SPEECH FROM THE THRONE in Victoria last week made some concessions to
public demands but many big issues facing the province got scant attention.
Communist. Party provincial leader Nigel Morgan analysed the Throne Speech
in a radio broadcast on CKWX last Sunday. Below is a summary of that speech.

COMMUNIST REPLY TO THE THRONE SPEECH:

Throne speech notable for
what it left out - Morgan

While welcoming a number of important concessions long demanded by the
people of B.C. the Throne Speech failed to deal with the central issues facing this
province; said Communist Party provincial leader Nigel Morgan in a radio broad-| OAs.
cast last Sunday in his reply to the Speech from the Throne.

Here are excerpts of what
Morgan said on the various
issues:

Ss EEE C TREC LIGHT
RATES: “Best bit of news
Was the announcement that
# ‘substantial’ reduction in
rates can. be expected in
April. Absolutely no indica-
tion of how much they are
to be reduced, and no indi-
cation of any cut in natural
Sas rates or transit fares.
What about them, Mr. Pre-
mier

® EDUCATION AND WCB:
“Announcement of increased
grants to B.C. schools and
the UBC as well as establish-
ment of a Royal Commission

+ tempts

Cordova St., Vancouver.
The Conference, which will

tributions by Emil Bjarnason,

the Fisherman’s Union.

Women’s conference on peace,
rights to meet Saturday, February 3

A Wemen’s Conference for Peace and Equal Righis is
being sponsored by The Trade Union Women for Peace on
Saturday, February 3rd at the Fisherman’s Hall, 138 E.,

start at 10 a.m. and conclude

at 4 p.m., is open to the public and will hear special con-

director of the Trade Union

Research Bureau and Mrs. Mickey Beagle, organizer for

There will be two panel discussions dealing with the
,| subjects “Disarmament and your Family” and “Labor Leg-
islation and Working Women.

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U.S. fails to

Application of maximum!
U.S. State department pres-
sures and bribery was unable|
to win for U.S: imperialism |
in the Punta Del Este confer-
ence of the Organization of
American States. (OAS).

Original demands of the
U.S. upon OAS member
states was a tight “economic
blockade” against all trade
with Cuba, amounting to a
virtual eall for open armed
aggression.

Following a week of at-)
to browbeat Latin;
American states into virtual)
war upon Cuba, U.S. imper-
ialism and its spokesman
Dean Rusk, had to settle for |
a “face saver’, a resolution |

| to investigate the Workmen's

Compensation Board _ has

been long demanded by B.C.
and will be welcomed. Prob-
ing of the WCB is long over-
due. The series of reversals
by B.C. courts of WCB rul-
ings (under which victims of
silicosis have been denied
their rights) is proof of the
need for such an investiga-
tion.”
e

Morgan hit out at the
Socred government for fail-
ing to take up the central
issues of power, taxation and
unemployment.

Here is what he said:

Meeting opens election
campaign in Van. East

_ Launching his first elec-
tion campaign meeting in
Vancouver East, Communist
Candidate Tom McEwen ad-
dressed an audience of some
seventy-five constituents © in
the Clinton Hall Thursday of
last week. :

_ Just returned from attend-
oes the 17th national conven-
tion of the Communist Party
in Toronto, McEwen gave his
audience a brief outline of
the keynote address of Tim
Buck and the historic de-
Cisions of the convention,
tying these in with the vital
issues of peace and war as
they affect the people of Van-
couver East and the peoples
- Of the whole world.

“Harold Winch, the sitting
Member for this constitu-
ency” stated Mc Ewen, “is a

in NATO. That is why the
Diefenbaker government
sends him abroad on parlia-
mentary junkets, and why
when he returns home, invar-
iably demonstrates Dief’s con-
fidence in him to sell the
people a bill of goods.
“Those who defend NATO
in any shape or form are not
working for peace nor. de-
fending the interests of the
common people. Any defense
of Canada’s participation in
NATO is not only a costly
berayal of Canada’s peace,
independence and well being,
but is also a shameful be-
trayal of socialism and the
cause of the workingclass.”
At the conelusion of the
meeting the audience chip-
ped in to the Communist cam-
paign with a collection of
$27 and three signed applica-

defender of NATO and Can-| tions for membership in the

ada’s continued membership! party.

cism.””

¢ POWER: “On the Colum-

bia River irnpasse absolutely |

nothing new was said. The
Bennett government is stand-
ing pat on its give-away plan.
The draft Treaty not only will
not begin to compensate Can-

-ada for the costs involved or

the low-cost power and tens
of thousands of jobs Canada
will surrender.

“The Legislature has a
duty to speak out. It should
break the present impasse. It
should call on Ottawa to
scrap the present draft and
instead get together for an
immediate start on a great
all-Canadian East-West grid.”

e TAXATION: “Bitter dis-

| appointment will be felt over

the fact that not a word is
to be found in the Throne
Speech to indicate that re-
lief--is. in. sight for B:G2s
heavily overburdened muni-
cipal taxpayers. With most
municipalities preparing to
use Bennett’s ‘equalization’
formula of last year to milk
the ratepayers still further

—and with public feeling ris-|-

ing just about as fast as
taxes — the question of pro-
vincial - municipal grants,
provision of a basic ‘home-
owner exemption’ and pro-
posals to broaden the tax base
should get a thorough air-
ing at this session.”

e UNEMPLOYMENT: “No
indication is given of action
to relieve the problem of a
large body of people among
us who are jobless. Nor was
anything said about the so-
cial welfare front — where
the inadequacy of allowances,
and charges of malpractises,
have brought sharp criti-

eS

“excluding” Cuba from the

resolution, itself aj
war upon ideas, states: “Ad-
herence by any member of
OAS to Marxism-Leninism is

incompatible with the inter-

gain aim

at Latin American parley

American sysiem, and the
alignment of such a govern-
ment with the Communist
bloc breaks the unity and
solidarity of the hemisphere.”

Canada had a taste of this
U.S. ‘‘war on ideas” recently
when U.S. presidential ad-
viser. Arthur M. Schlesinger
stated in°Vancouver that Can-
ada’s. trade with Cuba
“threatens the prospects of
democratic success (?) in
Latin American.”

Canadian Foreign Minister
Howard Green is reported to
have described the Schlesin-
ger statement as “most un-
usual and improper’, while
Trade Minister Hees indicat-
ed in Commons that Cana-
dian policy is to “trade with
Cuba .. . as with any other
country.”

In the U.S.-pressurized vote
in OAS to exclude Cuba, the
division was 14 to 7.

A 2B.C: “anti-Communist”
group has applied to the pro-
vincial government for ap-'

aims as part of a move ito}
build up a national organiza-
tion patterned after the John
Birch Society in the USA.

spokesman for UBC campus
rightists Gera Benko. Benko,
who is a graduate of the So-

which came to Canada after
the Hungarian counter revo-
lution in 1956, said that the
group is patterning itself
around the Canadian Cham-
ber of Commerce publication,
“Operation Freedom.”

Any illusion that the at-
tack by the group, or the

pron faculty of forestry,

UBC rightist group pattern
self on John Birchers in US

Canadian Chamber of Com-
merce publication, was aimed
solely at the Communists

proval of its constitution and! was dispelled this week by

W. E. Smishek, secretary of
the Saskatchewan Federation
of Labor when he attacked

‘the publication of “Operation
This move was made pub-|
lic in an announcement by a

Freedom” and said it could
better be titled, ‘Operation
Against Freedom.”

Smishek charged that the
Chamber of Commerce had
undertaken ‘a national cam-
paign of, fear, distortion and

McCarthyism.”
He said the Chamber's
president Kirkpatrick was

stumping the country warn-
ing the people against social-
ism, communism, public own-
ership and public — social
security.

“Remember how you always said
one of those expensive apartments?”

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