Water steal

escribed as ‘“‘a major speech” to an audience in
Wenatchee, Wash., Jack Davis M.P. (Coast-
Capilano) and parliamentary secretary to federal Re-
sources Minister Jean-Luc Pepin, stated that “eventually,

Canada’s water resources Wi

Il be sold to the U.S.”. Davis’

“major” speech is reported as being “approved” by both
Prime Minister Pearson and Pepin.

This astounding declaration by “Water Boy” Davis
reveals, among other things, that such a monstrous

“agreement” with “continental” overtones,
been consummated by the inner circles of

has already
the Liberal

cabinet pawnbrokers in Ottawa.

It serves to explain the recent switch of Arthur Laing,
M.P. (Vancouver South) from the post of Resources Mini-
ster to that of Northern Affairs. Mr. Laing was reported to
be “emphatically” opposed to any funnelling of Canada’s
water resources down to the U.S. ona “continental” or any

other basis.

Of course, it should be remembered that Mr. Laing :

was also “emphatically” against the Columbia River sell-

out to the U.S. in its early s

well when it came to voting

tages, but didn’t show up too
the Columbia away. However,

that is now “water under the bridge” and Mr. Laing’s op-
position to more of it going “under”, if genuine, is certain-

ly to be welcomed.

In B.C. Socred Lands and Forest Minister Williston —

has branded the Davis speech as “idle chatter” and comes

out strong fora
ments” line on the export o

“no deals... no
f Canada’s water resources to
the U.S. Premier Bennett, standing on his
rights” pedestal like the fabled

long-range commiti-

“provincial
“<Horatioat the Bridge”

also declares with great finality that “B.C. will never bar-
gain away water resources which fall within provincial

jurisdiction”.

Remembering the Columbia hassle between Ottawa

and Victoria, Bennett’s “opposition” is not to the

US.

water grab as such, but who does the selling—and pockets
the major portion of the sellout swag. Either way, there
need be no doubt as to who loses should this life-giving
resource be poured away for a fast U.S. buck. It will be
Canada and the Canadian people who will pay dearly for

such political vandalism.

The people must be alerted against this gigantic
water steal in the making—and against their own water
diversionists—in Ottawa and Victoria-

SEE

Tom
McEWEN

“believe your Spring Press

e. Drive starts on first proxi- —

mo, so I want to be early in my
contribution to your quota, Please
find enclosed 25 bucks in a postal
order...”

The above came from Allan G,

Grant from up Whonock way, 2-

grand oldtimer who has been

doing just this for the PT and
_ its predecessors for the past 40

years or more, =

Note how Allan started out, “I

want to be early. . ..” In these
days of “affluence,” economic
“booms,” spiraling living costs,
‘ministerial warnings of a“ bust,”
{the Sharp rich-man’s budget)

and all the rest of it, getting an

» start” in this 1966 PT

the : x

Among all the other price hikes,
visible and invisible, that eat into
the workingman’s family budget,
a recent ten bucks per ton on
newsprint by the big paper mag-
nates, all add up, This despite
the fact that the profits of those
lumber, pulp and paper barons
have already broken all previous
records, And the printer, of
course, “passes” all such hikes
along to the “customer,” which
in this case, is the PT,

So the “early start” example
set by the veteran Allan Grant

is the one sure way that come

the end of May, the PT objective
for survival will be reached,

Sek ‘Canadian | seaman and war

veteran of our acquaintance land-

#WE MUST BE DOING SOMETHING WRONG! 2.

@

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cn ae =

—U.S. Worker ,

Time to speak out

Waite millions of people around the world in great
mass demonstrations demand the U.S. end its murderous
war of aggression in Vietnam, the people of Saigon, Hue,
Da Nang, and other South Vietnam centers, took a hand
in recent days in liberating their country from the U.S.

‘Jiberators’’.

2

Like the eight U.S. proped-up puppet governments

before it, the military ‘sovernment’ of Premier

Nguyen

Cao Ky is tottering before the wrath of the people of Sai-
gon and other South Vietnamese centers. ;

Students,

US. and anti-Ky demonstrations,

Buddhists, workers, citizens, in mass anti-

demand an end to the

killing and an end to the successive U.S. puppet govern-
ments which provide Washington with the excuse for its
wanton atrocities and war on the people of Vietnam. The

very people whom the Pentagon war hawks insist they.

are “defending” against communism, are now demanding
the Yanks “get out”, take Cao Ky with them, and permit
the Geneva Agreement to be implemented.

“It’s all a Viet Cong (communist) power play plot’, .
Rusk, while Washington “clams-up” on

says U.S. Dean

this latest crisis laying bare its foreign policy fiasco and

its war crimes in Vietnam.

These anti-U.S. demonstrations by the people of Sai-
gon and other South Vietnam centers should also make

it clear to

their continued silence on U.

Lester Pearson, Martin and company, that
S. aggression in Vietnam es-

tablishes them as “silent partners” to those U.S. war

crimes.

In view of these latest events in South Vietnam, Ot-
tawa must now discard its role as apologist for US. ag-
gression in Vietnam, and begin’in earnest to give meaning
and purpose to its membership on the ICC—for the imme-
diate enactment of the Geneva Agreement.

dian ship, (The only kind of ships
Canada has since the King-St.
Laurent Liberal government
scuttled Canada’s proud Merch-
ant Marine.)

Calling at the port of Seattle a
U.S. official came aboard to
“screen” the ship’s. crew. Our
seaman friend was declared
“persona non grata” and the Ca-
nadian skipper ordered “not to
let this man ashore under any
circumstances.” “Who did you
kill?” quipped the skipper to
his seaman,

Back in his home port our
seaman friend was informed by
his shipping company employers
that in order to hold his job on
their ship’s payroll, they, the
company, would have to “put up
a $1,000 bond” as instructed by
U.S. officials, This, of course,
the shipping company refused to
do,

Result, another jobless Cana-

dian seaman in a “free” country,

who sees his job being “scuttled”

in much the same way as the
-Merchent Marine, the independ- ©

ence, the resources and sover-
eign

rights of his country has —

* * *

South African “elections” last
week chalked up what the reac-
tionary and racist press describe
as a “smashing victory” for the
Nationalist Apartheid govern-
ment of Hendrick Verwoerd,

In South Africa there are 3,340,-
000 whites and 64,200,000 African
and non-whites, Only.whites were
permitted to vote on election day.

In an earlier balloting, to avoid
“superior” whites having to rub
shoulders at the ballot box with
non-whites and “Coloreds,” a
select minority of the latter were

Worth
Quoting |

The real problem is in the hearis
and minds of men. It is not a problem
of physics but of ethics. It is easier to
denature plutonium than to denature
the evil spirit of man.

' —Professors Albert Einstein.

Such a move as the 8.C. Federa-
tion of Labor is calling for opens the
possibility of fusing organized labor
in Canada into a more closely knit ;
body whose members direct their at-
tention, noi to raiding and the interne-
cine conflict that is the venereal dis-
ease of trade unionism, but to formu-
lating plans for dealing with changing
fechnology, with the educational
needs of their members, and toward
doing what labor has seldom done,
come up with the answer first.

—Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers
bulletin THE FLARE, Mar., 1966.

Ot.

With one foot caught in the Saigon
trap and the other entangled in thor-
oughly Nazified West Germany, the
U.S. giant will be in the helpless posi-
tion of Gulliver among the Lilliputians.

—'Oldtimer’ in U.S. FARM NEWS,

February, 1966.

eet

It is worth recalling that only 12.
out of every hundred women were lit-
erate in Russia before the Revolution.
Today every third engineer in the
USSR is a woman, 75-percent of Sov-
iet doctors are women, 69-percent of
Soviet teachers are women. Personal-
ly, I'm not overfond of statistics.
Sometimes they seem so cold. But this
data sums up immence - historic —
changes. In the course of the last 40
years the number of women working ©
as experts in science and economy has.
grown 40-fold.

—Irina Levchenko in SOVIET NEWS

BULLETIN.
x

It is time to deal with realities. Be-
cause we stand on the brink of disas-
ter, and itis time for the people io
tell our national leadership that we
will not be betrayed either by blind-
ness, propaganda, or ineptitude in
dealing with what is quiie certainly
the turning point in man’s history.

—Missouri Teamster in CANADIAN —

UE NEWS, Mar. 28, 1966

permitted to “vote” for four
whites, Since the prime issue in
the S.A. elections centered upo
the maintenance of white suprem
acy and rigid race segregation, 4
the outcome of this “other yote”
was also inevitable,

Thus the Verwoerd “smashing
victory” was not recorded at th
ballot box, but in aruthless polic
state ‘disenfranchisement of the
10-to-1 majority of the African
people, Black, Coloreds and non= —

white.

It was “smashing” all right—
but not in the context of a demo*
cratic election.

“Trtbune |

| Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor —
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