Soblen appealing decision

Dr. Robert Soblen has ap-
pealed the British High
Court’s refusal to grant him
a writ of habae corpus. What-
ever the decision in the
Court of Appeal, it is likely
that the case will then go to
the House of Lords.

Dr. Soblen, currently in
Brixton Prison, England, ap-
plied for a writ of habeas
corpus to challenge the de-
portation order recently sign-
ed .by British Home Secre-
tary Sir Henry Brooke, who
plans to put Soblen on an
aircraft bound for the U.S.

Elwyn Jones, QC, appear-
ing for Soblen, argued that

Confidence in

Full confidence in Jomo
Kenyatta, leader of the Ken-
ya African National Union
(K.A.N.U.) was reaffirmed at
a special meeting of the gen-
eral council of the party
which ended in ~ Nairobi,
Kenya, on August 25. _

Among resolutions aimed
at restoring party unity was
one calling on members to
stop attacking each other
through the press.

Another instructed the ex-_

ecutive to enforce discipline

Miners again

A new wave of unrest and
protest is sweeping the coal-
fields of the Asturias in
Spain. As a result of strikes,
“go slow’ movements by
militant miners and company
lockouts, more than 14 pits,
involving over 13,000 miners
are closed.

The executive committee
of the Spanish Communist
Party, in a statement on the
Asturian lockouts, called last
Friday on all democratic an-
ti-Franco forces to unite and
co-ordinate their actions in
the struggle against General
Franco’s fascist dictatorship.

“The working people of
Spain will show that they

Rankin to Speak

It has been announced that
Harry Rankin, will speak on
his impressions of the Soviet.
Union, Friday, Sept. 7th, in
the Pender Auditorium (lower
Hall), 339 West Pender St., at
“8:30 p.m.

Rankin toured through four
Soviet Republics this summer,
Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and
Armenia. Color slides will be
shown.

while a state has the right to
deport an undé€sirable alien,
it does not have the right to
decide the manner in which
(or the conveyance ‘by which)
the deportee is to leave the
country. He further argued
that the Home Secretary was
merely trying to use the de-
portation law as a substitute
for a proper’ extradition
agreement between Britain.
and the USS.

The judge concluded, how-

ever, that it was the state,

not the deportee, that might
choose the ship or aircraft by
which the deportee had to
leave.

Kenya leader

within the party’s youth
wing and to expel youths
failing to conform to party
policy.

Attacks on Kenyatta by
the party’s Nairobi branch
and the Kenya Federation of
Labor were strongly con-
demned and all national of-
ficials were called on to work
together. (Kenyatta has often
been imprisoned for leading
the fight for Kenya’s inde-
pendence.)

defy Franco

do not intend to tolerate be-
ing treated as pariahs who
have no rights and no per-
sonal dignity,” the Party de-
clared.

NATO’S man in Madrid

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NEED NEW TRADE POLICIES

GHOST LUMBER TOWNS UNLESS
US. TRADE PLAN REJECTED

By MAURICE RUSH

Talks between the Unit-
ed States and Canada open-
ed this week in Ottawa to
consider President Kenn-
dy’s proposal for a volun-
tary cut in lumber exports
to the U.S.

Ever since the U.S. presi-
dent put forward his proposal
pressure has been mounting
on Canada to accede to the
U.S. demand, which if im-
plemented, would hit B.C’s
economy and cost the pro-
vince tens of thousands of
jobs.

Indicative of the import-
ance the U.S. attaches to its
proposed ‘“‘voluntary” lumber
curb is the fact that it sent
an eight-man delegation to
Ottawa headed by U.S. as-
sistant secretary for economic
affairs, Griffith Johnson.

Hanging over Canada’s
head is the threat that if it
doesn’t accede to imposing a
“voluntary” quota on itself
the U.S. government may en-
force it as a result of hearings
opening in Washington on
October 2 to determine
whether a tariff increase on
Canadian lumber is justified.

Despite President Ken-
nedy”s repeated pledges io
promote free trade, the U:S.
has over recent years not
hesitated to impose restric-
tions on Canadian products
whenever it was considered
to be in the interest of U.S.
companies.

IMPOSE QUOTAS

Import quotas have been
previously imposed on Cana-
dian zinc, lead, copper, nickel
and many other items, in most
cases creating a crisis in the
~Canadian industries affected.

Although the top item the
U.S. is now seeking to place
a curb on is lumber, it is
known that curbs are also
being considered on other
Canadian products such as
oil.

Canada’s present export of
lumber to the U.S. is about
$250 million, the bulk of it
coming from B.C. :

Involved in this issue is
the whole broader question
of U.S.-Canadian trade. Faced

with growing economic dif-
ficulties the U.S. monopolies
are now trying to do what
Canadian Communists have
always warned they will do:
cut, out purchases from Ca-
nada while pressing to sell
more to Canada.

The Canadian government’s
policy of selling raw ma-
terials to the U.S. and buy-
ing manufactured goods in.
return has led to a large dis-
proportion in trade. In dollar
value, the U.S. each year sells
much more to Canada than
they buy from us.

In 1961 the imbalance was
more than $750 million. In
the last eight years the im-
balance has’ amounted to
$6,388 million. Here is one
of the basic reasons for the
present ‘‘austerity”’ crisis.

If U.S. plans to impose
further restriction on pur-

chases from Canada material: -

izes the imbalance will be
even greater, and Canada’s
crisis will deepen. Mass un-
employment will become
more widespread. Many lum-
ber towns in B.C. will be-
come ghost towns just as

DR. E. W. R. STEACIE, one
of the world’s outstanding,
scientists and president of
the National Research Coun-
cil, died this week of cancer.
A strong advocate of co-op-
eration between world scien-
tists, he was an honorary
member of scientific academ-
ies in both the United States
and Soviet Union.

in Canada’s trade policy:

many B.C. mining town
emptied by U.S. tariffs.
The main villain in the
sent crisis is the Tory-L®
trade policy pursued
the end of the war
which Canadian tra
placed almost completes
the mercy of the U.S:
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