It isn’t only the U.S.

Vancouver vote shows need

for alternative to NPA —

N.P.A. candidates swept the polls in Vancouver’s civic election last Wednesday,

knocking out the Jone labor alderman and all «but pEntera tity

Association.

Mayor Alsbury, with N.P.A

| backing was elected by a vote
| of 48,499 with the closest of

his five rivals, Thomas Camp-

| bell, C.V.A. candidate, polling
| 29,690 votes. Alsbury was giv-

en the boot by labor during
the campaign when he endors-

|ed compulsory arbitration for

government which is turning the |

heat on Canada to go along with an embargo on trade with |

Canadian cit
before

Cu iba. There are some

grovelling

the Toronto Globe and Mail by
a policy,

umn recently in

st urging such

izens who also advocate |
the orders of Washington. |
PT cartoonist, Avrom, shows Uncle Sam’s pleasure |

Vancouver firemen
icemen.-

and pol-

Teddy Jamieson, ex-sec’y. of
the Vancouver Labor Council

| who was elected to council in

1958 ran sixth with five to be
elected. He polled 25,790 vot-
es, and was 4000 short of elec-
tion, Sam Jenkins’ received
15,729 and John Haywood 14,-
626.

Progressive Independent,
Mona Morgan received 5,901
and John Dubno 3,380. Harry
Rankin, running for school
board polled 37,943 and was
runner ‘up, 10,900 below the
last elected member.

: Sad Case Of Clementina

; when it comes to precision.

“At one time in these parts,”

By RALPH ae
Th | Siquitrilla . began,

HAV: ANA,
{

= verai

fizz owered | big part of it, it was not con-
Orien yrovince } sidered wise to Jaugh at the
m met at 14 Yankees. It’s certain, however
he n tion and den -| that our neighbors have their
ed as en missile th y | comic side, but taking full ac-
Cub s and public } count of their practical jokes,
ers | it's not certain that they make

But when more complete re-} a good job of it.

through, co -{ “For example, —let’s take
human life the case of the death of Clem-
that only “Cle jentina, the cow. Her release
w, had been. k led |from life resulted from the

eaming fragments of ; Surprising penetration of Yan-

ity |of the major cities of Oriente
e- | Province).
“The account. ends with an
Ww a Rescate of | authentic scientific exploit. To
yws, each of them drap- hit the moon, like the Russ-
caustic comments on | ians, is the merest chance. The
Student leaders} moon is immense, the moon is
of them in serious | out every night. The moon al-

honor- |

it was seen as no

rocket |
i

moreover Clementina would

lively Havana | sometimes graze in the mead-
TV and radio} Ow out in front,.and other
One’ of the times ruminate in the shadow
ar Havana column-j of the shrubbery, over on the
’ of the daily, | left.

attention of photo-

for the 1

asts,~‘

The Calle), had per- ‘Under these conditions, to
haps most pointed com-/} hit Clementina with a rocket
anents Clementina’s untim-} missile from Cape Canaveral

was something to brag about

ely death

| kee rockets into Holguin (one |
| unist cow. So finally

“as went |
i j the world in those days, or a |
that

| ways follows the same course. |
-“But for a change to hit a|

over|cow named Clementina in |

> the| Holguin is a very different |

July Movement of|matter and much more diffi-
Castro was born. j cult. Clementina was small

it was the cows and and so was the Yaguarana es- |
in the mock-j tate where she grazed, much |
1 procession that | smaller than the moon. And |

“Apart from these consider-
ations in general, and the fact
each of these rockets
costs somewhere around a
million dollars, this rocket has
also brought death to a frog,
two flies and_ seven black
beetles. So this brings the cost
to the government of the Un-
ited States to $400,000 for the
frog, $100,000 for each fly,
and $58,000 per black bettle
death.

“And for the same price the
death of a cow is thrown in.
What’s more, it was a comm-
it was
a complete ‘success for the
wise gringos, who assuredly
and-deservedly will be decor-
ated by the new President.”

the -Civie

Voters

Donald Greenwell collected |

10,567 votes for parks board.

Harold Pritchett, secretary
of the Vancouver Committee
of the Communist Party ex-
pressed the following opinions
in an interview with the Pac-
ific Tribune.

“The main feature to em-
erge from this election is the
re-consolidation of the grip of
the N.P.A. on civic policies in
Vancouver. In my opinion this
is due to the following fac-
tors.

“(1) The C.V.A. which ap-
peared as an alternative to
the N.P.A. several ‘years ago !
failed to provide any serious
challenge to N.P.A. policies:

*(2) Labor has failed to de-
velop as a serious. contender
in civic »+politics. Last year
there was indecision as to
whether or not to engage in
the election at all. This year

they fielded some candidates |
with no background in civic |

supported C.V.A. and
candidates,

affairs,
N.P.A.

dorsed Alsbury then later
| withdrew their endorsation. .
(3) Tom -Alsbury, one-time
secretary of the Vancouver
Labor Council, who was orig-
inally elected mayor with la
bor backing, swung over 10
the N.P.A., confusing many.
workers and demoralizing
many more. His treacherous,
role, which is entirely. consis;
tent for Alsbury, should serve
as a warning to labor.
Pointing to the fact that the
electoral system. operating i2
Vancouver discriminates:
against working’ class areas:
Mr. Pritchett stated: “One of
| the big .tasks facing ratepay”
ers, labor and. ~ all reform
minded people in Vancouver
is to re-establish ‘the ward
system. This will give genuine
representation to all areas im
Vancouver and end the situa
tion where the west-end com
pletely dominates ‘the civic
life of Vancouver. United pres”
sure from the people can com=

and en-| pel such electoral reforms.”

—

Ask safer R.R. crossings

Saanich candidate

named by New Party

VICTORIA—Len Hamilton
was nominated as New Party
candidate for the Saanich by-
election at a meeting here
Dec. 18. The by-election was
made necessary by the retire-
ment of :General Pearkes.

Hamilton is a teacher and
social welfare worker, He was
head of the Peace by Peaceful
Means group in Victoria when
it was active. The nominating
convention was attended by
members of the C.C.F., CLC
affiliated. unions and the local
New Party club.

A demand that precaution
ary steps be taken to ensuré
the safety of school childre?
and prevent a possible repeti
tion of the tragedy which
claimed the lives of 17 chil
dren in the recent level cros*
ing accident near Lamont, Ak
berta, was made by the Okat
agan-Kamloops Committee
the Communist Party.

They propose the installé
tion of automatic arms flashe!
systems at all crossings; mor
‘adequate inspection of schoo
buses and the. addition of #4

“U.S. WILL FIRE FIRST BOMB"

“Tf nuclear war starts, with all the frightful con-
sequences that will flow, it will be our side rather than
the Russians that will fire the first bomb.”

This is the opinion of Maj.-Gen..W..H. S. ee
who i

former adjutant-general of
retired in 1954.

Writing a series of articles in Canadian newspapers -
on defence policies Macklin says:

“The Russian has more sense and -is doing. very
nicely the way things are going’... Mr. Khrushchev
has no wish to commit suicide. . .
“the mandarins of the U.S. Air Rts seem capable of -
starting a nuclear holocaust and dragging the rest of

the world along.
Gen. Macklin adds that

US. policies it will expose Canada to the taunts that
“we have become a mere shadow or creature of the U.S,

with no independence.”

the Canadian Army,

? On: the ‘other hand

if Canada goes along with

supervisor for each bus
eliminate distraction of th€
driver.

Sica