OTTAWA THREATS CONDEMNED Wage boost remains issue for sea | (cy WPAY, JULY 30, 1965 —26, NO. 30 SAT. AUG. 7 Giant Peace Arch rally on Vietnam .. The Peace Arch at Blaine will be the scene of a Joint Canadian-U.S. rally on Vietnam, Saturday, Aug- ss 7at 1 p.m. Sponsored by a committee of promin- the Americans and Canadians, the rally will express ;-© COmmon desire of people from both sides of the “rder for an end to the war in Vietnam. 5 Speakers will include U.S. professor Mulford Q. oe? of the political science department, University = Minnesota and MP. Colin Cameron who will speak 7 Doechalf of the national leader of the NDP, T.C. 8las, who is now in Europe. “A The meeting will also include a special memorial at ins the 20th anniversary of the dropping of the °mic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. : PROF M. Q. SIBLEY COLIN CAMERON, MP > MEDICARE A DOCTOR’S VIEWS See Page 4 postal workers Key Resorting to pressure, threats and vague promises the Liberal govern- ‘ment split postal workers ranks this week in an effort to force them back to work, but the key issue for Canada’s postal workers remains a substantial wage boost. The situation remained confused at press time as Montreal and other centres voted to continue the strike while Vancouver's postal workers voted Tuesday night by a narrow margin to return to work. The Vancouver vote has been bitterly contested by postal car- riers who constitute the largest group in Vancouver. They have called for another meeting Wed- nesday night to reconsider the decision to return to work, Lead- ers of the carriers say it was a serious mistake to return to work without the wage demand having been met, The vote at Tuesday’s meeting was 481 to 454 to return towork, The vote came after William Kay, Vancouver strike leader, toldthe postal workers that if they didn’t go back towork Parliament would be reconvened Friday to pass special legislation forcing them back. He attributed this infor- mation to Canadian Labor Con- gress President Claude Jodoin who actively sought the return of the men to work. The Vancouver vote was further influenced by a special message to the meeting from Revenue Minister Benson saying that if the men returned to work the Federal government would con- Sider making the postal service a Crown Corporation which would grant collective bargaining, Another factor influencing the vote of many postal workers across Canada was a decision of the national Postal Brotherhood that if the report of Judge J. C, Anderson, commissioner ap- pointed to inquire into postal pay scales, is not satisfactory a na- See WAGE BOOST, pg. 8 —Photo by Edwards THROUGH RAIN AND SNOW AND SLEET. Giant etched figure on Vancouver's central post office pays tribute to the postman. But in terms of wages he has been “low man on the totem pole.” He was at least $1,200 a year behind other comparable workers in Canada, That's why postmen went on strike across Can- ada last week after Ottawa turned a cold shoulder to their just demands for a living wage. Johnson announces new escalation of Viet war U.S, President Johnson’s “cru- cial decision” on American ag- gression in Vietnam, revealed to the American people and. the world through the media of a press conference on Wednesday, July 30, boiled down to one central theme — an extensive escalation of the U.S, dirty war in Vietnam, This escalation to include the upping of U.S, forces in Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 combat troops and over “if necessary,” This will require that the current monthly draft for military ser- vice of 17,000 be increased to 35,000 per month, Johnson charged that aggres- sion in Vietnam was “guided by North Vietnam and supported by China” in order to “extend the growing might and domination of Asiatic communism.” Much of Johnson’s speech cen- tered on the effort to justify U.S, actions in Vietnam, to “defend the freedom of small nations,”. to “fulfill solemn U.S, pledges in defense of small nations,” to “convince the Communists that ‘the U.S, fight for freedom can- not be subdued by force ofarms,” etc, The U.S, president also re- peated his earlier proposals for “unconditional discussion” aimed at seeking peace in Vietnam, and voiced a welcome for “any pro- posals ofany government towards this end,. adding that the U.S, “feared the meeting room no more than it fears the ultimate outcome of arms,” Johnson told his. press con- ference that he was sending U.S, ambassador to the UN, Louis Goldberg with a letter to UN Secretary-General U Thant, urg- ing that “all the resources of the UN be mobilized to find a way to peace in Vietnam,” Delivery of the presidential © “crucial decision” to greatly es- calate the U.S, war in Southeast’ Asia and to embellish the bogey of “Communism” with the more sinister “menace of Asiatic Com- munism,” would-indicate a new form of Pentagon blackmail, de- signed to frighten or force other, nations into line in support of U.S. war adventures in Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia, z : Aside from the blatant dema- gogy of the pregidential speech commiserating with “American mothers” and “young American boys” suffering and dying in Viet- nam, Johnson made it clear that “no matter what the cost, . .we will stand in Vietnam,” Somme came a a