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LPP names Knott
federal candidate
in Nanaimo riding

NANAIMO

The Labor-Progressive party became the first party to nominate
for the coming federal elections when it named Ernie Knott, 440
Kennedy Street, Nanaimo, as LPP candidate.

Knott, 33, is the son of a Nanaimo coal miner.
One of the pioneer organizers of

boomman at Eureka sawmill.

Buck will
speak in six
B.C. cities

Tim Buck, LPP national lead-
er, will be the featured speaker
at the ninth annual provincial
convention of the Labor-Progres-
sive party in Vancouver this
weekend. Buck is at present on
a national tour. '

First session of the conven-
tion, which opens this Friday,
October 24, 8 p.m., at Pender
Auditorium, is open to the pub-
lic. Nigel Morgan, LPP pro-
vincial leader, will present the
keynote political report.

Buck’s itinerary in B.C. will
include these public meetings,
at which he will speak on the
issues in the coming federal
election:

New Westminster, Hollywood
Bowl, Monday, October 27; Van-
couver, Exhibition Gardens,
Tuesday, October 28; Nanaimo,
Oddfellows Hall, Wednesday,
October 29; Victoria, Victoria
Ballroom, Thursday, October
30; Salmon Arm, Sunday, Nov-
ember 2; and Trail, Monday,
November 3. ,

Both the New ‘Westminster
and Salmon Arm meetings will
be public nominating conven-
tions. The LPP is contesting
80 federal seats, including 12
in British Columbia.

He works as

the International Woodworkers
of America, Knott was a founda-
tion member of the Nanaimo
Joint Labor Council. He is mar-
ried and has one daughter, Nita,
who attends Princess Royal
School here.

Knott was nominated’ at a
public convention held at Odd-
fellows Hall, which was attend-
ed by LPP delegates from Nan-
aimo, Cedar, Chemainus, Nan-
oose Bay, Lake Cowichan, Dun-
can and Youbou. Nigel Morgan,
LPP provincial leader and can-
didate for Nanaimo-Islands in
the recent provincial elections,
was guest speaker.

In accepting nomination,
Knott said he would fight the
campaign on a program of peace,
trade and jobs. ‘‘As a wood-
worker I know from. personal
experience how the war policies
of the St. Laurent government
are bringing unemployment

Knott, who saw three and a
half years’ service in the Royal
Canadian Air Force in the sec-
ond world war continued:

“We cannot persist in spend-
ing more than half our tax rev-
enues on guns and at the same
time raise the standard of liv-
ing of the people. We must
elect a government which will
take steps to reestablish our
traditional Commonwealth mar-
kets and reopen trading rela-
tiong with all countries willing
to trade with us even on a bar-
ter basis Continuation of the
present policies:of the St. Laur-
ent government means mounting
unemployment. Markets mean
trade, and trade means much-
needed jobs.”

Island points to hear

Hines speak on USSR

John Hines of the Painters’
Union, who recently returned
from a visit to the Soviet Un-
ion as a member of a Canadian
trade union delegation, will re-
port on his trip to several Van-
couver Island meetings of union-
{sts within the next fortnight.

-Hines speaks at Victoria on
Wednesday, October 29; Lake

Cowichan, October 30; Nanaimo,
October 31; Courtenay, Novem-
ber 1; and Port Alberni, Novem-
ber 2.

Later in Noyember, Hines will
visit Prince Rupert, where a

- meeting is being sponsored by

local unions and three city alder-
men. He will then begin a tour
of Interior centres.

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City conference maps
drive against Bill H-6
as threat to rights |

Bill H-8, which contains policestate proposals introduced by request of

the U.S. government, can become law by Christmas unless pressure from

the

Canadian people forces our representatives in parliament to reject the repressive
sections of the proposed revisions of the Criminal Code,’ warned ‘Thomas C.
Roberts, national secretary of the League for Democratic Rights, in a speec

Thursday last week to 200 Vancouver citizens at Hastings Auditorium. “A gov
ernment whose policies are becoming increasingly unpopulat with
the people has two alternatives,” said Roberts. “It can listen to the
voice of the people and change its policies; or it can pass legislation
making it illegal to voice criticism of its policies. Bill H-8 shows
that Ottawa is embarking on the second course of action.

“But there is still time, if we work quickly, to rouse a storm of
democratic protest from coast to coast, and force our parliamentary
representatives to vote against those sections in the 740-page docu-
ment known as Bill H-8 which would, if passed, transform our

country into a police state.”

Roberts outlined in detail some of the proposed changes in
the Criminal Code which’ would curtail and in many cases, abolish;
the democratic rights we now enjoy in Canada:

Section 46 contains a dangerous extension of the definition of

treason, and Roberts quoted a
proposed sub-section: ‘Every
one commits treason who, in
Canada, assists an enemy at war
with Canada, or any armed
forces against whom Canadian

Let’s okie it !
Only 220
subs short

The subs are coming in—but
you’ll have to hurry! At press
time the total was 780, with 220
subs still needed to hit our tar-
get of 1,000. Can we do it?

Top press clubs in Greater
Vancouver are Kitsilano with 38
subs; Grandview, 36; West End,
32; Fairview, 29; Norquay, 16;
Philip Halperin, 15; A. KE. Smith,
13; Capitol, Hill, 13 and Elec-
trical Workers, 11.

North Vancouver press clubs
have turned in 67 subs on a
quota of 80, and are still going
strong. ;

Several provincial press clubs
have already hit their targets
and some are away over: Camp-
bell River (20 on 14); Notch
Hill, Port Kells, Salmon Arm
and Hazlemere.

Other provincial points like
Nanaimo (67 on 75) and Vic-
toria (26 on 40) are nearing
their goals. But more activity
is needed in New Westminster,
Cumberland, Michel, Prince Rup-

ert and Sointula, where results

to date are disappointing.
The time is short. Let’s do:

our best.

forces are engaged in hostilities
whether or not a state of war
exists between Canada and tlie
Country whose forces they are.”

“his is wartime repression in
peacetime,’ commented the
speaker, ‘‘And remember, the
penalty for treason is death.”

Other new definitions of trea-
son in Bill H-8, include ‘‘inten-
tion” and make an ‘intention”’
an overt act. This extends the
law of treason to cover offences
usually considered under the
heads of sedition or official sec-
rets.

“Some people who have not

studied Bill H-8 believe that it.
is aimed at the communists
only,” said Roberts. “Even a
casual reading of the clauses will
convince trade unionists that
many of the more repressive sec-
tions are aimed at the labor
movement.

“New sections would outlaw
strikes, provide long prison sen-

THOMAS C, ROBERTS

tences for striking and picker
fuse?

The answer of the Canadia®
people to the threats contained
in Bill H-8 must be a fight-bac™
campaign which will compel pat
liament to reject the offensi”’
sections, said Roberts. ae
d,

we a

_part to the Criminal Cod

sets forth the rights of all
respect to personal liberty,
trials, humane treatment, ete. i
line with the Universal Declare
tion of Human Rights,” he ¢?
cluded. :

LPP supports Indians ©

protesting
WINNIPEG
Chiefs of the Indian bands of
Manitoba were called to a meet-
ing here this week by the Indian
Association to protest the low
prices the government and some
companies paid this year for
wild rice. Last year, the In-
dians, who have been harvest-
ing the wild rice on the Ontario-
Manitoba border since before the
coming *of the white man, were
paid 45 to 55 cents a pound.
This year, as la result of the new’
government policy of auctioning
rights to rice areas to the high-
est bidders, and charging a roy-

rice steal —

alty on rice harvested in t
reserve lakes, the price we?
low as 10 and 15 cents.

_ Processed wild rice sells
Winnipeg stores for $1.90 for
ounces. Sold largely in the U: 6
it fetches about $1.50 for
ounces after processing.

Ww. A. Kardash, LPP MLA, F
taking up the Indians’ case 2
has consulted S. W. sorting:
huis, chief projects engineer ve

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“the (Manitoba department of

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tural resources, and H. Dav de

the federal Indian Affairs
partment.

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The Threatening Crisis’

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EXHIBITION GARDENS, OCTOBER 28-8 p.m.

Listen to Tim Buck’s broadcast over CJOR, Oct.29-8.15 p.m

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