‘DIEF REMAINS SILENT ON SPANISH—GERMAN AXIS ave nr setirerean \ | ° a tty VOL. 19, NO. 9 Phone MUtual 5-5288 50 Authorized as second class mail by the Post Ortice Department, Ottawa. 10° VANCOUVER, B.C. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1960 CCF vote for budget condemned by Morgan “Action of the CCF in voting for the Socred budget after spending two weeks criticizing it demonstrates the ineptness and total inadequacy of CCF leadership in the legislature,” said Communist Party provincial leader Nigel Morgan last Friday at New Westminster’s Dream- land Hall. “How can any genuine rep- resentative of labor vote for a budget which sets out to raise $119 million from sales and amusement taxes_and only $74 million from the big corpora- tions?” he asked. “It shows how far the CCF have drifted from the working people who elected them,” he added. j tial to solve the acute school and hospital problems and falls far short in providing the needed increase in welfare al- lowances.” “There will be widespread disappointment among school and municipal administrators and among workers and farm- ers that the CCF didn’t stand Morgan said “the budget! up and be counted for new fails to provide the Pendenain| budgetary policies, a totally crease in grants to municipal- | different tax basis and higher ities and does nothing substan- grants,” Morgan concluded. VLC prepares for civic elections Vancouver Labor Council Tuesday adopted a resolu- tion to go to the CLC convention condemning South African racist policies. Other resolutions asked for changes in the Immigration Act to end racial discrimination and amendments to the NHA to end discrimination in housing. _ Council secretary Paddy Neale reported there were 80,898 in the Pacific Region registered for work with the NES on Jan. 14. There are also 34,000 on social assistance. An all-out effort in this year’s civic elections was indicated in a decision to hold re-elections of area com- mittees during March. Political Education Committee chairman Angus MacDonald said last minute arrange- ments were not good enough and that council will “go into high gear from March to election time” in December. The news of projected West German military bases in Franco _ Spain burst upon the world this week like a bolt of. lightning. Once again the German army is on the move, aiming to expand beyond the frontiers of Germany. To make the. situation more serious, it is now re- vealed that there is nothing to stop Germany from pro- ducing nuclear weapons’ in Spain. The Paris Agreement of 1954 only prohibited the making of nuclear weapons in Germany itself. “That this Assembly urges the Federal give consideration to the fol- lowing policies in order that ‘Canada may play a more posi- tive role in the strengthening of world peace. It has also been disclosed that in December the pro-Nazi giant Krupp interests made a loan of more than $10 million to a firm in Bilbao, Spain and that German technicians have already gone to Bilbao. government to “1. Full support of total world disarmament and of all practical proposals and steps towards this end. A world wide protest against allowing Germany bases in foreign countries is mounting everywhere as people remem- ber the consequences of the Hitler-Franco alliance. “2. Progressive disarmament by Canada so that she may . take the lead in showing the In Vancouver last weekend way to world peace. . the city convention of thej Communisi Party sent a reso-| lution to Prime Minister Dief- enbaker demanding that Can- ada oppose the establishment of German bases outside its territory. It also urged the federal government to press for “3. Voluntary. renunciation of the use. of nuclear weapons by and or in Canada. “4. Support the cessation of all nuclear tests and the elim- ination of all nuclear weapons. Bay; That Canada should use | the savings from such policies an early agreement on world disarmament. Peace motion before MLA’s—support urged A peace resolution has been placed on the order papers in the provincial legislature by Cranbrook MLA Leo Nimsick. The resolution states: ; to begin in~ earnest a war * against poverty and to provide credits to the industrially un- derdeveloped countries for the purchase of goods in this coun. try. “6. Continued support of the United Nations as a means of preserving world peace and solving problems of interna: tional. relations.” Nimsick’s resolution may come before the House at any time. Peace workers are urg- ing. public support for the res- olution by resolutions, wires and letters to MLA’s asking their support when it comes on the floor. It is emphasized in Victoria that public pressure is needed to win backing for the resolu- tion in the House. ’hoto shows delegates to Greater Vancouver Convention of Communist Party, picketing the French Consulate last Saturday to protest Sahara tests. About 65 took ‘part. Demonstration was later shown on TV, and received much public attention.