No nuclear arms for-Canada By LESLIE MORRIS National Leader of the Communist Party During his recent television interview with the press President John F. Kennedy said there are one millon Ameri- cans abroad carrying out the policies of the United States. One of them turned up in Ottawa the other day in the Person of U.S. General Norstad; who was until a few days ago the commander of the NATO forces in Europe. He told _ the press that Canada has failed to live up to its commitments to NATO, and that it is time it did. ' — The “commitment” which worires the general is one which he said the Canadian government made in 1959 to arm forces with nuclear weapons, under U.S. control. David Lewis of the New Democratic Party promptly and publicly accused the Canadian military of putting Norstad up to this piece of arm-twisting. It was “pre- sumptuous” of the general to tell Canada what it should do, said Mr. Lewis. Any de- cisions must be made by Parliament. His party leader, Tommy Douglas, said that the govern- Ment should produce the documents and tell the people the truth. He repeated earlier assurances that the NDP is opposed to arming Canadian forces with nuclear weapons, or putting Nuclear weapons on Canadian territory. * * * Lester Pearson of the Liberal Party called on the govern- Ment either to carry out its commitment or to change it. He did not criticize Norstad; indeed, he is in a poor position to do SO considering that it was the former Liberal government, of Which he was a member, that took Canada into NATO in the first place. (Pearson has since openly calied for nuclear arms —Ed.) A. spokesman of the Social Credit party, commenting on Norstad’s statement, said that he was opposed to nuclear wea- Pons whether for Canada’s forces abroad or in the Bomarcs Which have been set up on Canadian soil, But the government’s spokesman, Howard Green, the minister for external affairs, said that Canada made no com- mitments such as Norstad described! : Let us make one or two observations on all this. As Mr. Lewis said, it is an affront to Canada that a US. Seneral should give what amounts to instructions on defence Policy. It is more than likely that the Canadian military brass Not only condoned Norstad’s remarks but were party to their being made, in one way or another. The closeness of Canadian military thinking to the Pen- tagon’s and its “independence” of Parliament was shown the other day when it was revealed that during the Cuba crisis the RCAF was alerted, not by the government of Canada, but by the American chiefs of NORAD. Was Norstad telling the truth? Is there a document, sign- €d for Canada by the Diefenbaker government, committing Canada, secretly and without any parliamentary debate, to ac- cepting nuclear arms? * * * There is every reason to suspect that there is such a document containing that very commitment, The entire course of Canadian military, diplomatic and economic policy vis a vis the USA argues for such a view. Why build Bomarc missile sites. equip Canadian troops in Germany with Honest John artillery and pour Canadian mon- ey into Starfighter aircraft unless the intention was to give them all nuclear weapons in the first place? : Behind the scenes, hidden by the devices of secret dip- ©macy and with the active collaboration of American and Canadian military leaders, Canada is being drawn still deep- €r into the American military establishment, with all it 1m- Plies, When Kennedy, in the above-mentioned interview, ver- bally chastized Western Europe for not pulling its full weight in NATO, he had Canada in mind ag well as Britain and rance. Maybe he treated Mr. Diefnbaker like he did Mr. Mac- Millan during the Bahamas talks, as a Roman pro-consul giv- ing- instructions to his barbarian underlings, and told the Canadian prime minister the time had come for Canada to drop its silly scruples and do what NATO and NORAD re- quired. One of these fine days we shall find that not only has Canada been committed to becoming a nuclear pu pee Pad for U.S. nuclear missiles and our troops in Germany an Sur air force transformed into outright nuclear satellites of the Pentagon, but that we are actually in that position. Norstad’s arrogant conduct in Ottawa and the sree discomfiture of the government in the face of this mi ant Political Operation, should arouse Canadians to the perl We are in. ; » main peace “No nuclear weapons for Canada,” the P Slogan in Canada at this time, should echo from coast to Coast. : : | PUBLIC MEETING ‘Labor & the Legislative Session’ THURS., JAN. 24 - 8 P.M. CLINTON HALL — 2605 E. PENDER ST. EVERYONE WELCOME LONDON LETTER Tories push Britain into crisis Frank Jackson, at 75.still active in workers’ education in Eng- land, wrote in the middle of De- cember to one of his friends here. His commentson the British scene will be of interest to our readers, so we reproduce his letter in part: “Yes, it has really been a year of alarms. It ever must be so while the people allow capitalism to exist. They are gradually waking up though. The one out- standing thing is the tremendous strength shown by the Peace Movement the world over in the Cuba crisis because nowhere, in no place, was there any move to accept. In every country the people shouted NO! “In this country we took our part and the people really took alarm, even shook the inflapable Mac to his shoes. I do not re- member a time since Suez when there had been such a_ united protest of opposition. No yard- stick has been made that would measure the feelings of relief, when the Soviet Union made it known that they would not be parties to war, even the rabid antis gave a gesture of thanks BRITAIN BURIED IN SNOW BUT... —ECCLESS (British Daily Worker) ..- SOMEWHERE THE SUN IS SHINING at their actions. “The aftermath of Cuba is even now being felt. The Tories are on the run, and everything points to a general election coming. In some quarters the spring is given” as the date. I am sure the longer they hold to office the greater will be the mess. For the first time since 1945, there are 600,- 000 registered as unemployed, and this with over 5 million Old Age Pensioners. The fixed in- come people, together with the Old Age Pensioners, number about 6% million, and all these are now on the poverty line. “On top of this comes Ken- nedy’s decision to cut out the Skybolt missile, the whole basis of Britain’s military strategy, and this has put the Tories well in the red. They are spending now 1,750 million pounds on war preparations. To carry on with the Skybolt would mean, to de- velop it alone, an additional 600 million pounds a year at least, which will mean additional taxes on everybody of anything from 2/6 to 3/6 a week on the pound. These fixed income people (from whom the Tories draw their strength) are in open revolt. “This is aggravated by the Tories trying to force Britain into the Common Market, which means aS much as 45 to 60 per cent increase in food prices. This is due to the pressure of the USA trying to force Britain into the Common. Market, the obvious reason being to allow the seizing of the Commonwealth trade. “Monopolization plus automa- tion has already forced the bank- ruptcy rate up to the highest in years. This again is hitting the small business man. The Tories’ remedy is to make the workers pay, and carry the burden, plus forcing the small business man out of business, a really vicious circle. “And this is not an overdrawn picture of things in ‘Merrie Eng- land’ today.” New quarterly planning is key to building press By JERRY SHACK PT Circulation Manager Recently, every press club in the province received a letter outlining a projected 10% increase in subscrip- tions and a 20% boost in pap- er sales for 1963. Many of the clubs have already ac- cepted the quotas proposed to them by the press committee and I am sure that the rest of the clubs will be heard from very shortly. What was new in the plan of work for this. year was the fact that the committee ask- ed the clubs to break their quotas down on a quarterly basis and to set themselves, minimum quarterly object- ives, in order to achieve their annual targets in an organiz- ed manner. This is the first step to- wards placing press building in its true perspective — that of a year-round job, and not just a task to be tackled dur- ing times of press drives. It will be successful only to the extent that clubs plan their work and then check up on their plans in a consistent manner. Most clubs had their paper sales quotas boosted, in order to hit the projected 20% in- crease in this category. In this connection, a few suggestions might be helpful to all clubs in planning their work. ® Special Issues — The PT will be printing four special issues this year (May Day, Canada Day, Labor Day and New Year’s). Clubs should de- cide now to order bundles of these issues. In this way, many clubs could reach their objectives through this one path alone. For example, a club ordering 100 copies of each issue would .be credited with 16 new subs on their paper sales quota, and so on. © A Regular Bundle — If only one club member were to order a regular bundle of 10 copies per week, his club would have 20 subs by the end of the year. Many clubs are doing this now and re- port that it is not at all diffi- cult to sell the paper on the streets and at the _ factory gates, but more salesmen are needed. It should be possible for every single club to order a small but regular bundle. @ Other Outlets — Some o = individuals have done out- standing work in getting the PT placed on newsstands, corner grocery stores, etc. With a little effort, a reader should be able to make ar- rangements with his corner grocer or some other small shopkeeper to accept a week- ly bundle of papers — any- where from five copies up. One such stand started with 10 copies a week and, after only a few months, is now receiving 25 copies. As an incentive, the outlet is charged only 7c per copy, thus providing the operator with a 3c margin of profit. In conclusion, it should be pointed out that we obtain al- most 400 new subs every year. However, some people move, others pass on, and others still are not visited when their subs fall due. In last fall’s drive, for in- stance, over 200 renewals were not picked up. As a re- sult, our circulation fails to grow and becomes somewhat static. : We will never extend our circulation unless we make sure that every single sub that is up for renewal is pick- ed up immediately.