FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1970

CAMBODIA CRISIS:

Sel NOW! was the demand of these demonstrators as they picketed the U.S. Consulate last Monday noon in
Wntown Vancouver. Called by the B.C. Peace Council, about 75 trade unionists, housewives and youth

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feed their protest against the U.S. invasion of Cambo
‘ster Trudeau were distributed to the public.

Many operations

EC's tugboat strike is one of the most serious
ae Province’s mounting labor crisis. It can
en closure of major lumber and pulp
ian ions on the coast within two days, with
y plants already closed down.
coe S 350 towboats are the main railway of the
aN Carrying not only logs, chips and lumber
eatin ce but gas and fuel supplies and
€nt to coastal camps.

5 fc ssions of the strike were seen as early
Sooke when camps at Jordan River and at
Kitimat oe down, with others at Chemainus, and
=e . following soon after.

Hine” Vancouver area, by Tuesday evening
Weld Saw mill, the large Rayonier plant, and

en 00d-Kent were out.

tiene ussion of the situation at Tuesday night's
arour hg of the Vancouver Labor Council centred
“yd the unity flowing out of the tugboat strike.
oa Service Guild delegate Rhodes,
shan fee to council, said that they had been
‘ Our injunctions on Tuesday -

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dia. Many leaflets urging letters and wires to Prime

Labor backs tugboat strikers,

face shutdown

His union had reached a complete stalemate
with management mainly on the questions of
manning and safety. ‘“‘We are not prepared to

drown one more tugboat man’’, he declared, and ~

said they would stick it out until they won.

William Stewart of the Marine Workers said
that workers in the drydocks would not work
without tugs standing by as it would endanger the
lives of their men.’Tnus in five to ten days the
shipyards will be down, he said, He said his union
backed the Merchants Guild one hundred percent.

Syd Thompson, president of Local 1-217 of the
IWA, pledged the all-out support of the Local to
the tugboat men. He said that they faced a
deliberate attempt by the Employers’ Council to
tie up the whole industry, just as the buildings
trades did in their field.

“Jt looks as though they are deliberately forcing
all our people off the job”, he said, ‘‘and all the
Minister of Labor is doing about it is making

noises.”

Tribune

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VOL. 31 No. 19

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S. GET OUT NOW!

World public opinion is shocked and enraged by U.S.
President Nixon’s brazen expansion of the war into
Cambodia and his resumption of bombing of North

Vietnam.

— As this is written 50,000 troops, huge fleets of
: bombers and hundreds of tanks are raining death and

destruction over a wide area of Cambodia.

Many people who were misled
into believing that President
Nixon was trying to withdraw
from the war through his
“Vietnamization’’ policy, have
been shocked into realizing that
they have again been tricked by
“Tricky Dicky.”

Instead of withdrawing from
‘South Vietnam he has escalated
the war into an all-Indochina
war. :

The U.S. aggression is aimed
at saving the puppet Lon Nol
junta, set up by the CIA, from
being overthrown by the Cam-
bodian people. The U.S. puppet
government has no base of
support in the country. The
invasion of Cambodia is aimed to
prop up another unpopular
regime such as the Thieu-Ky
corrupt dictatorship in South
Vietnam.

At the same time that US.
troops were pouring into
Cambodia, thousands of Federal
troops were ordered on to U.S.
campuses, armed to the teeth, to

_ put down dissent against the
war. In Kent, Ohio four students
were killed when troops opened
fire on students protesting the
Wate

Nixon’s war against the people
of Indochina is at the same time
a war against the American
people and all voices of dissent
against his imperialist policy.

Reaction to the US.

aggression came quickly in the

U.S., across Canada, and around
the world. In the U.S., student
protest reached a high point with
a call for a nation-wide students
strike. A powerful movement is
developing for the impeachment
of Nixon, and a giant peace
march on Washington is planned
for May 9. In most world capitals
protests have been staged
against the cold-blooded
imperialist policy of the Nixon
government.

Within hours of the announce-
ment of the invasion of
Cambodia hundreds of wires,
resolutions, letters and petitions
began to pour into Ottawa
demanding that Canada
denounce the U.S. escalation and
urging that Canada stop the sale
of all war materials to the U.S.

Meeting in Naramata, B.C.,
500 delegates to the United
Church provincial conference
stood in 5-minutes silence in
protest against the U.S. war, and
passed a special resolution
expressing ‘‘outrage and
despair’ over the U.S. invasion
of Cambodia.

The United Church con-
ference decided to hold a public
protest against the U.S. escala-
tion of the war at the Peace
Arch, Blaine Crossing, this
Sunday, May 10, starting at 3
p-m. The conference delegates
voted funds for placards and

See CAMBODIA, pg. 11

Cambodia protest rally

The Vancouver Regional Committee of the Communist Party has
called a public meeting on the invasion of Cambodia, and what lies
behind this new aggressive act by the United States against the
liberation movement in Southeast Asia.

Maurice Rush, PT editor, who visited North Vietnam and while
there interviewed Premier Pham Van Dong, will recount as the feature
speaker, the Premier's ominous warning of the danger of the U.S.
extending the Vietnam war throughout Indo-China.

The meeting will be held at the AUUC Hall, 805 East Pender St. on

Monday May 11 at 8 p.m.

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