seat IWelve mile limit act Condemned as ‘iseless’ “AN those ME on this nw Tuling, it affects R iseless pie to be to the lation Proval Ja, The Unite lieg Campa ® le does ers, Ord; limit i Freng ™q fq At Out] Which Sroy, 4 Se The Dinas: Cap Won Rrg * 1s was t Marine Th © act provides that the 12- MAURICE ha dieg nee world Communist leader, Thore, Hournm Ds inst th Ss . 8S at which Opposing briefs Any ™m eya TeSSive Victory has been holy Xter Yn, Parj Neon Ve Concerned with fish- Coast agree that the as it stands, and as -C, is one of the most Ces of legislation ever On the statute books,’’ he reaction of Province editor Norman Hacking 12-mile fishing limit legis- Which was given final ap- St week by Parliament, d Fisherman and Al- orkers’ Union has strongly igned against the terms of €islation, charging that it put n that it et protect B,C, fisheries, fish in allows other countries to Side our territorial wat- in fails to define the co- € from which the 12-mile S drawn E THOREz, outstanding Saturday at the age of 64. : Sd been in ill-health for eg Next week’s PT will Uller Story on his passing. Py Posequ® °Pposition to the pro- inug Sit fare increase cont- “Ouye ® Tise in Greater Van- Wee, "4 Greater Victoria this Migs; © Public Utilities Com- hears, “220unced that the first July vay 1be held in Vancouver, th ine a time B.C, Hydro will a Case for a fare boost, then be followed by ; €nt to allow Opposing Prepare their case © increase, Date for the Presented has not yet Ounced, feel was released last 0 Burnaby Reeve Alan Y Close to 300 carpen- . Greater Victoria area Signed an agreement Tt °F a 49¢ an hour pay hike io) : years, nine paid statu- 5 AVS and 10¢ an hour & health and welfare Sains n Mean that after ex- of the two year pact, . in this area will have Y with those of Greater - mile limit will follow the coast line, and grants to U.S, fisher- men, who have long exploited B.C, waters, ‘‘historic rights’’ to continue to fish these waters, The act extends ‘‘historic rights’’ to the U.S,, France, Britain, Nor- way, Denmark, Italy and Portu- gal, In addition tothe UFAWU, many other organizations, in and out- side the fishing industry, have condemned the act, Only recently the Saskatchewan Federation of Labor urged ‘‘a Canadian 12-mile territorial waters limit which would be reserved exclusively for Canadian fishermen, to be calculated from straight base- lines drawn from the outermost points of our coastline,’’ The Vancouver Labor Council, Victoria Labor Council, and five other local unions have supported a similar position. Speaking in Parliament, Tom Barnett (NDP, Comox) said that External Affairs Minister Martin had not even discussed with the U.S. a phasing out of so-called U.S. fishing rights on Canada’s coasts, He charged that the in- terests of Canada’s fishing in- dustry had been sacrificed for some other and unnamed national interest, Robert Prittie (NDP, Burnaby- Richmond) said the bill was meaningless since U.S, ‘histo- ric rights’? would be left un- touched and that it did nothing to protect Canadian fishermen from foreign competition. Puc hearing set " transit protest Emmott charged that the B.C. government had been given a $35 million cushion by Chief Justice Sherwood Lett to cover anticipated transit losses at the time of the B,C, Electric take- over, Other municipalities oppos- ing the increase are expected to air this point at the P,U.C, hear- ings, Pressed by the public to take up the fight against the transit in- crease, municipalities have now formed a joint committee. Includ- ed on the committee to prepare the case against B.C, Hydro are Vancouver, Victoria, New West- minster, North Vancouver city and district, Burnaby, Richmond, Oak Bay, Saanich and Esquimalt, Meanwhile, Victoria city council last Thursday voted funds to help in the campaign to oppose fare increases, One alderman urged that buses be operated on a five-cent basic fare and run two or three times as often, Ald, A, Curtis pointed out that one railroad had drastically slashed fares by as much as 15 percent, and found that its income increas~ ed 17 percent because more people were being carried, ‘‘Why not try this with buses?’ the alderman asked, It was also announced in Vic- toria that a citizens’ committee has been formed to protest the proposed fare increase, Chair- man of the committee is Mrs, Evelyn Peaker, The committee intends to submit a brief at the P,U.C, hearing in Victoria, and will seek to unite all those in Victoria opposed to the boost, South Vietnam's people's armed forces this week delivered some stunning defects to puppet and U.S. forces. There were reports of wholesale desertions to cea ers at ? Biss ae | & the side of the people's army. Photo above shows army men helping farmers restore their houses in a .‘strategic village” after driving our puppet troops. Develop Fraser system as part of integrated Canada-First plan By NIGEL MORGAN British Columbia has a vast hydro power potential,. The un- developed capacity of our rivers is equal to the total kilowattage generated in highly-industrial- ized Britain, Properly utilized it can supply enough to provide one of the highest standards of life in the world for a population many times today’s size. But if that bright perspective. is to be realized, this rich herit- age will have to be saved from the U.S. monopolies now trying to grab it, Its development can- not be left in the hands of ‘‘give- away’? governments, and those who are prepared to take a ‘‘fast buck’’ in return for a one-sided, " distorted development of our economy, The Bennett government’s re- cently-projected plan fur dev- elopment of the upper reaches of the Fraser is a case in point, The proposition is pratical, There are no technical or economic obstacles to it, But, will it be developed and utilized for the benefits of British Col- umbians? Will it be developed with a view to expansion of B.C, manufactur- ing and the all-round develop-" ment of our economy? Will it be a fully integrated develop- ment that will provide for the protection of our valuable Fraser fisheries, elimination of remain- ing flood hazards, increased ag- ricultural productivity and ex- pansion of Canadian shipping and trading facilities? Those are decisive questions on which British Columbians should unite to demand a clear affirmative answer, As long as eleven years: ago, in a special broadcast on the C.B.C. Network, May 19, 1953; the Communist party in B,C, put forward a ‘‘Plan For a Hundred Thousand New Jobs’’ — calling for ‘‘a halt to the policy of subordinating our national and provincial interests to the United States,,, and for the develop- ment of such self-liquidating pro- jects,’’ It called for ‘fa co-ordinated governmental authority along the lines of the famous Tennesse Valley Authority, to plan for the harnessing of the vast Fraser: River system, the conservation and development of fishery and: forest resources, flood control GOLDWATER NOMINATED Ultra-right forces in the U.S. this week completely took over the Repub- lican convention, turned down every bid fora stronger civil rights stand, adopted a war-like program, and nominated Goldwater as pre- sidential candidate. See editorial page 4. and irrigation, rural electrific- ation, Only through such an integ- rated plan can these closely inter-related problems be solved,’’ the broadcast declared, The development of suchaplan and the cheap electrical energy such an integrated system could make possible, could stimulate a tremendous expansion in industry and manufacturing, Linked to the Columbia and the Peace it could be decisive in location of a new aluminum plant in B.C, (instead of Washington); a vast petro- chemical and metallurgical complex and associated refin- eries, fabrication and manufac- turing plants, Imagine what a development of this magnitude would mean tothe building trades, transportation and service industries of B.C,? The possibilities are limitless with an abundant supply of cheap power and our vast resources of wood, minerals, coal, limestone, sulphur, oil and gas, After the disastrous 1948 flood the Provincial and Federal gov- ernments spent some $12 million repairing and rebuilding Fraser River dykes, Many more millions have been spent since, and every ‘year 3 million cubic yards of silt and mud have to be dredged from the River at acost ofnearly a million dollars more, No one knows when the next flood will Sweep down, This year thousands of Valley homes and farms lived for weeks in dread fear of such a disaster, Such an all-sided development as the Communist Party propos- ed, could control the bulk of the runoff, and eliminate the flood hazard for all time, Dredging could be eliminated, The Fraser could be made navigable again for large vessels upstream be- yond Chilliwack, The Fraser system, and part- icularly its long, wide estuary is a prized possession indeed, British Columbians should stand guard against it s surrender! And against any piece-meal, one- sided plan of development that would destroy its rich potential- ities, July 17, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3