U.S. corporation incites violence SCABS SHOOT DOWN ONT. BUSHWORKERS ae FRIDA VOL. 23, NO. 7 till eastside Se Y, FEBRUARY 15, 1963 VANCOUVER, B.C. EB © i AT THE LEGISLATURE 150 Victoria pickets protest nuclear arms VICTORIA—One hundred and fifty pickets crowded through the corridors of the Legislature buildings Wed- hesday to urge MLA’s to speak up against nuclear arms for Canada. Sponsored by the B.C. Peace Council, eighty members of the lobby came from Lower Main- land centres while the remainder Came from all over Vancouver Island. Wednesday morning the mem- bers of the lobby marched through ~ Victoria’s downtown streets to the Legislature, carrying placards Which read: “‘No Nuclear Arms for Canada,”’ Negotiate For Dis- armament,” ‘Stop the Tests,” “Peace Through the UN.” “We are 100 percent behind the Objective of your delegation,” Randolph Harding, chairman of the NDP caucus, told the march- €rs as he addressed them. He Said nuclear weapons were the number one issue facing the Can- adian people today, and added that all people should speak up against nuclear arms because it 18 “a life and death question.”’ Members of the lobby inter- Viewed many MLA’s in the cor- Tidors, including Social Creditors. Owever, the Liberal members of the House were conspicuous by their absence. They had obviously been told to avoid the lobby be- Cause of the difficulties they Would experience defending Liber- al Leader Pearson’s receat turn- about. However, the delegates were Still hoping by noon to corner Some of the Liberal MLA’s when they arrived for the afternoon Sitting of the House. Leader of the lobby, Laud Gard- Ner, said the delegates would urge ct MLA’s to raise the issue in ‘ €ir constituencies and to urge " the Legislature that Canada Feject nuclear arms. A brief being presented to all ‘oe states that ‘‘Our country Under strong pressure to ac- “ept nuclear arms” and said that €cause of this there is an urgent Need to resist such pressure. -It asks MLA’s to reiterate the posi- Hon taken in a previous reso- lution, RA ARDING, chairman of the NDP caucus, who told the lobby his pariy was 100 percent behind its aim of no nuclear arms. A special notice of motion in- troduced by NDP member Alex Macdonald asks ‘‘The Legislature to tell the Federal government that acquisition of nuclear wea- pons by Canadian forces is not in the best interests of the Canad- ian people or the cause of world 10¢ Ontario Govt ignored warnings News of the cold-blooded killing of three striking Ontario woodworkers near Kapuskasking, and the wounding of nine others in full view of the Ontario Provincial Police, has shock- ed the whole country. The Lumber and Sawmill Work- ers’ Union, of which the men were members, has been involved in demands for a contract with the Spruce Falls Power and Paper Co., and its U.S.-controlled par- ent, Kimberley-Clark Cana da Ltd. Nineteen ‘‘independent’’ wood- cutters were first charged with shooting with intent to wound and were released on $500 bail, but the wave of public indignation which followed the shooting, forced Ontario Attorney-General Fred Cass to replace the earlier charge with the more serious charge of non-capital murder. Provincial police have also been ordered to round up 400 strikers to serve them with warrants charging incitement to riot, Ontario Premier Robarts was warned in a letter January 28 from Bruce Magnuson, Ontario leader of the Communist Party’ and former secretary of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ Union, that press stories about the strike contained ‘‘company- inspired propaganda aimed at stirring up prejudice against the striking workers.” Pointing to threats by ‘‘so- called independent loggers that they will shoot to kill anyone in- terfering with their strike-break- ing operations,’’ Magnuson called for quick action to secure a settlement of the dispute before serious trouble erupted. The On- tario government failed to act. MAGNUSON WARNED In a second letter to the On- _tario Premier on Monday, follow- ing the serious events of this week, Magnuson asked the gov- ernment to act to prevent fur- ther bloodshed. He urged that the government “secure an immediate settlement of the issues involved on the basis of the union’s request, which is reasonable and involves, in the main, the extension of terms of settlement already agreed upon by other operators.” He also asked that ‘‘an immedi- ate and public inquiry be con- ducted into this shooting of strik- ing workers in order to ascer- tain the full responsibility for, and punishment of all those re- sponsible.” In a special letter to Dave See UNION, pg. 12 NEW PRESSURE FROM WASHINGTON U.S. acts to cut lumber imports; issue new Columbia ultimatum By MAURICE RUSH Following up its recent de- mand that Canada accept nu- clear arms and_ completely subordinate its defence policy to the Pentagon and State De- partment, the United States in the last few days switched its attack to other key issues in- volving Canada’s interest. Showing that its demands on Canada are not limited only to defence matters, but also extend ~ into the econo- mic field, these two highly important actions were taken by U.S. agencies which high- light the danger to Canada’s sovereignty and independ- ence. COLUMBIA TREATY © Soon after the collapse of the Diefenbaker government, U.S. Interior Secretary Stew- art Udall said (last Wednes- day) that he will give the new government elected April 8 an ultimatum to ratify the draft Columbia Treaty by mid-summer. Udall warned that if Can- ada does not go ahead with the Treaty by that time the U.S. will press for re-negoti- ation of the treaty to win favourable terms. The terms of the present treaty are already so one-sid- ed in favor of the U.S. and against Canada’s interests that ‘the Udall ultimatum is seen as an indication that official Washington now feels that it has Canada “on the ropes”, and can force more conces- sions out of a new govern- ment, especially if the Liber- als have more say in Ottawa at that time. LUMBER TARIFFS e This week three bills were introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives aim- ed at curbing Canadian lum- ber exports into the US. These bills followed a mass pressure lobby in Washington late in January by U.S. lum- ber manufacturers who are seeking legislation to restrict the U.S. market for Canadian lumber. The bills now before the U.S. House require that only U.S. lumber be used in the: construction or repair of any home financed by a loan in- sured under the Federal Hous- See U.S. PRESSURE, pg. 12 peace.” fast weekotl 170 top British businessmen, led by Thomson, took off from newspaper tycoon Roy London for Moscow to hold discussions with Soviet officials concerning British-USSR relations and trade. Picture above shows the British business- BRITISH BUSINESSMEN OFF TO MOSCOW men boarding the largest airliner in the world, the Soviet TU 114, sent by the Soviet Union to bring them to the Soviet capital. The plane has eight engines and carries 220 passengers and has a separ- ate lounge and dining room.