This huge poster dominated the dais at a youth rally in Havana re-

| PRESS IGNORES RECENT COLUMBIA SPEECH

McNaughton hits U.S. ‘piratical
doctrine’ in power dealings

By BRUCE YORKE

Trade Union Research
A charge by one of Canada’s
foremost public servants and
former commander in chief of
the Canadian Army that propon-
ents in the U.S. State Depart-
ment are once again raising the
old Yankee imperialist cry of
‘Manifest Destiny’ (to rule all

the Americas), should be front

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cently. Premier Fidel Castro (lower left), is shown listening attentively

to one of the feature speakers.

to Coal Harbor scheme

Strong action by Vancouver
ratepayer groups has forced City
Council to hold public hearings
in the Queen Elizabeth Play-
house on the proposed Webb &
Knapp development scheme for
Coal Harbor. The campaign of
opposition to the multi million
dollar apartment plan is becom-
ing so widespread that the coun-
cil had to rent the 650-seat Play-
house to accommodate all those
wishing to be heard on the sub-
ject.

Before moving the site of the
hearings (scheduled to resume on
Monday, June 24) council decid-
ed to refuse permission for the
Central Council of Ratepayers to

hold a car cavalcade through the
West End of the city. The cav-
alcade would have protested the
planned development.

However, the PT has learned
that various ratepayer groups
will be holding a series of cav-
alcades in all sections of the city
where such groups exist. Any-
one wishing to participate should
contact the ratepayers organiza-
tion in his area of the city.

The City Committee of the
Communist Party was one of the
first groups to protest the high-
rise scheme, as reported in the
April 19 issue of the PT. Later,
(issue of May 10) City Secre-
tary Bill tSewart elaborated on
the party’s position.

‘KNOTT CASE’ AFTERMATH

MORGAN HITS RCMP
ATTACKS ON PARTY

“The recent disclosure in Parl-
iament concerning the now fam-
ous ‘Knott case’ points up one
phase of the activities of the
RCMP which the press and other
publicity media has largely ig-
nored—the persecution of a legal
Canadian political party, the
Communist. Party of Canada,”
said B.C. Communist leader Nigel
Morgan this week.

“The fact that because a young
man’s name happened to be the
same as that of a Communist
candidate he should thereby be
laid open to police persecution is

age,” said Morgan. “Tf these laws
are not good enough let us change
them, and anyone guilty of vio-
lating them should be properly
charged. But the persecution of a
legal Canadian political party and
its candidates and spokesmen, as
well as its members, is an out
rageous attack on civil liberties
which should be strongly protest-
ed by every person who values
democracy.”

page news.
Yet the speech of General Mc-

Consumer price

group formed

A group of Vancouver
women met on Wed June 5
and decided to set up a
Consumer’s Committee on
Prices and demanded that
the price of sugar be rolled
back to the Oct. 1962 level.

The meeting discussed
the sharp rise in sugar
prices and its effect on con-
sumers. It was pointed out
that that the high price of
sugar will force consumers
to pay more for almost all
goods by fall, and that a
necessary commodity like
sugar should be within the
buying powers of every-
one, and not be a luxury
item.

The Committee decided
to launch a petition which
will be available within a
week. The support of con-
sumers and trade unions
will be sought,

Those interested in the
work of the Committee are
asked to contact the aci-
ing chairman, Mrs. Judy
Powers, TR 4-7832.

Canada Day

edition soon

In keeping with past
years, the PT will this year
once again publish a Spe-
cial Canada Day Issue.
Date of this year’s edition
will be Friday. June 28. :

All press clubs are urged
to send in a greeting from
the club for this special
occasion, as well as order-
ing extra copies for sale or
distribution.

Closing date for all
greetings is Wednesday.
June 19.

Naughton to the Association of
Professional Engineers of Alberta
in Calgary, March 23, 1963 has
gone unreported in the press of
the nation.

McNaughton warned that ‘‘for
now, even before ratification by
Canada, the ‘Manifest Destiny’’
proponents in the U.S. State De-
partment are quoting this Treaty
as precedent determining their
jurisdiction over the waters of
the Yukon which they propose to
acquire by the construction of an
immense dam at Rampart Can-
yon which will flood back to the
Canadian boundary.”

Once the draft Columbia Treaty
has been ratified ‘‘they will again
assert the PIRATICAL DOCT-
RINE of first in time is first in
right and thus foreclose Canada
from collecting Yukon waters in
Atlin Lake and making use of
them.” Potential development
here is some 8 million kilowatts,
twice the Columbia potential in
Canada and about 3 times the
Peace.

In other statements ignored by
the daily press McNaughton
stated that the Columbia Treaty
gives “the U.S. authority over
the operation of our storages so
as to be able to cause flows to
be released and refills to be made
in what is in effect an optimum
manner for the U.S. but with lit-
tle regard to adverse effects on
Canada. In fact by the treaty the
U.S. is even empowered to call
on Canada to operate storage in
a manner contrary to require-
ments for Canadian at-site gen-
eration.”

LIBBY KEY STROKE

On the other hand, “no re-

‘strictions have been imposed by

the Treaty on the operation of
the Libby storage in the U.S., and

moreover, to make matters worse

for Canada, the Premier of B.C.
has obligingly to the U.S. Army
Engineers, forbidden the con-
struction of any storage in the
upper waters of the East Koot-
enay which would reduce Libby’s
dominance over Canadian inter-
ests.”

This political decision by Prem-
ier Bennett on Libby was the key
stroke in attempts to make Co-
lumbia River development in. Can-
ada a matter of storage for the
United States. By this act, taken
behind the backs of the Canadian
negotiators, Premier Bennett has

permanently robbed B.C. of 974,-
000 kilowatts of potential hydro-
electric capacity in the Upper Co-
lumbia. Assuming a 65% load
factor this amounts to 5,318,196,-
000 kilowatt hours -of electrical
energy a year. At even the very
low figure of, 2 mills this is equiv-
alent to a sacrifice of electrical
energy alone of over $10,000,000
a year.

According to the report to the
U.S. Committee on Public Works
given by David E. Lilienthal,
former Tennessee Valley Author-
ity, there has been a_ steady
growth in the electropress in-
dustries, primarily aluminum. He
said it takes 7.5 kilowatt hours
of electrical energy for every
pound of finished aluminum,
U.S. STAKE

The Lilienthal report shows that
the lowest unit cost of aluminum
in 1955 was that of the Reynolds
Company — 13.3c per Ib. of alum-
inum. Hence, if power were to
cost say 4 mills (the best stimate
for the Peace), instead of the 1
mill that will result in the US.
from the proposed Columbia River
Treaty the difference amounts to
2.25¢c per lb. or approximately
15%. This is a very significant
reduction, and goes a long way
to explain the conflicting inter-
ests that wish to get their hands
on the Columbia.

It is quite clear that tremen-
dous stakes are at issue on the
Columbia. However, the national
interest of our country was very
well put by McNaughton in his
address. He concluded it as fol-
lows.

“The proposed Columbia River
Treaty should be rejected and
Sequence IXa (the Dorr Diver-
sion) should be substituted with
an immediate start on Mica and
on one of the Canadias storages
in the East Kootenays. I would
offer the U.S. to carry .out the
regulation of flow in return for
a half share of the actual benefits
they would receive to Flood Con-
trol and Power, and I would give
an undertaking of mutual fore-
bearance not to divert out of the
basin for power for 25 years.”

This is the specific answer to
the Manifest Destiny pirates to
the south, not the vaguely phrased
comminques from L.B. Pearson

-and W. A. C. Bennett about the

dollar tag on the sell-out of our
vital interests.

By DR. JACK DAVIS

outrageous enough. But equally
outrageous is the fact that a
person who stands as a candidate
for a legal political party should

‘The Present Columbia River Treaty Ties C anadas Fp ©

2—The United States: is opposed to the
scheme because it would make the ex-

This is the first of @ series of five arti-
cles on power n
Columbia by Dr. Jack Davis. a

Kamloops-born Dr. Davis has @ dix
tinguished background. He won a meNGes
Scholarship while at University of Britts'

thereby be subject to police per- Colum rauy and ater reece a PAD aun a Here’s proof of a Liberal double-cross. pan ve, i Bred chap at te
secution, as well as everyone Te erhay seeped Near Al This article by Dr. Jack Davis, now Prime Minister Pearson's parl-; lems of the Columba at once, Canada and the
motely associated = withs ED ve ie Sort fete et tary, appeared on the editorial page of the Vancouver Sedu tke tromemort ot new trety,
smacks of the methods of Hitler ie became ene of Delos re iamentary secretary, appeare ey AR AES the way could be clered for section
- Germany,” said Morgan. ee ‘emomse conto to Atom 'Sun, Feb. 28. It helped elect him in Const-Cop iano. goed a 8S Seo ha
“This kind of persecution of the oie othe Gordon Royal Comussion This is what he says in the opening paragraphs: pad a nop ep pemeet n
Communists is the way of fas- aay by Be ioe Ge meine “The present Columbia River Treaty is not good enough. It amounts Tecognized under the present treaty.
cism started its drive against er Sai a to a sellout of our Canadian resources. Yield Benefits

democracy. We should not let the
same thing happen here. The ev-
idence brought out in the House
shows that the RCMP are already
spreading the attack against peo-
ple and organizations of all shades

of opinion. Anyone who falls into

“This embarrassing treaty must therefore be renegotiated—re-
negotiated in such a way as to make low cost power available to us as
¥ consumers in British Columbia.”
Dr. Davis participated in the recent talks between Ottawa and B.C.
| which agreed to leave the treaty mainly unchanged, and to sell all
down stream power of the Columbia to the U.S.

esent Columbia River Treaty is not
etarenciale It amounts to a sellout of our
Canadian resources. re:
5 embarrassing treaty must therefore
Suisealinys F gotiated in such a way

- q Cc must
the category of security risk, There are fewer examples of such outright betrayal in our coun-: Se et ss calaad sae ome
whether remotely progressive, or sa ht try’s history. Is it any wonder that many citizens in Codst-Capliano are} Sout Ou * count in“,
holds any independent view 0° Both ne cut ene Jemanding that Davis resign for this betra al of his election pledge? at tion, aceasta Be
supports action for peace, is im- i net aman te t tnic 5s STEMS sone en a

early, major benefits by an altered schedule
of works on the Canadian side.
U such new terms, the Mica Dam yout
be the best project with which to begin.
Apart ans the economic benefits such a
priority offers us, Mica is also without political

Why, then, should Canada accept a once-and-
for-all settlement for this service?

Why ‘accept a lump sum payment of $4.
million and be obliged to prevent flooding in
the United States forever?

‘Canada, on the other hand, can turn to other
sources of electrical energy without making a
sacrifice of any kind.

There is only one way of rescuing the
treaty, from a short term economic point of

mediately suspect.
“There are laws in Canada to
protect our country from espion-

the Lake Windermere area.

June 14, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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