Folk festival leaves ~ local folk off stage x er ae - Trades-CLC | rift growing The Vancouver Folk Festival attracted 20,000 people to Jer- icho Beach to hear some of the world’s best. But local ea formers like Phil Thomas, Michael Pratt and Lyn Cc- The attitude of right win Gowan (photo right — L to R) were pushed into the U.S. Building radios ates and their appointees in Canada is a serious threat to background, page 7. e Getti ng ready to vote the unity of CLC. Jack Phil 5 : lips reports on the recent Cal- The Vancouver civic election is beginning where it counts — gary conference of the Cana- with a drive to register working class voters. For both COPE dian Building Trades, page 8. and the Vancouver Labor Council, it is the key to success. Page 2. Moscow Olympics stunning success tian Coe, who has the eyes of the world glued to him as he prepares for the 1,500 metre challenge from Steve Ovett, which have relegated Carter, Trudeau and their boycott to the background. For Canadians, particularly Ca- nadian -athletes, the news of one world record after another falling in Moscow, can only bring a feeling of isolation. The U.S., Canada and West Germany are the only major west- ern powers not at the Games. More than 80 countries, including the whole of the socialist world, more developing nations than at any ANNA HOLBECH PHOTO The Moscow Olympic Games have been crowned with success, as stunning athletic performances and masterful organizational prepara- tions have overwhelmed every at- tempt to mar the spectacle before the world. : The U.S., Canada and West Germany had counted on their boycott of the Olympics to denude it of significance. But it has been the athletes like the incredible Barbara Krause of the German Democratic Republic Triumph of reason TRIBUNE PHOTO—FRED WILSON B.C. Peace Council chairman Bert Ogden with the posters which will identify cars in Aug. 9 caval- cade to Comox military base. Aug. 9 cavalcade to Comox base will remember Nagasaki August 9, 1945, — The United States drops a second atomic bomb in Japan, on the city of Nagasaki, killing and injuring 100,000 people. August 9, 1980 — Demonstrators protesting the storage of nuclear weapons at Comox military base will have “the memory of Nagasaki embedded in their hearts and minds as they travel in a ‘peace cavalcade’ to the gates of the base,’’ Bert Ogden, chairman of the B.C. Peace Council said in a Tribune interview, Aug. 7. “The demonstration will be both a memorial to the Nagasaki holocaust and the raising again of the demand ‘Ban all Nuclear Weapons — Remove Nuclear Weapons from Comox Now’,”’ Ogden said. Sponsors of the demonstration include the Comox Nuclear Responsibility group, B.C. Peace Council, the Courtenay- Campbell River Labor Council, the Victoria Labor Council and Vancouver Labor Council. “The overwhelming majority of the world’s population support the banning and prohibition of nuclear weapons and the Cana- dian government should be ad- ding its voice to that demand,”’ ‘Ogden said. “However, it is impossible for Canada to call for the banning of these weapons while at the same time it is storing them at Comox for future use.” Since the Lester Pearson government bowed to the U.S. government in 1952, nuclear weapons have been present at Comox as part of the Canadian commitment to the U.S.-dominated North American Air Defence Treaty (Norad). The car ‘peace’ cavalcade will leave the Town and Country Shopping Centre in Victoria at 9:30 am Aug. 9 and drive to the Northbrook Shopping Mall in Nanaimo. There the cavalcade joins with groups from the Lower Mainland which will have left Horseshoe Bay at 10:30 to arrive at Departure Bay at 12:10 pm. The cavalcade will then driveto the Comox military base for a demonstration, at 2 pm at the main gates of the base, followed ‘by a picnic with music and more speakers in a park by the Courtenay River bridge. See editorial page 3 who set a world record in the wo- men’s 100 metre freestyle swimm- ing competition, and then broke it again the following day, the Soviet swimmer Vladimir Salnikov who became the first man to swim the metric mile in less than 15 minutes, and the great British runner Sebas- _ other Olympics, and western coun- tries like France, Britain, Sweden, Holland, Austria, Ireland and Italy are full participants. The opening ceremonies of the games July 19 drew 100,000 people to the Luzhniki Stadium in Mos- cow. See OLYMPIC page 8 Peace flame lit by Olympic torch Vancouver’s Bruce Yorke is in Moscow attending the Olympic Games. He has sent us his impres- sions in this special report. By BRUCE YORKE MOSCOW — In 1896 it was the founder of the modern Olympic movement, the Frenchman Pierre de Coubertien, whose statement linking sport and peace helped re- kindle the flam : first lit by the an- cient Greeks. _In 1980 it is primarily the men and women of the land that first gave birth to socialism, that are combining their diverse talents to raise the Olympic torch even higher, to provide a living reality to the theme of peace. This is the first time that the Olympics have been held in a so- cialist country, and despite incred- ible difficulties, success has been achieved. The Moscow Olympics are proving to be a relaxed, cultur- ed, sportsman-like festival dedicat- ed to the all round development of the best features of the world’s youth. The character of the Moscow Olympics has been established de- spite an unprecedented attack against it. The only regret is that the youth of the U.S.A., of Canada, of Japan, of West Germany. . . have not been an intimate part of these games, that they have been denied the spontaneous joy of peaceful competition. Great tribute is due to all those true friends of peace and sport in every country of the world that have struggled to uphold the Olym- pic ideals. Even hard-nosed opponents of socialism and the Soviet Union, See GAMES page 3 Next Tribune in two weeks The Tribune won’t be publishing for the next two weeks, as we take our annual two week summer break to allow for staff holidays. - The next Tribune will be published August 15 and should reach our readers shortly after.