es - Photo shows women of South Africa taking part in the - Movement. to. boycott goods. produced .by companies), - Supporting colonial policies.” They hold their thumbs up UFAWU delegates to ‘visit Soviet Union B.C. fishermen will send six delegates to the Soviet Union in June. This was decided at last week’s convention This action was in response to an invitation from the Soviet Food Workers Union and follows the visit to Van- couver last November of a Soviet Food Workers. Union delegation. The six delegates named by the convention are: Homer Stevens, secretary - treasurer, Jack Cook, shoreworker and first vice - president, Wally Paulik, seiner and executive board member, Verna Parkin, shoreworker and president of - of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers, meeting in : Vancouver. the Women’s Auxiliary, Carl Liden, organizer and councillor in Delta municipality, and Ed Regnery, gillnetter from Queen Charlotte Islands. Two thousand dollars was voted towards cost of the dele- gation which -is estimated to be $3,600. Another $500 was con- tributed by delegates and the balance will be raised by con- tributions from the member- ship. (For a fuller report of the UFAWU convention see Page 8). Social Credit MLA’s defeat peace resolution in house Using the pretext that the Legislature should not take a stand on any issue relating to peace while the falks were going on in Geneva, the Social Credit government, last Friday, defeated the peace resolution placed before the House by Cranbrook MLA Leo Nimsick. Although the government Seemed obviously embarrass- ed by the peace resolution, At- torney General. Robert Bon- ner told the House that, while Canada was participating in international peace negotia- tions the Legislature could not support such a definite resolu tion which called on Canada. to renounce the use of nuclear weapons and support cessation of tests. : oe No mention. was made by Bonner that External Affairs Minister Howard Green has already declared that Canada’s stand is that “we are opposed to all nuclear tests, period.” It is clear that the Social Credit government is not pre- pared to go as far as the Fed- eral government on the peace issue, weak as it is. House failed to act on hig issues says Morgan “This session will be remembered by history more for what it failed to do than “True, the session passed the $1.84-per-month increase in the hameowner. grant — brazenly admitted, by Premier Bennett, to be. his number one political Ture for the forthcoming ‘pro- |‘vincial’ election—and. which is ‘going to be taken away in-the}: larger cities through tax in- creases because, municipal grants were not raised,” he}. said, “It increased welfare al- lowan¢ces somewhat, although. the inerease fell , one-third| short of © what ‘Community Chest and the government's]. own social workers declare is absolutely - essential to main- “tain even a bare subsistence level. “A number of routine legis- lative measures were enacted and a record high $331 million budget was adopted,” Morgan continued... “But compare that with the long list of vitally im- portant issues that were left unanswered and, unresolved — highly controversial questions of government power policy; the problems of unemploy- ment, farm markets and trade; the urgently needed increases in municipal aid and school provisions; and a_ decisive question, which determines what we can actually do about all these—the question of new national policies for world dis- armament and peace that will make it possible to divert wasted expenditures on arms to people’s need and tax relief, “It is a shocking indictment of this legislature that the Nimsick resolution which urg- ed the. B.C. government to speak out on this question was voted down by the Social Credit Party. “In spite of eight weeks of debate around B.C.’s contro- versial power policies, our elected representatives in par- (|what it achieved,” Nigel. Morgan declared in the last of a series of weekly Communist Party commentaries on the legislature last Saturday. NIGEL MORGAN liament were neither informed nor consulted on the govern- ment’s policies or how the problems are to be resolved. Socred spokesmen showed an attitude of defiance and con- tempt. Mainwaring’s report on Peace River development was not filed with the legislature in spite of a last ditch stand in the final hours Friday. ; “The Socreds_haven’t budg- ‘ed an inch on their resources policy; of give-aways, big busi- ness and particularly B.C. Electric favoritism, and of taking $119 million in sales “Vand amusement taxes out of ine our pockets while only taking | $74 million from all. royalties, “+licences, crown grants ahd _| other resources income,” Mor- _l-gan- charged. ae? “Amendment of Bill 43, the ‘Workmén’s Compensation Act and other necessary labor and b, social legislation were reject- ed, to which it must be noted the failure of the labor move- ment to get into action was a contributing factor. Only united action around the im- mediate needs of the labor and farm movements is going to get action, or lay the basis for the genuine all-in unity that is going to make it possible to get a government more re- sponsive to the people’s needs. “That’s what is needed most of all,” Morgan concluded. Members of the Saskatche- wan legislature last week heard a suggestion that “the farmers, workers and business men, the various peoples or- ganizations, the intellectuals and cultural workers’ of the province be invited to come together to discuss how pres- ent war spending could be di- verted to the purposes of peace. The idea was advanced in a brief submitted by a delega- tion of 35 on behalf of the Saskatchewan Peace Council. Saskatchewan delegates present brief to govt Film Festival April 1 Films from the Secandinav- ian countries will be shown at a Spring Festival. sponsored by the Scandinavian Central Committee, Friday, April 1, in the Hastings Auditorium, 828 East Hastings. The films will be shown from 8 to 9:30 p.m. A dance will follow the film showing. All proceeds are for the welfare funds of the organizations in the Central Committee. :