Friday, April 29, 1983

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: Organizing the unemployed: ,

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THE 30s: What began as a
fight for relief became a
decade-long struggle as
the unemployed strove to
unite their ranks to win
action from government.

— page 10 —

THE '80s: The support and
Organized strength of the
trade union movement
has become a crucial fac-
tor as the unemployed
Organize again for new
government policies —
andjobs. |
— page 11 —

le Ontario labor mounts campaign
for anti-scab legislation

) —— page 9—

@ Thailand build-up demonstrates
U.S.-China collusion

— page 15 —
-@ Reviewed: The Long Distance Feeling,
Belarus Secret, and more

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Second annual peace
walk heralds new era
for Canadian protest

Wave after wave of humanity — likened to a “‘river of peace’? —
surged through Vancouver streets Saturday as an estimated 80,000
to 100,000 people marched in the second annual Walk for Peace,
giving a powerful rebuke to the war plans of the Reagan administra-
tion and Canadian government complicity in those plans.

The gigantic, colorful parade that
flowed along the five-km stretch to the
rally in Sunset Beach park was a collec-
tive, firm rejection of cruise missile
testing and nuclear weapons of any sort
on Canadian soil. It was a protest of a size
unprecedented in Canadian history,
dwarfing even last year’s effort in which
an unexpected 40,000 put that march in
the history books.

That turnout, which placed Vancouver
in the ‘European league’’ surpassed the

decision to ignore that and the results of
more than 100 peace referendums in
Canadian cities last fall. Instead of
accepting the results as a mandate to
disarm, the Trudeau government,
through external affairs minister Allan
MacEachen, has rejected the people’s
wishes and proceded with the signing of
the umbrella weapons testing agreement
with the U.S. government, paving the
way for cruise missile testing later this
year.

Rally story, more photos page 4.
Peace action around the province, page 5.

most ambitious dreams of the organizers,
the End the Arms race committee whose
members had worked overtime to make
the event the key North American protest
of 1983. Elsewhere in the country, record
turnouts at marches in Toronto, Saska-
toon, Victoria and smaller B.C. com-
munities that weekend provided a fitting
compliment to the Vancouver effort.

As with the 1982 walk, the huge tur-
nout can be attributed to many peace
events that preceded Apr. 23, as well as
developments in the arms race itself.

The Gallup Poll taken early this year,
which showed a majority of Canadian
oppose cruise testing, has been contrasted

rey with the federal government’s

Just a few weeks ago, opposition to
cruise testing was fueled when Canadian
government representatives agreed with
their U.S. counterparts to open negotia-
tions on the testing of the first-strike
weapon.

~ Added to that is an increasing horror at
the Reagan administration’s plans to
create even more deadly weapons to push
the world to the brink of nuclear disaster.
A new, improved “‘stealth’’ cruise, the
MxX intercontinental missile system, an
electromagnetic pulse bomb and a
futuristic ‘‘star wars’’ plan for laser-
armed satellites has caused even the more
conservative, pro-military elements of
society to look askance at a government

See CITY page 5 :
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