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U.S. budget of $98.8 billion is broken down in the above
chart to show that 62c of every dollar will be spent for war
Purposes, making the U.S. military budget in peacetime the
largest in history.

The raiding tactics of the Steel-
workers union came under sharp
fire from NDP MLA for Cran-
brook,- Leo Nimsick, as B.C.’s
third fargest union, the Mine
Mill & Smelter Workers, opened
its 19th annual Western District
convention.

Nimsick, who is a_ founding
member of Mine Mill and was
instrumental in organizing the
province’s first CCF club, paid
tribute to Mine Mill on the
occasion of its 20th anniversary
for its traditionally progressive
role in the labor history of B.C.
and for maintaining that tradition
right up to the present.

“Tt’s easy to run with the tide,”
he stated, ‘‘but a little more diffi-
cult to go against the tide and to

Fisheries sellout condemned

A call for united action to
block: ratification by Canada
of U.S.-proposed changes in
the North Pacific Fisheries
Treaty regulations was made
‘by the B.C. Communist Party
last week. The changes would
permit Japan to fish herring
off the Queen Charlotte Is.
and halibut in the Bering Sea.

In a letter to Prime Minis-
ter Diefenbaker and Fisher-
ies Minister McLean, B.C.
Party leader Nigel Morgan
Said that ratification of the
Proposed treaty would be “a
betrayal of Canada’s interests
and those of our B.C. fisher-
men in the first instance.

“We demand the proposed
changes be referred to the
Parliamentary standing com-
mittee on fisheries, which ex-
amined the treaty when first
drafted, to give fishermen the
Opportunity to present their
views and supporting evid-
ence.”’

Stating that “the future of
B.C.’s Pacific fisheries are at
Stake,” the letter charged
that this was another deal
like the Columbia River sell-
Out. “Concessions to the Jap-
_anese fishing interests are due

for finalization on Feb. 5 in
Tokyo and it’s going to take
a powerful and united effort
to block the fisheries sellout.”
In his letter, Morgan also
reminded Diefenbaker that
the Prime Minister has lately
been paying a lot of lip ser-
vice to a Made-in-Canada pol-
icy, and suggested that “here
is a good place to start.”
Morgan denounced as “out-
right » lies’ some company

statements to the effect that
Canadian fish catches would
not go down due to the
treaty. Pointing out that Can-
adian Fish is owned by a US.
firm and B.C. Packers is tied
in with Taiyo Gyogo K.K.
(the biggest Japanese fishing
company) Morgan charged
that because of these monop-
oly tie-ins, the above compan-
ies “don’t speak for Canada
any more.”

B.C. fishermen send
delegation to Ottawa

B.C. fishermen will carry the
fight against recent concessions
to Japan on the North Pacific
Fisheries Commission to Ottawa
next week, when at least 30 fisher-
men will converge on the capitol
to press Parliament to stop the
sellout of B.C. interests.

The delegation leaves Vancou-
ver Sunday, Jan. 27 and will lobby
in Ottawa from Jan. 28 to 31. In-
cluded among the delegation of
30 are four members of the Ex-
ecutive Board, United Fishermen
and Allied Workers’ Union. Re-

mainder of the delegation was
elected by locals up and down
the coast.

The UFAWU Executive Board
last week wired Prime Minister
Diefenbaker urging that the Gov-
ernment refuse to ratify the North
Pacific Commission proposals.

The union has demanded that
the proposals of the Commission
be referred to the Parliamentary

Standing -Committee of Marine

and Fisheries and that organized
fishermen be allowed to state
their views to the committees be-
fore Parliament debates the issue.

renounce conformity.”

He blasted Steel’s campaign of
raids against Mine Mill, calling
on the union to “‘solidify our
ranks’? against any further raid-
ing and deplored ‘‘the time dis-
sipated by trade unions in fight-
ing other trade unions,’’ while
thousands of workers were in
need of being organized.

Earlier in the day, Harvey
Murphy, Western District Presi-
dent, had stated in reference to
Steel raids: ‘‘Never in the his-
tory of the labor movement has
there been such a concentrated
attack to destroy our union; an
attack which was welcomed by
the employers, as it fitted in with
their own offensive against labor
nationally.”

He warned Steel that any at-
tempts to raid the western set-
tion of Mine Mill were doomed
to failure and pointed to the unity
on the picket lines in recent B.C.
strikes as standing out in sharp
contrast to policies of raiding and
union-busting.

Cedric Cox, NDP Burnaby MLA,
another veteran Mine Mill mem-
ber, spoke briefly about his well
advertised trip to Cuba and laid
particular emphasis on the min-
ing industry and conditions of
work for miners there.

One of the points he brought

HARVEY MURPHY, Western Dis-
trict President, delivers report to
19th annual convention.

‘STEEL ATTACK ON MINE-MILL
|HIT BY NDP -MLA AT PARLEY

out was that an injured workman
received 100% of his wages for
the first year of disability; after
that, 70% of his wages plus 5%
for each child (not to exceed
100%); any miner suffering from
silicosis received 100% of wages
for the rest of his life, etc.

“T don’t know of any Compen-
sation plan in Canada that comes
close to this,’’ Cox said.

Cox then proceeded to present
Harvey Murphy with a _photo-
graph of a Cuban miner, saying:
“IT am very glad to pass this
picture on to the miners of B.C.
as a token of esteem and solidar-
ity from the miners of Cuba.”

After devoting some time to the
question of trade uniion solidarity,
Murphy turned to the problems
posed on the mining industry by
improved techniques and automa-
tion, quoting figures to show that
in 1952 every man produced to the
value of $14,000 per annum; by
1960, with 55% less workers, aver-
age annual output had gone up to
$26,000.

Since 1960 a number of huge
mines, using still more modern
means of extracting nature’s
riches, had gone into operation.

Changes as tremendous as these,
Murphy emphasized, would have
to be combatted through shorter
work week, earlier pensions and
increased vacations, but ‘above
all, we must compel these com-
panies to recognize that the tre-
mendous increase in productivity
must be accompanied by new
standards of living. . .”

In adition to grappling with
automation, the convention is ex-
pected to deal with such widely:
divergent subjects as_ political
action, anti-labor legislation, a
program for developing the north.
the question of nuclear weapons
for Canada, the Columbia River
Treaty and the Workmen’s Com-
pensation Act.

On Friday, Jan. 25, the union
will send a delegation to Victoria
to make its annual submission to

“the provincial government.

For peace,

By NELSON CLARKE
The Liberal Party has seiz-
eo upon General Norstad’s
Claims that Canada is commit-
ted to nuclear weapons as the
pretext for coming out as the
Party of nuclear arms for
Canada, as. the party which
Puts Canada last and the Un-
ited States militarists and
Monopolists first.
en But are we
committed to
taking nucle-
ar arms or
aren’t we?
Who’s telling
& the truth —
‘ Yankee Gen-
srals Norstad
and Gerhard
2 or External
Minister Howard

affairs
Green?

_4s General W. H. S. Mack-
lin right in charging that
General Charles Foulkes was
‘Tulning “the trust and good
faith” necessary between pol-
iticians and generals when he
Tushed into print to confirm
the statements of Norstad?
coe raging discussion is
“rowing a great deal of light
nto dark dirty corners. Above

er a cet Sig eas eM

independence, we must

all it exposes the arrogance
of the military brass — both
American and Canadian, and
the evil role they play in
setting themselves above the
elected representatives of the
people.

OUTSTANDING FACT

But before dealing with
the events that have filled
the front pages these last few
days, it is important to note
one outstanding fact: that
Canada after 14 years of
membership in the North At-
lantic war alliance, and five
years of membership in North
American Air Defense Com-
mand has not yet accepted
nuclear arms.

For a country that has been
so deeply entangled in U.S.
military alliances, and U.S.
plans for aggressive war, this
fact is in itself remarkable.

There are other
countries which have also not
accepted nuciear arms trom
the United States — Norway,
Denmark, Greece — but none
of them come. close to being
the kind of power Canada is
from the standpoint of popu-
lation, industrial strength and
military potential.

The central objective of
peace-loving patriotic Can-
adians is to keep matters the
way they are, to see to it by
their united efforts that Can-
ada does not now accept nuc-
lear arms.

Canada must reject nuclear
for the sake of

weapons

reject nuclear arms

world peace.

The danger of war increas-
es in direct proportion to the
extent to which nuclear arms
are spread about the world.

The demand of humanity
(especially since the Cuban
crisis) is for limiting nuclear
arms and military bases and

WHO did you say wants

NATO | i

. nuclear arms?

25, 1963—PACIFIC

to achieve their destruction
and elimination. Acceptance
by Canada of nuclear. arms
would bea serious blow to
this noble goal of a world
without weapons and without
war.

Canada must reject nuclear
weapons for the sake of our
national independence.

To accept nuclear arms
would be to rivet down U.S.
military domination of our
country without in any way
safeguarding our security —
for the only security is peace.
To reject nuclear arms moves
our country a significant step
out of the quicksands of mili-
tary alliance with the United
States.

For, as the Cuban crisis
also showed, in the final anal-
ysis U.S. strategy is based on
use of the ultimate weapon—
the intercontinental missile
carrying the hydrogen bomb.
This is the strategy the
U.S. drives to impose on its
“allies”. It is this strategy
which must and can be de-
feated by the peace forces of
the world.

See REJECT, pg. 7
RIBUNE—