st» te * a4 au “Worn BoYcorT NEEDED Fear behind the force of S. Africa’s rulers By STEVE LAWRENCE peaceful channels of protest the Transkei is being set up Mad with fe>~, the racialist and resistance, aa oppressed against the forcible resistance tyrants of South Africa are ™asses are turning to meth- of the people. rushing the country headlong 04S that are illegal and non- Now Verwoerd and Co., to to a holocaust — and their Peaceful.” prepare for yet more repres- own destruction. FIGHT BACK : E sive laws and further swoops The Verwoerd Govern- “They are looking to illegal ang arrests, have worked up ment, frantically arming itself °78@nizations like the African 4 pig scare about the activi- to the teeth — with the help National | Congress and the ties of another underground of armoured cars, planes and Communist Party for leader- organization, Poqo, which has teargas from Britain — has Ship.” _ : claimed the credit for a num- already turned South Africa So said the South African per of violent outbursts which into a police State. Communist Party, which was’ were in fact virtually spon- To its thick volumes of rep. banned and_ forced : under- taneous actions by people ressive laws it is rushing to 8round 13 years ago, in are- driven beyond endurance. add yet another: the General cent call for revolutionary ac- -Law Amendment Bill, or ‘“‘No tion to overthrow white dom- Trial” Bill as it has been dub- ination and win people's rule -in a united free South Africa. Trying desperately to close all doors to his prison-house, Verwoerd has now threaten- A march against racial segregation in South Africa, which has been - bed. The Nationalist Govern- Since the Sharpeville’ mas-_ ed action against the British- : ment, several members of Sacre three years ago, which held territories of Bechuana- raised to the level of a state system. land, Basutoland and Swazi- land. sharply aroused the consci- ence of the world about the apartheid scourge, the Ver- woerd gang have seen in the rule of the gun the only hove of continuing their domina- tion — and their profits. Their “master plan” is to. herd most of the Africans into starvation-level native reserv- es, glorified by the name of ~whom were disciples of Hit- ler in his heyday, already possess powers to muzzle, jail and murder its opponents ri- -valling those of the nazi Reich. FASCIST LAW The new law will enable it to thrust anyone into prison for endlessly repeated periods Civic workers fight against mass layoff Vancouver’s Outside Civic Em- ployees will send a union delega- tion to City Council on Tuesday, to May 21, to present a brief oppos- Governments in For through them some of the opponents of his regime have evaded his clutches. Now the whole labor move- ment should campaign for im- mediate steps to implement the United Nations General Assembly resolution demand- “Respectfully urge you make representations to City Council keep these men employed. our opinion of three months — without : : . : hear: : ‘ a 3 ae * : _ ing sanctions against South 1§8 the city’s plan to lay off should do everything possible to arenectt St eee motkery of ee aS i ia: a pees Africa. from 120 to 150 workers. assist economy to provide high a tee. ee ee level of employment. Laying off In a special telegram to all Vancouver M.P.’s, M.L.A.’s and Premier W. A. C. Bennett, the union said: For at stake is not only the future of the people of that country, but the peace of the~ whole African continent, pos- sibly of the world. Already over 100,000 peo- ple have been forcibly re- moved from their homes and herded into other areas; an- other half-million are under immediate threat of being shifted. To stifle the ever-growing flood of resistance, the whole gamut of police-State laws has been rushed through and implemented. The African National Con- gress and the small, breaka- way Pan-Africanist Congress and a host of other organiza- tions have been prohibited. The notorious “Sabotage”’ Bill made the smallest act of protest, including strikes, a crime punishable by death. The press has been gagged and virtually. censored. One of the last remaining voices of liberty, the brave weekly New Age, was banned; its succes- sor, Spark, forced to shut up because its staff was barred from functioning. House arrests, 24 hours a day in lots of cases, have con- demned many to years of a 10 percent of Vancouver’s works employees would be a pooor ex- ample to industry and private business. “In our opinion, such layoffs would be very costly. Firstly in terms of work to be done, because delay will increase the ultimate cost. Secondly, in terms of re- duced earnings and misery such layoffs will bring to workmen and their families.” It is a sigh that Premier Ver- woerd, Justice Minister Vos- ter, Defence Minister Fouche and their band live in deadly fear. Fear of the 11 million Af- ricans whom they are trying to keep as virtual economic slaves, herded as cheap la- -bour reserves into so-called “Bantustans.” Fear of the 500,000 Indians and the 1,500,000 Coloureds (of mixed parentage) who are denied the rights of even second-class citizens. Fear of that courageous number among the three mil- lion Europeans who dare to join with the majority of the people against the Verwoerd regime. For among all these the de- termination born of despera- tion is spreading fast: ‘“Apar- thied must go — at any cost.” “As, one after another, the Government stops legal and “Union informed that Van.-, couver City Council intends to lay off 120 to 150 workmen: engaged in construction of sewers and water mains. This despite the fact that their technical advisors say there is necessary work for these men for many years. The heirs of Hitler in South Africa, and their associates in neighbouring Southern Rho- desia, would rather engulf the continent in a bloodbath than yield their place to an elected majority government. Classified Advertising NOTICES MAY 25—‘PT’ PRESS DRIVE JUNE 8 — KEEP THIS DATE SOCIAL will be held at OPEN for an OUTDOOR SO- HADVICK’S — 13707, 105 CIAL at 535 St. James St., in Ave. North Surrey, SAT- | NORTH VANCOUVER. URDAY, MAY 25th at 8:30 : Saas fa P.M. Buffet supper — good BUSINESS PERSONALS __ music. 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