_URGE GOVT EXPROPRIATE E& N LANDS NOW sxcstors vase 1 >MS Se ergipdhacpreteragia’ apt emery nppeset ens = Linares taaiieniarand tik ti \} | VOL. 22, NO. 5 VANCOUVER, BC. @ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1962 <>" € | LR. Campbell Vancouver, Victoria J. R. CAMPBELL speaks in British Communist Party chairman J. R. Campbell, former editor| of the Daily Worker, will speak at two public meet- ‘ings in B.C, this weekend! on the subject: “Britain, Canada and the European Common Market.” Sat.,. Feb. 3, he . will} speak in. Victoria’s ‘Wil-| liams Auditorium ‘on! ‘Broughton St., at 8 p.m. Sun., Feb. 4 he will) speak in. Vancouver's ce | | der Auditorium at 8 p.m. Capacity crowds are ex- pected. : ‘MARCH FOR JOBS’ SET FOR FEB. 21 B.C. unemployed will march on Victoria Wednesday, ' thesunemployed office, 307 February 21st, it was announced this. week by the B.C. Federation of Labor and the B.C. Federation of Unem- ployed. \ : l-west Broadway, phone TR Officers of the unemploy- | 9.3341. ed organizations are concen-| . Some indication of the ing their efforts, in CO) growing gravity of the situa- operation. with the trade! tion is provided in govern- unions, around the job of, ment figures on foreclosures raisi sa tis ;_, between. 1956 and 1960. In wee oe = ee 1956 the number of foreclos- : ‘ures for B.C. was 53. Between the ‘project. 1956 and 1959 it rose slowly L to 120. In 1960 it soared to 515. There are no figures for 1961, but there is no doubt but that a further sharp in- They anticipate the organ- ization will parallel that of last’ year’s demonstration. The. largest contingent com- | crease will show. These fig-: i : it i inted out, repre- Ing fro ures, it is pointe ; 4 oe sent less than 10 per cent of and interior regions will pro- | +. number farced to sell for ceed to Vancouver Island by | financial reasons. boat, and join with Vancou- | Representative of the prob- ver Island regions in Victor- ‘lem also. was a delegation da for a mass meeting and a | from the Civic Workers Un- rnarch’ : . |ion which met with Leslie ; on ~ ‘the’ “legislative Black, Minister of Municipal buildings. to protest restrictions impos- ed on the City of Vancouver in hiring men for Winter works projects, and the re- cent lay-offs of more than ninety winter works men em- ployed bythe city of »Van- couver andthe Vancouver Parks Board. Fane at Cost of the trip to and from the captial city will be borne by the organization. Unemployed interested in Darticipating in the March tor-jobs are asked to contact Affairs:in Victoria this week, | The Diefenbaker government probably has a secret deal to use nuclear weapons on Canada’s Bomarc installations after the next Federal election. This charge was made by New Democratic Party na- tional leader Tommy Doug- las Tuesday while speaking to 1,800 University of BC. students. Douglas said “it is hard to imagine that Canada and the U.S. are spending so much money building Bomark sites unless there is some such sec- ret understanding.” The charge by Douglas came a few days after a sim- ilar charge was made in the House of Commons in Otta- wa by NDP member Erhart Regier (Burnaby) who said nuclear weapons are already in Canada and wanted a statement from the govern- ment on its nuclear policy. Last week Defence Minis- ter Douglas Harkness told the House of Commons he would refuse to reveal when Canad- ian missile squadrons at home | and abroad would go into op- | eration. He ‘said it was “never the! practice to advertise such | matters:” . That. -secret behind-the-| scene talks have been going US air force frucks cross \BC picket line). Sr Se Agr Force vehicles |are crossing a legal union picket line, it has been charged by the B.C. Federa- tion of Labor and the Whole- sale Retail Clerks Union. ” External Affairs Minister Green has promised to look ‘Federation after violations by the U.S. Air Force of a picket line set up Limited at Kamloops. The personnel are from a U.S. Air Foree base station- ed on Mount Lolo near Kam- loops. Ninety members of the Wholesale Retail Union have been on ‘strike against the couver since July 18, 1961 Issue of the dispute is wages. The union claims the wages paid by the company are 10 to 15 percent lower than those paid by competing firms. The company refused to. consider any wage in- crease. The contract actually expired in June 1960, .and negotiations continued until July 1961, when the workers struck the plants: A special meeting called by the B.C. Federation of Labor on Jan. 23. proposed a method of per capita support from B.C. unions to assist the hard: pressed’ strikers. © on was revealed last fall when U.S. President John F. Kennedy sent a letter to Prime Minister Diefenbaker pressing for a quick decision to store U.S. nuclear way heads on Canadian territory. When asked to reveal the contents of the letter in the House, Diefenbaker refused except to say that the con- | tents of personal letters are not revealed. Pressure for nuclear arms in Canada has been mounting steadily. Latest pressure came from the recent NATO confer- ence in Paris. The Federal government has been steadily moving in the direction of supplying .| Canadian armed forces with U.S. weapons which require nuclear. warheads to be effec- tive. Hundreds of millions have been spent on four ma- jor U.S. weapons: the Bomare missile, the. U.S. Voodoo air- craft, the CF-104 and the Honest John artillery rocket. Arming, of Canadian forc- es with U.S. weapons, which require. nuclear warheads, is seen as a sure sign that the Canadian government has al< ready decided to accept nue- lear arms from the U.S. The only thing remaining is to find the ‘‘appropriate’’ mo- ment to make the announce- ment. The charge by Tommy Douglas that the government is planning to take the step shortly after the Federal el- ection, bears out widespread suspicion about Tory ‘“de- fence” policy. — Unfortunately, Douglas’ op- position to nuclear arms in Canada is seriously weaken- ed by his continued support of Canada’s membership in NATO. It is from this allian- ce where the main pressure for nuclear arms is coming. It is now certain that the issue of nuclear arms for Canada will be.a central one in the coming Federal elec- tion, and that the outcome of this election can. well deter- mine whether Canada will re- ject nuclear arms or be drag- ged into the nuclear strategy of the U.S, Latin Americans back Cuba into the complaint by the} § repeated | § at Taylor Pearson & Carson]! Taylor Pearson firm in Van-): \ LAST WEEK vast demonsirations took place all over Latin America in support of the Cuban people and their new gov- ernment. These demonstrations were in answer to the U.S. attempt at the conference at Punta Del Este to intervene against Cuba. Picture above, shows youth demonstrating in Guatemala. Below, a mass. rally in Mexico’s capital, Main banner reads: “To safeguard the Cuban revolution is to safeguard our own independence.” =~ 2 sce cease pense