PR 34 NO. 27 VANCOUVER, B.C.
SVAY, JULY 1: : , 50 1 4
Eee Y 14, 1961 >

Warn forest industry

will be hit by ECM.

Sentat © federal government was told this week by repre-
i

Ves of B.C.’s forest industry that Canada stands to

oe the Euro-

Stan ce lucrative British market if Britain joins
©mmon Market.

th he British market has been one of the mainstays for

ach °C. forest indusiry with an average $50 million export

9 poet in lumber and plywoods. Britain takes 90 percent

*+*S soft plywood export. ‘

brief submitted by the Council of Forest Industries

the aye the Plywood Manufacturers Association of B.C. and

Memb. Lumber Manufacturers Association, warned Britain's

Blogs ti in ECM would wipe out tariff advantages now

d by Canadian forest products. oe

British ¢ brief was submitted on the eve of the visit of

in Otta Commonwealth secretary Duncan Sandys, who is now
Wa to discuss the ECM.

\ restore the pre-war boundaries |

Ask anti-monopoly hydro
Plan from Legislature

dos hat has Premier Bennett up his sleeve for the
. Ses Session of the B.C. Legislature?

ke Sis the question being Si eenieceeiien ae

ay 79M all sides this -week| development. . authority

kee, ~© -Socred government} take-over the B.C. Electri

rate peat refusing to. indi-;and Peace River Co. Some re-

trog, . 28t measures will be in-| ports suggest West. Kootenay

U .
Untiy “ed affecting the Peon Light and Power may. also -be’
y e
{

€y.are sprung on a
ed” Legislature. |

included.

Thi There are also. speculations
"Of As contemptuous attitude | that the government's policy
ture Public and the Legisla-| will be to scrap the Mica es
Toy di and. the secrecy sur-, in favor of High Arrow and
tention © the government’s in-| that | large export ©:
deg,

“pris

scale

| strong rumours ‘that Dr. Gor-
Calleg ese don Shrum, a strong exponent
vith ‘the ceea uy. 22 deal! o¢ power export, a_ former
€ Dominion-Provincial| shareholder in the B.C. Elec-
cq cement, it is “now. eX-| tric, and closely. connected
chp that power policy will| with top financial circles, will
the -Y. 40 important place at) },¢ named “power czar.” (See
Bo Session. Press reports in| gqjtorial nee
fee senoss | Canada are There has so far been no

Columbians.

decoy

Het lating that Premier Ben- | indication what form the tak-
Dea introduce legislation
ablish a single B.C. hydro |

See HYDRO, page 3

} tablishment as a “free

the worst sou

This was the charge ee =
i the National | 4 25
bot ey Cae Communist | (mainly U.S.) military occupa-

: +] | tion.

Party of Conets e Roe | “The Soviet Union has made
statement. eg x ~~ | clear, time and again, that such
ment follows: | a democratic solution would

“A new effort is being made recognize the factual existence
further to deceive the Cana- | of the two Germanys and leave
dian people on the German | the matter of the eventual re-
question. Prime Minister Dief- | unification of Germany to the
enbaker has stated that the | Germans themselves, while
status of West Berlin is “not | still providing free access to
negotiable”. Such an attitude West Berlin, guaranteed by the
can only aggravate the soJution U.N. if need be.
of one of the worst, if not the | “Canada should support this
worst, source of present world wise policy as a contribution
tension and the danger of war. | to peace and the relaxation of
! tensions. For the Prime Min-

e ‘ Berlin to}.
To permit West Ber’ | ister of Canada to say that this

remain a hotbed of intrigue | . S
q provocations situated as it | is not a matter for negotia-
eines eart of the German | tions (which Prime Minister
is in the hear to | Macmillan admits it is, contra-
| ry to Diefenbaker, and which

Democratic Republic, 1s
| crisis, and to, * i
court constant ’ | circles around the Kennedy ad- |

i = Camila :
Weer es pons q | ministration have more than
foothold from which to attack |
the German Democratic Re-}

public and push their plans to |

To our readers

To allow members of the
PT staff to take their sum-
mer holidays all issues of
the paper from now to the
third week of August will
be 8 pages. s

The PT will appear in the
last week of August with a
special 16-page Labor Day
edition in the new enlarged
tabloid size.

In future issues of the
paper you will hear more
about plans for the enlarg-
ed paper starting with the
special Labor Day edition.

of imperialist Germany at the |
expense of the peace and secur- |
ity of other peoples including
the Polish Republic.

The present situation in
West Berlin is a festering sore
and a powder-keg which should
pe cleared up as quickly as
possible. This requires negotia-
tion between the Western pow-
ers and the USSR for a peace
treaty with the two Germanys,
East and West, the demilitar-
ization of West Berlin, iis es-!}
zone” |

~ and};

Q, should be viewed with power to the US. will be part| @
Brit; Concern and suspicion by| of Bennett’s policy. There are)
S |

Algeria was the scene of widespread fighting last week
as scores were killed by the French protesting against
President de Gaulle’s plan to partition Algeria. The above
picture shows members of the Algerian Liberation Army

chatting with the people.

to strike a pose of truculent
bellicosity quite in keeping
with the hardening attitude of
the Diefenbaker cabinet on the
critical issues of the day.

“There is not a bit of doubt
that. the Prime Minister, fear-
ful. of the widespread ° opposi-
tion of the Canadian people to
the placing of U.S. nuclear
warheads in the Bomarc’ mis-
siles and having made up his
mind to carry through this
further sacrifice of Canadian
sovereignty to the U.S. mil-
itary despite popular disap-
proval, is deliberately adding
his voice to the Berlin war
scare so that, under cover o£
it, he can execute his Bomare
master-plan, and dampen crif<

‘icism of his outrageous mil-

itary aircraft -deal with the
U.S.A.

“Canadians must be warned
that to. reject a peaceful and
long-overdue settlement of the
Berlin question can lead to
serious. consequences, not least
of which is the strengthening
of the very re-armed West
Germany which Canadians so
vociferously condemned a few
years ago.

a - e
London hails
e se
Yuri Gagarin
LONDON — Despite an offis
cial snub by the British gov-
ernment Soviet space ‘here
Yuri Gagarin: was given .a

thunderous welcome by Lons
doners over a 15 mile route

Embassy. -

tion’ with huge Soviet Exhibi-
tion’ which opened here last
week, the British government
took the position he was. visit<
ing ‘as a private individual.
Londoners didn’t see ‘it the
same way. They came _ out
to greet the first man in space.

On. Tuesday -Gagarin was
presented. with a gold. medal
by .the Foundry Workers’
Union. in. Manchester.. The
medal was to honor..the his-
toric feat of the young Soviet
foundryman, who .was first in
space. - 5

Addressing a rally of 20,008

factory workers, Gagarin
made a plea for co-operation
among all states for peaceful
exploration of space.

from the airport to the: Soviet

. ‘Visiting London’ in conjunes -

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