R \ (3 i | soa BC labor faces vital issues at parley —SEE PAGE EIGHT mul. 22, No. 41 DAY, OCTOBER 19, 1962 VANCOUVER, B.C. 10¢ londemn Columbia sellout IN Burnaby by-election TOMMY DOUGLAS NIGEL MORGAN qd As voters in the Burnaby-Coquitlam federal by- &ction prepared to go the polls Monday, NDP candidate Party leader Tommy Douglas, and B.C. Communist the wp caking on a paid political — Over Channel 8, Van- as fr, on Oct. 10, T. C. Doug- lady candidate in the ion aby-Coquitlam by-elec- ie Bointed out, that both ta Minister Diefenbaker S tg] anh Cabinet minister Davie tae gh hed repeatedly. stated thy, © Tory government was tensed to large-scale, long- Ug. Sale of power to the x Suglas quoted from a ma- by » Ver policy speech made lage Ulton in Prince George ith fall and contrasted it ee Speech from the Categ ©; which clearly indi- Ve, that the Diefenbaker AMMent had abandoned See Douc.as, pg. 7 arty leader, both made statements sharply condemning dD... River sellout. Here’s what they said: The B.C. Provincial Com- mittee of the Communist Par- ty appealed this week to the electors of Burnaby-Coquil- lam “to make their vote count against ratification of the Columbia River draft treaty, rising prices and Dief- enbaker’s “belt - tightening” austerity program. The eyes of the nation will be on Burnaby-Coquitlam on October 22nd,” declared the statement issued by B.C. pro- vincial leader Nigel Morgan. “In the last election cam- paign Diefenbaker promised unemployment would be lick- ed by August. Instead it is ris- ing sharply. He pledged to make Canada more -indepen- See MORGAN, pa. 7 ‘arg lefen SPect of fe the Stateg, Woulg Cig. 1on immediately. VLC prepares to fight ‘Against nuclear arms ‘ Vancouver Labor Council acted swiftly on Tues- sad Night to re-affirm its existing poiicy of being un- *rably opposed to nuclear arms for Canada. i Cuncil heard delegate : waymen, Div. 101) draw attention to radio reports nly minutes prior to the meeting that the baker government was committed to join the Clear Club by mid-Novemb.-x. “If we join the nuclear club we will lose the re- the uncommitted nations. We would sabotage fforts of the UN and all people of good will in World . . . This move would leave us a sitting duck Nd a rather lame Bomare duck, at that,” Hayward Council president Ed Sims stated that the executive investigate the reports and take appropriate tin: Peculation on nuclear arms for this country con- John Hayward (Street PULP,PAPER UNIONISTS ON WAY TO CONVENTION U.S. BARS B.C. UNION DELEGATES — U.S. ‘immigration authorities directly interfered in the in- ternal affairs of Canadian trade unions recently when they borred two B.C. delegates of the Pulp and Sulphite union from attending their International union convention in Detroit. The action of the U.S. auth- orities once more points up the danger of U.S. interfer- ence in the affairs of Cana- dian labor and points to the need for greater autonomy for Canadian unions. This latest action by U.S. authorities was revealed in the October issue of the West- ern Pulp and Paper Worker, organ of the union, in a [front page story this week. The two barred delegates were Orville Braaten, Local 433 Vancouver . Converters and chairman oz the Vancou- ver Labor Council’s Public Relations Committee; and An- gus Macphee, Local 798, Prince Rupert. The Pulp and Paper Work- er report says that all Cana- dian delegates were subject- ed to harrassment, and that U.S. immigration authorities had a complete list of all B.C. delegates. SLAP AT DEMOCRACY Some delegates were ques- tioned for as much as two hours hefore being allowed to enter the U.S. Braaten was questioned for three hours, ORVILLE BRAATEN, Pulp and Paper union delegate, who was recently barred from attending his International union convention in Detroit. Macphee for approximately six hours. Strong pleas were made by top International union offi- cers to have the delegates ad- mitted, without success. Hitting out at the action of the U.S. immigration authori- eS ties, an editorial article in the Western Pulp and Paper Worker says that it “‘is a slap at Canadian trade union dem- ocracy.” “If this interference by a U.S. government agency is al- lowed to stand it simply means that in the future Can- adian local unions, in order to make certain their dele- gates will be able to attend a meeting, must {first receive a clearance from the U.S. Im- migration Department,” charges the pulp and paper worker’s paper. The editorial article adds that the “U.S. Immigration Department would choose the type of delegates who would represent Canadians at their International Convention.” UNIONISTS AROUSED This is the first time for some years that U.S. authori- ties have halted trade union delegates from attending lab- or conventions in the U.S. At the height of the cold war similar attacks were launched against the Cana- dian locals of unions whose stand was critical of U.S, pol- icy or who adopted militant policies. Resumption of the practise of refusing entry to trade union delegates elected to re- present their membership at conventions in the U.S., re- flects the cold war anti-labor hysteria in the U.S. It is an open move by the U.S. authorities to bar any- one from attending a conven- tion from Canada who might take a militant stand and be in any way critical of U.S. policy. Its direct aim is to inter- fere in the affairs of the In- ternational unions by seeking to influence them to support the policies of the U.S. gov- ernment, State Department and Pentagon. See U.S. BARS, pg. 3 “THE STORM’S WARNING.” Actress Julie Harris is shown signing a petition at the UN in New York calling for the ending of nuclear tests and disarmament. This week the UN delegates discussed an early ban on testing. othe” to mount at a time when Mexico, hides a al] : Neutralist countries were proposing at the Uclear testing should halt as of Jan. 1. a Reports from UN headquarters indicated that Can- Was in favor of such a move. Read the editorial on page 4 on the lesson of last weekend's disastrous events.