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‘Vote for NDP’
is CLC appeal

Either formation of a New
Democratic Party governmentor
a larger block of NDP members
will hasten the coming of medi-
care and the introduction of coll-
ective bargaining for civil ser-
vants, the Canadian Labor Con-
gress declared last week,

The CLC statement issued by
President Claude Jodoin said, in

part:

“The CLC has political pol-
icies which are determined by
delegates in convention, . .It has
been the view ofthe vast majority
of delegates to CLC conventions
that the New Democratic Party
is the party which has aprogram
in accord with the aims and aspir-
ations of the Canadian labor
movement,

“In the last Parliament, the
_NDP proved an effective force in
bringing into effect, legislation of
great benefit to the Canadian
people as a whole, This in-
cluded improvements in old age
security, the introduction of the
Canada Pension Plan, the adop-

tion of a Canadian flag, and the
establishment of a Labor Code,

“The forming of the govern- -

ment or the strengthening of the
NDP representation in the House
of Commons is, in our view, the
manner in which workers, in
common with other voters, can
best express their urgent desire
for the adoption of such pending
legislation as medicare and the
introduction of collective bar-
gaining for civil servants; as
well as other important mea-
sures, ;

“It is, therefore, our hope that
workers will give most careful
consideration to the policy
adopted by their representatives
at CLC conventions in urging
the strongest possible support for
the NDP, It is our firm con-
viction that, under a New Demo-
cratic Party government, Canada
can rise to new heights of educa-
tional and cultural achievement,
and that bonds of friendship and
understanding can be forged that

will unite the two founding races

of our country.”

‘Fisheries betrayed
by old line parties’

A joint statement issued by
three Communist candidates on
the Pacific coast charged last
week in a leaflet distributed to
the industry that the Liberals and
Tories have failed the fishing
industry and “have sold out the
industry to foreign interests.”

The leaflet says that “the North

Pacific Fisheries Treaty was de- -

signed to bring Japan closer to
the U.S, politically, by guaran-
teeing it the right to fish Asian
salmon runs on the high seas,
But North American salmon have
also been caught by Japan, The
U.S. and Canada seem prepared
to allow this to continue in spite
of the fact that it has placed the
B.C, fishing industry in jeopardy
by almost wiping out the chum
runs,”

The three candidates propose
a new treaty which would include
the U.S,.S.R., Canada, Japan and
the U.S. which would “stop this
wasteful, dangerous high-
seas fishery for salmon and would
protect B,C. herring and North
American halibut,”

Urging government financing in
the building of a deep sea fleet
to go after the many commer-
cially usable species of fish that
range out in the Pacific, the leaf-
let also urges expanded expendi-
tures for conservation, restora-

tion of streams, fishways, spawn-

ing, channels and hatcheries.

“The Communist Party is 100
percent behind a 12-mile limit

exclusively for Canadian fisher-
men, It should be drawn from a
headland to headland baseline to
enclose all waters lying between
the mainland and offshore is-
lands, including all bays, inlets,
and straits,” says the leaflet.
It adds that no special privileges
go to the U.S, or any other
country, ‘

Signed by Communist candi-
dates Charles Caron (Coast-Cap-
ilano), W.S.E. Morrison (Vic-
toria), William Stewart (Van-
couver-South), the leaflet sup-
ports limitation of licences and
says the industry is overcrowded,
It declares that such a program
must be based on a moratorium

on issuance of newlicences, pro- _
tection for Native Indian in-

terests, and financing of boats
by credit unions and banks —
not the fishing companies,

The joint statement opposes

_ the recommendations of the Gill
Commission which hit seasonal

workers and particularly com-
mercial fishermen by removing
them from the Unemployment In-
surance Fund, Iturges that bene-
fits be extended to all workers
and increased,

It also asks that collective
bargaining for fishermen be
guaranteed by law and opposes
the recommendations of the joint-
federal-provincial inquiry com-
mittee set up by the B.C, Min-
ister of Labor and federal
Fisheries Minister.

Water sellout policies
of old-line parties hit

Charging that the UnitedStates
seems to regard Canada as “a
good place to store water for its
use,” NDP national leader T. C,
Douglas told an election rally
last week in Moncton, N.B., that
the NDP would “strenuously op-
pose any sale of Canadian water
to the U.S, until a complete sur-
vey has been made of the future
water needs of this nation.”

The sellout of Canada’s water
resources emerged in recent
days as a major issue in the
‘election campaign, In Vancouver-
South and Coast Capilano Com-
munist candidates William Stew-
art and Charles Caron raised
the matter sharply at all-candi-
date meetings forcing Liberals
Jack Davis and Arthur Laing
into public debate on the issue,

In Saskatchewan last week for-
mer NDP provincial premier

“Woodrow Lloyd said that in view

of the experience of his former
government with the Liberals at
Ottawa in attempting to block the
U.S, takeover of the Columbia

River, the recent statement of —

federal resources minister Laing
that “diversion of Canadian
water is not negotiable,’’ has a
hollow ring.

Lloyd said: “When the Colum=
bia River’ Treaty allowing di-
version of Canadian waters came
before parliament it was. pre-
sented and supported by the Lib-
eral government. As for the
Conservatives, only one member
broke silence to protest. On the
other hand Tommy Douglas and
several of his NDP colleagues
were active in attempting to pre-
serve for Canadians this valuable
resource,”

Lloyd recalled that when the
Columbia River treaty was be-
fore parliament his CCF govern-
ment argued strongly that Canada
should not be entertaining plans
to serve the U.S, with Canadian

NDP hits
ban on ad

The New Democratic Party
in B,C, has publicly protested
the “unwarranted censorship®
imposed by _ independent
broadcasting stations on its
paid advertisement advocating
legislative protection for con-
sumers against deceptive
packaging and advertising,

“This dictatorial prohibi-
tion of any opportunity to state
the Party’s view on this vital
campaign issue is a gross
violation of the right of free
speech,” says the NDP state-
ment,

Indicating that there was
strong pressure from. U.S,
advertisers to reject the ad-
vertisement the NDP state-
ment: says that “we regard
this suppression of views as
inspired by corporations ex-
pending millions on media ad-
vertising, The reported inter-
ference of American adver-
tisers is keenly resented,”

“Why,” asks the NDP,
“should this ban be placed on
the NDP unless these corpora-
tions now hope to conceal
questionable merchandising
practises?”

water until we had satisfied our
own needs, The Saskatchewan
government at the time submitted
a brief to the Ottawa hearings on
the treaty urging that the Colum-
bia waters be retained in Canada
and diverted through the prairie
provinces, Where an acute water
shortage is anticipated over the
next few years,

At that time the Liberals and
Conservatives said that it was
impractical to divert the water to
the prairies—now many of them
are supporting large-scale di-

versions southward and eastward
into the U.S,

At its last national convention
earlier this year, the NDP
adopted a statement calling for a
“comprehensive inventory” of
our water resources, and said:
“A New Democratic government
would take such action as neces-
sary to prevent the export of
water from Canada until an ade=
quate supply is assured to Canada
for all time, thus preventing a
recurrence of such deplorable
events as the Columbia River
Treaty and the Chicago drainage
diversion.”

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—PACIFIC TRIBUNE

Caron says Liberal Davis
spokesman for big monopolies

Charles Caron, Communist candidate for Coast-Capilano, told
an election rally in North Vancouver’s IOOF Hall last Saturday that
Liberal Jack Davis has been a *competent spokesman for U.S.
“interests and Canadian monopolies” during the life of the last

parliament,

Recalling Davis’ record, Caron pointed out that on the Col-
-umbia River treaty he swung from condemning the pact as “a bad
deal for Canada” to supporting it in the House, He said that on the

__eve of the last election Davis published an ad saying Canada should

‘re-negotiate a non-nuclear role, but like Pearson, has done nothing

about it,

“He failed to lift a finger to help the Britannia Miners when 2

U.S, company tried to destroy that entire community by shutting

down the mines,” charged Caron,

Union calls for action
to build Merchant Fleet

The Vancouver Seamen’s Sec-
tion of the Canadian Brotherhood
of Railway, Transport and Gen-
eral Workers is circulating two
printed leaflets urging the build-
ing a Canadian Merchant Fleet,

The leaflets point out the fol-
lowing facts: That Canada is
the fourth largest trading nation
in the world and the ONLY major
trading nation possessing no
merchant ships of its own; That
Canada pays out $130 million or
more annually to foreign ship-
owners and spends $750,000 per
day for a navy which has no
merchant fleet to escort or pro-
tect,

The leaflet also charges that
the Liberal Party in Canada, be-
tween 1947 and 1950, allowed and
supervised the transfer and sale
overseas of Canada’s vast mer-
chant fleet built with the tax
dollars of the Canadian people,

Posing the question: “Why does
it cost between ten and seventy
percent more to ship products
from Vancouver to our potential
markets in Asia than from

Western European ports, al-
though Vancouver has the ad-
vantage of several hundred miles
less in distance? The union
makes this charge: That world-
wide shipping cartels based
largely in Western Europe fix
ocean freight rates to their own
advantage,

The Seamen’s union says that
the advantages of a Canadian
deep sea merchant fleet would:
Make Canadian trade independent
of the whims of narrow interest
and foreign shipowners; lower
freight rates forced on Canada by
foreign shipowners and create
wider markets for Canada’s sec~
ondary industry; give employ-
ment for many thousands, and
retain money now completely
lost — in salaries, taxes, reg
istration fees, etc,

The union circulars, which are
being widely distributed this
week, ends with the message
“Help restore Canada to her

rightful place as a shipping na~

tion, , .Send our new flag to the —

_ corners of the earth!”
October 29, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page