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COLUMBIA SCANDAL

(The following is an ex-
Tact from the speech of

Gurice Rush, vice-chair-
man of the b.C. Commu-
nist Party to last weekend

convention of Greater Van-
Couver clubs).

The Social Credit government
oe ona time bomb! That
. Ree is its power policy,
eh : cently has the govern-

een compelled to lift the
: he public the first
epee of what the sellout of the

la River to the United

ates Means fi oa
Umbia, eS COL

is
tin

When the Columbia treaty was
ned the Communist Party

warned that this was one of the
blackest days in our history.. We
warned of the consequences of a
treaty which gave control of one of
our mightiest rivers to a foreign
country. Now the chickens are
coming home to roost,

The figures released during the
present session ofthe legislature
show that not only have we given
away the river to the U.S. but that
the people of this province are
saddled with a huge bill to pay
for dams to store water for
power development in the United
States, These figures give only
a bit of the picture, the govern-
ment dare not reveal the full cost
of this colossal betrayal for pres-
ent and future generations,

UJPO panel talks
Spark wide interest

AS part 0
Activities t
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f its Centennial Year
Sy he Vancouver section
= nited Jewish Peoples
: (UJPO) is Staging aseries
‘nel lectures at which promi-

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nent Vancouver citizens are tne
featured speakers. Two of these
panel lectures have already been
held with signal success,

At its Feb, 12 panel discussion
on the theme ‘Neo-Nazism
Today’, UJPO chairman Harold
Berson was authorized to forward
the following resolution to Prime
Minister Pearson and the West
German Federal Republic gov-
ernment,

“That the Canadian govern-
ment use its good offices to pre-
sent before the United Nations,
which is in line with the UN ori-
ginal Charter of 1945, that the
NPD Party of the German Fed-
eral Republic, because of its
Neo-Nazi character and poli-
cies, should be outlawed”,

Other panel lectures under
UJPO auspices are scheduled for
March 5th and 19th at 6184
Ash St., Vancouver,

: Reeently returned
ehalf of Canadia

* Program

Celebrate

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Sunday. March 5th - 1:30 rom.

Peretz School -

* Guest Speaker—MRS. HILARY BROWN

from vizit to Britoin & National Tour of Canada—on
n Aid to Vietnam Civilian Committee).

* Tea Will Be Served - 7.5

Proceeds to: Canadian Aid to Vietnam Civilians.

Ausp.. B.C. Women's C'ttee for World Friendship.

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Contact:

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2643 E. Host
43 £. Hastings St., Vancouver 6, B.C.

253-1221

‘Socreds on time bomb’

When the treaty was signed the
B.C, government: undertook to
build three large storage dams
on the Columbia by 1973, The
largest of these was to be Mica
Dam, In return for this B.C,
was to receive $501 million in
cash payments and interest.

This was the price the U.S.
paid to buy the Columbia River,
Now it has been revealed for the
first time that construction cost
to B.C. will total $575 million
by. 1971.

With two years of the costliest
construction still to go on the
biggest dam ofall, Mica, B.C, has
already paid $75 million more
than the total receipts from the
sale of the river to the U.S,
Some experts say that the bill to
the taxpayers of B,C, may run
as high as $200 million, All
this is to build storage dams for
the U.S, — not power dams in
BeCs

To this amount must be added
a possible further cost of $20
million for land clearance and
expropriation of land and other
costs in B.C, connected with
building the Libby dam in the
U.S., which the treaty allowed
the U.S, to build and to back off
water into B.C., flooding millions
of acres of land.

Now Conservation Minister
Ken Kiernan has admitted in the
House that funds needed for
schools, higher education,
homes, welfare, hospitals and
other social needs are being used
to finance the government's

power program, “Because money

was hard to get, it wasnecessary
to select priorities, . .and the
power projects had to come
first,” he said,

This betrayal of the people of
B.C, points up once egain the
need to create in this province,
a strong labor and democratic
alternative to the Socred ad-
ministration, Our Party isdedi-
cated to work towards building
such people’s unity as will sweep
the Socred gang out of office in
the near future.

| Pentagon vs Barbara

Then there was the flash-silver and
gold,

Silver and gold.

Silver birds flying.

The rice ponds blased with new
water.

The jungle burst into gold and sent
up little birds of fire.

Little animals with fur aflame.

Then the children flamed.

Running—therr clothes flying like
fiery kites.

Screaming—their screams

Dying as their faces seared

The women’s baskets burned on
their hands.

The men’s boats blazed on the rice
waters.

Then the rains came.

A rag, fire black, fluttered.

A curl of smoke rose from a rice
stem.

The forest icy singed and seared.
A hut crumbled.
And all was still.

ee |

Listen, Americans,

Listen clear and iong.

The children are screaming
In the jungles of Haiphong.

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BARBARA BEIDLER

The above poem by a 12-year-oid American school girl, barbara beid-
ler, was published by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, Phila-
delphia, in its Sunday School magazine Venture.’

The Penatgon military nerve-centre of U.S. imperialism in Vietnam,
and elsewhere, promptly cancelled all of its 13,000 subscriptions to Ven
tura by way of protest. meantime resuming and ‘escaiating its murderous

naplam and other bombing of Vietnam.

The Fenatgon, has since beat a retreat.

‘BOBBY’ PHILLIPS

Mrs, Eleanor ‘Bobby’ Phillips
of 1975 Lyndhurst St,, Burnaby
passed away on Saturday, Feb-
ruary 18 in her 78rd year.

For a number of years Mrs,
Phillips had been incapacitated
by severe physical handicaps,
but never ceased in her tireless
activity and devotion in the in-
terests of working-class pro-
gress and peace, Few events or
gatherings of working people ever
took place that ‘Bobby’ Phillips
didn’t attend, even when it caused
her a good deal of pain and suffer-
ing to do so,

Right down to the end Mrs,
Phillips was a tireless supporter
and advocate for the ‘Pacific
Tribune.’ To her the paper was
a people’s guide toa better world,

Mrs, Phillips is survived by
her husband, Bert Phillips, two

sons, five daughters and 22
grandchildren, Funeral services
will be held at the Bell Funeral
Home, 2746 East Hastings on
February 22nd at 3 p.m,

Workers

Benevolent Assn.
Of Canada

Progressive Fraternal Society
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