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OL. 20, NO. 37. VANCOUVER, B.C. 10
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1961 <p" HE

|~IT’S UP TO YOU—

This is an urgent appeal to our readers.

With half the time gone in the September- -October drive
for 2,000 subs only 400 have been iurned in.

_ This is far from enough to ensure that we will be able
to Continue to publish the larger paper without running into
financial trouble.

In these difficult days the larger Pacific Tribune is more

Ugenily needed than ever before. We must not fail in this
tive,
. The Editorial Board appeals to all our readers to re-
double their efforts to build the circulation of the paper.
8nd to ensure that we will continue to have this powerful
| YOice in the fight for peace and security.

AC urged to reject
id to up BCE price

aes w. A. C. Bennett ,B.C. Power Corporation, A.
Was this week urged to reject PBpiee Robertson, the Company
Wight the application of the |is seeking to more than double

- Power Corporation for a|the amount voted by the last
e to sue the government over |session of the Legislature to
© price of the B.C. Electric. | take over the B.C. Electric. He

he Communist Party of|said the Company is seeking
+ Over the signature of Pro- | at least $225 million instead of
lal Leader Nigel Morgan, |the $110,985,000.

“It .was also revealed by
yourself last week that the
B.C. Power Corporation was
seeking to hire an advertising
agency and was prepared to
spend in the neighborhood of
$500,000 to sell its case to the
public. This disclosure is a
measure of the big stakes in-

volved in the present campaign
of the B.C. Power Corp.

-“Tt is our considered opinion

See REJECT, Pg. 3

j Bing:
i ie this action in an open
phe letter charges that the
- Power Corporation, back-
by the big business press,
“ae to squeeze another $115
lon from the taxpayers for
a B.C. Electric, ‘which has
ty times over redoubled the
vestment of its sharehold-

The letter reads in part:
According | to . statements
®de by the chairman of the

IM !M BUCK’S APPEAL:

Stand up and declare:
No war over Berlin ©

More than 1,200. people packed the Pender Auditorium

NUSt’ he no war over Berlin.”

Starting | his national tour on
© Pacific coast to arouse. the
Nadian people to fight for
fe, Buck also addressed.
| j.° meetings on Vancouver Is-

bo d, in Victoria and Nanaimo,
of which had capacity
“Owds,

‘ging a flood of letters

an influence on what Canada
does in the present situation.
He said Canada could, if it
pursued a policy of peace, ex-
ert a tremendous influence in

See BUCK, page 2

' Vancouver last Sunday to hear a stirring appeal by
ational Communist Party leader. Tim Buck, to. “every:
an and woman in Canada to stand up and. declare there

cards. and’ wines ars MP’ a, Buck :
said every’ person can exert

A Soviet plan for the complete abolition of all arms in four to five years was this

week submitted to the President of the U.N. General Assembly, Mr. Mongi Slim, by
Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko.

Completely blacked-out by
the cold war press, which is
using the U.N. General- As-
sembly to wage a propaganda
war against the socialist coun-
tries, the Soviet proposal arose
out of American-Soviet discus-
sions on disarmament which
began in June.

Pointing out that the Soviet
Union objected to Western pro-
posals for controls over arma-
ments instead of over disarm-
ament, a point strongly made
by Gromyko in his speech to
the U.N. Tuesday in reply to
President Kenneay’s speech,
the plan makes the following
points:

@ In order to reduce to a

minimum the threat of nuclear for German troops. East or

war the very first step the West; (5) Disengagement in {

Soviet plan proposes is ‘‘to Central Europe. 4

start disarmament not only Expected to come before the ik
i

with a substantial reduction of
the armed forces and conven-
tional armaments of States, but
also with the destruction of all
means of nuclear delivery,
liquidation of foreign military
bases and withdrawal of all
troops from foreign soil.”

® No country or group of
countries should get any ad-
vantages at any stage of dis-
armament, it is therefore pro-
posed that the abolition of
means of nuclear delivery and
of foreign bases would have
to be simultaneous.

® Stating that the Soviet

disarmament.” It states that the
control organization should be
a “dependable and really im-
partial control organ and not
the tool of any group of states.”

These proposals were gen-
erally outlined in the speech to
the General Assembly by Gro-
myko, who spoke the day after
President Kennedy.

ANDREI GROMYKO, who this
week called for scrapping ail
arms in 4-5 years.

In his ‘speech, which was
coldly received by delegates,
President Kennedy made it
clear the U.S. intends to con-
tinue to use the U.N. as an
instrument of American policy,
to keep China out of the U.N.
and get its own nominee as
Secretary-General.

mounting all over the world
for a peaceful settlement of
the Berlin issue.

On Monday of this week 59
British Labor MP’s addressed
a letter to President Kennedy
and Premier Khrushchev
which states: ‘“We are opposed
to war over Berlin, which
would lead to annihilation of

the people of both East and

West.”

The letter urges agreement
be reached on the following
lines: (1) Guaranteed access to
Berlin; (2) Recognition of the
Oder-Neisse Line; (3) Recogni-
tion of the GDR; (4) No nuclear
weapons or training in missles

U.N. General Assembly soon
is the debate on admission of
People’s China. The U.S. has
made it clear that it intends
to try to keep the country.
which represents a quarter of
the world’s population out o£
the U.N.

Statements made by Canad-
jan government spokesmen, in«
cluding Prime Minister Dief-
enbaker and External -Secre-
tary Howard Green, indicate
Canada is prepared to go all
the way down the line behind
the U.S. position.

Stronger public action is

Union favors strict interna-| He insisted that taiks on gen-| needed in Canada to change
tional control over disarma-| eral disarmament should wait the present course of the gov-
ment, the plan recalls the| until the conclusion of a nu- ernment behind U.S. policies,

Soviet position that if the West
accepted the proposal for com-
plete and general disarmament
the Soviet Union would uncon-
ditionally accept any Western
proposals for control.

@ The plan proposes that
“the international control or-
ganization should start func-
tioning simultaneously with
the coming into force of a
treaty on general and complete

clear test ban agreement, so
far made impossible by the
U.S. demands that loopholes be
left for underground testing,
and French insistence on con-
tinuing tests.
e

Both Kennedy and Gromkyo
dealt extensively with the
problem of Germany and West
Berlin. But while the debate
goes on in the UN pressure is

Canadians want the seating
of China in the U.N.; a peace-
ful settlement of the Berlin
problem; action on disarma-
ment; and long-needed reor-
ganization of the U.N. admin-«
istration to make it more rep-
resentative of all nations.

The voice of Canada must
find expression at the U.N.
General Assembly on these
vital issues.

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This was the scene outside a fallout shelter in Toronto Sunday, Sept. 16, when the
McCallum family came out of the shelter after spending a week there. Mr. McCallum
signed the petition against nuclear arms. Organized by the Combined Universities Cam-

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paign for Nuclear Disarmament, part of the demonstration was seen over the CBC-TV,
program, News Magazine.

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