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who recently dazzled and captivated Parisians with her performance
of Cinderella, is shown above receiving a maple leaf pin from Toronto's
acting mayor Allan Lamport. She is now on a five week tour of Canada
and the U.S. with the National Ballet company.

Ont. CP hits tax policy |

Charging that existing taxation
Policies as they affect the thréeé
levels of government are out of
date, the Ontario Committee of
the Communist Party has pro-
Posed that provisions of the
British North America Act
adopted in 1867, be revamped,

The proposal is contained ‘in
@ brief to the Ontario Committee
on Taxation, submitted on Jan.

Outlining in careful detail how
a financial obligations of On-
fea ocibalities have accum-
oo to their present intoler-

: volume, the Communist
Party demands an end to the
pecs of shifting the burden
nto the backs of those least
able to pay,

Ree Party's brief states that
4 € is a very harmful ten-
eccy to look for needed reven-

ues by placing heavier burdens of
taxation upon consumers in the
middle and low income brackets,
Presented to the public as plans
to ‘broaden the tax base,’ such.
schemes will in reality serve
to restrict mass public demand
for goods and services and in-
hibit economic growth,”’

One of the measures advocated
to reverse this trend was an in-
crease in the basic exemption
from income tax to $2,500 for
single and $5,000 for married
persons.

In presenting the brief, Ontario
CP leader Bruce Magnuson sug-
gested that crushing financial ob-
ligations be shifted away from
the municipalities. Last week
Ontario Premier John Robarts
announced the Ontario Tory gov-
ernment is going to increase
taxes this winter.

Alcock urges disarmament

2 ORONTO — Disarmament,
Which can and must be achieved,
Will mean for Canadaprosperity,
eee export markets and
arger government subsidies for

Work in underdeveloped coun-
tries,

This is the opinion of Dr. Nor-
ao Alcock, president of the
ee Peace Research Insti-
= . based on studies by the

Stitute which concluded that
aa could carry out a dis-

ament program without fear

0 siyninceesy :
f sliding into a economic de-
Pression,

‘

awe is reasonable to absorb
ae Sats defense expenditure
ae peacetime economy ifthere
a measure of planning and ii
Seeeeusating measures are

worked out beforehand,’’ he told
the Canadian Tribune last week.

Speaking recently to members
of the American Society of Heat-
ing, Refrigeration and Air Con-
ditioning Engineers at the Park

Plaza Hotel, Dr. Alcock said
bluntly:
‘We «must achieve dis-

armament in the next 20 years.
We won’t be around if we don't.’’

The partial nuclear test ban
treaty and a cutback in the U.S.
defence budget were cited by Dr.
Alcock as hopeful signs that dis-
armament, with carefully
thought-out controls, is real-
izable.

Dr. Alcock said large firms
should plan now for transition
to disarmament and work out
reasoned and_ intelligent pro-

Labor fighter

Maryan Sochasky, veteran

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Wary J5 Wednesday, Jan

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The oh came to Canada as a
ara oy. Arriving here, he
Rae y joined the labor and

= peels movements. When
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away suddenly after a .

exganizatiqns.

passes away

was due to the untiring efforts of
Sochasky and others like him.
He was a staunch member of
the Communist Party and sup-
porter of the Pacific Tribune.
Last Wednesday, Jan. 22, at a
Memorial Service held in his
honor, speakers from the CP,
AUUC and B.C. Peace Council
paid tribute to the contribution
he made to each of these people’s

iant few.

Rush speaks

‘What Lies Ahead for Canada
in ’64’’ will be the subject of an
address by PT associate editor
Maurice Rush at the Dell Hotel
in Whalley, Monday, January 27
at 8 p.m. ce

Among the subjects to be dis-
cussed by Rush will be the fight
against nuclear arms in Canada,
the crisis of Confederation, auto-
mation and its affect on labor,
and the fight for Canadian inde-
pendence.

MIDWINTER FETE

The Scandinavian Central
Committee and affiliated organi-
zations will hold their Midwinter
Festival on Friday, February 7,
8 p.m. in the Ballroom of the
Royal Towers Hotel, at Royal
and Sixth Avenue in New West-
minster,

Never a month passes that Joe

Need ‘Maintenance §

Dio you ever go over the family
budget and wonder just how you were
going to balance income with ‘‘out-
go’’, to make ends meet?

We have budget troubles too. In-
come from subscriptions, bundle sales,
advertising, donations from support-
ers, just don’t grow fast enough to
keep abreast of rising publishing costs.

It’s on the subject of donations we’d
like to talk about. We have a few,
unfortunately a very few, who know
the problems of keeping a fighting
workingclass papegoing, who make
regular monthly donations over and
above their annual subscription to help
fill the gap between income and cost.

The veteran labor press supporter,
old age pensioner, and dean of con-
sistent contributors, Joe Ivens of
Okanagan Mission is one of this val-

Sask. probe

REGINA — The Saskatchewan
medical profession is divided
into two camps, according to the
first report of a Royal Com-
mission set up by the provincial
government, :

The report accuses those who
were instrumental in denying
hospital privileges to some doc-
tors of ‘‘sitting in judgement
on those with whom they were in
ideological conflict.’’

Arising out of the opposing
views on medicare, an intense
struggle began when doctors who
accepted medicare were pre-
vented from using the facilities
of some Saskatchewan hospitals.

In the spring of 1963 the
government set up a one-man
royal comission—Justice Martyn
Woods — to investigate com-
plaints.

doesn’t extract from his meagre OAP
a two dollar bill or more for the ‘PT’.

What the ‘PT’ needs right now, to
balance its budget and meet the chal-
lenge of the times, is a few score of
contributors of the Joe Ivens’ calibre,
ready to follow his example; to build
a “‘Maintenance Squad’’ whose reward
for their monthly donations will be to
see their paper grow.

How’s about getting into this
‘squad’... Now?

A note to the Business Manager
with your own choice of a monthly
donation will suffice. In following edi-
tions the growth of this “‘“Maintenance
Squad” and its contributions will be a
regular feature in the ‘PT’.

The printers say they need the
money—you know you need the ‘PT’
—your monthly donation will help
bridge the budget gap!

{JLT UA. 1 AR kh

vad’

—TOM McEWEN

__To speak

TOM McEWEN, editor of the PT,
will be feature speaker at the an-
nual Burns Night festivities this
coming Saturday at the Lochdale
Hall, Sperling and Hastings Sts.

Ban on cigarette ads?

By STAN LYNN

The recent report by the U.S,
Surgeon - General’s committee
has probably convinced thousands
to drop the weed—at least for a
while.

But if our government wants to
encourage Canadians to cut or
quit smoking, it should consider
a more simple and effective on-
slaught on the addiction,

It could take a step which
would be a hundred times more
effective than all the anti-smok-
ing ads, medical reports and
educational films. The step would
even pack a more powerful
punch than the earnest exhorta-
tions of Health Minister Judy
LaMarsh,

Why doesn’t the government
ban cigaret and tobacco adver-
tising?

The cigaret companies are evi-
dently feeling the first twinges
of a guilty conscience. They've
voluntarily removed the ads
from TV. before 9 p.m. Let’s
follow it up by banning fag ads
altogether.

Cigarets are cancer sticks.
Why do we allow private enter-
prise profiteers to keep on telling
us, to the tune of millions of
dollars a year, that they are any-
thing else?

Ban the travesty of truth that
links smoking with ‘‘clean,”
‘*pure,’’ ‘‘good’’ and ‘‘fresh’’ ad
absurdum.

Ban the brainwash that links
tobacco with sport, sex, beauty,
relaxation, enjoyment and good
living.

No other single step the gov-
ernment could take to whittle
away at the weed would be as
effective as illegalizing adver-
tising.

If the government is leary of
an outright ban on the tobacco
brainwash, let it take a step at
a time:

(1) Ban all TV cigaret ads;

(2) Follow this up’ with a ban’.”.”.’.

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on billboard ads and ads in pub-
lications and on radios;

(3) Eliminate all forms of to-
bacco advertising.

The moguls wouldimmediately
claim that such an ad ban steps
on the toes of the right of private
enterprise and of the individual.
Not so!

You could get cigarets wher-
ever you get them now. No one
would stop you from smoking.

But if you decide'to quit, you'll
no longer face a duel between
your will-power and the persua-

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964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE

Sive outpourings of propaganda
urging you to light up, relax and
let your worries drift away in a
cloud of smoke.

As far as the rights of private
enterprise are concerned, we
don’t allow capitalist barkers to
advertise the tantalizing tempta-
tions of narcotics, even if they
wanted to, and we put people
who sell dope in jail.

You can’t even buy antibiotics
without a doctor’s prescription.

We don’t have to ban smoking!
But surely we can ban cigaret
advertising.

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