CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 200 PICKET _ Press, TV and radio covered the event. Several photograph- ers and reporters were present during the visit of the deputa- tion and the picketing. The demonstration was ar- ranged by the national office of the Communist Party in co- operation with the Quebec and Ontario party committees, as a part of the current disarma- ment campaign which began in November. The party’s brief is eine circulated throughout the coun- try by local party organiza- tions as a leaflet and is being inserted in some newspapers as an advertisement. CBC television and CBC ra: dio carried accounts of the demonstration on Saturday and Sunday and many newspapers reported it. The highlights of the party’s proposals for a new foreign policy were: 1. Abandonment of the mort- ally dangerous policy of mak- ing Canada a nuclear power, in terms of armaments. 2. A policy of strict Canadian neutrality, scrupulously © ad- hered to. 3. Energetic advocacy in the 10-Nation Disarmament Com- mittee and in the United Na- tions of complete and general disarmament, with internation- al inspection and control at each stage. 4. Government action to stimulate Canada’s participa- tion in the development of the presently under - developed countries and to expand ex- ports of Canadian products to every country desiring to im- port them, in place of our pre- sent enormous expenditures on preparations for war. CHINA‘S GREAT LEAP FORWARD” CHARLES CARON B.C. Organizer - CPC who attended 10th Anniversary Celebrations of People’s Republic of China Color slides will be shown ‘SAT., FEB. 20, 7:30 P.M. CCF Hall, Nanaimo, B.C. _ Auspices: Nanaimo Club, CPG Proposals for immediate ac- tion by the government of Canada were listed as: 1. Cut arms expenditures this yéar; a 50 percent cut in 1961-62, and by 1962-63 the diversion of the arms budget almost wholly to people‘s wel- fare and economic expansion, and to finance credits to ex- pand trade and make available financial assistance to help in- dustrialize under - developed countries. These cuts are quite realistic if we asserted our in- dependence by removing all those expenditures which sub- ordinate us to U.S. military strategy. 2. Reduce our armed forces and bring back all troops which are presently under the command of the former Nazi General Spiedel in Europe. 8. Withdraw Canada from|} NATO* and NORAD. Declare our neutrality, and call upon|} all other nations to respect it. | 4, Declare that Canada will] % not be armed with nuclear | | weapons and that Canadian territory will be free of all nu- clear armaments. 5. Move for the withdrawal of United States military bases on Canadian territory. 6. Immediately recognize the People’s Republic of China and support its membership in the United Nations. Thorez attacks personal power PARIS — The general secre- tary of the French Communist Party, Maurice Thorez, said in a speech recently, that the Party’s present stand did not mean that it had given up fighting against “personal power.’ Referring to the one-hour strike called by all trade un- ions in support of self-determ- ination for Algeria, Maurice Thorez said: “Today the Government would like the one-hour strike to be considered as a sort of plebiscite in its favour instead of being what it is: the political demand for self-determination in acts and the crushing of the fascist rebels.” ie | vincial-municipal de Gaulle’s- ANNUAL BANQUET of the Vochenblatt J. GERSHMAN, Editor — Guest Speaker “Anti-Semitism Today — Its Source and Challenge” Sunday, February 2] CULTURAL PROGRAM ® Chicken Dinner — At 6:30 P.M. Sharp @ Admission — 1.50 Per Person Sponsored by Vancouver Vochenblatt Committee Michael Starr. The meeting. also sent a telegram to Premier Bennett demanding an immediate pro- ’ conference be called “to implement an ad- equate public works program.” Underlining the urgency of the jobs crisis was the annOun- cemeni in parliament last week by Minister of Labor Starr that 772,644 were registered with the National Employment Ser- LABOR BRIEFS | Five hundred members of the Converter’s local, Pulp and Sulphite Workers Union, vot- ed Sunday to accept a settle- ment with Crown Zellerbach (Richmond Division) and Mar- tin Paper Products for a total. five percent increase. Workers will receive pay raises from nine to twelve cents an hour on a one year agreement. Other changes in- clude a job rate adjustment which goes up to 19 cents, and four weeks vacation with pay after 25 years service. The new settlement brings the basic rate to $1.84 which is two cents above the IWA. SK Fe RE tae Last Thursday 100 Shell- burn oil refinery workers de- monstrated in protest against the company’s delay in sign- ing a 1960 wage contract. Members of the Oil, Chemi- cal and Atomic Workers Un- ion, have been involved in ne- gotiations since Nov. 15, 1959. Union representative Fred Giddes told the Pacific Tribune that eight negotiation meetings have failed to produce any re- sults. The union is asking for 24 cents across the board increase. Bee pe meee | : Following the announcement this week that a labor commit- B.C. Federation, Vancouver Labor Council and Canadian Labor Congress with coastwise unions to defeat the SIU on the B.C. coast, organizers were named to help the CBRT in its fight. Unions which have named an organizer in the fight against the SIU are IWA, Re- tail Wholesale and Department Store Union and the Oil, Chem- ical and Atomic Workers, tee had been formed by the |’ Rally of 300 jobless call for ‘work or full benefits. An immediate jobs program or full i insurance benefits until jobs are found was demanded of the federal government last Friday at a meeting in Pender Auditorium attended by 500 unemployed workers. This demand was wired to Minister of Labor i vice for work as of January 21. This was a jump of nearly 18,000 over the previous week. Charging that nothing con- structive has been done by the provincial or federal govern- ments to relieve unemploy- ment, Ed Sims, Vancouver La- bor Council president; told the meeting “it doesn’t look as if things are going to improve in the next period of time.” He said the construction indus- try is in serious condition and that all big jobs nave come to an end. Pointing to the unions which have set up unemployed com- mittees Sims said these com- mittees should be established in many more locals. B.C. Federation of Labor secretary Pat O’Neal outlined steps taken by the Federation to press the government for action on unemployment. Sam Jenkins, president of Marine Workers, addressed ~ the meeting and pledged his” union’s support to the action: of the unemployed. : Rod. Doran, chairman of the Unemployed Workers Action” Committee, which sponsored the meeting, annOunced that 4- brief will soon be ready for presentation to Viancouver City Council demanding im- mediate steps to deal with the serious unemployment situa-— tion in the city. Considerable discussion took place from the floor in the course of which strong de mands were voiced for trade with China and a cut-back im arms spending to make avail able funds to alleviate the hardships suffered by Canada’s unemployed. seizure of Vancouver’s recently formed ently in stopping seizure of a workers furniture by a finance company which holds a chat- tel mortgage for $147. Ralph Hamilton of 184214 East Ist Avenue won a re- prieve after his case was taken up by the committee and pick- ets appeared on the morning the sherriff was to carry out the seizure order. Hamilton is married and has two children. A foundry work- er, he was unemployed for two years and has now found a job under the winter works program. The finance comp- any agreed after the case was taken up to wait for payment until Hamilton’s pay day, Feb- Jobless pickets halt Unemployed Workers Action | Committee was successful rec- | PT readers hold successful parley Determination to extend the circulation of the Pacific Tri- bune in coming months and in- troduce the paper to more workers in plants and factor- ference of PT readers in Pen- der Auditorium last Sunday. Discussion from the floor brought out many suggestions for improving the content of the paper, and these suggest- ions will be considered by the PT editorial board. ies Was expressed at a con-'| furniture — ruary 23. 2 “We are grateful to the Un- employed Workers Action. Committee and to Sam Jenk- ins, who was first acquainted with the case, for the manner in which the trouble was aver ted. We urge that any unem- ployed worker in time of stress and threatened eviction call for the help of their very ac tive committee,’ . Hamilton said. \ A. spokesman for the co mittee said following the vic- tory that “evictions and seiz ure due to unemployment are a violation of human dignity, and must not be allowed terrorize people as in t 1930’s. Thousands of une ployed face the harsh reali of losing homes and possessions unless prompt action is taken by thé different levels of gov- ernment to create jobs.” _ TEC ISLATU RE} and aan YOU ASTM i ie | Dia Sill 13 bs) lah “he ee ee Weekly Commentary Radio CKLG Every ‘Saturday, 6:10 pm. NIGEL MORGAN &