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VOL. 20, NO. 31

r VANCOUVER, B.C.
RIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1961

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ound a conference table. Let
% Rot fan up war psychosis,
1 Us clear the atmosphere,

Us rely on reason and not

0

. the power of thermonuc-
mp eePons.”
his was the appeal of So- ;

Vv
Premier Khrushchev 2

te ; :
~ days ago in a nation-wide
8 and radio speech in the
Viet Union.
€ said, “the Soviet Union

0
we hot want to fight anyone.

© do not want anybody’s

“a
ptory or anybody’s wealth.
ree do all possible to see

: the Soviet people and all
4 — shall emerge from this
Moment without war.”

Reason,

Not Arms’ Says K

© “Let us sit down honestly

oi

Gity labor council backs

Royal York Hotel strike

" Don’t use any CPR facilities until the company “has
h Norably settled the strike at the Royal York Hotel, hired

ek the striking employees,

and fired all the scabs pres-

Q 3
ly Working there,’ Vancouver Labor Council advised

“affiliates Tuesday night.

aia” also asked the Cana-
dz abor Congress to organ-
gai a international. boycott
Dute St the C.P.R. until the dis-
. ~ Was resolved.

ce Ud Hodgins, Wholesale Re-
t “Rion representative: said,
q Ae time we took stock of
0 BE tion where we struck
Jy, ction of an operation and:
topeth, Others operate. Let’s get
fang. ct and quit using C.P.R.
i). tes across Canada. That’s

‘Nswer to this company.”

Woyiltiam Stewart of Marine
holy ay proposed the motion
Organig  Teduest that the CLC
on: 2 @ national boycott. A

‘0h was finally adopted on

| the suggestion of VLC secre-
tary Paddy Neale, urging an
international. boycott against
the CPR.

CPR facilities in B.C. are:
Hotel Vancouver, C.P. Airlines,
C.P. Telegraphs, Canadian Pa-
cific Steamships. In addition to
these the -company controls
U-drive operations and a large
part of the truck transport

business.

HOME BUILDING IN USSR

The Soviet Union last year
built 14 homes for every 1,000
of its population, compared
with about seven in the United

PRESS OTTAWA FOR ACTION

WAR

This action was urged in a
special statement by the na-
tional executive of the Com-
munist Party of Canada which
is being published as an ad-
vertisement in many news-
papers across Canada this
week under the heading, ‘No
War Over Berlin.”

Full text of the party state-
ment reads:

“The Berlin crisis need not
and must not lead to a Third
World War. It can and must
be settled by peaceful negoti-
ations.

“Why should there be talk
of war because 16 years after
the last one it is suggested
there should be a peace treaty
with Germany—a peace treaty
which would end the occupa-
tion of Berlin? That occupa-
tion resulted from the Pots-
dam agreement which also pro-
vided for the demilitarization
of Germany.

“Instead, the government of
West Germany has become one
of the main pillars of NATO
whose leading powers occupy
West Berlin. That government
is controlled by the same mili-
tarist clique which twice in
this century has plunged the
world into war. Of the 140
generals and admirals in the
West German army 81 were
on Hitler’s general staff. West
German leaders clamour for
the restoration of the borders
of the nazi reich, for the de-
struction of the German Demo-

is a peace treaty, they will ac-
quire nuclear arms with
which to threaten all of hu-
manity.

“Behind them stands NATO,
and above all the United
States. The Toronto Globe and
Mail in an editorial on August
9 expressed the view that the
Soviet. Union is not likely to
start a war over Berlin. Then
it said: “It is hard to avoid

applying the fatal spark ...
There is always the possibility
that in a moment of crisis the
wild men in the Pentagon or
the Central Intelligence
Agency may take matters into
their own hands. This is, in
fact, the most dangerous of all

States and just under six in
| Britain.

the potentialities in the pre-

OVER
TALKS NOW-

Prime Minister Diefenbaker should publicly call for the com-
mencement of a round table conference to bring about a peaceful
settlement of the Berlin crisis.

cratic Republic. Unless there}:

the feeling that there is more i
danger of the United States} *

‘The fatal spark’

“Tt is hard to avoid the feeling that there is more danger
of the United States applying the fatal spark (at Berlin)...
There is always the possibility that in a moment of crisis the
wild men in the Pentagon or the Ceniral Inielligence Agency
may take matters into their own hands. This is, in fact, the
most dangerous ofall the potentialities in the present situ-
ation.’"—Toronto Globe and Mail editorial, August 9.

; sent situation.”

“Ts there a basis for nego-
tiation in the position being
taken by the Soviet Union.
Judge for yourself by what
they say:

“The Soviets ask for a peace
treaty with both German
states. They state that if neces-
sary they will sign a separate
treaty with east Germany (as
the western powers did many
years ago with Japan) “this”
in Premier Khrushchev’s
words “would mak®& it pos-
sible to normalize the situation
in West Berlin and thus to re-
move grounds for a sharp
clash between states.”

“The Soviets say that this
peace treaty should grant West
Berlin freedom of communica-
tion with the outside world.
"We agree to the establishment
of effective guarantees of the
independent development and
security of the free city of
Wesi Berlin.”

“There may be differences
of opinion on these proposals,

but such differences can only} world war

be resolved by discussion and
not by hurling humanity in-
to the atomic holocaust. Surely
every peace loving man and
woman in our country and
everywhere must agree that
these proposals are ones upon
which the countries concerns
ed can at least sit down and
begin to talk.

“That is what is necessary.
Negotiations ‘must be com<
menced. The Canadian govern-
ment has a great responsibility
to influence this _ situation.
Prime Minister Diefenbaker
should publicly call for the
commencement of a round
table conference to bring
about a peaceful settlement of
Berlin crisis. A peace treaty
must be signed with both Gers
man states. That country must
never again become a hotbed
for war.

Write the Prime Minister
and your own MP today.

Urge them io call for such
a conference immediately. :

Lift the terrible danger of

from humanity!

Be LS SAR cok 3

BERLIN — CITY OF CRISIS.

Photo shows Unter Den

Linden in the heart of Berlin. Nearby at the Brandenburg
Gate the East Berlin authorities this week put a stop to
activities of Western imperialist states seeking to under-
mine and disrupt the German Democratic Republic. (See
story by Max Reich, PT Berlin correspondent, on page 7.)

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