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DAY, OCTOBER 12, 1962 10¢
L. 22, No. 40 VANCOUVER, B.C.

SOCRED-TORY DEAL
TO SELL COLUMBIA

As the Socreds voted for the fourth time Tuesday night on a
non-confidence vote to keep the Tory government in office in
Ottawa it became obvious that a deal exists between the two
reactionary parties, at least until the Columbia Treaty is forced

through Parliament.

This fact was further con-
ifirmed over the Thanksgiving
weekend when Socred deputy
leader Real Caouette told a
meeting in Burnaby-Coquit-
lam that his party will block
any attempt to bring down
the Diefenbaker government.

At press time it was re-
ported from Ottawa that Soc-
red leader Robert Thompson
had given the Diefenbaker
government until Christmas
to produce ‘acceptable legis-

fation,” or the Socreds will

vote against them.

This is seen as an attempt
to placate those in the Socred
caucus who are unhappy over

the present deal. ‘whompson
hopes the Columbia River
Treaty will be ratified by the
end of the year.

In a sharply-worded state-
ment last week the Columbia
River for Canada Committee
charged that the Tories had

Act now to
stop sellout

The Columbia River for Can-
ada Committee announced the
following two actions this
week to fight the Columbia
sellout:

e A public rally will be held
Thurs., Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. in
the Labor Temple, 307 W.
Broadway. The meeting,
which is being sponsored by
the Vancouver Labor Council,
will hear leading engineer
F. J. Bartholemew. Chairman
will be John Hayward, chair-
man of the VLC Education
Committee.

@ Postcards have been ig-
sued for mass circulation by
the Committee. One is add-
ressed to NDP House Leader
W. H. Herridge and the other
to External Affairs Minister

tic action by Canadians from
all walks of. life must take
place to prevent ratification.
It is better that governments
should topple now than have
our children handcuffed to a
treaty under which Canada
cannot live.”
TREATY NO SOLUTION
Ratification off the draft
Treaty is no solution to Can-

. ada’s foreign exchange pro-

blem nor to the problem of
unemployment, the Commit-
tee charged. It would aggra-
vate both of them.

In order to build the
Canadian storage dam for
U.S. downstream use, it
would cost half a million dol-
lars.

It is proposed that B.C.
immediatelyborrow this money
from the U.S. This would
only worsen Canada’s foreign
exchange position, cause even
more belt tightening and put

: Howard Green. Quantities of Canada more completel
: na ee the postcards are available} under U.S. dopaialtos :
‘ Na Sangha ae from the Committee secretary, As the Pacific Tribune
Fi ge d.4 a cithapennet sO uebEe Beth Woods, 3506 East 25th} went to press Premier Ben-
: Ave., or by phoning HE 3-2049. nett was reported to be in the

itty CANADIAN DOCTOR IN CHINA. Professor
, - Penfield, noted Canadian specialist in neurosurg-
te ee his wife, are shown in the above picture in the
ti ne stand at Tienanmen Square in Peking, China,
y Mg the recent celebration marking the 13th Anni-

eh
ty of the Chinese Revolution.

MacMillan, Bloedel gets OK
Prosecufe woodworkers

ag B.C. Labor Relations Board has granted Mac-
* Bloedel and Powell River Company permission
© the International Woodworkers of America.

Socred friends to stay in of-
fice.

The statement charged that
ratification of the draft Co-
lumbia River Treaty would
be equivalent to “an act of
treason multiplied by political
debauchery ‘the like ci which
has never before been perpet-
rated on proud and freedom-
loving Canadians.”

WHY TORY CHANGE
Recalling the statement of
former Justice Minister Davie
Fulton in Prince George No-
vember 28 that Bennett’s plan
to sell long-term large scale
power to the U.S. as part of
the Columbia development
was a ‘sellout’? (See box be-
low), the Committee’s state-
ment asks:
“Why the change now?”
Answering its own ques-
tion, the Committee says:

“United States Secretary of
the Interior Stewart Udall,
just back from a trip abroad,
is uncertain about the per-
manence of the leading world
position of the U.S. with re-
gard to electric power pro-
duction. In effect he is de-
manding that Canada sacrifice
her own legitimate interests
to maintain U.S. leadership in
this vital field.

“Under this pressure the
Conservatives have capitu-
lated. They have arranged
with Bennett’s Quebec Socred

‘friends to-_stay in office. The

price is the complete give-
away to the U.S. of B.C.’s
‘greatest natural resource.
“The Conservatives may
have capitulated but the
Canadian people must not.”
The Columbia River for Can-
ada Committee warns, “‘Dras-

U.S. seeking to line up Ameri-
can capital to finance the

‘construction of B.C.’s dams

under the draft Treaty.

Tf this goes through, U:S.
capital will not only get the
lion’s share of the water re-
sources of the Columbia but
they will also actually own
the dams built in B.C. for
many years to come.

“He who pays the piper
calls the tune,” and since U.S.
capital will have put up the
money to build the B.C. stor-
age dams. it will have an even
stronger voice in “calling the
tune” on what development
takes place on the Canadian
side of the river.

Answering the argument
that ‘“‘getting on with the job”
would create new jobs, the
Committee states that under
the terms of the present draft

See COLUMBA, pg. 12

: Bausion also included
Pelion to sue the local’s
He on and 48 members of
the i crew who walked
4,20) at the Somass mill,

Alb

Remember this, Davie?

a €tni, on Aug. 27. A
tak request by the union
legal action against

In a speech in Prince George, B.C., on November 28,
1961, the then Minister of Justice, now Minister of Public

*ompan Works, Davie Fulton, chief Canadian negotiator, had this to |
b Union af (because of what say of Premier Bennett's plan for large scale long term pow-
Ut) ‘Claims was a lock- 3
Hy S sti er export to the U.S,:

% ence pparcon: “It would be an act of such reckless and improv-
» Both ident philanthropy that it would make this country

: “nej] = Vancouver Labor
nd the B.C. Feder-
Rector have pledged
Bet to the IWA in
be, Sle with the giant

the laughing stockof the world . .. The Americans
haven’t been offered such a windfall since the purch-
ace of Manhattan Island ... The Bennett-U.S. squeeze
play won't work ., . the power sell-out has to be
resisted.”

Westig monopoly and the WHAT YOU SAID IN PRINCE GEORGE IS STILL TRUE
het wig, CxPected to” be TODAY, DAVIE. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT YOU
feet prominently at AND THE TORY GOVERNMENT HAVE JOINED BENNETT PREMIER BENNETT

Reto

lon oncoming B.C. Feder-
high ‘ Labor convention,
Mong, PP2S in Victoria on
Me” Oct.’ 22.

THE POWER SELL-OUT TO THE U.S.
IN PUTTING ACROSS O THE U.S . to win Jhis support in

Parliament

DAVIE FULTON
. betrayed his stand