EDITORIAL PAGE TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associate Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager. Published weekly by the Tribune Publishing Company Ltd. at Room 6, 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. — MArine 5288 ‘ - Canada and British Commonwealih countries (except Australia), 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.60. Australia, U.S., and all other countries, 1 year $4.00, 6 months $2.50. Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Hal Review Comment Suddenly we left the panorama of the ‘broad Kuban steppes with their quilted Pattern of green, black and gold, stud- ded about here and there with towns and cities, sparkling in the sun below like diamonds. In their place came the glistening sheen of azure blue and pale - Sreen waters. The cockpit door flew open once more. and out came our captain. “The Chorney More” (Black Sea), he announced in a Voice ringing with native pride, and on shis face a broad grin of infinite happi- Ness as though that sparkling ‘sea had been placed there at his command for us to see. é Swinging in towards the Black Sea Coastline we could see in the distance the snow-capped ranges of the Caucasus, SO very similar to our own Cascades. Along the foothills, clad in verdant green forest we could see scores of great sana- toria, like Banff Springs with its sur- rounding vacation resorts. - Our destination was Sochi, the heart of the sanatoria area on the eastern Black Sea coast, where Charlie Sims, are guests of the Pravda Sanatorium, and ‘where all medical and health facilities are at our service day and night. In the Sochi areas are great rest homes. most of them considerably larger than the Banff Springs, none smaller. Closer trolled by Soviet miners, dedicated to Yestoring coal and hard-rock miners to health and providing a month or more of miners. And a little further away the metal Workers of the Soviet Union are building a new sanatorium. The main buildings are already near completion. In our language, this metal workers’ sanatorium. would be a $50 million job at the very least; in size, roughly twice that of the Vancouver Hotel. The point is that health resorts of a like magnitude are in operation and building in many areas of this Black Sea Riviera, and it is the People, workers from mines, mills, farms and factories who are the sole bene- ficiaries! Standing thing that strikes the foreign traveller in the USSR is the enormous . building program under way everywhere. Here in Sochi it is the same. Not only _ New sanatoria on a gigantic scale to meet the health and holiday requirements of the Soviet people, but other elaborate facilities. breakwater, installations, and ship depot are nearing completion. Not just four Walls, but elaborate artistic design, com- ‘dining beauty with utility. A great new theatre, patterned after the Moscow Bol- ‘Shoi with its massive Roman columns _. has also been built recently. Even bus _ Waiting rooms along the Sochi six-lane - highway are artistic structures. : Of course, one of the advantages of Socialism over “our-way-of-life” is that its progress in building construction, .as hampered by real estate sharks, chisel- _ ling contractors, and cost-plus financing. Where the people have power there are ho obstacles to progress, health and happiness. a @ditor of National Affairs Monthly and I | to the Pravda is a huge sanatorium con-~ annual rest and enjoyment to thousands As I have already noted, the one out- - In Sochi a huge new harbor, docks, — in other fields of endeavor, is. not EPORTS from Victoria in- Ndicate that the Social Credit ' government of Premier W. A. C. Bennett will challenge any at-— tempt by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent: to block its proposed deal with Kaiser Aluminum to build a $25 million storage dam at Castlegar. ee The federal government's ob- jection is based primarily on its concern that the Columbia down’ - stram benefits received by’ Kaiser “ Aluminum| will adversely affect the Kitimat development of the Aluminum Company of Canada. What is in prospect is a ‘lengthy wrangle over the relative merits of two contending U.S. monopolies between two govern: | COLLHE ‘ Hae pe : : . B.C. must come first : ments neither of which has shown itself to -be concerned with ‘dev-— eloping Canadian resources to build Canadian industries. On the — contrary, the. Bennett govern- ment seems prepared to hand to . U.S. monopolies such resources ‘as the discredited Johnson. gov ‘ernment did not get around to giving away. What the people of B.C. want -—— and the Bennett government had better pay attention to their demand — is ' development on the Columbia River to serve the industrial development of the Kootenays and the Okanagan and ensure - their future. The interests of B.C. and Can- . ada must come first. The veto is no obstacle FoR years Canadians have been told _ “that alleged Soviet insistence on the veto was a major stumbling block on the road to effective inter-. national atomic control. _ Now Andrei Vyshinsky has clear- ly and emphatically rejected this. | He has told the UN Political Committee that the Soviet position — is that the atomic control body itself, where there would be no power of | veto, should not do anything to punish violations. A violation would be a threat to — peace, which can be considered only by the UN Security Council. Then, the internationally agreed _ provi- | \ sions af ‘the UN Charter would | apply. Article 27 (3) of the Charter, Vyshinsky pointed out, provides that “‘a party to a dispute shall ab- stain from voting.”’ : Thus the Soviet Union would not be able to exercise its right of veto in the event of a dispute between it and the control body coming bef the Security Council. The same would apply. to the U.S. Vyshinsky has removed one of the Western Powers’ chief ‘objections to the Soviet proposals for effective international atomic control. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 22, 1954 — PAGE 5 a hydro-electric the truth of the statement is emphasized by the event. : ~ There was such a coincidence last weekend, but readers of British Colum- — bia’s nine daily papers were given no opportunity to discern it. : In Vancouver the B.C.-Yukon conven- tion of the Labor-Progressive party was in session. The daily papers ignored it as completely as if it had never been held and the statement, although it had a profound bearing on British Columbia’s future, was not printed. But the event - that proved its truth received columns — of space in all the papers. bos ed % Speaking to the convention, Leslie Morris, LPP national organizer, ‘pointed ou that there is no difference between Canada’s position in relation to the drive of U.S. imperialism to subjugate this hemisphere economically and politically and that of any of the Latin American countries. ‘ To illustrate his point, Morris selected Venezuela. Venezuela, a country of some four mil- lion people, is rich in oil. It has a living tradition of struggle for national inde- pendence. Simon Bolivar, the great lib- erator of Latin America from Spanish rule, was born in Caracas, now the cap- ital of Venezuela, and lies buried there. But the U.S. imperialists, who have per- verted even their own country’s great traditions, have everything in common with the Spanish conquistadores, nothing with Bolivar. Six thousand Venezuelan oil workers pump out the wealth which should be used to develop their country, build schools and hospitals and raise their liv- ing standards. Tankers carry it to the U.S. where industries erected upon its processing employ 200,000 people. In Venezuela there is poverty and the jails are full of workers and intel- lectuals whose crime is that they believe their country’e resources should be used for their country’s good. Nominally a republic, Venezuela is actually the modei of the military dictatorship the U.S. im- perialists —the owners of Chile’s cop- per, Venezuela’s oil, Canada’s iron — apr ARronaey a Se: ; T om | oe ~~ | Garg: E : 4 SS YS . Ne ttl McEwen cna | mri : es SS 4 ' a 4 a ca . : en : Set . . SOCHI, USSR ‘ eae es Se How often have you read a statement captain of our plane was a short ees — by a political leader on one page of -* stocky man about five feet nine and ee oe _ your daily paper and on another found ee so ee een: “Gk : a seldom an attribute of Liberal and Con- _ Pit to see how his passengers were tak- ~ oe Seldon is a : - ea uate ae aan eee anen Be < - : Me CCF and Soci ial Credit right Wha Teale ‘Would light up with pleasure when he Oe a YERGERE » oe eee ue Se ee found everyone enjoying the flight.