v. S. Cuba blockade menaces

O WAR!

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People’s action can block H-war

U.S. aggression against Cuba this week has brought the
world dangerously close to an all-out nuclear holocaust. React-

ing to the grave danger facing Canada and the world, the Na-
tional Executive of the Communist Party of Canada issued the

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Photo shows some of the prominent trade unionists
a Joined in picketing the U.S. Embassy on Burrard
treet in Vancouver Tuesday against the U.S. act of
Sttession against Cuba.

U.S, action protested

Concern over the danger of war brought on by the U.S.
lo Sckade has stirred people into action fo save world nee
; €8nada and around the world large demonsirations a
er Place. ‘ oie
nm Vancouver growing numbers 0
pening into anders have picketed the UES very. aa
os Street every day, demanding ‘ "Hands Off Cuba”,
™g the U.S. call off its blockade.
e In front of the Vancouver Court House Tuesday a ek
Umber of women from the Voice of Women and the eee
Of Mmittes for Nuclear Disarmament, met aie hes 2 . urg-
S°vernments, including Prime Minister Diefenbaker,

in
® Steps to save peace.

Pea N Wednesday, the B.C. Peace Council sponsored a
e- ie ane of 300 on Vancouver streets, ‘
Sidey, ° War” signs have appeared chalked o
® ee: fences and poss: ee ar

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willeg a Bic aie Pender Auditorium this Friday.
© theme “No War’. Speaker will be Nigel Morgan.

kets, at times
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hundreds of

following statement on Tuesday:

Fellow Canadians — act to save our
lives and our country!

President Kennedy has ordered the

U.S. navy to sink the ships of any coun-

try which do not obey the orders of

the U.S. government. This is an act of
war, a brutal violation of the rights of
nations and the freedom of the seas

He has issued an ultimatum to the
world: obey, or I shoot. This is lynch
war!

Regardless of what Canadians think
of the rights or wrongs of the case, one
thing is plain; THERE MUST BE NO
WAR!

President Kennedy must be compelled
by world opinion, and the United Na-
tions to withdraw his ultimatum, cancel
his orders to his admirals and generals,
and restore the freedom of the seas.

President Kennedy has brought the
world to the brink of war and threat-
ened the sovereign rights of all nations
to freedom of the seas.

The trick he uses is to fling unsub-
stantiated charges at the Soviet Union
and Cuba, then to use these charges as
his excuse to order the United States
navy to shoot and sink vessels of all

countries if they fail to submit. Only
then, after the fat is in the fire, does
he bring up the matter in the United
Nations.

HAD HE ANY REAL BELIEF IN HIS.

CHARGES, HE WOULD HAVE MADE
THEM IN THE U.N. FIRST.

The whole world knows that the U.S.
government aided and abetted the in-
vasion of Cuba last year. For a century
and a half Yankee imperialism has used
the “big stick” in Latin America.

It now is trying to use the same big
‘stick against all other: countries.

Public opinion stopped war over Ber-
lin and stayed the hand of the atoman-
iacs, up to now.

ONCE MORE, PEACE CAN BE
SAVED—IF THE PEOPLE ACT!

Canadian public opinion is against
U.S. nuclear weapons on Canadian ter-
ritory, against the threats to Cuba. It
is for negotiation and against unilatieral
military action.

CANADIANS WANT PEACE!

The moment is grave. The situation
terribly critical. We cannot leave the
fate of our children and our country to
the politiciians and governments.

We must speak out now, raise our voices before it is too late. Labor and farm
organizations, churches and all people’s groups should speak and act in this mo-

ment of peril.

No war—negotiate! The U.S. must withdraw its ultimatum!

Stop the hand of President Kennedy!

Let the United Nations act to save the world from this new threat. Liqu-
date all war bases everywhere. Outlaw the atomic bomb and proclaim the right
of all countries to live in: peace and without interference in their affairs!

Peace can be saved—act now!

National Executive Committee,
Communist Party of Canada.

Save peace says labor

The Seventh Annual Convention
of the B.C. Federation of Labor,
alarmed at the latest threat to
world peace by U.S. reaction,
passed an ermergency resolution
on the imminent danger of war.

The resolution was presented
in the middle of the Tuesday
afternoon session and was greet-
ed with- tumultuous applause,
after which it was subsequently
passed unanimously.

Text of the emergency resolu-
tion follows:

Be it resolved that the follow-
ing telegram be despatched im-
mediately to the Canadian Labor
Congress:

“The delegates attending the

t Party has Seventh Annual Convention of the

B.C. Federation of Labor, now in
session, are profoundly concerned

because of menacing develop-
ments in relations between the
United States and Cuba. We be-
lieve that immediate and vigor-
ous action should be taken
through the United Nations by
the nations not directly involved
to obtain settlement of the issues
in dispute by means other than
unilateral or regional use of
force. In the circumstances, the
use of force by any power will
endanger the purposes of the
United Nations, upon which the
peoples of the world must rely
for the foundation of an enduring
world peace.

“To this end we request the
Canadian Labor Congress to
make immediate. representations
to the Canadian Government re-
questing:

e That the Canadian delegates
to the 17th Assembly of the Uni-
ted Nations be instructed to join
immediately with un¢gmmitted
nations in exerting the utmost
pressure on the powers involved
to accept adjudication of the is-
sues in dispute by an impartial
tribunal of the United Nations.

® That the Canadian Govern-
ment maintain diplomatic rela-
tions with the nations concerned
on a basis that will enable Can-
ada to exercise the maximum in-
fluence for the preservation of
peaceful -and just relations be-
tween nations in the Western
Hemisphere.”

Next week’s issue of the PT
will carry a full report on the
B.C. Federation convention.

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