“Who says that we capitalists don’t
have to work harder?”

—Neues Deutschland, Berlin

Nuclear tests hit
by Peace Congress |

The Canadian Peace Congress
said in a statement last week that
the underground explosion by
India on May 18 of a nuclear device
“underlines the urgency of im-
mediate action on a world-wide
scale to ban all nuclear and atomic
weapons and their means of
delivery.”

The statement adds:

“The Canadian Peace Congress
deplores the extension of nuclear
explosion capability which is the
real meaning of the Indian nuclear
blast. :

“We call upon the Canadian
Government to press in the
strongest possible way in the
United Nations, the World
Disarmament Conference and
other appropriate world bodies for
immediate signing of the treaty
against the proliferation of nuclear
and atomic weapons by China,
France, India and all other
countries who have not yet signed,
as a first step toward the universal
banning of these weapons.

“We make this call in the
knowledge: that just as India felt
compelled to:develop and explode a
nuclear device in the face of the
stubborn refusal of China and
France to sign the Non-
Proliferation Treaty, so will other

countries with the necessary

scientific and technical knowledge .
. feel compelled to develop and test

their own nuclear-devices.

“Tt is now imperative that the
forces of peace in our own country
and throughout the world redouble
their efforts to end the threat of
nuclear holocaust which menaces
the very existence of mankind.”

The appeal of the Canadian

Peace Congress takes on added:

urgency with the announcement by
the French government that it
intends to conduct a new round of
atmospheric tests in the mid-
Pacific in the near future.

The French announcement has
stirred up world-wide protest and
has created a crisis in the French
government with the firing of
Minister of Administrative
Reforms Jean-Jaques. Sevan-
Schreiber by newly-elected
President Valery  Giscard
d’Estaing.

In an attempt to allay world.

public protest, the French

government Monday announced it:

will conduct one less nuclear test in
the atmosphere than originally

planned. But the government .

announcement did not indicate how
many blasts it plans to let off at its
testing site at Mururoa Atoll.

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IVI. ELECTIUN

‘NDP-COPE unity still
key to victory in '74

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

The Vancouver Area Council of
the NDP has again voted to run a
full slate in the November 20 civic
elections. In doing so it has
spurned appeals for co-operation
from COPE, the Vancouver &
District Labor Council, a number
of individual trade unions as well
as many of its own members.

The Vancouver & District Labor
Council on March 19 passed a
motion expressing, “the sincere
hope that the Committee of
Progressive Electors and the NDP
will find common ground in the
next municipal election in the
interests of the working people of
Vancouver”. So have the Marine
Workers Union, The Canadian
Union of Public Employees-Local
1004, and other groups.

It must surely be obvious to any
thinking person who wants to see
more_ genuine people’s
representatives at City Hall that as
long as the reform forces compete
against each other, the
beneficiaries will continue to be
TEAM and the NPA. Or to put it
another way, the developers, real
estate interests and big business
will continue to run City Hall.

That the Vancouver Area
Council of the NDP year after year
should continue to split the
progressive forces at election time
defies reason and common sense.
But of course there must be a
reason for it, as there is for
everything.

I’m told by friends in the NDP
that a certain faction within the
NDP has captured the Vancouver
Area Council leadership. This
faction has always opposed any
form of co-operation between
labor, COPE and the NDP in civic
elections.

But even if it is correct that a
faction controls the Vancouver
Area Council of the NDP, that still
isn’t the whole story. The un-
fortunate fact is that their go-it-
alone tactics in civic politics are
condoned by the provincial
leadership enough to clean up the
situation in Vancouver.

I suppose those who oppose any
form of unity in civic elections will
tell me to keep my nose out of NDP
affairs. I would, except for the fact,
that what the NDP does, has a
direct bearing on the outcome of
every civic election.

Thanks to this go-it-alone policy
of the Vancouver Area Council of

to shape their own destiny as they chose.

TO M 4 iw _ The long standing and contin

down in the NATO and kindred war

ght of a people (any people)

uing dissension and break-
pacts of imperialism

the NDP, TEAM is today in power.
And unless the NDP policy is
changed, TEAM will stay there.
That is why progressive people
outside the NDP are so concerned
with what the NDP does in civic
politics.

I understand that the meeting of
the Vancouver Area Council of the
NDP on June 2, by a vote of 25 to.15,
turned down a motion to run only a
partial slate of candidates. The
motion would have left the door
open for some limited form of co-
operation with other groups. That
vote is significant for at least two
reasons. .

One is that 40% of those present
supported it.

Secondly only 25 members (out.
of a Vancouver membership of
several thousand) made_ the

Women to launch drive |
against nuclear menace |

By FREDA KNOTT

On the weekend of May 24-26, the
B.C. Voice of Women held its an-
nual general meeting on Bowen
Island. Rosemary Brown, NDP-
MLA, opened the Friday evening
session with a discussion on
“Women in Politics”. She urged
women to make their voices heard
stating that the voice of women can
never: be silent if the world is to
have peace.

The theme of this year’s.
meeting was ‘‘Multi-national
Corporations”. John Sayre from
Douglas College spoke on this
topic. He emphasized the growing
role played by governments in
providing interest-free loans which
will probably never be repaid. An

important factor contributing to.

the success of MNC’s is expansion
to underdeveloped countries where
cheap labor is available. Sayre
gave a good description of MNC’s
but he neglected to give any con-
crete suggestions for their con-
tainment, such as excess profits
taxes, price control legislation and
nationalization.

A significant part of the meeting
was taken up with discussion on the

Trident submarine, the:

replacement for the Polaris-
Poseidon submarines. It is to be
based at Bangor, Wash., about 100

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: Those who seek to make a career out of anti-communism

and clamorous red-baiting, be they governments at any
level, organizations or individuals, invariably end up in
ideological submersion, sunk in a swamp of their own

_ making.

The collapse of the era of McCarthyism in the United
States, which many thousands of Americans (and not a
few Canadians) would like to forget, is just one example of
how history moves forward, reducing its erstwhile
defamers to the status of gibbering apes or criminals or
both. See Watergate for confirmation, in which one of the
most vociferous red-baiters of yesterday (yes, President
Nixon was a leading member of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities) becomes the top criminal of
today; a president who rules a great nation, not by the
“srace of God’’ or the ‘“‘will of the people”, but rather,
faces indictment and impeachment because of his many

crimes against that same people. And it all started when.

the barren political ground on which he stood became
encrusted with a thick deposit of anti-communism.

His continuation of war crimes against Vietnam, Laos,,.

Cambodia and elsewhere in the civilized world could not
have happened had it not been for the insanity of anti-

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 14 1974—PAGE 2

against the socialist sector of the world is another shining
example of the futility and criminality of anti-
communism. A NATO which has Spent billions of its
member-nation resources, Starving its own peoples in the
process. Yet after 25 years or more of experimentation in
“combatting communism”’ primarily the USSR, no two of
its members can now agree on who, what, when or where
to “contain communism”. Moreover the dues payments to

NATO are becoming extremely burdensome — and

controversial. Who pays the piper before or after the tune

is called, now overshadows when and where to “fight

communism’’. Nor did Nixon’s recent nuclear alert to all

NATO forces, without even the common courtesy of

consultation as to who was going to be barbecued, solve
anything. It merely served to escalate NATO’s problems,
bringing home to many NATO Supporters the belated
realization of just what they had got into. A war pact, the
Communists termed it at birth, but it took 25 years
billions of dollars down the drain, and Nixon’s nuclear

alert for NATO fingers on the button, to drive that truth

home to new millions who had no desire to be roasted alive
for the greater glory and profit of U.S. imperialism. And
all on the grandiose pretext of “containing” or
eliminating “communism’’, :

The trade union movement provides another example of
the individual or executive body who adopted the criminal
jingoism of anti-communism from their state department

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of history and were compelled to conform Ww!

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thought or practices have been or are des oF ms

from the trade union movement. Two deca0™™ ont val!

eliminated. To the leading executive ee peace |
George Meany of the AFL-CIO, detente 3 cial e
existence between states of differing « state tt
particularly if one be a genuine mene 3 they
USSR, are still “Communist plots” wh! sabotage
be effectively blocked, can at least be nile M9 5
It is moreover worthy of note that es mat! :
trade union journals fill up their columns ins, pet? ip
interest to their membership, WaB® com ‘oi
struggles, high prices, inflation, and S0 OM" sen eo
an editorial column, a “‘special”’ fea tell tae
from some bourgeois journal — will be would m i
baiting, anti-communist tirade that any ca5e%
Solzhenitsyn turn pale with envy. In vet paid cat
union journals aim to speak for the lowes
in U.S. and Canadian sweatshops. in
Whatever else, there’s just os
communism. Ask ‘I’m no crook”
Nixon, or better still ask your favorite
election? He (or she) knows it won’t get
time around!