( Labor io Pearson: ‘Reject A-arms’ SEE STORY PG. 12 VOL. 23, NO..19 FISHERIES SELLOUT BLACK DAY FORBC. Action by the Federal Cabinet in ratifying by Order-in-Council the widely- opposed recommendations to allow Japan to fish in North Pacific waters, was branded as a “terrible disgrace and an insult to Parliament and the people of Can- ada”’ by Homer Stevens, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Fishermen and Allied Cu FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1963 + ANCOUTIIE TEC 10¢ CITY PARADE SATURDAY Endicott speaks af city ‘no nuclear Dr. James Endicott, chair- Man of the Canadian Peace Congress, will speak at a mass Tally in Pender Auditorium on Thursday, May 16 at 8 p.m. On the subject: “No Nuclear Arms for Canada.” The meeting, sponsored by the B.C. Peace Council, is timed to coincide with the Opening of Parliament to Sive public expression of op- Position to the Liberal gov- €rnment’s announced inten- tion to push a nuclear arms Pact with. the U.S. through the House. Endicott will come to Van- Couver shortly after chairing & public meeting in Toronto’s Massey Hall, at which lead- ing British Member of Par- liament, Sydney Silverman will speak. The Canadian Peace Con- gress also announced last Week that it will stage a lobby and demonstration in Ottawa On Mav 20 and 21. the eve of living cost up The cost of living in Can- ada rose to a new peak on April 1 when it rose to 132.3, 8ccording to a report releas- €d by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics this week. (See story on pg. 3 on Van- Souver protests against sugar Prices.) 339 W. Pender St. at 1:30 p.m. arms’ rally DR. JAMES ENDICOTT the NATO foreign ministers’ council meeting in the capi- tal. The demonstration will take place before the Parlia- ment Buildings on the after- noon of Monday, May 20. On Tuesday members of Parlia- ment will be lobbied and a brief will be presented to the embassies of all. the NATO powers. In Vancouver this Satur- day, May 11, the B.C. Peace Council is sponsoring a public demonstration against nuclear arms and has called for sup- port from people in the Low- er Mainland who oppose nu- clear arms. The parade leaves Workers’ Union. Immediately following the announcement by External Affairs Minister Paul Martin, Stevens charged in a press re- lease that the Federal Cab- inet’s action “‘represents cav- ing in to the U.S. State De- partment policy of treating fishery resources as expend- able pawns in their interna- tional power plays. “Tt is a black day for the halibut fishermen of Canada and the U.S.A. who have pro- tested unanimously against the giveaway. Likewise it is a disaster for salmon and her- ring fishermen — the first step towards ruination of the resources upon which 95 per- cent of our industry depends,” said Stevens. Pointing out that the Feda- eral Cabinet took its action only eight days prior to the new. session of Parliament, Stevens charged the govern- HOMER STEVENS, who Wednes- day blasted the Cabinet’s Order- in-Council as a surrender to the U.S. State Dept. ment was by-passing Parlia- ment and that the previous Parliament had been denied the right to debate the issue. LIBERAL DUPLICITY Pointing to the duplicity of the Liberal government, Stev- ens hit the “reversal of pol- icy by Mr. Laing, Mr. Nichol- son, Mr. Davis and Mr. Pick- ersgill, all of whom supported our’ delegation’s demand for a hearing before the Standing Committee, when we were in Ottawa last January.” He also charged that the new Fisheries Minister had led the union’s three-man del- egation recently to believe the union would get a full hearing before the Standing Committee. Fishermen and Shorework- ers in B.C. have been virtual- ly unanimous in opposing the changes and in the demand they be discussed before the House Committee on marine and fisheries before action was taken. See FISHERIES, page 2 ~ ACTION URGED TO BLOCK COLUMBIA GIVEAWAY AT PEARSON-KENNEDY TALKS Warning that the danger of the sellout of Columbia River hydro resources is reaching a new cli- max, the B.C. Committee of the Communist Party this week ap- pealed to Canadians from coast to coast to demand that Prime Minister Pearson reject U.S. pro- posals for sellout of the Columbia River at the weekend talks with President Kennedy. “Undoubtedly U.S. demands for Canadian parliamentary ratifica- tion of the draft Columbia River Brutality against U.S. Negroes shocks world Shock and horror swept around the world this week at the vio- lence used by Birmingham, Ala- bama authorities and police to beat down the peaceful demands of the Negro people for an end to segregation. Resorting to use of police dogs, fire-hose, physical beatings and mass arrests, Alabama authori- ties warned at press time that more violence would be used against Negro demonstrators. MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRACY IN ACTION. Pictu to Ealitnese Negroes seeking to register for vo re shows Bolice dogs being used ting. In Birmingham, Alabama, This was underlined by bringing hundreds of specially equipped State Police into Birmingham. The 20-million Negro commun- ity in the United States has been particularly incensed by the act- ions in Birmingham, and by the failure of President Kennedy and his administration to act. This week former baseball star Jackie Robinson, denounced Pres- ident Kennedy’s inaction and said See BRUTAL, page 3 more than 2400 men, women and students were thrown in prison this week, and many Negroes were brutally beaten. Treaty will be high on-the agenda of the week-end Kennedy-Pearson talks”, Nigel Morgan, B.C.’s Provincial leader of the Commun- ist Party declared. ‘‘Danger of the sellout is indicated in the parallel views on sale of Canad- ian hydro power expressed by Victoria Socreds and Ottawa Lib- erals; Premier Bennett’s newly- expressed confidence that the two- year deadlock can now be brok- en; and the eager-beaver ap- proach of Lester Pearson towards satisfaction of U.S. demands’’. “Talk of so-called re-negotiation of the draft Treaty is nothing but a sham and a delusion unless elimination of the U.S. Libby Dam and substitution of the alternative Dorr Diversion (backed by Gen- eral McNaughton) is included” Morgan stated. “Elimination of the Libby Dam See COLUMBIA, pg. 12