Letter from Britain Extract from a letter sent to a Telative in Vancouver by a young Aberdeen housewife, who has always beena strong Labor Party supporter, but who writes of the present Conditions in Britain as follows: *** Glad to say we are all well enough Meantime, despite the awful _ Weather — deep snow and awful frosts — but we are still getting a bit of fire; although everything is so darned expensive nowadays in this Country, we are lucky to get that. No doubt you will have been reading about the latest ‘“‘squeeze’’. Oh dear! We had great hopes for this government but I doot, I doot (doubt for the English). What a mess We are in. I think we must admit, though it sorely hurts us, that these last few years of Labor government has been a complete fiasco. The latest gimmick is that people are working extra hours or going to work earlier to get this country back On its feet. I may add, they don’t get Paid: This is all voluntary — “Backing Britain’. You will be reading about it: all wearing little Union Jack badges! All this is Supposed to be keeping prices down. Yet there have been over 200 increases in separate grocery items this last week. God knows what the old folks are going to do. And now they are to put back prescription charges on all medicines, and we are paying through the nose on tax. Of course the old argument is that they are clearing up the mess the Tories left, but how long doesit take? All wages have been frozen, that is no increases—the unions are going berserk — strikes — all the lot; and on top of all this, foot and mouth disease is killing off thousands of cattle: "They. can’t seem to get it under control at all. Happy New Year!” OVALTINE CAFE 251 EAST HASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. QUALITY SERVICE Workers Benevolent Assn. Of Canada Progressive Fraternal Society Caters to all your needs in the Life Insurance field LIFE INSURANCE ENDOWMENTS PENSION PLANS WEEKLY BENEFITS Apply to: B.C. office at ~ 805 East Pender St. or_ National Office at 595 Pritchard Ave. Winipeg 4, Manitoba > ee ce ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee we we oe fee ee ee ee ee fe ee re em ee me en eon Vietnam L. A.,° Vancouver, writes; The more one reads of Johnson’s various “‘peace’’ proposals, the more one believes that U.S. General Hugh B. Hester (Rtd.) was right in saying that Johnson is more of a hawk than any of his generals. Each ‘“‘peace”’ proposal contains a gimmick, making it impossible for the Vietnamese people to even consider it, since in all cases it would mean for them surrendering the freedom of Vietnam. Thus in each proposal by Johnson he wins the war if they accept, or when as expected they refuse, that makes it appear that they are the aggressors — not he. And if they come to the negotiating table, they have, by doing so, implied that the . U.S. has a right to be in Vietnam, and has a right to be at the table with something to ‘‘negotiate’’. This despite the fact that it is the U.S. that is in Vietnam with the mightiest military machine on ‘earth, and not the Vietnamese who are invading American territory. Recently the South Vietnam puppet regime has been ordered by Johnson to sit down and begin ‘“‘talks of peace’’ with the National Liberation Front. The U.S. knows that no Vietnamese patriot can or will do this. To do so would imply that there are two separate Vietnams. Even the Geneva Agreements of 1954 recognized that phoney contention when it planned the proposed elections set for 1956, which the U.S. “advisors”? and puppet government obstructed and untimately stopped. Johnson’s ‘‘peace’’ schemes are always set to put the U.S. in the best light. 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Engineer says government lied to public on Columbia sellout A top Canadian engineer sharply criticised the Columbia River Treaty recently in an address before a werete’ SFU students hit Students at Simon Fraser University voted overwhelmingly January 26 against the Vietnam war. In a plebiscite conducted along with two student council elections, students voted 570-99 in favor of a negotiated withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam. They also indicated a 404-221 preference for Canadian government conference of Canadian, U.S. and British engineers held in Toronto. James G. Ripley, a professional Vietnam war disassociation from present U.S. policy in Vietnam. Of the 593 who voted on sending Canadian troops to Vietnam, 517 said no, against 76 who favored such a move. The largest vote was on the issue of escalation of the war into North Vietnam and bombing of China: 67 in favor, 516 against. 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Speaking to a joint meeting of the Engineering Institute of Canada, American Association of Civil Engineers, and the British Institute of Civil Engineers on January 26, Ripley stressed that there should be an increased awareness as a result of the treaty, of the need for water resources development for the benefit of Canada rather than for the benefit of another country. He said Canadians cannot survive as processors of raw materials and storers of water. They must process raw materials and put water to constructive use in Canada, then ship finished goods abroad for sale at a higher return than that realized from sales of such resources as water. Ripley told the meeting the Columbia Treaty provided for a total announced payment to Canada of about $275 million for downstream benefits and water storage. He said it was ironic and perhaps significant that Canada not only, in effect gave away a major river for cash, but also has not yet received the cash. 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