A shot of yonchuver s Reber during the height of grain Sigents to People’s China. Ships are lying

in port, waiting to be loaded, due to the hopelessly outmoded facilities. The new wheat sale to the
Soviet Union announced this week, will make all previous grain deals look like mere exercises. (See

Story below).

Canada-USSR wheat deal

y is major blow to cold war

“The Canada- be 200
Million bushel grain deal is a
Major blow to the cold war,
& major victory for Canadian
farmers and a major disaster
for the port of Vancouver”

Stated William Stewart, Com-.

Munist Party candidate in
Vancouver Centre at an all
Candidate meeting at the
Boilermakers Hall last Wed-

- etay:

“This deal clearly shows
that my Duge markets are avail-

able for Canadian goods in
the socialist countries. Taken
together with the almost lim-
itless markets of the newly
freed colonial world its ob-
vious that given the will there
are immediate opportunities
to provide jobs for all Cana-
adians and expand our in-
dustrial economy vastly.

“Tt is also a monument to
the blundering, stupidity and
cold war neurosis of ail
levels of government that we
do not have. the facilities to

LABOR ROUNDUP:
Raiding of Mine Mill

like smashing of CSU

The 13th annual convention of
the Mine Mill & Smelter Workers

Union has opened in Sudbury,
Ont.

In the Officers Report present-
&d to the delegates, it was point-

Columbia fight

The Save the Columbia
For Canada Committee has
Undertaken a major cam-
Paign to bring the issue of
the Columbia into the cen-

ter of the B.C. election
Campaign.

Thousands of colorful
bosters, (reproduced on
Page 12) urging ‘Keep
Canada’s Hand On’ The
Switch!” are appearing
Everywhere.

An excellent leaflet com-
Paring the present plan and
the McNaughton plan is be-
ing distributed in many
thousands of copies.

Last week 10,000 were
distributed at a football
Same at Empire Stadium.
It is also planned to cover
Political rallies with the
leaflet.

In Vancouver the Lorg-
Shoremen’s Union has taken
2,000 for waterfront distri-
bution and the Yale NDP

ave taken 1,000 copies to
be given out in the riding.

_TIM

[Communist El
HEAR

ed out that the Norris report on
the shipping industry proved the
conspiracy of “the Great Lakes
Shipping Company, the Govern-
ment of Canada, and, last but

not least, some of the top of-

ficers of the Canadian trade union
movement, to smash the Canad-
ian Seamen’s Union . . .

“We in the Mine Mill have bat-
tled against a similar conspir-
Hal Banks was the in-
used to destroy the
Seamen’s union as_ the Steel
union. is the instrument used
against Mine Mill.”’

The report declared that EMME
is time that unions found ways
and means of presenting a united
front against the policy of raid-

”

IN Paxe

ACV. sek
strument

The Marine Workers & Boiler-
makers, together with 21 other
unions, are negotiating with the
shipbuilding companies of B.C.
The union reported at the Van-
couver Labor Council meeting of
last Tuesday that negotiations
have broken down and a concilia-
tion officer willlikely be appoint-
ed in the near future.

B.C.’s_ brewery
voted 66 percent in favor of
strike action to back up demands
for wage parity with Ontario and

Quebec and the union has served:

48-hour notice on the industry’s
monopolies.

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workers have .

export one of our major com-
modities.”’ he said.

Stewart questioned, how-
ever, the speculation in the
daily paper that it was neces-
sary to curtail the amount of
the grain sale because of the
inadequacy of the facilities in
the port of Vancouver. “It is
true,’ he stated, “that the
port is woefully underdevel-
oped but it is also true that up
until the conclusion of the re-
cent contract negotiations
with the Longshoremen’s
union grain handling was lim-
ited to a two shift operation
in the port of Vancouver. Un-
der the new agreement a three
shift operation on grain is pos-
sible increasing. the shipping
sotential by 30% alone.

“Vancouver could handle
30% of the order and should
tight for it”, Stewart said.
“This would mean close to
$20 million injected into the
sconomy of the City and jobs
for the many jobless now
walking the streets’.

He lashed out at the gov-
ernment merchant fleet policy
which sees Canada with no
merchant fleet to carry its
own cargoes to foreign coun-
tries.’ The Liberal govern-
ment scuttleqd the Canadian
Merchant fleet after the war
and now its nefarious action
is catching up with it’.

“While Canadian commod-
ities are circulating around
the world is record quantities
Burrard Dry Dock is down to
a skeleton staff of 350 and
ships of foreign registry are
handling our cargo’’, the Com-
munist candidate said..

“The Canadian government
could provide jobs for many
thousands cf Canadians buiid-

ing the ships necessary to.

carry our ptoducts to the
ports of the world and many
additional thousands of jobs
for the crews to man the
ships.”

He appealed to the meeting
to elect a Communist voice to
Victoria which would make
this demand ring so loud and
clear across the country that
the government would be
forced to act.

ELECTION

EW

Car cavalcade for Tim Buck

By C. W. CARON
(Provincia] Campaign Mgr.)

Returning from New Zea--

land and _é Australia, Tim
Buck, Communist national
chairman, will arrive in Van-
couver this Saturday, Septein-
ber 21,, to take a hand both
in the provincial elections and
the campaign against this
country’s acceptance of nu-
clear warheads.

His electioneering will
start as soon as he arrives at
Vancouver airport at 12:10
p.m. Saturday. A car caval-
cade in support of the three
Communist candidates in the
Greater Vancouver area © —
Ron Forkin and Bill Stew-
art in Vancouver Centre and

Maurice Rush in North Van-
couver—will escort him from
the airport. That evening he
will speak with Rush at the
North Vancouver Community
Centre.

On Sunday, September 22,
at 8 p.m., he will address a
public meeting in the Pender
Auditorium and the following
day he will go to Victoria to
speak in support of Ernest
Knott, Communist candidate
there.

From Victoria he will go to
Courtenay, close to the nuc-
lear dump at Comox, to speak
on September 24.

His final public meeting in
the province will be at the
Elks Hall, in Cloverdale, on
September 26.

Mortgage onB.C., says Rush

“Premier Bennett is not
only prepared to turn over
B.C.’s hydro resources to the

_U.S. but he is also planning

to give U.S. financial inter-
ests a 114 billion mortgage
on B.C.’s dams when they are
built.”

This was the charge made
this week by North Vancou-
ver Communist candidate
Maurice Rush following dis-
closure by  Bennelt that a
syndicate mainly made up of
top U.S. financial circles had
been formed to put up the
$780 million the Peace River
development is expected to
cost.

Last week it was also an-
nounced in the U.S., where
talks on the Columbia were
proceeding, that U.S. finan-
cial interests were expected
to form another syndicate
which will put up the $450
millions needed to build the
storage dams on the Canadian
side of the Columbia.

Commenting on the pro-
posed financing of the Colum-
bia dams by U.S. financial
circles, Rush said “this would
not only assure them the wat-
er storage they want; it will
also give them effective con-
trol over the Columbia dams
and place the U.S. in a key
position to have the final say

in any development of the-
Canadian side of the Colum-
bia.”

“Remember,” said Rush,
‘whoever pays the piper calls
the tune,’’, and under the Ben-
nett plan to finance the
power development on_ the
umbia and Peace it will be
U.S. capital which will con-
trol B.C.’s power resources.”

“This plan of the Socreds
will be the final betrayal of
B.C.,” said Rush.

Again lashing out at Liber-
al leader Ray Perrault for
his stand on the Columbia,
Rush charged that the Suc-
reds and Liberals are jointly
responsible for trying to push
through the present draft
Columbia treaty. He said the
Tories also bear guilt for this
sellout as the Party which in-
itiated the present Columbia
treaty and capitulated to Pre-
mier Bennett's demands on
every major point.

Rush said defeat of the Soc-
reds on September 30 and
rejection of the old line par-
ties would be the most ef-
fective way for the people of
B.C. to block the sellout of
the Columbia and turn out
those big business parties
from office who are respons-
ible for the sellout of B.C.’s —
resources to U.S. monopolies.

Forkin challenges Peterson

Ron Forkin, 21 year oid
Communist Party candidate
in Vancouver-Centre, attack-
ed Socred economic and edu-
cational policies last Tuesday
and challenged Education
Minister Peterson to a public
debate on the issues facing
youth in the election.

“The Socreds have been
willing partners in the sell-
out of B.C.’s resources, “For-
kin stated. “Their anti-Cana-
dian policies have resulted in
mass unemployment among

ection Rally— Sunday, Sept. 22 — 8 P.M.

our youth” and the exodus of
thousands of professionally
and technically trained young
people to the United States.

“Mr. Peterson has reneged.
on his promise to cut the size
of classes and has failed to
provide proper educational
facilities and training for the
young people of this province.

“TI challenge him, as a fel-
low candidate in Vancouver
Centre. to debate these and
other major issues concern-
ing our young people.”

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