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U.S. interests, seeking to grab Columbia River hydro resources for
themselves, are bitterly opposing Canadian plans to divert Columbia waters
(map at left) into the Fraser River (above).

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For the viewpoint of the

United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, see story on page 2.

U.S. fights Columbia plan

United States interests, seeking to
grab control of Columbia River power,
-will oppose. Canadian plans to divert
water from the upper Columbia basin
to the Fraser valley.

Speaking to the semi-annual meeting
of the international joint commission
which regulates the use of boundary
waters, Governor Len Jordan of Idaho
forecast ‘the sharpest disagreement”
between Canada and the United States
over the use of boundary water since
the commission was established by a
1909 treaty.

adian development of: the, Columbia
and Fraser advanced by General A.
G. L. McNaughton, Canadian chairman
of tthe commission, Jordan said the
U.S. rejects a proposal McNaughton
made last April for a joint study of
several special features of the potential
use of the upper @olumbia waters.

McNaughton had estimated that
15,000,000-acre feet of water could be
diverted from the Kootenay and Colum-
bia rivers without hurting the operation
of numerous U.S. dams on the lower

Obviously worried by plans for Can-

Columbia.

Tati

whi The 12-course Chinese
with, °°

} ee & Concert-meeting at the
~*Slan People’s Home.

speblight of the evening was

of N talk by Mrs. Mona Worth
the spose who told of some of
Peo p nessions she gained and
Visit + She met on her recent
of c° China with a delegation

_ ~8nadian women.

resent Mes. Worth spoke, rep-
Fetg ves of 16 city organiza-
the brought greetings, among
© cit T. Pandit, speaking for
ty, YS East Indian communi-
deep a Pandit spoke of the
ese aaa that linked the Chin-
Cal) the Indian peoples. He
&, ee did every other speak-
China Tecognition of People’s
Senta; and seating of its repre-
* 2 Ves in the United Nations.
radar Morgan, LPP provincial
ations Old of his many conver-
dyi With young
ie OS at Soviet ' universities
: during his trip to the
Union, commenting on
Poundless confidence in
Also of Uuture.” Morgan spoke
Hele ge great respect the
Ney Gt Europe have for the
“Shi . feeling of peace, friend-
% 6 te Solidarity which was
Bria, during the day’s cele-
oF the burst forth at the end
Stoog _ Nduet, when everybody
: a and sang in English
r aa the song Solidarity
ay * It was Vancouver’s

0 .
ft Saying congratulations

tet people.

ON was one of many held in cities arou
Ww : y, : ape
vhile in China itself ‘the occasion was highlighted b

gan in the afternoon |

Chinese |

Well he Forbidden City cabaret
eg ee ane ae founding of the People’s Republic of China.

nd the world, from sco ]
y a huge demonstration in Peking.

lorful climax to a day of celebrations

banquet here was a CO

Concert, banquet mark
Chinese anniversary

here on Sunday this week to
The cele-
San Francisco to Djakarta,

Plan reception for
Youth Festival leader

Ben Shek of Toronto, popular young leader of the Cana-

dian delegation to the
in Warsaw, Poland wil
of honor at a recep
October 21, it was announce

organized by the

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Blumes proposes
education formula

Dr. Joseph Blumes, Vancouver
dentist who has polled impres-
ive votes several years running

sive ;
as a school board candidate, this

week wired Premier W. A. &
Bennett at the Federal-Provin-
cial: Conference at Ottawa with
a plan for federal aid to solve
the question of school financing.

“T suggest you seek a federal.

grant for education in the frame
work of an income tax rental
agreement as a basis for a work-
able school finance formula, en-
abling school boards to pay more
attention to teacher and physical
plant needs, and relieving home-
owners of a tax burden,” Blumes

wired Bennett.

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World Youth Festival held this summer|
1 tour B.C.. this month and be the guest
tion to be held in Pender Auditorium here
d this week. The reception is being
National Federation of Labor Youth.

Shek is a former editor of
Champion, ‘national progressive
youth paper published in Toronto,
and prior to his departure to
Europe had been NFLY organizer
in Toronto. He had been in
Europe earlier as Canadian rep-
resentative on the magazine
World Youth, organ of the World
Federation of Democratic Youth.

B.C. will be the start of

Shek’s nation-wide tour. He
will visit Victoria on October

15; Nanaimo, October 16; Cum-
berland, October 17; Port Al-
berni, October 18; and return
to Vancouver for a three-day
stay, October 18-21.

Returning to B.C. at the same
time are Alex Kucher and Dale
Schnee, who have just visited
Moscow, Bert Nillson and Leo
Kacherowski. All were delegates
to the World Youth Festival, at-
tended by 30,000 young people
from almost every country in the
world and 150,000 Polish youth.
The Canadian group split up into
smaller groups after the festival
and toured most of the countries
of Eastern Europe.

Youth clubs in several pro-
vincial centres are arranging
“youth civic receptions” for the
returning group.

ee sues for
right to work

George Gee, former bus.
International Brotherhood of

iness manager of Local 213,
Electrical Workers, carried

his fight for the right to work into the courts this week
when writs were served on local and international IBEW

officers whose charges against
the union.

Gee’s expulsion cost him his
job with the B.C. Electric, un-
der its agreement with Local
PALE

Alleging that he was wrong-
fully expelled and that malice
prompted his ousting, Gee had
writs served on seven IBEW

Gee led to his expulsion from

Senior Citizens
organize branch

SOUTH BURNABY, B.C.
Senior Citizens’ Association of

men here and received permis- |
sion from. the courts to serve:
write on Gordon M. Freeman,’
Washington, IBEW international
president; Joseph D. Keenan,’
Washington, secretary; W. A.
Hogan, New York, treasurer;:
John Raymond, Toronto, vice-
president for Canada; and Keith
Cockburn, Stratford, internation-
al executive member for Can-,
ada. |

Examinations’ for discovery
will be held locally in the case
of the Vancouver men sued by
Gee in the near future; in the
ease of the international offices
the examinations for discovery
may be held in the states where
they live.

Trade union support for Gee
in his battle for the right to work |
continues to grow. Recent do-
nations to help Gee proceed with
his legal fight include $100 from
West Coast Seamen’s Union, $100
from Sudbury Mine-Mill, $250
from Vancouver Civic Employees
Outside Workers, and substan- |
tial sums from telephone work- }
ers, pulp and sulphite workers,
fishermen, machinists, longshore-
men, printing pressmen and
others.

‘The Electrical Workers Wo-
men’s Club, set up to defend
Gee following his 4 expulsion,
held a social last week at which
more than $300 was raised. |

PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

B.C. has set up a new branch,
No. 42 in South Burnaby, and
elected provisional officers until
the annual meeting in Novem-
ber.

Acting president is Mrs. Della
Rayson; secretary is Charles
Reekie and treasurer P. H.. Dick-
son. * es

George Edwards, B.C. associa-

‘tion president, told the meeting

that “pensioners will continue
to press for a $20 increase in
the monthly pension from Ot-
tawa; the right to spend a pen-

sion anywhere in the world;
and a provincial statute putting

‘the cost-of-living bonus of $15

a ‘month in the Act.”

Labor veteran

dead at Salmo
a SALMO, B.C.
Edward Cohoe, veteran labor

supporter, died here recently in
his 80th year. —/

Born in Eastern Canada, Cohoe
was a stone mason by trade, and
had made his home in the Salmo
district’ since 1926.- He worked
on construction jobs and was an
active union member. Until
about three years ago he was
watchman at the Emerald Mine.

OCTOBER 7, 1955 — PAGE 7