$300,000,000

PRICE OF BETRAYAL
TO U.S. IN QUEBEC

By SAM WALSH

Sass people of Quebec show

signs of regrouping themselves
around the great issues of the
election campaign as they see
them, and not as the politicians
try to present them. The past 10
days or so have been especially
revealing in this regard-

The recent Liberal convention

left thousands of supporters of.

the Liberal
Party with a
sickening feel-
ing that they
were being
betrayed both
by Pearson.
and by Pre-
mier Lesage
to the USA
and to the
horrifying prospect of nuclear
destruction.

Andre Laurendeau in Le Devoir
put it this way: ‘‘They divide the
tasks among themselves. Mr.
Jean Lesage says to the people
of Quebec: ‘Return a stable gov-
ernment.’ Mr. Gerin-Lajoie (Min-
ister of Youth and generally res-

_ponsible for education in the
Quebec cabinet) adds that a
stable government will be a
Liberal government. And Mr.
Pearson promises that with a
stable Liberal government we
will have nuclear arms.

“One can take this argument
in reverse and say as follows:
1. We don’t want nuclear arms.
2. Therefore we don’t want a
Liberal government. 3. Hence, if
necessary, we'll take the risk of
not electing a majority govern-

ment.”

Pierre Vadeboncoeur, influen-
tial legal counsel for the Confed-
eration of National Trade
Unions, said in Le Devoir of the
Liberals:

“One doesn’t place treason in
the category of ideas, and when
it is humanity that is betrayed
in contempt of unwritten law, I
do not see why it should be hon-
ored by treating “it with equan-

scarcely concealed, is the grow-

ing consternation with the role.
of the Quebec Liberals. The ques-

tions being asked are:

“Can it be true that this gov-
Spaient’ that spoke so proudly
of leading the democratic reno-
‘vation of Quebec has sold us out
to the Americans? They got a
~ Joan of $300 million from the
U.S. bankers to ‘nationalize’. the
private electric power corpora-
tions. What were the conditions

on that loan — the biggest single — A

loan ever granted by the USA?
They must have included sup-

» port in the federal elections for “
the U.S. State Department's man —

in Ottawa, Lester B. Pearson.

“Even if Mr. Lesage couldn’t

for nuclear

‘come out openly

‘arms — he could at least sit on
the platform with Pearson when

“he made, the Yankee pitch. Yes,
and conduct him with fanfare to

_ ‘the podium and back to his seat —

when the dirty job was done. He
could repeat the Liberal war cry +
of ‘stable government.’ Yes, andy

even Rene Levesque was, on that
platform."
Judas sold out for 30 pieces of

*

As to the Conservatives, they
have done their share in shatter-
ing illusions as well. The very
first two nominations of Conser-
vative candidates in Montreal —
in largely English-speaking con-
stituencies — show just how wide
the split really is in the Tory
ranks. Even the newly-elected na-
tional president, Egan Chambers,
has come out against Diefen-
baker’s position of not accepting
nuclear arms on Canadian soil.

With such a stand, who could
continue to rely on the Tories to
present a solid front against nu-
clear arms in the next Parlia-
ment?

SOCRED PROMISES

The Social Credit Party held a
huge meeting in Montreal during
this same period. It would be
very unwise to underestimate the
importance of the size of that

‘crowd — thousands couldn’t get

in.

Here Real Caouette went all
out: no nuclear arms; bread and
butter instead; if you are too
poor to contribute to the collec-
tion — take some money out in-
stead! He was a sensation.

National Leader Thompson said
that he personally would do
everything to prevent Canada
from becoming a nuclear power.
But next day in Toronto he ‘“‘ex-
plained’’ what he meant by a
nuclear power. He meant. he op-
posed the idea of Canada manu-
facturing her own nuclear weap-
ons' — but that didn’t mean she
couldn’t accept them from the
USA.

The French-language press in
Montreal didn’t let him get away
with that!

But still Caouette is promising F
to block nuclear arms in the next
Parliament — at the same time
declaring that it is not an im-
portant issue.. The main thing is
printing more dollars, on which
he is in agreement with Thomp-
son.

It must be remembered that
the Socreds voted all the way
with Diefenbaker in the last Par-
liament till it came to his re-

- fusal to accept nuclear arms at.

this time. Then they turned

ed to bring it down.
BOOST FOR NDP
A very fine development these

- last few days is the decision of

many supporters of the Fiberal
Party among the nationalists, _

_ particularly of the old Bloc Pop-~
_ ulaire, to turn to the New De-

‘mocratic Ta because of score

“Be realistic, Harry! Do you
want our representatives to

silver. ean 4.) fagree with: Communists!"

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disgust at the Liberal betrayal.

Among them are many dis-
tinguished personalities in Que-
bec, who have -offered to be can-
didates and workers for the NDP
in this campaign. They include
P. E. Trudeau, editor of Cite
Libre, journal of left Catholic
opinion.

This is of great importance not
only because of the prestige and
high repute of the persons in-
volved. They also have strong
connections throughout Quebec
and can help to transform the
NDP campaign from a localized,
largely Montreal affair into a
really effective province-wide
effort. —

The NDP now speaks of con-
testing 65 out of the 75 seats in
Quebec. More power to them!

Another move towards the NDP
of major significance is the ap-
pointment of Gerard Picard as
the leader of ‘their group of
Quebec candidates.

Picard is the former president
of the Catholic syndicates, and
today is president of the Mon-

-treal council of the CNTU (for-

merly the Catholic Syndicates)
and well-known throughout the
province as a trade union mili-
tant.

The fact that this move was so
warmly welcomed by Roger

Provost of the Quebec Federation .
_ of Labor is further promise of

better days — days of unity —
in the ranks of labor.

It could thus turn out — even
at this very late date — that the
NDP becomes a real challenge
not only to the Liberals in Quebec”
but also to Social Credit. That is,
if they stick firmly and loudly to
their strong position against nu-
clear arms, and particularly if
they take up the campaign for dis-
mantling the U.S. Bomarce base
at La Macaza and against U.S.
intereference in general.

Social Credit, significantly
enough, has said nothing on those
questions...

PUBLICITY FOR CP

Another important devciopment

has been the wide publicity given
to the election manifesto of the
Communist Party both in French
and English on TV, radio and (in
English) in the press. :
Many favorable comments have
been received about the party’s
position calling for support of
the idea of the NDP becoming
the balance of power in the next
House to ‘prevent nuclear arms
‘for Canada. -

' Furthermore, the

campaign

‘to consider a resolution denounc-
ing nuclear arms for Canada and

"for. dismantling the U.S. base at

La Macaza -continues to attract
public attention.

- On the whole, therefore, the
surges in popular expression -
favor the forces of peace and in-
‘dependence. _

- ULE.A.W.U Lobby

Over 40, members . the ©

- United Fishermen and Allied |
Workers’ Union are this week
: lobbying the ‘Legislature in
- Victoria.

They will meet with the
House Special Committee on
Fisheries to discuss the dang-
ers to the North ‘Pacific

; setae

IN LATIN AMERICA

and power for the few.

in our daily newspapers:

of pure drinking water:

attention.

nor write.

all arable land.

income. *

‘

Good Neighbor Policy?

Abject poverty and misery for-the many; excessive wealth

This sums up the situation in Latin America.
These are some of the facts that we are not told Sea

} Out of 200 million Latin Americans ‘no less than 120 mil-
lion never drink potable water” (water fit to drink).

\ The average daily calorie intake is 1,200. Fifty-two per-
cent of the people get no more than 500 calories a day. The
Canadian average is about 3,000.

} One-third of all people in Latin America live in slums,
without heat, light, garbage misppeel systems or medical

AZ In 1961 alone, one million Latin Americans died from star-
vation or lack of proper foods.
i Seventy percent of all Latin Americans can neither read

\@ Not counting Cuba or Bolivia, where land reform is well
underway, 1.2 percent of the people own 71.6 percent of

w Just under 25 percent of the soearalions in Latin America
are controlled by less than 8,000 individuals and foreign
(mostly USA) firms and earn 74 percent of the total

“Statistics from article by John Gérasi: Former
“Time” magazine Latin American editor, as con-
tained in article In the “New Republic”. Xe

V Every day in Latin America 1,000 children die from lack |

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Will catch =p with U.S.’
Khrushchev tells voters

5 ics Soviet Union is “treading
on the heels”’ of the capitalist
countries in its economic ad-
vance, Premier Khrushchev told
a Kremlin meeting of Moscow
‘voters last week. Local elections
took place Sunday. :
Khrushchev pointed out that
Soviet industrial production was
now 63 per cent of present U.S.
production compared with 47
per cent in 1957, while last year’s

grain harvest of 144 million tons.

_-was the biggest. ever.

In the past six years 12 million
flats had been built in towns and
3,800,000 houses in the country

side, providing some 75 million

‘people with new or better ac-
commodation..

Referring to Western eel

‘tion about differences’ between
Communist parties, he said he

started by the Communist Party to was confident they would “find
compel the Quebec Legislature

the strength to overcome the dif-

ferences and disputes Derwent

them.”
Khrushchev aid that in a
- world where nuclear and_ rocket

Higher education |

costs more
University students spent

~ an average 17. .9 percent more |

for their education in 1961-
-62 than they did in 1956-57.

according to the. Dominion ;

Bureau of Statistics.

- The DBS. survey covered”

seven major faculties and in-
cluded 8,000 students. in 40
universities and colleges.

The increases ranged from.

4.8 percent for law students
to 26.9 percent for education.

to agree to disarmament plans

“Yes, you're right and we are

firm foundations of our econo-

‘isolating the aggressive circles

West on the first day.

_ many.

weapons existed only a policy of
peaceful coexistence miade sense.
Unfortunately, the NATO coun-
tries were still unwilling to give
up the armament race.

Achieving disarmament and
lasting peace depended on the
“active and resolute struggle’”’ of
people in the imperialist cou
tries, he said.

The imperialists, “who could
plan NATO armaments for many
years ahead, stubbornly refused

for even one year ahead.
The Soviet government did not
expect them to come and say

wrong.”

“Our calculations are Stok based
on such an unstable foundation.
Our foreign policy relies on the

mic and military might.”’
’ The arms’ race and the risk of
nuclear war would evidently con-
tinue until the peoples in the im-
perialist countries ‘‘succeed’ in

and establishing governments
which will appreciate the dange”
of the cold war and come t?
agreement on general disarm
ment.”
‘He warned that any. Eatin
Cuba. or China, in Korea, Viet-
nam, or against the German. De-
mocratic Republic or any social —
ist country would lead to a new
war with complete defeat of |

“1

He gave a strong warning to
France of the dangers it was run
ning in supporting the reve ge-
ates aims — of Western —

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