WORLD PROTEST DEMANDS:

Stop the war in Vietna

Protest march and parley
highlight peace action

Many thousand in Vancouver and other B.C. centres will join hands this com:
ing. weekend with millions in the U.S. and around the world, to condemn U.S.
aggression in Vietnam and to demand that the war be stopped. This year’s Inter
national Days of Protest, October 21-22, are expected to see the mightiest peace?”

ANTI-DRAFT PROTEST. Photo from Oakland, Calif., shows
massed police lining up to block thousands of young demon-
strators against the U.S. draft. Similar protests have taken
place all over the U.S. this week leading up to the giant
march on Washington, Oct. 21.

‘Gov't intervention
can save Dosco’

The threatened closure of
the Dominion Steel and Coal
Corporation’s steel plant at
Sydney, Nova Scotia must be
stopped,” said William Kash-
tan, national leader of the Com-
munist Party, in a statement
released this week on behalf
of the Party’s Central Execu-
tive Committee.

The statement said: “The fed-
eral government has the re-
sponsibility and the power to
do this, What is needed is the
will to act decisively in this cri-
tical situation by the Pearson
government,

“The British-based Hawker
Siddely group which owns 77
percent of Dosco has cynically
tried to disclaim any respon-
sibility “for this disgraceful
business through the assertion
of its chairman, Sir Harold
Hall, that the closing of the
Sydney mill is strictly a matter
for Dosco’s head office in Mont-
real,

“Such callous disregard for
the economic well-being of Syd-
ney workers and their families,
and the entire community of

Sydney, by this huge British
financial octopus must not be
tolerated by Canadians and their
government,

“The federal government
must intervene immediately by
inviting the Hawker Siddley
group to instruct the Montreal

office of their captive company,

Dosco, to enter into serious
negotiations with the Canadian
government on ways and means
of averting the threatened
closure of the steel mill,

“Failing a mutually satisfac-
tory arrangement the federal
government must implement the
necessary measures to estab-
lish a crown corporation to
takeover the Dominion Steel and
Coal Corporations’ assets in
Sydney and to operate the mill
as a crown corporation,

“Tf this latter step becomes
necessary the Dosco Steel oper-
ation should be regarded by the
government as a_ business
failure and its assets acquired
by the crown corporation at a
cost to the public treasury com-
mensurate with such an
appraisal,”

Ag

actions ever held.

In Vancouver a giant march will get under-
way at 11 a.m. from the City Hall at Cambie
and 12th Ave, on Saturday, October 21. The
largest number of trade unions, churches,
students, peace and community organizations
ever to take part in a peace action in the city
have joined in the October 21st Co-ordinating
Committee to sponsor this. weekend’s action.

The Vancouver march will have ten official
slogans, adopted by all participating groups,

,but that those wishing to march behind a banner

signifying their organizations can doso,

The march will wind-up at the Court House
to hold an open air rally at 1:30p,m. The main
speaker will be Professor James Steele of
Carleton University, Ottawa.

The next day, Sunday, October 22, there will
be a conference called by the Co-ordinating
Committee at,the Peretz School, 6184 Ash
St. The conference is being convened to meet
two basic objectives:

e How to achieve greater clarity and under-
standing of imperatives for peace action through
analysis of world events as they affect the
people of this nation,

e How to achieve a broader base for united
peace action through the open exploration ofnew
approaches, methods and techniques for im-
proved effectiveness,

Keynote speaker at the conference will be
Dr. James Steele, who will address the con-
ference at 1 p.m. on the subject, “Canada’s
Role in Vietnam.” Prof. Norman Epstein of
UBC will speak on “Canadian Armaments and
the U.S. War.” Discussion will follow in work-
shops and plenary sessions to be summarized
by Prof. C. S. Burchill of Royal Roads Military
College, recently returned from South East
Asia.

At 7 p.m. Prof. W. E, Willmot of UBC will _

interview a well-known TV personality on
“The influence of the peace movement on
public opinion.” The interview will be followed
by a workshop discussion of the road ahead
for the Canadian movement against the war in
Vietnam,

Everyone is welcome to participate in the
conference, Organizations are invited to send
three voting delegates. Registration will take
place at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, The charge will
be $2.00 for delegates, $1.00 for non-voting
participants, 50¢ for students,

A partial list of sponsoring groups tor the

conference include the following: Vancouver

‘Labor Council; Marine Workers and Boiler-

makers Union and Ladies Auxiliary; Vancou-
ver Committee, Communist Party; First
United Spiritualist Church; North Vancouver
New Democratic Youth.

Vancouver-Point Grey NDP; Vancouver
Centre NDP; Local 213, IBEW; Local 4%

Carpenters Union; Grainworkers Local oH
Religious Society. of Friends (Quakers); a
nid};

nadian Postal Workers; Letter Carriers U0’
Young Socialists; SFU Vietnam Committe’
League for Socialist Action; SFU students
Council; Women’s League for Peace & Erg
dom;

Council for Peace & Self-Determinatim® :
Vietnam; UBC Vietnam Committee; New We
minster ILWU; C.C.N.D.; Vancouver-BUry
NDP; Vancouver Vietnam Day Committ
Local 244, BSE; Assn. United Ukrainian i
nadians; Fraser Valley Peace Council; ey
eration of Russian Canadians; Teachers a
mittee on Vietnam; B.C. University Teache
Committee on Vietnam; United Fisherme? a
Allied Workers Union; United Jewish PeoP™
Order.

In Victoria, demonstrators attendiné uF
peace vigil Saturday noon will, after the i
march with placards to the Legislature la oat
Volunteers are needed to give out 5,000 I if
lets at supermarkets and on city S#@—@

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Backing the weekend’s activities,
couver Committee of the Communist PR
distributing a statement welcoming the ag
action of peace forces around an effective?
gram of action for peace, cs

The leaflet says: “We attach great imp
ance to this weekend’s demonstration "ine
main edge directed at the complicity Be i}
Canadian government, which supp?
criminal action in Vietnam,”

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The leaflet points out that as 4 Bee,
Party, “We extend our struggle agail® get
such as in Vietnam, to the struggle ee
the capitalist system which is the $0 col”
war. Canadian Communists advocate the tio?
cept of peaceful coexistence and compe of
in state relationships between the syste a
capitalism and socialism, This coneé ative
stitutes the only humane and real @ eh {
to thermonuclear war.” ;

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the statement says that “for commu
struggle for peace merges with the “a
of the Canadian people for a better i Be
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and competition between states with di the
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