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GM< strike ends

After 148 days on the picket line, striking General Motors

employees, members of the United Auto Workers, have won a 25-
ent package deal, including fringe benefits. The strike was
marked by the solidarity of the workers themselves and the sup-
Pert they received from organized labor across the country. (For

Story, turn to back page).

Martin pledges full cooperation

B.C. will aid in

VICTORIA, B.C.

“The government of B.C. has
taken an active part in all de-
liberations on the subject of a
Canada-wide health program
@nd has given all possible as-
Sistance to other provinces and
‘o the federal government,”
falth Minister Eric Martin

‘old the House last week, in
Presenting a detailed report on
developments in his depart-
Ments,

“While still pressing for a
complete health coverage pro-
Stam we have agreed to limita-

tion of the initial stages to hos-
pital coverage and laboratory
and X-ray diagnostic services,
realizing that insistence upon a
wider scale of services at this
time might indefinitely delay
the entire program,” said Mar-
tin.

If the national health program
proceeds, B.C. will receive about
45 percent of hospital costs to

begin with, and this figure will
rise to 50 percent later on, he

explained.
Terming the Salk vaccine pro-
gram started by the government

ON CANADIAN SOIL

.§. commander
for Canadians

Vancouver, British Columbia, February 17, 1956

mander who was a lieutenant-colonel.

OTTAWA

A US. colonel from Alabama has been put in command of the Canadian Army
air warfare branch in the Canadian Arctic. Col. Woodrow Purcell of Birmingham was

installed here last week in defense headquarters. | He outranks the Canadian com-

This announcement was made on February 10. Three days later, the federal

Did Socreds

make deal?

By NIGEL MORGAN
Charges that “‘the Social Credit party has sold its soul
on the power issue for Campaign funds’’ were voiced in the
legislature last week. In declaring his conviction that the
Social-Credit government and the B.C. Electric had “‘made
a deal,’ Tony Gargrave (CCF, Mackenzie) expressed the

government disclosed that the
United States has been given
permission to build and man

exclusively another radar line
in Southern Canada. This will
bring additional hundreds‘ of
U.S. military personnel into
Canada.

At present, about 15,000 Am-
erican troops are stationed at
three bases in Newfoundland
and Labrador. The overall total
including other bases in Can-
ada is a closely-guarded secret,
but is estimated to run as high
as 3,000.

The U.S. will operate the
DEW line now being construct-
ed along the Canadian Arctic
circle. Other U.S. troops share:
operation of the Pinetree line
in Southern Canada.

Another radar line, known as
the Mid-Canada (or McGill
fence) is being built by Canada
and wilk be operated by ‘the
RCAF. In addition, Americans
are at Churchill, in Alberta,
British Columbia and the Arctic.

The new U.S. line announced
last week will add stations and
men in the Maritimes, Ontario
and British Columbia.

(In November 1953, the Paci-
fic Tribune revealed the exist-
ence of a “North American
NATO” pact between Ottawa
and Washington which came in-
to being following a visit to

Washington in May 1953 by .

Prime Minister St. Laurent.)

views of a substantial body of
opinion in the province. What
he said in the legislature, is
what the man-in-the-street be-
lieves, particularly in Powell
River, the Fraser Valley, on the
Island and in Vancouver, where
the effects of the government’s
preferential treatment for the
B.C. Electric have been most
apparent.

Indicative of the fact that
Gargrave hit the Bennett gov-
ernment where it is vulnerable
was the heated denial the ac-
cusation drew from Premier
Bennett and BEC president Dal
Grauer. But, for all the vin-
dictiveness and name-calling
which Grauer employed to skirt
around the charge of buying off

Continued on page 7
See POWER DEAL

health scheme

last year “the turning point in
the battle against polio,” Martin
_ proudly announced that not one
ease of polio had occurred among

the 45,067 children who had re-
ceived two or three injections.
Among 12,488 children of the
same age groups who did not
receive any Salk vaccine there
were 10 cases of polio.
“Therefore,” he said, “it can
be concluded that the use of
vaccine prevented 36 cases of
paralytic poliomyelitis which
otherwise would probably have
occurred among five, six and
seven-year-old children.”

He warned, however, that de-
spite the 100 percent record of
success in B.C. to date, Dr.
Salk’s report indicated the ef-
fectiveness of the vaccine rang-
ed from 80 percent. (The Can-
adian record shows 85 percent
effectiveness last year).

During 1956 the Salk vaccine
program will be expanded.
Enough vaccine will be avail-
able to do all the school children
in the province up to and in-
cluding Grade 9. The program
will begin in April and should
be completed by the end of
June.

“TONY GARGRAVE, MLA

He suspected a deal

A. E. GRAUER
His denial was ambiguous

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