~ Province, 8€stion tha pee River has cost B.C. a “fantastic new industry’’—manu- thi uring of a uranium byproduct, U-235—drew acid comments i 1S week from fisheries groups that see such a project destroy- hg the world’s last great salmon river. A glowing picture of the Slant industries which would locate in B.C. following con- Struction of the dam was paint- €d for Vancouver Board of pee ad and sales bureau by t. Harry V. Warren, UBC Seology professor, consulting Sad engineer and original Coster of the Moran proposal. : r. Warren, in an attempt © appease fishing interests, ee he believed the problem 4 setting spawning fish and ‘ngerlings through the dam Could be licked.” a = reply, United Fishermen an Allied Workers Union is- aa a statement which labell- Warren’s claims as “‘fan- tastic.” aN proposed Moran Dam ig uld be 750 feet high, which eth three times the height 9! similar dams on the Colum- bia River,” said the UFAWU. So Probiems of fish passage 200-¢ not yet been licked on re Oot dams but Dr. Warren alms he has all the answers. As a professor of geology a d a mining engineer, he Aaa respect the opinions of a ries biologists and engin- ve S who have the practical berience in trying to solve eo Instead, he com- m hi Y ignores their warnings the “Aad role as booster for nei Development Cor- “He Proposes this power — gps incidentally is a natural ore urce and includes the Tales of the Peace River as ts nee the Fraser if they are Be oP 6,000,000 hp. — ae d be given over to pri- ont capital to harness. Not aa that, but the chief de- a Per would be an American a Poration, Moran Develop- Ong poration Tats: tr union opposes any such Soe We contend hydro-elec- a erect should be developed ves atoll utility to serve the : 3 € of B.C. We are strong’ Shee to a grab of this Promoters. any ‘get-rich-quick’ congurthermore, we can only ag prape Dr. Warren’s propo- or exporting power to the lack eB cctber example of his nee, or interest in the real S of the people of this His fantastic sug- t we will get big Plants, aluminum et factories and secondary industries by ne power to the heavi- ae ustrialized U.S. Pacific . oe leaves us cold. : inal insult to our in- ceigence is his booster’s con- stitian having tourists (pre - of th y Americans) visit one ata: Seven wonders of the aie —the Moran Dam, May- ties could arrange to have oF stuffed Quesnel sockeye es aser River springs placed ae coool place. Then e. wutists could be shown eighth wonder of the Uranium p Plants, Other gs world: a monument to the stupid destruction of one of the finest natural resources in order to provide big profits to a few big corporations. “The fisheries problem can- not be solved overnight. It re- quires time and a lot more money than has so far been spent. Perhaps Dr. Warren would help in getting more money for the federal depart- ment of fisheries to enable them to push their studies faster. “In any event, we will insist on proper scientific guarantees before we give up the great natural resource represented in the Fraser salmon runs to any high-powered scheme such as the Moran Development Cor- poration offers. In this, we feel we have the full support of the minister of fisheries and al other groups in the fishing industry.” Roger Hager, vice-president of the Fisheries Association, said: “We feel it is folly to destroy an industry and a food source for a temporary need for hydro power when other forms of energy such as thermal and atomic are most certainly within sight, and will be here by the time full demand for power reaches its peak. (The B.C. Electric has an- nounced plans for construction of an $11 million natural gas plant at Port Mann developing 134,000 h.p.) “The fishing industry feels strongly that B.C. must have power to meet its growing needs. However, the industry -also feels that there is ample power available ‘on jnons-fish streams to meet rising demand without interfering with and destroying the last great sal- mon river in the world.” Said a spokesman for the Fish and Game ciubs: i “Dr, Warren’s ‘cheap’ power may prove expensive in the long run. ‘Dr, Warren, the university professor, can find out by ask- ing his colleagues at UBC that no workable solution to main- taining a fishery in a damned stream has yet been found. ~ “We feel that itis Dr. War- ren, the spokesman for Moran Dam, who ignores these facts.” Union puts picket on Chilliwack courthouse CHILLIWACK, B.C. An information picket line was thrown around Chilliwack court house Wednesday this week by Painters Union Local 138, because the contractor awarded the $2,200 clean-up job is on labor’s “We Do Not Patronize” list. “Tf judges want to get to work, they’ll have to cross our picket lines,” said union offi- cial John ‘Hines. “Fisheries groups hit RETURN OBSTRUCTED aim for Moran Dam. A claim that delay in constructing the Moran Dam on the (Many Hungarians want to go back TORONTO “Over half the Hungarian refugees now in Montreal and Toronto want to re- turn home and would do so at once if they were permitted contact with the Hungarian government or had the money to make the trip.’ This is what a well-informed Hun- garian newcomer, whose name cannot be revealed, told the Canadian Tribune last week. Immigration Minister J. W. Pickersgill reported to the House of Commons on Friday last week that a total of 9,918 refugees had arrived in Can- ada. By the end of February the total will be 15,000 and an- other 13,000 will arrive after March 1. Pickersgill announced these figures in supporting a $9 mil- lion supplementary estimate for free transportation of Hun- garian refugees to this coun- iry. He added that the fiscal year 1956-57 would require considerably more than this to meet the costs of handling the , immigrants. Despite Pickersgill’s opti- mism about the future of Hun- garian refugees, interviews with the newcomers indicate a growing unrest among them. Reports: are current in Tor- onto of a “revolt” in a refugee centre which was hushed up by the daily press. In Mon- treal, it was learned, 150 refu- gees demanded their return to Hungary immediately on ar- rival, with some women in tears about their plight. Some refugees are comment- ing bitterly about a speech Pickersgill made during his visit to Austria in which he claimed that every truck driver in Canada earns $65 a week and that there was plenty of work for all. This is not the experience of many refugees, some of them highly-skilled workers. One worker who, in Hun- gary, was singled out for com- mendation for his skill, finds himself without a job in this country. He wants to return home but finds himself blocked o every side, unable to con- tact a representative of the Hungarian government in Can- ada. “I came here,” he de- clared, “because the govern- ment of Canada lured me over.” The Ottawa Citizen, on Jan- uary 22, published this report by Margrete Stevka of inter- views with Hungarian refu- gees. “Most Canadians feel that now the Hungarians are free and safe here they will never wani to leave. But this is not the case.... The families with young children say that they will return when all is well again and somehow repay Can- ada for her kindness. Others, but few, are satisfied to make their life here forever.” Officially, refugees are per- mitted to return home — if they have the money, But many of them have no funds, and Hungary evidently doesn’t have the necessary hard cur- rency to provide for transpor- tation. The way some refugees see it, the Canadian government City of Vancouver’s engin- eering department plans to install an air-testing machine atop the city hall or police sta- tion. The machine, costing $350, draws in air through a vacuum and expels it through a filter tape which traps in- dustrial ash and dirt. One thing is certain, the machine will only prove what every house- wife knows, that Vancouver’s air is becoming dirtier every year. = CCF picks Howard for Skeena riding PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. Frank Howard, former CCF MLA for Skeena provincial riding, has been nominated to contest the Skeena federal con- stituency now represented by Liberal MP E. T. Applewhaite. Howard, who was an or- ganiser for the International Woodworkers of America, was “narrowly defeated by Socred Hugh Shireff in the provincial election last September. brought them here and should finance their return or alter- natively, money to cover the cost of their transportation back to Hungary should come out of relief funds. Many refugees point out that they only left Hungary because they feared the outbreak of a war, the return of the fascist Horthy rulers or the rise of anti-Semitism. Seeing calm want to go home. But those who ask for this are immedi- ately grilled by the RCMP. In Toronto and Montreal cenires, many refugees are al- so outraged when men come to look over the girls as pros- pective wives or domestics. The men are disgusted by em- ployers who appraise their build and muscles “like so many cattle.” City to hear peace leader ’ Vincent Duncan-Jones, sec- retary of the World Council of Peace stationed in Vienna, will address a public meeting here Friday, February 8, on the sub- ject, “Can the Peoples of the World Prevent Nuclear War?” The meeting will be held in Bakers Winter Gardens, 641 Granville Street, Addressing a Toronto audi- ence last week, Duncan-Jones said that as a result of the events in the Middle East and in Hungary, the cold war was being revived. Public opinion was confused and divided. The situation was still tense with acute antagonisms. The nu- clear arms race was still on. On the other hand, he em- phasized, the people reject war as a solution of differences be- tween nations. In all countries people are calling for new solutions and new policies. Vincent Duncan-Jones, son of the late Dean of Chichester, holds a degree in agriculture but has not had much time to devote to his chosen profession as a farmer. He worked for many years as a journalist and also edited the Church Assem- bly News, official monthly publication of the National As- sembly of the Church of Eng- aind. After serving as an officer in the British Army during the Second World War, he* became active in the peace movement, holding the office of secretary of the British Peace Commit- tee before becoming secretary ‘of the World Council of Peace in Vienna, FEBRUARY 1, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 9 return to the country, they : sia Spud