1 , Tey bey abi Ma aan ae A vagenst fe 1) maaet Raat Deel el Ri ear dea eet stg th NEM ge REREAD is ae ee) t ’ te ae 4} Y tay, eeegetne rp nes yheili LAN MME N A <> ** PRICE TEN CENTS arte “4 VOL. 13 No. 44 Tim Buck tells Whart’s behind Duplessis and St. Laurent deal Fundamentally, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent . .. and Premier Maurice Duplessis are in agreement. Page 2 a eee ‘Grab every available market’ urges Braaten Canada should “grab every available market” to provide jobs for our growing numbers of un- €mployed workers, Orville Braat- €n, Pulp and Sulphite Workers’ delegate, told Vancouver Trades and Labor Council (TLC) this Week, “Let’s face it. Lack of foreign trade is causing unemployment, and we may have a million job- less this winter unless we change Our government’s policy on trade,” said Braaten. “Don’t wait for the U.S. to change their Minds. Trade with Russia, trade With China, trade with any coun- try Willing to trade with us!” At this point two delegates from Seafarers International Union, the U.S.-dominated union used by the government and ship- owners a few. years ago to break the great strike of the Canadian Seamen’s Union, interrupted Braaten with cries of “Sit down.” “When the mortgage company is pressing for payment on the home, it’s not a very good aiswer to our financial problem to say we do not want to trade with cer- tain people,” Braaten continued. (In Edmonton last week the annual convention of the Indus- trial Federation of Labor (CCL) endorsed a United’ Mine Work- ers resolution calling on Ottawa to “open trade channels with the rest of the world.” LEGISLATURE ‘ CONSIDER SER DEAL Nigel Morgan, LPP ‘provincial leader, this week hurled back at Premier W. A. C. Bennett his statement, headlined in the daily press, that the Labor- Progressive party was opposed to the proposed Kaiser development on the Columbia River and that “‘all Communists and Socialists’ were against it. Morgan demand- ed that “‘no further commitments be given until the legislature has heard all the facts and the people have had an opportunity fo weigh up the al- ternatives and voice their desire.” Vancouver Trades and Labor Council this week added its voice to the growing opposition to the Bennett government’s scheme by unanimously adopting a resolu- tion to condemn giving away of B.C! hydro pofential to U.S. in- terests. John Hines, Painters’ union delegate who moved the resolu- tion, pointed out that the Col- umbia River water resources the Rennett government proposed to give away to the Kaiser alumin- um interests, if they were de- veloped by Canada and used to build Canadian industries, could provide an estimated 60,000 in- dustrial jobs. Nigel Morgan, in his press statement replying to Bennett, declared: “Certainly the Labor-Progres- sive party opposes any such deal as. the Bennett government § is making with the Kaiser interests. No patriotic Canadians in any party can support this selling out of our national heritage to U.S. ‘trusts. Premier Bennett cannot hope to conceal his betrayal by resorting to smear methods. “The LPP believes that the re- sources of our province should be developed for the benefit of our people, to establish and expand industry and to provide jobs. “In place of providing storage dams to furnish power for in- dustry in the United States, the Bennett government should be. concerned with developing the Columbia River to provide all the power for Canadian needs it wil] yield. . : “Federal authorities estimate that 12 million horsepower can be generated directly and ‘indi- rectly on the Canadian side, Continued on back page See MORGAN Gov't apologizes for racial slur OTTAWA An official apology was tender- ed this week by the Canadian government to Premier Grantley Adams of Barbados, who was re- fused a room in Montreal’s Windsor Hotel. Adams, who is colored, is the leader of the elected legislative assembly of the British West In- dian colony of Barbados. When Premier Adams arrived in Montreal on a visit to this country, he attempted to register at the hotel but was refused ac- commodation. A protest lodged at Ottawa re- sulted in the government’s action.