* These senior citizens protesting the St. Laurent govern-

ment’s niggardly pre-election budget increase for old
age pensioners were among CCF supporters who picketed
Trade Minister C. D. Howe’s meeting in West Vancouver
last week.

Surprise! Bennett for
public power — maybe

VICTORIA, B.C.
Terms on which his government will enter into a federal-
deal for development of the Columbia River were
Bennett. Asked
if his proposals meant that the government was advocating
public rather than™ private development of Columbia power,

provincial l
here this week by Premier W. A. C.
]

}
outlined

Bennett replied, “Yes.”
'

Bennett’s proposals call for:
© No export of power.

downstream benefits it can
get.

of

© 2 province to receive 20 @' Provincial ownership
percent of the extra down- storage dams.
stream power developed The federal government to
through construction of advance the provincial gov-
storage dams in B.C. ernment whatever money is
@ deral government to pay needed for construction of

nstruction, of all stor-
dams in the province
of whatever additional

generating facilities against
the downstream benefits the
province will acquire.

age

out

Coldwell challenges parties
disclose fund sources

n j Liberal, Conservative and Socred parties
anced by big business, CCF national leader M. J. Cold-
ng to a rally in Exhibition Gardens hete on Tues-
k, challenged these parties to disclose the source

1paign funds

which ranged the war. “Now,” he said, “it
issues, Coldwell has got out of hand.”

Sot The income tax laws, he
Liberal govern charged, favored those who

financial policies toi] not neither do they: spin,”
but the Liberals had debated
long with themselves before
giving a $6 increase to old age
pensioners who had given a
lifetinfe of toil. .

ire “to protect our
sainst the conse-
; of inflation” which, he
ass i, it had encouraged to

some extent during and after

Hungarians treated better than
war vets, asserts Legion parley

“We want to know why Ottawa pays $3 a day board and room allowance to Hungaria! ;
refugees while a single war veteran who cannot support himself gets only $60 a month?” Th
was the question posed by Adam Williams, pension committee chairman, for provincial col

vention of the Canadian Legion here on Tuesday this week.

(In Ottawa, Immigration Minister J. W. Pickersgill

Peace through force’
false, declares Rush

The “peace through force” policy advocated by Defense
Minister Ralph Campney is “disastrous for Canada and can
never lead to a stable and lasting peace,” Maurice Rush, Labor-

Progressive candidate in Vancouver

rally here Tuesday.

Campney, Liberal candidate
in the riding, said last week
that Canada relies on maintain-
ing peace through a build-up
of military force.

“The keystone of Canada’s
foreign policy should be to
seek peace through easing in-
ternational tensions, settling
international disputes by
peaceful means, and agree-
ment among the major powers
on disarmament and an end
to the division of the world
into power blocs through an
all-inclusive European collec-
tive security pact,’ Rush
countered:

He said the Liberal govern-
ment was blindly following the
U.S. policy of “arms build-
up and cold war.” This policy
leads to the installation of nu-
clear weapons in many coun-
tries, and to the stepping up
of production and testing of
H-bombs which pose a grow-
ing threat to. mankind.

“An armaments race has
never yet led to peace,” Rush
pointed out. “New weapons of
destruction make it essential
that humanity avoid the
nightmare of another war in
which all mankind would be
the loser.”

Given a new foreign policy
based on the search for peace,
Canada could play a vital) role
in preventing war, the LPP
candidate stressed.

“No person would argue that
any country should unilater-
ally disarm,” he said. “Every
country must maintain suf-
ficient forces to defend itself,
but the present arms race ‘is
getting out of control, and
what is needed above every-

WFTU convention set

a

for October 4-15

The World Federation of
Trade Unions has decided {5
convene the Fourth World
Trade Union Congress in Leip-
zig, Germany from October 4
to 15 this year, according to
announcements received in the
city this week.

The First World Congress of
Trade Unions, which gave firth
to the WFTU, was held in
London in 1945. Subsequent
congresses have been held in
Paris (1945), Milan (1949) and
Vienna (1953)

Centre, told a political

thing else are policies leading
to international agreement to
cut back armaments of all
types and an immediate halt
to the manufacture and test-
ing of nuclear weapons.”

City seeks
to block

court action

Moving to ‘block court ac-
tion against Sunday baseball,
Vancouver City Council de-
cided Tuesday this week to
write Attorney-General Rob-
ert Bonner and City Prosecut-
or Stewart McMorran asking
that “no -action be taken
against the Mounties baseball
club-with regard to alleged in-
fractions of the Lord’s Day
Act.”

Ald. Earle Adams, mover of
the motion,. referred to the
1955 plebiscite in whica city
voters approved Sunday af-
ternoon sport for Vanccuver
and said that council-has now
“done what we could to uphold
the wishes of the peopie.”

Adams reminded council
that an attorney-general com-
plied= with a similar request
several years ago when coun-
cil asked Victoria not to issue
a fiat against Vancouver Sym-
phony Society.

In 1955 Vancouver citizens
voted 38,031 te 36,124 in favor
of Sunday afternoon sports.

Since then city council and
Victoria have been “passing
the buck” until this week.

Vancouver Mounties «forced
the issue by staging several
Sunday games this season,
selling tickets up to midnight
Saturday.

Too little for roads

Charge that the federal guv-
ernment takes $200 million in
direct automotive taxes and
millions more indirectly, vet
spends less than $50 millicn
a year on roads, was made here
this week by R. J. Hastings,
legislative chairman of — the
Canadian Automobile Associa-
tion. : t

MAY 24, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE

said the money is not given direct]

*

‘where the LPP is running

CRANBROOK, B¢

to the Hungarian refugees bu!
is handled by the organization
caring for them and is dis
continued when they find jobs
He did not dispute the $3 fig
ure quoted by Adams).

“The $3 a day payment ti)
Hungarians is an acknowledg®
ment by the government thd
war veterans allowances at!
not enough to live on,” Ada
told Legionnaiers.

A Hungarian refugee famill)
of four would draw $360
month living allowance, yet?
married Canadian veteran }
limited to $120 a month wit
no allowance for dependan!
children.

Delegates adopted a resolv’
tion asking the Legion’s Dom
inion Command to bring thé
situation to the government
attention,

Other resolutions recom
mended, an increase in the ol@}
age pension, called for a health
and. medical scheme for 4!
Canadians, and suggested tha!
widows, and others with 2
income under $75 a month)
should not have to pay co-IN
surance or the cost of speci@
drugs in case of sickness %
injury.

[PP rally

on June 6 —

Three Labor - Progressiv®
federal candidates—Tom M&
Ewen (Vancouver South)!
Maurice Rush (Vancouve!
Centre) and Alf Dewhuts
(New Westminster) — will
speak at a public rally Thu!
day, June 6 at 8 p.m, in Pet)
der Auditorium here.

There is no absentee vote
in federal elections, but 4”
advance poll will be held June)
6, 7 and 8. In constituenci®

advance polls will be locate)
at: :

Vancouver South: 5957 Wes
Boulevard. a

Vancouver Centre: 739 west

Hastings.

New Westminster: 26 Lor
Street. 7
The advance poll is ope
from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., staBe
ard time. i

On June 10, voting day, i
elections act provides
workers must have
clear, consecutive hours
which to vote. Polls are
from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. stand
time. This means that ff
shift workers must be let ©
work at 4 p.m. daylight sav"
ing time. : :

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