Cubans receive
world support

Aid for hurricane ravaged Cuba
is pouring in from all over the
world. The socialist countries,
Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Brit-
ain and Canada are only a few of
the many nations coming to the aid
of the hard hit Caribbean island.

In Vancouver, Alex Storm,
president of the Canadian-Cuban
Friendship Committee, reports

Mrs. Pauling
heads Cuba
aid group

An organization named the
‘emergency Committee for
Disaster Relief to Cuba’’ has
been formed in the U.S. The
committee was initiated by
Mrs. Linus Pauling, wife of
Dr. Linus Pauling, the Nobel
prizewinner.

The committee also in-
cludes among its initiators
Waldo Frank and Carleton
Beals.

This committee has already
sent to Cuba a first shipment
of antibiotic drugs and pow-
dered milk for the hurricane
victims.

Legislature
opening set

VICTORIA - Premier W. A.
C. Bennett announced last week
that the first session of B.C.’s
27th legislature will open on
Thursday, January 23.

Considerable interest will cen-
tre on the new session. The
govennment has not yet indicated
what legislation will be submit-
ted,

that response tathe recent appeal
has been heartwarming. So far,
over $150 has been collected,
including a $25 donation from the
United Fishermen & Allied
Workers Union.

One woman alone has collected
$75 from her friends and neigh-
bors.

In addition, many people have
informed the committee that they
have already mailed in their con-
tributions directly to the Cuban
embassy in Ottawa, and indica-
tions are that aid for the Cuban
people will continue to be forth-
coming.

The Canadian government has
stated it will give 1,150,000
pounds of surplus skimmed milk
to the Caribbean areas hit by
Hurricane Flora.

This apparently was in addition
to the $20,000 the government had
previously earmarked for this
purpose, The amount, the dis-
pensation of which is still under
study by the Canadian RedCross,
was described last week as ‘‘nig-
gardly’’ by NDP National Leader
T.C, Douglas.

The British government is
sending a ship with medicine and
other supplies; China has prom-
ised 9,059 tons of rice, the first
shipment of which has already
arrived; committees for organiz-
ing aid to Cuba are springing up
in virtually every Latin American
country.

Meanwhile, Cuba has rejected
an offer of aidfrom the American
Red Cross as_ hypocritical
because the U.S. was ‘‘trying to
assassinate our economy, starve
our. country and destroy our
riches.”’

City Port Authority

urged by Stewart

What is needed in Vancouver
is a Port Authority with power
to act and administer the affairs
of the port and not merely an
advisory committee as proposed
by Mayor Rathie.

This is the point made in a
letter by the Vancouver Com-
Munist Party in a letter to city
Council this week.

The letter, signed by William
Stewart, secretary of the Van-
couver Party and an aldermanic
Candidate in the upcoming civic
election, states that, while it
Welcomes Mayor Rathie’s recent
Stand to raise the calibre of the
Port and compel the Harbors
Board to pay a fair tax on its
Property, that Ottawa by itself
Will not build the Port of Van-

Couver,
Prior interest for the develop-
pce aes

Hear

DR. JAMES ENDICOTT
The Test-Ban & Disarament
Dinner—5 to 6 p.m. ($1)

_ Entertainment
Public Address: 8 p.m.

All at Fishermen's Hall
138 E. Cordova St.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10

ment of large scale trade with
the Pacific Rim countries rests
in B.C., and in particular Van-
couver, and unless control of the
port also rests here we will find
the crisis which arose over large
scale wheat agreements with soc-
ialist countries, repeated over
and over again, the letter goes
on.

Attention is drawn in the letter
to the brief on Port development
presented to Vancouver City
council by the Vancouver Com-
munist Party in June, 1962, and
it proposed that Vancouver city
council take the initiative in
drawing ‘support from other
Lower Mainland councils for
representation to Ottawa for a
Lower Mainland Port Authority.

The first wedding of a ‘‘space couple’’ took
place in Moscow last Sunday when Andrian
Nikolayev and Valentina Tereshkova were

FIRST SPACE COUPLE MARRY |

married in Moscow. Photo above shows first
spaceman Gagarin clinking glasses of cham-
pagne with Valya and Andrian.

IN SOUTH VIETNAM

One U.S. puppet down,
another takes over

A ruling military junta has been.
established in South Vietnam fol-
lowing the bloody overthrow of
the corrupt and dictatorial Diem
regime which was imposed on the
South Vietnamese people by the
U.S. nearly ten years ago.

Commenting on the events in
the south Asia country, the
British Daily Worker said edi-
torially on Monday that no-one

NGUYEN NGOC THO, who was
named new head of the S. Vietnam
government. He was former vice-
president in the Diem regime. Real
power is in the hands of the mili-
tary junta.

will shed any tears atthe passing
of the Diem regime which had
become ‘‘so unpopular that the
American rulers, who backed it,
finally found it a liability to
them.*’

The editorial adds:

*“‘They (the U.S.) have made
clear now for weeks that they
wanted a change in S. Vietnam.
Now it has come, It is a change
aimed at ensuring that S. Viet-
nam continues to be an American
puppet and that the war against
the popular forces goes on.

**Washington felt it was not get-
ting value from Diem for the hun-
dreds of millions of dollars an-
nually handed out. ..

**Now the new government will
get the American aid! The 14,000
American troops there will re-
main, Washington will demand
that still bigger efforts are made
to slaughter Vietnamese democ-
rats, and that still more villagers
are imprisoned in the concent-
ration camps which they call
‘strategic hamlets’.

**The Americans hope that get-
ting rid of Diem will give their
Vietnam policy a ‘new look’ and
make it more respectable in the
eyes of the world.

“In fact practically all of those
now on topinSaigon served Diem,
and are just as much U.S. stooges

as he was,

*«But the fact that this coup had
to be organized is a sign of the
bankruptcy of American policy.
Changing round the personnel of
the regime will not remove the
causes of the crisis.

**There will be no peace inS.
Vietnam, and no justice for its
people, until American interven-
tion is ended and Americantroops
withdrawn.’’

* + *

The Canadian government is
reported to be considering recog-
nition of the new regime, but
no policy has yet been announced
from Ottawa.

Canada participated in the 1954
Geneva conference which decided
that no foreign troops or arms
should be introduced intoS, Viet-
nam, that it should be neutral
and that elections under inter-
national supervision should be
held to facilitate the unification of
South and North Vietnam,

It was the violation of these
decisions by the U.S. which has
produced the war and the crisis,

Canada should now demand that
all countries live up to the Geneva
accord, that all foreign troops be
withdrawn from S. Vietnam, and
the S. Vietnamese people helped
to rebuild their country.

SOVIET

Con’t from pg. T
it possible to solve the problem
of controlling the flight of space-
ships, directing them to the reg-
ions required for collecting sci-:
entific data relating to space

studies.’’
oak

*

The British Daily Worker’s
science writer explains that: Pol-
yot-1 is the pioneer steerable
spaceship that could explore as
much space near the earth as
several fixed-orbit sputniks of
the Cosmos series would have
been needed to cover.

Steerable spaceships may be
used for building up orbiting
space stations for astronomy and
possibly as launching pads for
flights to the moon and planets.

The extent of manoeuvre pos-
sible with previous spaceships
has been limited to changing
the attitude of the ship—the dir-
ection it points—or to rotating
it, but not swing it to another

orbit,

Rankin hits

“The ratepayers of this City
will not stand for a further in-
crease in their tax bill next
year,’’ stated Harry Rankin this
week after an announcement by
City Hall indicating a 1.5 mill

‘increase for 1964.

**As usual the Council attempts
to put the blame on the city
employees, this time the firemen
whose work week is at long last
being reduced from 46 to 40
hours. But this is not where the
blame lies,’’ Rankin said.

“‘City Council has no policy
to solve Vancouver’ s tax dilemma
other than its long held prac-
tice of taxing the homeowner and
sparing the business properties,

‘tRatepayers and other civic
groups have placed before coun-
cil proposals which could pro-
duce additional revenues for Van-
couver and take the pressure off
the poor overtaxed homeowner,

further tax

HARRY RANKIN, pres., Central
Council of Ratepayers, this week
warned NPA-dominated city coun-
cil against any further tax in-
creases

boost

The real estate council has ig-
nored these proposals and we
ratepayers are the goats.

**Last week Mayor Rathie, in
a flight of oratorical eloquence,
proposed that people of Van-
couver should refuse to pay their
light bills if the B.C. government
tried to dump the transit system
on the City. Perhaps the same
proposition should be extended
to taxes if the NPA council car-
ries through its threat to boost
them again this year.

**As the mayor himself said,
‘They wouldn’t dare do anything
if everybody just refused to pay’,

‘Whatever form the protest
takes however,’’ Rankin conclud-
ed, ‘‘notice is served on the
council here and now. If you
boost taxes again this year onthe
homeowner you will face a pro-
test the like of which you have
never seen before,”’

November 8, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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