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VOL. 20, NO. 46
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1,

VANCOUVER, B.C.

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1961

Pritchett runs for
Burnaby reeve post

Harold Pritchett, ee President of the

IWA and Vice-President of
payers Association,

Opening his election cam-
paign Tuesday night when he
spoke to two ratepayers groups
in Lozelles Community Hall
and Valleyview Community
Centre, Pritchett struck out
against rising taxation.

“Homeowners, tenants and
small businessmen are groan-
ing under a rising mountain of
municipal taxation while the
national wealth is being siph-
oned off in lush profits by the
big monopolies and arms manu-
facturers,” he charged.

“As long as municipalities
are forced to finance on the
basis of real estate tax the
crisis will get deeper and deep-
er,” he said. Pritchett accused.

his opponents of ignoring this

basic question and trying to
delude the voters into thinking

that the solution to the crisis}
lay inside the boundaries of! }

Burnaby.

He reminded his audiences
that, “Burnaby had gone bank-
rupt during the thirties, and
unless some assistance from
senior governments was forth-
coming to finance essential

entered a five-cornered race for
Burnaby reeveship this week.

the Vancouver Heights Rate-

services and schools, the same |
prospect lay before the muni-|
cipality again.

“When you vote on Decem-
ber 7 in Burnaby you will
have an opportunity to either
vote for one of the four can-
didates who pledge to admin-
ister a crisis which their poli-
cies have brought about, or
Pritchett who offers a way out
of the municipal crisis,” he
concluded.

HAROLD PRITCHETT

U.N. debate on seat
for China opens Fri.

The United Nations General Assembly debate on the ques-

tion of seating People’s China

will likely dominate U.N. debates for the next three weeks,

Early reports from Ottawa

follow the U.S. and is expected to

) delegation to head off early
referring the issue to a special

is expected to open Friday and

indicate that Canada will egies
back a move from the U.S.
action on a seat for China by
conmaee of the U.N.

endorse the draft Treaty, want

|for good measure.

| retary Udall have served notice

|.genuinely has the interests of

UNITED ACTION URGED TO STOP SELLOUT

NO U.S: POWER EXPORT.
SCRAP COLUMBIA PACT’

“The tinal showdown on Columbia River power is fast approaching. A concerted
drive has been initiated by the U.S. power trust and the Bennett government to force
Ottawa to grant the export permits they require to proceed with the biggest sur-

render in all Canada’s history.”

This was the charge made
Wednesday by B.C. Communist
Party leader Nigel Morgan, in
a special statement to the Pa-
cific Tribune dealing with the
power issue, Morgan’s state-
ment says:

“Canada’s future is at stake.
tf the Bennett government has
its way the prospect of an all-
Canadian, National power grid
will be lost. And with it, tens
of thousands of Western Can-
adian jobs in industries that
will locate whenever and
wherever a ready supply of
cheap power is available.

“Qpposition to the sellout is
growing as witness the decision
of the Associated Chambers of
Commerce of Southeastern
BCs
ously reversed their former
position to come out against
“High Arrow’—the key pro-

posal of the present’ draft
Treaty
“Diefenbaker and Fulton

have gone along on surrender
of the Columbia watershed for
U.S. needs under the terms of
the present draft Columbia
Treaty.

Bennett and Williston — who

to sell the downstream bene-
fits as well, and throw the
Peace’s vast hydro potential in

“Obviously, the U.S. mon-
opolists want Bennetts’ deal,
and through U.S. Interior Sec:

they are prepared to do what-
ever arm-twisting is necessary
to get what they want.
ACTION NEEDED

“What is needed is the
broadest and sharpest opposi-
tion to any surrender of B.C.
waterpower. Every patriotic
person and organization, who

Canada at heart, should lose no
time in making it clear that
they are unalterably opposed to
the granting of any export per-
mit; that they want the present
draft Columbia River Treaty
scrapped.

"Demand that steps be taken
by the Federal and Provincial
governments in co-operation (or
by the Federal government it-
self if necessary) to establish.
an East-West,  trans- Canada
power grid to stimulate in-
dustrial development of Can-
ada and provide more jobs for
Canadians.” concludes Mor-
gan’s statement.

COLUMBIA TREATY
MUST GO

Following on Justice Min-
ister Fulton’s statement Tues-
day night against the Socred
plan to sell all Columbia down-
stream benefits in the US.,
Morgan’s statement points out
that both Ottawa and Victoria
are guilty of plans to sell out
B.C. and Canada’s interests.

Most British Columbians will
welcome a stand’ by Ottawa
against sale of downstream
power to the U:S.} at the same
time they should not lose sight
of the fact that Ottawa’s

who last week unanim-),

NIGEL MORGAN
. who this week called for
united action to stop the sell-
out of B.C. power to the U.S.

hands are not clean.

The original sellout is in the
present draft treaty, which sets
out terms for developing the
Columbia which are fully fav-
orable to the U.S., and against
Canada’s interests. (See article
on page 3).

The “point ‘at’ dispute now
between Ottawa and Victoria
is that the Bennett government,
with U.S. open backing, wants
to go all the way and sell the
Columbia downstream bene-
fits to the U.S. as well.

MANY AGAINST

Strong opposition was grow-
ing all across Canada to export
of power to the U.S. and
against the present draft Co-
lumbia Treaty.

In Ontario recently, the
powerful 23,000-member Unit-
ed Electrical Worker’s Union,
meeting in convention, adopted
a resolution calling on “the
Canadian government to under-

take the planning, construction
and maintenance of an Kast-
West power grid to be owned
by the Canadian people.”

The resolution urges that the
Columbia be developed as an
integral part of such a national
grid, and opposes the “shame-
ful sellout” in the sl ack draft
Treaty.

Last Friday, New Democra-
tic Party leader Robert Stra-
chan hit out against power ex-
port and the “High Arrow”
dam, He charged that Premier
Bennett was openly imviting
U.S. intervention into Canad-
ian affairs.

Earlier in the week U.S. In-
terior Secretary Stewart Udall
brazenly injected himself into
Canadian affairs with state-
ments aimed at putting pres-
sure on Ottawa to permit large
scale power exports to the
US.

Strachan denounced the
“High Arrow” dam _ scheme,
which is the heart of the draft
Columbia Treaty as “nothing
more than the old Kaiser dam
in disguise.”

Also last weekend, The B.C.
Federation of Labor in a wire
to the Federal government de-
nounced power export to the
U.S. {

POLICE BRUTALITY
IN LAND OF FREE

WASHINGTON — The Civil
Rights Commission reported in
November that police lawless-
ness and brutality remain “a
serious problem throughout
the U.S.”

One conclusion was that
“Negroes feel the brunt of
official brutality proportionate-
ly more than any other group
in American society.”

LL B.C. municipalities

LOTS OF MONEY FOR ARMS-
BUT NONE FOR CIVIC NEEDS

civic elections within the next two weeks. The big
issue facing each and every one of them is lack of
funds to meet growing Civic needs.

Civie governments are being starved while nearly
$2 billion a year is being poured down the arms. drain,
with no benefit to anyone,

On pages 6, 7 and 12 our readers will find special
articles devoted to the coming civic elections.

and cities will hold their