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LPP issues new poster

This striking new poster prepared by the Labor-Progressive party
will be appearing throughout the province in coming weeks. The LPP
has issued it as part of its campaign for Canadian development of
British Columbia’s natural gas and water resources, which includes
collection of 100,000 signatures on a petition for presentation to the
government.

Bennett ‘broker’

for U.S.

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“The Bennett government has become a broker for U.S.
corporations,” Sid Zlotnik, LPP provincial research director,
charged in a radio-talk over the CBC provincial network on

Monday this week.

“Never in the history of B.C. has a government acted on

SO grand a scale to give away the
People’s heritage. British Col-
umbia is being sold out, lock,
Stock and barrel, to the United
States. And by none other than
thosé selfsame men who two
years ago campaigned against
Monopoly, who pledged them-
selves on the hustings to safe-
guard our resources and put the
People’s interests first.”

“Look at the record,” continued
Zlotnik. “A year ago Premier
Bennett was boasting about a deal
With the Aluminum Company of
America which would have divert-
ed the waters of the Yukon River
into Alaska to power a smelter
On the USS. side at Skagway. This
Scheme was exposed first by éur
Party, and the opposition became
So hot the plan was abandoned.
._ “The government did not hesi-
tate in November to grant a tim-
ber lease to the huge U.S. Ray-
Onier Corporation.

“Then there is the government’s
Stubborn determination to build
a storage dam on the Columbia
to produce power on the U.S. side
for the Kaiser Aluminum Com-
Pany.”

Continued on page 6
See BENNETT

Exhibition draws 4,000

More than 4,000 people have
visited the Slavic Folk Art and
Handicraft Exhibition since it
opened here January 5, director
William Malynchuk (above) an-
nounced this week. The exhibi-
tion concludes this Saturday
evening. :

of the pacts.” Most of them gave
their visitors a friendly reception
end expressed concern about the

undesirability of rearming Ger-
many’s militarists.

Dr. Endicott summarized the
results of the historic National
Deputation Against the Revival
of German Militarism, believed
to be the largest popular lobby of
MPs since 1,000 farmers marched
on Ottawa in 1917 to protest con-
scription, and the big unemploy-
ed delegations in the Hungry
Thirties. In the two days the 750
participants interviewed more
than 100. MPs urging them to
speak and vote against ratifica-

tion of the London-Paris agree-

ments.

CBC radio and TV reporters
and cameramen gave full cover-
age to the event, but daily papers
gave it the “silent treatment.”

Continued on page 6
See OTTAWA LOBBY

NALI ARMY

SEE ALSO STORY ON BACK PAGE

OTTAWA

A. “free vote’’ of MPs, relaxing party discipline in the House of Commons to
allow members to vote as they really think, would show great numbers opposed to the
rearming of German militarism, Dr. James Endicott, chairman of the Canadian Peace Con-
gress, declared here this week.

Several MPs, said Endicott, had “‘promised to speak and vote against ratification

I was in Nazi death camp

by Claudette Kennedy
| page 9

Profile of D. N. Pritt
by Ralph Parker

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