— OB. oe eT ee OS = SS. their unbreakable fig ee hting morale... ... their readiness to ‘come back for more’ Mounties do dirty work for B Sthoupe phe Murphy it With ; 1S against the Trad- te cory Act in the >» AMerican citizens, answer (Quakers), have a Ae 4 higher con- Ney Onstratively send- Parcels of medical a the border into CiVitia : ~Shipment to Viet- Words Ss They have, in ¥ be One Quaker, “put re the law,” Cros e = also incurred the ? Which petican govern- q of €sorted to : Tileeere. -St Nd intimi- Te the 7 OP this e movement, s ee on administration S 0 trieg 7 oe €ssfully to intim- sy Sara embers of the So- ° idate them with threats of im- prisonment and heavy fines they have not, to date, dared to en- force the law and lay charges against these courageous people, Now, perhaps, they will not have to, The Canadian govern- * ment has decided in the words of one American Quaker to do S the dirty work for the U.S. Treasury.” The incident, where the Can- adian government decided to en- force American law, took place on August 8 at the border crossing of Lacolle Quebec where a group of mounties wrested 12 packages of bandaids and other medical supplies from nine Am- erican citizens, U.S. Treasury Dept. The parcels were being brought to Canada for remailing. Six of the packages were addressed to the Red Cross Society of North Vietnam, five to the National Liberation Front’s diplomatic mission in Prague, and one to the South Vietnamese Red Cross in Saigon. The parcel to Saigon could have been mailed legally in the eyes of American law, but the zealous Mounties seized that one also. In describing the incident, David Newlands, 2 spokesman of the Society of Friends Service Committee in Toronto which has been working closely with the American group on this project, Cont’d on Pg. 7 See ‘Mounties’ VOL. 28, NO. 34 Health vs * Tribune 10¢ cost’ Pollution hazards not equated in dollars Whatever decisions may result from the hearing held this week in Surrey under the direction of the pro- vincial Pollution Control Board with Deputy Minister of Water Resources W. F. Paget presidng, there was an abundance of evdence brought to light indicating the high incidence of pollution in ‘Beautiful British Colum- bia.’ In a wide-ranging and often highly technical dis- cussion on pollution in general, the focal point of in- terest centered largely on pollution of the Fraser River. A Brief prepared for submis- sion to the Public Hearing by the Delta Region of the Communist Party of Canada focused its main attention on Fraser River pollu- tion, as did the submission on behalf of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union (UFAWU), presented by Union organizer T. Buck Suzuki, The Communist Party brief says in part:~- «We, as residents of the Delta Region, New Westminster and other municipalities adjacent to the Fraser River welcome these Public Hearings on the «Report on Pollution inthe Fraser River,” and wish to take this opportunity to express the views of our party on this matter. In submitting this brief we cannot bear on the technical as- pects of the problems of river pollution, but rather confine our- » selves to an explanation as ordi- nary citizens, of our concern for the effects of pollution and the dangers to our health and the health of our children, should this growing problem go un-- checked. IT APPLIES HERE TOO! British Labour M.P. Mrs. Anne Kerr has sent a telegram to Prime Minister Harold Wilson at his Scilly Isles holiday home urging the recall of Parliament because of the re ported American aircraft shot down over China. The telegram says: ‘The shooting down of American planes straying over China, as confirmed by the Pentagon, involved a serious enough change in the international situation to warrant the recall of Parliament.” It is obvious that with twenty municipalities discharging some 39,000,000 gallons of raw sewage per.day into the river and the population in the lower mainland increasing at the rate of 335,000 each decade, that this situation cannot be allowed to continue in- definitely, The recommendation that sewage treatment plants be built is a sound one in our opinion. However the building of these plants is likely to run into several million dollars, We as home- owners are already taxed to the limit in providing municipal ser- vices and schools and this added burden would be a crippling cost to many small homeowners, therefore we urge that firm com- mitments be obtained from Senior Governments for assistance in the costs of building sewage treat- ment plants. Also the Fraser River being a vital tributary for salmon, must be preseved pure and stringent measures be taken against in- dustrial pollution flowing into the river, Several experts have stated that industry poses a far greater threat to the purity of the water than does domestic sewage. In British Columbia we have a preponderance of fresh water, lakes and rivers but also we have the potential for becoming the most polluted province because of the growth of industry, While the effects of effluent from pulp and paper mills could take years of research to establish, therefore it would seem imperative that controls must be implemented now before the dangers are ap- parent and the costs astronomi- cal, The long-term study on the effects of pollution in the Puget Cont’d on Page 8 See ‘Brief’