: ) eee eee i i Mil FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1963 VOL. 22, No. 42; VANCOUVER, B.C. GRID, SCRA 43 Pacific Kean? Feinberg to speak at Peace rally __ RABBI A, FEINBERG Thur. Rabbi Abraham Feinberg will speak on the subject "The War for Peace” at a giant rally in Exhibition Gar- dens, Thursday, March 29, at 8:30 p.m. Expected to highlig’t Fein- berg’s address will be the dis- armanent talks at Geneva. The meeting is being spon- sored by the B.C. Branch of the Canadian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, form- erly the B.C. Committee on Radiation Hazards. Feinberg recently returned from an extensive European tour. Keep BCE under public Ownership says Morgan hei A sharp warning of the chaotic situation that would Sia if the government’s takeover of the B.C. Electric Ould be reversed was made this week by Nigel Morgan, ‘C. Communist Party leader. a Said the B.C. Power i; campaign for which berts ae public relations ex- reaching 4 ured last fall, is ions. § dangerous propor- bingcrean’s warning was com- labor ean an appeal to all it Beas dn the publie to’make mista at regardless of any €s the government may av. : ae made in the takeover, the Bue of B.C. don’t want a a Operations return- a ivate interests. -* leader Robert Stra- ch ober 3 Ee cleanse his party Berar mors he is following is ies arty politicking on in a = Instead of falling Would € phoney line which “SR Ae the politically- ist Sa €d courts of a capital- a © superior to the elect- Should pon tives: Strachan be fighting to see that ee the full benefits of public ownership are passed on to the people,” concluded Mor- gan. Soviet Pilea On 5S. Vietnam The Soviet Union has re- newed its plea for a joint Anglo-Soviet call to the U.S. to end its ‘undeclared war” against the people of South Vietnam. There are already about 5,000 U.S. troops in South Vietnam under a specially created U.S. military com- mand. Noting that the Ngo Dinh Diem regime is encountering growing opposition, even among its former supporters, the Soviet statement declares that it is kept in power only by the presence of U.S: troops. SEE ANYTHING DIFFERENT? p D ACI fic Tribune? e Printeg - Calleg t Shop tob Pages e plat attracy Teader, © you notice anything different about this issu are happy to announce that the PT i nN one of the mast modern presses in he Goss offset press. The PT was the first paper in our © run off this week on the new press. 1S new printing process in i the Paper are made un then photoarsphed from © is produced, The sew recess should incr 96 the Ieness of the paper, and m2ke it possitly e of the s now being volves the use of phctogz aphy. which to bring cut eee 8 livlier paver with more illustrations and pictures: 10¢ Canada, It is’ URGE ACTION ON POWER P U.S. PACT “Jobs for Canadians and the economstc production of goods by Canadian factories are ot stake in the federal-provincial con- ference on a national power grid which met at Ottawa on Mon- day, March 19”, the National Executive of the Communist Party said this week in a press statement. The statement declared that Prime Minister Diefen- baker can “demonstrate to Canadians that he is not play- ing poker with Canada’s eco- nomic destiny by using the federal government’s power, backed by Parliament, to establish a National Energy Board to protect, conserve, develop and distribute on an equitable basis Canada’s pow- er resources. "As a first measure the federal government should cancel the Columbia River Treaty with the U.S.A. which actually discourages the dev- elopment of hydro power in Canada in favor of generat- ing power in the U.S.A. from water stored in Canada. “Payments for downstream benefits from Canadian riv- ers by the U.S. should be based on plans for the gen- eration of electrical power in Canada and not on water storage for generating sta- tions located in the U.S. CANADA'S NEEDS FIRST “Secondly, the federal gov- ernment~ must- put Canada’s present and potential. power needs first. No export of pow- er before these present needs are met and potential needs safeguarded. “Thirdly, the federal gov- ernment should provide for Canada-wide utilization of our rich power resources through a single publicly- owned national power. grid. Such a grid would provide service for peak-load periods on a national basis, with pro- ‘visions. for time changes in the different time zones of ‘our vast country. “This power grid should be based on all existing power generating ‘stations and trans- mission systems _ being brought under national pub- lic ownership and operated in the public interest by a Na- tional Energy Board. It must include such private generat- ing systems as Arvida and Kitimat connected with the U.S. controlled Alcan Cor- poration. It must develop facilities for switching DC current for long-distance transmission and a system of transformers for use by local authorities. Jobless increase OTTAWA — The number of jobless in Canada rose to 583,000 at mid-February ac- cording’ to the Dominion Bureau . of~-Statistics.. report released Tuesday. This figure is an increase of 38,000 over January ae represents 9.1 per cent of the labor force. The report said 278,000 of the jobless were heads of families. The survey also revealed that three out of every 10 jobless were under 25 years of age, and four were from 25 to 44. “Premier Bennett of Brit- ish Columbia has branded the federal - provincial national power grid conference as a “gimmick” which the federal government plans to use to force him to agree with the terms of the Columbia River Treaty as ratified by the U.S. Congress and initialled by the Canadian government. The B.C. premier wants payment for downstream ben- efits from the U.S. in dollars. He wants federal controls over the export of power lift- ed completely. That’s why he makes the charge of “gim- mick’”’. : WASHINGTON’S MAN “Premier Bennett’s plans for power in B.C. would sell jobs for Canadians along with Columbia River water and electricity to the U.S.A. He would also sell electric power developed on the Peace Riv- er. For a fast buck now he would not only sacrifice solid industrialization for B.C. but he would deprive the rest of Canada the opportunity of utilizing that province’s enor- mous hydro-electric potentiai now and in the future. He truly acts like Washington’s man in B.C. “With regard to Quebec Premier Lesage’s refusal to attend the Conference, we be- lieve it would not be a viola- tion of Quebec rights if its Government took part in this conference, because an all- See POWER, page 3 : Atrocities in South Vietnam Atrocities against the people of S. Vietnam are being committed on a mass scale by the U.¢..Nge Diem clique. The above phote which arrived at the PT office this week from the Chinese news agency, shows the heart, of a villager being cut out by U.S.- Diem soldiers. Atrocities like this are aimed at “setting an example” and intimidat- ing the people to give up their struggle for an independent S. Vietnam.