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Save the Columbia’ cavalcade

highlights Canada Day weekend

By MONA MORGAN
: Ousands of people
ion venout the B.C. inter-
inl the “Cavalcade for

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ada” organized by the
ie Communist Party
* Canada Day weekend.
y wenty-one cars and near-
1000 0 People travelled over
Opp Miles to help mobilize
ion to ratification of
5 Draft Columbia Treaty

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Pp : ied to come _ before
lam j
Session, ent at its next

ferns Vancouver early
maven, the cavalcade
Val on through the Fraser
ae then moved on to
and s stopping for supper
It Swim,
bisto em proceeded to the
Nix, th. 8host town of Phoe-
struger, Scene of early labor
the in B.C., and one of
tro) . victims of U.S. con-
oun Canada. Here the
ight Pacemped for the
“tons , © Shost town became
nt town.”
vane” Sunday morning the
Bap de went on to Castle-
lum . the banks of the Co-
hear the site of the
=o High Arrow dam.
area; S from the Kootenay
need the parade.
YD the Procession then went

at

the litt Trow Lakes through
City, a8 towns of Slocan
Naksy Verton, New Denver,

anq he Burton, Farquhar
Wily pe etles — all of which
Treaty flooded out if the U.S.
ATtrao 8oes through.
Prop tS ATTENTION
the coy, Vancouver to Vernon
‘tention wt caravan attracted
to re n and people stopped
arg the slogans on the
the te On the posters and
: ‘but Ysands of leaflets dis-
"Py along the route.
: &nada First — Stop
wa Bea Sellout,” “Stop
sas ni of B.C.’s Colum-
Shs  ° Stop Export of
the *XPressed the main
wea ‘ the demonstration
aterno © save Columbia
her od for Canada and
Othe, Stries,

oe Slogans included:

“Save the Columbia for our
Youth’s Future”; ‘The Mc-
Naughton Plan is Best For
Canada”; “Block the Bennett-
Dief-Pearson Giveaway.”

“Our future is at stake on
the Columbia” says the leaf-
let pointing out that our Co-
lumbia River hydro resources
are too important to B.C.’s
future to be left to U.S. big
business promoters and their
Canadian political “Charlie
McCarthy’s to decide.”

It makes the following
points:

@ So - called “downstream
benefits from the U.S. will
not compensate B.C. for the
cost of providing storage for
the U.S. or the power we
could develop on the all-
Canadian Columb ia plan
General McNaughton advo-
cates.”

e Erection of High Arrow
and dedication of Mica Creek
primarily for U.S. storage
would sharply curtail power
generation in Canada;

e Diverting Kootenay
waters to the U.S. Libby dam

would mean tremendous loss:

of power generation, huge ex-
penditures by Canadian tax-
payers for damming, disloca-
tion of whole communities by
flooding.

e The Draft Treaty would
power U.S. industry at the
expense of Canada.

e”'Under the treaty, Canada
is a puppett dangling at the
end of strings manipulated in
Washington” (Larrat Higgins,
Economist for Ontario Hy-

dro).
FOR McNAUGHTON PLAN
Contrasting the Dra ft

Treaty with the McNaughton
Plan the leaflet shows how
that plan is best for Canada;

e It would more than
double the electricity avail-
able to Canada; :

e Cost of power to Can-
ada would be reduced by al-
most one-third;

e McNaughton Plan pro-
jects would require a 39 per
cent increase in employment
and material purchases 1n

Canada:
e It would assure 4 plen-

tiful supply of cheap power

to attract and develop Cana-
dian industry and Canadian

jobs.

“It is still not too late to
stop this treacherous surren-
der to the United States,”

said the leaflet.

“Popular opposition to the
is strong. Forty

give-away
municipalities, Kootenay or-

ganizations, Southern Interior
Boards of Trade and the New

Democratic Party, B.C. Fed-
eration of Labor and many
labor councils, unions and
other groups, in addition to

the Communist Party, have

expressed unalterable opposi-
tion to the present draft
treaty.”

ACTION URGED

The leaflet urges people to
write. their M.P. and M.L.A.,
and for organizations to send
resolutions and delegations to
demand that:

e Parliament
draft treaty;

e An immediate start be
made to develop Mica Creek
dam, with the Dorr Diver-
sion for maximum power
generation in Canada (Mc-
Naughton Plan).

e Begin immediately an

reject the

‘all-Canadian, publicly-owned

East-West grid;

e National Energy Board
to withhold all permits to ex-
port B.C. power until all pre-
sent and future potential
needs of Canada are guaran-
teed.

“The issue is Columbia
River power for Canadian in-
dustries and jobs or sur-
render to U.S. interests,”’ con-
cluded the leaflet.

As the Canada Day Caval-
cade wound along the beauti-
ful banks of the Columbia and
through the verdant valleys
bordering the Arrow Lakes
full realization of what is at
stake became clear to its par-
ticipants. :

Whole towns and farming
communiti2s would be under
water and swept away with
them would be thousands of
jobs for Canadians.

Expressions of support for
the theme of the cavalcade
were manifested all along the
way, particularly in the Ar-
row Lakes area.

Members of Canada Day “Save the Columbia” cavalcade are shown on the banks of Columbia River at Castlegar.

B.C. group
fo fight civil
rights attack

A group of citizens includ-
ing university professors,
ministers and members of the
Society of Friends who are
campaigning for legal assist-
ance for imprisoned Sons of
Freedom Doukhobors warn
that the charge of ‘“conspir-
ing to intimidate Parliament”’
could be used against many
political groups.

The Freedomites are charg-
ed with four counts of con-
spiracy including two alleg-
ing conspiracy to commit
acts of violence to intimidate
the Parliaments of Canada
and B.C.

UBC sociology professor
Werner Cohn said the charge
of intimidating Parliament
could be used against a group
that picketed Parliament.

“It is a vague charge, ‘and
the results of this trial might
set°a precedent that would
threaten civil rights.”

Fishermen to vote on

price and

The joint negotiating com-
mittee of United Fishermen
and Allied Workkers Union
has unanimously recommend-
ed rejection of company
offers for both salmon fish-
ermen and tendermen.

Returns on both votes are
expected by July 10th.

Company offer for salmon
is lc lb. on sockeye, lc lb.
on chum salmon in all areas
up to August 31, and lc lb.
on chums in Queen Charlotte
Islands after Sept. 1.

Wage increase award by a
Conciliation Board for 650
tendermen is 342%.

“If we had forecast the
dollar devaluation and the
austerity program our ten-
q@ermen would have asked
for $50’’, stated union secre-
tary Homer Stevens. “Even

wage offer

the full wage demand of $25
per month will be wiped out
by dollar devaluation.”

A temporary tuna share
agreement signed Saturday
between the union and the
Fishing Vessel Owners As-
-sociation gives crews 54%
and vessel owners 41142% of
net proceeds from June 30
to December 31, 1962. Re-
maining 442% will be de-
cided by a three man Con-
ciliation Board.

Strike vote results taken by
Carpenters Union to back up
their demands for wage
increases of 15 cents retro-
active to April 1 this year
-and 10 cents on April 1 next
year are expected to be
announced at the end of the
week.

GROWING U.S. AGGRESSION
IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA

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This map of South-East Asia shows how U.S. intervention
and establishment of military bases threatens the peace of

the area. Latest victim was

Thailand. Now U.S. forces are

backing Chiang Kai-shek in stirring up trouble further north

ert the coast of China.

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