Open Letter

To Pearson

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—Page 12

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—Fisherman photo

RCHERS IN VICTORIA. Photo shows some of the 60 peace delegates, most of whom
Greater Vancouver, marching on Victoria streets to the Legislature last Wednesday to,
S to take a stand for peace.

NDP to put peace motion
before B.C. legislature

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fro Ae °F So peace delegates
Peace coc uver, led by the B.C
town gy u2cil paraded the down-
Negqay, °° tS of Victoria Wed-
Buildings -« t© the Parliament
MLAs ;,..“here they lobbied
their peeing them to realize
bring “eponsibilities to help
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Be
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With f @ atission in conjunction
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Churep, : © World Council of
Pay) ? 8nd His Holiness Pope
Mediag a bring about an im-
View sation of bombing in
tions : Nam, so that negotia-
Uniteg <. PToceed between the
of Nort tes, the Government
Ee &tnam, the Govern-

ment of South Vietnam, and the
National Liberation Front, for a
settlement based upon the Gen-
eva accords of 1954,”

Mr. L, Gardner, leader of the-

delegation, said they were unable
to contact any members of the
government and the Government
Whip did not reply to their re-

quest for an interview, All MLAS:

Cont’d on P. 11

sensational victory

The united forces of the French left have delivered a.
sharp blow to General Charles de Gaulle’s U.N.R. Party in the

elections to the National Assembly, and scored a sensational

victory for Socialist, labor and Communist left-wing forces.

In the first round of voting
Sunday, March 5 over five million
French men and women voted
Communist, giving the French
Communist Party and its candi-
dates over a million more votes
than in the 1962 election, The
percentage vote won by the Com-
munists was 22.46 compared with
21.84 in the last election.

In the second round of voting
last Sunday the Gaullists suffered
sharp defeats arising from the

“strong challenge from the united

left forces, De Gaulle’s followers
lost 22 districts and the number
of Gaullists seats in the new
Assembly dropped from 266to
244,

The latest tabulations, with 484
of the 486 seats declared, gave
the Gaullists 244, the Left Feder-
ation headed by Francois Mitter-
and, 116, the €ommunists 72,
Democratic Centre 27, and all
others 25,

In Paris itself, the left par-
ties broke the exclusive control
held by the Gaullists since 1962
when they won every one of the
31 constituencies. Many top Cab-
inet members, including Foreign
Minister M, Couve de Murville,
were defeated.

The unity pact agreed on by the
left last December showed the
power of left unity in France,
The agreement provided that each
left party would run its own
candidates in the first round
of voting and unite around the
strongest left candidate in the
second round, Premier M, Pom-
pidou had to admit Sunday night,
after the vote was in, that the

City students picket warship
to protest war in Vietnam

“Here they come, This happens
everywhere we go,”

These words were spoken by a
young U.S, sailor as a parade of,
over one hundred student demon-
strators approached the USS
Jouett, a guided-missile frigate
visiting Vancouver on the week-
end of March 11-12, They are
symbolic of a rising tide of pro-
test against U.S. aggression in
Vietnam, ;

‘The student demonstration on
March 11 atthe Vancouver Court-
house, organized by a conference
of students against the war in

Vietnam, following their gather-
ing at the Court House, marched
down to the dock where the USS
Jouett was moored, to distribute
a leaflet addressed to the ship’s
crew under the heading, “G.Is
say — Bring Us Home.”

When the demonstrators
reached the pier the gates were
closed and all visitors barred.
For an hour songs were sung
and discussion held until the gates
were re-opened, allowing the
young marchers access to the
ship, where they distributed leaf-
lets to the sailors and discussed
the Vietnam war,

On the following day (Sunday)

_ attempts were made to distribute

leaflets to the visitors boarding
the ship, Each distributor handed
out leaflets until escorted from
CPR property, whereupon an-
other distributor would take the
leaflets and repeat the process,

The weekend peace activity was
sponsored by the Vietnam Day
Committee and the Ad-Hoc Com-
mittee of Youth for Peace in Viet-
nam, A leaflet against the war
in Vietnam was also widely dis-
tributed by the Communist Party,

SS

unity of left wing parties had
succeeded in beating a large
number of Gaullists,

The Communists emerged as
the biggest winners, nearly doub-
ling their strength in the As-
sembly. They are assured of at
least 72 seats as opposed to 41
they held in the outgoing As-
sembly,

In a statement on election night,
the general secretary of the
French Communist Party, M,
Waldeck Rochet, said: “The re-
sults of the second round con-
firmed the progress registered
by the left parties in the first
round,

“In the second round, the united

candidates of the left polled all
the votes thatthe left got in the
first round and in many cases
even exceeded those figures,
beating many Gaullist candidates,

“Despite an electoral system
Cont'd on P. 11

To speak
in city

RABBI A. L. FEINBERG, who
recently returned from North
Vietnam, will speak at a pub-
lic meeting at Eric Hamber
School in Vancouver at 8 p.m.
on March 28. The meeting is
sponsored by the Ad Hoc
Committee on Vietnam, which
‘includes the B.C. Federation
of Labor, the Vancouver
Labor Council, the Voice of
Women, and other groups.
Admission $1.00, Students,
50c.

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