Pe

A.”

Chance to object

BC. Communist leader Nigel Mor-
$n has stated that the September 4
Y-electon in Revelstoke will give
Pople in the Columbia watershed a
thance to register their disapproval _
of Socred power give-aways,

€ Communist Party has decid-
€d to work for defeat of the old-line
Parties” he said, “and will therefore -
Support the campaign of Mrs. Mar-
ea Hobbs, widow of the late NDP

baw
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1962
VOL. 22, No. 31

RSE B. .

Austerity,

picture,

clO¢

Austerity review

With every passing day, the Aus-
terity Program of John Diefenbaker
and Canadian big business makes
itself felt more and more.
devaluation,
prices and the inexorable give-away
of Canada’s priceless heritage are not
isolated or coincidental happenings.
They all fit into one and the same

Read the feature articles dealing
with this on Pages Seven and Eight.

rising

boukhobor leaders

Not guilty,

Char
and

Tges of conspiracy
ty : Intimidation against
be Ons of Freedom Douk-

or leaders were thrown

tuo court last Tuesday,
Ugust ak

ie Gistrate William Evans
th & crowded courtroom
et “€ crown had failed to
tm 24 @ sufficient case to
hig, tt the Freedomites for
®t court trial.
of tk 70 leading members
© religious sect had been
ome With four counts of
in See to “intimidate”
ang arliament of Canada
he € B.C. legislature,
Was dismissal of the case
Significant victory for
thts se who value the civil
ai, °f the citizens of Can-
= tag they, Doukhobor,
¢ or Communist.
isa, 'Mportance of this
fy 88 been in evidence
atten “me time, as shortly
Bie te Doukhobors were
tae a a committee of in-
Opn: als in Vancouver, re-
Yoly a the dangers in-
tien banded together in
th ®€ of the defendants.
teen "efusing to commit the
Ma ants to a higher court,

Bi
that “trate Evans pointed out

says court

presented, as evidence were
critical of the federal and
provincial governments, but

he found they did not show.

a conspiracy

MAGISTRATE EVANS
None of the crown wit-
nesses agreed there was con-
spiracy, he said, “and the
crown must be bound by its
own witnesses.”
The PT, in an_ editorial
headed “An injury to one
-_..” (March 30, 1962) warn-

Ba that the laying of the:

above charges had made a
civil rights issue out of the
Doukhobor - government
differences,

US. TESTS RENDER
MILK ‘DANGEROUS’

The State health director of Utah has warned the inhabitants of that. state that
if another above-ground atomic blast is set off in Nevada, it will poison the people
with milk contaminated by fall-out particles in quantities above the “safe” standards

set by the U.S. government.

Washington’s opinion of
what constitutes a “safe”
level of contamination has
long been questioned by
many leading scientists and
medical people, including
Linus Pauling, and many
others.

Dr. G. D. Carlyle Thomp-
son, Utah health director,
and Salt Lake City health,
officials, further warned that
fresh milk in Utah has al-
ready been poisoned to dan-
gerous levels by previous
Nevada blasts and called on
milk producers to divert
fresh milk from the consum-
er market,

No statistics of fallout
from the Nevada tests are as
yet available in Canada, but
observers point out that the
winds which carry the dan-
gerous fallout in a North-
East direction from the Nev-
ada testing grounds are
hardly likely to stop when
they reach the 49th parallel.

The Utah health director
estimated that a person in
the Salt Lake City area con-
suming a litre of milk daily

has taken in about 20,000°

micromicrocuries of radioac-
tive iodine since July 1 and
a total of 28,000 for the year
“to date” (the date presum-

ably being July 31). +

* mass of documents i
FELSINKI HI-JINKS

Cen

tena *S like this were a common occur-
* ON the Streets of Helsinki, despite

Stig °rganized attempts to give a

a a of violence and disagreement
* 8th World Youth Festival. The

Helsinki Chief of Police blamed “hooli-
gan elements’ for minor disturbances,
but impromptu celebrations (like. this
one by delegates from the German
Democratic Republic) held the day.

He predicted that if ano-
ther above-ground explosion
is set off in Nevada, and
with weather and wind con-
ditions approximately those
during the earlier tests, con-
tamination of milk would
rise above levels ‘‘accept-
able” to the U.S. Federal
Radiation Council,

. Radioactive iodine rapidly
“decays” into non-radioactive
forms. It is more dangerous,
therefore, in fresh milk. By
the time the milk is pro-
cessed into manufactured
products: traces of radioac-

. tivity virtually disappear.

Levels of radioactive iod-

of Utah rose to 1,600 micro-
microcuries per litre of milk
on July 20 after the atmos-
pheric explosion in Nevada.

Just how startling these
figures are is suggested by
the fact that a U.S. Public
Health Service survey in
June found that at 45 out of
61 stations the average con-
centration of radio-active
iodine was 20 micromicro-
curies per litre.

At the peak points in Utah,
therefore, the concentration

~was 80 times as great.

In marked contrast, the
Soviet tests of last fall show-
ed only a slight rise in the

ine in milk in a large area -level of radio-activity.

ECM talks collapse;
Macmillan in trouble

Talks between Britain and
the six members of the Euro-
pean Common Market have
been adjourned until some
time in the autumn, presum-
ably after the London con-
ference of Commonwealth
Prime: Ministers.

The dramtic recess came
after a final 16-hour mara-
thon session in which Edward
Heath, Britain’s chief negoti-

‘ator, was unable to ‘water

down the harsh demands of
France and West Germany.

Reports from all over Eur-
ope indicate that the NATO
countries consider the break-
down of the talks “‘a tragedy”
and new pressures are ex-
pected to be brought to bear
on Britain.

The temporary severing of
negotiations’ came at a time
when more and more British-
ers were demanding a re-
appraisal of the entire ECM
vs. Commonwealth situation,
including two former Prime
Ministers—Lord Clement At-
lee (Labor) and the Earl of
Avon, formerly Sir Anthony
Eden (Tory).

The British government of
Harold Macmillan is expected
to issue a progress report on
negotiations at the end of
this week in the form of a
White Paper. In the mean-
time, it is desperately trying
to play down the significance
of the breakdown.

The Soviet news agency
Tass said that the adjourn-
ment of the talks represented
a major defeat for Britain.

“British diplomacy,” it ad-
ded, “knows few examples
of humiliations such as Bri-
tain recently had to experi-
ence in Brussels.

“In spite of almost com-
plete surrender and willing-
ness to betray the interests
of the Commonwealth nations
— above all Australia, New
Zealand and Canada — Bri-
tain failed to get any endur-
able terms for entry into the
Common Market.”

On the contrary, the state-
ment said, “the bigger the
British concession, the big-
ger the demands made by the
Six, above all, France and
West Germany.”

George Brown, deputy
leader of Britain’s Labor
party, is repori.d to have
said his party would have to
“wait and see” hat position
it will take now.

LORD CLEMENT ATLEE