PENSIONS _CHINA TRADE Dans CPi) Doma a us) 4 | ~~ a eo FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1957 Volume 16 No. 24 VANCOUVER, B.C. ¢C *€3> 28 Authorised as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa ene ‘eee, What pensioners receive in US. See page 2 | ] | Labor-Progressive. party election float, F took a stand for ending H-tests. xcs WHAT WILL TORIES 00? What will the Conservatives do? Will they cut taxes for lower-paid wa ers and farmers in the lower income brackets? Will they keep their pron ge earn- lises to in- crease federal old age pensions? Will they institute federal health insurance? And will they strive to lessen Canadian economic dependence upon the U.S. by expandin g trade, and to assert Canadian sovereignty, not an easy thing after all these years of Liberal “integration” policies? These are the questions most people are asking in the wake of last Monday’s election re- turns which took 67 seats from the Liberals, gave 60 of them to the Conservatives and placed John Diefenbaker, the new _ Conservative national leader, in a position to form the first Conservative govern- ment at Ottawa since another generation of voters swept R. B. Bennett from power in 1935. Will a Conservative govern- ment recognize and trade with China? Will it use its influence to secure international agree- ment on the banning of H- tests? Will it halt the giveaway of our natural resources to U.S. control? The answer to all these ques- tions lies with the people who are asking them and the pres- sure they bring on a minority government which can be ex- which toured Vancouver streets last Bes jttactin ht before voters a major issue obscu terest, dramatically broug: ; th the maine’ sardes, aimee the campaign. Of the four major contending parties, enly © CC It was the Liberal govern- ment’s arrogant refusal to heed pected to be sensitive to pres- sures. the people’s protests which prepared the ground for the Continued on back page See ELECTIONS Party standings Conservative Liberal CCF Social Credit : Independent Independent Liberal Liberal-Labor Independent Conservative Deferred 11] 51 103 170 25 23 19 15 2 3 2 2 1 l I 0 l — @ Election of SC candidate in Burnaby-Richmond not officially confirmed pending counting of service vote. CCE. LPP campaigned for ending H-tests Since March, 1954 when the U.S. set off its first H- bomb on Bikini Atoll, the Pacific Tribune has consis- tently called for banning of further tesis. Last week, -on the eve of the federal elec- tion the CCF News joined in the campaign with a banner headline, “Stop the H-bomb Tests Now.” During the election cam- paign both CCF and LPP candidates in B.C. demanded cancellation of further tests, making this a key point in their election programs, speeches and broadcasts. When the first H-bomb was set off Time magazine des- cribed it as “man’s greatest explosion” : A second U.S. H-bomb blast in the Bikini area, esti- mated as vastly more power- ful than the first, caused, world-wide alarm when Con-, gressman Chet Nolifeld, prominent member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Com- mission, revealed that this test had got “out of control.” In April, 1954, CCF na- tional leader M. J. Coldwell proposed to the St. Laurent government that it “ask the U.S. to cancel plans for: ex- ploding another H-bomb in the Pacific.” This was reject- ed on the plea that such tests were “essential to defense policies.” In the same year Soviet proposals were made to the U.S. and Britain for agree- ment “to rule out the em- ployment of atomic “nergy for the wholesale annihile- tion of human beings.” Tim Buck, LPP national leader, recently called for a two-year suspension of al] H-bomb tests, as a first step toward reaching agreement on complete banning of nuc- lear weapons.