HL 4. A. ae

WHY IKE DIDN'T GET 10 JAPAN

“They don’t like Ike” or “Why Ike didn’t get to
Japan” might well be the heading of this picture account
of the mass‘demonstrations against Ike’s visit and the!
U.S.-Japan military pact.

These pictures show the historic demonstrations that
forced the Kishi government and U.S. state department to|
back down before popular opposition. |

x

.C. communists demand
complete health plan

The Communist Party of B.C., in a special resolution adopted by its provincial
executive this week urged “that the B.C. legislature bring into being a contributory

-|health and medical plan-that would safeguard the health of all our people, until such

The resolution recalls that}
| “the provincial legislature -in|
1935 adopted a Bill for a
health and medical** scheme|
which was never put into ef-
fect because of the pressure of
the B.C. Medical’ Association;

|and welfare of the people of
| this province.”

Reéalling that the federal|
government gave a grant to;

the provinces for hospitals
over a year ago the Commun-
jist Party demands that the

“provincial government divert
this hospital revenue to bring: |
ing -in a provincial~ medical
/ coverage.”

The resolution declares that}
“the Communist Party has for)
a good many’ years proposed |

wiern

Be

Fines ~
A huge rally May 15

against the pact.

JOBLESS
Continued from Page 1

| creased assistance to farmers,
|the imposition of an excess
profits tax, cutbacks in immi-
gration, etc.

| Professor Hall of UBC poin-
ted to the failure of Canada to
develop secondary industries
and ‘our..-over-dependence . on
foreign. capital...The speaker
also-stated the export: of Can-
adian..capital to.the -U.S.s was
|a factor in the current. jobless
| crisis.

William Stewart of the Elec-
trical Workers Union: told the
conference that it was the fed-
| eral government’s policy of

‘integrating Canada ‘with the
| cold’ war ‘policies: of the U.S.
|that ‘underlay this © crisis,”
| Stewart said’ that~ nothing
| short cf‘ new ‘policies which
| would break with U.S. domin-

Tokyo metal workers
demonstrating.

ad
|
|

Japanese railway workers on strike June 4.
ssinnarits ssi | ation, and permit Canada‘‘to

| open trade with China and the
| Socialist world, thereby. in-
| creasing the jobs’ and purchas-
|ing power’ of* the Canadian
| people can off-set the present
¢ | crisis.

| In private many of. the con-
| ference: delegates expressed
| dissatisfaction with the inclus-
ion’ on” conference panels: of
“chamber of commerce” ‘types;
who did more’ to confuse than |
find ‘solutions’ to the urgent
problem of unemployment:

NEXT WEEK |

The Pacific Tribune
will appear in a
Special 12-page
CANADA DAY
EDITION

time as a federal non-contributory medical health plan is

enacted.”

that what is really needed is a,
non - coniributary National)
Health and Medical Plan cov-|
ering hospitalization, medical |
dental and optical care. This |

could quite easily be paid for
by diverting a portion of the
vast sums of money now spent
on “defence” ‘by the Diefen-
baker government.”

gl nsca of ero ae VIC hacks cit y demand
for national jobs meet.

Vancouver Labor Council Tuesday night joined with
Vancouver city council and B.C. Federation of Labor in

demanding an immediate national emergency conference

on unemployment.

Cty council action taken
Tuesday arose out of the mass
parade and demonstration of
1,500 unemployed at city hall
last Friday.

VLC delegates also rapped
Canadian Labor Congress of-
ficials on their ousting of the
Teamsters Union.

The issue &@arose with the
reading of a reply from the
CLC to a previous protest from
the VLC against the expulsion.

An attempt by the chair to
choke off discussion on the
letter from the national office
of the CLC was rejected by
delegates» who demanded the
tight to fully discuss the issue.

Marine Workers delegate

sh

William Stewart made a strong
appeal for all-in unity includ-
ing the 40,000 organized un-
ionists in B.C. now kept out-
side the CLC.

Sam Jenkins of the Marine
Workers won loud approval
from delegates as he denounc-
ed Bill 43 and its use against
the Mc & Mc workers. He urg-
ed labor to “defy and defeat
Bill 43.”

Council delegates supported
PTA protest against the PNE

taking over New Brighton
Pool for five weeks in the

summer; and decided to back
the candidature of Bob Skelly
in the New Westminster by~
election.

i

f