SR 8 “OEE al HY Vol. 18 No. 1% Phone MUtual 5-5288 Authorised as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa VANCOUVER, B.C. - FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1959 10 The _ waymen’s Union. j ties Commission’s attitude to union protests against cut- ‘packs in service, Stewart said the PUC “seems to forget it is supposed to be a watchdog protecting the public inter- est.” The new BCE cuts in bus service will be between 6:30 am, and 9 a.m., said Stewart. (Later the BCE confirmed that there will be some “small hanges” made). In reply to a joint protest - against the previous @ervice cut made by Vancouver La- bor Council and the SRU, the PUC wrote that “although the reduction in service has been put into effect, we have not received a single un- solicited complaint from any “user of transit services, and for that matter have not re ceived any petition for which e been solicit- aes hav Rate increases to the B.C. tric were given, the PUC Protesting the Public Utili-_ BCER plans another | service cut May 15 B.C. Electric, which recently cut its evening bus | service in Greater Vancouver, will start cutting its morning - service on May 15, Vancouver Labor Council was told Tuesday » by Charles Stewart, business agent for Local 101, Street Rail- letter continued, “in the ex- pectation that economies would be made.” “Surely there must be an end to these service cuts,” said Stewart. “The PUC shouldn’t live in a vacuum. This council. senior citizens, and other organizations ap- peared at the last transit hearing to protest against fare increases and service cuts. To thousands depending on buses as their only means of trans- portation, additional cuts are a matter of serious inconveni- ence. The PUC informed VLC that its protest had _ been handed over to the B.C. Elec- tric for study, and said the commission would hold either a public or private hearing if the labor council so desired. Vancouver Labor Council is delaying action, pending a reply from the B.C, Electric. AS WAR ROLE: BUY TIME FOR U.S, The Bomarc missile bases to be built near North Bay, Ontario and Mont Laurier, Quebec, have nothing to do with the defense of Canada. Their real role is now publicly admitted. In the first of a series of articles by Val Sears of the “Toronto Telegram,” men in Ottawa and Washington, we are told: “Canada is the killing ground in a nuclear war. . “We are a buffer, a buyer of time for the United States. “Time for the lumbering bombers of the Strategic Air Command to get off the run- ways ... time for an Atlas countdown. “Time to destroy before we are destroyed. “Knock down the bombers and destroy the missiles — as many as possible — before the retaliatory capacity of the United States disappears in a mushroom cloud.” Sears goes on to say that there is no known defense against ballistic missiles, but that the U.S. and Canadian brass still feel that for the time being they must also be prepared for war waged with manned bombers against which the Bomare missile can be used. He adds this grim bit of in- formation: “It is worth noting, how- ever, that hydrogen bombs are triggered by atmospheric pressure and it is futile to shoot down a bomber or mis- sile or even cripple it over a populated area because the bomb will go off on the way down, — “And the present intercep- tion line is over the most heavily populated areas of Canada.” : Sears makes another point that helps to explain the des- perate talk in Washington about “striking first” through “preventive” war: “This year — 1959 — many Europeans believe is the last that the U.S. could risk a war over European real estate without being utterly destroyed.” : . States “based on talks with top ene 1000 STATUTE MILES Arch, Ocea® re =, - UNITED Sues, Purpose of Canada’s Dew Line and Bomare missile bases will be to “buy time” for U.S. bombers to get off the run- ways in the event of war, top military men in Washington admitted this week. More strontium-90 in fresh, clean milk’ The fact.is that fresh, clean milk, which looks and tastes just as it always did, nevertheless contains (wherever you get it these days) an unseen contaminant, a toxic substance known to accumulate in human bone. This is One of the conclu- sions drawn by the Consum- of the United in a carefully docu- mented report dealing with the effects of fallout upon ers Union health. The union has conducted its own survey of contamination of milk by strontium-90 in 48 U.S. cities as well as in Que- (Quebec ranks third highest on the bec and Winnipeg. list). The results of the Consum- showed ers Union survey strontium-90 content of milk to be more than two. units ” greater than in 1957. (A new report on strontium- 90 released in New York this week shows that the concen- tration of the radioactive sub- stance in the bones ef young American children doubled between 1955 and 1957. In high enough concentration it is capable of producing bone cancer or leukemia.) The union report, entitled The Milk We Drink, can be ordered from the Consumers Union, Mount Vernon, New York,.in bulk orders for the following prices: 10 copies, $1.25; 100 copies, $7.50.