1 eet Loti ny VOL. 19, NO. 29 Phone MUtual 5-5288 350 Authorized as second class mail by the Post Ortice Department, Ottawa. 10° VANCOUVER, B.C. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1960 Congo freedom means Belgium parasites out’ By W. S. Belgian mercenaries continue to occupy a large section of the Congo in spite of an ultimatum from the new republic to “get out.”” Meanwhile a U.N. force is moving in to “restore order” in the strife-torn country. As inspired reports continue to pour out of the Congo, spin- Ning lurig~ tales of rape and Pillage, it is becoming increas- ingly evident that what was re- ferred to as independence for the Congo was merely to be a More subtle form of imperial- 4st exploitation. The Belgian Parasites, however, reckoned Without the pent-up indigna- tion and hatred of their long- Subject colonials. Years of bru- al treatment, starvation wages 8nd the pillage and robbery of €ir landburst forth, with the rmal announcement of inde- Pendence, into a demand for Get your name On voters’ list : Is your name on the voters’ list? Between 35,000 to 40,000 ‘C. voters are not. If you did Rot receive a card in the mail . 2S week confirming your reg- ‘stration; it means that you are Rot on the list. Phone TRinity 9-1507 imme- lately. They will either send SAR @ card with a return en- ae Spe or direct you to your Yy arest registration centre. _ ou have until July 31 to reg- es After that it wili Be too ate, the oppressor to get out, lock, stock and barrel. The Belgian money lords, operating in the time-honored tradition of British imperial- ism, had no intention of doing |, this. Independence to them meant the granting of a modi- cum of national sovereignty, because of mass democratic pressure, while their hand, a little more obscured, remained in the pockets of the people. In line with this is. the seces- sion of the Province of Katan- a ate ne Sale A Blind, No More Hiroshimas, states the call to a public meeting at the Kerrisdale Arena, Friday, Aug. 5th, sponsored by the Council of Committees on Radiation Hazards. A march is planned for Saturday, Aug. 6th, at 1 p.m. from the University gates to the Japanese Gardens where a service will be addressed by the Rev. A. Philip Hewett. Thus Vancouver will join hands with millions of people the world over, to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Featured speakers at the Arena meeting will be Dr, E. W. Pfeiffer, American physiol- ogist, Dr. George Griffiths, U.B.C. physicist, and Dr. Fred Kelly, nuclear physicist from the University of Manitoba. Participating in the forum will be Mrs. Camille Mather, chair- man of the Women’s Commit- tee on Radiation Hazards. Dr. Hugh Keenieyside, chair- man of the National Committee for the Control of Radiation Hazards, Dr. James Foulks, head of the U.B.C.’s Depart- ment of Pharmacology, Mr. Jack Scott and Mr. Elmore Philpott, newspaper column- ists; Miss Lillian Carlson, Van- couver actress; Rev. A. Phillip Hewett, Unitarian Church min- ister; Rev. S. Ikuta, Buddhist Continued on page 6 See HIROSHIMA Fishermen visit USSR “We were impressed.” This, in a word, sums up the reaction of a six-member dele- gation from the Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union just returned from a tour of the Soviet Union. The delegation, which cov- duces 264 million lbs. frozen ered 4,000 miles in the S.U. !fish a year, 9,900,000 fillets, 2,- and travelled from Moscow to Murmansk, staged a_ confer- ence for the press last week. In addition to an enthusiastic account of their visit, the press were treated to a wide variety of canned fish brought back by the delegates, and in turn were “impressed.” Homer Stevens, reported vis- iting a fish plant in Murmansk that employed 5,500 workers; shipped out 110 railway cars of fish a day, and aimed to in- crease that to 250 cars a day by 1965. This plant alone pro- ga, the Congo’s richest prov-| ince, and its declaration for || “maintaining an economic] bond with Belgium.” In the meantime the country | is economically dislocated and || aid is pouring in from the So-|, viet Union, Canada and other countries, in the form of food |: and clothing. The Soviet Union| has declared its solidarity with | the new state and stands ready | — to assist it in problems of con- struction of a genuine republic. |: While the finale to this} graphic story is not yet writ- ten it is obvious that the last ‘ : chapter is already etched out and speaks for complete Afri- ean independence, and the end of one of the most disgraceful eras in man’s history. United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union delegates confer with Moscow Fisheries 000,000 Ibs. salted fish, 44 mil- lions tins canned fish and 61 million lbs. of fish meat. Its production alone is more than double that of the entire B.C. fishing industry. The delegation were aboard a Mother Ship that carried a crew of 200, including a medi- cal staff of 10 with a fully equipped hospital, and capable of performing major surgical operations: This ship was a mobile cannery, processing plant, freezing plant, sterage unit, with all the facilities of a modern hotel for the needs of the crew members, They in- spected a 270 ft. trawler with 44-foot beam and a 2000-h.p. diesel and four auxiliary mo- tors. This ship carried a crew of 96. In answer to a question Mr. Stevens opined that “Canada would slip from the sixth place she now holds in world fishing to fiftieth in the next few years if we don’t get cracking.’’” Here are some comments of the delegates— Wally Paulik, fisherman, (Continued on Page 7) See FISHERMEN ctl Institute officials during their recent visit to the USSR. From left in the top picture are Jack Cook, Homer Stevens, Wally Paulik and Ed Regnery with the director of the institute and interpreter Vidor Kupriachin. ee CaF A