“_ORRENOCO in Siempre (Mexico) NE ~~ LATIN AMERICAN VIEW OF U.S.-CUBAN RELATIONS crude plan for a new, ™Tmed aggression against Uba organized by the U.S. ‘‘Vernment, and in which ‘eVeral Latin American gov- denetts are involved, was “nounced in Mexico City by © Cubon ambassador to €xico, Carlos Lechuga. Na statement to the mag- Zine Siempre, Lechuga said €re is proof that mercen- Nes are being trained in ied de Coban, Puerto eto, Bengue Viejo, Me- thes, Campo Flores, Santa Osa de Copan and the zone t Peten in Guatemala.” € said mercenaries are a being trained to attack oe ba in Nicaragua, Panama, 4 and the Dominican Re- c. a ~~ nvasion London (Con’t. from pg. 1) a of the Common Market.” t also criticises him for bringing “forward any alternative: His call for °rld economic conference, Cifically excluded the Cialist world with its grow- 8 market composed of one _ of humanity. It ignored © newly developing nations Tica and Asia and sig- lcantly made no reference atin America.” itting at the failure of leaders to take a stand pinst the Common Market, © editorial calls on the oa movement and all pro- “Sive Canadians to press representatives in par- nt to come forward at D Dig ical moment with a Y based firmly on Can- a interests, breaking with fS: domination of our mar- will be a lame LAN TO PROVOKE UBA WAR EXPOSED major one,” said Lechuga. “In Guantanamo, bellicose preventations are being car- ried on with feverish activity; there are constant provoca- tions against Cuban guards outside the base.” Lechuga charges that Cu- ban mercenaries, trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, have been arriving at the base, and many have already infiltrated into Cu- ban territory. “Eyerything points to the fact that a strong aggressive force will strike from Guan- tanamo.” : Planes were being dis- guised to look like Cuban airforce planes, he declared. The “capture” of a ship laden with “Cuban arms” would probably follow and it would be announced that the ship’s destination was Venezuela and its task was to provoke an anti-democratic invasion. Perhaps the “capture” would take place in Mexican waters to provoke an inter- national incident with a country that firmly follows a policy of non- -intervention. Lechuga referred to mane- ouvres of the American fleet in the Carribbean, and said that without taking the trouble to prove it, “the Yan- kees say Cuban ships fired on an American reconnais- ance plane over international waters. “The next step in their line of aggression will be to feign an attack by Cuban, forces against one of our neighboring countries, thus opening the doors to a mer- cenary invasion, supported by U.S. armed forces.” ~Agy CO eA LOD 2. o5As LABOR’S VOICE ABSENT UBCM conference airs crisis facing civic governments WILLIAM E. STEWART KAMLOOPS—Five hun- lred delegates, Mayors, Reeves. Aldermen, Com- nissioners, City Clerks and Village representatives speaking for more than one qundred municipalities con- stituted the largest-ever Annual Convention of the Union of B.C. Municipali- sies which met in the city »f Kamloops Sept. 12-13-14. Meeting in this fascinating B.C. city at the confluence of the North and South Thomp- son River, the delegates rep- resenting the municipal in- terests of a majority of the people of B.C. chewed through 106 resolutions plus a number of key reports from the executive commit- tee of the organization, and elected a new set of officers, with no upsets, to guide the work during the next year. Sandwiched in _ between these events were banquets and liquor flowing receptions sponsored by such commun- ity minded organizations as the Royalite Oil Compony, B.C. Telephone Company, and the Canadian Bank of Commerce. To a labor representative the most startling effect of the convention was the as- sembly of such a large body of civic officials, from the grass roots area of the politi- cal struggle, with so little -representation of the work- ing class. Those few workers who were in attendance as elected officials, and believe me they were few, failed miserably to distinguish themselves from the cruel deception . delegates; . stitute an 80/20 (80% practiced by the convention that civic politics are above classes. However, in spite of the lack of working class repre- sentation, in spite of the ob- viously business bias of the overwhelmingly majority of in spite of the Royalite Oil Company, the UBCM convention was forced to reject a whole number of reactionary proposals ond support a number of emin- ently progressive solutions to the acute problems of civic finance and government. CIVIC CRISIS This fact is a_ startling testimony to the irresistable pressure that the overall Canadian crisis is exerting at the level of municipal politics. Both because it is their fond wish to be re- elected and at the same time, because the very business in- terests they represent are caught in the bite by the growing municipal crisis, most municipal officials find themselves compelled to sup- port some proposals similar to those for which the left has campaigned for years. Here are some of the major policy decisions of the con- vention: e Through a system of re- allocating the present home- owner grant to apply it to the cost of the basic educa- tion program, and by restor- ing to the municipalities their former share of the sales tax (without increasing it), to in- Pro- vince 20% city) cost sharing formula for education costs. e A motion to re-examine the possibility of the poll tax submitted by the Executive Committee was defeated al- most unanimously by the delegates after less than three minutes debote. SOCIAL WELFARE A report from the Social Welfare Committee adopted by the convention unanimous- ly called for: ® Unemployed Employ- ables be removed from the Welfare Offices and become the responsibility of and ad- ministered by the National Employment Insurance Office under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government. (Trans- lated this means that social assistance as it now applies should -be abolished and un- employed workers should remain on unemployment insurance for the full term of their unemployment). e Proposal of thé commit- tee for establishment of a “hostel farm” for “drifters” be established where they shall work for their wages was sent back to the commit- tee and brought back in a modified form to read re-. habilitation centre to. train such people for productive labor. e Requested the Federal Government to include muni- cipal financing within thei scope of the recent Royal Commission announced to study Provincial Federal tax revenue distribution. e Passed three resolutions calling in effect for a step- ped-up provincial winter works program to help solve the unemployed problem. On the more negative side the convention gave assent to ~ these proposals. e The present exemption on the first $1, 000 for farm land be removed and applied rather to the second thousand. See CIVIC, Pg. 8 IWA DEMA (Con‘t from pg. 1) gional President Moore tak- ing a _ particularly strong stand in favor of the resolu- tion. (This received unani- mous endorsation); e A resolution in which the IWA went on record as “vigorously condemning all nations who, at present or in future, test nuclear devices, and supporting “a policy of world disarmament and the development of a program which will insure peace and - security for all the people of the world”; e A separate disarmament resolution which stated that the union reaffirms “‘its op- position to the arms race be- ing waged by the major powers of the world today, and that we impress upon our Canadian government ‘with every means at our dis- posal, to withdraw from this arms race and use the so-called defence budget to provide housing, medical care and educational facili- ties for Canadian people.” A number of other reso- lutions had not yet been dis- cussed as the PT went to press. Among the _ subjects they deal with are trade with all countries, austerity, pub- lic works, Canadian with- DS 35 HOUR WEEK drawal from the arms race, and many more. Last Tuesday, . Vancouver Labor Council indicated that the 35-hour week will be prominent in the discussions at the coming B.C. Federa- tion of Labor convention by adopting a resolution on the question, to be forwarded to the convention. Communist Party to back Tommy Douglas “The Burnaby - Coquitlam Constituency Committee of the Communist Party has de- cided to forego nomination of a candidate in the October 22nd _ by-election, and con- NDP LEADER DOUGLA centrate its efforts on ensur- ing defeat of the old line party candidates,’ William Turner, constituency organ- izer; announced Wednesday. “The interests of the elec- tors of Burnaby-Coquitlam and all Canadians will best be served at this time by election of NDP leader Doug- las to the seat vacated by Erhart Regier. “Certainly the echoing of Pearson’s advocasy of British entry into the European Com- mon Market, and appeals for support of Diefenbaker’s aus, terity program can only en- danger a labor victory. We urge the NDP to press for a genuine democratic, progres- sive alternative that will unite the people to defeat the Liberal, Tory and Socred candidates in this little gen- eral election.” Repl: 21, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 Pre So ye vs oe