People must block Columbia betrayal SOCRED WIN RAISES NEW SELLOUT DANGER Immediately following the Socred victory at the polls in last Mon- day’s provincial election Premier W. A. C. Bennett-and his top aid, At- torney General Robert Bonner, announced they will move immediately to complete the signing of the draft Columbia Treaty which would hand control of the river over to the U.S. Unofficial reaction in Ottawa is re- ported to be that Bennett will now pull out all the stops to press the Lib- eral government for speedy ratification of the treaty. R jo ed al FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1963 VOL. 24, NO. 40 VANCOUVER;:3.C., oy CEB 'O 10¢ e Election Results ELECTED 1963 ‘Before election Social @redit= 1 ns. 34 31 AD ay 13 16 Miberale own. ees 5 5 Conservatives .........-- ‘0 0 Min tal® 88. ad eae 52 52 POPULAR VOTE (91 per cent of all polls) 1963 1960 Social Credit ...<°.+ 40+ «. 41% 39% NDP oor: a tear: 28 33 merle ett. (oi aes eee te 20 21 | Conservatives .......-.-- 11 6 250 marchers protest Comox nuclear dump The headlines shouted ‘‘Bom- arcs to Get Nuclear Tips’’ as 50 demonstrators marched through the main streets of Cour - tenay on their way to the Comox Air Base last Saturday afternoon. Organized by the League for Total Disarmament, the demon- Stration was a united effort by Some half a dozen local peace 8roups. Among those participat- Mg were the B.C. Peace Council, the Youth for Disarmament Com- Mittee and members of the Fel- lowship for Reconciliation. At Courtenay a leaflet was dis-: tributed which called for oppo- Sition to the decision of the Canadian Governmant to extend the genocide club. It pointed out that the nuclear warheads to be Stored at the R.C.A.F. Station at Comox would not deter nor defend, but were capable of indis- Criminately killing millions of men, women and children. The cavalcade halted inComox where placards were distributed and the four mile march to the base began. The signs said. ‘‘No Nuclear Dumps in B.C.’ ; ‘‘Keep B.C. Nuclear Free’’; ‘‘Use Your Head; Not Warheads, ’ and there was even a dog carrying a sign that read, ‘Woof, not Pouff’ . An energetic group of young folk singers with guitars kept the marchers singing. At the base there was a fifteen minute silent vigil and then some of the marchers proceeded to Kim Beach where telegrams of support from Dr. Brock Chis- holm and Colin Cameron M.P., were read. All in all, an impressive de-! monstration of unity among all kinds of people, young, old, mid- dle aged, of all shades of op- inion, but all agreed onthe single demand that nuclear warheads be kept out of British Columbia. A-Arms pact near defeat As the PT went to press it was reported from Ottawa that a mo- tion by John Diefenbaker to have the Arms pact put before Par- liament was defeated by a vote of 105 to 91. Eleven NDPers and 13 Cred- istes voted with the opposition, VLC demands full hearing on Columbia The Vancouver Labor Council Tuesday night unanim - ously reiterated its stand against the draft Columbia River reaty. The council demanded that the External Affairs ommittee of Parliament be convened and a full hearing held before the draft treaty is ratified by Parliament. Prime Minister Pearson told Parliament Monday that Only one more matter stood in the way of final completion of Columbia treaty talks with the U.S. and that the hope 1S to sign the treaty by the end of the year. These announcements highlight the warning issued by Communist candidates during the election campaign that the snap election was called as a manoeuvre by the Socreds to seek a quick man- date in order to clear the decks for the vast giveaway of resour- ces which the Bennett.government has in mind, including the Col- umbia River. Results of last Monday’s vot- ing, which sawa return of the Socreds to office with an intreas- ed number of seats and a larger popular vote, means that the Socred gamble to win a mandate while keeping the real reasons for the election from the elector- ate paid off. The Socred strategy was to seek a green light to carry through its policy of resources sellout to the U.S. while keeping this issue out of the election campaign. The suc- cess of the Socred manoeuvre has now placed the fight to save B. C.’s resources at the top of the agenda for the people of B.C. The election results saw the Socreds boost their representa- tion from 31 to 34 with an in- crease in popular vote of two percent from 39 to 41 percent. The Socreds won over 65 percent of the seats with only 41 percent of the popular vote. ‘The NDP representation in the House dropped from 16 to 13 members and the popular vote declined by five percent, from 33 to 28 percent. Included among the NDP can- didates who were defeated are Camille Mather and James Rhodes in Delta, where both seats were taken by the Socreds from the NDP, Cedric Cox in Burna-} by, who was subjected in recent months to bitter attacks by NDP leader Strachan and other right wing NDP leaders. Cox lost the seat by a mere 243 votes i> the Socred candidate. Also defeated was NDPer Margaret Hobbs in Revelstoke. These four ridings plus the Nanaimo seat, where NDPer Dave Stupich edged out Socred MLA Westwood are still in doubt. The fact that the Liberals far- ed no better than in tne last provincial election and that des- pite the prestige of Tory leader Davie Fulton not a single Tory’ was elected, reflects the deep distrust with which most B. C. voters hold the Tory and Liberal parties. The significance of this is fur- ther seen when it is recalled that both the Vancouver Sun and Pro- vince campaigned editorially for a Liberal-Tory “third force” slate which most voters saw as an attempt to revive the old dis- credited coalition. Coming under particular sharp fire in the labor movement and NDP will be the “strategy” of the right wing leaders of the NDP whose ‘‘soft sell’? campaign was aimed at winning over a section of the ‘“‘business community”’ and Tory and Liberal voters by not sharply attacking the Social Cred- it policies of betrayal of labor and the people. , The. NDP leadership deliberat- ely sought to avoid an open as- See SOCREDS, pg. 3: CITY LABOR PROTESTS SECRET A-ARMS PACT The minority Liberal govern- ment in Ottawa refused this week to make public details of the agreement with the Unied States under which Canada is acquiring nuclear weapons. In the opening day of the new session of Parliament Opposit- ion leader John Diefenbaker and es BOMARC IN FLIGHT. A top Canadian military official announced recently that nuclear warheads for the Bomarcs will be stockpiled inCanada in the near future. He said that special trained U.S. per- sonal have already arrived at Canadian bases to take control ot the warheads when they arrive. New Democratic Party Leader Tommy Douglas. both asked Prime Minister Pearson to pro- duce the agreement for Pariia- ment’s scrutiny. Prime Minister Pearson rejec- ted both requests on the grounds that it would be improper to do so so as the agreement contains de- tails of military security which -would be dangerous to have pub- licly known. When challenged by Diefenba- ker to produce portions of the agreement which do not contain military secrets Pearson refused on the grounds that he did not want to reveal parts of the docu- ment out of context from the full agreement. On Tuesday night the Vancou- ver Labor Council went on record opposing the position of Pearson of ‘‘not taking the question of the acquisition by Canada of nuclear arms before Parliament.’ Delegates voted unanimously to uphold the recommendation of their executive that a matter of such far-reaching consequences should receive full Parliamentary hearing. NDP leader Douglas repeated again this week the intention of his party to challenge the Gov- ernment on the nuclear arms is- sue even if it means another election. Meanwhile on Saturday, Octo- ber 5 a mass peace trek initiated by the Canadian Peace Congress will converge on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to protest nuclear arms for Canada. A march is also or- ganized for Quebec city on Octo- bed 12. Sponsors of the Quebec protest gainst A-arms expect to rally 5,000 persons.