an | Lele in a — = 8 Pie E VSISSUES WHILE JOHNSON STALLS PEACE TALKS bombs continue to rain down on the people of Vietnam in record numbers swelling civilian casualties. Last Friday U.S. bombers carried out 145 raids n the North—one of the biggest raids since the war escalated. FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1968 “VOL. 29, NO. 17 "JUNE 25 FEDERAL ELECTION COMMENTS ON PAGES)/3 AND 5 7 @ : PROTEST MARCH SATURDAY ep 10¢ Stop stalling on Vietnam peace, LB) told — Vancouver will join other cities across Canada and around the world this coming Saturday, April 27 in staging a giant protest rally and march to demand an end to the U.S. war in Vietnam. Sponsored by the Co- ordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam, demonstrators will gather at the City Hall, Cambie and 12th Ave. at 11:30 a.m. fora rally. At 1 p.m. marchers will move off and proceed over ees B.C. Communists meet to plan election drive Nigel Morgan, B.C. Leader of the Communist Party, told the PT Tuesday, on returning from a national meeting in Toronto where Party election policy was discussed, that candidates will shortly be named in some B.C. ridings. He said the party’s provincial Committee will be called into session this coming Sunday to consider the Federal election campaign in B.C. and to implement the party’s policy. Morgan said that “‘the Communist Party in B.C. will work to see to it that the real election issues are brought before the voters of British Columbia while working for the election of the largest progressive bloc from B.C. in the next. _- Parliament,’’ +04 Cath, H4 He said, ‘‘the national meeting in Toronto agreed that it was essential that the Communist Party enter candidates in order to ensure that the policies which Canada needs to move to the left are brought forward and debated in the coming crucial election campaign.” This will be the first election fought out on the new redistributed ridings. 264 members are to be elected. There are 23 Federal constituencies in B.C. Teachers fight Socred Bill 86 © BC Page 2 — Granville Bridge and through downtown city streets to the Courthouse for a giant rally at2 p.m. The city hall rally will be under the chairmanship of Alderman Harry Rankin and will also hear NDP MLA ‘Dave Barrett. Folk songs will be presented by the United Empire Loyalist band. Feature speaker at the Courthouse rally will be NDP national leader T.C. Douglas. Other speakers will include Rabbi John Sherwood. The rally and march is expected to be swelled by hundreds of people from Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island centres. This week the newly-formed Nanaimo Committee for Peace in Vietnam announced it is organizing a ~ contingent to join the Vancouver protest. There will also be a rally in Kamloops on April 27 which is being sponsored by the local labor council. New importance is being given to the protest demonstrations because of the obvious stalling by U.S. president Johnson over agreeing on a site for talks with North Vietnam. . Despite earlier statements that he would be prepared to go anywhere at any time, the U.S. has stalled for four weeks now, while bombing raids are being intensified. This week U.S. jet bombers flew 155 missions during one day which -compares with all-time record of 150 missions last December 26. There’ “has also been intensified bombing of liberated areas in South Vietnam. U.S. duplicity in Vietnam was again revealed Monday when the new U.S. Defence Secretary Clark M. Clifford told 1,500 newspaper executives in a major speech in New York that the U.S. is pouring in the latest and most modern equipment ~-with which to arm the puppet forces, which is in violation of the Geneva Agreement. The U.S. has so far rejected any idea of recognizing the National Liberation Front, but is operating on the theory of creating a puppet U.S. government similar to that in South Korea. Clifford indicated that U.S. forces will be reduced as South Vietnam puppet forces become strong enough to take over. In Hanoi, North Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement that the American attitude toward finding an acceptable site for preliminary talks - as disclosed by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, was not serious. An earlier statement from Hanoi last week charged the U.S. was deliberately stalling. Vancouver marchers will carry banners urging: End the War in Vietnam, Stop the Bombing of Vietnam, Honor the Geneva Agreements, Withdraw U.S. Troops Now, End Canadian Complicity, No More War Shipments to the U.S.