INSIDE

Crisis

in B.C.’s

Fruit
Industry

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War

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Labor
Exposes
Monopoly

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Vietnam

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‘Conspiracy’

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Civic Elections

The PT went to press be-
fore civic election results
where known. Watch next
week for reports and
‘ comments on the elec-
: tions in Vancouver and
: throughout the province.

VOL. 25, NO. 50

A blunt warning that a new and
even bigger water grab is al-
ready under discussion in Wash-
ington and Ottawa was made by
Nigel Morgan, B,C, Communist
Party leader at a public meeting
in Haney’s Agricultural Hall last
Saturday,

Quoting from a Washington dis-
patch, which only the day previous
had reported: “The U,S, State De-
partment has been asked to seek
Canadian consultation on a
scheme to bring water to the
U,S.,” Morgan charged that mer}
pressure campaign is already
building up to obtain outright
surrender of our whole northern
river system,”

This week the B,C, Committee
of the Communist Party wired
Prime Minister Pearson and NDP
leader T, C, Douglas urging the
Federal government to take a
strong stand “against any con-
tinental approach to development
of Canadian water resources,”

The wire urged rejection of the

Stop water grab
urged by Morgan

principle of using northern and
B,C, rivers to settle the Great
Lakes water dispute, and asked -
that Parson’s Plan be rejected,
It also urged the government to
“commence immediately a study
of alternative proposals that will
put Canada’s interests first,”

The new U,S, scheme would
dwarf the Columbia giveaway, in-
volving as it does diversion of
the Yukon, Peace, Fraser, Atha-
basca and other rivers southward
to the Gulf of California, and
eastward to the Great Lakes,

“Unless we mount guard quick-
ly and unitedly from coast to coast
Canada’s interests will again be
sold down the river for a fast
buck,” said Morgan, “We should
tell the U.S, forthrightly that
we’re capable of managing and
developing our own resources,
and that from now on Canada’s
interests and Canadian job op-
portunities are going to come
first.”

yko plea to UN:

The present international situation is ripe for progress
on measures to completely ban nuclear weapons, reduce
military budgets and abolish foreign bases.

This was the plea of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko as he spoke to the United Nations General As-
sembly last Monday. He called for a 10 or 15 percent cut
in arms budgets with the savings used to help underdevel-

oped countries.

In his speech theSeviet Foreign
Minster appealed to the West to
show a more realistic approach
to disarmament and to give un-
biased consideration to theSoviet
proposals for arms cuts,

The speech was hailed by near-
ly all UN delegations as “con-
structive” and“ moderate in tone.”
The only attack on the Soviet
Union’s stand came from U,S,
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson,
which was echoed a few hours
later by Canada’s Paul Martin,
after a talk with the U.S, Am-
bassador,

Gromyko said the Soviet Union
was prepared to cut back its
troops in the German Democratic
Republic and other European
states providing the Western
Powers reduced their troops in
West Germany and other coun-
tries,

The 11-point plan for disarm-
ament, which had been circulated
to all delegations, proposed that
a system of collective security
in Europe be established, and
that as a first step a non-ag-
gression pact be signed between
NATO and Warsaw Treaty coun-
tries,

The Soviet Union said that the
elimination of nuclear weapons
from the G,D,R, and West Ger-
many and the setting up of ob-
‘S@rvation posts in NATO and
Warsaw Treaty countries would
also help reduce the risk of
surprise attack,

Gromyko declared: “It must
be said without mincing any words
that the creation of a NATO
nuclear force would mean a fur-
ther spread of nuclear weapons

and therefore is an action hos-
tile to the interests of peace,

“U.N, members states must be
fully aware of the fact that the
plans for the creation of a multi-
lateral nuclear force are the main
obstacle in the way of an agree-
ment on the non-proliferation of
nuclear weapons which theSoviet
Union is ready to join,”

Gromyko said the Soviet Union
was prepared to take part in any
action which would slow down the
arms race, He emphasized that

ANDREI GROMYKO

his government would participate
in any forum and at any level,
including a summit meeting, on
the problems of complete and
general disarmament and mea-
sures to restrict the arms race,

He called for China to be given
her rightful seat in the U.N, and:
asked for “positive considera-
tion” to China’s proposal for a
Summit parley on destroying all
nuclear weapons,

tories of other countries;

Soviet peace plan

The Soviet plan for disarmament proposed this week at the
United Nations urged that “agreement be reached inthe nearest
possible future to carry out the following measures”:

1, Reduction of military budgets;
2, Withdrawal or reduction of foreign troops in the terri-

3, Elimination of foreign military bases in alien territories;
4, Prevention of the further spread of nuclear weapons;
5, Prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons;
6, Establishment of fienanieatined zones;
7, Elimination of bomber aircraft;
; 8, Prohibition of underground nuclear weapons tests;

9, The conclusion of a non-aggression pact between the
NATO and Warsaw Treaty countries;

10, Prevention of surprise attack; and

11, Reduction of the total number of troops,