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INGTON!

GOVERNMENT!
VISIT YOUR M.P:!

Send bombs back fo U.S.

The National Executive Cémmittees of the Com-
munist arty of Canada released thé following state-
ment on Friday, January 10, 1964:

On New Year’s Eve we were toasting 1964 and in all

our hearts was new hope for world peace. ‘
At that very moment the U.S. Air Force was deliver-

ing nuclear warheads to the R.C.A.F. at North Bay,

A week later, while Prime Minister Pearson was
speaking to the country about peace, more of these
horror weapons were delivered. =

Others are scheduled for La Macaze, Quebec.

In August, Canada signed the partial test ban

Now at the opening of the New Year, President
Johnson and Premier Khrushchev have announced cuts
in arms expenditures and new efforts at disarmament.

What is the response of the Government of Can-

To place U.S. nuclear warheads on Canadian soil!

This is a crime against the peace, a blow at new
hopes for an end to the arms race.

In the April, 1963 election the Liberal policy of
arming our country with nuclear bombs was turned
down by a majority of the voters.

The Government is a minority Government, and
has no mandate for nuclear arms.

There was no parliamentary debate or approval of
the secret nuclear arms agreement with Washington..
Parliament has been flouted.

The House of Commons meets on February 18. The
M.P.’s are now in their ridings. Request them to force
an open debate when Parliament meets.

Let Parliament cancel the nuclear arms agreement
and send the warheads back to the U.S.A.

“nuclear club” let us an-,
nounce that Canada is a nuclear-free zone, with no
nuclear bombs and whose airspace and ports are closed

NO NUCLEAR ARMS FOR CANADA!
CANCEL THE AGREEMENT WITH WASH-

REGISTER YOUR PROTEST WITH THE

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an inquiry into the operations of
oil monopolies in B,C., but was
finally forced to set one up on
the eve of the provincial election
after Shelford threatened to re-

A-FREE ZONE

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nuclear weapons and nuclear bas-

es, strengthens world peace.”’
* * *

Declaring Canada a nuclear-
free zone would:

‘*1) Contribute to the cause of
peace and disarmament;

“*2) Enable Canada to request
the Unites States and the Soviet
Union to respect Canada’s nu-
Clear-free status,

“A nuclear-free Canada would
mean the cancellation of the pre-
sent nuclear arms agreement ,
with the U,S., and the dismant-
ling of U.S, bases on Canadian
soil, rule out present U.S. H-
bomb flights over Canada, and
cancel the privileges now enjoy-
ed by U.S. armed forces for use
of Canadian air space or port
facilities for their nuclear arma-
ment,’’

“fA declaration making Canada
a nuclear-free zone would con-
tribute to our defense and secur-
ity,’ ’*the Peace Congress adds,

“It would be an act of inde-
Pendence that would win respect
for Canada in the United Nations,
It would enable our country to
Speak with a clear conscience in
the U.N, disarmament commis-
‘sion, of which Canada is a mem-
ber, for the speediest agreement
between the powers for the aboli-
tion of all nuclear weapons.”’

COLUMBIA

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will be giving away a lot for that
$420 million . . . the value of a
lump sum of money is decreas-
ing steadily whereas the value
of a resource like the Columbia
System is rapidly increasing,’

Higgins’ views are summar-

ized in an article on page 8,

sign and split the party on the
issue.

The three biggest oil mono-
polies operating in the province
are, in order, Imperial, Shell
and Standard of California.

Imperial is a subsidiary of
Standard Oil of New Jersey,
owned by Rockefeller interests.
While no B.C. figures are avail-
able, Imperial’s Canadian assets
total $954 million.

Shell is owned by British-Dutch
interests with total Canadian as-
sets of $433 million.

' Standard of California has no

public Canadian subsidiaries so

no asset picture on a national
scale is possible, It isalsoown-
ed by the Rockefeller grouping
and was set up separately from
Standard of New Jersey following
passage of U.S, anti-trust legis-
lation in 1912.

These three companies alone
have assets which run into tens
of billion dollars on aworld scale,
In addition, other companies
which operate in B.C., like Texa-
co and British-American, are
anything but small operations,

In view of the wealth involved,
the hearings will be followed
closely by a B.C. public that has
long suffered at the hands of these
huge monopolies,

CITY COMMUNISTS ASK ACTION

Crash program by Ottawa urged
to break bottleneck in port

A demand that Ottawa launch
a crash program to break the
bottleneck of inadequate port fa-
cilities in Vancouver in order to
meet the demands of expanded
trade with the socialist and world
markets came this week fromthe
Vancouver Communist Party.

**Ottawa must regard the situa-
tion in Vancouver’s harbour as a
national emergency and move to
get the job done and not wait nor
expect private enterprise to do
it,’’ said a statement issued by
the Party Tuesday.

The statement added:

“It is not only, or even main-
ly, the interests of Vancouver
which are involved here. What
is involved is the interests ofthe
whole of Canada, and the Federal
government is the only agency
which has the authority and the
responsibility to act with the
speed and decisiveness that is
required,

“The port of Vancouver is the
property of the people of this
country and will become an ever
increasing factor inthe economic
life of Canada as our trade with
the Pacific rim, South America,
socialist and under-developed
countries increase,”’

The statement said the devel-
opment of the Vancouver port
with all that it could mean for
Canada ‘‘cannot be left to the
mercies of private enterprise”
for development, ‘‘but must be
the responsibility of the Federal
government in consort with pro-
vincial and municipal authori-
ties,”’

Charging that ‘immediate pos-
sibilities for grain trade with
socialist countries has been scal-
ed down because of inadequate
port facilities,’’ the Communist
Party statement says this has
‘heen costly to both the people

UBC students
fight boost

The Student Communist Club
at UBC has lashed out at the
proposed increase of university
fees. In a press release issued
hours after the fee hike was an-
nounced last Tuesday, the club
stated:

“The latest proposal of the
administration to raise fees from
$50-$100 is a direct betrayal
of the students and the people
of B.C. We are sure that both
students and faculty will make
clear their emphatic rejection of
this scheme, The cost burden of
higher education can not, must
not, be borne on the backs of
the students.’’

The statement points out that
the so-called ‘‘post-war baby
boom” is no excuse for foisting
education costs onto the backs
of workers, The senior govern-
ments have known for 15 years
that increasing demands would
be made on our educational sys-
tem, it said, but did nothing to
provide for these demands while
squandering ‘‘billions of tax dol-
lars on needless arms and
defence projects.’’

The statement concluded: ‘Last
year the students made it quite
clear that they were not willing
to -pay for the neglect of Ot-
tawa and Victoria. Organized into
the Back-Mac campaign, they
collected over 250,000 signatures
throughout the province, precise-
ly to prevent a fee increase,

“We of the Student Commu-
nist Club most strongly protest
the arrogant and arbitrary man-
ner in which the Social Credit
government has answered the
students,”’

of Vancouver andthe wheat grow-
ers on the prairies. With thous-
ands of unemployed this is a
leisure we can ill afford...

*‘The government should act
with the same dispatch as it did
during the war in getting a crash
program going at once. Nothing
less will meet the needs of the
situation and satisfy the public
that Ottawa has altered its policy
of calculated neglect of Vancou-
ver’s harbor,’’ says the state-
ment,

* * *

Last week former agriculture
minister Alvin Hamilton said in
an interview in Ottawa that Van-
couver business men donot seem
to recognize the great potentiali-
ties of their port. He described
the port as a hodge-podge of in-
efficient competition caused by
lack of co-operation among com-
panies handling the wheat.

Hamilton recalled that in 1961
he announced that wheat sales to
China would continue for years.
**Prairie wheat sales have made
Vancouver the biggest wheat port

in the entire world and the future
is even more promising..,,’’ he
said, adding that wheat sales to
China and Japan have only opened
the door to a general market in
the Orient that is growing faster
than any other in the world.

_The former agriculture minis-
ter said the key to uncorking the
Vancouver bottleneck should be
construction of more wheat ele-
vators,

Answering recent attacks by
the Vancouver press on water-
front unions, Hamilton said ‘‘It’s
ridiculous to have a current
shortage of longshoremen crews
in a time of unemployment andin

view of the fact that the unions

offered some time ago to train
more men for the job.’’

**The unions never get suffi-
cient warning about the number
of men required to work the wheat
ships,’’ said Hamilton, in an ob-
vious criticism of the lack ofco-
operation on this question from
the shipping companies.

Ratepayer meeting
protests higher tax

A public meeting to protest
increased taxation on homes, held
in Vancouver’s Manhattan Ball-
room last Tuesday, heard Harry
Rankin, chairman of the Central
Council of Ratepayers, condemn
the heavy burdens being heaped
on small homeowners,

The M€eting, which was attend-
ed by 125 citizens, was called
by the Central Council of Rate-
payers, Speakers, along with
Rankin, included Mrs, Alice Mac-
Kenzie, corresponding secretary
for the Fairview Ratepayers’ As-
sociation, and Aldermen Alsbury
and Bell-Irving.

Rankin charged that small
homeowners are being subjected
to ‘*fexpropriation by taxation.’’
He said that taxation on many
small homes will go up tremen-
dously and pointed to some as-
sessments on residential prop-
erty which had gone up from
$1,000 to $1,500,

Re-zoning of many residential
areas for apartments has forced
up land values and rezoning of
these areas is actually squeez-
ing homeowners out of the area
through exhorbitant taxes. Rather
than impose home taxes on that
basis, Rankin said, homes should

be taxed on use value,

The Central Council of Rate-
Payers has circulated nearly 800
notices for ratepayers to sign
appealing their assessments, Ap-
peals are to be heard early in
February. Deadline for appeal
is January 17.

Any homeowner in the city
can appeal by writing to the
Assessment Commission, City
Hall, stating dissatisfaction with
the assessment and giving the
reason. Such letters should con-
tain a description of the prop-
erty which will be found on the
assessment notice.

Launch postcard
drive on A-arms

The B.C. Peace Council an-
nounced this week that it will
initiate a postcard campaign to-
wards the end of January urg-
ing Prime Minister Pearson to
reverse his policy on nuclear
arms and have warheads already
on Canadian soil shipped back.

Cards are expected to be av-
ailable in about a week and the
Council has called on all trade
unions, peace groups, church and
community organizations to sup-
port the campaign.

British Trojan

Horse in Cyprus.

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