LIL Uo Luan oA a ee Ee UL. 20, NO. 34 y . VANCOUVER, B.C. MWay, SEPTEMBER 8, 1961 Hempts by. the local. press, mo TV to portray the ~ 8S an. anti-Soviet. pro- dno basis: in. fact. ‘The heralded “march of Was in reality a dem- ©n for peace, disarma- 8nd an-immediate treaty ing all nuclear tests. Lk 4, ttterea among the 600 ets were a mere seven €" Placards. iN uM @” yeti scting in drizzling rain at ih tor Vehicle Testing Sta- - Marchers trekked up Poet to the Queen h Theatre. On the way who swelled their “Considerably. ny Wing the parade, a | han ne was held in the fh te f the Queen Elizabeth ®. The meeting, chaired S. Johnson of the B.C: Bilor Dies At 80 . William Z. Foster, veteran. chairman of the United States Communist Party died last Fri- day at the age of 80. He died in a sanatorium just outside Moscow. For years af- ter his stroke in 1957 the U.S. authorities prevented his going to the Soviet Union for medi- cal treatment by refusing him a -passpori. His wife, 82-year-old Esther Foster, was with him when he died. He was put on trial in 1949 with 11 other Communist Party leaders, but he was so gravely ill they did not dare jail him. Next week’s PT will carry a special tribute by Tim Buck. \Gity marchers urge Manada act for peace My, ace on Earth, Let Canada Lead,” “No Nuclear Arms Canada” and “No War Over Berlin” were among the By Signs carried in last Sunday’s’ mass. peace march igh downtown Vancouver. Committees on Radiation, Haz- ards, heard Dr. Robert Wright of the B.C. Research . Council}. appeal to Prime Minister Dief-|- enbaker to take the lead in bringing about a nuclear test}. ban. as a_ first step toward avoiding a nuclear-holocaust. Telegrams calling for a ban|. on nuclear.tests were sent to Premier Khrushchev, dent Kennedy and Dag: Ham- marskjold.. : Seven organizations offici-|. -ally participated. They were; B.C. Committees on Radiation} 4 ‘Hazards, “B.C. ‘Peace ~ Council, | ‘B.C. Voice of Women, Fellow- ship of Reconciliation, ‘Peace ‘by Peaceful Means Society, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Vancouver World Federal- ‘ists. : ’ Presi-|- loviet Test Decision Seen As Warning To Aggressors NATO POLICY LEADING URLS TO WAR RINK DANGER OF WAR EXTREMELY GRAVE WARNS CANADIAN COMMUNIST PARTY; URGE CANADA ACT NOW FOR PEACE The Soviet Government's decision to resume nuclear tests demonstrates the increasing gravity of the international situation. This decision was taken by} the Soviet Union after a series of provocative Western mili- tary measures, including the calling up of reservists in the U.S., reinforcement of Western forces in West Germany and Berlin, the stepping up of the arms race, and the continua- tion of nuclear tests by one of the major NATO countries, France. Canada has also contributed to this stepped-up war drive with announcements last week that Parliament will be asked to increase the armed forces by 40 percent. In a strongly-worded state- ment the Communist Party of Canada has appealed to ‘Can- adians who desire to prevent a third world war to press the Federal Government to call now for immediate nego- tiation to settle the question of Germany including the ques- tion of Berlin.” It urges that “instead of an- nouncing that Canada’s armed forces are to be increased 40 percent as part of the NATO preparations’ for war,” that Prime Minister Diefenbaker be pressed to ‘announce that Canada will have no part in any war over Berlin.” The statement also urges that Prime Minister Diefen- baker reject nuclear weapons for Canada and take a stand “foursquare for an immediate international agreement for universal general disarmament under international inspection and control.” The full text of the Com- munisit Party statement is on page 3. SOVIET STATEMENT Since the Soviet announce- ment of resumption of nuclear tests the cold war press has gone wild, seeking to inflame anti-Soviet and cold war hy- steria. For the most part the daily press has failed to print any part of the actual an- nouncement of the Soviet Gov- ernment on the reasons for their action. Fortunately the Pacific Tri- bune has been able to procure a copy of the statement which is reprinted here in part: The peoples are witnessing the ever-increasing aggressive- ness of the policy of the Nato military bloc. The United States and its allies are spin- ning the flywheel of their mil- itary machine ever faster, fan- ning up the arms race to un- precedented scope, increasing the strength of armies, making the tension of the internation- al situation red-hot. ‘NO WAR OVER (BERLIN. Photo. ‘line-organized recently ‘by ‘the ‘Toronto Communist Party before ithe U.S. Consulate‘to demand a.peaceful settlement in Germany ows a section of ‘the picket and Berlin. Seen leading the line are Sam ‘Walsh and Charles Weir, chairman and labor secretary of the party’s Toronto committee, Behind them is Ontario party leader Bruce Mag- nuson. Things have reached such a point that the leading states. men of the U.S. and its allies are resorting to threats to take to arms and to unleash war ag a counter-measure to the cons clusion of a peace treaty with the German Democratic Ree public. Being faced with these facts, which cannot but cause anxie< ty, ‘the Soviet Government considers it its duty to take all necessary measures so that the Soviet Union should be coms pletely prepared to render harmless any aggressor if he tried to launch an attack. The desire of people to put an end to the arms race and to free themselves forever from destructive wars is espéte ially close to the Soviet people who have recently seen a war in their own house and paid incomparable losses for the restoration of peace. But everything through which people went in the past wars pales in the face of the horrors which can be let on them by merely a few thermo- nuclear bombs. And today not a dozen, not a hundred but thousands of such bombs are in the arsenals of the Great Powers. DISARMAENT The Soviet Government was the first in raising a voice for general and complete disarma-< ment, for stopping the nuclear weapons tests. It has repeated- ly submitted to the United Na- tions specific proposals that ensure the achievement of that aim. The opponents of disarma< ment still pretend that the dif- ferent approach of the Soviet Union and the Western Pow- ers to the question of control is an obstacle to an agreement on disarmament. The question of control has _|for years been a. stumbling block on the way to agreement on disarmament. This -was so because control has been used by the Western Powers as a pretext to turn down any pro- posal on disarmament. The Soviet Government has stated openly that it is ready to accept in advance any pro- posal of the Western Powers on international control. Only one thing: was expected from the Western Powers and that was to accept our proposals on general disarmament and to submit their proposals on gen- eral control. The main thing in our day is disarmament, general and complete, and an agreement on such disarmament would cov- er the question of nuclear tests. See NATO POLICY, pg. 8 jw dh