— Sa

: JAPANESE OPPOSE US. MILITARY
/3ASE. People cn the Japanese Island of
Hokkaido have bitterly opposed a new U.S.
base at Tokachibuto. A strong picket line

the site.

(shown above) has blocked the road to
the base site, preventing U.S. trucks carry-
ing construction materials from reaching

|CANADIAN CP WIRES NEHRU:

Prime Minister Nehru has been
Urged by the Communist Party
of Canada to accept the offer of

ina to negotiate the present
“onflict. A cable to the Indian
leader Tuesday said that the’ in-

Tests of world peace and the
National interests of India de-
“Mand that this be done.

The message to Mr. Nehru from
€ party’s National Executive
7 “mmittee reads:

ee

“The interests of world peace

demand that you acept the Chin-

ese negotiation offer on the basis
of the already existing cease-fire.
Western imperialist interests for
their own purposes want to keep
alive and aggravate the conflict
with China contrary to the na-
tional interests of your country
and your traditional non-align-
ment policy. We urge you to re-
lease the imprisoned Commun-
ists. Their imprisonment without
trial is an affront to democracy.”

The Communist Party also pro-

poses to Prime Minister Diefen-.

baker that instead of shipping

arms to India, he offers the serv-'

ices of Canada in mediating the
border dispute with China, and
refuse. to be drawn into the US.-
British policy of using the present
conflict to destroy India’s neu-
trality.

bia Treaty?”

€anada.

The “News” article says:

Were astonished.

‘nquiry.

%.C. government.’

© rejection.

Payola had been earned.”

PAPER ASKS QUESTION:
Was payola involved

in Columbia sellout?

The November 15 issue of the “Bridge River-Lillooet
€ws", edited by Margaret L. (Ma) Murray, wife of the late
George M. Murray, M.P., devotes an entire eight-page sup-
Plement to the subject. “Is Canada being rooked on Colum-

~ The conclusion the “News” comes to is that the draft
Columbia Treaty “Gives too much, gets too little,” for

A startling section of one of the leading article. raises
© question whether “payola’” was involved in the sellout
°f Canada’s interests in the Columbia River negotiations.

“Negotiations had been in private.
Treaty were made public, numerous American experts
CUutside IJC (International Joint Commission) wno had
made studies and reports which had inflenced the Wash.
ngton negotiators to abandon Libby and concede to Can-
ada the very advantageous Kootenay diversion, heard thet
e diversion had been abandoned and Libby restored, they
t Who had done it? : f
hose on the inside disclosed CANADA had rejected diver-
Slon, they cculdn’t believe their ears. Why?
. “They could not imagine why.
Wected a bonanza like that?
Rumors soon ran in the United States’ that
Somebody in Montana paid payola to somebody in the
It ran so strongly that it got into print
Several places. What gave it credibility was the manner
n which Premier Bennett's representative had announced
Americans reasoned that he
Protocol if he had, from a necessity to display openly and
Unmistakably, that it was the premier NOT Fulton or Of-
awa who had ‘delivered Libby’ — to provide proof that

When terms of the

When leaks from

Why had Canada re-
They pursued an extensive

had violated

‘Accent China offer to negotiate’

Special Issue

The Dec. 14 issue of the
PT will carry a variety of
ads and greetings for the
holiday season and the ad-
vent of 1963.

Press clubs, readers, small
businessmen, etc. wishing to
place a greeting in this spe-
cial issue should have ali
copy in by Friday, Dec. 7.

NPA

Con’t from pg. 1

million, plus the business tax,
which amounted to $9 mil-
lion; in other words, the per-
centage of the total tax bill
carried by business was
56.3%, that by homeowners
43.7%.

However, by 1961 that sit-
uation had practically revers-
ed itself, for in that year
business put (including busi-
ness taxes) $20,756,000 into
the tax kitty, while residen-
tial properties contributed
$23,754,000.

This means that, last year,
business was called on to put
up only 46.6% of the tax dol-
lar, while homeowners were
paying 53.4%.

This represents a shift of
19.4% in the tax load, for
$4,200,000 had been shifted
from business and industry
to residential property.

The CRA indicated that
the proposed application of
the general mill rate to the
machinery tax assessment
(based on 50% of assesssed
value) would produce $1.8
million; this move would, in
effect, merely shift back
about 43% of the burden.

The brief pointed out that,
while business tax revenue
had increased by 130% dur-
ing that period, taxes to
homeowners had jumped by
more than 220%. This was
illustrated by the case of one
person who was “distressed
last year to find the taxes on
his home had increase by
$50. However, he was happy
to ‘find that the taxes on his
hotel had dropped by $80 for
the same period.”

As election days approach rap-
idly, many progressive and labor
candidates all over B.C. have
thrown their hats into the ring.

In addition to those already
nominated in the Lower Mainland
(reported in this and preceding
issues of the PT) the following
persons have announced that they
‘will be in the running for muni-
cipal office:

George McKnight, candidate for
alderman in Pt. Alberni; :

Myrtle Bergren, candidate for
District 66 of the School Board,
Cowichan Lake;

Archie Greenwell, present chair-
man of District 66 in Cowichan
is up for re-election; (Greenwell
is also running for council);

Onni Parta, candidate for
Ladysmith council;

Ken Gibson, candidate for coun-
cil in Powell River; and

Walter Jensen, candidate for
council in the Municipality of
Langley.

running in B.C. elections

Many progressive candidates

HARRY JEROME, undoubt-
edly one of the finest runners
in the world, injured his leg
by trying too hard in the 100-
yard dash at the British Em-
pire Games in Perth, Aus-.
tralia. The Vancouver Sun,
displaying its characteristic
“objective” reporting, head-
lined its story on his loss:
"Jérome Folds Once More”.
The star Canadian athlete
requires surgery and may be
out of competition for a year.

Pritchett, Godfrey appeal

for unity to beat machine

A strong appeal for labor unity
to defeat the NPA-BCA machine
in Burnaby was made this week
by independent candidates for
council and school board, Harold
Pritchett and Marie Godfrey.

The appeal, printed in the form
of an ad in the Burnaby Courier,
stated that ‘‘this unity should be
expressed by voting for three of
the four council candidates en-
dorsed by the Vancouver Labor
Council in Burnaby and giving
your fourth vote to Harold Prit-
chett . . . (also) by voting for
two of the three School Board
candidates supported by the VLC
and giving your third vote to
Marie Godfrey .. .”’

Pritchett, who is the Circula-
tion Manager; of the PT, is Vice-
president of the Capitol Hill Rate-
payers, was the founding presi-

dent of the IWA and former sec-
retary of the B.C. Federation of
Labor and Vancouver Labor
Council. He has worked 40 years
of his life in the labor move-
ment.

Marie Godfrey is a Past Presi-
dent of the Ladies’ Auxiliary,
Local. 1-217, IWA, a former Ex-
ecutive member of the Vancou-
ver Foster Day Care Assn. and
convener of the Child Welfare

Committee, Vancouver Local
Council of Women. :
Their programs call for in-

creased aid to municipalities by
the senior governments, a _ re-
distribution of the tax structure
which would compel business to
pay its full share and a demand
that the federal government as-
sume the full cost of elementary
education.

Ban , SS

Nob (F LAD A TAX CUT | CouLD AFFORD To BUY.
ANOTHER MACHINE AND END THE. DEPRESSION...”

Noy, 30, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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