Guiana moves without ‘aid’ A $13,000,000 drainage andir- rigation scheme has been opened on British Guiana’s depressed’ coastlands to assure water sup- ply for more than 30,000 acres of land and benefit to more than 3,000 farmers, Before the project was under- _taken only 8,000 acres of land was. cultivated and, opening the scheme, Premier Cheddi Jagan stressed how important it was to the country’s economy and people. Referring to efforts by the op- position to his government in- side and outside the country to thwart efforts to develop the country, he said that at one time the U.S, government had promis- Peace Council In a world increasingly threat- ened by atomic war, nuclear weapons must be destroyed for ever, the World Council of Peace has stated. The council at its closing ses- sion in Warsaw, adopted a num- ber of resolutions on peace, na- tional liberation and other ques- tions by an overwhelming major- ity. It called for action by the. peoples of the world to get all nuclear tests banned. The Mos- cow partial test ban treaty was described as only a beginning. **We must prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in any form, including such devices as the multilateral nuclear force,’’ said the main resolution. ‘We must secure nuclear free zones on land and sea and an agreement re- nouncing the use of nuclear wea- ed aid for the scheme, but it had not materialized. “They seize on the fact that we have been able to develop lucrative rice markets with Cuba and the socialist countries in Eastern Europe, and use it to whip up international hysteria against my government,”’ he said. Dr. Jagan said that the pro- ject was asymbol of the future and warned that no nation, however powerful, no economic blockade or specially arranged electoral system could thwart a resolute people or hold back change, He pledged himself to carryon the struggle ‘‘until the last ves- tige of privilege and colonialism has been uprooted from the soil of this country.’’ ends parley *‘We must press the 18-nation conference at Geneva to make progress toward a treaty of gen- eral and controlled disarmament. We must insist meanwhile on the limitation and reduction of arms budgets.’’ Disarmament and national lib- eration complemented and stren- gthened each other in the strug- gle for peace, said the council. Colonial wars, intervention inthe domestic affairs of other count- ries and military bases in foreign countries should all be ended, it added, It was stated at a press con- ference that the final resolution was approved by 274 votes to 42 with four abstentions, while a resolution put forward by the Chinese delegation, which in- cluded opposition to the partial test ban treaty, was defeated by 213 votes to 38 with 18 absten- tions. ‘Let's plan now for peace’ SEATTLE — Robert E. Rose, Washington State director of commerce and economic de- velopment, said last week that disarmament could be ‘‘the match that could light the tin- der’’ of economic growth. Rose, speaking before the As- sociation of State Planning Ag- encies in San Juan, Puerto Rico, emphasized ‘‘Industry must begin planning now on conversion pos- Sibilities.’” We must, he said, minimize the harmful economic effects of disarmament. **Rather than submit to a fear of peace, it seems to me that the possibility of working out a rea- sonable disarmament plan... should be more real today... “‘Programs need to be de- veloped now.”’ Rose is a former executive of General Electric at its Hanford, Wash,, works. His appointment to state office by Washington Governor Albert D. Rosselini in 1961 provoked some criticism at the time. : Witness causes sensation The first prosecution witness in the Pretoria, South Africa‘‘sa- botage’’ trial has revealed she had been kept at Johannesburg police statioa without charge for the past five months, the last two in solitary confinement. Police had promised they would free her after she had given the evidence they want in court, said the witness, an African wom- an. She was testifying at thetrial of 10 African leaders who have pleaded ‘‘Not Guilty’’ to the sabo- tage charges, _ The prosecution had earlier given the court an account of the alleged plot to overthrow the Ver- woerd government. The details— designed to chill the blood of white government supporters — claimed that police had found 106 maps marked with ‘‘proposed Sabotage targets.’’ It also claimed that ‘‘docu- ments’’ were found showing that **Moscow” had promised the accused ‘‘every sort and manner of assistance in their campaign.’”’ ‘Britain aids slavery’ charge Britain was accused this week of imposing on the Persian Gulf territory of Oman ‘‘despotic col- onial rule, reinforced by a reign of terror.”’ The accuser was Derek Glubb, appearing before the UN General Assembly’s trusteeship commit- tee on behalf ofthe Committee for “the Rights of Oman. Glubb charged that British pol- icy seemed aimed at “‘preserv- ing the slave trade’’ in South Ar- abia, The Sultan of Muscat and Oman had ‘‘a large retinue’’ of slaves, A British-led occupation force was engaged in continuous fight- ing in Oman and was carrying out numerous acts of brutality, including torture, he said. The Sultan, he continued, was *tutterly dependent on British help and is incapable of a pol- icy of his own.’’ EE AOS ETE PS A ES I A RE I A ee WOULD IRRIGATE TWO MILLION ACRES Columbia diversion to prairies could give Canada a new river Diversion of the Columbia into the prairie river system would create ‘‘what amounts to a new river—a virtually continuous flow of 6,000 cubic feet per second’’, according to an article in the December 5 issue of ‘*The Family Herald.”’ : The FH enjoys a wide circu- lation in the three prairie prov- inces as well as Ontario. In its coverage of Canada’s water situ- ation, that journal makes the point that ‘‘with farmers in Ontario and Alberta paying hard cash for their water supplies, bold new diversion schemes once con- sidered madcap and extravagant now appear in a new light.’’ And the writer of the feature article, J. S. Cram, states: “‘The future of Canada depends on the adequacy of its water: supplies. We still may not be able to increase the amount of rain received in any place; but we can see that more of what does fall is put to good use where and when it’s needed, There’s no doubt about our phys- ical ability to do it. The only question is the cost.’’ After the outlining the practic- ability and desirability of divert- ing water ontothe prairies, Cram points out: ‘*Both the prairies and central Canada face a serious’ water supply problem. Runoff water, on which people rely for most of their needs, averages 25 inches in B.C. and the Maritimes, 15 in Quebec, 11in Ontario and about 2.8 on the prairies.’’ The writer devotes consider- able space to the fact that *‘on the western side of the cont- -inent the United States is press- ing to get control of the Colum- bia,’’ to the arguments of David: Cass-Beggs, general manager of the Saskatchewqn Power Corp- oration (which have been printed from time to time in the PT) and to other aspects of the Columbia giveaway which have become, more or less, public knowledge. In addition, however, Cram then opens up the question of Canada’s water resources still further by stating: **Central Canada also faces its dwindling Rubicon, It needs more water to maintain its present “Will you Ite down of your own free will or are you going to force us to have a law passed?” NEWS ITEM: The Canadian Labor Congress has thrown its full support behind an NDP private member's bill in the House of Com- mons requirin cations zeiised the railways to bear the cost of employee dislo- by automation and the seniority system. The CLC stand was outlined in a letter from Claude Jodoin to the Commons Railway Committee. 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If water ‘is diverted from the Great Lakes to meet further demands, with- out arringing for replenishment. ‘the problem will grow.”’ Cram then indicates that the only sensible~ and practical source from which the prairies and central Canada can replenish its dwindling water supply is from the river system of B.C., | which would mean developing Canadian natural water re- sources on a West to East rather than a North to South basis, He highlights the four diver- sionary schemes outlined in the past by Cass-Beggs: 7 * North Saskatchewan water to Red Deer River. * Columbia at Surprise Rapids to Red Deer. * Athabasca to North Saskat- chewan, * Peace chewan. ‘‘Even a third of the flow thus diverted to settled parts of the prairies,’’ he states, ‘*would pro- vide ample water to irrigate al- most two million acres ...or half the acreage of all tame hay in the three prairie provinces.”’ Cram then concludes: ‘What would this cost? Not $3 per 1,000 gallons (some farmers in Ontario are already paying up to $10), or even $2, according to the Saskatchewan estimates; but $1.05 per 1,000 gallons on the NorthSakatchewan and $1.60 on the South Saskat- chewan, for the entire scheme.”’ to South Saskat- Labor briefs Mine Mill is entering into ne- gotiations at Trail and Kimberley with the giant Consolidated Min- ing & Smelting Co. - asubsidiary of the CPR. The unionis demand- ing a 15-cent-an-hour increase, in addition to overtime pay for all hours worked on weekends, About 4,000 workers are affec- ted by the negotiations. The CLC had condemned pro- posed changes in administration of the Unemployment Insurance Fund, based on recommendations of the Gill Commission. In a brief presented to federal labor minister Allen McEachen by president Claude Jodoin and other CLC officers, it was point- ed out if certain Gill proposals were made government policy the effect would be to disqualify seasonal workers (like fish- ermen) from benefits. These workers have always en- joyed full coverage under the UIC.