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Urges UFAWU parley

; Flat opposition to ratification of the Columbia River
“Treaty was one of the final acts of the eighteenth annual
‘Convention of the United:Fishermen and Allied Workers’
Union, which closed in Vancouver-on Friday, Mareh 23.

og the same time, delegates
themselves on record in

Vor of “full development of
Syston tmbia-Kootenay River
~ vem in. Canada on the
: ae of putting Canadian in-

rests first.”
ae union program would
se ab immediate construction

t the Mica Creek dam, scrap-

ae of the High Arrow stor-

a. dam, and diversion of

te Kootenay into the Colum-

‘ag proer minimum flooding

Ge sata. a modified version
€ McNaughton plan.

Pointing, out that “all
Seg to be returned to Can-

& under the terms of the
Teaty would exceed present
Power costs in southern B.C.”
: e resolution called for ‘the
FDlishment of an all-Cana-
ay East-West power. grid
tins M opposition to the long
é m export of power pro-
SUced in Canada.”

Tt urged the establishment
Pi Royal Commission to
=. Public hearings which
s uld enable = interested
ae and individuals to ex-
fish their opinions on the

ive merits of the various
sion national Joint Commis-
Plans.
x € convention had __pre-
wwsly demanded the recall

-of federal fisheries minister
J. Angus MacLean, and his
replacement “by someone
who is at least interested in
the fishing industry,” Speak-
er after speaker denounced
the minister for failing to at-
tend the union’s conventions
and brushing aside union re-
quests for meetings.

At one point president
Steve Stavenes offered the
floor to delegates. opposing
the recall demand but no
speakers responded to the in-
vitation and the resolution
was passed unanimously.

In another action the con-
vention adopted by a three
to one vote a resolution ex-
pressing support of the New
Democratic Party and urged
union locals to affiliate with-
in terms and principles of the
union constitution.

Local affiliations, the union
stated, should be by two-
thirds majority and “all fin-
ancial contributions should
be voluntary in order to pre-
serve the utmost unity in
each local.”

President H. (Steve) Stave-
nes, Secretary Homer Stevens
and Business Agent Alex
Gordon were all unanimously
re-elected.

‘IS city trying to provoke
Strike?’ ask civic workers

Wil)

The Civic Employees Union, Outside Workers, has named
iam Stewart, secretary of the Marineworkers Union (CLC).

aoe representative on the conciliation board which will hear
© Union's dispute with the City of Vancouver.
on in city has chosen R. P. Bray, Vancouver lawyer, to act
S behalf, and the chairman will be named shortly.

The = j ri
union i andi
hour, s demanding a

e :
contrary, it proposes to cut
nefits,

wage increase of ten cents an.

and the city has countered by offering no increase; to

back on some hard-won fringe

os The union has interpreted this as a delaying tactic and
ane that *he citv knows full well that the union membership
Ml not relinquish the gains it has obtained through the years.

Press y
Strike.”
to discus

On Thursday the union placed half-page ads in the daily
nder the heading: “Is City Council Trying to Provoke a
A meeting of job stewards and the executive board
S strike action is set for Friday.

as bal 4
step to annexation a

“Tf certain Canadian busi-
ness interests were to have
their way, Canada would be-
come a depressed area of the
United States, something like
the Deep South”, said the na-
tional office of the Commun-

ist Party this week. ‘These
interests are claiming that a
‘customs union’ between Can-
ada and the U.S.A. would
make it.easier for Canada to
trade.

French CP calls for ‘yes’
vote in Algeria referendum

The Central Committee: of
the French Communist Party

B.C. ELECTRIC

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sit services.

Morgan pointed out that
light-rates alone could be cut
by nearly half—‘the amount
the B.C.E. saved in taxes—
excessive financing and wast-
ed advertising of the former
privately-owned operation.”

Urging support for a na-
tional power grid. (see Mor-
gan’s article on page 6), he
said “our capacity to manu-
facture consumer goods of all
types, tools and machines
depends in great measure to-
day on the availability of the
most economic and efficient
form of energy, electricity.”

has urged its supporters to
vote “yes” in the April 8
French referendum § approv-
ing the Evian agreements.

The Central Committee
statement explained that the
Party would continue to fight
de Gaulle’s regime of “per-
sonal power,” to demand re-
storation of democracy in
France, to fight all attacks
on the people’s living stand-
ards, and to strive for dis-
armament.

The Party statement said:
“You will vote ‘Yes’ because
the Evain agreements con-
firm the setback of Gaullist
policy and because these
agreements which open the
road to peace, are the com-
mon victory of the Algerian
people and the French
people.”

Feinberg:'Nothing- more urgent
than to block brinkmanship’’

The B:C. Peace Council last Friday sent a cablegram to

“Does anyone really be-
lieve that the U.S.A. would
shift its purchases to Canada
in any ‘customs union’ when
actually U.S. corporations
have stockpiled Canadian
raw materials to the point
which President Kennedy de-
scribes as dangerous?

“This talk of ‘customs un-
ion’ with the U.S. is the thin
edge of the wedge for out-
right annexation and would
mean even more abject de-
pendency on that country.
There is no alternative to an
independent Canadian trade
policy with other- countries,
and a shift in» our economy
from its emphasis on raw ma-
terials to the production of
producers’ and consumers’
goods.

“It is a measure of the ex-
tent to which anti-Canadian
economic policies have pene-
trated the labor movement
that certain trade union lead-
ers have endorsed policies of
this kind,’ the Communist
Party concluded.

External Affairs Minister Green at the 17-nation disarmament
talks in Geneva urging him to explore all possible means to
ensure that Canada “May do its part in assuring success of the
Geneva conference.” It said the hopes of the Canadian people
for a nuclear test ban are centered. on Geneva.

In a press statement prior to his public meeting in Van-
couver’s Exhibition Gardens Thursday night, Rabbi A. Fein-
berg said “the only defence against nuclear destruction is
nuclear disarmament: the only security against extinction is
peace.” He said nothing is more urgent today “than a road-

block against brinkmanship.

Also last week the 20,000-member United Electrical Work-
ers Union in Toronto wrote the Geneva delegates urging an
end to tests and early action on disarmament.

B.C. youth to.
attend festival

The B.C. World Youth
Festival Committee has an-
nounced that it will hold a
film showing of the Vienna
Festival at the Clinton Hall,
2605 E. Pender, on Sunday,
April.1, at 8 p.m.

The committee. also reports
that B.C. youth have shown
a keen interest inthe pre-
parations for this year’s Hel-
sinki Festival and that at
least 25 young people will be
representing this province at
the July 28 to August 4
gathering. :

Requests for further infor-
mation should be directed to:
B.C. World Youth Festival
Committee, 4533 E. Pender
St., North Burnaby, B.C.

South Vietnam is being turned into a huge
concentration camp by the U.S.-Ngo Dinh
Diem military forces. Villages which are
known t be sympathetic to the rebel cause
are being subjected to extreme violence.
Here is an aged fisherman in Kienphong

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the obvious

power.
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province whose granddaughter, seen in the
boat, was killed in a bombing of their
village by U.S.-Diem armed forces. Despite

unpopularity of the Diem

dictatorship, the U.S. is flying in thou-
sands of additional men to keep him in