10 le Vout 4 Ste Of the pi Main ig S pickets at Zeller’s store in North Surrey. B.C. j =. in the strike is union recognition. The pickets are d to be in high spirits and confident of victory. Ficketing at Zeller’s |or right to organize By OBSERVER Melhep., . - : VQ. Betail Drug and Food Perk: : ‘the, Union (Local 1518) is strj lig. tke at Zellers (Western) Cents, nN the Dell Shopping an ®, North Surrey, B.C. ling -utrances to the Shop- Centre are being pick- te a and district workers hikers oe and wishing the tonin S the best of luck and Sty; Ree have a successful Mion M which they can win The Security on the job. “Seba lines have not ee and the strikers iti, 2 in their determin- ti, ~~ Sain union recogni- is nd hundreds of North .. court injunction the Picketing in front of aN has not taken any hs Of these brave wom- ty they are determined Car : bh, | this struggle through Victory. Zellers intimidated the em-. ployees after their certifica- tion and the union had to go to court and obtain an in- junction against the com- pany to prevent anything fur- ther along these lines. Women from other stores and operations in Surrey are joining the picket line, thus adding their strength to the struggle. All pickets are in top spir- its and are preparing to dis- tribute thousands of copies of a leaflet outlining the just demands of the union and the history of the strike up until now. Each and every worker in Surrey and_ district should support this strike, as this is merely the latest example of huge chain operations like Hudson’s, Bay, Woolworth’s, Zeller’s, etc., trying to ride roughshod over their em- ployees and prevent organiz- ation. nid. from Pg. 1) Ag TO WARNING Cae that aoe statement warns © cynical, unscrupu- ui is qd Shameless invention “nis , \Rcident, which pre- ‘tp at Uban ships as_ shoot- Meat; Yankee airplane in Meg 1OMal waters, coin- Spa tth the belligerent Mig,e0 and the hysterical n sm which has ws, as loose during these oe d confirm the just- Uba is he warning which ‘ the “@king to the world Yoly, dangers which are Yon for our country and ‘ Brace.” tt the Statement concludes, NS oe forces of the Ve 4, tack Cuba they will A pee disposed to die Aion Cattle.” cure With the growing ya a Cuba this week 4 the ;, ©PPed-up campaign pp l0in ‘S. to force Canada ‘om vith the U.S. in its r is “Public, bse Senator Wayne 0 recently attack- a . batt U.s for not acceding “ay - “request” to vol- Testrict lumber ex- 10n against the Is- _ - agriculture Us: threat to Cuba ports to the US., returned to ‘the attack again this week. He condemned Canada for not joining more enthusiasti- cally in the U.S. anti-Cuban campaign. SOVIET AID Meanwhile, reacting to the growing danger to their in- dependence, a Cuban delega- tion in Moscow, headed by Dr. Ernesto Guevara, signed - an agreement with the Soviet under which the Soviets have agreed to supply arms to Cuba. An _ official communique quoted by Tass news agency said Cuba had asked the Soviet Union to deliver arms: and send experts to train Cuban servicemen in the light of threats to Cuba from aggressive quarters. The Soviet Union has also agreed to help Cuba in build- ing an iron and steel plant and to expand three iron and steel plants already in opera- tion. The two countries will also exchange experience in and the Soviet specialists will be sent to Cuba to work in irrgiation, land reclamation and hy- draulic engineering. Power-hungry U.S. plans huge oral of B.C.-Yukon rivers By MAURICE RUSH Warnings by the Pacific Tribune that long range plans were underway to build a huge power net- work from Alaska through B.C. into the US. largely to serve’ U.S. industry, were confirmed this week in a study by a USS. Sen- ate Committee released in Washington. The study shows that U.S., Canadian and B.C. authori- ties are relying on adoption of the present Columbia Riv- er Treaty as the key to open- ing up the larger scheme to harness the major rivers of Northern B.C. and the Yukon to the U.S. power grid. A warning that the Col- umbia River Treaty would set a precedent for all future developments of interna- tional rivers came last week from Gen. A. G. L. McNaugh- ton when he said in a letter that “The pattern and pre- cedent is set in the present Columbia Treaty for a simi- lar debacle on all our great rivers crossing the Pan- handle and including the Yukon.” The U.S. study proposes that the huge Rampart pow- er dam be built near Fair- banks, Alaska, on the Yukon River. It estimates that the dam will hold back a lake larger than Erie and gener- ate 3,730,000 killowats. Building of the Rampart dam will require a similar treaty to the present Col- umbia River Treaty. That is, Canada will have to grant the U.S. the right to use the waters of the Yukon which rise in Canada, for power generation in Alaska. The report is very careful not to state openly its aims for the Yukon for fear that it may do harm to the pres- ent negotiations on the Col- umbia. But it leaves no doubt that the future of the whole scheme to divert Canada’s major northern rivers to Alaska depend on the out- come of the Columbia Treaty. Algiers trouble despite truce A reported truce in the tense Algerian situation has failed to stop fighting in the newly-independent nation. As the PT went to press, late reports indicated that despite a truce concluded by Vice-Premier Ahmed Ben Bella and guerilla leaders of the Algiers district, the fight- ing which had started earlier still had not been halted. Hospital authorities at Orleansville, 140 miles west of Algiers, said a battle in- volving artillery was in pro- gress throughout the morn- ing at Massena, a small town a few miles to the southwest. The truce had provided for the demilitarization of Al- giers and the recognition of Ben Bella’s political bureau, pending the holding of elec- tions to a constituent assem- bly. The elections had been postponed because of the civil war threat. DAM SITE phy aN, ce a $ The report states: ‘‘whe- ther such interconnections will prove feasible . .. will depend not only upon what happens with respect to the authorization and construc-: tion of Rampart ‘but also upon the related develop- ment in Canada’ — meaning the Columbia River Treaty. U.S. PAYS Just what the U.S. power interests have in mind was voiced recently by Interior Secretary Udall, who is press- ing the study of the whole question of a huge north- south grid which will squeeze B.C. in the middle. He said: “It is conceivable that with the magic of dir- ect current and extra-high voltage, international and: inter-regional lines could pool the generating capabili- ties of Alaska and Canada with the Columbia, the Mis- souri and the Colorado River basins and the Pacific south- west.” The Rampart study indi- . cates that the U.S. will prob-~ ably need about one billion killowats of new generating capacity by 1990. It points to B.C. as being “richly en- dowed” with large river sys- tems and places B.C.’s power resources at 37 million killo- wats, which, says the US. Senate Committe report, “would offer the possibility of a substantial power sup- ply either for export to the U.S. northwest or for pro- duction of aluminum in Can- ada to serve the western U.S. states markets.” CANADA LOSER Here, in a nutshell, is the whole scheme of the USS. monopolies and their gov- ernment: to use to the full the vast resources of B.C. to serve the industries of the U.S. and enrich the US. trusts. Obviously the big loser in this deal would be Canada and its people. Such a north- south development of B.C.’s hydro resources would hit on the head any realistic plan for an east-west grid to serve Canada. It would further place in economic bondage the people of B.C., and future genera- tions to the U.S. trusts. It will ensure that we will continue to be ‘“‘storers of water” for vast U.S. hydro projects, and accompanying industrial growth. The key to defeating this “master plan” of U.S., Cana- dian and B.C. big business and their governments, is to win the fight to scrap the present Columbia River Treaty and replace it by an all-Canadian plan for using the Columbia River to serve Canada. a ay ficaneenten OSE "| ORBITAL FLIGHTS COMPARED. les Map above compares the records of manned orbital flights of the Soviet and U.S. cosmonauts. The success of these flights indicates that two problems in manned space efforts have been solved—the launching of a space ship into orbit and its re- entry through the earth’s atmosphere for a landing. The recent Soviet flighis also proved man can stand up physically to prolonged space flights, bayer September 7, 1962—-PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 = AGRE ‘ '