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THE SHELTER HOAX. This ad appeared some time ago in
California newspapers. It was a sales appeal for an atomic
‘ cape purportedly designed to prevent burns. The last line

; promised that money would be refunded if it fails to work.

. A series of similar ads dealing with similar gimmicks have
. @ppeared in newspaper ads in the last few days. All these are
' aimed at making profit out of the concern of the public. Govern-
: ment and civil defence authorities who peddle the falsehood
: that there is a defence against nuclear war are playing into

the hands of these profiteers.

ATOMICAPE| |

A Financial Post survey of
420,000 homeowners in 14
cities revealed that: only 36
permits have been taken out
to build shelters. :

More and more people. are
speaking out against the Fed-
eral government’s policy which
-aims to mislead the public into
‘believing that they can some-
how get protection in the event
of nuclear war, by » building
what some refer to as “barbe-
cue. pits.”

In Burnaby Monday a group
of 25 citizens, men and women,
picketed the municipal council
meeting with placards con-

while, inside at council meeting

Provincial-wide protests

mark Operation Skyshield

‘Hundreds of U.S. and RCAF jet bombers and fighters
ranged far and wide in a gigantic North American Air
- Defense (NORAD) “Operation Skyshield” on October 14.

All continental civilian air-
eraft was officially grounded
for 24 hours, costing many of
the air transport companies
hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars in lost passenger and
freight revenues.

Directed from Colorado
Springs, U.S.A., ‘“Skyshield”’
had a dual purpose; to stimul-
ate, war hysteria . in keeping
with . Washington “get tough”
policies, and to lull the popula-
tion into a false assurance that
NORAD “defense” against
thermonuclear attack is effec-

In Vancouver and other B.C.
centres, the Communist Party
staged. street demonstrations
and leaflet distribution in pro-
test against the alleged aims
and costly nature of “Sky-
shield.”

Demonstrators in Warten ives

councillor Russell Hicks warn-
ed that any action which
would make people feel safe
at the prospect of nuclear war
was immoral.

Hicks charged that “we are
being asked to support deceit.”’

It was reported to the Pacific
Tribune. that a civil defence
exercise is being planned in
Burnaby elementary schools on

carried umbrellas

shield” protest march.

The_ leaflets distributed by
the Communist marchers point-
ed out that “Present policies
sas pursued by the’ Diefenbak-
er government at the behest of
the U.S. Pentagon ... can only
make it a ‘powder monkey’ for
the U.S. militarists. Neutrality
and new national policies can
make Canada a powerful voice
for world peace. Peace is our
in the nuclear

only defense

age.”
“Operation Skyshield”

pronounced a “signal success”

by U.S. military brass, but
some newspapers are already
cynically asking “Did Vancou-

ver survive or not?”

with such
slogans as ‘Let Peace Be Your
Umbrella,” “No Nuclear War”,
etc. Balloons marked “Peace”
also added color to the ‘‘Sky-

ee

~~

November 8. The plan calls

10-minutes before school clos-
ing. Protests are pouring in
to the school board over allow-
ing a ridiculous exercise which
could only end by frightening
the children.

Last week Calgary’s civil de-
fence co-ordinator G. O. Bell,
teld the city’s Junior Chamber
of Commerce that “he cannot
fathom” government policy
which still refers to ‘“volun-
tary” evacuation. “If you are
around when the bomb ex-
plodes,”’ Bell stated, “you've
had it. And you only deceive
yourself if you try to make
yourselves believe ‘anything
else.”? ies

Also, recently, Thomas El-
liott, national president of the
Canadian Institute of Sanitary
Inspectors, told the 12th an-
, nual meeting of the Ontario

U.S. Supreme Court ruling

becomes big public issue

The refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to a re- hearing
of its former 5-to-4 ruling upholding the McCarran
(Internal Security) Act, and in which the Communist
Party of the USA has become the primary target of this
repressive legislation, has now become a major public

issue in the U.S.

“The Supreme Court ruling
faces the CP with no other
alternative than to refuse to
comply with the “registration
of members” as specified by
the Act, and “to test the con-
stitutionality of every pro-
vision and every effort to im-
plement and apply the anti-
American McCarran Act.”
This the General-Secretary of:
the CP-USA made clear in a
recent statement from New
York.

The five judges who ruled
in favor of the McCarran Act
did not contend that the “reg-
istration” provision did not
violate the constitutional ‘Fifth
Amendment’, but said they

authors, journalists and editors

would rule on this question
when someone is arrested for,

Public Health Association that
“a punch of sharpies” are get-
ting into the basement fall-out
business.

In Vancouver, despite criti-
cism from Ald. Frank Fred-
vickson that “civil defence
leaves me completely cold,”
city council this week decided

refusal to register, and

vokes the ‘Fifth Amendment’
as grounds for. refusal.
The four ‘minority’? Sup

reme Court judges ruled that

the McCarran Act directly vio
lates the U.S. constitutiona

safeguards of the rights of the}?

citizen.

Already strong petitions| :

have been forwarded to Presi-
dent Kennedy urging repeal of;

the McCarran Act from lead-

ing churchmen, educators,
civic leaders and others.
Among these petitioners are
some 90 church ministers and
Rabbis, over 70 professors and
educators, 30 lawyers, 20

as well as a large number of
leading physicians and, other

in-

1

demning fallout shelters. Mean-|

for. a drill to -be carried but

prominent citizens.

spaceman, HERMAN

TITOV, who is a delegate at
the 22nd Congress in Moscow.

PUBLIC PROTEST CIVIL DEFENCE FARCE | iw
 Fall-out shelters ‘deceit’
‘charges Burnaby councillor

As the debate over fall-out shelters continued, Canadians indicated they were
not being panicked by government hysteria on this issue.

date to be announced later, ai

| which a city civil defence plan

will be pushed.

North Vancouver District
municipal council received a
ten-member delegation from
the Communist Party Tuesday
night which presented a brief
which said, “there is no civil
defense which has any mean-

to sponsor a giant public meet-}
_ing in Queen Elizabeth Theatre, |

nuclear war.”

The. brief . presented by
Charles Caron charged that re-
cent statements that fall-out —
shelters would provide security
were a deception and only
serve to “lull people into am
acceptance of the idea of the
inevitability of war.”

“ Council voted 4-2 to place the
ideas contained in the brief om
the table for discussion at a

ing in the face of thermo-! later date.

MINE MILL RALLY SUNDAY —

raid on Mine

The Mine Mill meeting comes
at a time when there is moun-
ting concern and agitation in
B.C. labor circles for action
by the CLC to put a stop to all
raiding.

Last week saw strong reso-
lutions passed by the Rock
and Tunnel Workers Union,
the Seamen’s Local of the CB
RT, Marine and Boilerworkers
Industrial Union No. 1 and
Van. Civic Employees (Outside
Workers), calling for an end
to the raid against Mine Mill.

The CBRT resolution urges
the CLC to “protest the inso-
lent interference in the inter-
nal affairs of the Canadian la-
bor movement by American
Secretary of Labor Goldberg,
who advised Sudbury workers
to support Steel, and urge that
Goldberg be advised to refrain
from meddling in our affairs.”

All three unions demanded
that the CLC disassociate itself
from the raiding in Sudbury
and elsewhere, and devote its
energies to the organization of
the unorganized and to leading
struggles for economic gains
for Canadian workers and de-
veloping a strong fight back
against the employer anti-la-
bor offensive.

Vancouver Labor Council ex-
ecutive. found the issue ‘‘too
hot to handle” at its Oct. 17th
‘meeting and referred the Mar-

Ci ity unions ‘condemn Steel

Mill union

The fight against Steel Union raiding in Sudbury and
Pt. Colborne will be brought to Vancouver this Sunday,
November 22 at 8 p.m. when Tom Taylor, former executive ©
board member from Local 598, Sudbury, and Yves Lemay,
President of the Pt. Colborne Local of the Mine Mill and
Smelter Workers Union will address a huge protest meet-
ing in. the Pender Auditorium.

ine Workers resolution back to
the local to forward direct te
the CLC.

Observers say this indicates
the Council is not prepared: to
hit the CLC head-on on the is-
sue, but certainly is unprepar-
ed to support CLC perp cpaies
in the raid.

* *

Vancouver Labor Council
delegates decided this week to
drop out of direct participation —
in civic and municipal politics
until a final verdict is received
on the Oil Atomic and Chemi-
cal Workers Local 16-601 ap-
peal against Bill 43.

The Council declared it
would support the New Party
if it entered candidates in mun-
icipal elections or alternately
endorce candidates in Vancoue
ver and the surrounding munt
cipalities that warrant labor
support.

=

Delegates reiterated Council's
support of the Radiation Haz-
ards Commiitee, and urged all
local unions io give active and
immediate consideration to af
filiation to the group. This
came in response to a requesi
from the National Association
of Marine Engineers Local thai
the VLC seit up a peace com
mittee as has been done by thai
union.

‘Rona

Committee, which calls on

this humanitarian work.

Aid to Cuba Committee.

eal issued a
Cube medical aid

A Medical Aid to Cuba Committee has been set up in
‘Toronto to collect funds to secure medicines for the Cuban
people which have been cut off by the U.S. embargo.

_A press release this week pointed out that in the past
medical supplies were imported from the U.S. and that no
facilities were ever developed for the production of drugs
-in Cuba. This situation is causing severe hardship, says the
“all men and women of\good
will, fraternal organizations, cultural and benevolent associa-
tions, church congregations and labor unions”

to further

Contributions and correspondence can be sent to Mr. J.
Freeman, secretary, at 151 Chaplin Crescent, Suite 503,
Toronto. Cheques should be made payable to the Medical

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