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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1962

The Premier refused to re-
@ veal who he would meet in
ithe U.S. when he’ addressed
the Legislature Tuesday night.

In a major speech outlining

ashi Rees e Socred government hydro
at ahr oe j ‘ is 36 peclicy, Bennett revealed that

( : = he wiil seek from Ottawa noi
VOL. 22,'No. 9 VANCOUVER, B.C. 10 My agreement to sell. Col-
umbia River downstream

Diefenbaker says:

‘Cam have

arms in 30

"tween Canada and the U.S.
. which. makes. available. nu-

power in the U.S., but Peace
River power as well.

In an arrogant tone the
Premier defied growing op-
position to his government's
hydro policy and declared,
“The basic policy of this gov-
ernment is the. great Peace
River development. I am will-
ing to put it before the people
at any time.”

nuclear
minutes

Is. there a. secret pact be-

clear weapons to Canada? Or
are such nuclear weapons al-| He was. challenged a few
ready secretly stored in'minutes later by NDP Oppo-
Canada? . |sition Leader Strachan - to
These questions. are|name the date for a general
prompted by a recent state- election. Bennett did not re-
ment of Prime Minister ply.
Diefenbaker’s in Edmonton Bennett indicated that
that nuclear weapons could prime Minister Diefenbaker
be made available in $0 min-haq taken over responsibility
utes fo an hour. lfor talks with B.C. on the

When . questioned in Ed- Columbia treaty, and said
monton and in the House ofjthat he had corresponded

L. HYDRO
ETT TRIP

a Premier WAC Bennett left Friday for the U.S. to line up
y support for his policy of selling out B.C. hydro resources to
American interests. He will go on to Ottawa later to meet Prime
Minister Diefenbaker.

PREMIER BENNETT
... off on mystery trip to
U.S. to discuss sellout of
B.C. hydro. resources.

The report also proposes
that the High Arrow and
Duncan Lake storage dams be
proceeded with. These key
proposals are the ones now
being most strongly opposed
by. the public because’ the
building. of the High Arrow
Dam would damage large
sections of the Interior and
bring maximum © benefit to
the U.S.

Expressing _ the public’s

been able to get a copy of th
report to analyze its contents.
However, we have consisien--
ly taken the stand the preser*
treaty should be scrapped
outright and replaced by an
all-Canadian development of
the Columbia based on the
MacNaughton Plan for keep-
ing hydro resources in Can3-
da for Canadian use.

The report questions the
provincial government's po! -
cy. of exporting _Cohrmbia
power, and suggests that
power development be put o2
the basis of stimulating new
industries to locate in B.C.

Most people will agree with
these two suggestions. How:
ever, the report’s proposal
that the High Arrow Dam be
built first questions the sin-
cerity of the earlier proposals.
It also throws some doubt on
what the UBC professors
have in-mind when they prc-
posed the Columbia Treaty
be renegotiated.

It is clear that the battle
to save B.C.’s. hydro re-
sources for the benefit of

Commons about his -state-
ments, Diefenbaker refused
to reply “for security rea-
sons,” but he noted Canada’s
weapons would be more ef-|
fective with nuclear war
heads.

Liberal atteck on Cuba
trade condemned hy CP

The attack by the Liberal Party on trade with
was strongly condemned by the Communist Party
of Canada in a press release issued on Feb. 26.

The Communist Party state-
Ment said:  ~
“Under -cover: of so-called
eurithy” considerations,
€r Pearson, Paul Martin
and other Liberal leaders are
Teens that the present
Bie trade with Cuba be
thane under the pretense
eea Shipments to Cuba
be considered ‘‘strategic
ie Tlals”. These include
fon for Civil aircraft, parts

Machines, and dynamite
i: Construction,

What ~has happened in
a x = that with the embar-
cot S. shipments to that
py tiae ¥; Which’ formerly was
ty wbletely dependent on the
. ">: for manufactures, mach-
Se pk aircraft parts are
prod €eded to maintain
tio

He

eerion and communica-

_ What th
INE to q
€conomi

Ne Liberals are try-
0 1s to sabotage Cuba
cally in the hope that

this will contribute to the
failure of the Cuban plan of
economic reconstruction.

“There is no reason for be-
lieving that the Diefenbaker
government ‘will long con-
tinue its defense of present
Cuba-Canada trade, for to do
so is out of kilter with its
whole cold war policy on
trade.

“Only an aroused public
opinion,”’ concluded the state-
ment, “and not reliance on
the government, will protect
present Cuba-Canada trade
and build it up to really serve
the economic “needs of. the
two countries.”

STUDY U.S. CRIME
Britain’s Daily Mail in De-
cember, 1961, reported that
two Iraqui police officials
visiting Washington to study
anti-crime methods were
beaten and robbed.

with Diefenbaker for a meet-
ing March 19 in Ottawa on a
national power grid. Bennett
said he was confident a deal
could be worked out with the

|Prime Minister.

Also this week a group of
University of B.C. professors
released a report on B.C. hy-
dro which proposed scrapping
the Peace project. It also
contained some exceedingly
dangerous proposals.

One of these was that the
Mica Dam project be aban-
doned’ and -that other power
projects be undertaken in-
stead. This is similar to a re-
cent proposal by Liberal
Leader Ray Perrault.

END ROCKET
RISK URGES
KHRUSHCHEV

In a special message to
President Kennedy and,
Prime Minister Macmillan,
Soviet Premier Khrush-
chevy last Saturday urged
the Western leaders to}
recognize the realities of '
nuclear rocketry and the
appalling ever-present.
risk that “the accidental
launching of one nuclear
rocket can be the signal for
world catastrophe.”

The message made a‘
strong appeal for the heads |
of state to attend the dis-
armament talks in Geneva
opening March 14.

concern over the Columbia! the people is reaching @
Treaty, the report suggests|climax. The public will have
that the Columbia Treaty be|fo watch events most closely
renegotiated. A similar pro-|in the next few days if they
posal was made recently by!/are to stop U.S. and Canadian
Walter Gordon, one of the} financial interests from car-
Liberal Party’s top national/rying through the wholesale
figures. betrayal of B.C.’s top natural
The Pacific Tribune has not| resource.

Demand jobs now

JOBLESS MARCH. Some of the 700 marchers in Vic-
toria last Wednesday are shown parading around Parlia-
ment Buildings. Placards urged “Jobs For All.’ The
Socred cabinet refused to meet the jobless delegation.
Unemployed :are meeting Friday, March 2 at a report

| back meeting in the Labor Temple, 307 W. Broadway

at 8 p.m.

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