Children of working class families will be the first to be excluded from UBC by any increase in fees dictated by in- adequate government grants. Buttonhole your MLA, UBC students urged In a circular sent recently to UBC students and others, the Alma Mater Society stresses the need of greater government financial support to UBC. Larger building facilities and teach- ing staffs must be assured to co it says. The circular makes clear that the “only alternatives” are lower teaching standards, restricted enrolment and heavy increases in student fees, com- menting that “academic ability will no longer be the prime consideration for entrance. In its stead the ability " to pay higher fees will de- university . pe with expanding enrolment, termine whether or not a stu- dent is entitled to higher edu- cation.” The Alma Mater urges that all concerned with this ques- tion to take the matter up with their MLAs, pressing for greater government education- al grants — and no student fee increases! GERMAN. PEACE TREATY USSR proposes big peace step — MOSCOW — The Soviet government this week told all the nations that took pae Germany that conclusion of a German Peace Treaty would be a mary contribution to European security, world peace, and German reunification. = The proposal was made in notes addressed to all these nations and also to the Gers man Federal Republic and German aa in the war against The conference would be held within two months, either in Prague or Warsaw. The notes to Britain, the United States and France re- affirmed the Soviet Union’s desire to settle the Berlin question by negotiation and its determination to hand over to the German Democratic Re- public its functions in the city. The three countries were also told that if they wish the: ‘Soviet Union is prepared to hold preliminary talks with them, provided representatives from East and West Germany take part. . Under terms of the draft peace treaty accompanying the notes, Germany, while having land, sea and air forces nec- essary for her own defense, would renounce nuclear wea- pons, rockets, bombing air- craft and submarines, Federal Germany would leave NATO and the German Demo- cratic Republic would leave the Warsaw~Pact, and under- take to join no alliance di- rected against any signatory of the peace treaty or any al- liance of which Britain, France, the United States and the Sov- iet Union were not all mem- bers. All foreign troops would be withdrawn from German terri- tory within one year of the treaty’s coming into force and all foreign bases dismantled. Germany’s frontiers would be as at present. In accord- ance with the Potsdam Agree_ ment she .would renounce all claims to territory east of the Oder-Neisser line. She would recognize the so-called Sudetenland as part of Czecho- slovakia and Alsace-Lorraine as part of France. Human rights and civil lib- erties would be guaranteed and the revival of nazism in any form, or of organizations Democratic Republic. calling for a revision of Ger- many’s frontiers, banned. So too would organizations engaging in activities hostile to any of the allied powers. The peace treaty would be signed on behalf of Germany by representatives of the Ger- man Federal Republic and the Continued provide for a moratorium on evictions and seizures caused by unemployment. 2. RESOURCES: Fight for de- velopment of a province-wide, publicly owned power system, to have the full facts of the Wenner-Gren deal placed be- fore the legislature for debate and consideration (no secret agreements, no givéaways); and to reopen forest manage- ment licenses granted during Sommers office, as well as the whole policy involved. 3. INCREASE MUNICIPAL GRANTS: Support the de- mands of the Union of B.C. Municipalities to have the costs of social welfare, elementary and secondary education, capi- tal costs of hospital construc- tion and all the costs of the highways forming part of the arterial system within muni- cipalities borne by the provin. cial and federal governments. Press Ottawa to make avail- able one-third of its corpora- tion income tax toward this end. 5 4. LABOR LEGISLATION: Reject all anti-labor provisions, and support demands for im- proved social and labor legis- lation including reduction in Hours of Work laws, improve- ments to the Compensation Act. etc. Democratic Republic, and also by representatives of a confed- eration of the two German states, if one should be formed before the conference. a Berlin would remain a dé@-— militarized free city unl creation of a united Germany. Continued — FARMERS Bay and that the 1943 delega- — tion won a, 20-cent increase IN wheat prices. : The Saskatchewan commit-_ tee of the Labor-Progressive — Party has called on everyone — in the province to get behind the delegation, pointing out” that the cause of high farm costs is profits and inflation. “In 1956 Imperial Oil paid out over $35 million to share- holders alone. Canada Pack- — ergs declared a net profit of over $10,000 a day and CPR $120,000 a day.” : At the same time, the LPP said that high farm surpluses press down prices. “Canada is an exporting na-— tion. But during this past — dozen years Canadian gov- ernments have “foolishly fol-— lowed U.S. foreign policy, cut-— ting Canada off from hun- — dreds of millions of customers in the socialist countries.” The answer to the problem of surpluses lies in peaceful : coexistence, the LPP said. : “Markets for our. goods de> — pend on government policies which extend credits, loans and friendship with other countries, regardless of their — social systems. Our huge war expenditures limit this kind of - development — money spent for war can’t be spent to ex- pand markets for farm goods.” ‘ VICTORIA MUST ACT ! Jobs Program NOW! LPP PUBLIC RALLY Hear Harold Pritchett Mona Morgan Pender Aud., Sun., Jan. 18-2p.m.