| 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 - HUB HUMOR. "Did you throw that spitball, Kilroy?” With Summer here, you'll want light weight work clothes _ (Union made of course) from the HUB. Also a fine selection of SUITS, JACKETS, SLACKS AND FURNISHINGS. Free Credit too! 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.” aed 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 a