South Korea fights
new U.S. puppet

Although Syngman Rhee
is gone in South Korea, his
successors are pursuing the

Since
South Koreans have been
arrested. Of these 530 are to
face special “Security
trials.”

The new clique in power,

headed by U.S. puppet Huh
Chung, is trying to maintain
the fascist regime. Mean-
while the demand is grow-
ing that U.S. forces get out
and that a new election be
held.
Photo below shows a stu-
dents’ demonstration in
Seoul. These demonstrations
are continuing. On the left
is a photo of a demonstra-
tion of students in Peking,
- China, in support of South’
Korean students.

THEN WHY THE U-2 FLIGHT?

An unsigned article in the official U.S. Army Infor-
mation Digest says the Soviet Union is not undertaking
the development.of forces necessary for a surprise nuclear

attack against the United: States.
“Moscow does not appear. to. be undertaking the

extremely expensive task of developing military: might
capable of eliminating by a first strike the ability. of the
West to retaliate,’ says the article.

“Soviet leaders evidently consider it more essential to
their longer-range power position to. fulfil their ambitious

economic programmes,”

Hundreds take part in
Saturday's peace action

Hundreds of people took part in demonstrations for peace last Saturday in Lower
Mainland and Vancouver Island cities and towns. The demonstrators carried placards
and collected names on petitions urging agreement on disarmament at the Summit.

LABOR

The fund to send the full
six-member delegation elected
by the recent: United Fisher-
men and Allied Workers Un-
ion convention to the Soviet
Union next month is nearly
over the top. Union officials
said this week that voluntary
collections taken throughout
the industry now total around
$1,500,

e

A four point program aim-
ed at alleviating the unem-
ployment crisis was adopted
by the United Electrical, Ra-
dio and Machine Workers of
America at their national
‘council meeting recently.
“The four points are: elim-
ination of. means test provis-

‘ion in the Unemployment In-

surance Act; increase in bene-

it fits under UIC and extension

of benefits for duration of un-
employment; reduction of
hours of work; and retraining
of unemployed workers to be
paid by government and em-
ployers.
. e

Vancouver Civic Employees
Union, Outside Workers cabl-
ed Prime Minister John Dief-
enbaker last week in London,
protesting his invitation to

British workers to emigrate
to Canada. The cable charges
that “such action will only
swell the ranks of the unem-
ployed.” é

A resolution adopted by a
meeting of the job’ stewards
council demanded the Prime
Minister “take immediate

| BRIEFS |

Canada Asked
'Help on Bomare,
Senator Says

i

i From the Washington Bureau

1 of The Globe and Mail

+ Washington, May 5 — The
!Canadian Government has made
jit known.to the U.S. Administra-
,tion that it is unhappy about
lthe recommendation of the

"House of Representatives. de-

po eebieta tae cons ere AS

WASHINGTON; May 5
(CP)—The House of Repre-
sentatives today approved a
cut of $294,000,000 from the
amount asked by the Admin-
istration for the Bomarc anti-
. aircraft missile.
recommended last week by
the appropriations committee.

The cuf was

se

weapon.”

jfense appropriations subeom-
‘mittee to halt production of
the controversial Bomarc anti-
aircraft missile. 3

U,S. }

+

One senator commented:!
|“What with the Boeing lobby.
lists and the Canadian cabinet
ministers twisting our arms, we
might have to spend some more
money on a thoroughly bad

This story shows how hard
the Tory government in

Ottawa

is fighting with

Washington to saddle us
with the dangerous, useless
and costly Bomarc missile.

steps to provide jobs for Can-
ada’s unemployed.”

Six hundred

employees,

members of Retail, Wholesale
and Department Store Union,
were locked out last week by

Mc and Mec

and Marshall

Wells. Plants are being pick-

eted.

, Wancouver: Nearly 100 trade
lunionists paraded on down-
town streets urging an end to
world tension and_ disarm-
|ment. Slogans asked that nuc-
lear weapons be banned and
tests stopped.

Among trade unionists tak-
ing part were longshoremen,
grain liners, woodworkers,
fishermen, shipyard workers,
seamen, office workers, found-
rymen, plumbers, electricians
and others. Many comments
from the public greeted the
trade union marchers.

Another group of 50 Peace
Council supporters staged two
parades, in the morning and
afternoon, collecting over 2,-
000 signatures in one and. a
half hours. The SYL also had a
large number of members par-
ading with placards.

There were also groups of
demonstrators. in Hastings
East, West End and Burnaby
shopping areas where hund-

!reds of names were collected

on petitions and thousands of
peace leaflets distributed.

Fraser Valley: Demonstrations
took the form of a car caval-
cade, placard. parades and pet-
itioning in the main shopping
areas. Centres in which peace
action took place were Lang-
ley, Cloverdale, Abbotsford,
Aldergrove, White Rock, New-
ton, Whalley, Maple Ridge and
Haney. In New Westminster
parades centred around the
marketplace where many
names were signed to petitions.
Vancouver Island: In Vic-
toria 23 peace workers dem-~
onstrated from 10 am. to 5
p.m., handing out 5,000 leaf-
lets. They were warmly re-
ceived by people in the street.
In Nanaimo 30 people collect-
ed nearly 1,000 signatures

and handed out 2000 leaflets.

:
Boris Efimoy —

“I zvestia”’

CONTROL

BLA

Bose lle

WESTERN: PROPOSALS

(with tricks)

SOVIET PROPOSALS

DISARMAMENT |
UNDER

{& A.

(without tricks)

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