAOXNTHI. Que, (CF) - A coroner's jury has held Emile Oatars of Montreal criminally res- ponsible for the fatal beating Aug. 1 of Isidore Morin, 44-year-old farmer of nearby at. Theodore d'- Acton.

MONTREAL (GP) - Ninety air cadets from seven countries left Montreal by plane for their homes Thursday after completing it three- week annual Jnternationsl ex- change.

GITAWA. (OP)-Dr. Donald D. W. Robinson. IV. of Moncton. N. 3. has been a pointed senior research officer at e OsnLsdialr;'ALrmy op-

bsu. it was announced Thursday.

UITAWA. (OP)-The RDA? said Thursday it is exploring the pos- sibility of using plctless Jet alr- eraft as tut to is for guided

monts. It is understood that the Job will be started immediately.

Home And Abroad

Prime left for

uoscow, (AP)-Former Minister clement Attlee Red China Thursday with his British Labor party group after telling Soviet leaders their defini-

tion cf freedom differs sharply from the West's. SOUTH BEND. Ind. (AP) -

Btudebaker workers decided Thurs- day by an overwhelming vote of better than eight to one to take a pay out rather than face a possible shutdown of the l02-year-old firmts huge plant.

WASHINGTON rAPl-'rhe joint congressional atomic energy com- mittee Thursday unanimously ap- proved an administration bill pro- viding for rewards up to 3500.000 for the detection of attempts to smuggle atomic weapons or mate- rials into the United states. It. rc- meins now for Congress to deter- mine whether there is time to take up the bill this session. .

MONCTON (CF) - Watchmaker Peter Giuckman, en route from San Francisco to England in a small single-engined plane, landed here at I p.m. ADT Thursday and prepared to await official clearance for the next lap of his trans- ocsen flight.

LONDON (lleutsrs) - Red- faced London police were seeking a van containing ioo,ooo eigarets. worth about 11,000 that was stolen Thursday as the driver was mak- ing e delivery to a police station

to carried out at the an new weapons range at

f-big. done, the exper- Alto.

canteen. (continued on page 1, col. 0)

'(By John Lonlanc. Canadian Press staff Writer)

day brought railway-union disputants to the brink of re- sumed contract negotiations and indicated confidence Par-

rime minister, beaming after two "satisfactory" V e and Labor Minister Gregg had with the long- doadlocked antagonists, said late Thursday he expects to bargaining early next week, possibly

Minister St. Laurent Thurs-

in to head off a general rail

you to do something, I suppose that's the proper thing to do."

The dispute has been dragging for almost eight months-and there have been no negotiations since June 22.

Mr. St. Laurent saidlall parties would like to see things settled in time to let the union men attend the annual convention of the Trades and Labor Con reu of Can- ada opening at Reg na Monday. Aug. 23.

"We do not visualize any pro- longed negotiations." Mr. Hall told reporters.

The company group had no statement whatever.

All had been called here Wednes- day-in the.government's second direct intervention in the dispute--- is short time after the union lead- ers at Montreal announced a mem- bership vote had authorized them to call a strike to enforce demands for fringe benefits that do not in- clude direct wage increases.

Such a strike would be the sec- ond general ticup in Canadian rail history. The first. in August of 1950. was ended by legislation nassed at an emergency session of Parliament a fte r running nine days.

Mr. St. Laurent has indicated Parliament would be called in again in the event of a strike, but this time in advance of the actual

Oliawa Gives Approval To Causeway Tender: A work i Siaris -vlmmedlslely

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B. C. Salmon Industry May. lose Heavily

VANCOUVER. (GP)-The British Columbia salmon industry mly lose 340,000,000 in wages and pro- duction and its bid to rcllin WOT” markets unless a strike of tender- men is settled within a. week. a spokesman for the operators said Thursday.

"Every day of shutdown brings closer the time when it will no longer be feasible for the com- panies to operate Pmill-Ibiy." the spokesman said. '

"It this dispute goes on for an- other week, the bulk of the good salmon run will be over and by the time the companies could get back into operation it would be a losing proposition.”

The operators issued a 48-hour closure notice Wednesday as a re- sult of the six-day strike of tender- men, who walked off their jobs to back up wage demands.

only 450.000'cases of salmon have been packed so far this year. The industry estimated it needed, 1,500,000 cases to meet world and domestic markets.

Police Investigate ' Arson Possibility

MONCTON. (CPl- The fram- cript has learned the RCMP is in- vestigating the possibility of ar-i son in a 330,000 fire at the inter- provlnclal home July 21.

Wave of Locusts Invades Eritrea

ROME. (AP)-A wave of locusll iivg miles wide and three miles deep has invaded Eritrea. former Italian colony in East Africa. the news agency Ansa said Thursday.

In Asn1ara.'thc capital of the country. streets are plied deep with ll-e flying grasshoppers, Ansa said.

Native aren't entirely displeased. however. They consider locusts.

lightly toasted, as delicacies.

lWest Germanic Labor Crisis Improvesl

sou rrosi FRANEIURT (AP)-West aer- took turn tor.

many's labor crisis a the batter Thursday night.

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eat port. ind utilities workers ended a nine- ay strike by accepting a wage at mhemh an noun. "I . aaa omen

is ruifwe '3. m:xMw a 7 I9?!” CHINE! .0!!! metal workers.

lcom of persons. incnieiag police. were Ainiured ' gb

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all-light out g ; session to get the city and striking us together on a corn- promisa wage agreement. The workers want out Aug. I af- ter their demand for e 1.3-cent-am re crease was refused.

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The strike paralysed city trans-

riot variation, is the i i.eos.ooo; ting gas and water s:1rwvic:s were re-

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The Bavarian we a war seemed closer to peace w en represent- atives of the metal industry agreed to consider a compromise proposal submitt e' by socialist labor min-

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Union leaders already had voted to consider Oechsle's proposal. He had coupled it with an urgent ap- ral to them to reopen negotiations

save the state's economy from further denjege,

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The metal workers demand a three-cents-an-hour increase. Man- agement iefuses to give more than IVs cents. 0echsle's proposal called for e two-cent boost.

Even as labor and management met. fresh riots broke out along the labor front.

The worst violence of the day flared at Amberg. where 20 per- sons were injured when sympa- theiic miners joined strikers in

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pear to be thoroughly enjoying themselves at the Fair and apparently have no tummy worries of the day to come.

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does hold down the enthusiasm of his brother.

Dismiss Case Against Docior And Hospital

SYDNEY (GP) Mr. Justice John Doull dismissed with costs Thursday the 315,675 suit for dam- ages filed by a little Bras d'OT housewife who claimed that Dr. Frank J. MncLecd left a piece of

after an operation.

Mrs. Rachel Petite, 80. filed suit last Nov. 23. slightly more than a year after the operation for a hernia was performed at St. Marys Hospital. lnverness. The action. which sought 315.000 general dam- age and 3575 spec al damages. named bath Dr. Mecbeod and the hospital as defendants. i

However. Mr. Justice Doull threw

Nova scotia community.

RCMP said Mrs. Ads Stewart of Grand Lake was hit as aha at- tempted io cross the brow of a bill by a car driven by Mrs. Phyl- lis Naugler of Elmsdsle near Hall- fax. Mrs. Stewart. had the use of only one eye and was hard of hearing.

AIRMAN SHOT

NEW WESTMINSTER. B. C. (CPW---A 22-year-old airman who was shot by police during a wild car chase July 27. died in hos- pital Thursday. Ronald Byers. a drive -mechanic with the RCAF. was ot through the left lung. He was one of five youths in a car stopped for a routine check by police. When one of the occupants swore at the constables and the auto sped off, the police gave

battling. to keep hundreds of non- strikers from entering an electrical- plant. '

, a road block at so miles an hour.

chase. The shots were fired when the car attempted to run through

maximum iempei-stuns:

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