DEEDS, NOT WORDS eee * spending. 2 Soviet cut places West on spot The bulls of Wall Street succumbed to the Russian bears as Moscow announced a drastic cut in its armed forces and military ‘arms « STORY ON PAGE 3 wee Ca EE N00 om ap ae oz Cs ro 3D Sos Mud Na ail tte tf ac UL ay) | wi! ha (im al t ii \\ VOL. 15, No. 21 oueeebio VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, PRICE 10 CENTS MAY 25, 1956 Nation battles Theme of LPP meet ‘End divisions, unite labor’ Noting that is was meeting at a time of “big democratic changes in the situation in th the national committee of the TORONTO e world and our own country,” Labor-Progressive party ended a five-day session in Toronto last weekend. In the light of these changes it declared it was opening up for wide, discus- sion and debate how to streng- then the contribution of the LPP towards the “over-riding nec- essity”’ on ending divisions in the labor movement and “build- ing working class unity.” ; The 52-member committee said in a statement issued on Monday this week that it had based its work and’ discussion on the urgent need for a “search- ing re-examination” of LPP Policy, forms of organization : and methods of leadership, by : the entire party membership. It called for steps to be taken | - to bring about “lively discus- sion” of the possibilities of exten- ding unity in the labor move- ment. It urged a “vigorous approach to the task of ending recriminations, 211 points of unity and bringing into being a new atmosphere in LPP-CCF relations,’ and de- veloping unity around big national issues. * Reports were debated on many avenues of party work, noted the statement. Many questions were raised and “all aspects of our work and policy” are being put before the membership “for the purpose of stimulating the widest and most searching re- examination of these questions, in order to bring our party closer to the Canadian people, building our party, making it a stronger force for working class and people’s unity, peace and Canadian independence.” — The reports included discus- sion of new problems of unity, trade unions, peace, work among emphasizing Ss *% Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive party, who returned from Eur- ope recently after attending the 20th Congress of the Commun- ist Party of the Soviet Union as a fraternal delegate, will speak in Vancouver at a mass rally in Exhibition Gardens this com- women, building the youth movement. Also heard was a Continued on back page See LPP ing Friday, June 1, at 8 p.m. The rally is under auspices of the LPP Vancouver committee. pipeline sellout Dramatic eleventh-hour actions are unfolding across Canada to stop the sur- render to U.S. interests of the longest natural gas pipeline project in the world. As the government moved steadily to clamp down closure efter closure ,on debate in the House of Commons, the country’s highest court of appeal, trade unions, labor councils, political parties of workers and farmers, and constituents were peppering their MPs with demands that they yote down a bill to provide an $80 million loan to the U.S. controlled Trans-Canada Pipe- lines. : Together with another plan to vote $118 million out of com- bined Ontario and federal funds, the Canadian public is being asked to subsidize almost two- thirds the cost of the huge $350- million project. - The St. Laurent government, _after five years. of delay on building the pipeline, is now arguing the need for speed to get it started this year. But it is doubtful if ever be- fcre in Canadian ‘history has there been such widespread and vocal protest over government insistence on U.S. ownership of the project. The fight of opposition CCF and Tory MPs in parliament to block the bill is being joined by a rising pub- lic clamor, now breaking out into demonstrative forms. Gov- ‘ernment strategists, seeking to _ bulldoze their bill through the House by gagging (closure) de- bate, hope to wind up the bill by the end of the month. Public pressure is being direc- ted from constituents and organ- izations to Liberal MPs who have shown no willingness as unprecedented public protest. y these were the developments: @ A motor cavalcade of United Electrical Workers form the Niagara Peninsula, Hamil- ton, Toronto, Peterboro, King- ston and Guelph hit Ottawa on ~ May 23. They carried with them thousands of postcards and petitions backing the demand that the line be Canadian-owned and operated. En route to Ottawa the caval- cade which featured a 15-foot- yet to heed in parliament the At Pacific Tribune press time long pipe section, mounted on a truck gathered names to peti- tion at the huge Oshawa General Motors. plant and in Peterboro. At the Toronto GE Davenport Works over a thousand signa- tures were put on a huge post card signed at the plant gates. In the Niagara Peninsula the union signed over 3,000 post- cards in two days. Union officials are amazed at the rapidity with which the cam- paign is spreading in the plants, with foremen, time study men and officials signing as well as workers Thousands took to ihe: conde over the @® The Ontario CCF in an- nual convention condemned the government’s action and called for building of the line as a publicly-owned utility. @® The LPP national com- mittee, in session at Toronto last weekend, approved plans for a motor cavalcade to Ottawa on May 28, In a letter to the Ontario CCF parley, LPP provincial leader Stewart Smith announced the plan for a cavalcade to Ottawa Continued on page 8 See PIPELINE holiday weekend, a surprising number carrying boats atop their cars. As traffic jams piled up at Fraser River crossings many wished they could use their boats to cross. Worst place was Mission where tardiness in getting repair work started on the Mission Bridge span washed out last year (see picture) forced motorists either to wait for the overburdened temporary ferry or to make the long detour to the Pattullo Bridge where traffic was trying to squeeze through an- other Soaps In Mission at times cars were backed up to the main street.