aay

_ front of post office.

—Carey Robson photo

—Walter Alliott photo

. *“NO MORE BOMBING, SIGN NOW” reads banner carried by protestors
in march in downtown Vancouver last Saturday. Photo below shows

B.C. Federation of Labor president George Johnston speaking at rally in

FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1973

Jobs for all Canadians

‘demand of Ottawa lobby

Demands for action to putall

_ Canadians back to work were

placed before Parliament in

Ottawa Monday as membersof

_ the Communist Party staged an

impressive lobby which
_ received nation-wide coverage.

The lobby coincided with the
announcement by Statistics
Canada that the unemployment

-rateinCanadahadclimbedtoa
new highin December, setting

_an all-time record for the month.
The official figures show there

») were 584,000 unemployed.

A brief prepared by the Com-
_miunist Party for presentation to
the government, opposition
‘parties and MPs, called for a
crash program of public works, a
low-rental, low cost housing
program, reduction of hours of

work to 32 with no reduction in
take-home pay, increased
| pensions and voluntary retire-
| ment at 60, reduced taxes for all
| those earning up to $10,000 and
| effective measures to curb
_ price gougers and profiteersin

food, land, housing and rents.

_ The brief calls for new poli-
cies which would include proces-
Sing of natural resources in
| Canada based on public owner-
‘ship. Condemning efforts to

emasculate unemployment

insurance benefits, it calls on
Parliament to pass further

improvements which wouldin-:

crease benefits to 80% of earn-
ings for the entire period of
unemployment, and abolition of
the two week waiting period.

(See fuller story on CP lobby
inside).

Tribune

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VOL. 34 No. 2

City Council calls

15°

for end to bombing,
urges peace pact

By SEAN GRIFFIN
At its first regular meeting
since the inauguration January

3, Vancouver City Council unani-:

mously adopted a_ resolution
expressing ‘‘grave concern
over the saturation bombing by
the United States Air Force of
the cities of the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam.”

The motion, presented by
Alderman Harry Rankin, was in
response to an appeal ex-
pressed through the Canadian
Peace Congress, from the
mayors of 37 cities in the Demo-
cratic Republic of Vietnam,
and urged that ‘‘negotiations
continue on the basis of the
agreementreported arrived at
in October and that they con-
tinue until full agreement is
reached without further escala-
tion of the war, including the
cessation of bombing in any
part of Indochina.”’

Copies of the resolution are to
be sent to the Canadian Parlia-
ment, the U.S. Congress and
Senate and to thetwopartiesat
the Paris peace talks.

While the vote on the resolu-
tion was unanimous a number
of speakers during the discus-
sion indicated disapproval of
the move. Alderman Fritz
Bowers chided the Council for
“getting involved with things
beyond its concern,’’ and Alder-
man Volrich expressed a simi-

lar sentiment. Marianne
Linnell, while pompously declar-
ing that ‘‘no one was more for
peace thanme,’’ was hesitant to
“pick out one issue.”

Alderman Hardwick amended
the resolution to delete the
whereas clause which acknowl-
edged receipt of the appeal from
the mayors of Vietnam.

Rapping these Council mem-
bers who did not want to “‘get in-
volved’’ in what has been viewed
everywhere as a barbarous act,
Alderman Rankin stated that
“if this doesn’t concernus then!
don’t know what does.” s

The Council action was part of
the protest that has been mount-
ing in B.C. as well as around the
world against Nixon’s latest acts
of aggression.

Close to 400 demonstrators
marched from the Vancouver
courthouse Saturday to the
Post Office where a rally was
held and more than 2,000 post-
cards mailed to Prime Minister
Trudeau asking him to add Can-
ada’s voice to those of other
governments in demanding that
the U.S. government cease all
bombing and sign the nine-point
peace agreement immediately.

Sponsored by the B.C. Fed-
eration of Labor, a number of
prominent MLA’s, the Van-
couver Labor Council, several
churches and Alderman Harry

Rankin, the rally was chaired by
Rev. Phillip Hewitt of the Uni-
tarian Church whonoted that the
rally represented ‘‘a huge up-
surge of feeling of the people of
Vancouver against the war.”’

NDP MLA Harold Steeves, one’
of the featured speakers, con-
demned what he called ‘‘the
most intensive bombing in
world history intended to ter-
rorize the Vietnamese people
into accepting an agreement
acceptable to U.S. imper-
ialism.”’

‘‘Nixon has lost all honor in
this war,”’ he said, ‘‘for Nixon
honor seems to consist of total
victory or total destruction.”

Allen Williams, Liberal MLA,
West Vancouver told thedemon-
strators that ‘‘what has been
happening in Indochina must
surely be sorepugnant tousall
as tocross all boundaries. Itis
time for each of us as citizens to
say stop, finally-stop. No more
temporary cessations, just
utter complete-stop.”’

Williams stated after the
demonstration that the Liberals
intend to place a motion in the
new legislative session calling
for more positive action by the
federal government in denounc-
ing recent bombing and pro-
posing some form of aid to Viet-
nam after hostilities cease.

While commending the fed-

See CITY COUNCIL, pg. 12

“We wish to warn all trade unionists and other concerned
citizens that further insane bombing campaigns may be
launched unless public protest is maintained,’’ said the
statement. It urged all Canadians ‘‘who adamantly oppose this
senseless slaughter’”’ to act now.

“In the face of this world-wide expression of shock and
horror, and a similar uprising of public protest in the United
States, the American government has now apparently
suspended temporarily the bombing raids.”

The statement by the two most influential central labor
bodies in B.C. calls on the Canadian government to make
known the opposition of Canadians to any further slaughter of
innocent people in Vietnam and urges Canadians to ‘‘callupon
the United States to sign the peace treaty now and put an endto
death and destruction in that devastated country.”

One way readers of the PT can join inthe protest called for

Don't be fooled by Nixon bombing
half—ACT NOW says B.C. labor

A joint statement issued last week by the B.C. Federation
of Labor and the Vancouver and District Labor Council warned
trade unionists and the public not to be misled by the
temporary halt in the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.

by labor is to clip out the following Night Letter form and have
friends and workmates sign it. (Night Letter rate to
Washington, D.C. is $2.90 for 100 words. )

CANADIAN NATIONAL

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

CANADIAN PACIFIC

President Nixon,
Washington, D.C.

We, the undersigned, urge you:
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