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} precedent HIS coming Monday, June 10, tage as shown by: their records,
’ Eee ate Petneg ie. : : :
: is election day. Voters will when it comes to serving the big
q apa ope . * Bes erates > 3 5 Na ace ents oe a : ; :
' HE provincial labor depart go to the polls to elect 265 can monopoly interests.
f ment conciliation board didates out of,a total of 868 TI al lid ‘
re ef TELT: see eee ee : , Z : The only cz dates taking z
qd} @ward on ie IWA wage de nominated for the 23rd Parlia- katate coe ap taking a
y | Mands for 1957 sets a new — meat otiCanada: definite stand on issues vital to
3 | and very dangerous — prece- the well being. peace and
y Sagan : e well being, peace and secur-
e| dent for organized labor. Quantitatively speaking, there Fn toe ae ;
. . . . ’ ~ 7 ( > ‘CO Sie Cc ‘> ce ¢ ,
; ] Under. the chairmanship of is a wide choice. ‘There are 265 eee a. es ae we
y Gordon Wismer, former Coali- Liberals nominated, 257 Con- ed by the CCF and LPP. Thus
»| tion attorney-general, the ma- servatives, 162 CCF, 116 Social ‘while there is no clear-cut al-
ety award proposes the hois- Credit, 10 Labor - Progressive, terhate path in this election,
in F 7A wage ands ;
- 6 of all TW A wage dem ands and 59 independents of one sort there is a great opportunity of
| and negotiations for a period of or another king i & J 1 0
oie making it a signal starting po
four months. In other words, the ag me ai cee oe ne Ps os
a! IWA must be’ satisfied with The overall choice can only xt aL ee BpeS Sai
: . present wages until the mar- result in a limited change — but in a parliament dedicated to the
z oe picks up a bit. with great future possibilities. needs and interests of the com
ae OATS Re Gee = SIS) ities mon people, rather than the pres-
2 Sas in order to sidestep the The first responsibility of ev- $43 em
| (gitimate demands of the IWA on uta TS: ean ent’ Liberal-dominated clearing
: ery citizen eligible to vote, and : es
» | fOr necessary wage increases to i £ salitical r house for the political lieuten-
(SRP RE Re Sangre te regardless of pdlitical or parti
| Meet steadily rising living costs, : Dee : ants of monopoly rule.
Bteordon: Wismer and his FIR - : san sentiments, is to get out and

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Colleagues recommend a four-

} Month hoist of all wage talks.

*
For the IWA membership and

} for all organized labor such an
“@ward is pregnant with grave
angers. If organized labor can
} Oly enter into collective bar-
Saining or seek wage increases
I

When the time is, deemed ap-

REMEMBER WHEN .. .
South Granville Street was a
straight slash through the forest

to Eburne and a pleasant carriage

ride on a warm summer's day.
This picture was taken in 1895,
when it:was the North Arm
Road, looking south to what is
now 37th Avenue.

vote. That is a right and a re
sponsibility too dearly won to
be carelessly thrown aside on
the excuse that they are “‘all the
same’ and there is nothing or no
one to vote for. aoe
True, a Tory or a Socred is
scarcely an alternative to a Lib
eral, all being of the same vin-

The choice ends on June 10—
but the fight for farmer-labor-
CCF-LPP united political action
goes On.

A solid vote for the CCF and
LPP candida.es on Monday will
give the struggle for a genuine
people’s parliament greater im-
petus.

3 | Plopriate for and by the bosses,

st | then collective bargaining be- pe RT
'| Comes as useless as an old-line “One: no one sufficiently un- Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who des-
e 9.45505 ESS a8. t ’ derstands radiation effects, and cribes H-bomb and other nuclear
_ Party politician Ss pre-election ae : tests as “a catastrophe for the
4 ; ; no one has the right to say that i A oe
| Promises : oe 2 human race, a catastrophe that
ae oa om small increases of radiation or must be prevented under every
fo | The: award should be treated radioactive ehemicals in_ the circumstance.”
i y are harmless. A. small but
| Sy the IWA—and all organized ee Raa aig Oke ere eat
labor ith tl : C wen definite number of persons are
‘ aoaaen F E Cs > E tC . « ‘ + » + - . .
ta. with ae. contempt 1¢ now being seriously harmed from BS ea : tter to Crandall sug-
on Serves. Wage Increases Cat) ‘past and present nuclear weap- 2 ae or aNee sue the At-
«< | Stil] be = C ae xe omic Energy Commission boys
18 | e met out of maximum ons tests, all authorities agree. eome around with another nu
| Profits : B Remo eae : , . eS C around with another nuc-
a Jtits, while markets can be READER has forwarded me “Two: the Atomic Energy lear test, he should have a tape
| Aad by ending U.S.-dictated em- a copy of the Tonopah Times Commission has been oe e recorder on the spot just to make
+} Dar Lattin PRS, = 18 ae i fe Bonanza and Goldfield News, is- the past, in some of its public _sure he gets down all they have
; fe and adopting ol sensible . w Ms 4 ae : ey pronouncements about radiation to say!
| Po Icies. The important fact for sue of May 17, 1957. It is quite a hazards compare known The editor, having some dif-

| Pacific Tribune

| Wage earners, TWA and others

s that living costs are not gear’
“a to Wismer’s ‘‘hoist’’ machin-

Published weekly at
Room 6 — 426. Main Street
Vancouver 4, B.C.
Phone:-MArine 5288
Editor — TOM McEWEN

aisociate Editor — HAL GRIFFIN

Usiness Manager — RITA WHYTE

modest looking journal and in its
54, years of publication has. un-
doubtedly featured some stirring
events in the history of Nevada.

Now it has a world menace on
its doorstep, and at some risk of
running afoul of current Un-
American Activities radiation, is
heading up a state campaign to
halt the testing of atomic weap-
ons in Nevada.

Placing ‘its columns at the dis-
posal of a number of Utah State
University profesors and various

+ public. organizations, the Tono-'

pah Times-Bonanza reveals some
interesting opinion and, because

facts about injuries to people in
the Marshall Islands with AEC
statements.

“Three: The AEC has been far
from candid with the public
about atomic energy matters ...
consider the attempted suppres-
sion of Nobel Prize winner H. J.
Muller’s report on_radiation haz-
ards to the Geneva conference...

Other. points raised by the
Utah profesors: against nuclear
weapons and tests are the waste
of human and material resources
the exorbitant taxation of the.
people and the international ten-
sions and fears implicit in the
atomic race.

ficul.y with all the “equations
and other data” being thrown at
him during one of these Nevada
tests, tried out the tape record-
ing idea, but the AEC wasn’t hav-
ing any. :

“If I had pulled a six shooter
on the monitor he couldn’t have
reac ed’ more emphatically. He
contended that he couldn’t »os-
sibly have his remarks record-
ed as they might be ‘misunder-
stoad,’ ‘quoted out of context’ and
besides it wasn’t ‘good policy.’
And besides he wasn’t about to
do it. And he didn’t.”

We salu e the Tonopah Times-
Bonanza and Goldfield News edi-

He? Subscription Rates: ats ; : A
qe One Year: $4.00 of its source, doubly important. “We and other nations have tor in the heart of the Nevada
i In a joint letter to editor Rob- more than enough nuclear wea- testing ground, and the profes-

: _' Six months: $2.25
Md Canadian and Commonwealth
Untries (excépt Australia): $4.00
oe Year. Australia, United States
all other countries: $5.00 one
: : year.

ert A. Crandall, the professors
cite four main reasons as to why
the Nevada nuclear tests should
be immediately halted.

pons now for the destruction of
all life on this planet,” say the
U.S. professors as they join their
voices with Nobel Prize winner

sors of Utah State University:
They represent new and courag-

eous voices against the horror of

nuclear destruction. .

JUNE 7,

1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7