wa | AT STANLEY PARK RALLY. Photo shows Carl Union, speaking to i : : Park last Sunday. Erickson, Financial Secretary of the Carpenters rally at Stanley Park last su se bre S weininian KHRUSHCHEV SAYS: ‘Pact good deed for all mankind’ Cont’d from pg. 1 ratify the treaty, but said “‘it is €ven more important that Can- ada should refrain from becoming a storage dump for U.S. nuclear Weapons. Plans to store these Weapons on the five Canadian Airforce operational bases should now be abandoned.” Also welcoming the treaty ] ast Week was M. J. Coldwell, Chair- man of the board of the Cana- dian Campaign for Nuclear Dis- armament. He said the treaty Was a first step in easing the Cold war and urged the govern- Ment to reconsider its position and refuse to accept nuclear arms. Justice J. T. Thorson, CCND President, said the hopes of hu- Manity will be disregarded if Canada decides at this time to €quip its armed forces with nu- Clear weapons. Mrs. Helen Tucker, former President of the Voice of Wo- Men, said: “I think the peace movements, including VOW, have Made a considerable contribution to this test ban treaty by their Constant appeals to -governments and public opinion in the last few years. Now we want to see Some real progress made on dis- armament.’’ Claude Jodoin, President of the Canadian Congress of Labor, Said: “It’s marvellous for the human race.” Signing the nuclea “- RUSK. res ASK NEW MEASURES In a communique issued after the signing ceremony, the three powers called on other countries to accede to the treaty, which will be open to them to sign in London, Moscow and Washing- ton from Thursday onward. At a Kremlin reception Soviet Premier Khrushchev urged that the next step now should be a non-aggression pact between the NATO and Warsaw Pact coun- tries. This would show all peoples that the states most powerful militarily had reached agree- ment with a view to averting thermonuclear war, he said. Signature of the test ban treaty was ‘‘a good deed for all man- kind,’ the Soviet Premier de- clared. He hoped it would “have a positive effect both on the in- ternational climate and on the relations between states.” The most important thing now was ‘‘not to rest. content with: what had been achieved, not to stop the struggle against the threat of another war.’ The treaty did not eliminate the danger of nuclear war. “The danger will hang over mankind so long as the arms race con: tinues,” he said. Khrushchev added that no treaties could evercome the basic differences. between the two social systems—»ut the Soviet Union stood firmly for peaceful co-existence. GROMYKO “August 9, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 NDP parley airs policy at Regina The national convention of the New Democratic Party is ‘meeting this week in Regina with some 800 delegates in at- tendance. On Tuesday a sharp debate took place on the party’s stand on biculturalism. According to early reports a watered. down resolution was adopted ealling for ‘collaboration of the provinces to provide with- in the modified constitution to French-speaking Canadians in other provinces the same lan- guage rights as are provided in Quebec for English-speak- ing Canadians.” Expected to come in __ for heated discussion is the party’s attitude to NATO. There is a strong feeling among the rank and. file of the Party that Canada should withdraw from NATO and NORAD. This was expressed in the foreign policy resolution adopted at the founding convention. Next week tho PT will carry fuller reports of this import- ant convention. Columbia Talks External Affairs Minister Mar- tin. said this week, after a tour of the- Columbia River, that talks are proceeding now with the U.S. on the final draft of the treaty. He ‘said these. talks would soon ‘be concluded. r test ban treaty in Moscow y City rally hails test ban treaty ‘Let There Be No More Hiro- shimas!’’—this was the theme of a meeting held on Sunday, Aug- ust 4 to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the atomic anni- hilation of Hiroshima. Sponsored by the B.C. Peace Council, the meeting was pre- ceded by a carcade in which 30 ears bearing colorful banners— “Destroy the Bombs Not the Peo- ple”, “No Nuclear Warheads in B.c.”, “No Nuclear Arms for Canada’’—travelled -from Peace Council headquarters — through downtown Vancouver to Hallelu- jah Point in Stanley Park. There a crowd of 200 people, _many of them holding aloft white cardboard peace doves and pla- cards with peace slogans, heard opening remarks by Laud Gard- ener, Chairman of the Peace Council, in which he praised the recently concluded partial test- ban treaty. ‘‘We’re on the road to disarmament. There is a_ long way to go yet but we’ve started.”’ The Columbian Singers then led the audience in peace songs. Featured speakers at the meet- ing were Jerry LeBourdais, Fin- ancial Secretary of the Oil, Chem- ical & Atomic Workers’ Union, and Carl Erickson, Financial Sec. retary of the Carpenters’ Union. LeBourdais praised the Peace Council for its pioneer role in the Canadian peace movement. While welcoming the test ban pact, he warned: ‘‘The fight and struggle for peace is just starting. While internationally there is now a saner approach to peace, our own government is bringing nuclear weapons into Canada.” Canadians, continued Mr. Le- Bourdais, should press for com- plete and total disarmament, the non-storage of nuclear weapons in Canada, and the admission of China to the United Nations. In conclusion, he stressed the need “to rededicate ourselves to the fight for peace.” Erickson also criticized the Canadian Government for its stand on nuclear weapons and urged heavy pressure from the people to forestall the move to store nuclear warheads on Can. adian soil. So Emphasizing the economic in- sanity of war preparations, Er- ickson showed how armaments money could be used for peace- ful purposes: For the cost of one polaris, 160 students .could at- tend university for four years. The Columbia River — project could also be financed with mon. ey now spent on armaments, he said. In conclusion, Erickson pro- posed a final world war against illiteracy, disease, and starva- tion and the building of a monu- ment dedicated to ‘‘No More Hiroshimas’’. In closing the meeting, Laud Gardener announced the entry of a Peace Council float in the P.N.E. Parade on August 17. A leaflet entitled ‘“‘No More Hiro- shimas” was also distributed. Volunteers willing to help con- struct the float’ should contact, Laud Gardener. You'll find your pay envelope a bit heavier this week. The company bought a_ better grade of envelope. LABOR ROUNDUP: Longshoremen voting on waterfront pact Following long months of nego- tiations the International Long- shoremen and Warehousemen’s Union and the Shipping Federa- tion and B.C. Wharf Operators have reached agreement on an in- dustry-wide contract covering all B.C. ports. Terms of the agreement will not be made public until it has been ratified by union member- ship vote and employer represent- atives. It is reported, however, that one prominent feature of the new ILWU agreement are meas- ures designed to safeguard work- er interests on the waterfront as a result of growing automation in the stevedoring industry. During recent years the ILWU in the U.S. Pacific Northwest have made very substantial head- way in providing safeguards and compensation to longshoremen in face of steadily rising automa- tion and mechanization. * * * Last weekend the three-week strike of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union (UF&- AWU) ended. with the fleet out in the fishing grounds during the weekend. Mr. Justice Victor L. Dryer of the Supreme Court of B.C. has been appointed by federal and provincial governments to serve as arbitrator in the dispute be- tween the UF&AWU and the Fish- eries Association. Arbitration hearings are scheduled to begin Friday of this week. Salmon net fishermen voted 86-percent to ac- cept a one-man arbitration of issues in dispute. The flat rejection of the Fish- eries Assocination to bargain in good faith precipitated and need. lessly prolonged the strike, and led to voluntary arbitration as a means of ending the tieup. Meantime, a number of union members and officials have been charged with selling fish without a licence. These UF&AWU fish sales, highly popular with the public, were carried on in aid of the union strike fund. * + * Steel’s ‘‘victory’’ vote at Craig- mont Mines, ordered by the B.C. Labor Relations Board and up- held by a Supreme Court judge against the jurisdiction of Mine- Mill, ‘‘won’t add a nickle to the pay envelope of Craigmont min. ers’’ in the opinion of Mine-Mill _ officials. Denied a hearing before the Board as a preliminary to any vote being taken, even the em- inent judge had to agree that “natural justice was denied to ° Mine-Mill. Despite this, however, the judge managed to rule against an in- junction sought by Mine-Mill to nullify the Board’s ruling for a vote until a hearing had been called. As Mine-Mill Western Dist- rict President Harvey Murphy told the PT, ‘‘Now almost irrepar_ able damage has been done to Craigmont miners’’.