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Parliament must not
delay on vital issues

.“Make Parliament work for
‘the People,” says a statement
issued this week by the National
Executive of the Communist
Party as Canada’s Parliament
Tesumed its sessions with many
sy PO rtant problems of thena-
10n's business still unresolved,

Full text of the statement fol-
lows;

ee or ament must get on with
© people’s business,

eee is no need for a snap
roe to serve the narrow in-
Tests of one or other old party,

Roe is great need for action
ur country’ i bs
ae y’s pressing prob
Can orliament must pass the
canada Pension Plan and the
aay Labor (Standards) Act
is no more delay, Monopoly
a €rests must not be allowed to

and in the way of such long

overdue legislation,

—Parliament must demand that
the government tell the people
frankly:

Is it planning to take Canada
into the Atlantic Nuclear Force
which would put nuclear arms in
the hands of the West German
militarists?

As a member of the Interna-
tional Control Commission what
is it doing to end the dirty war
in South Vietnam, which as a
result of the flagrant U.S, ag-
gression could spread to allSouth
East Asia and the world,

What policies are being de-

veloped to make work available .

to the 1,500,000 Canadians en-
tering the labor force from now
to 1970?

Are there guarantees in the
See PARLIAMENT, pg. 12

Silent on this vital question.

Right groups.

of these groups.

to do likewise.

Bennett must act!

: This week the Pacific Tribune renders a public service by
pang the activities of racist and ultra-Right groups and
eir link with the national Social Credit Party.

As Social Credit premier of B.C., and thus one of the
Most influential leaders in his party, Bennett cannot remain

The public demand answers and action:

@ Premier Bennett should publicly con
Qssociate himself and his government from the r

: ® He should repudiate the tacit endorsation which his
National leader, Robert Thompson,

-@ He should immediately take legislative action to bar
race hate activities in B.C. and urge the Federal

demn and dis-
acist and ultra-

has given to the activities

government

. with racists
exposed in this issue

Read this startling exposure on pages 5 to 7

Parliament must
U.S. war ‘hawks’

Parliament resumed its sessions this week amid strong public demands that
the Canadian government — as one of the Geneva Conference participants

-responsible for peace in Vietnam — take action to curb the “war now” gang

in Washington bent on escelating the war to North Vietnam and running the
danger of setting off a world nuclear holocaust.

These were some of the in-
fluential voices raised across
Canada this week urging Prime
Minister Pearson to act,

@ Meeting in Vancouver Tues-
day night the Vancouver Labor
Council unanimously endorsed a
resolution on the Vietnam crisis,
The resolution urged the Secre-
tary-General of the United
Nations to convene a special
meeting to deal with this crisis,

The resolution said“ the recent
attacks on North Vietnam by mili-
tary forces of the U,S,... rep-
resent a serious danger to world
peace,” It asked the Canadian
Labor Congress to take action,

@ Fifteen Toronto clergymen
wired Prime Minister Pearson
last Sunday urging him to bring
pressure on the U,S, to get out
of Vietnam,-The wire was signed

by seven United Church minis- .

ters, two Presbyterian, one An-
glican and four rabbis,

The wire said: “This attempt
of military advisers in Washing-
ton to abandon diplomacy for
arms and thereby scuttle hopes
for a peaceful settlement con-
fronts the Canadian government
with a challenge to its moral
courage and concern for the
security of the Canadian people,”

The telegram was initiated by
Rabbi Abraham Feinberg and
United Church minister Rev,
Glynn Firth,

@ Last weekend NDP leader

Tommy Douglas called on the

Canadian government to press
for reconvening of the Geneva
conference, Opposition to the U.S,
action also found expression on
the floor of the B,C, Legislature
Monday when Alex Macdonald
(NDP - Van, East) said in the

budget debate that “pudgets will .

be meaningless if brushfire wars
escalate into atomic wars,”

Macdonald said the U,S, is in
error in thinking that a Western
nation can establish a military
presence in Asia,

@ On the day Parliament opened,
an advertisement was published
in the Ottawa Citizen by the Na-
tional Executive of the Commun-
ist Party headed: “Stop the ag-
gression—Negotiate a peaceful
settlement,” Branding the U,S,
action as “an act of desperation,
not of sanity,” the ad states that
“President Johnson issued the
orders, but the voices are those
of Goldwater, of Nixon, and of

DESPERATION ©
laps MADNESS *

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the war hawks in the Pentagon,

“Unless this aggressionis
stopped the world will be plunged
into the flames of thermonuclear
war,” warns the ad:and calls on
Parliament to condemn the
action, It urges that Pearson
recognize Canada’s direct re-
sponsibility as a member of the
International Control Commis-
sion,

“The road to peace lies in a

return to strict observance of
the 1954 Geneva Agreement, It
lies in ending aggressive war on
North Vietnam, It lies in with-
drawing U,S, troops from South
Vietnam,” The ad urges that
Canada speak in the name of a
peaceful settlement and insist
on the Geneva Conference being
reconvened, and calls on Cana-
dians to flood their MP’s with
wires and letters calling on them
to speak and act at once for
peace,

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