a 2 | ie | 4 mm = a | g oO, Us mua tan tui! oh, : y ae wh AULWAWAV AR udu tute ' * i liu {| hilly worn WAM Thr 4 seemttti5)) VOL. 19, NO. 37 Phone MUtual 5-5288 *=m5° Authorized as second class mail by the Post O1rtice Department, Ottawa. 10° VANCOUVER, B.C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1960 in between. The launching of the alter- Nate 12-page paper coincides With the opening October 1 of the annual circulation drive. € will continue the 12-page Paper until the end of the year. the drive results make it Possible, the 12-page paper will Continue in the new year. It depends entirely on the job our Teaders do in building circu- lation, There can be no argument that the progressive movement in B.C. needs a larger paper. he great changes taking place in the world and in our coun- TY all point to the need for a Paper that can give wider cov- €fage to these developments @Nd point the way ahead. The provincial election from IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT We are very happy to announce that starting next Week the Pacific Tribune will appear every second week as a 12-page paper, alternating with an 8-page paper which we have just emerged underlines again the need for a larger and more widely cir- culated paper. The blackout imposed on the communist and progressive movement by the big business press can only be answered by building our own mass press. For our part we will do all within our power to produce the best paper we can. The de- cision whether we will be able to continue the alternate 12- page paper depends on you, our readers and supporters. Watch next week for details on the fall circulation drive and learn how you can help build the Pacific Tribune and ensure a larger paper. ees SEATO FANS CIVIL WAR IN LAOS Latest reports from Laos indicate that pro-U.S. Clements, together with the U.S.-dominated SEATO bloc, are planning to provoke civil war in the small country to Justify military intervention. A few weeks ago a new gov-| itary forces. Se came to power pledg- the © a policy of neutrality in the Cold war. Ever since then 17° have been. reports that Military aid was being The western press has Car- ried charges of ‘‘communist ac- tivity” in order to justify in- tervention by SEATO, which could touch off a. major crisis r : UShed to bolster pro-U.S. mil- | in Asia. ‘| power. HAILS SOCRED WI By MAURICE RUSH The Socred government of W. A. C. Bennett was returned with a reduced majority last Monday after an unprincipled campaign by the Socreds, big business and. their press, aimed at stampeding the voters with threats of chaos if the Socreds were not returned. In an unprecedented action oil. and natural gas tycoon George McMahon and B.C. Electric president Dal .Grauer entered the campaign in the final stages with statements which sought to pressure vot- ers to return the Socreds. They were backed by a big business- financed advertising campaign warning the voters that capital will leave B/C. and jobs will dry up unless the Socreds are returned. The greatest danger facing the people of B.C. is that the Socreds will attempt to “pay- off’ by pressing through more ambitiously than ever with their vast giveaway program. Only united labor and people’s action can now prevent the giveaway of our resources to U.S. and Canadian monopolies. As the Pacific Tribune went to press election results show- ed the Social Credit majority had dropped from 88 to 32. CCF representation went up from 10 to 15 and Liberals from 2 to 4 seats. The Atlin seat was still in doubt with the CCF leading. ; Preliminary percentages showed a drop. in the popular vote for Social Credit from 46 per cent to 40 per cent. The CCF vote climbed from 28 per- cent to 33 percent Although the Liberals doubled their representation their. popular vote dropped from 21 per cent to 19 per cent. The Tory vote rose from 3 per cent to 7 per cent. No percentage is avail- able yet of the Communist vote. One thing. that stands out very clear from the election results is the correctness of the warning by the Party that only. all-in labor- farmer unity could create a strong enough alternative to topple the Socreds. The Communists warned that the right wing CCF policy of rejecting all-in unity and of attempting to squeeze unions into the GCF political straight jacket would divide labor and help return the Socreds to This has been borne out by results. Despite large scale use of union funds and trade union personnel, and al- lowing for a normal protest vote against Social Credit, the CCF gain of 5 percent in the popular vote proves the bank- Communist | - cuptcy of right wing CCF apt unity policies. B:C. Communist leader Nigel Morgan put his finger on this problem when he said in-a post election statement that “the CCF go-it-alone-policy - must accept a large measure of re- sponsibility for re-election of the Socreds. ‘his partisan anti- Continued on page 8 See ELECTIONS World looks to U.N. Assembly next week The eyes of the world next Tuesday will be turned toward New York where the forthcoming session of the United Nations General Assembly will get under way. This will be the first meet- | ing of the General Assembly : since the collapse of the Sum- mit. Soviet Premier Khrushchev is heading his country’s dele- gation in the hope that import- | ant discussions leading to agreement on disarmament can take place there. The action of the U.S. gov- ernment last week in attempt- ing to make Khrushchey a pris- oner on a corner of Manhattan over “the world, including Western capitals, as ‘“child- ish?’ Other heads of state, notably from socialist and newly-inde- pendent states, are expected to attend this important session. Latest reports are that Ghana President Nkrumah _ himself will attend and that he has sent a message to President Nasser of the U.A.R. suggest- ing that African heads of gov- ernment attend the U.N. ses. sion. Island has been denounced all ; . The great sale of Canadian resources ip j the ’50’s has not prevented the record level of unemployment this | year. On the contrary the unemployment is greatest in just th : regions where the wave of American investment was greatest. TORONTO DAILY STAR: Thursday, Sept. 1, 1988 AL Ngee