| Indian in city fasts BUT HE GETS $30,000

to protest H-tests- $T, LAURENT STATES —

A world cycle tourist from India was starting a 75-hour
fast against the testing of nuclear weapons as the Pacific
Tribune went to press this week.

Mishree Lal Jaiswal was staging his protest against the
H-bomb tests at the Sikh Temple at 1866 West Second Avenue

—despite Britain’s announce-
ment that it had exploded its
first -hydrogen bomb earlier
this week.

The Indian tourist explain-
ed why he was “fasting for
peace” ‘in a release
which said:

press

“T began my world tour for
peace and friendship by bi-
cycle on April 4, 1952. So far
I have visited. 54 countries, in
Asia, Africa, the Middle East,
Europe, the Soviet Union,
Central and South America,
the United States and Canada.

“In all these
have met government leaders

countries I

and ‘the ordinary people too.
I have met presidents, prime
ministers, governors and may-
ors. To all I have spoken of
Ghandi’s great message of
truth and non-violence. And
I have found that all I have
met, be they presidents or
plain people, they have all ex-
pressed their desire for a world
living in peace and brother-
hood.

‘ ap

oday the question of test-
ing hydrogen bombs is very
important and this is what I
intend to do about it:

“Beginning on Thursday,

May 16 at 3 p.m., I shall start

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a 75-hour fast at the Sikh
Temple of the Khalsa Diwan
Society at 1866 West Second
Avenue, Vancouver, against
the testing of nuclear wea-
pons.

“During this time I shall
pray to God that He will help
the British leaders to change
their minds and cancel their
tests scheduled for the Christ-
mas Islands.”

HE'S PENSIONER TOO

“Prime Minist

NANAIMO, B.C.

r St. Laurent does not have our welfare at heart,” president

re
Tom Barnard told 250 members of the Old Age Pensioners Organization here this

week.

Barnard met St. Laurent during his recent visit to Nanaimo and attempted
to get the prime minister to deal with the plight of senior citizens in the course of

his speech. But St. Laurent
refused to change the prepar-
ed -text, although Barnard
stressed that there were more
than 1,000 old age pensioners
in Nanaimo.

“'m an old age pensioner
too, you know,” said the prime
minister.

“Yes, but you get $30,000 a
year besides, “which I don’t
get,” retorted Barnard.

Morgan asks public repudiation
of Howe's statement on Columbia

A’ public repudiation of Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe's statement on de-
velopment of Columbia River power was demanded this week by Nigel Morgan, Labor-
Progressive party provincial leader. :

“Howe’s proposition is an open invitation to the Bennett government to turn the Colum-
bia’s vast power resources over to the B.C, Electric and leave B.C. homes and industry at the

mercy of this profit-gouging
monopoly,” Morgan told the
Pacific Tribune.

“His approval of the Socred
policy of giving preference to
private monopoly over a pub-

contra-

lic-owned authority

dicts earlier statements of

Fisheries Minister Sinclair,

Resources Minister Lesage
and even Prime Minister St.
Laurent,’ Morgan continued.
“It threatens to rob the peo-
ple of the real benefits of this
resource. It is not what the
people want, or what they
have been led to expect from
recent statements of Fisheries
Minister Sinclair.

“It appears that Howe has
reached a deal with the B.C.
Electric and that he intends
to bully parliament into put-
ting up government credits
for one of the most shameful
swindles in Canadian history
as he did in the Trans-Cana-
da pipeline deal. This is but
another manifestation of his
reactionary role as one of the
leading spokesmen of monop-
oly interests in the federal

government.”

Morgan said Ottawa’s offer
to participate in a joint fed-
eral - provincial development
of the Columbia is “one of
the most significant announce-
ments for the B.C. economy
since the railway was driven
through the Rockies.”

B.C. is fast moving into a
serious power crisis, he contin-
ued. The Gordon Report pre-
dicts that by 1975 this prov-
ince’s power demand will have
reached 12,500,000 h.p., an in-
crease of 475 percent above
the current use.

“With the privately-owned
B.C. Electric providing 70 per-
cent of all hydroelectric en-
ergy used in the province, B.C.

has been an area of high do-

mestic and industrial rates in
comparison with the public-
power states of the U.S. Paci-
fic Northwest,” said Morgan.

“Our rates are high com-

pared with other Canadian
centres like Winnipeg, Toron-
to and Montreal, and they will
remain _exorbitantly high
until public power is given a
chance.

“Howe’s statement is a di-
rect challenge to the prospect
of lower rates through pub-
lice power development, and
Prime Minister St. Laurent

must make a clear statement
now on what Ottawa really
intends to do.”

Liberal, SC intentions
on Columbia questioned

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.

“There’s no reason Ottawa and Victoria cannot issue a
joint declaration in respect to their intention to proceed with
the Columbia River power development,” Alf Dewhurst, LPP
federal candidate for New Westminster, said this week. “That
is, there is no reason unless both the federal Liberals and the

provincial Socreds are playing
football with the question of

public development of Colum-
bia power.

“When Trade and Commerce
Minister C. D. Howe says Ot-
tawa doesn’t insist that Colum-
bia power development be pub-
licly-owned he is in effect re-
assuring the B.C. Electric that

it will be able to cut into the
Columbia power pie.

“Both the Liberals and the
Socreds are trying to cash in
on the great public demand for
Canadian development of the
Columbia, for vote-getting pur-
poses. At the same time they
don’t want to antagonize their
big contributors to their res-
pective coffers.”

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Tom McEwen (above),

editor of the Pacific Trib-
une, has been nominated as
LPP candidate in Vancouver
South. Last fall he made an
extended visit to China and
on the basis of his observa-
tions there, and his talks
with government leaders, he
intends to make Canadian-
Chinese trade a major issue
in his campaign.

Town named
Murderville

MONTREAL

Murdochville has been re-
named “Murderville” by famed
Le Devoir cartoonist Robert La
Palme, whose recent cartoon
shows provincial police beat-
ing up peaceful picketers. On
strike since March 10, the 1,000
members of the Steelworkers
are still holding solidly to-
gether despite armed company
goons, terrorism and company
delaying tactics.

Claude Jodoin, president of
the Canadian Labor Congress,
sent a telegram to Premier
Maurice Duplessis this month
asking for a government-man-
agement - labor meeting to set-
tle the strike. A government
conciliator has been in Mur-
dochville for several weeks.

Murdechville is situated in
the very centre of a 23-square
mile area granted Gaspe Cop-
per Mines by the province of
Quebec. Built around copper
mines and a smelter, it is
named for James Y. Murdoch,
one of Canada’s richest men,
head of the powerful Noranda
copper combine, the owner of
industrial and other proper-
ties in Nicaragua and Africa as
well as extensive holdings in
Canada.

MAY 17, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 8

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