AR Te > Seton arto toe! —_ naO i cead Sane ee j . . tho, eo |e a “In view of the latest develop- “Ments in Vietnam the Canadian | §80vernment should speak out ‘Much more forcibly to demand n end to the bombing, negotia- tions with the National Libera- tion Front and the withdrawal of foreign troops from Vietnam.” 9 insist on this would be an&ct Of friendship and help to the SA, says the latest Peace Let- ter of the Canadian Peace Con- «Sress, re The bulletin says the follow- § On the question of the peace Movement at this important moment of history: ___ The events of the last two ‘Weeks in Vietnam are a milita- WY set-back for the U.S. Sen. ‘“obert Kennedy says it is ‘an “hwinnable war.’ The pacifica- the Program is a shambles and f €re can be no political victory W the Saigon puppets. The mi- may. madmen may, of course ramee further, as Hitler did in ee when he attacked the SSR. The task of the peace Movement is to persuade the qetablishment” in Canada and bs © U.S. to withdraw from Viet- au accept the fact that the ‘ad to survival is by way of Peaceful coexistence in its full qeaning of disarmament and co- Peration for welfare. Accordingly the peoples Movement in North America is On with some urgent responsi- lities, It is time to get. coopera- 10n among all forces that really pant to end the war in Vietnam Nd that also want to avoid a : itd world war. In-the wide- *Pread and growing opposition 1. the war in Vietnam there has jee a tendency to ignore the , Mand for an alternative, name- the coexistence policy. - Many radicals in the U-S., hoe as the Guardian, Carl Og- ““Sby and others, argue that U.S. s Perialism is so committed to orld counter-revolutionary. war at it can only be stopped by a Ndamental changing of the Stem (in various forms). In @nada the policy of ‘non- €Xclusion’ in mass actions has ten meant the exclusion in fact . Nearly all the protest to the "ght of the ‘left,’ which argues —— British call for peace ti A great drive to win endorsa- ©n by tens of thousands of British people for a “British in ple’s Declaration for Peace i Vietnam” has been launched London, England. Sponsored a 10 executive members of the Ta insport and General Workers’ Nion, the Declaration has al- 1. 4Y been supported by 300 ding figures in Britain, in- | g2sing 80 MP's, 11 members of La House of Lords, 10 bishops ~ @n impressive list of trade Nion leaders. dle’ € main demand of the Peo- di s Declaration is “the imme- ate dissociation by the British °vernment from U.S. interven- Dey in Vietnam.” This is cou- tic With calls for the uncondi- aa ending of the bombing by menvnited States and a settle- 19 * of the war based upon the the Agreements which include eae of all foreign 2 S. Peace Congress says’ ‘feed long term plan amongst itself while monopoliz- ing the organizational leader- ship. “There is no unified action for peace in Canada which repre- sents the strength of protest which exists in the editorial policies of the Toronto Globe and Mail, The Star, Maclean’s Magazine, Saturday Night, the University Faculty protests and the large scale church protests, or even the remarkable stand of Mr. Eric Kierans, one of the can- didates for Prime Minister, who has demanded an end to the war and to all military contracts with the U.S. “Writing in the Feb. 10 Guard- ian of a recent Conference of the Peace Parade Committee, Stanley Aronowitz said that when hard political questions are raised, such as the advance from protest to resistance or whether to give an explicit anti- imperialist program or whether to remain a broad popular front of all kinds of anti-war forces, bitter invective rather than sober theoretical and political discussions took place. The time is coming when some sober an- alysis of long term objectives and essential tactics must be examined.” U.S. peace actions for April 26-7 An “International Student Strike Against the Vietnam War, Racist Oppression, and the Draft” has been called by the Student Mobilization Committee and the newly organized Na- tional Black Anti-War, Anti- Draft Union. The strike is sche- duled for April 26. The strike call and the new anti-war group both resulted from the third national confer- ence of the Student Mobilization Committee. The conference, at- tended by almost 1,000 students from U.S. colleges and high schools, was held in early Feb- ruary at the University of Chi- cago. The debate ended with the adoption of a resolution stating the primary aim of SMC was to end the war in Vietnam, and the call for an “international student strike against the Vietnam war, racist oppression, and _ the draft.” An anti-war conference of 200 delegates and observers from 120 organizations in the N.Y. re- gion, meeting Feb. 3, projected action on the 1968 elections, a peace mobilization for April 27, and opposition to the draft. The conference was initiated by the Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee for a “gen- eral evaluation” of the peace movement and “future outlooks and actions,” Lora Eckert, staff member of the Parade Commit- - tee, said. Position papers from a num- ber of organizations were distri- buted to the delegates. “The general sentiment of the delegates was that the Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee should continue to function as a coordinator for all groups who oppose the war,’ Miss Eckert Said. The committee in Toronto which has been campaigning for an end of the sale of war goods to the U.S., in annoucing its next demonstration said the following: “We began January 10, at the Hawker-Siddeley offices on King Street. While a hundred picket- ers out in the cold told the pub- lic, four went in and talked with J. N. Kelly, assistant to the Pre- sident. He tried to tell us his firm makes no war goods for the Vietnam war, but we had the facts on the Caribou to pin him down. He claimed no respon- sibility because our government permits such trade, but was silent when we reminded him of the principle of the Nuremberg trials, that each person is respon- sible for what he does. It seems that Hawker-Siddeley does not like the image of “merchant of death;” perhaps it is embarras- sing when they try to sell com- mercial aircraft to the uncom- mitted countries. “Since they will not yet dis- cuss the moral principle, we propose to embarass them further. Orenda Aircraft, an af- filiate of | Hawker - Siddeley, makes aircraft engines for the U.S. air force. On February 28, at 3:45 p.m., we will demonstrate with pickets outside the Orenda plant for approximately one hour. Pickets should assemble in Malton Village at the corner of Derry Rd. and Malton Rd. “Before the demonstration, we will leaflet the plant to explain our action to the employees. “Can you come? We need picketers for February 28, at Mock attack protested The Pentagon last week blan- dly announced to the Canadian people that on February the 16th and 17th the bombing planes of NORAD would engage in a “mock attack” on Quebec and Ontario. The American gen- erals stated the purpose was to test air defences. Regular com- mercial flights could, they as- sured, continue uninterruptedly as USA bombers—the kind whose bellies carry nuclear weapons—filled the skies of Canada’s population and indus- trial heart. All this with the par- ticipation of Canada’s air force agreed to by grovelling Can- adian governments. To protest this dangerously provocative “game of war” the Parti Communiste du: Québec is- sued the following statement: “So American planes are fly- ing over Quebec in war exercis- es with Canadian planes! “In the face of the nuclear bomber’s crash in Greenland, how can the Canadian govern- ment be so _ nonchalant —or cowardly—as to agree to and even participate in these over- flights? : “How can the Quebec govern- ment remain silent—not whis- per a protest to the humiliation of having our territory chosen for these ominous exercises? Or is someone going to assure us that none of these planes carry nuclear weapons? “How low must Ottawa and Quebec kowtow to the panic- stricken murderers of the Viet- namese people, killers whose doom is writ large in blood on the crumbling walls of Saigon?” 3:45 p.m. We are arranging car rides, since the plant is in the far west end. If you can come, please phone Nancy Pocock, 922-4493.” Earlier the committee had de- monstrated at the Toronto office of CIL, which has responded to the pressure through the com- pany paper which says they will not back down on “Vietnam” sales. A statement in the latest issue of Contact, the company staff paper said that the company is conforming fully with Canadian _ Litton Systems Cana ~ Weapons release computer sets for Pha by U.S. Air Force in Vietnam (Finar cial United Aircraft of Canac Helicopters and helicopter components (Globe “port on Business, August 9, 1967) __ Government policy and is acting “in the best interest of Canada.” The company statement said CIL would continue to do its part to honor Canadian Govern- ment commitments to the U.S. under ments. Management had published the article to “state the com- pany’s position” and because de- monstrations ‘may well worry some of our employees.” Further demonstrations against CIL can be anticipated in Montreal and Toronto. defence-sharing agree- MARCH 1, 1968—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9 ets WR Sy