Gift neither Canadian nor

above) released
1adron RCAF air
in Europe,

yelng equipped

1 later model Sabre Jets
CF-100 Interc The
p with spare are

FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1956

es fare )

Continued from page I

CANCER THREAT

hat his government’s view
the ib question
idered only
ment meas-
control.

ae
H-bon

Moscow, speaking before
viet on Mon-
ign Min-
Shepiloy proposed
i and the USS.
h the Soviet U
framework

UN, to

ne

1, +
week, F C

this

and
halt

to negotiate
eement with

such

was no

t week fo
4

mM

endicat
at strontium 90
g detected in Eng-
other countries i

genuine

=yS sand and

worth around $35 million.
When they are delivered to

West Germany they will be
flown by ex-Lufwaffe pilots

who comprise the nucleus of

the German Federal
lic’s new air force.

Repub-

Indication that the gift will

German people appro

where .delegates call

not win friends for Canada more vigorous fight

among the people of West conscription and critiGi®
Germany was given at the Adenauer regime- for ©
West German Social Demo- an army of 500,000 andi
cratic conference last week ing huge sums on rearl

BENNETT HEDGES |

Island want
public pow

VICTORIA

Public protest against monopolizing of power resources and distribution

ing in

A

gether with the
Bennett in Victoria this week.

Resolutions and briefs from
the various centres were pre-
sented to the premier, together
With a brief from Port Alber-
Local 1-85 of the Inter-
tional Woodworkers of Am-

nl

n
erica, urging that the B.C.
Power Commission be given

preference in further electric
power development.

The delegation also urged
that a royal commission be set
up to examine the question of
hydro power development.

It is known that the Socred
government gives preference
to the B.C. Electric, because,
as the IWA brief emphasizes,
“ ... the most lucrative and
profitable areas of power dis-
tribution are occupied by the
B.C. Electric, while the B.C.
Power Commission, owned by
the taxpayers, has been forced
to service the rural and un-
profitable areas of B.C.”.

Premier Bennett declared
the government has no
intention of replacing “private
enterprise in the field of pow-
since. there is plenty .of
room for both private and pub-
lic enterprise to develop...”

er

Editorializing on the issue,
the Nanaimo Daily Free Press
writes that “in no small meas-
ure the B.C. Power Commissi-
on is ignored by the govern-
nent this province... it
might be suggested that it is
time for the provincial govern-
ment to do some serious think-

of

ing about its attitude towards
the Power Commission. Is the
latter a body to be ignored, or
one to be clothed with. the au-

thority and respect it de-
serves?”
Both the Vancouver Island

Continued from

Electric to the exclusion of the publicly-owned B.C. Power Commission
Vancouver Island centres. ;
powerful delégation from the Vancouver Island Ratepayers Associatitl:
mayors of Nanaimo and Port Alberni, interviewed Premier We

Ratepayers Associattol
ation and the IWA
government “to tas
measures are, i
ion, ito @
fufilment these
ions.”

as
necessary
of

page I

TUNNEL

he said. Exposure to such con-
of Italian immigrants to man
the job.”

But, anxious to proceed with
construction, the company
Signed for 30 cents an hour
eabove the Chicago contract
negotiated by U.S. _ inter-
national representatives over
the protest of their Canadian
membership.

Coynes Construction is the

second pipeline company to
back down. , Sparling Davis
Contractors, subsidiary of

Mannix Contractors, faced with
strike action by Local 168 at
Harrison Lake, despite its in-
junction prohibiting Local 168
“Interference,” also agreed to
pay 30 cents an hour
the Chicago contract.

above

In Vancouver this week the
injunction secured by the law
irm of Rankin, Mollison and
Dean on behalf of Local 168,

July 20, 1956 —

WORKE

inter

prohibiting the

from interfering ¥
local’s normal funct!
aside. This has ™
ever, dampened af
elation over their wab®™

set

Meanwhile, Local
struction and Gener@ay a
ers, of which Carl
Edmonton is “admit
has been given J
over all pipeline Cc

Coincident with.
filing of an injunctl@
Local 168 by Canaee®
tell. The injunctio®
stop any activities
“upset contractural

with Local 602,
fact that Local 602
single man on the
job.

Opinion in wt
circles is that

Wage victories will
fight of Local 6028
ship to rid. itself oh
ministration imp05

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