.S. AGGRESSION MENACE TO PEACE Attacks on N. Vietnam ‘act of war’ Prime Minister Pearson should im mediately call for the reconvening of the Geneva conference to indict the U.S. for aggression in North Vietnam and to arrive at a settlement in the interests of the people of South East Asia and world peace. This was the demand made Monday by National Communist Party leader William Kashtan in a wire to the Prime Minister following two air attacks by U.S. planes on North Vietnam. o ee FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1965 VOL. 26, NO. 6 and ultra-Right groups. Posure in the next issue. Socred-racist tieup exposed next week The Pacific Tribune was all set this week to de- ‘vote the whole of page one and more to an exposure of the link between the Social Credit party, the racist However, the U.S. attack on North Vietnam, and the danger it poses to world peace, compelled us to lay that important story over until next week. The large number of photostats, pictures and in- formation in possession of the PT proving the tie-up between these groups needs extensive space which could not be given this week. We urge our readers to look for this important ex- - Buck speaks on Vietnam Crisis in city Sunday Tim Buck, national chairman of the Communist Party of Canada, will be the featured speaker at a giant rally on the Vietnam crisis in the Pender Auditorium this coming Sunday. The Meeting starts at 8 p.m. and an overflow crowd is expected. Buck is at present on anation- al tour to outline to Canadian audiences his Party’s solution to the growing economic and politi- 2 Problems besetting the coun- However, in view of the U,S, aggression against North Viet- Nam and the danger it poses to World peace, the Vancouver Com- Vietnam protest Parade Saturday A “Hands off Vietnam” Protest parade has been called for this coming Satur- day in Vancouver by the B.C. Peace Council. The Parade will assemble at the Pender Auditorium, 339 West Pender St., and move off at 1 p.m. __ The public are urged to loin in. The parade will march through downtown Streets between 1-3 p.m. mittee of the Communist Party announced Tuesday the meeting wiil be changed into a demon- stration against U.S, policy and for a peaceful settlement of the South East Asia crisis, The present tour is Buck’s first appearance here for more than two years, during which time he has travelled extensively in Asia and Europe, On Friday, February 12, Buck is speaking in Victoria’s Wil- liams Auditorium and onSaturday in Nanaimo, Following his Van- couver meeting Sunday, Buck will travel to Vernon for a banquet- meeting on Tuesday,February 16, Buck, who arrived in Vancou- ver Monday, told the Pacific Tribune the situation in South East Asia is extremely serious and that action by all peace-loving forces is essential to compel Canada, who is a member of the International Control Commis- sion, to call for a meeting of the Geneva conference, In his wire to the Prime Min- ister Kashtan said that continued air strikes by U.S, military forces agains North Vietnam pose a real danger of the war spreading to South East Asia and the world, In an earlier statement Kashtan declared that “the United States government had committeda flagrant act of aggression in its air strikes against North Viet- nam,” : In a press statement Sunday Kashtan charged that “this stepped up military operation had been prepared in advance,” — He said the U.S, action was a “provocation which could involve mankind in a senseless, useless war to save US, interests,” Canada’s External Affairs Min- ister Martin, again echoing U,S, See Soviet Premier Kosygin’s state- ment on page 10. policy, put the blame on North Vietnam and implied support for the U,S, action. On Tuesday the French govern- ment called for reconvening of the Geneva conference to deal with the crisis in South East Asia and said it was prepared to take part, France was the original colonizing power which was driv- en out of Indo-China by the liber- ation movement, Protests against the U,S, air strikes have taken place all over the world, In Vancouver about 200 men, women and youth, in- cluding prominent trade union- ists, staged a protest picket at the U,S, consulate at Burrard and Georgia Sts, Monday noon, imperialist Called by the B,C, Peace Coun- cil, the pickets carried placards which said: “Stop U.S, war in Vietnam,” “U,S,—Let the Viet- nam people decide,” “Reconvene Geneva conference,” “Get out of Vietnam,” “Peace, Mr, Johnson —Not war!” The B,C, Peace Council dis- tributed a leaflet charging that “attacks this weekend on North Vietnam by American planes bring much closer the danger of all out war,” The leaflet urged the public to write Prime Minis- See VIETNAM, pg. 3 Some of the 200 pickets who protested before the U.S. Consulate in Vancouver on Monday against the U.§. aggression in North Vietnam. The protest was called by the B.C. Peace Council.