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Hemispheric Conference

. perstor Eugene J. McCarthy has sent the fol-
Or ng message to the Hemispheric Conference
in fanizing Committee: “Please extend my greet-
ha to the Hemispheric Conference to End the
€tnam War as you meet in the common course

/ 0 end the war and in the united effort to ad-

an latest report 1,000 delegates and observers

th he Conference are expected to come from

Tati U.S. Early arrivals of delegations from

Ri In American countries including Chile, Costa

7 Argentina and Mexico have added to the
€nse interest surrounding the opening of the
“smispheric Conference in Montreal to be held
0m November 28 to December 1.

ete coordinating committee of the Conference
S announced that it “has decided to revise the

Delegations arrive

list of those who have been invited to attend.
The committee takes this decision in the light of
the policy. of sustained obstruction to the Paris
Peace talks pursued by the Saigon government.
The conference organizers state that the Saigon-
based puppet government has at no time demon-
strated that it is willing to accept the unqualified
right of the Vietnamese people to determine their
own destiny free from all foreign interference,
which is the basis of the call to the conference.
As for the invitations which have been sent to
the delegates from North Vietnam and to the
National Liberation Front, they remain valid and
the conference looks forward to welcoming Le
Van, secretary of the Vietnam Federation of
Trade Unions and Tran Thenh from the Demo-
cratic Republic of Vietnam as well as Hoang Bich
Son and Nguyen Van Ba of the National Libera-

tion Front.”

Wide religious support

Reames of religious bodies and members of the
oY in Canada and the United States who
a sponsored the Hemispheric Conference to
af the Vietnam War, including those who will
€nd as delegates, were announced today by
€ Conference Organizing Committee.
opclesates from Canada include Abbé Louis
fell of the Faculty of Divinity of Laval Uni-
saad in Quebec; Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg

Toronto, who will be a key-note speaker; Rev.

r. James G. Endicott, Canadian Peace Congress
otaitman, Toronto and the Rev. John Peacock

Montréal, From the city of Edmonton dele-
ae representation is expected from the Student
hristian Movement of the University of Alber-
a from the Unitarian Church and from the Inter-
aith Council.

Coming from the United States as delegates
Will be Father James Groppi of Milwaukee; and
Tepresentatives of the American Friends Service
Committee (Quakers); the National Council of
Churches (Civic Project); the Ecumenical Task
Orce; the Quaker Project on Community Con-
flict the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Cam-
bridge: the National Student YWCA and the
Catholic Peace Fellowship. Minna Agins will be

the delegate from the First Unitarian Church of
Los Angeles,

Sponsors of the Hemispheric Conference from
Canada include: the Rev. Pére Vincent Harvey,
O.P.; the Association Catholique des Enseignants
de l’Estrie; the Society of Friends (Quakers) of
Vancouver; Marilyn Hindmarch as president of
the Student Christian Movement; Rev. Clarke
MacDonald of Toronto; Rev. H. M. De Wolfe,
First Baptist Church, Montreal; Dr. H. H, Walsh
of McGill University Faculty of Divinity; Rabbi
H. L. Poller of Beth Sholom Temple; Rev. John
Morgan, First Unitarian Church, Toronto; Rev.
Clifford Elliott Metropolitan United Church,
Toronto; Rev. G. V. Kimball, Queen Street Uni-
ted Church,. Toronto, a ;

Included among the United States sponsors of
the Conference are: Rev. Richard Fernandes,
Executive Director of Clergy Concerned About
Vitnam; Rev. Bernard Lafayette, Director, South-
ern Christian Leadership Conference; Rev. Ste-
phen Fritchman, First Unitarian Church, Los
Angeles; Rev. Thos. Lee Hayes, Episcopal Peace
Fellowship; Rev. Roy A. Ockert, First Unitarian
Church, Los Angeles; Father Blase Bonpane, ex-

Maryknoll Missionary.

Unionists participate

Extensive trade union participation and sup-
Port from many countries in North and South
ae are reported by the Organizing Com-
Bee for the Hemispheric Conference to end
No, Vietnam War, to be held in Montreal from

Ovember 28 to December 1, 1968.
ine ade union speakers at the Conference will

clude from Quebec Marcel Pepin, President of

€ Confederation of National Trade Unions, and
pemond Laliberté President of the Corporation

Teachers of Quebec, (CEQ).

Among the trade unions to be officially repre-

Sented by delegates at the Conference the Or-

pnizing Committee has announced the follow-
a Central Campesina Independiente, represent-
ee 100,000 Mexican farmers, the Mexican Asso-
lation of Journalists, whose delegates will be
avier Campos Ponce, lawyer-journalist, and
cumundo Jardon Arzate, secretary of the Asso-
on, Bloque Obrero Revolucionario “General
Fe erto Jara,” a group of twenty-five Mexican
Bere unions sending Samuel Ruiz Mora as their
wieeate: the National Union of Mexican Women
hose delegates will include Martha L.P. de

amayo, president; and Raquel Tibol, writer and .

art expert.

tho tade unions and trade unionists sponsoring
: € Hemispheric Conference include from South
Nd Central America; from Chile, Central Unica
= Trabajadores (the main trade union centre

Chile), the National Federation of Miners, the
ederation of Flour-mill workers, the National
€deration of Metal Workers, the National Con-
ederation of Farmers and of Indians, the Con-
€deration of Copper Workers, the Union. of

University Federations of Chile; from Mexico,
the Independent Farmers Center, the National
Council of Railway Workers, the National Center
of Democratic Students, Mexican Trade Union
of Electricians, the Union of Blind Mexicans;
from Colombia, the Trade Union Confederation
of Workers of Colombia, the Trade Union Fede-
ration of Workers of Cundinamarca, the Asso-
ciation of Democratic Jurists, the House of Cul-
from Costa Rica, the General Confedera-
tion of Costa Rican Workers, the Association
“Mauro Fernandes” of Costa Rican Teachers,
from Argentina Mr. Benito Romano, member of
the secretariat.of the General Confederation of
Workers; the Building and Construction Work-
ers Union, the National Co-ordination Center of
Farmers and Farm Workers of Panama; from
Guyana, the Agricultural Workers Union and the
Public Service Workers Union.

From the United States and Canada, also
sponsoring the Conference are the following
trade unions and individual trade unionists:
Joseph Cerasoli, vice-president, Barrie Local of
the Granite Cutters International Union (AFL-
CIO); Paul Perlin, California District Council of
the International Longshoremen and Warehouse-
men’s Union; David Livingston, president Dis-
trict 65, Retail, Wholesale, Drug, Service Union;
Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 101-134
of Vancouver; the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers of America in Canada; the
Montreal-Lodge III, International Association of
Machinists; the Union Générale des Etudiants of
Quebec; the Society of Professional Artists of
Quebec; the Alliance des professeurs de Mont-

réal (CEQ).

ture;

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This is the picture of Yo Thi Thang, 23, a former st
Gia Long Secondary School tsalganvewho on July beso eee
death the tyrannical puppet district chief of Phu Lam. Sentenced b
a U.S.-Saigon court to 20 years’ hard labor, she challenged the
verdict with a calm, proud smile that so strikingly reflected her
uneedoeaee in face of the enemy.

o Thi Thang’s smile pours scorn on all the unlawful, fasci i
conducted by the U.S. aggressors and their henchmen eee
to intimidate the urban people of South Vietnam, more particularly
the students and pupils. It is a forceful expression of the impetuous
mettle of the townsfolk of South Vietnam in their present widespread
uprisings. On the other hand, it brings into bolder relief the isolation
of the U.S. and puppets of their last legs. Her smile, full of optimism
and confidence, spells out again that “the South Vietnamese people
are winning and will win completely.”

In Vinh, south of Hanoi, the pottery k pt ; ins ‘ch
. : : i ry kept working during all th
neteaD ene eae making cups, rice dishes ond Backs ae
ainers. The workers are mostly women wh i
sain Nea y who have great talent in

The people of Vietnam try in eve i i
: ry possible way to protect the
children’s health, to allow them to study, to grow, to live. :

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