Candidates filed their nom-!
ination paper in 122 BC.
municipalities on Monday, No-
vember 27 and Vancouver and
Victoria hopefuls met a Wed-
nesday, November 29 nomina-
tions deadline to round out the
election picture for B.C. muni-
cipal elections in 1961.

Vancouver votes December
13 and Victoria on December
14. All other municipal elec-

Greenwell presses park fight

Donald “Dusty” Greenwell,
Vancouver Parks Board candi-}
date, announced that he had
appeared at city council meet-
ing Tuesday, November 28
when the town planning depu-
ty commissioner had presented
a report to council rejecting
the proposals of Hastings East
organizations for a park for
the area framed by Boundary
Road, Adanac, Cassiar and

‘All NPA think alike’ - Rankin

Harry Rankin, Vancouver}
city council candidate, speak-
ing at an all-candidate meet-
ing at Charles Dickens School
Monday, November 28, dis-

agreed with an assertion of an-
other aldermanic candidate
that “NPA candidates followed
instructions from the machine.

“There is no need to instruct
NPA candidates, Rankin said,

Civic nominations closed

tions are on December 7, a
date set by the B.C. govern-
ment under the terms of the
Municipal Act.

In Vancouver the campaign
is just beginning to gather
momentum and although it is
a non-mayorality year, consid-
erable interest is being gener-
ated because of the poor rec-
ord of the sitting council and
the serious challenge to NPA
rule in Vancouver.

First streets.

The Deputy Commisioner
said he supported a proposal
for a park somewhere in this
area, but when questioned
from the audience he was at a
complete loss for an answer.

Greenwell stated he intends
to lead a delegation to the
city council demanding that
the area referred to be zoned
as parkland. :

“they all think alike anyway.”

In his remarks he hammered
away at the need for a ward
system in Vancouver. :

“The only possible way 0
establishing representative
government in Vancouver is
through some sort of ward sys-
tem,” he said. Rankin pledged
to carry on a fight for such an
elective system, whether elect-
ed or not.

‘Let tocsin sound for peace’
says UJPO in letter to Dief

Prime Minister John Diefen-
baker was told this week in a
letter by the Vancouver
Branch of the United Jewish
People’s Order that operations
such as Tocsin B “is not a con-
structive contribution to world
peace nor to the welfare of our
country.”

The letter said that “in: this
nuclear age and in the present
world situation the “only true
deterrent” are not bomb shel-
ters, nor exercise Tocsin, but
our own determinatioin and re-
solve that under no circum-
stances must a nuclear war be

- allowed to break out. The mo-
ment we give up this idea, at
that point humanity is in dan-
ger of being totally annihil-

PRITCHETT ON —
TV SUNDAY

A special feature on
Channel 8 television Sun-
day, December 3 at 5:30
-p.m. will be an interview
with all candidates running
for reeve in Burnaby, in-
cluding Harold Pritchett.

Subject of the interview
will be: “What do you con-
sider the major problem
facing the taxpayers in

ated.”

The UJPO urges that Cana-
da use its influence for nego-
tiations between the major
powers to settle major differ-
ences and “start the machinery
rolling for universal and gen-
eral disarmament.”

Pointing out that Canada is
as secure as the peace of the
world is made secure, the
UJPO letter says “the tocsin
must be sounded for peace and
disarmament.”

AGAINST ARMS
SAYS NW-MP —

“New Westminster Member
of Parliament W. A. McLennan
told an informal meeting of
the Surrey’ Peace Committee
that “about 75% of the pres-
ent government would be op-
posed to the acquisiton (by Ca-
nada) of nuclear weapons’.

He said, in response to a
question by the Surrey Com-
mittee which met with him on
November 23, that he agreed
with their program which
called for policies that would
lead to complete disarmament,
opposition to the spread of the

nuclear club, and against Ca-

SEND WIRE TO STEEL IN SUDBURY

A big stir is anticipated

Storm expected over BCFL
officer's support for raid

in the B.C. t

Labor, to the Steelworkers who are raiding Mine Mill in
The telegram appeared in ~

November 27 issue of the Sud-
bury Star as a paid ad by the
Steelworkers Union in answer
to a statement by the Mine
Mill Union that the recent B.C.
Federation of Labor conven-
tion had opposed raiding of
any union by the Congress or
its affiliates.

The telegram, addressed to
James Robertson, Local 598
United Steelworkers of Ameri-
ca, Sudbury, reads as follows:

“The B.C. Federation of La-
bor congratulates your mem-
bers on their efforts to secure
the union of their choice. We
fully support the action of the
CLC in rendering all possible
assistance in your struggle for
a return to your rightful place
with the Canadian labor move-
ment.”? Signed, President Rob-
ert Smeale, Secretary-Treasur-
er E. P. O’Neal.

The bone of contention is a

rade .union movement over a teelgram of

support sent by President Smeale and Secretary Pat O’Neale of the B.C. Federation of

Sudbury.

resolution passed—or rather
not passed—by the delegates to
the last B.C. Federation of La-
bor convention. ‘

The resolution, submitted by
the resolutions committee, was
a substitute for a number of
resolutions sent in by local
unions asking the Federation to
condemn raiding. The resolu-
tions committee by inserting
the word “affiliated” as a
qualification attempted to gut
the resolution of any real
meaning and act as a cloak for
raiding any union not within
the CLC.

Delegates however, saw the
question differently, and speak-
er after speaker came out in

favor of an all-embracing res-|~

olution condemning raids.
However, because the Feder-
ation officials feared the sen-
timents of the convention on
this matter they had delayed

bringing in the resolution
the last minutes of the conve
tion. Therefore, while the dele
gates referred the motion pack
with a clear sentiment to place
the convention on _ reco
against all raiding, adjourl
ment came before there wa
any opportunity to deal with
the matter again.

Those whose memory g0°
back to the refusal of the Fed:
eration officers to carry out #
convention: mandate a yea”
earlier to send a delegation
Cuba, suggest that the voice 0
the membership was clear bU
that the Federation official
are not guided by the wish@
of the membership.

Canadians were in debt 10
$3,262,000,000 at the end
August, 7.8 percent more tha
they owed banks and finan
companies a year earlier.

“JT have no hesitation in say~|
ing from what I saw that the
Canadian Government must
have reached a decision years
ago that Canadian forces over-
seas were going to be nuclear
equipped. It would be less than
honest if I did not say what
my conclusion was. The Cana-
dian Air Force role is as a rec-
onnaissance strike force and
we cannot put our Canadians
in the air without nuclear
weapons.”

Harold

Winch, MP
for Vancou-
ver East, re-
porting to a
November 28
meeting in
Vancouver on
his recent
trip to a Par-
is NATO con-
ference, thus came out in fa-

vor of opening the door for| low.

Harold Winch supports nuclear
weapons for overseas R.CA.F.

nuclear weapons for Canadian
forces. :

A shocked audience of 70
people rubbed their eyes to
make sure that it was Harold
Winch, CCF MP from Hastings
East and not Dirk Stikker, sec-
retary General of NATO who
was addressing the meeting.

Winch avoided any mention
of resolutions passed by the
NATO conference calling for:
support for increasing NATO
strength in Europe from 21 to

25 divisions; for a “firm stand” |
on Berlin; support for nuclear|

arms for NATO forces and
build up of both nuclear and
conventional arms. e
Winch opened his remarks
by saying that “this was the
most difficult speech he had
made in his 28 years’ as MP
and MLA for the Hastings East
area. Certainly it was the hard-
est for’ his followers to swal-

Holding NATO aloft as
purely defensive military all
ance, Winch admonished pre? |
and radio for not playing UP
the non-military aspects
NATO, which he opines woul
help to sell it to the Canadié
public.

The ersatz socialist fro
Vancouver East, with obvi0
concern for the lack of enthv*
iasm in the NDP ‘for NA
has undertaken to peddle
organizatioin on the basis
“its non-military aspects.”

If Tuesday night’s meeting
any indication, Winch
have to harden up his ‘sal
technique. He was bombard!
by questions from his pro-N”,
audience asking why he pos’,
as a supporter of NATO an"
its cold war line.

Chairman Frank McKe?
adjourned the meeting at gi
p.m. while a sea of hands W'

ob

up with more questions.

Following a long illness,
George Miller, pioneer trade
unionist, founder and first
president of the United Fisher-
men & Allied Workers Union,
passed away on November 20
in his 69th year. Funeral ser-
vices ‘were held in the Fisher-
men’s Hall, on November 25.

Born in Caithness, Scotland,
Miller emigrated to Canada
while a young man, spending
most of his years in the B.C.
logging and fishing industry.

union organization and unity,
Miller pioneered in organizing
and uniting the numerous fish-
ing groups and canneries on the
B.C. coast, which existed in
the mid-1930, and from which
the new influential UF&AWU

‘had its origin. .

Burnaby”?

weapons. :

nadian acquisition of nuclear

\

_ For many years George Mil-

A tireless advocate of trade| -

ler was an active member of

GEORGE MILLER
December 1, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pa

awey

the Communist Party of Ca”,
da, serving on its leading bo
ies and an active supporter |
its press. In the numeé 4
strike struggles of the fis ;
men since the 30’s, for dec
prices and standards, and —
unite the various groupings J
fishermen, including the Natit
Indian peoples, George mill
was always in the foreff0,
pioneering the road to re
union unity and organiza 4

He is survived by one 4
George Jr., a daughter, c
Mildred Blunt, two broth
three sisters and five 8
| children. Funeral serv iC
were conducted by UF&A",
director of welfare ser”
Wm. Rigby. Soloist 2
Prentiss sang George M
favorite ‘farewell’ song,
Road to the Isles.*

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