fe vit cg 50 VANCOUVER, B.C. 10¢ Morris speaks in B.C. Leslie Morris,- national leader of the Party, will kick off the fed- eral election campaign in B.C. with three election ral- lies next week. : Friday, May 11, at 8 p.m., he will speak with Commun- ist Party candidate for Com- ox-Alberni, Mark Mosher, at the Eric Graf Hall in Port Alberni. Saturday, May 12, he will speak ata rally in Courtenay. Sunday, May 13, at 8 p.m., he will speak at a giant elec- tion rally in Vancouver's Pender Auditorium. ES Above is a section of the mammoth Hyd American Embassy in Grosvenor Communist. “World public opinion is rightly shocked and an- gered by the cynical decis- ion of the U.S. government to renew testing of nuc- lear weapons precisely at a time when the disarma- ment conference is in ses- sion in Geneva,” said the opening lines of a state- ment adopted this week by the national committee of the Communist Party meeting in Toronto. The statement continues: “If any act was calculated to destroy the Disarmament -Conference and with it the hopes of the people for world disarmament, this is it. “If any act was calculated to prevent agreement on the banning of the bomb, this is ae any step was calculated ‘to step up the nuclear arms ‘race, this is it. a Chy the United States’ 8roUge Istmas Island has from 7) Storm of protest: See a, British a alks of life in Dur; Uumbia Te In, * oto; § t e Past Week the n a ¥ Protests Were regis- Th Venrore. yttio Bc. Teachers Con. er, ad, Meeting in V dem. -Pted a ancou- nin oluti on : eave 1 clear tests. Sine pecher : Tepresented 12,000 MWitce, “°™ all over the e . th an one B. a Convention of 4] aa eae ‘Teacher Fed. 00 €sentin dopteg embers, au ay oe Posing *, Strong ws ar e@ Sprea di n Rot Qo €apon of nuc- Pledg Possessing Enea u an achj all at- Ment throw, ‘otal dis- negotia- ord against nuclear testing from an earlier convention. e Tuesday night the Van- couver Labor Council adopt- . SIR BERNARD LOVELL. head of the radio-astronomy station at Jodrell Bank, Bri- tain, Tuesday condemned U.S. plans for a nuclear blast 500 miles abo'we the earth. He said “the operators of this project should be restrained by all possible means.” Labor, PTA, teachers : ‘stop tests’ ed a resolution condemning nuclear tests and called on the Canadian Labor Congress to condemn the tests by the “U.S. and any other country.” (See fuller reports of these three important stories in- side). This week the B.C. Peace Council announced that it will stage a demonstration against the tests outside the U.S.- Embassy in Vancouver on Saturday, May 12 starting at 1:30 p.m. fe The U.S. Embassy 1s located at Burrard and Georgia Sts. An appeal has gone out to the public to join the protest demonstration. The main banner in the de- monstration will be: ‘For hu- manity—stop the tests.” At press time there were aily demonstra- tions in London, England, throughout Japan, and in many other world centres, 1n- cluding the United States. reports of d . D PROTEST MOUNTS U.S. BOMB TESTS e Park rally in London last week pach later marched to the Square to stage a silent protest against U.S. nuclear tests. - STOP TESTING! KEEP TALKING! NEGOTIATE! URGES C.P. CALL Mankind is confronted with a threat to its very existence and no _ country more than Canada, may suf- fer the consequences of this dangerous act. “The U.S. Government has declared that the decision to ‘renew testing was necessary to its security. This is a down- right lie! Outstanding U‘S. scientists have declared that \the U.S. has today all the nu- reclear weapons necessarv for its security, and more than enough to blow up the world. _ “The decision to renew testing is not based on the need to safeguard the secur- ity of the U.S. It is the pub- licly declared policy of those ‘who advocate that the United States “strike first”, it is pre- paration for cold blooded ag- gression against other peo- ples, in the first place the peoples of the socialist world. “The Canadian Govern- ment is acting in a highly irresponsible manner when it declares that the U.S. de- cision to renew nuclear test- ing is due to lack of agree- ment at the disarmament con- ference in Geneva. ‘‘Lack-of agreement is no excuse for renewing testing: rather it emphasizes the need to continue discussion leading to agreement on the control and banning of nuclear weap- ons. “It is not testing of bigger WRONG NUMBER — AND YOUR NUMBER’S UP. This is See TESTING, pg. 7 the U.S. Strategic Air Command's “Red Phone” linking all H-bomb bases. One mistake here and most of the world can go up in smoke, which is what nearly happened last fall when a false alarm resulted in a U.S. general ordering all bombers on the runways. A fact which emerged recently was that the order was given without Canada, which is a member of NORAD, knowing anything about it.