Mi UWL ak NATO CYPRUS PLAN THREAT TO PEACE Canada must stay out — Let UN act! A decision of far-reaching importance which could see Canadian troops used as part of a NATO world police force to occupy foreign territories is being considered in Ottawa this week. Reports indicate the government, under U.S. and British pressure, is considering send- ing 1000 men as part of a NATO force to Cyprus to protect the military base there. This action is being taken despite world demands that the United Nations act to maintain peace on the troubled island republic. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1964 VOL. 25, NO. 7 =" 10¢ L.._ PAVE BARRETT Metion in House asks bar on A-arms Dave Barrett (N DP- Dewdney) placed the following motion on the Legislature’s Order Pap- er February 4: “That this House urge the Federal government to remove nuclear arms from Canadian soil.” It is not known when the Motion will come be- fore the House, but Bar- rett’s action will be sup- ported by the Peace Lobby in Victoria Feb. 19: Prairie Premier hits Columbia terms row statchewan Premier Wood- cee last week repeated his treaty Hon s Objection to any Sone at limits the use of water cae future diversion of the a, River into the Prairies. such ai ane to press reports, the | eens is possible under 3 aoa treaty if the water is bone €d for irrigation, but not te? regnt Interpretation ofthe Y is based on previous in- format; Use) ton that if water is to be e a d after diversion for the pur- Power development, then, nN is cle a Llosa 4 arly ruled out, 77 $ Oo : y ~ the bviously, if diversion into uth Saskatchewan River Se of diversi S PREMIER LLOYD askateh own were to be economically feasible, the water used would have to in- clude power production,’’ Lloyd added. Saskatchewan’s concern about possible future need for water from the Columbia River has been expressed clearly on several past occasions by Premier Lloyd. The article inthe revised Treaty with which the Premier is concerned is Article 13 Sec- tion 1, It states that ‘‘neither Canada nor the United States of America shall, without the con- sent of the other, evidence by an exchange of notes, divert for any use, other than a consumptive use, any water from its natural channel in any that alters the flow of any water as it crosses the Canada-U.S. boundary within the Columbia River Basin.” A leading editorial in the Ed- monton Journal of Jan. 24 said the Prairie Provinces have an “inescapable obligation to weigh the Treaty’s provisions with par- ticular regard to the long range effects of this region’s water re- sources.”’ NDP national leader T. ©. Douglas told a meeting in Saska- toon recently that he hoped there would not be many more events like the signing of the Columbia Treaty resulting from Prime Minister Pearson’s recent visit to the U.S. Douglas said there is provision for diverting water to the Prair- ies in case of drought. ‘‘But you don’t divert water after a droweht, You do it before.” According to reports Wednes- day the U.S. —British plan would build a 10,000-man force from NATO countries, including the U.S., Britain, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and the Neth- erlands. Details of the plan were revealed this week in Ottawa dur- ing the visit of British Prime Minister Home and Foreign Sec- retary R. A. Butler. U.S. State Undersecretary George Ball is visiting Turkey, Greece and Cyprus President Archibishop Makarios to win ag- reement for a NATO occupation force. The Cyprus president has opposed a NATOforce, has called for UN action and, as analterna- tive a force of Commonwealth troops. The U.S. and British aretrying to pressure Makarios into ac- cepting a NATO force and to in- form the UN Security Council that he has invited NATO troops. In this way they hope to get around the embarassing demand that the United Nations take a hand in securing peace at Cyprus, UN Secretary-General U Thant said last week he felt theSecurity Council should take up the Cyp- rus question if asked by the Cy- prus government. Also this week the chairman of the World Peace Council, Pro- fessor J. D. Bernal said in a statement in London that the Council supported the rejection of the NATO force plan. Hecall- ed on the Security Council ‘*to take measures in accordance with -the UN Charter that will safe- guard the full independence and territorial integrity of Cyprus.’’ TURKEY Will Canadians fight and die at Cyprus to maintain the NATO nuciear base there? This could easily happen if Ottawa goes along with the U.S. British plan for.a NATO force to occupy the island. Canada should back world opinion for UN action If needed to keep peace at Cyprus. Last week Soviet Premier Khr- ushchev sent a message to Brit- ish, French and U.S. leaders condemning plans to organize ‘military intervention’’ against Cyprus. Khrushchev said that all in- terested states should ‘‘take ev- ery account of the consequences which may be entailed by anarm- ed invasion.’’ He added that ‘‘al- though the Soviet Union does not border directly with the Republic of Cyprus, it cannot remain in- different. to the situation which is arising in the Eastern Medi- terranean, a region which, after all, is not so far removed from the southern borders of the USSR.”’ The Soviet Premier urged that leaders of the countries concern- ed use their influence ‘‘to pre- vent a further increase oftension over Cyprus,.to extinguish the passions which are being kept at a boil from the outside.’’ Referring to the plan foraNA- TO force, Khrushchev said that *“certain powers, flouting the pr- inciples of the United Nations See CYPRUS, pg. 8 Shipyard strike solid About 2,000 workers, repre- sented by 22 unions in the ship- yard industry, are remaining sol- id in their strike of Burrard Dry Dock in North Vancouver, and i N ' - SHIPYARD WORKERS ON PICKET LINE. Photo shows marine workers as Yarrows and Victoria Machinery Depot in Victoria, The workers overwhelmingly rebuffed a brazen attempt to: break the strike bythe provincial picket line formed at Burrard Dry Dock in North Vancouver. ’ department of labor this week. when they voted down a ‘‘new”’ offer put to them over the heads of their unions. The provincial labor depart- ment, under the infamous Section 55 of the Labor Relations Act, can place an employer’s offer di- rectly to a group of strikers, by- passing any union or unions com- pletely, and the attempt was made this week. The workers had previously turned down a conciliation award of 30 cents an hour, spread over three years, by a vote approach- ing 99 percent. When an eleventh- hour intervention by Deputy La- bor Minister William Sands fail- ed to keep the men from hitting the bricks, the companies in- volved produced a ‘‘new”’ offer just two cents more than what has already been so convincingly rejected, The second vote was also solid- ly in favor of rejection. Meanwhile, the Mine Mill union has issued a statement charging that Section 55 was inserted into See SHIPYARD, pg. 3