U.S. guilty of genocide in Vietnam This tragic picture shows the agony of the people 8 for a full page of photos on atrocities in Vietnam. «dk ‘C FRID VOL AY, JUL 26, NO. 29 ee | THE GREAT POSTAL STRIKE How Canada’s Post Office Workers Won All Demands In The 1918 Strike SEE PAGE 3 Federal medicare scheme Improvement on B.C. plan ie people of British Col- oa 2 will welcome Ottawa’s it p Medicare proposals, even eh peer Bennett and medi- Taternity spokesmen can’t t enthusiastic about it” Nigel a B.C, leader of the Com- Mist Party declared as the 8cifie Tribune was going to Pregs, ay €deral financial contri- i ONs could help cut the exhorb- tly high rates private com- €S are continuing to charge aM the Bennett scheme,” he he out, “And particularly 5 1 care, prescribed drugs, €cialist and other important s ®rvices,” Morgan said. by pemtal care is not covered as any existing schemes, yet it putt as important and just ie as costly for most fam- S,” he added. “Th € labor and progressive Movement — in fact all who want genuine, comprehensive medical coverage at minimum costs — should lose no time in raising their voice to let Premier Ben- nett and Prime Minister Pearson know that the people of this prov- ince want immediate Federal- Provincial action along the lines projected,” he concluded, According to press reports from _ the Federal-Provincial conference, meeting in Ottawa, Premier Bennett of B.C. and Premier Manning of Alberta were not enthusiastic about the Fede ral all-inclusive plan proposed by Prime Minister Pearson, Both Socred Premiers ex- pressed themselves as being in favor of a voluntary plan. The Hall Royal Commission on Health Services advocated a universal all-inclusive plan. The conference is continuing this week with many thorny prob- lems still to come on the agenda, of Vietnam imposed on them by U.S. intervention. See page URGE NEW FOREIGN POLICY NDP parley hits The New Democratic Party national convention, meeting in Toronto last week, overwhelmingly adopted a resolution condemning the Pearson government for supporting ‘‘the dangerous and disastrous course pursued by the United States’ ‘in Vietnam. The resolution urged an im- mediate cessation of U.S. bombings of North Vietnam, with- drawal of U.S. troops and nego- tiations between all interested parties, including the National Liberation Front in South Viet- nam, on the basis of the 1954 Geneva agreement, The resolution, which also called for withdrawal of U.S, troops from the Dominican Re- public, said that a settlement in Vietnam should include unity of the country through free elec- tions, withdrawal of all foreign troops, use of a UN or inter- T. C. DOUGLAS, who condemened U.S. policy in Vietnam at the NDP parley. He is now in the Soviet Union as a member of a Canadian Parliamentary delegation. ‘ national force to keep the peace, and international economic aid, Immediately following adoption of the resolution last Wednesday 150 delegates, led by veteran MP H.W, Herridge, marched to the U.S. Consulate to protest U,S, action in Vietnam, Herridge told the delegates from the steps -of the Consulate building that the protest against the U.S. troops in Vietnam repre- sented the wishes of mankind and that Canada should have an independent foreign policy, A strong plea for an inde- pendent foreign policy and an end to U.S, control of Canada’s economy. came in the conven- tion keynote address by M.J. Coldwell, former national lea- der, “Just as we must regain our national independence in the de- velopment of our economic and social affairs, so we must as- sert our independence in our international and external pol- icies,” said Coldwell, A plea for peace in Vietnam was also the dominant theme in a message to the delegates by the NDP’s present national lea- der, T.C, Douglas, Referring to the current situation in Viet- nam and the Dominican Republic “e said, “we do not believe that any country has the right to use military power to force dicta- torial and discredited regimes upon people who are seeking the right to self-determination, We do not want some new form of colonialism masquerading as an anti-Communist crusade.” He declared that “it was never more essential than now that we speak out against the dangerous path along which mankind is drifting.” Echoing the same sentiments last Friday, 1,470 participants from 98 countries at the World Peace Congress in Helsinki, Fin- land, unanimously adopted a statement which said the world situation is very grave because “the political and military lea-, ders of the U.S, have entered upon a policy of armed aggres- sion and military adventures,” The congress attached special importance to the support that all the peoples of the world should give to the Vietnamese peoples’ just struggle for in- dependence, unity and peace and against U.S, aggression, Meanwhile, a joint Canadian- American committee are pushing plans for giant rally on Vietnam at the Peace Arch, Blaine, on Saturday, August 7, The rally promises to be one of the big- gest ever held in the Pacific northwest,