702 IRE FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1957 STRIKE RULES SET 5A. protest march Contined from Page 1 FLECTIONS CAPETOWN Thousands of people lined the streets of Capetown last week and clapped as some 2,-° 000 university professors and students marched in protest against the Strijdom govern- ment’s university segregation plans. The procession, the biggest so far, was led by the chan- cellor of Capetown Univer- sity, former Chief Justice Al- bert Centlivres. They were protesting against the government’s bill providing for four separate universities for non-Europeans and the closing of all existing universities to non-whites. 5,000 FISHERMEN PREPARE TIE-UP Some 5,500 salmon net fishermen are preparing for a tieup June 22 and pro- posed strike rules have been drafted by a special committee of the joint negotiating com- mittee for discussion by United Fishermen locals and Native Brotherhood branches. UFAWU secretary Homer Stevens said the companies have offered prices be- low those of 1956 and a strike seems to be the only course of action the salmon fisher- Britain claims lead in cheap atom power men can take. Some of the proposed strike rules are: @ Deadline for strike action or a settlement by negotiation is June 22. @ Strike action will affect all salmon net fishermen. Sal- mon trollers will not be affect- ed unless the majority of sal- mon trollers decide to take part. ‘@ All net-caught salmon, caught on or after June 22 wil] be declared “hot.” @® No salmon net fishermen will be permitted to travel be- tween areas during the week of June 15 to 22, without spec- ial permission of the local strike committee. @ If and when settlement is reached, there will be a 72-hour period between the time of settlement and the official end of the strike in order to allow equal opportunity for all fish- ermen to reach the various fishing grounds. U.S. strawberries dumped in B.C. Good looking but tasteless U.S. strawberries have swamp- ed the local market and driven down prices of B.C. berries be- low production costs. Bumper crops in Oregon and California resulted in the dumping of huge quantities here at 8 cents a pound. Freight and duty bring the cost to 10% cents, and this is the de- termining factor in the B.C. price. LONDON Britain’s lead over the rest of the world in producing elec- tricity from the atom as cheaply as coal gets a boost in a United Nations report just published. It comes just as a tussle — mainly between Britain and the U.S. over prospective foreign buyers of nuclear-power units is getting sharper. The United States will take between eight and 13 years to get nuclear power competi- tive in price with .coal-pro- duced electricity; Canada hopes to have it by 1965; but Britain has it now, says the report. In Belgrade a British rep- resentative told the World Power Conference that Bri- tain would soon be able to of- fer a small atomic reactor and fuel — with full guarantee— for sale. to_ under-developed countries needing power units of the 20,000-40,000 kilowatt range. The UN report, published in New York, was drawn up by Secretary- General Daag Hammarskjold for the UN Economic and Social Council meeting in Geneva next month. In addition to replies from Britain, the U.S. and Canada, it cites the Soviet Union’s re- port that though they are rich in fuel reserves, nuclear pow- er was considered the “wis- est and most practical way” of providing the power needs of Western Russia. Britain, the U.S. and France all have “most acute” prob- lems over recruitment of nuc- lear technicians and special- ists, but not the Soviet Union, the report declared. At the Belgrade conference © the “miniature”? nuclear pow- er station was offered by J. A. Jukes, economic adviser to the British Atomic Energy Authority, who said it would be ready in about five years. He said that countries buy- ing them would also be able to obtain completed natural uranium fuel elements from the British authority. Britain had concentrated its major effort on development of a comparatively simple gas- cooled graphite - moderated nuclear power station, said Jukes. Experience with Calder Hall has shown that this type of reactor is also promis- ing in much smaller sizes than was previously thought. “Our latest view is that it may well be an_ economic proposition, even with natural uranium, in the 20,000-40,000 kilowatt range. With very slightly enriched uranium, it should be a good proposition in still smaller sizes,” he said. Conservative party’s victory. The Liberals had complacently counted on relative prosperity to return their government to power and their popular vote; still some 200,000 more than the Conservatives’, might seem to have justified their pre- election confidence. But in their complacency they failed to estimate the gathering dis- content and political protest which brought about their downfall. , Their slogan, “Vote ifor Can- ada — Vote Liberal,” was at once acknowledgement of na- tional sentiment and an at- tempt to exploit, it for partisan purposes, but it completely failed to gauge how strongly a large section of the people felt about Liberal betrayal of national interests. Had it not been for this his- toric Liberal strength in Que- bec, the St. Laurent govern- ment’s defeat might have be- come a rout, for the Liberals retained only 41 seats in the other nine provinces. As it was, nine Liberal cab- inet ministers lost their seats, the most notable upset being that of Trade Minister C. D. Howe, architect of “integra- tion,” in Port Arthurs Howe went down before his CCF op- ponent, Douglas Fisher, a school teacher. In Vancouver Centre, Defense Minister Ralph Campney lost to a young Con- servative lawyer, Douglas Jung, who becomes the first Chinese - Canadian ever to win election to the House of Com- mons. British Columbia’s Premier W. A. C. Bennett had con- fidently predicted that Social Credit would sweep a majority of seats in this province but the results failed to uphold his boasts. Socia] Credit added two seats to the four it already held, both by narrow margins, but it lost votes, particularly in the Vancotiver and Island ridings, to the resurgent Con- servatives. . Social Credit expectations of “substantial gains’ on _ the prairies and in Ontario failed to materialize. It reclaimed two seats \from the Liberals in Alberta but failed to win a single seat in Saskatchewan or Manitoba. In Ontario Socred candidates were at the/bottom of tha polls. Altogether, across the coun- try, Socred candidates for- feited $14,000 in election de- posits. In its two strongholds of B.C. and Saskatchewan, the CCF generally held its own, losing Okanagan Boundary and gaining Skeena in B.C. and losing Saskatoon in Saskatche- wan, The CCF also lost its JUNE 14, 1957 — one seat in the Maritimes, Cape Breton South in Nova Scotia where Claire Gillis. was de- feated by a Conservative. But in Manitoba and On- tario the CCF picked, up seats, increasing its Manitoba rep- resentation from four to five and breaking into the Liberal strongholds of the Ontario northland to take Timmins and Timiskaming. The CCF lost York South to the Conserva- tives but gained Port Arthur to increase its Ontario repre- sentation to three. The Labor-Progressive party, which in the interests of pro- gressive unity limitéd its can- didates across the country to 10 and generally did not con- test seats held by the CCF or those the CCF had a fair pros- pect of winning, polled a vote which indicates a substantial support for its policies. In the two B.C. seats it con- ‘tested, Tom McEwen polled 813 votes in Vancouver South and Maurice Rush 520 in Van- couver Centre. In Vegreville, Alberta, Frank Maricle polled 731 votes, and in Regina, Saskatchewan, Wil- ~ liam Beeching polled 182 votes. In Winnipeg North, W. C. Ross polled 1,578 votes. In two Toronto ridings the LPP has traditionally contest- ed, Mrs. Annie Buller - Gural- nick polled 680 in Spadina and John Weir 759 in Trinity. Highest LPP vote was that polled by Gerald Fortin in _ Montreal-Hochelaga, 1607. In two other Montreal ridings, Henri Gagnon polled 348 votes in Montreal Laurier and Frank Brenton 349 in St. Lawrence- St. George. " Communist gov't will nationalize forests NEW DELHI The Communist government of Kerala — first in India — has decided to nationalize the state’s private forests and to set up a state trading corpor- ation to ensure reasonable prices for farm exports. Finance Minister C. Achu- ta Menon, made the announce- ment when details of his first budget were published. The budget includes a super tax and a tax on agricultur- al wealth. Menon said the government would guarantee private en- terprise the necessary facili- ties for running the industries at a reasonable profit provid- ed they agreed to fair wages and other legitimate rights for labor. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 16