HEMISPHERIC CONFERENCE TO END THE VIETNA WAR ‘ ¥ 7” 4 * i 1 Conference poster painted by David Alfaro Siqueros MONTREAL November 28 to December 1, 1968 If you speak French, English, or Spanish and wish to end the war in Vietnam, come to the Hemispheric Conference To End The Vietnam War, being held in Montreal, Quebec, November 28, 29, 30, and December 1. You will draw on the extensive ex- perience of people from both the Americas in panel discus- sions including: @ Social Organization in Viet- nam (including: education, cul- ture, economy, youth, women, medicine, religion, foreign re- lations, poverty and hunger). ®@ Theory of Violence and Viet- nam. : ®@ History of U.S.A. involvement, goals in South East Asia, (in- cluding: diplomatic, juridical, political, military, economic aspects, and civil rights). © Resistance Movements to Stop the War in Vietnam (includ- ing: perspectives, methods of work, and exchanges of ex- perience). © Disarmament and Vietnam (in- cluding: danger of World War 3, and nuclear weapons), @The South Vietnam National Front of Liberation (including: composition, military program, political, and social). ® Rehabilitation, during and af- ter the war. ®@ Impact of the war in Vietnam on the societies of both Latin and North America (including: economic penetration, politi- cal effects, culture, trade union and workers’ problems, educa- tion, students, business, mass media, freedom of expression, science and technology, racial and national discrimination, and economic independence). Endorsation of the Conference has been received from the As- sociation des Artistes Profes- sionels du Québec. They are now part of an impressive array, which includes: Pauline Julien, a Quebec chansonnier; M. Ro- land Morin, President of the New Democratic Party in Que- bec; A. R. Paulley, Provincial Leader of the NDP in Manitoba; Rev. Dr. James Endicott, Chair- man of the Canadian Peace Con- gress; Brian Switzman, Presi- dent of the Ontario Union of Students; Farley Mowat, author; William G. Gilbey, President of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labor and Vice-President of the Canadian Labor Congress; Julian Bond, member of the State As- sembly of Georgia; Ossie Davis, _actor_and playwright; Norman Eisner, Chairman of Business- ment Against the Vietnam War; Dagmar Wilson, National Chair- man of Women Strike for Peace and Dr, Benjamin Spock. The Conference Call says in part: “We believe a basis for demand upon the United States government to totally and un- conditionally stop the bombing of North Vietnam, and enter into immediate negotiations with the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam for the with- drawal of United States and other foreign troops so that the - Vietnamese people may settle their national affairs in condi- tions of non-interference and independence.” For further information, con- tact: Hemispheric Conference to End the Vietnam War, Room 293, 1600 Berri, Montreal 24, Quebec. INSCRIPTION REGISTRATION FORM INSCRIPCION “The King” isn’t dead yet so “long live the King,” but just in case . . . That just about sums up the problem presently worrying the Social Credit League of B.C. It claims to have no constitu- tional procedures to provide for a succession of leadership. In royal circles succession to the throne generally falls to the senior offshoot of the royal family warren, should he or she be reasonably sound in wind and limb. Mentally of course the condition of the successor is not too impor- tant since a well-entrenched Establishment takes care of that eventuality. Prime Minister W. A. C. Bennett of B.C. is far from being dead yet, politically that is, but there have been mounting symptoms during the recent period of time that his days may be numbered. In the midst of life, say the sky pilots, we are all dead ducks, and a number of quite recent “ by-elections, Socred ministerial derelictions, poli- tical double-crosses, super- charged Socred chicanery and the like no doubt convinced the king-makers of the Social Credit League of B.C. that their ebullient ‘King WAC” may not be long for this world of political acrobatics. Hence their worries on suc- cession. There was a more dynamic time not long ago when such a problem as is now worrying the Socred League _ high priests, just couldn’t arise, since “King Wac” had just about decided the line of suc- cession himself. But, alas, as the Bard says, “the best laid schemes of mice and men, gang aft agley.” In other words, haywire. Successor No. 1, the long- favored choice in line for the Socred throne got himself thoroughly disowned in his own home constituency of Point Grey and headed for the Cariboo, not in a belated gold rush, but to garner the votes required to keep his seat in Victoria. He squeezed in by a narrew margin, -but the experience left a lingering fear that the Socred Dynasty he might someday rule was on its last legs. So to maké sure of a throne with perhaps a little less visible power— but double the salary, the No. 1 heir apparent took a job on the Macmillan-Bloedel timber octopus board, putting the le gal touches on Mac-Blo wage freezes and other populaf anti-labor schemes. Just along about the same time the next in succession for the Socred crown was having a spate of blacktop highway trouble and real &- tate wheeler-dealing, etc., an so forth, which resulted 1 ‘the loss of his ministerial portfolio, a deluge of public opprobrium, and with al hopes of wearing that Socred crown more permanently washed out than any washout on the Squamish highway. It is recorded for posterity that when this catastrophe descended upon heir apparent No. 2, ‘King Wac” publicly wept in the throne room. IA this lachrymose exercise it 15 also recorded that another ministerial aspirant, a p0S- sible heir apparent No. 3 (now sitting on the A-G wool- sack) joined in chorus with a few well-placed sniffles for the political demise of a pro- mising ex-crown prince. From the earliest days of this Socred dynasty it has had no lack of ministerial troubles which only a nimble- witted monarch with a high- voltage vocabulary and 4 fetching smile could brush aside. Situations in ‘which U.S. and home-grown mono- poly purloined the bulk of the province’s natural re- sources, with a bit of carpet, or highway real estate, or 4 few odds and ends from the public works department thrown in to raise an edifice to the greater glory of God as rewards for ministerial cO- operation. We already have a vast literature on what such 2 dynasty has done for B.C. What it has done to B.C. has barely begun to be recorded. J'ajoute $ Ce cheque est pavable Make checues nayadie tc Ene chesue a > =. Pour assurer le succes de la conférence Deseo contribuir con $ HEMISPHERIC CONFERENCE TO EXD THE VIETNAM WAR Nom Organisation Name Organizational affiliation (nombre) (appellido) Organizacién Adresse Type d'organisation Address Description of organization Direccion Tipo de organizacién Délégué Observateur Participant individuel Delegate Observer ladividual participant Delegado Observador Participante individual | wish to contribute § para el éxito de la Conferencia Je vous envoie les frais d’inscription Enclosed is my $5 registration fee fe] Envio |a cuota de registro to insure the success of the Conference PACIFIC. TRIBUNE— SEPTEMBER 27, 1968—Page'10- : Steve Langdon, President of the Student Administrative Council at the University of Toronto, addressed 800 undergraduate artsme" and engineers in a noon-hour meeting called last Wednesday 2 | Protest Toronto’s housing crisis. Tent City, site of the meeting, wa erected on campus last week by SAC to dramatize the housing crisis, which according to a SAC leaflet, victimizes working class and student citizens alike. The leaflet went on to call upon Metro" to control rents, for the Ontario government to Pass tenant’s pro- tection legislation and Ottawa to cut interest rates and expand pub- _ lic housing projects.