Above is the U.S. Presidential commission
charged with the responsibility of investigat-
ing all aspects of the assissination of Pres.
Kennedy. Left is Chief Justice Earl Warren. Top
from left, Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga.); Rep.
Hale Boggs (D-La.); and Rep.
(R-Mich.) Lower, from left, former CIA head

G. R. Ford, Jr.

Allen Dulles, Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-
Ky.), and former disarmament aide J. J. Mc-
Cloy. The FBI came under criticism last week:
for “leaking” its report to the press. It was ad-
mitted by the Dallas Attorney General last
week that big money was behind the Ruby de-
fence. The Commission has started its work.

| Urge action now
| to save Columbia

Continued from pg. 1

Speaking on the secret pact
Water Resources Minister Ray
Williston said the pact is a com-
Promise and added that either
Side in the negotiations could hail
it as a triumph, using the same
Statistics,

REGARDLESS OF WHAT
PRICE IS OFFERED FOR DOWN-
STREAM POWER, THE TERMS
OF THE DRAFT TREATY, IF
THEY ARE ALLOWED TO
STAND AS THEY ARE NOW, ARE
AN OUTRIGHT ‘‘TRIUMPH’’
FOR. THE U.S. SINCE THEY
WILL ALIENATE THE RIVER
AND ITS LONG RANGE BENE-
FITS TO THE U.S.

While acceptance of the re-
Ported offer may immediately
bring some capital to B, C. and

Create some jobs, the money will
be Mainly used to build dams to
Store Columbia water for use in
the U.s., and to create tens of
thousands of permanent jobs in
the U.S,

These permanent jobs and in-
dustries can be created in B.C;
and western Canada on the basis
Of power development here.

Thus the blackmail being at-
tempted by the Columbia negotia-
Ors, and especially Premier
Bennett, is to hold out the bait
of immediate capital coming to
-C. in return for alienating for
Many generations to come, if not
Permanently, the vast develop-
Ment, prosperity and jobs which
would result from Canadian de-

Aid for Cuba
keeps pouring in

Total amount of aid for the
Cuban People has now reached
the figure $1,261.55, accord-
ing to Alex Storm, chairman
Of the Canada-Cuba Friend-
Ship Committee in Vancouver.
The latest figure includes $125
Which was sent in by a group
Of workers in Victoria,

All contributions should be
Sent to: Canada-Cuba Friend-
Ship Committee, 138 E. Cor-
dova St., Vancouver, B.C.

_ Meanwhile, more than $300
Was raised at a banquet held
at the Edmonds Community
Centre in Burnaby last Satur-
day night, Sponsor of the ban-
Quet was the Fair Play For Cu-

4 Committee. The proceeds
are in addition to hundreds
{°f dollars previously raised
*Y this committee,

The banquet was addressed
‘tee Clifford, North Shore
the and provincial NDP
a idate, and by Cedric Cox,
A eee just returned from

ionwide tour during which

“& he Spoke on his views
N Cuba,

velopment of the Columbia.

MOST SERIOUS ASPECT OF
THE PRESENT NEGOTIATIONS
IS THAT THE THREE GOVERN-
MENTS INVOLVED MAY NOW
USE THE HOLIDAY SEASON TO
SPEED THROUGH RATIFICA-
TION OF THE TREATY AND
PRESENT THE PUBLIC AND
PARLIAMENT WITH A FAIT AC-
COMPLI.

Representatives of the three
governments are meeting again
in Ottawa this weekend. A re-
port by Jack Cahillinthe Vancou-
ver Sun this week said, ‘‘if the
three governments agree to the
deal ‘‘the Canadian government
will go ahead with its intention
to announce Dec. 30 a go-ahead
on the Columbia plan.’’

This shocking disclosure indi-
cates that the Ottawa government
is considering the same course
it followed with the nuclear arms
pact; Sign the pact and order the
go ahead without any debate in
Parliament. MP’s will be able
to debate it after the barn doors

have been closed and under the_

blackmail pressure of having to
defeat the government and bring
on a new election if the Treaty
is to be upset by a “‘confidence’”’
vote.

Such a course by the Liberal
government would be completely
contrary to promises made that

_the Treaty will go before the Ex-

ternal Affairs Committee of the
House for review, and that Gen.
A. G. L. McNaughton and others
will have an opportunity to appear
there to oppose the Treaty.

The main thing now is to stop
the Liberal government from ra-
tifying the treaty and compel it
to submit the whole Treaty and
its terms to the External Affairs
Committee and the people’selec-
ted representatives for debate.

That is why the appeal of the
Columbia River for Canada Com-
mittee to ‘*ACT NOW” is of vital
importance to the whole future
of B, C. and Canada,

City Communists
act on Columbia

The Vancouver City Commit-
tee of the Communist Party of
Canada reports that nine of its
clubs have sent protests to Prime
Minister Pearson on _ the re-
portedly concluded deal in re-
sponse to an appeal for action
by the committee, which madeits
request as soon as news of
the reported Columbia ‘‘settle-
ment’’ broke last week.

In addition to protests by clubs,
many CP members have been in-
strumental in initiating condem-
nation by a number of other or-

ganizations.

U.S. Communists
win key battle

The U, S. Court of Appeals
has thrown out the conviction
of the Communist Party ofthe
United States for failure to re-
gister as an ‘‘agent’’ of the
Soviet Union.

The decision of the appellate
court was immediately hailed
by liberal and progressive
forces as a victory for the de-
mocratic process and validity
of the constitution of the U.S.

In upsetting the December,
1962 conviction of a lower
court, the appeals court
agreed with defence argue-
ments that party officers were
within their rights in refusing
to register as ‘foreign
agents’’ because to do so would
incriminate them, in violatior
of the Fifth Amendment.

LABOR

BRIEFS

A conciliation board has handed
down a series of recommenda-
tions affecting shipyard workers
at three major B, C. firms-Bur-
rard Dry Dock, Yarrows and Van-
couver Machine Depot in Vic-
toria, The award came about
as a result of negotiations be-

tween the three companies and

22 unions involved in the ship-
building undustry.

The award contains a 30¢ an
hour increase over a 3-year
period, with no cut in hours of
work. The unions had been de-
manding reduction of the work
week to 35 hours, with double pay
for time worked in excess of 35
hours,

One of the unions involved —
Marine Workers & Boilermakers
—has indicated it will recommend
rejection of the award to its mem-
bership. This recommendation
is based on dissatisfaction with
the hours of work, wages, Over-
time, seniority and other pro-
visions of the award.

All unions are asking their
members to vote on the board
proposals. Results of balloting
will be known on December yd Wee

Members of the Taxi Drivers
& Dispatchers Union, Local 1599
(CLC) have voted to strike at the
B. C. Radio Cab Co. Union de-
mands for a weekly guarantee of
$55 have been flatly refused.

The union has charged that the

company is violating the Mini-
mum Wages Act>and that it has
set up direct lines to other cab
companies in the city, to be used
in case of strike action by its

employees.

Warheads coming;
protests spread

Press reports this week indi-
cated that Canada will get nuclear
warheads shortly. According to
the reports, the special Commons
committee on defence was told
by ‘‘high-ranking U.S. authori-
ties’? that ‘fone final step re-
mains before the warheads are
shipped to Canada.’’

Whatever that final step might
be, the people of Canada are
not quitting the fight to prevent
this betrayal of Canada’s inde-
pendence.

In B.C., the B.C. Peace Coun-
cil has distributed over 5,000
Christmas cards which are to be
sent to Prime Minister Lester
Pearson, The cards, which read
**Season’s Greetings for Peace
on Earth,’’ contain a message
to the Prime Minister on the
inside. The message states:

**May the way be found, in.

1964, to free Canadian soil from
nuclear arms and to restore our
country’s role as an independent
voice for peace.’’ .

The cards are available at the
Peace Council offices, 339 W.
Pender Street, Vancouver.

The PT has been informed that
further actions will be undertaken
by the council immediately after
the holidays and that the Canadian
Peace Congress will be acting on
the nuclear question at the same
time.

Meanwhile, the city of Montreal’
has been asked to protest against
nuclear arms by the Quebec Cam-
paign for Nuclear Disarmament,
The QCND sent a delegation to

city council asking council to
protest to Ottawa against storing
A-arms anywhere in Quebec.

The acting mayor of the city
received the delegation sympa-
thetically and advised it to send
a copy of its statement to every
member of Montreal city council
and to urge that one or two
councillors present a motion on
the question.

It is expected the Montreal ac-
tion will provide a lead to other
Canadian centres.

Mollet pledges
unity with
Fr. Communists

PARIS—The French Socialist
leader and former Prime Minis-
ter, Guy Mollet, said last Sun-
day his party would join hands
with the Communist Party of
France in the event of ‘‘aggres-
sion or threats’’ against the Re-
public.

Mollet told a dinner debate in
Albi, Southern France: ‘‘When
there is aggression or threats
against the Republic wo do not
ask our neighbour for his visit-
ing card.

**If tomorrow De Gaulle’s suc-
cessor wanted to keep himself
in power by force, we would reply
by force.’”’

In the past several months,
French socialists have increas-
ingly been moving to a posi-
tion of unity with Communists on
common aims.

‘Make your voice heard now
to block Columbia sellout’

The Communist Party in B.C. has launched a major
effort to block the sellout of the Columbia River following
last week’s secret agreement reached by B.C., U.S. and

Ottawa negotiators.

Last week hundreds of copies of the latest tract by
Communist Party chairman Tim Buck entitled “Power —
Key to the Future,” were mailed out to trade unions, NDP
clubs and officials of other organizations.

An accompanying message from the B.C. Provincial

Executive said:

“The decision will be made very shortly as to whether
the Columbia River will be used for Canadian development
to provide jobs or be made available to the U.S. mon-

opolies. -

“Unity of the Canadian people, regardless of political
or partisan differences can save the Columbia if we act

quickly.”

The message ends by suggesting that organizations
and individuals choose a way to “make their voices heard

on this important decision.”

6 the key to the future

by
TIM BUCK

5c

Above is the cover of the latest tract on the Columbia and power
issue by Tim Buck, national chairman of the Communist Party. This

timely and important pamphlet sells for 5c and is available at the
People’s Co-op Bookstore and 502 Ford Bldg., Vancouver.
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