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vistnamese Workers’ Party
Newspaper Nhan Dan and in the

hinese new
aper, Peoples’
Daily, spaper, Pp.

“he Hanoi, Nhan Dan asked:
Du Can Wilson act as ‘peace
Ss Manel when he himself has
fen taking part in, and sup-
soled the U.S. aggressive war
approves the U.S. policy of
Spreading it,”

Describing Wilson as “one of
' ; Most zealous supporters and
€tenders of U.S, policy in Viet-
nt the paper added: “His
= ONS prove that the British
vernment has betrayed its re-
pouty as a co-chairman of
Be 954 Geneva conference, has
eel the Geneva agreements,
Offered to serve willingly the

*. aggressors.” _

INTERVIEW

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“The present struggle of the

Vietnamese army and people,”

“af Said, “is a just, patriotic and
Goubtedly victorious war of a
ee against an unjust and
: aggressive war of Amer-
an imperialism.

“The. Vietnamese people ate
saad a stubborn struggle in
Bea of their sacred national
tigh = and are simultaneously

ting for peace, national in-

dependence, democracy and
Socialism,”

He said that the Vietnamese
‘People enjoyed the solidarity,
ot and growing assistance
the € Soviet Union, China and
oo socialist countries, as
ss, as growing support of gov-

Ments and people of Asia,

Tica and Latin America and

1 peace forces.

2 “At the same time,” he added,
© American imperialists see

Sed isolation is increasing

as Passing day; they are sub-

th €d to ever sharper criticism
Oughout the world, and even
the U,s,

Roe American imperialists

in for an inevitable defeat,

© Vietnamese people are bound
Win a full victory.”

»Nhan Dan noted President
Johnson’s full approval and co-
operation with Wilson’s «initia-
tive.” The U.S, puppets inSaigon,
it went on, “also gloated over
the British move and have prom-
ised to give the mission a very
warm welcome,

«All this proves that Wilson’s
‘peace initiative’ is in factaimed
at redlizing the scheme of the

‘U.S. imperialists who. wish to

deceive the people of the world
with phoney ‘peace negotiations’
while continuing to step up their
aggressive war.”

‘Commenting editorially on the
Commonwealth peace mission the
British Daily Worker said
‘Monday: “Two essential points
need to be remembered in this
discussion. The. first is that
Mr, Wilson still supports to the
full, President Johnson’s mili-
tary operations and aimsin Viet-
nam.

«There has been no. change
whatever in that position, The
second is that there is a ferment
in the labor and progressive
movement, opposing the govern-
ment’s servile backing of the
U.S. By proposing the mission
Mr, . Wilson shows. that the pres-
sure of the people is having some
effect,

«But by not changing his policy
of supporting President Johnson
he is still refusing to do what
the people are pressing for. It
follows that there would be no
chance of the mission succeeding
as long as Mr, Wilson sticks to
his policy.”

Meanwhile, indications are that
Prime Minister Pearson’s role -
has been largely to seek “medi-
ation” between the’ two opposing
views at the Commonwealth con-
ference — between those states:
who opposed the U,S, policy and
those who back President John-
son, : .

“Prime Minister Pearson would
have served the interests of peace
better if he had pressed for a
firm position of forthright con-
demnation of U.S, aggression in
Vietnam, His failure to do so
stresses again the urgent need
to step up public pressure in
Canada to compel the govern-
ment to break with support of

-U,S. policy and to put forth an
‘independent : Canadian peace

SOVIET AIRCRAFT ASTOUND WORLD. Last week the Sov-
iet Union displayed a giant new transport plane at the.
Paris world air show which is capable of carrying 720.
people. It can carry a maximum load of 80 tons and has

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a range of 3,100 miles. Earlier the Soviet Union introduc-:

Mine Mill has strong case

before Ontario Labor Board

«tI am very pleased with the

results of this morning’s hearing

before the Ontario Labor Re-
lations Board,” said Nels Thi-
pault, President of Sudbury Local
598 Mine Mill, following adjourn-
ment of the Board on June 15,

The Hearing was the first on

“the application filed by his local

union for bargaining rights at
the huge 15,000 man work force
at the International Nickel Com-
pany holdings in Sudbury. These
rights were handed over following
a Steel union raid at the prop-
erties two years ago,

«preliminary figures would in-

_dicate that even after allowing

for changes in the work force
at Inco during the past year the
ecards filed by our union repre-
sent very nearly fifty percent of

all employees in the bargaining

unit,” Thibault said, Under the
Ontario Labor Relations ‘Act, a
minimum 45 percent signed ap-
plication cards are required by
an applying union before the
Board will order a vote.

Figures released at the Board
showed on the preliminary check
of the cards that application was -
supported by slightly more than

noted by Local 598 Counsel, John
Nelligan, this is a much larger
number of cards submitted to
the Board than there was in the
Steel application of 1961.

* * *

A call to strengthen the voice
of labor in the struggle against
the present danger of nuclear
war and for a just and lasting
peace was sounded here today by

150 delegates to the national

council meeting of United Elec-
trical, Radio and Machine Wor-
kers (UE), Meeting in semi-
annual conference, delegates who
represent 23,000 members re-
iterated a resolution adopted at
the 28th convention of the union
‘in November 1964,

The resolution seeks to:——

Disengage Canada from com-
mitments to any and all military
groups, remove nuclear weapons
from Canadian territory, and
conduct vigorous activity as a
neutral country in world councils,

- such, as the United Nations, in

support of al propositions which.
will prevent the spread of nuclear
weapons, advance the all-impor-
tant question of peaceful co-
existence of countries with
diffierent social systems, and

SOUTH KOREA 50,000

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eee shows that until recently the Pentagon had 700,000 military men.
lOned around the world. The figure has gone up since this map was pre-

red. The 46,500 listed for South Vietnam has now gone up to around 70,000

Qnd ;
Ghd is expected to reach 100,000 following last week’s decision to use Amer'-

can ground forces in direct fighting. About 250,000 men are stationed in West
Germany. From a glance at this map is it any wonder the cry “Yankee Go
Home" is heard from the four corners of the world? ss

ed the world’s largest Tupolev TU-144 supersonic airliner
with a speed of 1,500 m.p.h. Above is one of the world’s
largest helicopters, the MI-10, built in the Soviet Union.
It is shown lifting a bus. :

open the way to general and uni-
versal disarmament as the guar-
antees of peace, now and in the
future,

Establish full diplomatic and
trade relations with all countries,
including the Peoples’ Republic
of China, support the right of
people under colonial rule to
achieve independence and self-
government, and extend credit
and engage in trade with the
under-developed countries, while
fully respecting their indepen-
dence and sovereign right to their
own chosen form of government,

Condemning the policy of USA
in seeking to determine the future
and governments of the people of
Vietnam and the Dominican Re-
public by armed intervention, the
union said, “The immediate and
urgent task for Canadians is to
compel the Pearson government
to speak out for peace, to act
against the present and real
danger of world nuclear war,
This requires a forthright po-
sition of demanding that the USA
‘get out of Vietnam, that the
Geneva conference of 1954 be
reconvened, and that the de-
cisions of that conference with
respect to Vietnam be im-
mediately enforced,

“Likewise the Pearson govern-
ment must be pressured into de-
manding and end to USA inter-
vention in Latin America, with-
drawal of USA military from the
Dominican Republic, and a settle-
ment of the problems there by the
Dominican people themselves,”

7 * * *

Monday this week, some 170
employees of the Western Gyp-
sum Products at 2995 Wall St.,
went on strike to win a new wage
agreement, Members of the
United Cement, Lime and Gypsum
Workers Union, the strikers are
seeking a 25¢ increase across
;the board, with an additional 25¢

for skilled trades,

As was previously reported the
company has sought to obstruct
negotiations and to split the
workers by seeking a long-term
agreement and making varying
wage offers designed to split the
workers,

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