Quebec elections : Trend swings against Duplessis in cities in an effort to correct this glar- ing political discrimination. By FRANK ARNOLD MONTREAL, As June 20 — election day 1a Quebec — nears, a swing against Duplessis has become noticeable. | The desultory campaign being . run by the Union Nationale lacks | spirit or conviction. Duplessis, | aged and fat with office, is going , through ine motions relying Up-/ hours before the event, a uni- it ser igpewpsa es wean formed policeman notified the ed publicity and the force Of yop that the St. Henri Town habit to carry him through. Hall which had been leased and The Liberals, under George La-| paid for was cancelled. peace leadership, nave eel Despite these tactics, the LPP remarkably vigorous (for Liber- 42; succeeded in making itself als, that is) in denouncing the ' heard. ‘ sellout of Quebec’s natural a SRE MROOOOG Cupieeton an at sources, in calling for a steel in- t active 8-page broadside against dustry, in attacking the graft and the Duplessis regime have gone Typical of the tactics used against the LPP was cancella- tion of the city-wide election rally called to hear LPP pro- vincial leader Gui Caron, Ger- ard Fortin, candidate for St. Henri, and others outline the party’s election platform. Four H-test consequences say scientists If H-bomb tests continue at the present rate, there will be grave consequences to the human race in the increasing number of children deformed at birth. This is the conclusion drawn in a ‘‘Report to the Public’ issued at Washington this week by the U.S. National Academy of Scientists. The report is based on a year’s study of radioactivity conducted by The report warned that “any large increase” in the number of H-bomb test explosions could be “a matter of serious concern to the human race” and would lead 146 top U.S. scientists. to an increase in the number of | or hearing to “congenital malfor- children born with deformities ; mations.” caused by radiation damage. : It pointed out that radio- activity is “harmful to life” and that the consequences of un- These deformities, it noted, could range from defective vision Sukarno pleads for ‘unity in diversity’ He spoke of his country and its people with great pride and restricted H-tests might be a shorter life span, an increase in cancer and other diseases and even the eventual destruction of the human race. The average person in North America is being exposed to general venality of the adminis- tration, in advocating a popular program of improved social and | labor legislation. The trend at the moment in- dicates that the Liberals will gain from the “swing” in the predominantly industrial rid- ings, perhaps as many as a doz- en seats, but there is no sign as yet of any perceptible change in the more rural constituencies which constitute Duplessis’ main base. The election campaign has been marked by the size of the effort put forward by the Labor-Pro- gressive party — the third party in number of candidates (33 nom- inated) — and the rather fearful attempts by the authorities to deny these candidates a hearing. The powers-that-be have gone to special lengths to prevent the LPP from enjoying the same rights accorded other political parties, afraid apparently to al- low the new, working class force to establish the right to challenge parliamentary monopoly of the old-line parties of big business. The CBC has refused to grant the LPP any radio of TV free time political broadcasts, al- though it has given the Union Nationale, Liberals and Social Democrats ample free time. The Social Democratic party, with 26 candidates, for instance, has been awarded seven free TV broad- casts. The LPP is taking legal action \insurance system, a new labor ‘into the homes of 33 ridings set- ting out the LPP ideas on how the people of Quebec can become “Maitres Chez Nous” — masters 4n our own house. Coupled with thousands of copies of leaflets that have been distributed at every plant in Montreal and Que- bec the total of LPP election material will probably exceed a million Breaking through the black-out was accomplished by the selfless labor of hundreds of election workers who put up posters in the 33 ridings, tacked up tens of thousands of placards demanding. Health Insurance Now, and spoke ‘to thousands of voters person- ally. The Social Democratic party has confined its campaign largely to radio and TV, has called few meet- ings, and has not as yet publish- ed a program. ‘ Labor’s independent voice was not heard in the campaign except in the 32-point program enunci- ated by the CCCL which it ask- ed all political parties to endorse. Main points of the Catholic Syn- dicate program include: estab- lishment ofa contributory health code, repeal of bill 19 and 20, grants to education and scholar- ships to be financed by a 10 per- cent tax on the profits of com- panies working on natural re- sources, equal pay for equal work, elimination of company towns, redistribution of seats so that urban electors will be more adequately represented, revision of the Quebec Electoral Act. Senior citizens want free dentures, glasses Free dentures, glasses and hearing aids were demanded in resolutions passed by the third annual convention of Senior Citizens’ Association of B.C. at Marpole Community Centre last week. Keenly conscious of the fact that old age pensioners are often denied many of the simple plea- sures of life because of lack of money, another resolution pas- sed by the convention asked for free fishing ‘licenses, provided on the same basis as the cost of living bonus, which requires a ‘means test. Another resolution _ asked that married couples be allowed to earn $1,800 annually, and single pensioners, $1,200, with- out losing their cost-of-living bonus. > A committee will probe the possibility of better housing at low rent for senior citizens. George F. Edwards, 78, Van- couver was re-elected president; T. J. Geernaert, 87, Vancouver, and John B. Pattern, 72, of Haney, were named vice-presi- dents. great love. He spoke of the national movement of liberation throughout the colonial world, in Africa and in Asia. He spoke of peace and the equality of all mankind. And as Dr. Sukarno finished his address in Canada’s House of Commons on June 5, he was accorded a standing ovation from both MPs ad senators who had gathered to hear the president of the Repub- lic of Indonesia. ' These were his concluding remarks: “We try to practise our state motto ‘Bhinneka Tunggal Ika’ which means ‘Unity in Diversity.’ We are tolerant of each other. We are one nation. One of the most remarkable phenomena, in modern history is that we of In- donesia, although living on 3,000 islands, are united in one nation, without pressure, without com- pulsion, without civil war. — “What then is our unifying force? It is the will to unity, it is ‘le desire d’etre ensemble,’ in- stead of suspecting each other, dominating each other, threaten- ing each other and colonizing each other — living at each other’s ex- pense. “We of Indonesia try to prac- tise Bhinneka Tunggal Ika amongst ourselves. ‘Let us try to practise Bhin- neka Tunggal Ika amongst nations. “Then, only then, can we look up again to the stars and say ‘Thank God, for You have given us this world. and we have lived according to Your word.’” ‘ Earlier in his address, Dr. Sukarno pictured what colonial- ism can do to a people. Referring to the Bandung conference last year at which representatives of 29 countries. participated, speaking for more than half the world’s population, he said: “These assembled representa- tives of the majority of mankind clearly expressed their opposi- tion to ‘colonialism in all its forms. That is a basic fact in the mid- twentieth century. “Above all things, this is the period of Asian and African nationalism. This is the era when the old conditions, the old and hated pattern of world society is undone. “Who can be surprised by the fact that colonialism, whatever form it assumes, whatever mask it may hide behind, however it may disguise itself, is indeed a hateful and disgusting thing ? “T will tell you this: colonialism left Indonesia with a heritage of e| illiteracy, a heritage of human sickness, of human_ ignorance,. New. executive members are? w. A. Prime, Vancouver; Alex Fraser, Vancouver; H. Lauridsen- , Hoegh, Vancouver; H. R. Arthur, | Chilliwack; Mrs. B. McFarlane, Vancouver; G. W. Norman, Van- couver; Mrs. C. LaFleur, Cran- | brook; J. Currie, Oliver, and Mrs. A. Robinson, Burnaby. Secretary-treasurer is Charlotte I. Lucas, Vancouver. of human degredation, which was a disgrace and a menace to the 20th century. “We had the highest illiteracy rate in the world. We had the highest mortality: rate in the world. “We had the lowest living standard in the world: One ‘gu- Mrs. | band” a day, two and a half guilder-cents a day — not even one dollar - cent a day. Our country was rich, but its wealth did not serve to alleviate the mis- ery and ignorance of our people. “Having achieved indepen- dence, we. still feel the conse- quences of 350 years of colonial- ism. And those consequences are not light ones.” Only 11 years ago almost all Indonesia’s people were illiterate. Today, less than half are. “I am immensely proud of the achieve- ment in this field and I am im- mensely proud of our national progress in other fields.” Of his government’g foreign policy, Dr. Sukarno said it was “independent and ‘active.’ And in this connection he quoted “one of the draftsmen of Canada’s greatness Sir Wilfred Laurier” as saying: “I claim for Canada this: that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not to act.” (Sir Wilfrid’s. words were made in reference to the Boer War.) radiation at the rate of 7.4 roent- gens in 30 years, the maximum allowable: being 10 roentgens in 30 Sg ae Even this maximum allowable exposure, according to the re- port, would cause an increase from two to two and four-tenths percent in the proportion of chil- | dren born handicapped because of radiation damage. The report bears out the warnings, hitherto discounted by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, repeatedly voiced by British, Japanese and other scientists. . : Last March, Prof. J. B. S. Hal- dane, outstanding British bio- chemist, told some 300 scientists attending a Science for Peace meeting in London that radiation from H-bombs already exploded would cause the deaths or prevent the births of 1,500,000 hum: beings. A proportion of this fig- ure, he added, would be mis- carriages and stillbirths. Haldane said he had arrived at his figure by a method based on the effects of radiation on animals. EE ‘HANDS OFF OUR 16--YEAR OLDS!” —— EDUCATION NOT MILITARIZATION — wa ANNIE BULLER VETERAN LABOR ORGANIZER WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 8 P.M. with Nigel Morgan Haney 1.0.0.F Hall THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 8 P.M. with Mona Morgen Nanaimo C.C.F. Hall FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 8 P.M. with Tom McEwen , Vancouver Clinton Hall SSS June 15, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE % a — se :