hese | Solved, Americans admit heaviest casualties in Vietnam The U,S. command admitted last Thursday that nearly athou- Sand Americans were killed or Wounded in the Vietnam war last week — their highest casualties for six months, A U.S, military spokesman in Saigon said that 146 Americans Were killed and 820 wounded, The average weekly death toll for U.S, servicemen in Vietnam is 90 according to the Ameri- cans, During the three-year Korean war from 1950 to 1953, theaver- age weekly American death toll was 237, In Washington it has just been Tevealed that because of the Viet- nam war, the strength of U.S. armed forces now exceeds three million men — for the first time fOr 77 years, The total is 3,005,019, Last week South Vietnamese students sacked and burned the U.S. Information Service Library and cinema in Hue, one of the strongholds of the anti-junta movement, . The students were protesting against American sup- port for the military regime of puppet Premier Air Marshal Ky. In Hue more than 6,000 Budd- hists demonstrated outside the U.S. Consulate. They used the funeral procession for a South Vietnamese officer shot by an American helicopter gunner to express their anger at Ameri- can policies, The 40-minute assault on the U.S.1.S. buildings left them in flames and thousands of books in ashes, On the weekend two women Buddhists burned themselves to death after writing letters to U.S, ' President Johnson protesting his support of the Ky regime, British seamen ‘sit tight’ as inqui ° quiry b LONDON, England:— If the s0vernment forced them to, the National Union of Seamen would lay up every British ship in the world, seamen’s leader Bill Ho- garth warned last week, He said: © We don’t want to do this, We are playing fair and trying to impress the shipowners and the s0vernment that something has to be done for us,?? ; At a press conference last Saturday, assistant general sec- retary of the union, Garry Lip- Man, ‘said that the seamen in- tend to «sit tight.’? He said that unless there was a com- Plete change on the part of the Owners nothing would be re- Last week the Labor Govern- ment declared a State of Emer- sency, Speaking in the House of Commons, Labor member Eric Heffer, said the best means of helping to end the seamen’s strike would be the withdrawal of the _ State of Emergency immediately, Heffer said that the present Tegulations were “much more _ ard meets severe’? in 1949 or 1955, a Labor government,” he added, than those brought in ‘cAnd this is Coalition Govt for Finland A new four-party Finnish coalition government, headed by Rafael Paasio, chairman of + the Social Democratic Party, was sworn in last week in Helsinki, Finland, It includes three Communist Ministers — for the firsttime since 1948 — and ends the political indecision following the elections in March, The Coalition will comprise four parties — the Social Dem- ocrats, Centre, Communists and Left-Wing Socialists, An unofficial agreement has been reached which will distribute cabinet seats as follows: So- cial Democrats, six; Centre Party, five; Communists, three; Left-Wing Socialists, one, Do they know how What they produce Or employ enough To keep employees In essence have we On that great civilized morning By E. Y. HARSBURG Are the Africans in Africa Prepared for independence? Do they have enough delinquents ’mong their juvenile descendents? Can they fill the air with smog enough Their rivers with pollution? Are their citizens evolved enough For mental institutions? Are they ripe enough to know enough To regulate their taxes So the poor can pay the rich To keep the poor flat on their axis? ‘Have the natives the intelligence Native wisdom or dexterity, To establish atom bases As the base of their prosperity? The right to even plan To let the backward nations Join the Brotherhood of Man? to destroy for their enjoyment? machines from employment? morally F eevccccccsccccccccccsecoecse » dune 3, T966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE=Page 7 Lets Costs. eee Communists close “Our Convention and the wayit was conducted showed again that our party is the most democratic in Canada,” declared William Kashtan, following his re-elec- tion as leader of the Communist Party, in closing the party’s 19th convention yesterday, «It was a forward looking con- vention of an optimistic party, Kashtan continued, “Our optimism is not based on wishful thinking, but is rooted in reality. Andthat reality, the need to end U.S. aggression in Viet- nam, to end foreign control through public ownership; to ex- tend democracy and the rights of the trade union movement; to ensure that the fruits of the tech- nological revolution will accumu- late to the people, and to wina new constitution — all these streams are bound to converge in one direction — to socialism itself, : «We are not among the pessi-- mists who say ‘Stop the World, I to get off.? We don’t want to stop the world, we want to change it into a better place for mankind, We don’t want to get off, we want to be active participants in making and shaping history for ~ the good of man,” Kashtan’s election had taken place in the party’s Central Com- mittee during the last day of the Convention, The committee also again chose Tim Buck as chair- man, Named to the party’s execu- tive in addition were John Boyd, Norman Brudy, Nelson Clarke, Norman Freed, Bruce Magnuson, Tom Morris, Rae Murphy, Stan- ley Ryerson, and Alf Stenberg of Toronto, Lucien Jacques, Jean- nette Walsh and Samuel Walsh of Montreal, and Harry Hunter of Hamilton, The Central Committee itself had previously been elected by the Convention, and is made up of 51 members residing across the country from Sydney, NovaSco- tia to Vancouver, B.C, The elec- tion was feai.red by the naming of a dozen new members to the party’s Central Committee, most of them in their twenties and early thirties. . 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Average age of delegates was 44 (lower than the last convention in 1964), A feature of the parley was the British Columbia was represented by 30 delegates at the Communist parley, including many youths. large numbers of young dele- Photo shows one of the young dele- gates and their active partici- gates, Maxine Schnee of Vancou- ver . pation in discussion, Quebec delegates Chasles Henri Lutz and Denise Gregoire at the Communist Party convention. 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