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SHOREMEN

Meet will discuss
Middle East crisis

Mug a attitude to the crisis in the Middle East precipitated
tus nd British intervention in Lebanon and Jordan will be
Die by a CCF MLA and two leading trade unionists at a

®eting to be held this coming Monday, August 18, 8 p.m.,

in Pender Auditorium here.

Speaking under the general
heading, ‘Labor and the Mid-
dle East Crisis,” will be Cedric
Cox, CCF MLA for Burnaby,
and Sam Jenkins, president of
the Marine Workers’ and
Boilermakers Union, and
Homer Stevens, secretary of
the United Fishermen and
Allied Workers Union.

The meeting is being spon-
sored by a committee of trade
unionists.

CEDRIC COX, MLA

TESTS. CLA
MORE VICTIMS

U.S. H-tests have claimed more Japanese seamen as their victims. The crew of the 6,307-
ton ship Kazakawa Maru has been showered by radioactive fallout in the Pacific.

The ship, with 52 men on board, was on a course at least 450 miles from the Western
fringe of the “danger zone” around the Bikini-Eniwetok area where American nuclear tests are

taking place.

This announcement by the
Kawasaki Steamship Company
in Tokyo was made last week-
end just before publication, on
Monday this week, of the UN
scientific committee’s report
warning that even a slow
slight increase in world radio-
activity from nuclear test ex-
plosions “might eventually
cause appreciable damage to
large populations before it
could be definitely identified
as due to radiation.”

The 15-nation scientific com-
mittee was unanimous in its
conclusion that nuclear tests
pose a danger to mankind, but
the majority of its members
nevertheless rejected a Soviet
proposal for an immediate end
to nuclear tests on the ground
that control of such tests was
outside the scope of the com-
mittee’s investigation.

The vote against accepting
the Soviet proposal was 9 to 5
with one abstention. Both
Canada and the United States
voted with the majority.

The Tokyo report said that
several of the Kazukawa
Maru’s crew were suffering
from a shortage of white cor-
puscles. The same was ob-
served among H-test victims
on the Japanese fishing vessel
Fukuryu Maru (Lucky
Dragon) four years ago.

When the report on the
Kazukawa’s crew was received,
113 seamen from two Japanese
government oceanographic
ships, Takyuo and Satsuma,
went into hospital for a
thorough medical checkup.

The two ships, withdrawn
from International Geophysical
Year work in the Pacific after
being subjected to “intense
radiation” west of Eniwetok
last month, arrived in Tokyo
on Thursday last week.

Kanji Suda, chief of the
hydrographic section of the
Japanese Maritime Safety
Board, pointed out: “The
United States should have
known full well where the two
atom-dusted ships were at the
time of the nuclear test.

Continued on back page
See H-TESTS

Japanese seamen on the Kazakawa Maru were the victims
of the latest U.S. H-tests in the Eniwetok area (top). The
incident has evoked new protests and demonstrations in
Japam, like those that followed the showering of the ill-
fated. Fukuryu Maru with radioactive ash in 1954 (bottom).

IN. THIS ISSUE
The CCF and NATO

By Leslie Morris
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