ae eed Aint. a ae — 51 PRICE TEN CENTS ALAN | WINNINGTON VISITS TIBET Read the first of his new series of articles in this issue. Britain’s colonies — wage struggle for self-determination 4 KENYA ~ NAIROBI Nearly 3,000 Africans in Ken- ya have either been: killed, cap- ‘ tured or detained by British forces in the past six months, according to a British Army Spokesman here. In November, 140 Africans Were killed, and this brings to nearly 11,000 the number of Africans killed by British forces in Kenya during the three years _ of the war, including 1,000 exe- cuted for various pretexts such 8S “consorting” with Africans in the forests or supplying them “with a bit of food. The spokesman boasted that over 70 percent of the contacts made by the army in the forests had resulted in fatal casualties for Africans, But though he claimed suc- cesses, he denied that any’ early end to the anon war was in sight. “The search for. a short cut to end the Emergency will con- tinue,” he declared, “but the possibility of finding one is remote.” CYPRUS By PETER FRYER LONDON Britain intends to maintain €r grip on the island of Cyp- Tus by force, no matter what happens. This was made clear in the British House“of Com- Mons last week by Foreign Sec- Tetary Harold Macmillan dur- ng the debate on Cyprus. We shall carry out our dut? to ensure’ law and order,” threatened Macmillan, amid cheers from Tory benches. F om the Labor front bench 7 € former Colonial Secretary perce Griffiths played into Tory ands by putting the view that Self-determination should be Fanted to Cyprus in five years \ Hme because of the island’s Strategic importance. ae Macmillan told the House that ae Position of the British gov- = NS ment was that Cyprus should weceive self - determination “Sometime. i h And by “sarnetime:’, he. Beis Hye Meant “sometime and under €rtain conditions.” He did not i hay these conditions, how- a €r, but left the House in no Oubt thdt he meant above all € maintenance of a British @se at Cyprus. acmillan made every effort th, Confuse the House about P € role of the Cyprus Working ee party (AKEL). € said there were “very \ sinister forces” at work which were trying to oppose a settle- ment and make things worse. They were using the forces of _ terrorism to make sure that the moderates did not get any support. ‘ “By a strange paradox,” Mac- millan went on, ‘the Commun- ist agitators have taken advant- age of a liberty of speech and action which would not be al- lowed them had Cyprus been part of Greece today.” (This week the British gov- ernment banned the AKEL and arrested 135 of its , leaders. Workers of Nicosia, the capital, immediately called a protest strike.) - ( In the gallery during the de- bate was Costas S. Partassides, . 38-year-old mayor of Limassol, second largest city of Cyprus. “The demand of the people of Cyprus is for immediate and unconditional _ self - determina- tion,” he commented afterwards. “Macmillan’s speech made it obvious that the British gov- ernment is not only unwilling to apply the principle of self- determination, but it is unwill- ing even to recognize this prin- ciple. “It is to be regretted that the Labor party spokesmen, by sup- Continued on back page See BRITAIN’S COLONIES . first Bi coinay ae CARRIED © City vote shows anti-NPA revolt Progressive candidates rolled up impressive votes in Vancouver's civic election Wednesday, but a poor turnout at the polls in the working class East End, and division - of the progressive vote among 10 anti/NPA aldermanic candidates, enabled the Non Partisan machine to return all its candidates for council, parks and school boards. The voting trend demonstrated that labor and progressive forces, if they achieve unity at the polls in the Febru- ary 1 aldermanic byelection, can “break through” against the Tammany-like NPA mach- ine which has dominated the life of.this city for more than 18 years. Three ex-NPA _ aldermanic candidates, Halford Wilson, Sydney Bowman and Archie Proctor, running as indepen- dents. this year, came fifth, sixth and seventh behind the NPA incumbents. Progressive independent Effie Jones, with a fine vote of 16,739, was in eighth place among the 14 can- didates contesting four caunet seats. Dr. Joseph Blumes, Beal city dentist, was again runner- up in the school board race, polling 24,127 votes. Harry Ran- kin polled 23,220. and Mrs. Catherine Edwards 22,775 in bids for office. Mrs. Mona Morgan polled 17,368. In the school board by- election trade unionist Horace Wainwright polled 27,718 votes. One of the highest votes ever recorded for an independent progressive candidate was registered in the park board race by trade. unionist William Douglas, who polled 28,448. The controversial Sunday sport plebiscite carried 38,031 to 36,124. The land assembly bylaw was rejected by property owners. The complete vote follows: - G. Cunningham (NPA) J. W. Cornett (NPA) -- Mrs. A. Sprott (NPA) aldermanic D. E. McTaggart (NPA) 31,551 H. Wilson (Ind.) ----- 27,214 S. Bowman (Ind.) ---- 20,171 A. Proctor (Ind.)) ~--- 20,123 Effie Jones (Ind.) ------ - 16,739 Sam Jenkins (Ind.) -- 12,071 P. O’Donohue (Ind.) -_- 10,443 MM Rush. (ind): 2.33 « 6,367 As} Dunn ind)? ee 6,271 P. McAllister (Ind.) --. 4,524 AS Riley (ind) oo. ee 4,396 40,873 | 40,198 . 36,458. EFFIE JONES Labor names Vic Forster Trade unionist Vic Forster will be a labor candidate in the February 1 aldermanie by- election. Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) Tuesday unanimously backed the 49-year-old council secretary to contest the seat left vacant by the death of Ald. Birt Showler, and voted to spend $500 on an advertising campaign. _ Gillette contests Centre for LPP First candidate nominated to contest the provincial byelection in Vancouver Centre on January 9 is Jack Gil lette, city electrician, who was chosen as Labor-Progressive standard bearer at an LPP Centre constituency sie ge meeting Monday this week. Gillette, a member of the LPP provincial and city com- mittees, said in accepting the nomination that he would make the natural resources question. the central plank in his elec- tion platform, “especially as it relates to natural gas, hydro river development and_ the government’s forestry policy.” Condemning the Social Credit “sellout of our natural resources to United States monopolists,” Gillette pledged “to fight with all my might for a program of exploiting our natural resources for the _benefit of our own people.” . He also said he would cam- paign on the issue of winning a new deal for the province in federal-provincial relations, in order to relieve municipal tax burdens from the shoulders of the people least able to carry them. Don Cox, LPP Centre con- stituency organizer, was ap- pointed election campaign man- ager and promised “a short but hard fought campaign.” He ap- pealed .to LPP throughout the province to send in financial donations to the Labor-Progressive party, Room 502, Ford Building, Vancouver. f Build a steel mill in British Columbia now See Nige! Morgan on Page 9 supporters | .