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One of 'the most: interesting . meetings we ever attended, was: the. farmer-labour conference, held last week in thé MacDonald Hotel at Edmonton, Alberta. Over one hundred leading per: sonalities of Agriculture and La- bour had convenediin closed ses- sion to freely discuss. their wor- ries, problems and. headaches. . After some preliminary feel- "ing out of each other's position, the two groups soon settled down to an objective and very matter of fact discussion of the.relation- ship of farmers and labour, The first conclusion reached: was that prosperity of one group was dependent on prospetity of the other, It was agreed that the considerably reduced purchas- ing: power of the farmers was at the root of increasing unemploy- ment in industry and that both . reacted on each other. = Two' Panels The meeting further agreed that there were certain spheres in 'which - tension between the two groups could develop which in the interest of both should be prevented, e.g. in food process- ing plants at.times of price or . wage negotiations. In view of the limited time at the disposal of the conference, it was decide panel groups, eaeh to discuss:one of these subjects for one hour .and then to reconvene the plen- | ary 'session' 'for an exchange of views. : The majn result of the discus- sions was a recommendation for _ PLAIN HORSE SENSE _ By KE (BOR) VON PILI ~ tablished: to break up into two J a closer cooperation between. or- ganized labour and organized producers on a local level, It was found that worker and producer would "fare better if they would coordinate their efforts to im- -prove working conditions and in- crease' financial returns. Cooperative Action It was reported by representa® tives from British Columbia and Nova: Scotia that in these two _ provinces starts had already been made - and - joint committees es- As the first field in which attempts at cooperative ac- 'tion: should be made, the dairy and the fruit and vegetable can- ning industriés were mentioned. It was decided to contact the labour and farmer organizations concerned and to work towards the establishment of farmer- labour coordinating committees in these industries, on a regional basis. : The meeting also found that one-of the main reagons of mis- ' understandings between the two groups was lack of information. To close the gap, a permanent committee was appointed which brought in as its first 'recom- mendations a) the exchange of speakers; b) "the: holding of reg- ional conferences at regular in- tervals. Hopefully we-'shall watch for further developments. This col- umn welcomes criticism; con- structive or destructive, and sug- gestions; wise or otherwise, Ad- dress all mail to Bob Von Pilis, Whitby, Ont. < Britain Moves Out Of Famous Canal ¢ Just, below Port Said a giant statue of the French engineer Ferdinand = de: Lesseps towers above thé salt marshes of Men- zalash. Beyond to the south a ribbon of "his handiwork -shim- mers in the distance until swal- lowed' in the desert haze. Millions upon millions! of tons of shipping carrying uncounted weilth have threaded this link between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea in the 85 years since the Suez Canal was opened. On Nov, 12; 1869, its inauguration was celebrated with Oriental pomp and pageantry in the pre- sence of many crowned heads, who were: far more numerous then than now. That epochal event marked the fruition of one of mankind's oldest and boldest dreams, The canal-had its forerunners in ancient times, First the Pharaohs and later the Romans devised and operated a circuitous waterway between the seas via the Nile: delta, but this filled up \ with sand long ago. The idea of a direct route across the Isthmus: of: Suez was first seriously con- sidered by the Venetians in hopes of relieving the growing. pres- sure' of competition from the Atlantic seafaring nations for the . trade and wealth of the Orient. Realization of this project might' have: saved: Vénice from decline and ultimate downfall. Napoleon revived the plan and actually had ground surveyed. But not till the second half of the 19th century did another Frenchman. actually start dig- ging, having first cut his. way _ through political and financial obstacles quite as formidable as the natural barrier he proposed to pierce. ar The completed canal" was. not only a tribute to de "Lesseps' vision, courage and sheer persist- ence. In a broader sense it was a triumph for privafe initiative, as the capital which financed the venture was subscribed by pri- vate. investors, who thus became COPS HAMBLETONIAN CLASSIC -- Light rig: wheelin Re "SWAN LAKE"--Phillies' Herm Wehmeir does an imitation of a swan any danseuse might envy, tossing Dodgers Roy Campan- ella's grounder to first for the out at Ebbets Fleld. Flop which : followed throw wasn't in best ballet tradition. line, taking the first heat at the Hambletonian Stakes at Goshen, second heat and with It victory In the 106-thousand:dollar classic Time for the race was 2.02 4/5, Princess "Snow Fooling; It's Hot--Ten:year-old Brenda Eyler took advan. tage of the heat to open her own business (selling snowballs). She got the snowballs right out of her mother's freezer, and they were going quickly at five cents each. First in line Is Jimmy Bush, while brother Chet, 2, waits his turn. De 2 b shareholders in the: canal com- It was a battle of wits and in. pany. genuity between rival techni While the company has re- mained in charge. of the canal, "Operation Tug of War" for con- trol of the canal zone started the day after it opened. It culminated in September, 1882, when British troops stepped ahsore at Ismailia, midpoint on the canal, where they have remained ever since. During more - than threescore and ten years of occupancy, though always looked upon.as an uninvited intruder by the Egyp- tians, Tommy Atkins in his khaki became as much an*integ- ral part of the local scene as local - inhabitants™jn their flapping galabeas, as dusty mud villages, scraggy wind-scorched palms, "shifting sand ridges, and ships gliding through the canal at a top speed of six _knots, writes Edmund Stevens, Chief of the Mediterranean News Bureau, Christian Science Monitor, 'Ismailia was transformed from just another mud village into a restful oasis of western civiliza- tion and amenities, with spacious billets for officers and other ranks, - clubs set in cool green lawns in the shade of date palms, and tennis courts and cricket grounds for - those 'steadfast Englishmen who refused to let sweltering desert heat cheat them of their accustomed forms of exercise. Only once during World War I did- fighting actually reach the canal when a force tried to capture the rail- way bridge at El Qantara. They were repulsed by an Anglo- Egyptian force under Allenby. Canal traffic was interrupted for one day only--the day of battle. - While the Suez Canal has played a: major role in almost | every war "since it was opened, it achieved. its culminating stra- tegic importance in World War II. During. the' period when: pas: -|. sage through the western Medi- terranean was virtually elosed to Allied ships - other: than heavily armed naval units, supplies and reinforcements: for the entire Mideast theatre, including British forces in the. western desert, came by the reverse route around Africa, up the Red Sea, and' through the canal to Port Said and Alexandria. Axis power in the area concen-- trated its main efforts on the canal, which was within con- venient striking distance of its bases in Dodecanese and Crete. Night after night planes came -.over and dropped not bombs but mines "into canal lanes, hoping vessels would hit them and sink, thereby blocking the channel. g behind, Newport Dream crosses the finish Newport Dream also won the . Del Cameron was the driver, Rodney finished: 2nd and Vicki Hanover placed 3rd: Turko-German. i . enforcement cians.=--After every raid defend- ing. forces would drag the canal for mines. Those which floated on the surface were compara- tively easy to detect and deto- nate, Accordingly, attackers resorted to mines which would first go to the bottom and lie there for a period until sweeping operations had ceased. Sometimes, especially in the early period of the war, . they scored successes, and. the canal was clogged for as much as 10 days. : """ But as the war dragged on the defenders improved their detec- tion. "In the final period of the North: African fighting there was virtually no interference with canal traffic, for by then the Germans badly needed thelr planes: elsewhere, ' Because of its vulnerability to nuclear weapons, never again is the canal likely to play as im- portant a strategic role as it did in World War II. This, in fact, is' one of the main arguments used by the British. Government to_ justify the present agreement to 'pull out. full story. In the past, in peacetime no less than in war, the Suez Canal was the vital crossroads of the British. Empire--the gateway to India, Burma, and other lands now independent. Today the empire as such no longer exists. New relationships -between Britain and its former colonies and dominions no longer require this form of physical con- tact to enforce and reinforce "them. Thus Britain's basic ex- cuse and incentive for - holding onto the Suez Canal is no longer 'valid, 'especially in the face of rising Egyp#ian nationalism, During the next few months until they go the British officers and troops can hold social gatherings in Ismailia without posting sentries "with poised tommyguns to guard all ap- proacties lest some local terror- st try to toss in a hand grenade or spray the interior with bullets. The state of siege is being called oft, the barbed wire disentangled and roadblocks removed. : Sol- diers and civilians alike sleep easier. But nobody, including, the British © themselves, geriously think they, will ever come back, even through the loopholes pro- vided in the agreement--in case of attack on the Arab states or on Turkey, For once the troops have departed, the remaining in- stallations and equipment soon will be disposed of by that. size- able population which lives en- tirely by pillage, mainly of British Army stores, and which even while armed troops 'were there had developed their profes- sion to a fine art. lian' maintenance crew can per- form its job without powerful machinery, for which no provision has made. INGENIOUS . The Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York, has an inflexible policy on 'pictures of nude subjects, If photographers -enclose such pictures for finish- ing, the company refuses to re- turn them lest they become sub- Jeet to Federal Post Office cens sure. Transmitting indecent pic- tures is a crime, A man. In Bridgeport sent in some studies of nudity and, with + them, a brace of carrier pigeons, 'It you're the good sports I think you are, you'll develop my- pic- tures" The pigeons came home two days later with the pictures. While this is largely "1- -valid, it .by no means tells the ° Under-such conditions no civi-.. been' Cold, Bleak -- And Rich! 0, give me a home where the caribou roam, And the bear and the Eskimo play; . Where never is heard nat almost never -- a word, And it stays below zero all day! That is the kind of . country in which history is being writ- ten just now. The country le bleakest Labrador. This is the kind of history that can sneak ~ up on a world staring at battle- iflelds: and conference ' tables' be cause. the event which heralds it is not spectacular, On Saturday, July 381, 1954, the freighter Hawaiian cast: off from the little Canadian port of Seven Islands on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River head- ed for blast furnaces.near Phila- delphia. She was loaded with 60 per cent assay iron ore. : That ore had: been dumped in her hold by machinery as modern as that which loads Mesabi ore at Duluth, It had come by rails laid over 360 miles of sub- Arctic wilderness at the rate of a mile and a quarter a day by crews' which at first were sup- plied by air. It was dug by power. shovels out of a "range" estimated to contain 400,000,000 tons of the stuff. oat The Hawaiian. is the first of what is expected to be 400 such ° ships, next year -- 600 a year thereafter. They can sail. not only down coastal waters to eastern furnaces; before long they can. steam right up the coming « St. Lawrence Seaway and unload their cargoes at Cleveland, Gary, and other steel centers -- less submarines in event of war. And that isn't all.. North of whence this ore came -- Knob Lake -- in even colder, bleaker, more treeless country, lies an- other "find" "right on top of the ground" near Ungava and Payne Bays. This ore isn't so rich, It's only being prospected thus far. But there's lots of it -- 600,000,000, perhaps several bil- lion, tons of' it. All of this is tough country for men --- even for Eskimos. But Eskimos haven't had steam heat, and electricity, and fly sprays, and air lifts up to now. And the men who work these mines and railroads have. In history the centres of grav- ity move toward centers of re- sources as well as of population. In fact, there has always been a link between the two. Who would dare say, now, that what - is going on amid the tundra of Labrador will not measurably change' the face of the future? -- From The Christian Science Monitor. HAPPY ORATOR After a long and boring series of after-dinner speeches, the audience was just about ready to charge the platform en masse, The chairman of the meeting rose, and drew a spatter of ap- plause. "I'm sure you wouldn't want to leave," he said, "before _ hearing a word from our East - Coast representative, Ficklehammer." 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