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By V. VICTOR

ALBERNI ANALOGY: There
is no parallel to the amount of
absentees at the local schools
and mills in the ‘valley’ this
winter, except that it compares
with the excessive amount of
rain that has fallen this winter.
Many people wonder if there
might not be some radio-active
fallout mixed with the rain. One
local doctor pooh-poohs the idea
of radio-active fallout causing
so much illness, but states em-
phatically, the fallout is from the
stack of the Pulp Mill, and it
does have an ill-effect on the
people just as it removes the
paint from all the cars in this
area.

The company, (Mac & Bloe),
are concerned enough to have
said they are going to try to
eliminate the offensive and de-
structive odors, but it takes con-
siderable research and expense
to do the job.

The health of their employees
seems to be of little concern;
even if some passed away, there
is still a considerable amount
of unemployment in the Albernis
to draw from. If a million dol-
lars had been spent last year on
such a project, (and that’s more
than enough to solve the prob-
lem), the company would have
only made a profit of sixty-eight
million dollars; perish the
thought.

* *

LESS ABOUT MORE: Not much
exciting going on in the council
these past few weeks. Not even
any more secret meetings of the
council. Some say the mayor
is concerned public pressure will
stop the storage of Nuclear Arms.
He’s afraidthe local economy will
suffer by not having the added
dollars of American soldiers
spending their pay twice a month.
That?s a profound thought.

The whole idea of Nuclear
Arms at Comox is a farce. They
do not have operational aircraft
to use Nuclear Weapons. This
is only an American idea to see
how much Canadians will allow
in the form of foreign control.
The next step would be to have
American bases for operational
Nuclear Armed Aircraft on Can-
adian soil which would further
place us in the front line of
defense in case of international
conflict. Talk about schemes,
they pull ’em all.

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MALASPINA MALICIOUSNESS:
An audacious Australian is pres-
ently touring the country at the
expense of the various G.-of.C.
of each city. His subject of lec-
ture, Communism. Of all the
parasitic idiots to prey on the
public this man who lectured on
Thursday in one of Nanaimo’s
hotels takes the grand prize.

Among his many childish state-
ments he said America should
invade Cuba and wipe them out
to a man if necessary in order

munism forever. It seems many
of our finest citizens gave their
lives within the past score of

Reasonable
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years to rid the world of his
Fascist companions.

It would be interesting to know
where he was hiding at that time.
Too bad the free thinkers of this
area won’t avoid spending their
dollars at the merchants who run
the C. of C. who sponsored this
international tramp in this mal-

icious meandering.
* * *

HEARD and OVERHEARD: A
fellow by the name of Wright
was laid off from his job. He
began collecting Unemployment
Insurance at which time the Chest
Unit found he had TB. The U.I.C.
promptly cut off the insurance.
After several appeals, the Su-
preme Court granted the claim
and Wright received over seven
hundred and fifty dollars. All
this came about because a mili-
tant and devoted chap by the name
of Ed Linder spent many hours
and much money to pursue the
case to a successful conclusion.
Ed deserves a lot of credit.

The now famous case of the
‘shunting Indians’’ have a defence
fund set up for them. The chair-
man is Wilson Bob, of Nanaimo,
and the treasurer is Ed Elliott,
of Cowichan Lake. This is a
worthy cause and should be as-
sisted: it?s a human rights case.

A fabulous seam of coal has
been discovered in the Nanaimo
Lakes area, easy to get at and
cheap to mine. Still local coal
costs almost as much as hard
coal from Alberta where it comes
from deep in the ground and has
to be shipped all this distance.
Maybe this is why the CNR op-
erates in the red each year.
AND THAT’S THIRTY FROM

THE ISLAND AGAIN

- B.C. aid for
McCarran victims

The Delta-New Westminster
Regional Committee of the CPC
informs the PT that its social
evening last Saturday, Feb. 15
was a sparkling success. A full
hall heard Jack Phillips, prom-
inent trade unionist, speak on
the vicious, thought-control Mc-
Carran Act in the U.S.A.

As a result of the successful
evening, the committee in
charge was able to send a
cheque for $100 (in U.S. funds)
to the Gus Hall-Benjamin Davis
Defence Committee, to be used
in aid of victims being persecut-
ed under this legislation.

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The battle to enact the Civil
Rights Bill in the U.S. entered
its decisive stage this week at
the door of the Senate with a 290
to 130 victory in the House.

“The vote is a symbol that the
Dixiecrats can be defeated de-
cisively in the upper house,’’
said the U.S. Worker this week.

The House vote reflected the
mass struggles that have been
carried on all over the U.S.

The bill as passed by the House
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making the party the kind of
federated organization the mem-
bership intend and want it to be.

(4) As a considerable source of
Right Wing strength is to be found
in the trade union bureaucracy,
the Left must launch a struggle
to integrate the trade union fight
with the political fight to bring
political understanding to the
rank and file trade unionists,
thus winning them for pro-
gressive policies,

(5) We need to elaborate, in a
separate form and in a more de-
tailed way, some of the points
which appear in a necessarily
brief way in the program. Asa
start, for example, we could con-
centrate on a definite proposal
for public ownership of one or
two important monopolies and a
specific and detailed program for
the development of one or two
secondary industries.

(6) We need to extend our or-
ganization and influence into
much wider areas ofthe province
and work ina more continuous and
consistent manner.

(7) It is necessary for us to
find ways and means to carry
on a more effective campaign
of publicity and education on
policy and program and also
discussions aimed at clarifying
some fundamental problems of
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respect will be the appearance
of a regular discussion bulletin.

When we consider recent
widely discussed developments
regarding the proposal of some
elements for a merger with the
Liberals, it will be readily real-
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In response to the merger move
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Left elements (not strong as yet,
but requiring attention) to start
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