Last Saturday’s impressive parade against nuclear arms lining up on Pender St.

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in Vancouver peace parade

Close to 400 peoyle participated
in a “No Nuclear Arms’ peace
parade in downtown Vancouver
last Saturday. The parade, spon-
sored by the B.C. Peace Council,
was witnessed by thousands of
citizens as it wound it way up the
city’s two main throughfares —
Hastings St. and Granville St.

One of the outstanding features
of the action was the appearance
of five people encased in a black-
painted replica of an atomic mis-
Sile.

Hundreds of passersby on the
sidewalks applauded and cheered
the peace demonstration and
Many of them joined the ranks
of the marchers, among whom
Were people from Vancouver,
Surrey, New Westminster, White
Rock and other points on the
Lower Mainland.

The marchers’ ranks were
Swelled greatly by the addition of
Over 100 children from the AUUC
Junior Section and Junior Dance
Group.

The following day, Sunday,
March 31, over 1500 people unan-
imously adopted a ‘‘No Nuclear

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tisement unless a major
change was made in its text.
The party refused to comply.

Arms for Canada” resolution at
the AUUC Annual Shevchenko
Concert, held at the Queen Eliza-
beth Theatre. (See report of con-
cert, page 6).

Many of these black missiles
with the inscription “No
Nuclear Weapons” and sport-
ing “Bowmike” Pearson’s
tie, were in evidence on city
streets last Saturday and at
the entrance to the Liberal
rally at the Forum Monday

night

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APRIL & --
the fateful day

; By LESLIE MORRIS Z
The Diefenbaker cabinet split and the election was
triggered on the nuclear weapons issue.

That is the reason for the elections.

That is what

the voters must decide on April 8.
Everything else is secondary.
* Mt, aed

will go on.

April 8.

If the answer is
the warlike principle of nuclear

Ments and no one can say how far we

Nuclear path.
If the answer is “no”,

dependence and peace, and have wo
and the respect of the United Sta

countries.
*

*

*

There is time to deal with unemploy-
ment‘and national health insuran
struggle for jobs and

ce. The
health protection

But there is only limited time to
deal with. the American
“Canada: “Accept nuclear war

The answer,

ultimatum to
heads!”

yes or no, will be given on

“yes”, we will accept
arma-

shall go on the

we shall. have stood up for in-

n our self-respect,
tes and all other

*

Defeat the Liberal warmongers.

Vote Communist where there
Strongest fighters for peace and In
Vote NDP elsewhere—the party com
ing convention and its trade union @
nuclear armament of Canada.
Vote against nuclear: weapons!

ere is a candidate —the
dependence.

mitted by its foun-
ffiliates to oppose

POLLS OPEN at 8 a.m.
and close at 7 p.m.

THREE CONSECUTIVE
-HOURS shall be allowed
every employee by every
employer (without loss of
pay).

ANY PERSON MAY
VOTE (even though not on
the list) provided he is
vouched for by a registered
voter in a poll and takes
the oath. (Form No. 49).

IN A HOME FOR THE
AGED, CHRONIC HOSPI-
TAL, TB OR OTHER
CHRONIC INSTITUTION

‘bedridden patients also
have the right to vote.

'U.S. picked Pearson fo
foist policy on Canada’

“The real issues in this election
are made obvious by the election
itself—forced upon the govern-
ment and people of Canada by
unwarranted U.S. interference in
Canada’s internal affairs
“Tom McEwen, Communist can-
didate in Vancouver South, charg-
ed in a radio broadcast over
Vancouver’s CKWX last Sunday
evening.

McEwen went on to point out
that ‘‘to pressure Canada into
acceptance of nuclear arms and
to extend its interference in Can-
adian affairs, domestic and for-
eign, Washington has_ selected
Lester B. Pearson and his now
pro-American Liberal Party to
do-the job... =

He showed that a Liberal gov-
ernment would accept nuclear
arms, would join the Organiza-
tion of American States and “‘fuc-
tion as a bell-hop for U.S. inter-
ests in Latin America,” would
cut trade with China and Cuba,
and ‘“‘get busy—pronto—to ratify
the Columbia River treaty sell-
out.

“On all of these matters, we
are being told that Washington is
becoming ‘“‘highly impatient’ with

Canada’s reluctance to get things
done. Hence their selection (and
probable financing) of Mike Pear-
son and his Liberal lieutenants
to get on with the job.

“Of course Mr. Pearson’s serv-
ices to the U.S. trusts, despite
his many protestations against
nuclear arms and for peace, is of
long standing. It was the major-
ity government of St. Laurent—
Pearson that hogtied Canada’s
economy with so-called U.S.-Can-
ada integration, and in the initial
era of John Foster Dulles’ nuclear
brinkmanship.-

“Hence his new role as top
U.S. nuclear salesman does not
find him entirely unprepared to fit
Canada into the subservient role
of an economic, military and pol-
itical satellite of U.S. imperial-
ism,’’ McEwen explained.

How Lester Pearson ap-
pears to many Canadians.

‘Liberals scuttled merchant ffeet’

Charles Caron,, Communist
candidate in Coast-Capilano,
outlined his Party’s stand on
the problems of the ship
building industry at an all-
party meeting in the Pender
Auditorium last Thursday.
The meeting was sponsored
by the Marine Workers and
Boilermakers Union.

Caron, who is a past secre-
tary of the union, spoke with
first hand knowledge about
the problems of the shipbuild-
ing industry on the Pacific
Coast.

He pointed out that during
the Second World War Can-
ada occupied third place
among the shipbuilding na-
tions of the world, and that
after the war, Canada was
owner of a fleet of 375 ships.

Caron recalled that at the
end of the war the union,
fearing a return to the condi-
tions of the 1930’s with mass
unemployment and poverty,

tation conference at which
400 organizations were repre-
sented. This conference chart-
ed a course of peaceful devel-
opment for this province and
Canada.

“Instead of adopting the
proposals of this conference,”
Caron said, ‘‘the St. Laurent
government led us into the
war plans of U.S. imperial-
ism and subordinated our ec-
onomy to the U.S. The re-
sults proved disastrous for
the shipbuilding industry.

“Our merchant fleet was
scuttled and sold at fire sale
prices to the bogus Liberian
flag line, 75 per cent of which
is controlled by the US.”
(Ships are kept under the
Liberian flag as a source of
cheap labor.)

Canada had a net revenue
from shipping of $92 million.
By 1960 instead of showing a
net revenue Canada had to
meet a net payment of $91
million. Directly attributable

to the destruction of our mer-
chant fleet, we now have a
$180 million deficit in Can-
ada’s trade balance.

“This anti-Canadian policy
had its origin under the Lib-
eral St. Laurent administra-
tion, and has been continued
by the Diefenbaker govern.
ment. Now when the old line
parties speak of ship construc-
tion and subsidies for ship-
building it is for war ships in
the context of the cold war,”
said Caron.

Caron added that the fut-
ure well-being -of the ship
building industry depends on
Canadian rejection of U.S. in-
terference to force nuclear
weapons on Canada. That de-
cision could make possible
Canada’s peaceful role in
world affairs, the develop-
ment of trade and the con-
struction of a Canadian mer-
chant fleet to carry our goods
to the markets of the world.

initiated a post-war rehabili-

TOM McEWEN

Vote for these Communist
candidates on April 8

Vancouver - South

CHARLES CARON

April. 5, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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