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VOL. 19, NO. 36 VANCOUVER, B.C.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1960

SPLIT VEC WITHDRAWS CCF GRANT

Showing that there is more than one way to milk a
Cow, Vaneouver Labor Council executive beat a hasty
Tetreat Tuesday from a proposition to give $2,000 to the
C.C.F. election and instead voted to turn it over to the

-C. Federation of Labor Political Education Committee.

Since the last meeting of the V.L.C., where the notice
of motion for the $2,000 donation was read, there has been
4N uproar in Vancouver labor circles. It is known a number
Of unions privately served. notice to the V.L.C. of their
intention to buck this proposition. Some locals had even

Scussed withdrawal from the V-L.C. if it went through.

Fearing a defeat on the eve of the election, the C.C.F.-
dominated executive worked out a slick maneuver to cam-
9uflage tle donation through the BCFL. ;

The whole affair serves to illustrate the widespread
°pposition in the trade union movement to becoming a

Cash register for ambitious C.C.F. politicians. It also
Sows the harm this policy can do.

Demand for withdrawal

to a close.

How important the peace is-
sue is to the people of B.C.
was demonstrated by the re-
cent disclosure that a few
weeks ago bombers of the
U.S. Strategic Air Command
streaked across our skies to-
wards the Soviet Union to
drop the hydrogen bombs that
would have touched off a nu-
clear holocaust.

Philip Deane, of the Toron-
to Globe and Mail, on August
27 described what happened:

“Recently sunspots disrupt-
ed radio communications, thus
preventing a large number of
U.S. bombers on a_ training
cruise and several air liners
from reporting their course.
Our radar watches warned of
what they saw—an apparent
full-scale attack. The Strage-
tic Air Command bombers
took off for Russia; they were
recalled when ithe supposed at-
tackers finally identified them-
selves....”

It was a false alarm. The
bombers were recalled in the
nick of time, but next time
the orders may come too late,
and B.C., with its U.S. bases
at Kamlops, Prince George
and Puntzi Lake will be right
in the middle of it.

On’ Saturday, September 10
another vast U.S. war provo-
cation is to take place over
B.C. and Canadian skies. On
that night NORAD is conduct-

.. BASE
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of U.S. military bases from B.C. has won warm support

among the people of B.C. as the 19 Communist candidates in 14 constituencies brought
the central issue of peace to the fore in the provincial election campaign now drawing

| ing a continent-wide alert and |ist Party has announced that
all commercial planes have | demonstrations will take place
been ordered grounded. | all over B.C. Saturday in pro-

Denouncing the “alert” as a/test against the “war alert”
measure to heighten war at- | and to demand withdrawal of
mosphere, the B.C. Commun-| U.S. bases.

TIM BUCK and NIGEL MORGAN

speak at Communist Party giant election rally

Pender Auditorium, Friday, Sept. 9, 8 p.m.

Ask jobs program be
paid for by arms cut

Cut the arms budget in half and use the $800 million
saved to launch an immediate crash jobs program, was

candidates all over the province.

Speaking before an _ all-
Party election meeting last
Wednesday called by the Civ-
ic Employees Union, Burnaby
Communist candidate Harold
Pritchett received loud ap-
plause when he urged a two-
point program to combat un-
employment: reduction of the
arms budget by half and a
trade mission to foreign coun-
tries including China.

Last Thursday Vancouver
Centre candidates Maurice

St. Grounds, that only large
scale measures such as using
half of our arms budget for a
“national jobs program” can
begin to come ‘to grips with
the grave economic problems
facing the country.

“At present we are spend-
ing over 40 per cent of our
national budget on arms
which provide no real defence
anyway,’ said. Rush,. adding,
“wouldn’t it be saner, and
give our people more security
Ruth and Sonia Rutka told|if half of this money was div-
300 people gathered at anjerted to create jobs to build
open air meeting on Powell| the nation?”

This

banner displayed at a public meeting in Vancouver
480 still expresses B.C.’s main needs today — peace,

some time
jobs, arms

reduction, trade. These are the things people will vote for September
12 when they vote Communist.

the demand pressed forward this week by Communist -