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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1957

VANCOUVER, B.C.

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$6 increase

Federated Legislative Com-
Mittee of Elder Citizens, repre-
Stnting 70.000 pensioners in

78c., is launching a protest
“Movement against the federal
| €0vernment’s niggardly decis-

lon to raise old age pensions by

Only $6 a month.

Organizations represented by
l¢ committee include Senior
itizens Association Old Age
Pensioners Association, Hap-

Pier Old Age Club and railway
' 80d civic pensioners’ groups.

“We've got to fight and we’re

' 80ing to,” said committee pre-

Sident G, L. Ingram “We're not
80ing to lie down because the
Minister of finance decides old
®8e pensioners should exist and
that’s all.”

Opposition to the meagre

/ Pension raise contained in the

federal budget was voiced by
€r groups

oo B. Pattern. president of
€Mior Citizens Association.

his executive will meet
€rch.25 and draw up a formal |

Protest,

“First Premier Bennett dis-

8Ppointed us by. not.raising the

+ C. $20 bonus, and now Ot-
Wa has insulted us by offer-

| 8 us $6.” one senior citizen
oe bitterly.
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By 1970 nuclear power in

Britain will be apprecia-
bly cheaper than conventional
power, Sir Christopher Hinton,
head of the industrial group
of the British Atomic Energy
Authority, said in Stockholm
last week,

H-TEST 1

OTTAWA

As the fivepower disarmament talks reopened in London this week, federal
Health Minister Paul Martin made it known here that Canada would seek a limi-
tation on the testing of nuclear weapons.

Martin told a New York Herald Tribune reporter here last week

-ment’s view is that nuclear
with the UN and that agree-
ment be sought in limitation of
tests.”

This is expected to be the
position put before the disar-
mament conference by Cana-
dian delegate David M. John-
son, presently Canada’s ambas-
sador to the Soviet Union

Informed circles here say

the government holds that the
most likely area where agree-
ment can be reached among
the three powers possessing hy-
drogen bombs is in limiting
tests.

It feels that outlawing of
such weapons is not yet pos-
sible. though it supports the
principle of ultimate prohibi-
tion coupled with adequate in-
ternational control.

The government also be-
lieves. as one source put it, that
“it is unrealistic at present to
expect.the nuclear powers to
cease their tests completely.”

In the London conference.
Canada, (together with Japan
‘and Norway) is specifically
proposing registration of all
tests in advance. Last Decem-
ber, Norway’s UN delegate
urged “advance registration
with the United Nations of nu-

clear tests likely to cause
worldwide radioactive fall-
out.”

(In Moscow this week, Com-
munist party seretary Nikita
Khrushchev declared the USSR

‘could not stop testing such
weapons until other powers al-
so agreed.)

Announcement of Canada’s
position on limitation of tests
came after some new evidence
was made public ‘on the effects
of radiation on the human an-
atomy.

Scientists at the Chalk River
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.,
are studying radiation. In gen-
eral they believe that at the
moment there is more fear than
fact available but they also re-
cognize that not enough is
known about how much da-
mage radioactivity from many

Continued on back page
- See H-TESTS

the govern-

tests ‘‘should be preceded by registration of the intention

With shipyards employing 200,000.men already idle,

British trade-union leaders this week planned a “phased”
strike strategy of calling out an estimated 2,500,000 work-
ers over a two-week period. Beginning with key plants this
Saturday, March 23, workers in the shipbuilding and engin-
eering industries will stage a Series of walkouts until their

wage demands are met.

SUKARNO WARNS:

Foreign subversive
activities rampant

DJAKARTA

Warning of the danger from “foreign subversive activities,”
President Sukarno appealed to the Indonesian people to uphold

the security of the state.

In a nation-wide broadcast last week he urged all officers
and men of the armed forces to observe the laws of the country,

especially martial law, so as
to maintain public order and
conserve manpower and wealth
for construction.

Explaining why he declared
a state of war and emergency
earlier, Sukarno said- that in
the present tense international
situation foreign subversive
activities had become increas-
ingly rampant in Indonesia
while splits and antagonisms
among the Indonesians were
developing. Coups d’etat had

been staged and power seiz-

_ed successively in various re-

gions.

“We cannot let this state of
affairs continue. Otherwise
our state foundation and unity
will be destroyed,” he de-
clared.

(In India this week, many
of the leading newspapers
warned of the danger of for-
eign intervention in Indon-
esia.)