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to begin to reflect the will of their consti-
tuents on this issue,’’ said Kennedy.

Part of EAR’s upcoming campaign is
aimed at getting MPs to “‘vote according to
the wishes of their constituents,”’ rather than
Simply parroting party line, according to

spokesman Helen Spiegelman.
EAR has yet to receive a reply from the

_ Ptime minister’s office to a letter sent last

Month urging the PM to meet with a
Nationally-based delegation to discuss the
Ctulse testing. Copies were also sent to the

‘C. senators, opposition leaders and MPs

On the House standing committee external

affairs and national defence.
In the replies received from those MPs so
at, with a few exceptions the breakdown is
aS follows: Conservatives and Liberals are
for cruise testing, NDP MPs are against it.
EAR hopes to rectify that situation with a
door-to-door canvas and petition organized
by federal constituency this fall. The peti-
on, tailored for each individual riding, asks
the federal representative to oppose the
esting, which would ‘“‘make peace a power-
» Political issue,”’ said Spiegelman.
Following a public meeting held by the
Organization’s steering committee last week,

_ Subcommittees were set up to plan the can-
_ Yas and other activities leading into the fall.

ne group is in charge of an information
th that will be staffed at various public
Wctions and places throughout the sum-
Mer months, and will urge groups holding
Tegular meetings to include speakers for

Peace on their agendas.
_ An advertising subcommittee will be rais-
Mg funds for a full-page ad in the Vancouver
Sun this September, in preparation for a
Mass rally to be held on either Oct. 22 or 23.
e first date is the day of several peace

demonstrations in Canadian cities.

Oct. 23 is the day for peace rallies
throughout Europe, and is also the day the
-C, Place stadium is available. Given the
turnout at the Apr. 23 Walk for Peace of
Ween 80,000 to 120,000, EAR believes it
May be possible to fill the 60,000-seat
Stadium, said Spiegelman.
_ The organization is also- preparing
literature announcing the demonstration

that will take place on the nearest convenient
Saturday following the anticipated signing
of the cruise test agreement. That could hap-
pen as early as this month or as late as the
fall, Spiegelman said.

A good deal of confusion — some of it
possibly deliberate — centres around the
issue of Canadian cruise missile testing, as
evidenced by the replies EAR received from
most Liberal and Conservative MPs respon-
ding to the letter to Trudeau.

Most Tory MPs — among them leader-
ship hopeful John Crosbie and former
leader Joe Clark — linked the cruise testing
with a “‘get tough’’ position with the Soviet
Union in current arms talks, even though the
cruise and Pershing II missiles have been
shown to be unwarranted escalations in
arms technology, rather than a response to
any existing Soviet weaponry.

Clark in particular engaged in downright
“obfuscation”? — Spiegelman’s word — as
has the prime minister concerning the cruise
tests and Canada’s commitments as a
member of the NATO alliance.

As Kennedy pointed out in his statement
Tuesday, the cruise missiles slated for
NATO deployment in Europe (vigorously
opposed by peace forces there) are the
ground-launched variety. The air-launched
type to be tested at Alberta’s Primrose Lake
Weapons Testing Rangeis part of the United
States own arsenal, and has nothing to do
with NATO, Kennedy noted.

The issue was raised in the House of Com-
mons Tuesday when the NDP tabled a mo-
tion calling on the House to oppose testing
any nuclear weapons or weapons delivery
vehicle in Canada. NDP leader Ed Broad-
bent urged the Commons to ‘‘take one small
step for peace”’ by refusing the U.S. govern-
ment’s request.

The motion failed in a 213-34 vote. But
although the government refused an NDP
request to allow the vote to be taken free of
party affiliations, four Conservative MPs —
outspoken cruise opponents Douglas Roche
and John Fraser, as well as Walter McLean
and Jack Murtra — along with Liberal MP
Warren Allmand voted for the motion. Six
other Liberals abstained, including cruise

Demonstration planned to follow
signing of cruise test agreement

opponent Paul McRae, who stated his sup-
port for the content of the motion.

Meanwhile, some 25 B.C. communities
have responded to the first monthly ‘“pause
for peace,” according to Kelowna activist
John Moelaert.

The action initiated by Moelaert and en-
dorsed at the recent Coalition for World
Disarmament conference, involves in-
dividuals stopping ‘‘whatever they’re
doing’ for two minutes at 11 a.m. on the se-
cond Tuesday of every month, said Moelaert
in an interview.

In Kelowna, church bells rang one minute
before 11 a.m. Tuesday, and ‘‘tellers in
banks’’ stopped work while office workers
left their buildings to join others on the
sidewalk for the observance, he reported.

Canada has aroleto play as a “‘mediator’’
in arms reductions. But “‘unfortunately,
Canada’s foreign policy isn’t based on the
wishes of its people,”’ said Moelaert.

On the Island, the Vancouver Island Net-
work for Disarmament has endorsed a four-

- day peace vigil and fast outside the provin-

cial legislature June 19-22. It will take place
from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, which each day
devoted to one of four themes — Father’s
Day, the International Day of Nuclear
Disarmament (June 20), the environmental
aspects of the arms race, and children.

On June 20, the Mount Arrowsmith
Disarmament Coalition plans a day-long
‘phone-in”’ to prime minister Trudeau and
external affairs minister Allen MacEachen,
beginning at 8:49 a.m., Ottawa time. A total
of 480 long-distance calls are planned.

In response to the American request for
cruise testing, aldermen from Vancouver’s
Committee of Progressive Electors have
submitted a notice of motion to city council.
Aldermen Libby Davies and Bruce Yorke
have noted that council is already on record
as opposing the cruise testing andhas urged a
full parliamentary debate on the issue.

Therefore, council should ‘‘again urge the
Canadian government to bring this matter
before Parliament for full debate’? and
“strongly urge the federal government to re-
ject this request for the testing of the cruise
missile.”

Art Kube
gets Fed
presidency

Canadian Labor Congress regional
education director Art Kube has been
named the new president of the B.C.
Federation of Labor, replacing Jim Kin-
naird who died earlier this year.

Kube was elected to the federation’s
top post by a vote of 18-10 in the executive
council Wednesday. He had been widely
expected to get the appointment after In-
ternational Woodworkers secretary
Gerry Stoney and Steelworkers staff
representative Monty Alton both
withdrew their names as candidates, thus
assuring Kube of the undivided support
of the four largest affiliates as well as
other unions on the federation’s right

wing.

The only other candidate was seventh
vice-president Leif Hansen from the
United Food and Commercial Workers.

Kubeis not an officer of the federation
although he has been education director
forthe CLC since shortly after his unsuc-
cessful bid for secretary-treasurer of the
Congress in 1974. :

He also ran unsuccessfully for federa-
tion secretary treasurer against incum-
bent Len Guy in 1976 in a bitterly con-
tested battle over the course of indepen-
dent labor political action charted by the
B.C. Fed under Guy’s and president
George Johnston’s leadership. Then as
now, Kube’s candidacy was backed par-
ticularly by the B.C. Government
Employees Union, the IWA, Steel and
The Canadian Union of Public
Employees.

Also on Wednesday, the executive

the long-awaited all-union conference.

However, Kube said he would seek a
meeting with premier Bennett before that
date.

council set a tentative date of June 29 for

_ As this issue of the Tribune goes to
Press, there is only one week left for our
Teaders and supporters to put us over the
top in the ‘‘85,000”’ préss drive.

Working people and their allies have
been raising funds for the paper ever since
the press drive began, decades ago. And
In doing so, they perform something

Short of an annual marvel.

Tribune’s readers come from the element
Of society that is always the least able,
financially, to supprt such a calling. And
that situation has become even more
acute in recent years.

__ Our readers are the people that must
bear the brunt of unemployment
Senerated by economic crises.. They are
the people that are hit hardest with hikes
in gas, taxes, insurance premiums, transit
fares, rents and mortgages. And they are
the first to feel it when big-business
£0vernments impose cutbacks in health
Care, education, welfare, unemployment
Msurance and social services.

Tribune readers are, in the main, the
first on the firing line when it comes to
Corporations and governments enforc-

__Ihg, or attempting to enforce, wage con-
Cessions and benefits rollbacks. Since
before the days of the Great Depression,
Our staunchest supporters have been
among those laid off as factories and of-
fices close because of some corporate
Maneuver to enhance profits at workers’
€xpense.

_ rive has gone over the top every year.
_ And that’s because readers have always

A marvel, because the bulk of the

Despite all this, the annual fundraising

: ‘One erucial week—for $25,000

realized the need for a paper that fills the
role the Tribune has endeavored to do
every year.

In fact, it’s our experience that sup-
porters recognize the increased impor-
tance of maintaining the Tribune during
the toughest years. Because only the
Tribune gives the class perspective to the
issues that affect people.

And, like the people it serves, the paper
also faces hard times. Printing and repor-
ting costs have skyrocketed during ‘the
past few years.

This year we adopted the theme of
“85 000” for the press drive. That figure
represented the target — $85,000 — and
also reflected th growing numbers of peo-

GREATER VANCOUVER

Bill Bennett 1,000 470
Burnaby 5,500 4,035
Coquitlam 2,500 2,162
Kingsway 7,200 5,569
N. Westminster 1,700 1,754
Nigel Morgan 2,000 1,000
Niilo Makela 800 486
North Van 3,500 2,700
Olgin 500 545
Richmond 1,500 tela
Seamen | 400 797
Van. East 9,500 9,905
Van. Fishermen 700 114
West Side 3,500 2,854
FRASER VALLEY ‘

Chilliwack 350 403
Delta 800 479
Langley 700 570
Maple Ridge 3,300 — 1,993
Surrey 5,000 4,256
White Rock 1,200 859

OKANAGAN
Kamloops 900 820
Penticton 600 520
Shuswap 750 318
Vernon : 1,300 980
N. COAST/INTERIOR
Correspondence 2,000 1,941
Creston 400 444
Fernie 250 301
Powell River 550 847
Sointula 300 350
Sunshine Coast 500° 206
Trail 850 648
VANCOUVER ISLAND
Campbell River 1,700 1,583
Comox Valley 1,800 539
Nanaimo 2,200 1,754
Port Alberni . 1,500 853
Victoria 2,500 2,657
~ Miscellaneous 3,180
Achieved to date: 60,008

ple marching for peace, full employment
and an end to cutback in social services.

In some cases, the ‘85,000’ we’re
talking about is still a target. In the case of
this year’s Walk for Peace, however —
and in the case of massive peace >
demonstrations around the world — that
target has been reached and surpassed.

So we make our final and urgent ap-
peal to our readers and supporters —
please help us close the gap between the
wish and the reality of ‘‘85,000”’ in the
remaining short week. We all need a
Tribune — and an improved and larger
one — to help ensure that ‘‘85,000’’
becomes a reality for the entire pro-
gressive movement.

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