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tempt to corral the southern

coastline as their territory.”
Gargrave concluded his state-

ment with the observation: ~
“J only hope that any cam-

* paign funds the government may

have received frem the B.C. Elec?

. tric during the last general elec-

“tion in B.C. will not have tied the

government’s hands.”

: "The big stakes for which the
. B.C. Electric is ‘playing — and
_ the extent of the sellout of pub-
‘ lie power — were revealed by

Local 76, International Brother-
hood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper

- Mill Workers, in a special edi-
tion of its union paper, View-
point of 76. The paper stated:
“The BCE, which already sells
power to the richest areas, has
’ suddenly become ‘aware of the
wealth which is developing in
' the areas which rightfully belong
to the -B.C. Power Commission
and it realizes that it must grab
» these areas or lose them to pub-

‘dic ownership forever.

“The Powell River area has

" suddenly become the keystone to
the whole issue of public power.
. Whoever gets this area will have
access to the rich potential pow-

MEP IG ey eee

‘er resources of Bute Inlet and.

_other power sites farther north.

“If the B.C. Power Commission
is not awarded this area by the
Publie Utilities Commission, as
it should be in justice, then it
will be squeezed out of existence
for all practical purposes, and
the people wil! ‘be left in the
clutches of the BCE... .”

The Viewpoint of 76 called on
all residents of the Powell River
district to support their own in-
-terests in public power by pro-
testing the B.C. Electric-Powell
River Company scheme to the
government and PUC. :

On Wednesday this week, with °

, Public support growing for its
_ announced intention of opposing
, the BC. Electric application, the
: BC. Power Commission. inform-
‘ed the PUC hearing at Victoria
‘that it has agreed to .sell its
‘Clowshom generating plant and
‘Sechelt Peninsula distribution
‘ system to the B.C. Electric for
| $2 million, and in return to buy
: the B.C. Electric's 132,000-volt
‘transmission line from Nanaimo
} to Duncan.
{ Contradicting earlier — state-
‘ments by the B.C. Power Com-
; Mission that it was prepared to
-supply all the power needs of
“the Powell River district, Thomas
H. Crosby, commission chairman,
‘offered only this reason: “The
“B.C. Electric has vastly more
power on the mainland than we
have and the needs exceed the
power we have in sight.”

TIM BUCK
Bandung opens new era.

Buck sees
new period

TORONTO

“The Bandung conference may
mark the beginning of the period
of history when imperialism will
finally be forced onto the de-
fensive,” Tim Buck, national
leader of the Labor-Progressive
party, declared last weekend in
Toronto.

Speaking to young people at
the annual Champion banquet,

Buck said the 29 Asian and Af- |

rican countries were. meeting in

- Indonesia “to work out ways and

means of attaining peaceful co-
existence based on the ‘five prin-
ciples agreed to by Premier Neh-
ru and Premier Chou En-lai.

The fear the imperialists have
of this great-movement for peace-
ful coexistence, Buck said, is
seen in John Foster Dulles’ haste
in pushing the so-called South
East Asia Treaty Organisation at
this time, and in U.S. Admiral
Carney’s “enormous historical
hoax” in which he “predicted”
war would break out in the Far
East on April 15.~

Another reflection of the in-
fluence the Bandung conference
is having was seen in an article
in the current Financial Post,
urging Canadian businessmen to
change. their attitudes to the
Afro-Asian countries “before it
is too late.” :

May Day conference

Final May Day conference will
be held Monday, April 25 at 8
p.m. in Pender Auditorium, 339
West Pender Street, it was an-
nounced this week by A. L. Gor-
don, secretary of the 1955 May
Day Committee.

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B.C. peace canvassers

seek 20,000 names

Twenty thousand signatures, in British Columbia, to the World Peace Appeal
by May 22, opening day of the World Assembly for Peace in Helsinki, is the immediate

goal of B.C. Peace Council.

- In announcing this target,

Ray Gardner, council chairman, said, ‘This is only 4

fraction of the total number of signatures we expect to gather in our province.”

“At least 8,000 British Colum-
bians have already signed the
appeal,” Gardner said. “We have
had turned into our office 6,312
signatures and we have know-
ledge of hundreds more that
have been gathered but not yet
delivered to us.

“Throughout the world more
than 400 millien people have
signed the appeal and the cam-
paign is only beginning in many
countries.”

To spark the campaign, the
council is hold a mass house-to-
canvass this
April 23, from 11 depots through-
out Greater Vancouver and on
May 7 and 14: will stage two
street canvasses in which scores
of canvassers are expected to
take part.

“We have issued a friendly
challenge to Toronto Peace Coun-
cil to compete with us on May
7 and May 14,” Gardner said.
(In a similar competition in May,
1951, 13,000 signatures were col-
lected in Vancouver on one day
to the World Peace Pact Appeal.)

Sixty people took part last
Saturday in the council’s door-
to-door canvass and _ collected
more than 900 signatures.

First major street canvass of
the appeal campaign was also
held last Saturday, under aus-
pices of the National Federation
of Labor Youth.

More than 20 young people
gathered first at NFLY head-
quarters where they were ad-
dressed ‘on the significance of
the World Appeal by Ray Gard-
ner. Then they took up positions
in and around Victory Square,
where they collected 475 signa-
tures. While they petitioned, a
truck, bearing two slogans. —
“Outlaw the H-bomb” and “Let’s
have a future without the bomb”
—drove around the square.

Members of the Federation of
Russian-Canadians plan a mass
street canvass this Saturday, in
friendly. competition with Toron-
to FRC members. Supporters of
the United Jewish People’s Order

are calling on Jewish families,

in their’ homes, every Sunday to

.gather signatures to the appeal.

The council has published a

_new leaflet, entitled Destroy the

Bombs, Not the People, in 15,000
copies to-distribute within the
next fesv weeks. Leaflets are
available from the council’s of-
fice in the Ray Building.

Saturday,

Attlee states aim as

peaceful coexistence

Speaking to a capacity audience in Vancouver’s Exhibi-
tion Gardens last Saturday under CCF auépices, Clement
Attlee, leader of the British Labor party, projected the foreig®

policy aims of his party should it win power in the British
general elections called for May 26.

Anchoring his hopes to the
ideal of a. “world democratic
socialism,” Attlee stressed. the
need to “learn to live with the
Reds” in peaceful co-existence,
since in another world war with
the horror and devastation of
H-bombs, “there will be no vic-

.tory for anyone, but only defeat

and ruination for all.”

Attlee reiterated his support

of NATO, giving credit to “that
great man, the late Ernie. Bevin”
for having launched it. As jus-
tification for this stand he pre;
sented the Soviet Union as “a
new form of imperialism — a
curious marriage between Karl
Marx and Catherine the Great,”
in consequence of which “we
found it necessary to form a
firm front, not for attack but to

. deter aggression.”

On this “firm front’ of the
North Atlantic, and Benelux

- treaty organizations, Attlee was

more than a little apologetic in
his presentation. ‘
Perhaps he was recalling that

virtually the entire rank-and-file

of the British Labor party voted
down or opposed the rearming
of West Germany, while he and
his leading colleagues in the
House of Commons voted for re-
armament.

Perhaps the fact that 12-CCF
MPs voted against ratification of
the same London-Paris agree-
ments in the Canadian House of
Commons, may have had a damp-
ening effect on his enthusiasm.

Attlee could only offer the
lame excuse that “we couldn’t
very well send troops to defend
a Western Germany which
couldn’t defend itself.”

In all his references to the
Soviet Union and China, the de-
sire to drive a wedge between
China and the USSR was appar-
ent—as he put it, to avoid inter-
national policies and diplomatic
deals which would “drive the
Chinese into the arms of Russia.”

He urged.that China‘ be seated
in the UN and on the Security
Council, observing that “the
Chinese’ aggression in Korea

“might not have occurred if Red

China had been on the Security
Council.”

Delving into history, Attlee de-
eclared “you can’t put Humpty-
Dumpty on the wall again,’ as
was attempted during the imper-
jalist intervention in Russia
through such white guard gener-
als as Denekin and Kolchak.

.fore entering any of the pla :
eight buildings, and, the De”

Chiang Kai-shek and his “corrupt
gang’* must go. he said. %

At the beginning, and again at
the end of his foreign policy 4
dress, Attlee reaffirmed his faith
in social democracy, the “hope
of the world.” :

He spoke proudly of the “if*

dependence and self-government

which had been granted to India;

Pakistan and Burma by the last
Labor. government he lead and
later “wisely carried forward” bY
the Churchill government. But
he made no reference to
wars being wagad by the Church:
ill-Eden government to suppres
popular movements for ind
dence and colonial freedom if
such countries as Malaya and
Kenya, or the suppression of
‘popular government in British
Guiana. No question period Ww?
allowed for the audience to point
out these omissions. i

Report sparks
citizens’ action

At noon on Saturday, April 19 ye

the news commentator at Ta
station CKLG, North Vancouve®
vead this dispatch: |;
“The Toronto Telegram: 53/°
that radioactive fallout blow
2,100 miles from the atomic te
site in. Nevada has endange? t
the production of film at a pla@

of the Canadian Kodak Company —

in the Toronto suburb of Moutt
Dennis. The newspaper 54”
the plant was alerted during the
weekend and that precaution
steps against the radiation hav”
now been put into force. All em
ployees are ordered to wipe thei
feet on special rubber mats.

paper adds, no windows may ",,
opened. anywhere in the pl in
A. group of shocked citizens a
North Vancouver reacted to if ;
news broadcast by immediate”
sending a wire to Fisheries :
ister James Sinclair and “B.
ternal Affairs Minister LesteT be
Pearson, asking that the UN
petitioned against continuatio® ;
of such atomic tests. th
When ‘contacted, the N® sae
Shore COF and George Tomb
son, Socred MLA, agreed 10 7
ister their opposition to furth@

tests, } ; vt
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DESTROY 1: BOMBS feet
NOT wc PEOPLE

B.C. PEACE COUNCIL
Telephone; MArine. 9958

House Canvass
Street Canvasses

BY GATHERING SIGNATURES TO

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ATOMIC WAR PREPARATIONS —

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR

Sat., April 23
May 7 - 14

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