o= FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1956 VANCOUVER, B.C. i" Authorised as second class mail by l0¢ the Post Office Department, Ottawa Supreme S$ j d MOSCOW IAt its opening session on Fednesday this week, the apreme Soviet appealed ' the parliaments of all untries to support the call r an end to nuclear apon tests adopted by e Japanese Diet recently. ‘Even while the Supreme Wiet was making this ap- 1, however, © Japanese jentists announced that loded the ‘‘biggest’’ H- mb of its current series tests in the Pacific.. ‘One scientist said the ex- osion was comparable in wer to the one in March 954 which triggered the forld-wide demand for anning such tests. “By Japanese count, the .S. test on Wednesday his week was the eighth ince the present series be- an, although the U.S. has nnounced only two. e United States had ex-’ } SS IN THIS SPACE RES ADD Public ownership of Mica power sought “Development of the Columbia River should be undertaken by the B.C. Power Commission, which can provide the lowest cost electric power necessary to permit full and rapid development of B. C.,”” CCF provincial leader Robert Strachan said in a statement issued to the press this week in which he also accused Premier W.A. GC, Bennett of ‘‘sacrificing the publicinterest’’- by American big business inter- ests and the B.C. Electric.” Strachan said the CCF wel- comes the announced coopera- tion of federal and provincial governments in development of the Columbia River valley, which includes the Mica Dam project. But, he added, “This cooperation should include the complete financing of the pro- ject. “We regret that Mr. Bennett has made no provision to in- Joining hands to sing Auld Lang Syne-at the Mansion House are the Lord Mayor of London, Alderman Cuthbert Ackroyd (centre) and dancers of the Soviet Army Ensemble now visiting Britain, On the Lord Mayor’s right Four companies offer settlements ovietbacks Japanese H-test plea his ‘‘clear preference for clude the B.C. Power Com- mission engineers in the pro- posed study. “It is the CCF view that the development of the Columbia River should be undertaken by the B.C. Commission,- which can provide the lowest cost electric power necessary to permit full and rapid de- velopment of B.C. “To keep full control over future industrial planning and development, B.C. must retain Continued on back page See MICA POWER is Col. Boris Alexandrov, leader of the ensemble, and in the foreground Arthur Eisen, soloist. A party of 200 members of the ensemble visited the Mansion House at the Lord Mayor’s invitation. Strike deadline for shoreworkers nears United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union has rejected the latest offer of the Fisheries Assocjation and fresh fish and cold storage workers in plants all along the coast will strike this Saturday noon, July 14, unless a further meeting, be- tween union and company rep- resentatives being held at Facific Tribune press time re- sults in a last-minute agree- ment. Meanwhile, on the eve of the big strike, the union has received offers of settlement from the Prince Rupert Fish- ermen’s Co-operative. Associa- tion and at least four private companies which are _ far superior to what the Fisheries Association’ has offered. These offers are being drafted into agreements to be ready for sig- nature before Saturday. “We do not intend to use these offers as any kind of. lever in our bargaining with the companies,’ said Homer Stevens, general — secretary- treasurer of the UFAWU. “Therefore, we are not releas- ing details of their content ex- cept to our own membership who are entitled to know what is going on. “We are meeting the com- panies on Thursday afternoon in a further effort’to avert a strike. We'll give .them a counter proposal at that time but they'll have to show will- ingness to deal properly with our secondary demands. Other- wise there will be a strike and we have alerted our members on that point by wire.” The joint shoreworkers and tendermen’s negotiating com- mittee of the union rejected the Fisheries Association’s latest offer of 15 cents in 1956 for shoreworkers as “not satis- factory.” “The companies practically brushed aside all of the shore- workers’ secondary demands,” said a union press release. “The companies also have re- fused to budge on the question of compulsory checkoff. “The company offer for tendermen is highly unsatis- factory as it does not grant any control of hours whereas tendermen are demanding a 12-hour. day effective next year: They offer only 11 days off per month next year when tcwboat men will be getting 15 days off.”