Cuban worker

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militiamen ar

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8 med with modern weapons
Such as shown above crushed the U.S.-led invasion of their’
Hy weland. They stand prepared to defend the gains of
er revolution against new attacks now being discussed
= the U.S. atomaniacs in the Pentagon.

Communist Party To Launch Campaign

“The Provincial government
has been compelled to agree
to investigate the question of
taking over the B.C. Electric,
and no time should be lost in
letting Premier Bennett know
that we want them, to pro-
ceéd,” declared Nigel Morgan,
B.C. leader of the Commun-

ist Party.

“Not only ‘would it bring a
sharp reduction in our light
and. transit costs, but, it would
end the domineering influen-
ces over provincial and civic
politics by this powerful mon-
opoly, which has cost the peo-
ple of British Columbia so

| much.”

“Taking over of the B.C.
Electric at this time would do
more than anything else in
‘helping to eliminate the dan-
ger of B.C.- power resources

| peing drained off to the U.S.”

he said. “The ‘fast-buck’ gang
“the B.C. Electric - Socred-
Wenner Gren _ interests —
working in collusion with the
U.S. monopolies have stepped
up their campaign to obtain
the surrender of B.C. power
for the newly-planned U.S.
national power grid.

@
»*Recent speeches of B.C.E.R.
President Dal Grauer and

Lands Minister Wiliston leave

aaa North, correspond-
a tthe U.S. Worker in Ha-
2 eehaiine the recent in-
eo. Cuba. The Pacific
° ieee publishes ex-
rom two of his dis-

Dat
ee: The first dispatch was
é Thursday.

histones onhy streets of: this
» al capital are jammed

: ae wildly ‘jubilant ‘citi-

Se __ write.

‘i aes Castro's commun-
oa Cuncing the triumph-

5 € of the barbarous act

of In .
Of iny :
Za sion in the marshes of

ae ~ ee Las Villas has been

“Dh Ir since 3 a.m.
®med in i Ormerly heavily-
aders, unshaven, be-

Tag
“‘S8led, Many without their

y €apons
Shoulder, St0od up

With
Zen,

Marshes are bogged in the

Ariven we which they were
°f harg ack in the 72 hours
tion. ghting. The Revolu-
icto astro said, has emerg-
heay,, t0usly, although a
Price in valiant young

to their |

How Cuba Smashe

lives were lost in the defence.

“The people of Havana saw
the truckloads of singing mil-
itiamen and women leaving
the city on Sunday ‘afternoon.
Havana became a citadel in-
stantly at Castro’s announce-
ment. of a national state of
alért. It was the same all over
the Island.” :

In his’ second. dispatch ast
Sunday North wrote about in-
terrogation ~of
which proved that “they were
recruited in the U.S.;"flown to
Guatemala and trained there
under U:S. officers; conveyed
to Nicaragua; embarked on a
fleet of troop-carriers and two
U.S. destroyers came along to
guard them.

“The invaders met a wall
of resistance. from. Battalion
339 of Cianfugos, near the in-
vasion point. Armed only with
small arms rifles, submachine
guns, grenades, they made the
road a hot Niagara of bullet
fire. They held. the invaders

for nine hours until reinforce- |

ments came.”
North describes that as

prisoners’

Invasion

truckloads of militia sped to

the way ‘greeted them with
“Patrio a muerte, vancere-_
mos” — (we shall win) and
“Give them Hell.”

A seven-year old Cuban
youngster taking part in a
the patriotic demonstration.

the attack points people along |-

“Put B.C. Electric under
public ownership — Morgan

A ¢all for action to bring all B.C.’s electrical utilities under public ownership
was issued this week by the Provincial Executive of the Communist Party.

no doubt that the main point
of difference between B.C.
Socreds and Federal Tories is
not over the terms of the Col-
umbia: Treaty, or what we'll
have- to pay~- for. so-called
‘downstream -— benefits’, - but
whether the B.C. Electric and
Peace River Power Corpora-
tion are to get the right to sur-
render B.C.’s rich hydro re-
sources to serve the Californ-
ia ‘tie-in’ to a vast new nation-
al U.S. power grid.

“A powerful drive is under-
way, and British Columbians
should ‘speak out more sharp-
ly. in opposition to this crim-
inal betrayal of our interests’?

“Morgan urged. “All the talk

about protecting our eventual
needs is nothing but a snare
and a delusion, as “Canada’s
experience ‘on . the Niagara
and the Great Lakes: water
issue, no less than: with the
Alaskan Panhandle, proves.
Once the power flows, new in-
dustries and new cities be-
come established depending
on that energy, little can be
done to recover it for Canada’s
requirements. :

“Taking over of the B.C.
Electric is necessary to ensure
that B.C.’s interests shall be
placed before the profit-hun-
Sry desires of B.C. Electric
coupon-clippers. The B.C. El-
ectric have extracted the
highest possible rates from
the public they could get away
with. It is entirely wrong that

they should be allowed to
have monopoly rights in the
densely-populated lower main-
land area, while the govern-
ment-owned B.C. Hydro is
restricted to the sparsely-pop-
ulated, high-cost-service areas.
Their rates, as well as those
of the Vancouver-Victoria ar-
eas could be substantially re-
duced if a_ single, publicly-
owned grid dedicated to serv-
ing B.C.’s and Canada’s needs
first could be established.

“One of the major costs of
electricity is the cost of bor-
rowing capital. Publicly-own-
ed utilities can get it at half
the. cost-- Publicly-owned util-
ities are exempt not only from
shareholders profits, but from
sizeable federal taxes as well.
No better evidence of the
need for action to. take over
the B.C. Electric can be prov-
ided that the fact that their
rate in the lower mainland
area are the _ highest in all
Canada, with the exception of
three small cities of Summer-
side, PEI; Swift Current and
Sussex, N.B. Federal govern-
ment figures show that more
than half the cities of Canada
pay less than half the rates
charged in Vancouver.

“Public ownership is urgent-
ly needed to bring us those ad-
vantages and every labor and
progressive group and indi-
vidiual in the Province should
join the campaign for action,”
Morgan concluded.

French working class act
to stop fascist generals

France’s working class responded quickly and power-

‘fully this week to stem the attempt of a group of fascist

officers in Algeria to impose a fascist distatorship on the

country.

Monday of this week ten

million French workers down-
ed tools for an hour in the big-
gest general strike France has
éver known. Purpose of the
strike was to Voice their de-
termination to oppose the re-
bel generals who seized power
in Algeria.
- Jn the’ Paris région the
strike was virtually total, with
three million workers observ-
ing it. Sorne 350,000 railway-
men ahd 240,000 postal work-
ers, 340,000 miners were
among the millions of strikers.
’ Paris workers marched
along the boulevards chanting
“Fascism shall not ‘pass,’ and
“Peace in Algeria.”

The Political Bureau of the
French Communist Party is-
sued an appeal to the French
nation in which it said “the
people must see that all nec-
essary measures are taken to
render harmless the generals
who. have effected the coup.
To resist the dangers and
quickly suppress the rebels the
working class and the entire
French nations must rely on
their own action in the -first
place,”

France’s working class made
it. very clear that there would
be no surrender to the fascist
generals. Without a doubt this
was a big factor in the failure
of the military coup.

April 28, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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