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- NOVEMBER 30, 1962
VANCOUVER, B.C.

YOL. 22, NO. 47

\END BY JANUARY 1 URGED

NUCLEAR TEST BAN HOPES
Ni AS TALKS REOPENED

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Behind this latest outburst
is the pressure of the Cana-
+ dian people against the sell-
out, which is being felt by
the Tory government in Ot-
tawa and the Socred adminis-
tration in Victoria.
| It is now becoming obvious
| that the present draft treaty

the country and that the gov-
€mment will face great diffi-
Culties in trying to ram it
through the House.

Last week, for the first

e, came an indication that
the pressure is building up to
Such a point ‘that the Tory
80vernment may not try to
Tatify it in this session.

In reply to a question from’

Otenay East MP James
Yrne on whether the gov-
"fnment intended to act on
the treaty in this session, as
Stated in the Throne Speech,
Noward Green said _ that
would “depend on ssophenas
Rents”.

Draft Columbia Treaty

q The Columbia River sellout treaty ran into deep
} trouble this week as a battle broke out between Ottawa
and Victoria on who said what.

is being. strongly opposed in.

Meanwhile, suppor t tis
growing across the country
for the proposal of Kootenay
West NDP member H. W.
Herridge that the draft treaty
be scrapped and Gen. Mc-
Naughton called in to nego-
tiate a new treaty on the basis

of his plan.

GEN. McNAUGHTON —

NPA council rejects

Plan totax machinery

Vancouver City Council re-
lected a proposal made last
Tuesday to implement a tax
Change which would have
Seen the general purpose mill
Tate applied to machinery
8ssessment.

In turning down the sug-
8estion of the Civic Reform
Association, which, through

Secretary, Mona Morgan,
Presented a brief on the mat-

ter, the council once again
Clearly demonstrated its big

USiness character.

In its brief, the CRA stated
that “such a levy would. be

—Rir ang equitable and not dis-
‘timinatory, as a number of
Wsinesses and organizations
&ve attempted to intimate.”
A CRA buttressed its asser-
N with the following facts:
Th 1948 (when the present
USiness tax was introduced)
i. residential share of the

8X bill was $7 million; the
Bs “usiness share was oe $7
See NPA, pg.

You put your foot in, not your
hand, Harold! Globe _ traveller
Harold Winch let loose another
one of his famous ‘I was there”’
speeches recently. This time in-
stead of the “Communist con-
spiracy” threatening the world,
its the ‘Black man.’ See the

editorial on page 4 for com:
ments on Harold’s hallucinations.

__ New attempts to obtain a nuclear ban treaty are expected at
the 18-Nation Disarmament Conference which opened at
Geneva on Monday after a two-and-a-half month recess.

Hopes of breaking the long

deadlock in disarmament ne-
gotiations have been encour-
aged by recent statements of
Soviet Premier Khrushchev
and the Western leaders.
_ .Last week Khrushchev said
in a public statement that
this is a good moment for
talks on banning tests, and
both President Kennedy and
Prime Minister MacMillan
have said they hope a Cuban
‘settlement will permit pro-
gress on solving problems
connected with the first stage
of disarmament.

This week the U.S. Atomic

‘Energy Commission said the

Soviet Union has carried out
the promise of Premier
Khrushchev that Soviet tests
would be ended by November
20, and that no further tests
have taken place. However,
the U.S. conducted another
one of its underground tests
in Nevada Tuesday.

._ In the renewed discussion
on methods of policing a test
ban treaty, the idea of the

“black boxes” is now certain
to come to the fore.

"BAN FEASIBLE’
—RUSSELL

‘Earl Russell said in a let-
ter published by the New
York Times last Saturday
that the ‘black box” would
show ‘any potential violation
of a very small kind,” adding:
“those larger can be detected
without it.”

He added that ‘‘nothing
stands in the way of an end
to nuclear tests in the atmos-
phere or underground but the
stubborness of governments
whose concern for the wel-
fare of the population of our
planet is clouded by the mad
dictates of power.”

“The pretext for failure to
agree on an end to nuclear
tests has been removed,” said
Russell.

Meanwhile, the internation-
al atmosphere, following the
Cuban crisis and cease fire in
China, is improving. Last
Sunday the leading Soviet

‘newspaper Pravda said that

a breakthrough was in sight
—and possible — to end
strained East-West relations.

Pravda said that the end
of the Cuban crisis could be
“the beginning of the end of
other disputed problems and
this possibility must, not be
lost.”

This week President Ken-
nedy and Soviet Deputy Pre-
mier Anastas Mikoyan are to
meet on the Cuban situation
at the White House. He. is
expected to remain in the
U.S. capitol for two days for
talks which may lead to some
further moves toward elimin-
ating cold war tensions.

The Cuban government is
expected to shortly release a
new declaration following
President Kennedy’s an-
nouncement of the lifting of
the blockade.

During the past few weeks
many countries have urged at
the United Nations that every
effort be made for a “cut-off”
of all nuclear tests by Jan-
uary 1.

STRACHAN SPEECH SHOCKS LABOR

Bonner launches attac

Socred Attorney-General Robert
Bonner this week launched a
vicious attack on the trade unions
of B.C., shortly after holding a
number of meetings with officials
of the Chamber of Commerce
and Board of Frade.

Hoping to divide labor and force
it on to the defensive, Bonner,
who was later echoed by Premier
Bennett charged that ‘‘the trouble
was due to a handful of pork-
chopping labor agitators.”

This attack, which was ex-
pected, came following the united
strength shown by labor, which
ended the strike successfully at
Allied Engineering and at Cole’s
Bakery at Cloverdale.

Labor was not surprised at this
attack from big business and the
Socred government, but many
unionists were shocked and upset
by the unfortunate statements of
NDP provincial leader Robert
Strachan.

Speaking to the Duncan Cham-
‘ber of Commerce (a fact which
is not lost on many workers who
wonder why he didn’t choose to
make an important statement on

labor policy before a labor gath-

ering) Strachan struck the same
note as Bonner and. Bennett.

He sharply attacked the leaders
of B.C.’s unions who, he said,
had made “inflammatory state-
ments.”’ He implied that labor
was responsible for the violence
at Allied Engineering when he
said ‘“‘schemers of the far left
moved in (to) promote discord
and violence.”

Here are some of the ‘‘schem-

. to promote force and
See which the PT reporter
saw on the picket line at Allied
Engineering:

Bob Smeal, past pres. of the
B.C. Federation, of Labor;:«-Russ
St lot. press? BG ids -- Pat
O'Neal, sec., B.C.F.L.; Paddy
Neale, sec., Van Labor Council;
Pen Baskin, Inter., Rep. of the
Steel Workers; Russ Haynes,

On unions

Vice- pres., B.C.F.L.; Ed Simms,
pres., V.L.C. and _ vice-pres.,
Canadian Labor Congress;
George Johnson, Amalg. Meat
Cutters; Mel Kemmis, Int. Rep.,
Bakery and Confectionary Work-
ers; Bill Black, vice-pres., Cana-
dian Labor Congress and business
manager of Local 1-80 Hospital.
Employees Union,
(See editorial on page 4)

This must end foo, says Cuba

ANTI-CASTRO CUBANS IN FLORIDA. Photo shows
anti-Castro Cuban units being trained by an “ex-U.S.

Marine”

somewhere in the Florida Keys. This week

Cuba agreed to UN on-site inspection if the U.S. would
agree to similar UN supervision of the dismantling of

“training camps of mercenaries,

terrorists” on USS. soil.

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spies, saboteurs and