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Over Berlin’

Uesday, September 5.

|, uhe resolution stated that
Bow more than in any period
tn history it is the responsibil-
ity Of every citizen to demand
that the present dispute over
~tlin be placed in the hands
t the United Nations where it
Uightfully belongs instead of in
€ arena of irresponsible
Wer politics.”
_. hn Baskin, Western Repre-
ntative of the USW, speak-
§ to the resolution, reminded
a delegates that the “rather
a dead than red” slogan was
g vented by Hitler as a justi-
Neation for the second world
8%. He said that “forces in
© World are building up sym-
Pathy over Berlin so that we
a ao forget what happened in
20.” “T have an abject hor-
T of seeing the German na-
a Clothed, in a soldiers uni-
orm again” he said, adding,
oe Is stupid to talk about
Nilding bomb shelters when
© obvious answer is no more

to

bor Council Hits ‘War

Advocates

_. “No politician, no warlord, no one and no group has
t € right to gamble with our es and. that is. exactly
What those who are urging war over Berlin are advocat-
; ing,” reads a resolution submitted by Local 3229 of the
Ynited Steelworkers of America and passed by the Van-
“Ouver and District Labor Council at its regular meeting

War,»

Jim Ormerod, Marine Engi-
neers, suggested the resolu-
tion inéclude condemnation of
Diefenbaker who was taking
advantage of the Berlin situa-
tion by proposing to up the
Canadian arms budget by
$300,000,000. He asked council
to vigorously protest this pro-
posed arms increase.

The executive appealed to
all trade unionists for’ assist-
ance in distributing 150,000
copies of the Bill 42-43 protest
leaflet and the public power
leaflet put out by the B.C. Fed-
eration of Labor.

It announced the following
places for the distribution on
Friday, September 15 at 5:30
to 6:30 p.m.:—Vancouver, La-
bor Temple, 307 West Broad-
way, Hall 12. North Vancou-
ver, 404 East 9th St. Burnaby,
411 Eaton St., North Burnaby.
New Westminster, Longshore-
man’s Hall, 71 10th St. Surrey,
Moose Hall (on Ferguson, east
of highway).

a S. magazine Look boasts
S week that the Polaris sub-
te, George Washington,
a ch just completed three
Pa. Tols of Soviet shores, is
ie’ “of obliterating 16
“88 at the rate of one per
linute, ”

The U.S. recently voted

ig Von BRAUN’S STORY
Antwerp, Belgium, when

Ne story, “I! iAim -at othe;
82 was ‘Shown in the: ‘Red.
Mes atre, crowds: stormed thé
4 at re: and the film had to
% Maken! off. Reason: ’ This

mere was hit by a V-2 in

ie

mee, ‘S.made.Werner: Von}.

.. and 700 people killed.
: mm made the V-2’s,

“AN DESTROY A SOVIET CITY
A MINUTE BOASTS AMERICA,

Ike decided. last year to resume tests

funds to puild up to 29. such
subs which ‘would have the

nuclear power to destroy near-|

ly 500 cities. It was also _re-

-vealed this week that the U.S.

stockpile of nuclear bombs in
West Germany and Britain is
more than 5000.

The former chairman. of the
U.S. Atomic Energy Commis-
sion, Lewis Strauss, said in an
interview published in- U.S.
News, :and:,World Report :that
President - < Hisenhower..;/ had}
made up his mind Jeast-autumn:)
that testing . should: be.: re-
sumed; but had postponed. the;
decision in order to leave the
incoming - president. ‘a free
hand’.”

STATEMENT BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY of CANADA

DANGER

The National Executive Committee of the
Communist Party of Canada issued the fol-
lowing statement August 31 on the Soviet
Gevernment’s announcement regarding tests
of nuclear weapons:

The statement issued by the Soviet gov-
ernment explaining why it is impelled to
resume the testing of nuclear weapons makes
it unmistakably clear’ that it considers that
the danger of war has become extremely
grave. It is, also, an inescapable reminder

allow. war to break out, it will be nuclear
war of destructive intensity and on a scale
that may be immeasurable.

against the proposal for a peace treaty he-
-tween the Soviet Union and the German
Democratic Republic has fomented a war
psychosis in Western Germany and _ the
United States. This has been inflamed fur-
ther by official pledges from a number of
governments of NATO powers to prepare for
war, announcement that NATO forces have
a supply of nuclear weapons on hand, in
Europe, equal to 5,000.of the bombs dropped
on Hiroshima. These facts confront all Can-
adians with the stern reality that, to prevent
war, governments must be compelled to
desist from the advocacy of war as an insiru-
ment of national policy and accep? instead
the proposal for universal general disarma-
ment — a world without weapons, a world
without war!

To prevent war the policies of govern-
ments must, consistently, be expressions of

negotiation.

The policies pursued by the United States
' government and its NATO allies in their
build-up of the Berlin crisis have been re-
- jection of negotiation, accompanied by hypo-
critically pious protestations about devotion
to peace, the effect of which were solely
to deceive and delude people.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker summed up
their real attitude when he told an audience
in Halifax that the NATO powers must show
the Soviet Union that, the question of Berlin,

“it not negotiable” - This and the accompany-
ing announcement that his government will
accept nuclear weapons involved Canada
directly in the drive to war.

en reported that, after his con-
versation with Premier Khrushchev at
Vienna, President Kennedy speculated that
nuclear war might have to be accepted
rather than a humiliating political retreat
by United States imperialism. This iiself mis-
represented the issue confronting the United
States, and the world, which is not one of
political retreat but of whether to accept the
‘principle of settling international disputes
by negotiation or to persist in attempts to
settle them by threats of war.

The United States government chose the
coursé of threats and widely advertised pre-
-parations for war. On June 17th it announced
that it could nof forego nuclear testing in-
‘definitely in the absence of an international
treaty ‘barring all nuclear tests. The Presi-
dent sent -Vice President Lyndon Johnson
‘on a ’morale building” visit to Berlin. Presi-
-dent Kenriedy has not dissociated himself
from any aspect of the inflammatory belli-
‘cose’ promises made to the West German
war camp by his Vice President; on the

K OF WAR IS
EXTREMELY GRAVE

to all of us that, if the’ peoples of the world-

A criminal campaign of threats of war'

the will to settle international disputes by _

contrary, he followed up Johnson’s visit
immediately by the dispatch of additional
U.S. forces to Berlin where they were hailed
as evidence of the United States determina-
tion of fight. It is of grave Significance that
President Kennedy's key staiement on the
Soviet government's resumption of tests was
that “the American troops in Berlin are our'
hostage’ to the pledges that have been given
to the people of West Germany.

All the way through its development of
the Berlin crisis the Kennedy Administra-
tien has tried to create an illusion that the
United States can impose its will by force
of arms at any time that it should decide
to do so. The glaring lack of a sense of
reality revealed by this makes the danger
of war particularly acute.

Thus the U.S. government and its NATO
allies have confronted the Soviet govern-
ment with the threat of war, leaving ii no
alfernative but to prepare by all means pos-
sible to meet it effectively. Those who
threaten war are responsible for the prepara-
tions made to meet that threat. The Soviet
government's difficult decision will be
judged in the light of the untrammelled
campaign that has been developed to build:
up war hysteria over the so-called Berlin
crisis and to launch out of this hystéria
nuclear war to destroy socialist society.

The decision to resume testing does not
mean that war is inevitable; on the contrary
it should arouse the overwhelming majority
of mankind to a realization that action must
be taken now to stop the organized drive to
war by the United States government and
its NATO allies.

The Communist Party of Canada has sup-
ported consistently all activities directed to
ending the testing of nuclear weapons. We
shall continue to support the aim of out-
lawing the use of such weapons and there-
fore, the manufacture or testing of them.
We have advocated adoption of a policy of
Canadian neutrality and we shal! continue
to do so. Members of our party al! across
Canada are dedicated workers in these ac-
tivities and they will continue to be. The
dangerous situation which now impels the
Soviet government to resume tesis empha-
sizes the necessity to stréngthen still more
the campaign to bring about an international
agreement to stop all tests by outlawing
all weapons.

We appeal to all our fellow Canadians
who desire to prevent a third world war to
press the Federal Government io call now
for immediate negotiations to settle the
question of Germany including the question
of Berlin. Instead of announcing that Can-
ada’s armed forces are to be increased by
40% as part of the NATO preparations for
war, press Prime Minister Diefenbaker to
announce that Canada will have no pari in
any war over the city of Berlin. Instead of
announcing that Canada will accept nuclear
weapons, press Prime Minister Diéfenbaker
to announce that-Canada now stands four:
square for an immediate international agree-
ment for universal general disarmament
under. international inspection and control.

Insist upon immé€diate negotiation of all

outstanding. differences before it is too late.

—National Executive Commitiee,
Communist Party of Canada,

Communist Party Supports No Nuclear

Arms Petition: Turn In 13,000 Signatures

Another five thousand. signa-| tained by

duresswere turned overito the |Party! ‘during the-

Se eT

Communist|:Morgan declared.
summer} '“*We hope -other political

B.C:-Committee fon: Contrel of | mohths, Nigel Morgan, provin-|parties and organizations sup-
Radiation Hazards oniWednes- ‘cial. amore of the Party said.|porting the campaign will

day: byio thei: B:CxsPremineial

ea Special ‘effort should *be}match ‘our effort. The times

Committee “of -the Communist istic #0 step up the campaign | certainly ‘call for every effort

Party.

which will continue into Sep-|to ensure that Canada rejects
The signatures raise. a a| tember, according to latest an-| nuclear weapons,”

he con-

total of 13,022 the number ob-|nouncements of the sponsors,| cluded. ;

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