U.S. BASES IN CANADA. This map shows the location of
U.S. military bases in Canada and the north. In addition to
these bases U.S. military planes have access to the use of
Canadian military bases and airports.

Brifish ECM hopes fade

British Tory hopes to take
Britain into the European Com-
mon Market received a stunning
blow this week when French Pres-
ident de Gaulle told a press- con-
ference in Paris that. Britain and

- ECM are incompatible.

President de Gaull’s statement

was made at the very moment

East Germany is now trad-
ing with 110 countries, with

48 of them on the basis of:

“signed trade agreements.

Morgan Speaks
‘Nigel: Morgan, provincial
leader of the Communist

a meeting sponsored by the
North Kingsway club of the
party Thursday, January
24 at Horticultural Hall,
~ 1260 East 20th, at 8 p.m. |
_ “Develop B.C. for ‘her
people; block the U.S. Take |

of the address on the op-
ening day of the B.C. Leg-
_islature.

‘The meeting will be open

‘Party in B.C. will speak at

Over” will be the theme |.

to the public.

that the Brussels talks on con-
ditions for Britain’s entry into
ECM. opened. The talks are re-
ported to be near collapse.
Instead of full membership de
Gaulle offered associate status
to Britain in ECM. Some observ-
ers doubted that even total capit-
ulatien by Britain on issues now

in. dispute: would’ be ‘enough to

satisfy de Gaulle.

Pacific
Cont'd. from page 1
right. I’ll report back to my Min:
ister when I return to Ottawa’’.

Queried about the “‘representative-
ness’ of the meeting”’ he said,

“Yes, I think it was a very repre.
sentative meeting: of %. c fisher- .

”

men .

Following: the Sieenne the UF- e

AWU Executive met to step.up
the campaign against finalization
of the: changes, deciding to launch
a broad appeal to ali labor, to
demand the issue be placed bé-
fore
“Marine. and Fisheries Commit-
tee’, and. to organize a lobby to
Ottawa to press for the fisher-
men’s interests.

‘McNaughton hits pact

Cont'd. from pg. 2
Treaty.”” (N.B. Such calculations
are far from proven only and
hence also violates the I1.J.C.
principle of actual benefits shar-
” ing). :

“The result does not affect the.

actual flows from the’ various
reservoirs at all. The Canadian
‘entitlement does not even have to
come from hydro electric gener-
ation in the basin. It is equally
open to the U.S. to provide -this
from theremal generation and it
is very. likely that will be the
course adopted.

“In saying that this arrange-
ment involves operation of Cana-
dian dams by a Canadian. power
entity, Mr. Fulton evidences" he
does not understand the Treaty
he himself carried: responsibility
for drafting.”

CANADIAN SERVITUDE

McNaughton concentrates a lot
of his fire on- the decision to
allow the U.S. to build the Libby
Dan. In fact this was the key

evision. He first of all shows that

‘anada under the International
soundary Waters Act of 1909 has

e right to divert the Kootenay
ato the Columbia and that the
U.S. is prevented from building
the Libby Dam which would flood
42 miles upstream in Canada.
Hence, as he states, “there is no
need for these two reasons: for
Canada to give consent to this

servitude on Canadian sovereign-

ity.’ ,

“The most serious considera:
tion about Libby is that with this
project the U.S. is allowed to
ace Be Reena storage on

the West Kootenay above the
existing Canadian plants and
there is enough capacity to
swamp the Canadian generation.
The U.S. are under-no restriction
whatever in the operation of this
storage and there is every in-
centive, | in their own interest, to
use it in a way which is con-
trary to the Canadian interest

..*. . Thus the situation will be

very. similar on the West Koote-
nay to that of Waneta on the
Pend d’Oreille where under the
IJC Order, issued in accord with
the Boundary Waters Treaty of
1909, the United States is recog-
nized rightly as having fully juris-
diction to operate their upstream
storage at Hungry Horse etc. as
they may find most useful for
their own system: This is now
being done and in the result, the
flow at Waneta (in B.C.) in the
late summer is markedly reduced
while Hungry Horse is being re-
filled. :

“The same situation will arise
on the West Kotenay, but there
the deficiency to be compensated
will be very much greater: in
magnitude and it may well make

future plant installations uneco-_

nomic and impracticable. __

It is. extremely interesting to
point out that the chief supporters
of the Treaty, Premier Bennett
and Company have tried to create
the impression that their veto of
the Kootenay diversion would
increase power production in the
West Kootenays. It is exactly the
opposite, and of course it would
effectively starve | Mica Creek as
ce

‘Jack Moore,

the House of Commons

Bey, 23

LABOR ROUNDUP:

Guilty of ‘contempt’;
pickets launch appeal

Stating that ‘injunctions
of this court cannot be lightly
ignored,” Mr. Justice Maclean

last week convicted five pic-.
kets for contempt. of an in-,'

junction prohibiting picketing
of Zeller’s strikebound Whal-
ley store. The Retail Clerks
union immediately stated
that the convictions will be
appealed. a

The five union pickets
were fined $100 each by Jus-
tice Maclean when he held
their action in picketing the
store on Dec. 7 to have been
in contempt of the order
granted by Mr. Justice F..K.
Collins last August.

Those fined were William
Wells, Fred Pflueger, Mrs. F.
Bjorkland, Mrs. M. Hansen
and Mrs. Yvonne Le Blanc.

The union itself was found
not guilty of the same charge
—that of flouting the previ-
ously issued court: order ‘re-
straining picketing.

e ,
. In a.letter addressed ‘to all
Members of the Legislature,
regional — presi-
dent of the International
Woodworkers of America, has

- requested that the Hours of
Work Act be amended to pro-

Will it be you? —
Press builder
will tour”
Sorel Union

Sometime in the spring
of 1963, a leading B.C.
press builder (it could be
you!) will tour the Soviet

The Pacific Tribune
(along with the Canadian
Tribune and the French-
Canadian paper, Combat)
has received an invitation
to send a representative of
our corps of press builders
on this once-in-a-lifetime,
all-expense-paid trip. _

The editorial board will
have to decide on who the
lucky ‘winner is to be.
Here’s how we propose to
arrive at our decision:

We are inviting all press
clubs to submit (in writ-
ing) the names of all out-
standing press builders
from Jan. 1, 1962 to March
15, 1963. — people who,
during that period, have
sold papers on the streets
and at the factory gates,
who have recruited new

readers and consistently
Picked up renewals.
This. still leaves two

months for every reader to
be able to do something
_ about taking advantage of
this golden opportunity.
Readers can well imag-
“ine how difficult it will be
to arrive at one single win-
ner from amongst the host
of good, devoted press
builders that we have in
B.C. Therefore, we urge
all press clubs to have their
submissions. in by MARCH
-15 and to check very care-
fully the accuracy of these
submissions. PLEASE BE
ON TIME!
Out of necessity, the de-
cision of the editorial board
- on this _ question will, be
final. :

Union as a guest of Pravda. |

tine

hibit permanent exceptions
to the act’s overtime section.

Regulations were changed
last month by the Board of

Industrial Relations to allow

employers to work loggers
more than eight hours .a Gay
or 44 hours a week without
first obtaining an overtime
permit. The IWA_ proposal
would protect union’ members
from compulsory and exces-
sive overtime.

Part-time Labor Minister
Leslie Peterson has attempt-
ed to whitewash the change
in -regulations by claiming
that it affects only. mainten-
ance and preparatory work
sections of the logging indus-
try, but the union maintains
it will have a bearing on al-
most all loggers.

‘ e

Local 9-601, “Oil, Chemical
& Atomic. Workers. union,
fight against Bill 42 will go
before the Supreme Court of
Canada on. Tuesday, Jan. 22,
it. was recently reported. The
union is seeking. to have the
bill, which prevents affiliated
unions from using their dues
to aid the NDP, declared in-

valid.

Union officials sifovined the
PT that the -provincial gov-

“ernment of Saskatchewan, the

Quebec Federation of Labor,
the Ontario Federation of La-
-bor,; The B.C. Federation. of
Labor and the Canadian La-

- bor Congress have all stated
that they will intervene on
- behalf of the union.

The union, in refusing to
sign: the declaration: required
under’ the terms of Bill 42,
has been stripped of its check-
off rights and has been col-

_lecting its dues directly from

the membership:

Appearing in Supreme Court
chambers for the union will

_ion, there is a danger of a

‘adian autonomous section . 0

-Compensation Act and its ad

‘most. prominent role in. the
-hearings to‘date has been the

‘formed the PT that a_special

be Dean Scott of McGill Uni-~
versity and Tom Berger, NDP™
for Vanc.-Burrard. x
oe

There is a wide discussion
taking place within the ranks”
of the International Union of”
Pulp & Sulphite Workers on™
the question of Canadian aut-—
onomy. The union represents”
approximately 7,000 workers”
in the pulp and paper indus
try in: B.C, :

Orville Braaten, editor off
the union’s paper, “The West-
ern Pulp and Paper Worker,”
points out in the Jan., 1963”
issue that if autonomy is not |
achieved within the frame-~
work of the international un-~

cals seceding and forming a
Canadian union. .

Braaten says, in part: “The
international union at their
forthcoming Executive Board —
‘Meeting this month (should)
establish a Canadian Com:
mittee for. the purpose of
studying and. preparing the
ground work for the develop-—
ment of a completely Can-—

the: International union’ with
in. Canada.” :

The Royal Commission in-
quiring into the Workmen’s

ministration is still going on
with its hearings. Playing a~

Mine Mill union, which has
called and will call dozens of
witnesses: to testify before
the commission,

Mine Mill officials have in-

program will be’ shown on G
compensation on Wednesday, |
Jan. 30, at 8 p.m. on Channel
12. Les Walker will. appear
on the show for Mine Mill.

Canadian Finnish leader dies
from sudden heart attack

Eino. Laakso, national secreta-
ry of the Finnish Organization

- of Canada,..and national presi-

dent of the Canadian Council of
National Groups, died after.a
heart attack on Sunday, Jan. 6.

Although he had known of his
serious heart condition: for some
time, to the last day Laakso con-

tinued to be active in the work .
of his organization, and in the

struggles of the Canadian people
for peace, democracy: and a bet-
ter life.

At the time of the seizure, he
was at a gathering of the Fin-
nish people in Toronto, and had
just. completed his introduction
of a speaker to the audience.

Eino Laakso was born in Kar-
via, Finland, in 1901. He came to
Canada when he was 10 years
old, and from the’ age of 11 had
to work to support himself.

Not being able to get the bene-
fit of regular schooling, he was
largely ’ self-educated. From the
early 1930s: he was active in the
progressive co-op movement. °

During the Second World War,

-Eino Laakso served in the Can-

adian reserve army. In 1956 he

~ was elected national secretary of

the Finnish Organization.
Eino Laakso was a~ founding

member of the Canadian Coun-.

cil of National Groups and was

. elected its national president at
_the founding convention. He was
active .in the council's fight.

. government at Ottawa.

against — political discrimination
in the granting of Canadian citi- :
zenship, and was present on ag
number of delegations to the

In the 1920s Laakso became a
member of the Communist Party |
of Canada and was an active
member of the party until his —
death. ES

‘The progressive movement in
Canada ‘and the Finnish Organ- —
ization. have suffered a grievous —
loss in his passing: He is sur-
vived by his wife, Gertrude, and
by a daughter and a son.

SINO LAAKSO.