_ The packed house — even the
‘Stage was filled with an extra 200
Seats — was suddenly hushed, ex-
pectant. There was a pause and
‘then a tall, spare figure in faded
blue jeans jogged across the stage
Carrying a 12-string guitar and a
banjo. ‘

| He bowed before the tumultu-
Ous ovation and then, as the ap-
Plause died ‘down, the melodic
banjo notes come out over the
sound system, opening the song:
| “You’ve got to walk that lone-
Some valley. . .”” He chided some
Of those in the audience for not
Singing along, for being too con-
cerned with their “dignity and ob-
Jectivity.”’

Within minutes the hall is filled
With 3,000 voices. For this was
Pete Seeger and at a Pete Seeger
Concert, you don’t just come to

sten, you come to sing.

They were all there at the
Queen Elizabeth Theatre Mar. 6:
| those of an older generation who
had heard Seeger in the forties
‘and fifties; the generation which

3.000 sing with Seeger

grew up in the 60s, hearing Seeg-
er at the Newport festival and on
anti-Vietnam war marches; and
even a new generation of toddlers
which have renewed the contact
through his many children’s rec-
ords.

And. the performance Satur-
day was more than just a concert
— it was also a reaffirmation and
a celebration.

He chose generously from his
repertoire, turning to many of his
familiar songs and augmenting
them with new material, includ-
ing one song by revolutionary
Nicaraguan composer and singer
Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy. An-
other new song, written as he put
it, ‘‘as a ditty for my neighbors’’
voiced the hope that ‘‘we can give
the nuclear maniacs the sack.”
Seeger prefaced it by saying, “I’m
not as optimistic as I used to be
but I know one thing — you can
never give up.”

I must confess to a small disap-
pointment: since it was a ‘ ‘salute

to peace,’ I had hoped that
Seeger would do something a little
extra directed at the peace move-
ment here — perhaps to come out
on stage and do a song with the
song group ‘‘Ash Street’ which
opened the second half.

But that is a small point. The
other side is that Seeger sang 30
minutes beyond his scheduled
time and returned after the sec-
ond encore to thank the audience
and to remind them that they had
“many struggles ahead’’ and to
‘Soin hands together.”

A major note of praise must
also go to Ash Street, which with-
out any of the expertise or re-
sources of the big show promot-
ers, succeeded in staging the con-
cert and in organizing the two up-
coming events, with Earl Robin-
son and Odetta. As for the Ash
Street group — Charlotte Dia-
mond, Harry Aoki, Tom Haw-
ken and Steven Gidora — Seeger
himself summed their perform-
ance up in a word: ‘‘wonderful.””

—Sean Griffin

_ Representatives of over 60 B.C.
Organizations hammered out a dec-
‘aration of principles demanding

play a leading role in the

fight for world peace, at the Coali- ,

tion for World Disarmament con-
ference in Vancouver Mar. 6and 7.

y
| People marched through down-

—_—

i ae ee

SS ee a ee ee eee

Se en te Ee ake eg ee

And on Saturday more than 800

town Vancouver to Robson Square

, 10 hear U.S. peace activist Sidney

Lens Say peace marches are essen-
| I preventing an imminent nuc-
ar holocaust.
C The 200 delegates meeting at
hrist Church cathedral also
agreed to concentrate their immed-
late efforts on mobilizing support
we three major peace demonstra-
ns this year. These include the
ir d annual anti-nuclear march
; d rally in Vancouver April 24, a
oar 12 march to mark the opening
‘6 the second UN special disarma-
ent conference, and actions to
Protest the arrival of the first Tri-
€nt submarine which will pass
5 Ough Canadian waters Aug. 8
a ts way to the Bangor, Wash.
‘eae This action will coincide with
eal observance of Hiro-
a Day, Aug. 6.

Chief among the delegates’ con-
at was the role Canada will play
ae special United Nations ses-
this, (UNSSOD ID, in New York

Summer.
thay teates approved a resolution

‘at prime minister Pierre Trudeau
tio f lead the Canadian delega-
: n and “Jive up to his previous
ie ’ supporting world disarma-

€nt. Many were emphatic that ex-

Nal affairs minister Mark Mac-
jian, a well-known supporter of

€ cold war policies of U.S. state
incl Alexander Haig, not be

ded in the delegation.

The conference called on the Ca-
0 an delegation to propose a

™Mprehensive weapons test ban, a
«to all missile flight testing, a

Prohibition of all fissionable ma-
on als” and strict spending limits

New nuclear weapons systems.

legates also called for a
Senos revision of Canada’s for-

Policy, based on Canada’s

Neidrawal from NATO and:

rad . .
Nucles establishing Canada as a

- tear

far-free zone, abolition of nuc-
~Oriented manufacturing in

KINNAIRD AT RALLY . .
to be a B.C. Fed. priority.”

Canada, a total ban on the devel-
opment of chemical and bacterio-
logical warfare systems, and Cana-
dian support for a ‘‘no first-strike’ :
declaration by the U.S. and the
USSR at the United Nations.
Support was also expressed for
Operation Dismantle’s efforts to
place the disarmament question on
the civic ballot for the fall elections.
Several municipal councils have
agreed to hold a referendum this
fall, and at press time Vancouver
city council was to consider a dis-

_armament referendum.

Labor delegates Harry Greene
of CUPE Local 389, Norton
Youngs of the Telecommunica-
tions Workers Union and Vancou-
ver Labor Council president Frank
Kennedy stressed an “economic”
approach in educating their mem-
bers on the arms race. Greene cited
a link between arms expenditures
and cutbacks in social services, In-
cluding workers’ benefits, and not-
ed that military spending produces
far fewer jobs than ‘“‘peace”’ spend-

eeThe $7 billion defence budget
gets yearly inflation increases plus
three percent. Can you imagine the
outcry if a union had such a con-
tract?’’ he asked.

Economist Emil Bjarnason of
the Trade Union Research Bureau
said the arms race, which will cost
U.S. taxpayers $220 billion in 1982,
has caused simultaneous inflation,

.“campaign for disarmament will continue

Rally, meeting press gov't
to ‘take the lead for peace’

TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

. ‘.

recorded high interest rates and un-
employment. Military spending
puts money into the economy in the
form of wages and profits but pro-
duces no goods, meaning demand
exceeds supply and prices auto-
matically rise, he explained. He ad-
ded that war production depresses
all economies, having an especially
devastating effect on third world
countries.

At the rally on the courthouse
steps at Robson Square, speaker
Sidney Lens praised B.C. Federa-
tion of Labor president Jim Kin-
naird and other Canadian labor
leaders for their participation in the
peace movement.

Lens, whose involvement with
the U.S. peace movement goes
back to the early fifties, said U.S.
nuclear arms buildups were part of
a plan to “‘organize the world for
General Electric, General Motors
and all others who steal from our
pockets.”” But the growing nuclear
arsenal ‘‘didn’t stop the Russians’’
or prevent other countries ‘‘from
going Communist,”’ he said.

The author of the book, The
Day Before Doomsday, traced the
development of the U.S. weapons
systems and civil defence measures
such as fallout shelters, terming
them, ‘‘the lunacy of people who
have lost touch with reality.”’

“‘When anyone tells you these
nuclear weapons defend us, he’s a

- goddam liar,”’ he declared.

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