. ' : - ; ; ; Rh Bt S&S Be wt “eS a ~ SN TSR SH it Ao 2 aad Fn nA, MAY 15, 1964 ~ 25, NO. 20 NATO crisis deepens nder U.S. pressure (eee ae in NATO forced its as yg ‘MO the open this week Rusk Secretary of State Dean law 9 ‘mpted to lay down the "elation Uba, South Vietnam and tries $ with the socialist coun- of y t press time the meeting The 7 foreign ministers in Clog es Holland, went behind Public at ers. to avoid. further Ting of divisions, Usk? the es “demand for support of aid Pec rolecy on Cuba and for South y; its NATO partners in Deen .. 22M is reported to have Prime WY Teceived, In Britain Old the ihister Douglas-Home Ment ag -ommons his govern- Ing its NO intention of abandon- enon. 24 with Cuba, It is also tered that only West Germany “UPport in South Vietnam. Ity as known before the parley opened that the U.S. intended to bring pressure on its NATO allies to force them to give up trading with Cuba. Meanwhile, the plan for a multilateral nuclear force, which the U.S. and West Germany are pushing, continues to run into difficulties. More than 1,000 women were expected to arrive in The Hague this week to stage a protest against this force before the meeting of NATO foreign minis- ters. Included among them are two women from Vancouver, Mrs. M, Searle and Mrs. A. Bingham. The Dutch government this week attempted to block the dem- onstration organized by the U.S. Women’s Strike for Peace Com- mittee. THIS WEEK * Cyprus On-Spot Report —PAGE 2 Come Off ny Hy ® Grievances of Haida People * & Why SIU Deal May Not —PAGE 2 —PAGE 6 pointed mediator, A top Canadian engi lications, devotes its ent XPOSED BY EXPERT Many top engineers blast treaty neering magazine published by Southam Pub- ire current issue to an exposure of ‘‘The Coiumbia River Scandal.” Edited by a top Canadian engineer, James G. Ripley, the magaz handled and the facts c ‘‘this treaty is a dangerous Parliament would amount toa national sc The magazine analyses the two plans and adds that with the present treaty Canada would “throw away an empire.’’ It concludes by asking: ‘*When will Canada wake up?’ and says: ‘Tf Parliament has any sense of responsibility at all, it must reject the treaty. . . The present treaty assigns all the risks and obligations to Canada and most of the benefits to the U.S. An outsider reading the terms of the treaty could be excused for assuming they had been imposed on a conquered country’ which had surrendered unconditionally after a war.”’ See “INSIDE STORY OF COLUMBIA HEARINGS”, p. 12 Reprints of the magazine are available for 25¢ each by writ- ing Engineering and Contract Record, 1450 Don Mills Rd., Don Mills, Ont. Expressing concern of pro- fessional engineers over various aspects of the treaty, a senior Consolidated Mining and Smelt- ing engineer, Richard Deane, ap- peared before the Ottawa hearing and opposed the High ArrowDam. He attempted to read into the record the names of 24 pro- fessional engineers, including a number of senior Cominco em- ployees, but was blocked by the chairman, Their stand was inop- position to the official stand of Cominco, which favors the treaty. In a brief presented last week by Leslie Morris, Communist Party leader, the party said that the time has come for an east- ine charged that the ‘‘treaty has been badly oncealed from the people.” It concludes that failure for Canada and its ratification by andal.” west electrical power grid across Canada. This would be the altern- ative to north-south power links See COLUMBIA, pg. 3 ENGINEERING AND CONTRACT RECOR A SOUTHAM BUSINESS PUBLICATION APRIL 1964 Incorporating ROADS AND ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION HE OLUMBI RIVER SCANDAL fishness and public : » Columbia Treaty giveaway of natural the propaganda’ by whic governments have tried to justify this action has turned scandal. The present t mental blow to Canadé > into a national is a monu- ; independence. Above is a facsimile of the front page of Canada’s leading engineering magazine put out by Southam Publishing Company. The entire current issue is devoted to the Coiumbia ‘“‘scandal’”’ and is written by its editor, James G. Ripley, P. Eng., M.E.I.C. Civic workers win victory, blast Rathie jobs threat Vancouver’s Outside Civic Workers, united in their strike and solidly backed by the rest of the labor movement, have won a 19¢ an hour wage in- crease, spread over two years, The boost was proposed by Dr. G. Neil Perry, government-ap- and was accepted by 91 percent of the union, City council had no choice but to also accept. However, Mayor Rathie im- mediately put his foot in his mouth (again) by rushing into print with a statement that lay- offs would result. The union has warned in its Newsbulletin: ‘:Those members of city council who think they can get away’ with such barefaced skullduggery- are in for a rude awakening.’’ Also commenting on Rathie’s threat was Harry Rankin, rate- payer - endorsed aldermanic candidate. In a statement which received wide radio coverage last weekend, Rankin declared: **If Rathie wants to talk about economy, let’s have a look at it. The pay increase to the civic workers will cost the city about $319,000. Rathie’s first act as Mayor of Vancouver was to spend over $40,000 fixing his office. ° This represents 12 percent of the total wage boost for 1,500 civic workers. “The city spent $200,000 for land and blueprints for a city “incinerator, then abandoned the whole idea after checking with some place down in the U.S, and finding it was impractical, They’ll be lucky to salvage $50,- 000 of this money—provided they can sell the land. “Over the “years, our city fathers have spent thousands of dollars on downtown redevelop- ment and other planning reports, the last one being the LarrySmith Report—to the tune of some $40, - 000 of the taxpayers’ money. ‘After spending money like this, to talk of cutting civic ser- vices is nonsense. The citizens of Vancouver get very little ser- vice as it is, considering the taxes paid by the average home- owner. ‘*Now that a reasonable settle- ment has been negotiated in the civic workers dispute, any so- called ‘economy drive’ by the mayor and council, any layoffs of civic workers, is mere pet- ulance on the part of a dis- gruntled Mayor Rathie,’’? Rankin concluded.