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bab last Saturday protesting nuclear tests. The

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CALLS FOR NEW POLICIES

Break old-line party
Monopoly urges Morris

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Be - issue in this election is survival — survival —

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of Canada as a nation, and survival of the

Uma ” ;
Mtinist race,” Leslie Morris, national leader of the Com-
Party, told a Vancouver election rally of almost

People on Sunday, May 13.

wttis firmly stated that:
€ Communist Party be-
the Canadian people
tial to pot hands the poten-
ange Canada from a

lang
eas crisis to one of

lieves
ave in

Wout aid however, that there
ada ae ho progress in Can_
ply of Soe two party mon-
eae arliament is broken
that ee breached,” and
Dumber election of a fair
ae of New Democratic
Pee cidates and a few
Bae nists would be a trem-
dian Step forward in Cana-
Political life because ‘‘it
enge a to seriously chal-
€ old line parties.”
helg so tmounist viewpoint
able at this step is inevit-
™m ecause “history is not
Bues : by political demago-
Dle» ut by millions of peo-

Mes.
al eed to the internation-
the one Morris warned that
from i danger of war came
ington. © Pentagon in. Wash-
Circles oe those military
Shhowe at ex-President Eis-
PULL v had warned against.
os OUT OF NATO
tion a greatest contribu-
fteeas Tine peace and
Mg the outbreak ofa

nuclear war would be to pull
out of NATO and NORAD,
thus enabling it to come be-
fore the UN with clean hands.
To those who might think
that it is impossible for Can-
ada to adopt a position of
neutrality, he pointed to the
example of Mexico, which is
not aligned in any military
bloc, despite the fact that it
also has a common “unde-
fended border with the TES

The way to a brighter fut-
ure lies not in electing Tories
and Liberals, he indicated,
but in adopting 2 Constitu-
tion which is written in Can-
ada, by Canadians, and for
Canadians; a2 Constitution
which would guarantee the
national rights of French Can-
ada and would put teeth in
the Bill of Rights.
CANDIDATES SPEAK

The rally was also address-
ed by CP candidates in Van-
couver South and Vancouver
East, William Stewart and
Tom McEwen.

Stewart also told the rally
that the main issue in this
election is survival.

He charged that because
the Communists were the
only ones who were raising

See NEW POLICIES, page 3

Columbia Treaty be scrapped.
With nobody voting against, the VLC went on record as favoring ‘’re-negotia-

tion of the Treaty. based on the McNaughton Plan,” and called for the establish-

“Scrap Columbia Treaty - VLC

Vancouver Labor Council Tuesday adopted a resolution urging the present

ment of an East-West power grid.
In debate on the resolution, Counci1 secretary Paddy Neale-pointed out what
the PT has maintained all along, that the McNaughton Plan meant more jobs for
B.C., more power and cheaper costs.
In other Council action, it was decided to investigate (jointly with the B.C.F.L.)
the brewing indusiry, after hearing a number of delegates charge that E. P. Tay-
lor’s monopolies were using the added profits from automation and speed-ups to
pour millions of dollars into the slush funds of the old line political parties.

MARINES LAND IN THAILAND

U.S. ACTION

MENACES PEACE

IN S.E. ASIA

Despite reports that a truce in Laos may soon be arranged the

U.S. government this week continued to pour thousands of Mar-

ines into Thailand in a military move which amounts to a virtual

military t
It is reliably reported that
the U.S. military force will
be built up to 5,000 in Thail-
and and that force, together
with between 5,000 and 7,000
U.S. troops in South Vietnam,
will have the task of militar-
ily holding down the people
of South East Asia and bolster
corrupt, unpopular regimes.
Significantly, U.S. Defence
Secretary McNamara an-
nounced this week that the
Thailand force will be under
Gen. Paul Harkins, comman-
der of the U.S. South Viet-
nam military forces.
Fighting in Laos, which
was the pretext for U.S. Mar-
ines to land in Thailand,
broke out last week when the

akeover of the small country bordering on Laos.

rightist U.S.-sponsored Boun
Oum regime massed troops at
Nam Tha in Northern Laos
and began attacking the Pa-
thet Lao and neutralist posi-
tions. nearby.

The Pathet Lao and neutra-
list forces replied by taking
the town of Nam Tha. The
rightist armies collapsed and
many fled to Thailand, Am-
erica’s satellite in the SEATO
pact.

The Pathet Lao and neu-
tralist forces, represented by
Prince Souvanna Phouma,
have always stood for a neu-
tral government in Laos. This
position has also been taken
by Peoples China and the
Soviet Union.

But the U.S. puppets in
Laos, Prince Boun Oum and
his ‘‘strong man’”’ Gen. Phou-
mi Nosavan, sabotaged every
attempt to get a national coal-
ition government set up.

On Monday Canada’s Ex-
ternal Affairs Minister How-
ard Green said Canadians
won’t fight in Laos. That
statement will be welcomed
by everyone, but more is
needed.

Since Canada is a member
of the truce committee we
have a responsibility to de-
mand that all foreign troops
be withdrawn from South
East Asia and that the terms
of the Geneva settlement be
lived up to by all countries.

COMMUNIST ELECTION RALLY. Les
lie Morris, national leader of the Com.
munist Party of Canada, is shown ad.
dressing the large electién rally in the

candidate

Pender Auditorium last Sunday. On the

platform with him is Vancouver Eas

Tom McEwen, Vancouve

South candidate William Stewart, an
B.C. provincial leader Nigel Morgan.

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