PUT CAN To Aa ‘Stop U.S. interference’ urged in Communist election manifesto: NO NUCLEAR ARMS, Un vtec FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1963 VOL. 23, NO. 9 VANCOUVER, B.C. >” 10¢ NDP national leader Tommy Douglas told an Edmonton audience of 3.000 Monday that owner- Ship and control of the economy has been falling into the hands of foreign investors at an accelerated and frightening rate. He said that since the war U.S. interests have Poured in between $600 and $700 million a year to take over control of our economy. Douglas also hit the idea of customs union with the Douglas blasts U.S. control of Canada T. C. DOUGLAS Graft charges Shake Socreds Demand for a Royal Commission to conduct a public Inquiry into charges contained in sworn statements alleg- ing graft in the B.C. highways dept. tabled Tuesday by Gordon Dowding (NDP, Burnaby), was made Wed- Nesday by Nigel Morgan, B.C. Communist Party leader. He told the Pacific Tribune that the public must not allow these charges to hang fire indefinitely or be shifted 8round inconclusively for Many months as was done With the Sommers case. Last week the Legislature Was shaken by charges of a Socred “shakedown” of B.C. businessmen. NDP-MLA Ar- thur Turner said,““He who pays the Piper calls the tune and 1€ big business subsidized this 80vernment’s campaign funds m the amount of $200,000, we “now who’s calling the tune In B.C” In a radio broadcast over CKWX last Sunday, Morgan dealt at length with the pro- fit picture of giant U.S.-con- ‘rolled monopolies in B.C. Such as the B.C. Telephone Co., ana the complex of gas and oil distributors. Outlin- 8 how these U.S. firms op- frate against B.C.'s interests. Organ reiterated the long Standing Communist Party Position that all utilities such as the telephone system should be publicly owned. ADA FIRST In a powerfully worded Federal election manifesto the Com- munist Party of Canada last weekend called on Canadians to stop U.S. interference, reject nuclear arms and adopt policies to put Canada First. Text of the manifesto reads as follows: Fellow Canadians: There is only one issue in this elec- tion: will American interference forcé Canada to accept nuclear weapons? Or will we reject that interference and put Canada First? Shall we be masters of our own house, or will we be dictated to by Washington? President Kennedy forced this election on us as part of his “get tough policy,” He hopes his willing servant, Lester B. Pearson, will head a Liberal government and bring the hated nuclear weapons to Canada. To accept nuclear arms would undermine Canadian sovereignty, tor- pedo disarmament and increase the danger of nuclear war. The Liberal Party is the pro-Ameri- can party. Defeat it! The Diefenbaker Tories, feeling the pressure of the people and not complet- ely willing to prostrate Canada to Wash- ington on this issue, resisted Kennedy’s brutal demands. Let the Tories are split. Many of them support American policy. By itself, a government headed by Diefenbaker will be no guarantee that Canada will not back down before American pressure. Social Credit, with its anti-labor pro- gram, held the balance of power in the last Parliament. That must not happen again! The best outcome of this election would be the return of a majority of MP’s who are against being pushed around by the U.S.A., and who are against nuclear arms for Canada. What is needed in the next Parliament is a strong group of MP’s, holding the balance of power, able to compel rejec- tion of nuclear arms. New Democratic Party MP’s, pledged to oppose nuclear arms, could hold the balance of power in the next Parliament to make sure that Canada will not accept nuclear arms. The trade unions are officially against accepting nuclear arms. They and many others look to the NDP to come out fight- ing. If it does that, it can win more than the one million votes it received last June. Labor must lead the nation to peace and independence! To contribute to this, the Communist Party is running several candidates pledged to the following platform: No Nuclear weapons for Canada * or her armed forcesoverseas. Stop American interference in ¢ Canadian affairs. Canadian inde- pendence in economic, diplomatic, trade and military affairs.’ Withdraw fom NATO and NOR- e AD and work to abolish terror weapons, for disarmament, peaceful co- existence, world trade, a world without weapons and without war. Unite French and English Cana- e da in a new pact of Confedera- tion between equals, to strengthen Can- ada’s solidarity for peace and progress. An independent Canadian econ- ¢ omic policy to put our economy to work for peace and peaceful trade and to give every Canadian a job. We do not want the murder weapons here! Let us work for the peace and prosperity of our country and of all man- ‘kind. Let’s, Be Masters In Our Own House! _.. That’s what Libeal le be saying to this anti-nuc ader Lester Pearson seems to lear arms picket who partici- pated in a recent demonstra _If it’s not from the Pentagon — | don’t wan it ee tion at a Liberal Party rally. Pearson’s party is the “pro-American party” says an important article on page 5.