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This-display shows the artificial limbs being manufactured in
Vancouver for the children of Vietnam. You too can help a
Vietnamese child to walk again by reading the story below and
contributing to the Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians
campaign.

“Help the crippled children of Vietnam walk again.”’ This
is the aim of a campaign launched this month by the Canadian
Aid for Vietnam Civilians in Vancouver. |

While the peace talks in Paris are being stymied because of
the U.S. refusal to halt the bombing of the North, the fighting

continues unabated, adding to the already tens of thousands of |

crippled children.

In a special bulletin being distributed to over 4,000 people
in B.C. and across Canada, the CAVC, headed by Dr. Alan
Inglis of Vancouver, announced the launching of a drive to
raise funds for adjustable artificial legs for amputee
Vietnamese children under fifteen. This campaign is being
launched in an answer to a special need expressed by the Union
of Vietnamese Women.

Oxfam-Canada News, published this Spring, reports
that there are 40,000 South Vietnamese amputees without
artificial limbs. ‘This appalling number must be multi-
plied when bombed territories of the NLF and North Viet-
nam are included,” says the CAVC bulletin.

“Many of the victims are children. The limbs of some
might have been saved but for inadequate medical treatment
delay in hospitalization. Now many hundreds of active boys
and girls are suddenly faced with a partial or complete loss of
movement. They have been rendered dependent on others;
they are powerless to help those around them or share in the
work which must be done in their war-torn country.”

In reply to this urgent need the CAVC has made
arrangements to manufacture large quantities of above knee
and below-knee adjustable legs tor children. ‘I'he cost of the
above-knee prosthesis is $120. The below-knee prosthesis is
$45. With aid like these, most child amputees can lead a
near-normal life. But this takes money.

“The children of Vietnam must rely on compassionate
hearts in other countries. We welcome group and individual
initiative in raising funds for this project to bring hope to
helpless young war victims,” concludes the CAVC appeal.

It is hoped by the committee that many individuals will
contribute or undertake to raise enough for one or another of
the artificial limbs ($120 or $45). It is also anticipated that
many organizations will undertake to contribute for limbs in
accordance with their financial resources.

Committee members point out that regardless of the
outcome of present peace talks, the need for this kind of
humanitarian aid will go on for many years because of the
terrible consequences of the war. The CAVC has addressed
many appeals to the Federal government to launch this kind of
program for all parts of Vietnam, but its appeals have fallen on
deaf ears.

All contributions, large or small, should be sent to:
Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians, P.O. Box 2543, Vancouver

Warren K. Billings
turns 75 on July 4

Warren K. Billings, once a world famous labor prisoner,
will celebrate his 75th birthday on July 4.

Billings, who still commutes to San Fransisco two*days a
week from his home in San Mateo to ply the trade he learned in
prison, watchmaking, on a part-time basis, is asking that any
remembrances take the form of contributions to the Sobell

Committee.

Billings, who likens the case of Morton Sobell to his own
unjust imprisonment, is Bay Area chairman of the committee
working to free the man who went to prison for 30 years as a
part of the Government’s persecution of Julius. and Ethel

Rosenberg.

Billings, a co-defendant with the late Tom Mooney, spent
24 years in prison for alleged complicity in the never-solved
Preparedness Day bombing here in 1916.

Worldwide clamor finally won the release of Mooney in
1939 and Billings a year later. Billings’ full civil rights were not

restored until 1964, however.

Now in semi-retirement, Billings devotes himself mainly

to the Sobell committee.
says his wife.

‘Disaster’

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legislation recently created by
Victoria.”

The union’s original wage
demands were placed at an 80-
cent an hour hike over a two year
period, but as a result of
Cominco’s attitude in
negotiations, plus the
intervention of a conciliation
officer, the union demands were

RNs get

a e
wage hike

A new wage contract between
the Registered Nurses’
Association and the B.C.
Hospital Association has been
accepted by both parties,
covering some 4,600 nurses in
BGs

The new agreement, accepted
only after the nurses had turned
in a big vote in favor of strike
action, provides for a $118 salary
increase per month in a two year
contract. The increase provides
nurses with a starting salary of
$450 to $475 per month the first
year and increasing to $508 the
following year.

‘‘He never misses a meeting,”

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scaled down to 65-cent and later
to 58-cents, all-indicative of the

union’s intent to negotiate a
mutually satisfactory contract.

Steelworker Union
membership meetings in Trail,
Kimberley, Bluebell, etc. have
unanimously authorized its
negotiating committee to
conduct a union strike vote at the
earliest opportunity. Cominco is
also said to be waiting to ‘‘have a
look at the union’s hole card —
the size of the strike vote”
before it comes up with anything
better than it has to date. (A
union strike vote has. been
scheduled for July 3-4th).

The similarity in contract
negotiations in both lumber and
steel with respect to their

thousands of employees would ~

indicate a close coordination in
wage negotiation policies by
B.C.’s two most powerful
industrial enterprises. It also
indicates that Bill 33 has
provided them with a new
quality of ‘“‘Dutch courage’”’ and
heightened their arrogance and
contempt for the tens of
thousands of working men and
women from whose labours their

. vast profits are extracted.

A socialist is
a man in love
with his country

The more a man loves his

country, the more reason he has

to be a socialist, for only
socialism assures his country
unity, strength and grandeur.
And the deeper he absorbs
socialist ideas, the stronger will
be his feeling of
internationalism.”’ This is the
theme dealt with by Georges
Cogniot of the Maurice Thorez
Institute (Paris) in the June 1968
issue of World Marxist Review.
It is an added elaboration on the
meaning and content of working-
class internationalism which has
been the subject of articles in
recent issues of the journal.

Other articles in the June issue
include: an interview with
Alexander Dubcek on vital Party
problems in Czechoslovakia;
problems of the scientific and
technical revolution and the
working class, by John Boyd; the
political, line and tactics of
Brazilian communists in the new
conditions, by Luis Carlos
Prestes. The monthly World
Marxist Review
from Progress: Books, 487
Adelaide St. West, Toronto 2B.
$3.50 per year. 35 cents a copy.

Protest ban

backers hit

In an open letter to all
Washington State congressmen
except Democrat Thomas S.
Foley of Spokane, the colorful
new president of the Associated
Students of the University of
Washington condemned _ their
support of a House measure
aimed at withholding financial
aid to students engaging in
protest action.

Thom Gunn, still president-
elect of the ASUW for 1968-69
when he sent the letter May 16,
said the so-called ‘‘protest
amendment’’ to HR16729
penalizes any student who in
language of the bill ‘‘refuses to
obey a lawful regulation of the
university or college.

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