Photo shows unemployed Ford policy of contracting out work. Nine years ago 5,060. Ford’s; now there are only workers in. Windsor protesting against the company’s there were 13,000 men working at Vancouver unionist tells of Tokyo ban bomb conference On August 6, 1945, Major ‘Thomas W. Ferebee U.S. Force flipped a toggle-switch and the world’s first atomic bomb landed on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The ‘ex- plesion from that still rings loudly in the science of mankind. reminder con- A stirring that the occasion the minds of men Alt | | side | IBEW, holacaust | remains fresh in | was pro-| vided by the world-wide dem- | onstrations Weapons on against the nuclear | fifteenth an- | niversary of the dropping of | the bomb. the At the centre of these dem- | enstrations was the Sixth | tive in World Conference Against A | & H Bombs and for Total | Disarmament, ‘held in. Tokyo, | Japan Aug. 2 to 9th. Attended by 150 from 29- different delegates | capitalist | leading figures from the trade | countries, | the conference included in its | list of participants such not- ables as Lady Street, wife of tthe Governor General of Aus- $ralia, Mr. Thomas Uren, Labor M.P. Australia; Mr. Ebenezer Quaye, Lord Mayor of Ghana; Hon. Frank Allaun, | British Labor M.P.; Dr. Rund- endra Kumar Par, Dr. of Atomic Science and Principal | ef the R. G. Kar, Medical Col- | lege Calcutta; the Deputy Mayor of Pondicherry, India, | a member of the supreme ad- wisory council; a parliament from Indonesia, f’nd many professors, min isters of the gospel, leaders of the trade union movement; journalists, physicists, doc- tors, lawyers, housewives and musicians: all were bound to gether by their determina- tion that what happened in Hiroshima would never occur again. | unions Conference was Chairman of the Local In an the Sharpe, Wireman Vancouver. in- George, In- | 22:3 | terview with the ‘Pacific Trib- | une Mr. Sharpe outlined his | impressions of the ence. “As a trade unionist I was most interested in what un- ions in other countries were doing for peace. My exper- ences at the conference led me to believe that in almost every country in the world, with the possible exception of USA the trade union movement is much more aac- the fight for peace is. the case in Canada. delegations from both than The Colonial, countries included union .movement.. Their. re- ports made it clear the trade were in. most cases leading . the movement for peace in their countries. “It was quite noticeable that the delegates from the Asian and Colonial countries find a very close conection between the fight for peace and ‘heir struggles for independence. ’ Mr. Sharpe stated “As a Canadian, seeing for the first i ‘time at least part of ithe world member of! | its age old dream of a lasting movements. for peace I really got the feeling that perhaps mankind is on the brink of peace. “Certainly,” the continued, Tobody could visit Hiro- shima, Nagasaki and meet and talk to ‘the people of Japan as I did and come away not dedicated to work harder for a peaceful world.” While in Japan Sharpe had the opportunity ‘to attend Canadian representative at|other conferences, including a Socialist and other | Confer- | |He was on = delegations that ‘had audiences with the Mayor mothers conference attended by 12,000 mothers from .all walks of life . where such questions .as peace, politics, bringing up children, women and trade. unions and women and society . were - discussed. of Tokyo and many other offi- cials: He also. visited leading trade union centres. and-had discussions with many trade union leaders. A sponsoring commmittee representative of 22 unions in the Vancouver area is arrang- ing for him to report on his trip to Local. union meetings. He will also address a public meeting to be-announced soon and is available to speak at house meetings and ‘to all in- terested groups. He has. color ed slides covering ‘the con- ference and his tour of Japan which he will show with his talk. Those interested should contact him at. YU 8-9782 or write to Geo. Sharpe, 629 E. 13th, North Vancouver. News flash Nazi war criminal named by Soviets The Pacific Tribune has received a special news dis- patch from its correspond- ent in Moscow, Mark Frank, that the war criminal who fled from Estonia and is now living in Winnipeg is Alexander Laak, of 272 Guilford Street. This “Eichmann’ is re- sponsible for the torture and death of over 3,000 Czechs and Germans. Next week the PT will carry a full exposure of Laak. | | | | Berlin fan Last week a nazi-style dem- 'onstration of 25,000 revenge seekers, screaming for the re- turn of Greater Germany, was held in West Berlin with the sanction of the Western Pow- ers who demanded free pass- age for them through East Germany. Thinly disguised as “the day of the homeland” ‘tthe meeting was for German self- determination,’ and all speakers demanded the return of parts of Poland and Czech- oslovakia. Young Germans dressed in uniform shirts with black scarves like the Hitler Youth, sang “Deutschland Ueber Alles,” screamed and played fascist calls on trumpets. Many former high nazi offi- cers.took part, Adenauer sent greetings to the rally. “Social- ist?’ Mayor Willie Brandt told the meeting that West Berlin —over 100 miles inside the German Democratic Republic A new attempt is being collusion with the Adenauer provocations in Berlin;to fan |New provocations at cold war made by Western circles in government to stir up new the flames of cold war. —must be made the focal point of West German defence. The first speaker, Dr. Matte said, ‘our duty is to win back our rights and soil.” Counter demontsrations took place in West Berlin last Saturday by anti-fascists who shouted: ‘Revenge-seekers quit Berlin.” It was also. revealed last week that West German gen- erals have made public a memorandum demanding nu- clear weapons. Their demands has been endorsed by the Ad- enauer government and is be- ing pressed forward by Gen- era Norstad and the U.S.-con- trolled NATO High Command. The attempt to whip up a new crisis over Berlin is seen as part of the strategy to win agreement to arm West Ger- many with nuclear weapons— a prospect which sends shiv- ers down the back of all those who remember the German atrocities of World War two. —— “The Communist Party maintains ‘that the most de- cisive and crucial issue facing the electorate in this provin- cial election, is peace. The fight for world disarmament and Canadian neutrality is a life -or death question from which all other questions flow. It is the key to resolv- ing some of the economic and social problems of the people. Communists elected to ‘the Peace key election issue Pritchett tells workers Speaking before an all-candidates meeting in the Pender Auditorium, sponsored by the Civic (Outside Workers) Union last Wednesday, Harold Pritchett, Com- munist candidate for Burnaby, stated: Provincial legislature would assist in mobilizing the people © of B.C. for peace, and disen- gagement of Canada from the U.S. brinkmanship policy. “They would add strength to the fight to stop the give: away of our Province’s rich ~ natural resources to native and foreign monopolies, which has been the pattern of the Bennett government for the last 8 years. —— People’s Republic of Korea. While South Korea continues in a state of crisis as. a res® of U.S. domination, in North Korea great strides are being made in raising living standards and industrializatio™ Photo shows one of some 300 machine tool plants in t | result September 9, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2