LESLI = a M Hall Morris speaks on A-arms ORRIS, national Communist Party leader shown above, will speak @ Pender Auditorium Sunday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m. on ‘‘Parliament Must © Get the Bombs Out of Canada.” He will speak in Victoria’s William's Feb.’ 749 Broughton, on Tues. Feb. 11 and at Vernon’s 1OOF Hall, Wed. 12 at 7:30 p.m. CAPITAL COMMENTS: _Nimsick hits power pact in House debate By ERNIE KNOTT Bec LORIA — The government : 1zes that this session is not eee to produce anything spec- a * ar, other than the bankidea, se has already gone into over- i € and put on the night shift 2 order to i with, get the session over We will now, have a ‘‘quick- ie’’ session-a logical out- growth of a **quickie”’ el- ection. And then on with the business of **sood, honest and orderly”’ . Sovernment, ace Sitting in the gallery and t €ning to the boring debate on Sr hrone speech, one is struck “ his thought: Oh, ifthere were a - just one - clear voiced [an on of the people who would a ely on his feet, cut ss “4 the gentlemanly niceties Oy © debate and state flatly, ing 1 of this pious talk about solv- = Social welfare problems is a rar... + hypocrisy, as long as we 7 a to talk now about and take : of the question of U.S. Ow ceo, SHIP and control of B.C.’s onomy, ee ay U.S. control which, erials Concentration on raw ma- ie ame and water storage on nough Umbia, will not provide We ae jobs so that, as a result, nea: = bound to have unemploy- Well, Six and ahalf percent and a are at five percent - or 12 Peent'in all," co as if to make the point the ya fe nimation double clear. Missite S in keeping with their Plomac > gunboat style of di- Missile have sent two atomic “Court €quipped destroyers ona €sy”’ call to Victoria dur- dn eee Past week while the Leg- Ure is Sitting. M ; * KA y awhile, our Victoria ship- nes Baers who-are faced with Percent so last week voted 75 election. Strike to back up their Concitiat; of a sellout unanimous : th On award for a shackl- ree year contract. : 10) out 1 & a clear voice ringing : Merchant House for a Canadian i Marine to carry some to the wheat and other products 3 2 aa of the: world. S8ition ¢. ile, a cap-in-hand del- ®adeq a Victoria city council 1S week for Ottawa to i/4 woo plead in time honored fashion for more useless military work in our shipyards. * * * True, the quesion of the need for further manufacturing in- dustry in B.C, was taken up in the House, Ray Perrault, the Liberal leader, did advocate more manufacturing industry to take care of population growth, unemployment and a future for the youth who now make up one- third of B.C.*s population. But again he did not explain how this could be done without tackling the question of U.S. con- trol which decides what will be done with our resources. Attorney General Bonner, who in the debate cut our primrose- vested opposition leader to rib- bons, hinted that he would like to enjoy the benefits of increased trade with China, but would not want to bear political responsi- bility for calling for recognition of China, That he left, intrue back-pass- ing fashion, up to Ottawa. But there was one honest cham- pion, the only one unfortunately, who stood up on the House floor for B.C. Good old Leo Nimsick (NDP—Cranbrook)! To Nimsick goes everlasting credit for plac- ing on the House records the op- position of the working class and people generally to the sellout draft Columbia treaty. We need more people like Leo Nimsich elected on Vancouver Island instead of types like his primrose-vested colleague (part of the new image, you know) who make their main forte social welfare and remain silent on the E & N land grant question while the CPR chokes to death the last remaining Canadian-owned mills on the Island by cutting off their log supply. We need more people like Leo to take off the kid gloves and go after the tax assessment ques- tion. And what better time thannow, when the Courts of Revision are sitting, to expose on the floor of the House tremendous assess- ment jumps on homes which are taking place all over. B. C.? A good time indeed to tell Ben-. nett that, at the rate house taxes are going up, we will need his $150 Home Owner Grant by 1967 instead of by 1970. : Next week we will get a look at just who gets what out of those taxes when the budgetis present- ed to the House. LABOR ROUNDUP B.C. Fed. calis all unions to wages, policy parley The B.C. Federation of Labor has called a Wages and Policy Conference for Saturday, March 7, in line with instructions to do , so issued at its last convention, held midway through November. Each affiliated union will be requested to send three dele- gates to the conference, which will deal with minimum hours of work per week, wages, arbit- ration procedures, seniority, etc. Exact timeandplace are expected to be announced shortly. Delegate Charles Stewart (Street Railwaymen) while wel- coming the conference, pointed _out that the leadership of the BCF had been lax in not calling im- mediately following the conven- tion. Speaking at the Vancouver Labor Council meeting last Tues- day, Stewart showed that some unions had already signed lengthy contracts, others were going out on strike and others still had already been negotiating for sev- eral months. Had the conference been called earlier, he stated, the BCF could have provided ‘‘positive, dynamic leadership’’ to the labor move- ment in the fight for the 35 hour week. The conference will still have significant value for unions such as the IWA and others who are just entering a period of negoti- ations. iS) The VLC also decided to ex- plore the possibility of present- FOREST GRAB Cont'd from pg. 1 raw material economy to pro- cessing our raw materials is again underlined by the BCPF application for a license. The long range interests of B.C. would be much better served if, instead of handing over our resources to U.S. and Canadian monopolies, the B.C. government used the capital which will beac- cumulated in the new bank to launch a Crown company for the purpose of creating a vast wood processing industry in B.C. In this way the hydro and forest resources could be com- bined to bring lasting benefit to the people and the province - in- stead of only a few hundred un- steady jobs for workers as hew- ers of wood and hundreds of mil- lions in profits for the rich. Opposition to granting ofatree farm license to B.C. Forest Pro- ducts and MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River Ltd., in the north was voiced by NDP MLA for Comox, John Squire Monday in the Legislature. ‘*We of the NDP don’t want to see these licenses granted until we determine the return to the people of the province,’’ Squire said. He also charged that the mono- polies now holding tree farm lic- enses ‘‘control both the supply and demand and thereby set their own log prices.’’ Pointing out that lumber com- panies in B.C. had revenues last year of $780 million but only $15 million of this had been returned in taxes, Squire demanded a lar- ger return from forestry to the province. He said the price of wood for pulp in B.C. ishalf what — it is in Eastern Canada, but paper prices are exactly the same. Also revealing the fantastic profits being made from exploit- ing B.C.’s forests, Squire said a $1,000 investment in shares of MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River Ltd., in 1947 would have increased 15 times in 16 years. ing a joint submission with the BCF to the Royal Commission now investigating operations in the province’s oil industry. The decision was in response toa plea from Local 452, Carpenters, who stated “labor has not taken a tough enough stand’’ against the oil monopolies. e ‘Council heard a report from George Johnson (Meat Cutters) that a strike called last May 7 against the Alberta Meat Mar- ket in Victoria was still going strong, but a new wrinkle has been added through intervention by the provincial Dept. of Labor. The department has invoked Sec. 55 of the Labor Relations Act (the first time this section has been used since being passed in 1961) to place a so-called company ‘‘offer’’ directly to some of the men on strike, going over the head of the unions Of the total work force of 12 people, five will not be allowed to vote since they were fired by the company immediately after the strike was first called. Those who do have the right to vote include four scabs who have been working throughout the duration of the strike. 6 As the PT went topress it was reported that shipyard workers at Victoria Machinery Depot and Yarrows had gone out on strike. They were to be followed by workers at Burrard Dry Dock, in North Vancouver, on Thurs- day morning. A last minute attempt to stall the strike action was initiated by Deputy Labor Minister William Sands, who called a meeting of the three companies and 22 unions involved for Wednesday morning. Significantly, Sands waited until hours before the strike deadline to intervene in the dispute. Bill Stewart (Marine Workers) told VLC on Tuesday that Burrard Dry Dock, instead of using its government subsidy to expand facilities at its operation, had paid out millions of dollars in dividends during the past few years. The Wallace family (of Burrard D.D.) alone had received over $4 million in 1961, Stewart charged. — As a result, the workers were ‘cunited as never before’’ to win their demands for higher wages, improved vacations and other benefits. e At its last meeting VLC went on record unanimously as being ‘opposed to the compulsory registration of citizens under the Wartime Emergency Powers Act.* The action came in response to a letter from Division 101, Street Railwaymen, who said the idea smacked of a police state tactic which runs counter to all democratic Canadian traditions. Council secretary Paddy Neale told delegates a letter has gone to CLC president Jodoin pre- testing the national registration scheme. So far, no answer has come from Jodoin. & The maritime trusteeship is- sue will be debated on Tuesday, February 11, at the IWA Hall, 13th Ave. and Commercial, at 8 p.m. Speakers will be Pat O’Neal, Bob Cook, Tom McGrath and Orville Braaten. A-arms protest grows Cont'd from pg. 1 gation asking them to give it sym- pathetic hearing. The meeting also issued anin- vitation to all peace supporters to join the Council in these cam- paigns. Information regarding both the postcard campaign and the delegation to Victoria may be obtained from the B.C. Peace Council at 339 W. Pender or MU 5-9958. The Councilalso agreed to send a letter to the Geneva Disarma- ment talks welcoming the partial test ban treaty and urging that ,every effort be made to push on ss NEW U.S. PUPPET IN S. VIETNAM. A coup last week brought Gen. Ngyen Khanh, above, to power as military dictator. It is now re- vealed that U.S. ambassador Lodge was briefed on the coup a week before it took place. The coup is seen as a further maneouvre by the U.S. to stave off inevitable to take further steps towards the destruction of A-weapons and total disarmament. In a cross-country tour in which he made 40 speeches, NDP leader T. C. Douglas has urged that nuclear arms be taken out of Canada. In Montreal he charg- ed the daily press is playing down the nuclear arms issue. He told the meeting that Ca- nada may be soon become a base for intercontinental ballistic missiles and charged the Liberal Party ‘‘fooled’’ the people when it promised to ‘‘negotiate out’’ of nuclear arms after accepting them on Canadian soil. Douglas said, ‘*the day Canada accepted nuclear arms, she ac- cepted the principle of being a nuclear power and becoming a nuclear satellite of the U.S.’’ Communists in UBC vote University of B.C. Model Par- liament elections take place this week. The Communist Party club on campus, which had two mem- bers in the last Parliament ended its campaign at a public rally Tuesday noon addressed by Van- couver Secretary W. Stewart. Stewart appealed to the student body to take a more active part in the struggle to get nuclear arms out of Canada. He traced the record of the Communists on such major issues as peace, Canadian independence, trade, French Canada and Confedera- tion. He calledon students to sup- port the Communist candidates. February 7, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3