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inst U.S. imperialism. Premier Chou

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people’s struggle aga

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Association was recently formed in China.

Plans for large May

Day parade

Labor and progressive or-
ganizations will be asked to
march behind. their own
banners and floats in Van-
couver’s May Day celebra-
tions. This was decided by
the May Day Conference
recently. ;

Plans are proceeding to
make this May Day one of the
largest for some years.

The Committee is arranging
for prominent speakers and a

hit by commission

OTTAWA — The high
price of drugs in Canada
brought about by monopoly
control came under fire in a
royal commission report
tabled in the House of Com-
mons this week. =

The commission report
concludes a six-year study.

under way

concert program. Permission
for a parade from Powell St.
grounds is also being sought.

Committee Secretary, Ken
Woods, has appealed to all or-
ganizations to start prepara-
tions at once for participation
in May Day. Organizations are
asked to make financial con-
tributions which should be
made. payable to May Day
Committee, 339 W. Pender.

Mr. Semyon’ Tsarapkin, at a
40-minute session of the three-
nation tests conference in
Geneva, put about eight ques-
tions, one of-the main ones
being on the length of time the
two Western’ Powers would
agree for, the voluntary ban.

The Soviet Union has sug-
gésted it should last four or
five years, while joint research
on detection is: carried out.

Britain and the U.S. have
said that was too long, but
have not put an alternative
proposal at the . conference.

| President Eisenhower indicated

it should last only until his
successor takes over next
January 20.

Mr. Tsarapkin also asked
yesterday for details of the
Western Powers proposals to
continue, under the ban treaty,
tests .for ‘“‘non-military’” pur-
poses. Why, he wanted to
know.

Sources in Washington made
it plain late on Thursday that
the U.S. is still going ahead
with preparations for such a
test, scheduled for New Mexico
next January.

The ten-nation disarmament
conference also had another
session in Geneva with Mr.
Frederick Eaton, the U.S. dele-
gate, proposing a plan for im-
mediately banning the launch-
ing of any outer-space weapons
of mass destruction.

Mr. Valerian Zorin, Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister, ex-
pressed disappointment at this,
because the proposal dealt en--
tirely with controls but con-
tained no concrete disarma-
ment measure.

Deadlock.in the conference
has still. not been broken over
the Western. Powers’ insistence
that controls must be discussed
before actual disarmament

measures.

Soviets question West |
on nuclear test ban

The Soviet Union this week began questioning Britain and the U.S. about their
conditional acceptance of a voluntary ban on underground nuclear tests.

“Canada could strike a
its neutrality,” declared Tim
Communist Party, at a public
of North York recently.’

The Communist leader made
it clear from the start that dis-
armament is the key to the
future economic examples and
statistics to prove that workers
do not gain full employment or
prosperity from arms manufac-
ture. In ordinary civilian pro-
duction, he said, 32 cents of
every dollar goes for wages,
commissions, salaries, etc. and!
even though there is a very un-|
even distribution of this 32
cents, the point is that only 13
cents of each dollar spent on
arms finds it way into pay-
envelopes,

If Canada declared its neu-

Canadian neutrality —
blow for peace —Buck

blow for peace by declaring
Buck, national leader of the
forum in the Toronto suburb

trality and thus ended its arm-
ament expenditure of $1.7 bil-
lion annually it could immedi-
ately do away with the sales
tax, and the income tax on all
incomes under $5,000. It could
double old-age pensions and
family allowance. ‘

It is possible to extricate
Canada from the present policy
of economic dependence on
U.S. monopoly and subservi-
ence to the U.S: foreign policy,
Buck said. -‘“‘We do not need
the $4 billion of U.S. manufac-
tured goods. We must demand
the U.S. get out of Canada and
call _on all. nations to recog-
nize our neutrality.”

Attempt to
at Peace po

coming hearing on the Peace
arousing wide indignation. It

of the Peace River Company.

Although the Public Utilities
Act says “every party inter-
ested may appear and be
heard in person or be repre-
sented by counsel on any ap-
plication,” the PUC has always
attempted to narrow this rule.
The restriction on attendance
at the hearings has always

favored the applicant, which in
most cases was the B.C. Elec-

The attempt of the Public Utilities Commission to
rule out political parties from taking part in the forth-

limit. opposition before the PUC against the application

ban parties
wer hearing

River power development, is
is seen as the first move to

tric.

Also throwing further doubt
on the ability of the PUC to
protect the public at the com>
ing hearing, was the disclosure
that PUC chairman, Dr. H. F,
Angus, is directly implicated im
a court action now being taken
under the Combines Act, in~
volving B.C. Sugar.

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