Gift neither Canadian nor

above) released 1adron RCAF air in Europe,

yelng equipped

1 later model Sabre Jets CF-100 Interc The p with spare are

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es fare )

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hat his government’s view the ib question idered only ment meas- control.

ae H-bon

Moscow, speaking before viet on Mon- ign Min- Shepiloy proposed i and the USS. h the Soviet U framework

UN, to

ne

1, + week, F C

this

and halt

to negotiate eement with

such

was no

t week fo 4

mM

endicat at strontium 90 g detected in Eng- other countries i

genuine

=yS sand and

worth around $35 million. When they are delivered to

West Germany they will be flown by ex-Lufwaffe pilots

who comprise the nucleus of

the German Federal lic’s new air force.

Repub-

Indication that the gift will

German people appro

where .delegates call

not win friends for Canada more vigorous fight

among the people of West conscription and critiGi® Germany was given at the Adenauer regime- for © West German Social Demo- an army of 500,000 andi cratic conference last week ing huge sums on rearl

BENNETT HEDGES |

Island want public pow

VICTORIA

Public protest against monopolizing of power resources and distribution

ing in

A

gether with the Bennett in Victoria this week.

Resolutions and briefs from the various centres were pre- sented to the premier, together With a brief from Port Alber- Local 1-85 of the Inter- tional Woodworkers of Am-

nl

n erica, urging that the B.C. Power Commission be given

preference in further electric power development.

The delegation also urged that a royal commission be set up to examine the question of hydro power development.

It is known that the Socred government gives preference to the B.C. Electric, because, as the IWA brief emphasizes, “ ... the most lucrative and profitable areas of power dis- tribution are occupied by the B.C. Electric, while the B.C. Power Commission, owned by the taxpayers, has been forced to service the rural and un- profitable areas of B.C.”.

Premier Bennett declared the government has no intention of replacing “private enterprise in the field of pow- since. there is plenty .of room for both private and pub- lic enterprise to develop...”

er

Editorializing on the issue, the Nanaimo Daily Free Press writes that “in no small meas- ure the B.C. Power Commissi- on is ignored by the govern- nent this province... it might be suggested that it is time for the provincial govern- ment to do some serious think-

of

ing about its attitude towards the Power Commission. Is the latter a body to be ignored, or one to be clothed with. the au-

thority and respect it de- serves?” Both the Vancouver Island

Continued from

Electric to the exclusion of the publicly-owned B.C. Power Commission Vancouver Island centres. ; powerful delégation from the Vancouver Island Ratepayers Associatitl: mayors of Nanaimo and Port Alberni, interviewed Premier We

Ratepayers Associattol ation and the IWA government “to tas measures are, i ion, ito @ fufilment these ions.”

as necessary of

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TUNNEL

he said. Exposure to such con- of Italian immigrants to man the job.”

But, anxious to proceed with construction, the company Signed for 30 cents an hour eabove the Chicago contract negotiated by U.S. _ inter- national representatives over the protest of their Canadian membership.

Coynes Construction is the

second pipeline company to back down. , Sparling Davis Contractors, subsidiary of

Mannix Contractors, faced with strike action by Local 168 at Harrison Lake, despite its in- junction prohibiting Local 168 “Interference,” also agreed to pay 30 cents an hour the Chicago contract.

above

In Vancouver this week the injunction secured by the law irm of Rankin, Mollison and Dean on behalf of Local 168,

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inter

prohibiting the

from interfering ¥ local’s normal funct! aside. This has ™ ever, dampened af elation over their wab®™

set

Meanwhile, Local struction and Gener@ay a ers, of which Carl Edmonton is “admit has been given J over all pipeline Cc

Coincident with. filing of an injunctl@ Local 168 by Canaee® tell. The injunctio® stop any activities “upset contractural

with Local 602, fact that Local 602 single man on the job.

Opinion in wt circles is that

Wage victories will fight of Local 6028 ship to rid. itself oh ministration imp05

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