Two thousand anti-Polaris demonstrators, rep-
resenting organizations from all over Britain, de-
monstrating in Glasgow and Holy Loch last
weekend against the U.S. Polaris subs stationed

‘Polaris out’ say Glasgow

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there. The peace ship Waverley, with 1,350

marchers

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aboard sailed up the Loch with peace slogans
protesting the U.S. base. Picture shows some of
the youth representatives taking part in the pro-

Davis’ call to scrap
crown corp. condemned

“The anti-Canadian and ; pro-

U.S. monopoly position of Coast .

Capilano M.P., Dr. Jack Davis,
was revealed in his speech in the
House last week,’’ said Charles
Caron, Communist Party spokes-
man for North Vancouver.

Davis proposed that Canada
sell its crown corporations to
private interests. In that category
are the CNR, CBC, TCA, St.
Lawrence Seaway, Polymer, El-
dorado Mining and Refining, etc.

“Davis tells us that these Cana-
dian crown corporations represent
the creation of a socialistic state
north of the 49th parallel. What
utter nonsense!

“Davis’ concern is to facilitate
another grab of Canada by his
U.S. pirate friends. U.S. mono-
polies have gained control over
the private sector of the Canadian
economy, and now they want the
public sector.

“The North Vancouver M.P.
was present as adviser at the
Hyannis Port conference between
President Kennedy and Prime
Minister Pearson,’’ said Caron.
“The results and implications of
that conference are very clear.
Although Lester Pearson did not
receive a mandate for nuclear
weapons in the last federal elec-

tion, be committed Canada to
their acquisition.

“A deal was also worked
through on the Columbia River
development — the Columbia
Treaty giveaway should remain as
is, the only change being a proto-
col dealing with secondary mat-
ters such as the price of down-
stream benefits,’’ Caron said.

“Davis is reportedly being con-
sidered for a Cabinet post to in-
clude the national energy board,
the atomic energy control board,
Dominion coal board and several
other bodies in the field of atomic,
hydro, oil and energy resources.
If this appointment is made, God
and the people deliver us from
Mr. Davis before he delivers us
wholly to the U.S. trusts,’’ con-
cluded Caron.

Big business groups and reac-
tionary newspapers across Can-
ada have hailed Davis’ attack on
the crown corporations, and in-
dications are that it signals a
new campaign by the big busi-
ness community of Canadian and

U.S. financiers to scuttle the
crown companies.
Involved altogether are 39

crown companies with combined
assets of $8 billion—a rich plum
indeed for private capitalists.

COLUMBIA

Cont'd from pg. 1

treaty came this week in Parlia-
ment when H. W. Herridge, (NDP-
Kootenay West), said in throne
speech address that the Canad-
ian government should inform the
U.S. and B.C. that the Columbia
treaty is not satisfactory. ;

Herridge urged that Gen. Mc-
Naughton be retained as chief
advisor to head a Canadian team
to negotiate a new treaty.

The Columbia River Committee
backs Hervidge’s call and asks
that along with McNaughton ade-
‘quate provision be made for repre-
sentation on the negotiating team
of public representatives from all
walks of life.

HOLD CONFERENCE

In addition to its posteard cam-
paign the Committee announced
a. financial campaign to ensure
adequate representations are
made to Parliament.

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John Hayward, past chairman
of the Natural Resources Com-
mittee of the Vancouver Labor
Council has agreed to represent
the Committee in leading a dele-
gation to Ottawa.

The Committee also announced
that it will hold a public confer-
ence of all interested organiza-
tions and individuals on Thursday,
June 13, 8 p.m., Salon M, Hotel
Vancouver, to spark the campaign
and strongly urges all organiza-
tions to attend.

The Committee’s postcard urges
“Full parliamentary hearings
before renegotiation with the
U.S.; appointment of A.G.L. Mc-
Naughton as Canada’s chief ne-
gotiator; no weakening of Canad-
ian control of our own river now
guaranteed under the Internation-
al Boundary Waters Act; no High
Arrow and no Libby Dam, as
these involve loss of Canadian
control and reduce us to storers
of water.”

B.C. labor scene

Three 8.C. unions appear to
be on the verge of resorting
to strike actions to win their
demands.

The province’s 2400 Long-
shoremen are awaiting the re-
port of a federal conciliation
board before deciding on their
future course of action.

More than 800 members of
the Milk Sales Drivers and
Dairy Employees union
(Teamsters) were conducting
a strike vote to back demands
for a  25-cent-an-hour wage
boost as the PT went to press.

The 600-member Local 9-601
of the Oil, Chemical & Atomic
Workers union voted 55 percent
to reject a conciliation officer’s
award also rejected by the four
major oil companies involved.

The union has applied to the
provincial Dept. of Labour to
hold a government-supervised
strike vote.

DR. GREGORY LAMBRAKIS,
46-year-old Greek Opposition M.P.

. was viciously attacked by right

wing terrorists last Wednesday
after a peace meeting in Salonika,
Four world-famed brain special-
ists have been flown to Greece to
try to save his life. The attack
on Lambraki and another M.P.
has aroused anger in Greece and
the Premier has banned all de-
monstrations.

(Dr. Lambrakis died as a result
of injuries received).

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LARGE STOCKS ADMITTED
Sugar profiteering
hit by consumers

Retail prices for sugar rose
again Monday in one Vancouver
chain store by sixteen cents for
10 pounds, while protests against
the unprecedented rise in sugar
prices continues to grow.

Tuesday a delegation of thir-
teen consumers interviewed Mr.
H. Johnston, sales manager for
the B.C. Sugar Refinery, and
heard delegation member Mrs.
Judy Powers charge that “there
is no doubt a killing is being
made on the sugar market by
speculators at the expense of the
consuming public.”

Mrs. Powers, wife of a member
of the Marine and Boilermaker’s
Union, is in touch with many
trade union women’s auxiliaries

(and other groups who are de-

manding that a stop be put to
further price increase, and that
there be a substantial roll back

of prices before the canning
season opens.
A meeting of consumers is

planned for the coming week
where a campaign to roll back’
prices will be discussed. One
suggestion being considered is
the launching of public petition
to demand a roll back of sugar
prices.

In Manitoba last week the
newly formed Committee for Fair
Prices decided to call a sugar
boycott for two weeks effective
immediately. The committee has
asked for a meeting with Premier
Roblin to press for an investiga-
tion of sugar prices.

Last Friday the U.S. agricul-
ture department said, “‘the specu-
lative bubble in sugar‘ will burst
under the weight of plentiful
supplies.

A statement by the U.S. agri-
culture under-secretary C. Mur-
phy admitted profiteering and
speculation in sugar prices by
saying that ‘speculators may be
able to keep the bubble going for
a while.”

Confirming charges made by
this paper and consumer groups,
that the sugar ‘‘shortage” is
artificially created by speculators
Murphy said, “sugar on hand or
committed to the U.S. for 1963
totals 500,009 tons more than last
year’s entire national consump-
tion.”’

Meanwhile, in Ottawa this week

former prime minister and now
leader of the opposition, John
Diefenbaker, said that at March
31 there were 470 million pounds
of sugar in storage in Canada and
suggested that recent ‘‘tremen-
dous”’ sugar price increases cal]
for more than a ‘general re-
view.”’

He charged that Canadian sugar
refineries have been unfair to
consumers.

In. British Columbia the B.C.
Sugar Refinery has an exclusive
monopoly. Recently the company
was investigated under the Com-
bines Act.

NATO

Cont’d from pg. 1
mitment made by the Pear-
son government will be form-
alized within the next few
weeks when an agreement is
signed with the U.S. for ac-
quisition of nuclear warheads
by Canada.

SPREAD NUCLEAR ARMS

The agreement at the NA-
TO parley to set up an Inter-
Allied nuclear force would
give a number of countries
access to nuclear weapons
and seriously aggravate the
danger of war.

The Soviet Union has re-
peatedly warned that adopt-
ion of such a measure would
lessen the _ possibilities of
reaching agreement on
disarmament and speed the
arms race.

This week the Soviet paper
‘Red Star,’ condemned the
NATO decision and charged
it was a step toward arming
West Germany with nuclear
weapons and their means of
delivery.

The Soviet news agency
Tass quotes Lieut. Col. A.
Markov as saying in the “Red
Star” article that, ‘The Otta-
wa meeting has shown how
far Bonn’s allies are prepared
to go to satisfy the nuclear
claims of the West Germans.”

CANADIAN NICKEL

Canada produces more than’
three-quarters of the world’s
nickel but exports more than 95
per cent of her output.

‘House A-arms vote
defeat for Pearson’

Immediately following the vote
in Parliament Tuesday, May 21,
on the nuclear arms issue, the
national executive of the Com-
munist Party issued a statement
headed: ‘‘Pearson was morally
and politically defeated on nu-
clear arms issue.”

Full statement follows:

By a vote of 124 to 113 the
Pearson government narrowly
escaped defeat in the House of
Commons on its pro-nuclear arms
policy.

‘The NDP motion against 1:.-
clear arms spoke for Canada and
for peace.

Six votes the other way would
have defeated the government,
right on the eve of the NATO
Council meeting which is intend-
ed to extend nuclear arms and
to put them in the hands of the
Nazi generals of West Germany.

If all M.P.’s had been present
the government might have
fallen.

The vote was a moral and
political defeat for Pearson. It
bears out the opinion that the

Pearson government was given
no mandate to impose nuclear
arms on Canada—neither in the
popular vote of April 8 nor in
Parliament. The struggle to pre-
vent the Kennedy-Pearson axis
from imposing nuclear arms on
our country is not yet over.
Pearson can still be defeated.

The NDP, Conservative and
Social Credit M.P.’s who voted
for Mr. Douglas’ sub-amendment
should not let the matter rest.
They should use every oppor-
tunity to defeat this pro-nuclear,
pro-American government.

The vote shows that the Pear-
son government, is duty-bound to
stop its commitment to Kennedy
to impose nuclear arms on an
unwilling Canada.

Flood the Pearson government
with wires demanding that it puts
an end to its pro-nuclear-arms
madness.

Wire your M.P. urging that he
takes his stand against tying our
country to the American plan to
extend nuclear weapons and so
hasten the advent of nuclear war.

hay 31, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3