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VOL.14 No, 52

PRICE TEN CENTS

N keeping with our usual custom, we shall not publish an

issue next week. Our next issue will appear on January

6. To all our readers and supporters the editors and staff
extend the greetings of the season with the fervent hope that
our united endeavors in the coming year will bring us ever
closer to realization of “Peace on earth, good will toward men.”

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INDIA, USSR DECLARE:

Extend Geneva
eace approach

In contrast to the secret talks between foreign ministers of the NATO countries
held in Paris last week with the avowed intention of breaking the growing friendship
between the Soviet Union and India andthe Arab countries, the joint communique issued
by India and the Soviet Union at the conclusion of the Soviet leaders’ visit to India last
week was a call for practical steps to peace through disarmament and negotiation of dis-

putes.

Reaffirming their own adher-
ence to the five principles of
coexistence, the two countries
stated that their discussions
had resulted in reiteration of
their firm conviction that inter-
national relations should be
governed by the five principles

Bennett ducks issue
of Socred giveaways

LPP byelection candidate

By BERT WHYTE

When Jack Gillett came to
Canada from England in 1948
he intended to work a year or
two in this country, then go to
South America, from there to
New Zealand and Australia,
and continue on a tour of the
world, working his way. In-
Stead he became actively in-
volved in Canadian labor strug-
gles, settled down permanent-
ly in British Columbia, joined
the Labor-Progressive party
and is now running as LPP can-
didate in the Vancouver Centre
byelection January 9.

Gillett told the Pacific Trib-
une how all this came to hap-
pen.

‘Tt was born in Ravenscliff
On Queen Charlotte Sound, two
miles from Picton, on the South
Island of New Zealand,” he

Said. “My father was a third’

8eneration New Zealander; he
Married my mother in Eng-

Jack Gillett is proud
of long union record

land during the First World
War. He was a sheep farmer,
she came from a working class
family—her grandfather was a

coal miner.”

Gillett’s dad had been gassed
in the war, and in 1927 he was
hospitalized, and Jack and his
mother moved to England, to
her old ‘home in Staffordshire.

Here the boy grew up in
Great Wryley, a rambling vil-
lage of 2,000 people, situated
between Birmingham, Stafford
and Wolverhampton—the Black
Country, a land of coal mines,
foundries and smelters.

It was a typical English vil-
lage, complete with squire’s
manor and moat. :

“The biggest landowner in
the area was Lord Hatherton,
who was also the magistrate,”

Continued on back page
See GILLETT

Kilroy not wanted here

CHURCHILL

The man who wrote “Kilroy was here” over half of Europe
during the Second World War isn’t welcome to do the same thing
in Canada in peacetime—particularly when his activities deface
national monuments. For that matter, he isn’t welcome in Canada

at all.

Residents here have been angered by, the action of a Yankee
Soldier — apparently under the delusion the U.S. Army dis-
Covered Hudson Bay — in carving his name on a rock by the
Churchill River which also bears the name of Samuel Hearne,
Carved there during the explorer’s historic Arctic journey in 1771.
The offending Yankee name is to be removed.

(Semmens

“One reason Premier W.
A. C. Bennett called a snap
byelection in Vancouver
Centre was because he
doesn’t want electors to
have an opportunity to con-
sider’ his Socred govern-
ment’s resources policy,”
Jack Gillett, LPP candidate,

said this week. ‘“But despite
the scant time allowed fof elec-
tioneering, I intend to expose
Bennett’s give-away of our
natural resources to U.S. mon-
opolies in my election broad-
casts and at a public meeting

Continued on back page
See BYELECTION

and that every effort sheuld be
made to lessen international
tensions and to promote the
cause of peace and cooperation
between nations.

“The meeting of Heads of
Governments at Geneva in July
1955 led to recognition by the

JACK GILLETT

“Premier Bennett called a
snap election in an attempt to
évade any real debate on his
government’s policy.”

Great Powers represented there
of the futility of war which,
owing to the development of
nuclear and  thermo-nuclear
weapons, could only bring dis-
aster to mankind,’ said the

Continued on back page
See INDO-SOVIET

Gibson elected
in Powell River

POWELL RIVER, B.C.

Ken Gibson, editor of the -

Pulp and Sulphite Workers’
union paper, Spirit of 76, was
elected to Powell River’s first
municipal council in elections
held here this week.

In ‘a straight fight for the
Wildwood ward seat, Gibson
defeated Dint Hunter, 72 to 65
votes.

Another labor candidate, Bob
Bryce, former president of Pulp
and Sulphite Workers’ Local
76, was runner-up in a six-way
contest for two council seats
in the Powell River ward.
Voting was: Jack Hill (elected
for two-year term), 269; Steve
Stevenson (elected for one
year term), 233; Bob Bryce,
172; Ernest Stonier, 68; Tom-
my Suffill, 65; Oliver Beacham,

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