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A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

“British Columbia's Leading Progressive

Labor Weekly Dedicated to the Fight
for Peace, Independence and Socialism.”

Pacific

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Mac-Pap vet reports on

By LEN NORRIS

ater ° hundred delegates
} j, ded the historic conference
J Sorg ont? October 22-24 spon-
ie by the Canadian Com-
an for Amnesty in Spain.
Wer Ing the foreign delegation
ic the former Foreign
Bre cver in the Republican
ichanment, 1936-39; the
ey of Medina Sidonia;
| for > Ana, poet, imprisoned
Fran years, now a resident of
Sentat and Carlos Elvira, repre-
ork Wve of the Spanish
€rs Committee.
Mong the delegates were
they Spaniards now resident in
ee onto area, and representa-
“ion Ry f the two world trade
lorry Odies, the WFTU and the
Breen They were in complete
aidin Ment with the necessity of
Miss the Spanish Workers Com
On. f

tee? brief article all the
ees cannot be listed but
10 35 on must be made of the 30
Vets Anierican and Canadian
igad f the International
llean € of the ‘Spanish Repub-
Stang; Tmy, who were given a
Meet Ovation at the public
the,8 which officially opened
“yy nference.
Benes a very emotional
tration ° and was a demon-
bong re Of the deep and abiding
dj, Ween Spanish and Cana-

longed OPles. We should not
‘the Spanish Civil War was
Irst real protracted

struggle against world fascism.
It was only after three years
fighting that the insurgent
generals led by Franco and

_ assisted by Italian-German arms

and troops, plus the non-inter-
vention policies of the western
“democracies” that the Repub-
lican army was finally defeated.

Cost of this war to a nation of
25 million was one million dead;
one-half inillion executed and
300,000 exiled. And today the
country is still without justice,
no trade unions as we know
them, and ruled by the most
oppressive political regime
(with the possible exception of
Greece) in all Europe.

A crisis again faces the
Spanish people in Franco’s move

to designate Juan Carlos to the .

head of government. The people
are not ready to accept this, nor
are even the ruling classes
unanimously behind him.
We who attended the con-
vention, will continue the organt-
zational. struggle to free the
political prisoners in Spain, and
to work with the Spanish people
to end political repression. It is
important that Canadians do
everything possible to assist in
this task through the Amnesty
Committee, a branch of which
we hope to set up in Vancouver.

We must not forget the shabby
role played by the Canadian
government by its support of the
Spanish fascists during the civil

‘Amnesty in Spain rally

war in its refusal to take a stand
against Franco; it’s refusal of
passports to those of us who
wanted to fight fascism, and we
should be on guard to see that the
present government doesn’t
take the same ignominious
stand again. E

‘The Mac-Pap veterans thank
all unions, fraternal organi-

‘zations and individuals who

made possible the attendance at
the conference of two delegates
from western Canada.

cs eau Te ea ED
gee
EMILY SMITH

A tragic accident on a highway
near Kamloops last Saturday
took the life of Emily Smith, a
devoted and active supporter of
the Communist and progressive

movement.

Only 57 years of age, Emily
was born in Vancouver and lived
here all her life. For a few years
she and her husband, Frank,
lived on the North Shore. Frank
recently retired as a civic
employee and for years was a
member of the Canadian Union
of Public Employees.

Funeral service is being held
Thursday, Nov. 4 at the Boal
Memorial Home in North Van-
couver at 1 p.m.

The PT extends its sincere
condolences to her husband

“Frank and ° members of the

family.

Lahor candidates enter
Kamloops civic election

Kamloops — Two prominent
labor men threw their hat in the
ring recently as candidates for
the local school board. CUPE
business agent Bill Ferguson
announced his candidature as an
\Independent, saying he would
not seek the endorsation of any
civic party.

Ray McInnes, a railroader, is
vice-president of the Kanloops
and District Labor Council. He
said he is basing his campaign
on four broad points: The sale of
school supplies through schools,
a shift of school taxes on to
industry, and more retraining
programs in adult education.
There should be more co-opera-
tion between parents, students,
teachers administrators and
taxpayers on_ school board
matters.

Bill Ferguson proposes an
education tax on natural
resources rather than on
property. He said a tax on iron

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BILL FERGUSON
ore, coal and all! other minerals
— natural gas and oil, timber and
pulpwood should be levied for
education purposes ‘‘wherever
they are harvested.”

MINE POLLUTION TO BE PROBED

The 1971 inquiry into forest
industry pollution held last year
has been charged by some
ecologists as resulting mainly in
the legalization of pollution at an
unacceptable level.

The provincial pollution
director, W. N. Venables, has
announced another probe for
1972, this time into mining
industry pollution. It is to be
public, but again will stress the

necessity of having submissions
couched in technical terms.
Venables wants to hear from
people and groups who have
answers to ‘‘the nature of mining
discharges, the capacity of the
surrounding environment to
assimilate wastes, the uses of
bodies of water and land or the
air affected, technical and social
tolerances, and the economics of
discharge methods’. and
treatments”. . . etc., ete.

Celebrate
54th ANNIVERSARY of the
OCTOBER REVOLUTION
BANQUET & DANCE

SATURDAY — NOVEMBER 13th at 6:30 p.m.
CENTENNIAL LODGE — QUEEN’S PARK

New Westminster — ( Ist St. Entrance)
SPEAKER — NIGEL MORGAN, Prov. Leader CPC
Entertainment — Refreshments :
Adults — $3 Students & OAP’s — $1.50
Available at Co-Op Bookstore — 685-5836
Ausp: Fraser Valley Region, CPC

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COMING EVENTS

NOV. .13 — ANNIVERSARY
PARTY. Nov. 13. Maurice
Rush showing slides on China
and Vietnam. Refreshments.
White elephant sale. Admis-
sion $1.00. All Welcome at
832 Calverhall, North Van-
couver. Fun starts at 8 p.m.

NOV. 7 — You are invited to
Celebrate the 54th ANNI-
VERSARY of the OCTOBER
REVOLUTION on SUNDAY,
NOV. 7th at.2 p.m. SPECIAL
FILM SHOWING on the So-.
viet Union & GUEST SPEAK-
ER. Russian People’s Home
— 600 Campbell Ave. Refresh-
ments Served. All Welcome.
Ausp: Canada-USSR Friend-
ship Society.

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