The Communist Party of the
Soviet Union and Vietnamese
Party of Labor (VPL) have is-
sued a joint statement express-
ing support for the Moscow De-
claration of 1957 and 81-Party
Statement of 1960.

The communique emphasized
that both parties will continue
working for unity of the social-
ist camp and international com-
munist movement on priciples
of Marxism-Leninism and pro-
letarian internationalism, for
further education of the peoples
of both countries in the spirit
of fraternal friendship and soli-
darity.

“*Guided by the Leninistnorms
of relations between Communist
parties,’’ the communique says,

Pauling seeks

Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of
the Nobel Peace and Chemistry
prizes and a sponsor of the Em-

Dr. LINUS PAULING

Bonn ‘NO’ to Easter passes

BERLIN — The Bonn govern-
ment has flatly rejected an offer
by the German Democratic Re-
public to repeat at Easter and
Whitsun the successful Christ-
mas passes procedure for West
Berliners. :

The rejection is not likely to
be accepted with equanimity by
West Berliners, especially since
West Berlin is- not, and never
was, part of the federal republic
under Bonn’s jurisdiction.

West Berliners had hoped the
Christmas agreement could be
the beginning of a thaw in the
situation in West Berlin. The
West Berlin Senate is known
to favor the GDR proposal, but
it fears a showdown with Bonn.
Two Senators, Arndtand Schiller,
resigned in connection with these
differences.

Confidential negotiations have

Henry Winston, Negro Com-
munist, will return to the U.S,
February 29 after an absence of
‘two and one-half years, it has
been announced,

HENRY WINSTON

Two CPs make unity pledge

“the CPSU and VPL deem it to
be their duty to exert maximum
efforts to strengthen the unity and
cohesion of the two parties.

*‘They will go on devoting at-
tention to the common interests
and goals, which bring both fra-
ternal. parties together in
the struggle against imperialism
and will uphold the unity of all
the anti-imperialist forces asthe
main guarantee of successful
struggle for the triumph of so-
cialism, :

‘We have been and will be
fighting in the single front against
imperialism and reaction, for the
victory of democracy, national
independence, for peace and soc-
ialism,’’ the statement said.

trip to Cuba

ergency Committee for Disaster
Relief for Cuba, has sought U.S.
State Department permission to
travel to Cuba to study the needs
and distribution of the commit-
tee’s relief supplies for hurri-
cane victims.

Sidney J. Gluck, chairman of
the committee, Ava
Pauling, Carleton Beals, author,
and Basil Pollitt, counsel for the
committee, have also asked for
travel permission.

For the past several. years,
American authorities have pro-
hibited any and all travel to Cuba
by U.S. citizens and residents
under penalty of severe fines
and/or imprisonment.

Granting of permission to
Pauling and his colleagues could
provide a major breakthrough
in this regard,

been going on since New Year’s
with representatives for the West
Berlin Senate and the GDR. In
these talks, it is understood, the
GDR proposed an indefinite ex-
tension of the Christmas ar-
rangement.

This caused apoplexy in Bonn,
which began putting out slanted
news leaks about ‘‘political con-
ditions’? aimed at breaking off
the talks.

Both West Berlin and West
German papers make no bones
about Bonn’s responsibility for
the obstruction to agreement. It
is evident from the Bonn govern-
ment’s statement that it has two
major aims: :

To prevent any relaxation of

tension and: to enhance West
Germany’s ficticious claim to
have some authority over West
Berlin.

Winston returning to U.S.A.

He is returning at this time
because his presence is required
in his suit for $1 million against
the U.S. government. Winston
sued for damages because his
eyesight had been irreparably
damaged while he was a polit-
ical prisoner under aSmith Act
conviction.

The case was dismissed by a
lower court on the grounds that
a prisoner could not sue the U.S.
government. This verdict was re-
jected by the U.S. Court of Ap-
peals and by the U.S. Supreme
Court.

As aresult ofthe higher court’s
ruling, Winston’s suit has now
been renewed, :

He has been in the Soviet Un-
ion, obtaining medical aid, since
September, 1961, -

Helen .

LABOR ROUNDUP:
6
Steel preaches unity-

continues raids, split

Leaders of Mine Mill have
charged that the Steel Workers
union is continuing its raiding
and splitting activities even while
it preaches ‘‘unity in the min-
ing industry.”

In a letter to Canadian Steel
Director Larry Sefton, Mine Mill
national president Ken Smith has
welcomed Sefton’s published sen-
timents about a merger of the
two unions, but suggested that

PARKS

Cont'd from pg. 2

giants like Elk River, Crown
Zellerbach, Englewood and Tah-
sis, all of whom surround that
park and who are hungrily eye-
ing its prime timber?

Why can't the government sat-
isfy the needs of Canadian oper-
ators through public working
circles, which were set up for
that purpose, or as the Com-
munist Party proposes, by taking
over the rich E & N grant and
making its timber available?

In an attempt to make this
latest, most odious pill more
palatable and take the public eye
off the issue, Minister of Mines,
Petroleum Resources, Recrea-
tion and Conservation Kiernan
has simultaneously announced
with much fanfare that the gov-

“ernment has acquired this or
that piddling 100-acre tract fora
park.

Opposition to this latest theft
from the public heritage is ter-
rific and growing stronger. Law-
yer Brian Roberts; president of
the Victoria Fish & Game Club,
said: ‘‘Land can be completely
ruined for the sake of a few

lousy dollars, Mr. Kiernan start- .

ed out as a gas pump attendant
and that’s where he belongs.’’

R. N.. Pedersen, president of
the Vancouver Island Affiliated
Fish and Game Association, said:
‘If we had a minister with guts
to take a stand against logging
and mining’ in parks it would
be fine, But, today the interest
in money is too great.’*

Unfortunately, the NDP in the
House is split on the question.
Gargrave (more power to him!)
said ‘‘Over my dead body.’’ But
Strachan wants time for a care-
ful look and, no doubt, time to
put his nose into the air to see
which way the political wind is
blowing,

Another NDP member said he
was opposed to private enter-
prise logging the parks, but had
no objection to the forest service
doing the job.

But the fact is that if you
advocate that the forest service
do the job, then in principle you

agree to the Socred proposal

that the parks be logged.

The majority of the public
is not against any cutting which
is required for disease and in-
sect control, but it is certainly
dead against the wholesale pil-
lage and rape by monopoly of
that last precious bit of our nat-
ural heritage which should be
preserved for posterity.

To this writer’s knowledge,
there is not a prime stand of
fir anywhere in the B,C. inter-
ior comparable to the forest
grants around Placid Lake in
Wells Grey Park, They don’t

even grow much bigger on the

coast,

Yes, the big steal is not only
on, but continues. But a united,
determined defence against this
latest attack on our resources
could serve as the beginning of
a counter-offensive which would
see an aroused B.C. public begin
to regain control of its rich
natural resources,

Steel follow this with action.

‘*T am now waiting to be ad-
vised,’’ Smith’s letter stated,
‘that you have taken that neces-
sary first step towards coop-
eration, namely, that you have
called off all raiding activities.’’

An indication of Steel’s sin-
cerity came last Monday when
Harvey Murphy, Mine Mill’s
Western District President, was
served with a writ charging him-
self, other Western officers and
the Western District with a suit
for libel.

The plaintiff was the Steel
Workers union, which alleges
that it was slandered in Mine
Mill Bulletins to its member-
ship of Oct. 22 and Oct. 30,
1963. Date of the writ, issued
in the B.C. Supreme Court, was
February 21—10 full days after
Steel’s ‘‘unity’’ letter to Mine
Mill.

This latest action represents
the third libel suit brought ag-
ainst Murphy and Mine Mill. The
first two were initiated by Pat
O’Neal, Pen Baskin and Barney
McGuire, formerly of Mine Mill
but now on Steel’s payroll.

In addition, Steel has failed
to withdraw scheduled hearings
before the Labor Relations Board
in which it is seeking certifi-
cation to represent workers at
Cassiar and Phoenix. These ap-
plications, slated to be heard on
March 3 and 4, were made as
a result of Steel raids,

According to Murphy, failure
to withdraw the applications

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As meetings opened in Dept. of
Labor offices to try to end the
strike in the shipbuilding industry,
workers on the picket lines re-
mained solid and morale was at a
high level. —Fisherman Photo

Cont'd from pg. 1

was recently formed, may get
in touch with the Chairman, Mrs,
Elaine Podovinnikoff, 1035
Boundary, North Vancouver (YU
7-4585) or Mrs. Vi Cameron,
3677 Slocan St., Vancouver (HE
4-5955),

As the campaign against high
prices continued to rise in B.C,
Mrs. Lois Hagen, (NDP-MLA,
Grand Forks-Greenwood) con-
demned recent sugar and coffee
price boosts in a speech in the
Legislature.

She said one sugar refinery
in B.C. recently declared an
extra dividend to shareholders
and tried to cover it up. (The
PT recently exposed the B.C,

Sugar Refinery forexcessive pro-

fiteering),

Mrs, Hagen called for a con-
sumers’ bill of rights to pro-
tect buyers from soaring food
costs.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14
KEEP THIS DATE OPEN
CHINESE SUPPER

at
4763 West 8th Ave.

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February 28, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pag?

shows that Steel is anything =
sincere in its merger plea

“All their talk about ‘ul
is only a device to head!
expected criticism of theif ra.
ing tactics by delegates t0
coming Canadian Labor Cone?
convention in April,’? MutP
charged.

As the PT went to press
Wednesday, 2,000 workers
ship-building industry were
out on strike. :

The 5-man_ negotiating
mittee representing 22 unions
strike met with negotiator®
Burrard Dry Dock, Yarrow
Victoria Machinery Depot i
office of Reg Clements,
conciliation officer for the P
vincial Dept. of Labor.

Fifty-six workers at Gear
tic Co. Ltd., in the Fraser ¥
ley, went out on strike
Tuesday. It is the first we
stoppage at the operation
years. The firm was recent)
taken over by PACIFIC Care”
Foundry of Seattle and one of it
first actions appears to be
attempt to ‘hold the line”
wages. j

The workers are members ©
the United Steel Workers unidl

e ;

In a letter sent to the Fede?
al - Provincial Committee °
Wage and Price Disputes in ©
B.C. Fishing Industry, the Ul
AWU has lashed out at the com
mittee’s proposal to hold #
hearings ‘‘in camera.’?

The union charged that sé°
ret hearings tend to encour
falsification of evidence and
dicated that if the committé
insists upon this course of #
tion, serious consideration m™
be given by the union to 2 b®
cott of the hearings.

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The Confederation of Nation
Trade Unions (formerly the ©
tholic Syndicates of Quebec) ™
urged the federal governme
to set up a permanent Comm?
committee to keep a close ©
on relations with the U.S.

The proposal was contaill
in a brief to the federal ca?
et which warned that it may 5°
be too late to preserve Canad
independence in the face of doB”
ination by the U.S. econo

Who benefits
most from our

‘defence’ dollars? ||
_ Five huge corporations—a!! |
of them foreign-owned—welé |
the biggest beneficiaries whe? ||
the so-called ‘defence’ Pie]
was cut up last year, Rece™ |
press reports indicate that |
our arms budget provides fal |
ulous returns for U.S. and |
other monopolies.
The five biggest recipient? |
of our tax dollars for the 1962 |
63 fiscal years read as fol-}
lows:
Canadair Ltd, wholly owné
by General Dynamics Cor?
of New York ($52,331,402
Hawker-Siddeley Canada Ltd
British-owned, ($24,595,409
Imperial Oil Ltd., owned P
Rockefeller interests, 18»
921,272); Lockheed Airera
Corp., Burbank, Californlé
($13,349,617); Canadian Wes
inghouse Ltd., (the “Canad
ian’ is ficticious — $10
820,009),

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