WS. HAND SEEN BEHIND CRISIS IN BRAZIL-.»-»».| ~ EFS > Pacific VOL. 20, NO. 33 BUNE VANCOUVER, B.C. 10 _ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1961 EE? € U.S. Pressure Brings Crisis To Brazil Anti-popular groupings ser- Ving the interests of American ‘ig business are obstructing the policy of improving rela- tions between Brazil and the 80Cialist countries. That is the use of the crisis.” This was the message which fame from Luis Carlos Prestes, Secretary of the powerful Com- Munist Party of Brazil, follow- ug €vents of the last few days Which have Brazil teetering on © brink pf civil war. Prestes warned that consti- Utional legality and demo- ratic achievements were seri- %Usly threatened. Last Friday President Janio ‘Uadros resigned soon after 1S award of Brazil’s. highest ®coration to Cuba’s Major Uevara. Quadros aroused ashington opposition with his mand there should be no we intervention in Cuba and 8 Announcement that diplo- Matic relations with the Soviet “10n were to be restored. ane actionary army officers foll attempting to seize control OWing Quadros’ resignation. i are attempting to. pre- prt vice president, Joau Goul- LUIS CARLOS PRESTES art, on his way home from a tour of China and other Asia countries, from assuming the presidency. Despite ri gid censorship news of widespread opposition to the pro-U.S. military clique is leaking out. A general strike was called this week in Guana- bara State of which Rio de Janeiro is the capital “to pre- vent the country from enter- ing into illegality.” Union petition demands tepeal of anti-labor acts _ The B.C. Federation of Labor this week kicked off a Mass province-wide petition campaign agains { Bills 42 nd 43, aimed at securing 150,000 signatures to be pre- ‘tited to the spring session of the Legislature. aS O'Neal, Secretary of the Beton told the Pacific Dai Une that the petition cam- 5 ©2 was being launched by /< distribution of Social Credit’s Anti a Legislation.’ He -~said Abe be followed up im- Sig lately with an intensive nature campaign. the aw Neale, Secretary of int ancouver Labor Council Tmed the P.T. that the Cis mobilizing all avaijable Be onists for Friday, Sep- Bs €r 8th, 6:30 p.m. at the ~-9r Temple for a mass dis- Se eee tribution in Vancouver. The decision rendered this week by the B.C. Supreme Court upholding the validity of the Bill, gives added impetous to the campaign for its repeal. Wide section of the trade-un- ion movement who have been quite critical of the ‘Tegal. na- ture of the fight against the legislation up until this time and are hopeful that the rul- ing of Justice Whittaker will clear away the legal illusions and set the stage for a genu- ine mass campaign. | PEACE’ PLAN: CANNON FODDE! TORIES PLAN BIG ARMS BOOST WHEN PARLIAMENT MEETS SEPT. 7 By MAURICE RUSH Reports from Ottawa this week indicate that the Diefenbaker government, using the pretext of the Berlin crisis, is moving to sharply increase the arms burden on the Canadian people when Parliament reconvenes on September 7. It was reported Wednesday that the Federal cabinet will seek parliamentary approval for a decision to boost Canada’s armed forces by 50,000 men at an additional cost of about $300 million. The additional cost will push the total arms bill to $2 billion. Following the dictates of the U.S. government, the Diefenbaker cabinet is moving to create a war hysteria in Can- ada behind which it can justify stepping up the coid war and ultimately to introduce nuclear weapons in Canada. The report of an arms build- up comes a few days after the Federal cabinet announced a nation-wide civil defence ex- ercise later in the year. The additional arms cost will heap new heavy military burdens on Canada’s working people. The projected increas- es will mean that the arms pro- gram will cost Canada over $110 for every man, woman end child in the country. It is also expected that the addition of another $300 mil- lion to the arms budget will raise Canada’s overall deficit for 1961-62 to about $1 bil- lion, the highest in peacetime history. Taken together with the de- valuation of the Canadian dol- lar introduced by Finance Min- ister Fleming at the last ses- sion of parliament, new heavy burdens are to be piled on Can- adian taxpayers and particul- arly the working people. Early reports from Ottawa also indicate that the Federal cabinet is expected to propose measures to further integrate Canada with the iyvorth Ameri- can radar system. This is an- other way of saying the U.S. military control over Canada is to be further strengthened. At atime when sensible voic- es all over the world and in Canada are being raised for early negotiations to settle the Berlin issue peacefully around the conference table, the Dief- enbaker government chooses the road dictated by the U.S State Department: the road of stepped up war talk and pre- parations aimed at stirring up war hysteria. Here again is seen the disas- trous results of the present foreign policy of the Canadian ABOUT THIS EDITION With this 16 page Labor Day edition the Pacific Tribune launches the larger tabloid size page. We hope you like it. We will now be able to bring our readers a wider coverage of evenis. If you appreciate this issue, the best thing you can do is turn to page 15 and read about our present circulation drive. government under which Can- ada plays a satellite role to the U.S. This role was underlined once again last week when Canada’s representative to the special U.N. General Assembly meeting: followed the U.S. lead and abstained from voting on a resolution asking France to withdraw to its Sizerte base in Tunisia and undertake ne- gotiations with Tunisia for complete withdrawal. The Can- adian stand has undermined Canada’s prestige in the eyes of hundreds of millions of As- ians, Africans and Latin Amer- icans. There is still time to stop the disastrous course being pur- sued by the Diefenbaker gov- ernment. With parliament op- ening next week every MP and the Prime Minister himself, should be flooded with letters, resolutions and wires demand- ing rejection by parliament of any increase in the arms bud- get. Canadians want Canada to play a positive role for peace which would help resolve the present critical situation in Berlin and lead to peaceful set- tlement of outstanding differ- ences. Canadians want our country to get out from under U.S. domination and to pursue an independent neutral policy in the interesis’ of peace and friendship. LABOR IS THE TRUE SOURCE OF WEALTH. na Se These words of William Lyon Mackenzie, father of responsible government in Canada, are particularly apt this Labor Day. Mackenzie, who led the Rebellion of 1837 for the people’s rights, died 100 years ago August 28. Today Canadian labor continues in the finest tradition of Mackenzie to uphold the struggle against the new Family Compact, the monopolies, and for peace and independence. : | | |