. Four million workers in eigh t hundred places throughout apan staged a nation-wide general strike Oct. 15 to pro- sh the assassination of socialist leader Inejiro ASsanuma, . d to demand abrogation of the Japan-U.S. treaty. Photo ,OWs some of the strikers in Osaka. A general election te now been called and the pro-U.S. Ikeda government is Uunting on restrictive electoral laws to be returned. > Ee (Cont’d from pg. 1) | 'Wo seats are now held by ‘~OMmunists and only one by ‘the CCR. Of the 5 school trus- e seats from the ward two ‘tLeod, president of the Win- | ape and District Labor Coun- Pi: funning as CCF candidate 12 Ward 2 failed to get elected *Y Some 270 votes. Of the 10 seats on the new- ‘Parison of the votes received 4 these CCF Metro candi- ‘ ive in Divisions 3.and 4 with © Polled by the CCF alder- | Si and School Trustee can- { dates in Ward 3 — covering 3 Uch the samé area — clearly tice that they were only able '~ 8et elected with CEC votes “Rot with labor votes. a Labor-endorsed CCF Can- ates” proved to be a. mean- VICTORY ership of the CCF. The votes received by both Forkin and (‘Mary Kardash showed a decided increase compared to 1958. In this elec- residents of the slums, the un- employed railroad workers and the school children crowd- ed into’ old and condemned buildings. They were the only candi- welfare of the people and for job opportunities. They were the only ones to call for labor unity to provide an alternative to the reactionary big business administration of this city. In the Metro contests in Divisions 3 and 4, C. Kostan- iuk and Charles Watson made a favorable showing with 1,- 724 and 1,617 votes respective- ly: Most of the electors went |Gen. MacNaughton Urged Speaking. before the House of Commons external committee he said the. propos- ed Libby project on the Koot- and a gift of Canadian sources. to the U.S. MacNaugton said if Libby is built Canada will lose forever its opportunity to divert the | Kootenay into the Columbia and ‘produce nearly three times as much power: as Libby at about one-third the cost. The key to the entire develop- ment of the Columbia, he said, is. diversion of the Kootenay into the Columbia. If the U.S. insists on build- ing a dam at Libby, Montana, Canada should develop its section of the Columbia River basin on its own, said Mac- Naughton. : Commenting on Ter his state- Recruiting In Canada Canada’s Germon - langu- age press is carrying adver- cently in the Toronto Star. The ad was published by Die Zeit in Canada. Morgan Itinerary The following changes have been made in the itinerary of B.C. Communist leader Nigel Morgan, who is. now touring the interior: enay River would .be -wrong- affairs | Gen. A.G.L. MacNAUGTON - who warned last March against a giveaway to the U:S.| on the Columbia. Develop Columbia on own rather than give U.S. libby Gen. A. G. L. MacNaughton, chairman of the Canadian section of the International Joint Commission, which made a-study of- the Columbia’s March of this year against allowing the U potentialities, warned in 5. to build the Libby Dam. ment. before the. Commons |-committee, the Pacific Tribune warned. at: the -time. that “the | statement by MacNaughton in- dicates that U.S. pressure for | the Libby project is consider- able and that MacNaughton’s statement is seen as a warning |on this issue.” | Despite his ‘warnings the federal and. provincial govern- |ments signed an agreement on |the Columbia allowing the | Libby Dam and closing the door to diversion of the Koot- enay. In MacNaughion’s own words, we have given away the key to development of the Columbia, the Kootenay diver- | sion, and made a gift of Cana- | dian resources to the U.S. ; The Congress of Canadian Women last | Prime Minister Diefenbaker |fore the people today are growing unemployment, fear of T J . week told that the “chief problems be- war and U.S. domination of Canada. “Closely allied to these Leese The letter draws attention} used for the people’s needs.” to the low wages paid working women and declares: “Tf the domestic be given men’s jobs and paid| less; there must be equal pay} for equal work done. We note | also. with concern a growing} tendency for propaganda de-| signed to undermine the right} of married women, and in par-| market is! to be kept up women must not} | Also, last week, the National | Women’s Committee of the Communist. Party wrote the Prime Minister that growing |}unemployment was having a “disastrous” effect on | Canadian family. The letter asks: “How is it possible for a family to live whose only income is $30 a the | ‘Dgless slogan, incapable of|to the polls completely con-| —Mon., Nov. 7, Annable Com-j ticular of pregnant mothers io | eee i apes Ameer insurance i allying labor support because|fused as to the significance} munity Hall, Warfield, Trail: | draw unemployment insur-| 204 sins es esos Seanpeey | Sf the absence of a civic pro-| and mechanics of the Metro} Wed., Nv. .9. Kamloops; ance.” Rote oR ae get: —— “iis Stam to meet the needs of the| government. They were the/ Thurs.,.Nov. 10, Hupple; Fri.,| .The CCW urges that. “in| nies tg It mentions the Sorking people and because| victims of a deliberate plot by| Noy. 11, North End Hall, Ver- place of vast sums being spent plight of single unemployed in preparation for a war which girls and women, many of | ero} € bureaucratic control ex-! | Sed: b i i ad-| |