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Future offices of the Economic Mutual Assistance Office
(top photo), under construction in Moscow, show the new build-
ing styles. Architecture of new, high-rise apartments is similar.
The second photo — a street in Orsk in the Urals — shows the
older style of low-level apartment buildings. In a few years only

15-20 percent of apartment construction in

Moscow will jee

given to low-level buildings. The high-level apartments are
considered more economical and more comfortable for tenants.

Labor in Easter mar

VER THE Easter weekend
thousands of Canadians
will participate in tradi-

tional Easter marches for peace.
There can:be no doubt the ban-
ner demand of these marches
will be for an end to the war
in Vietnam.

What should be the attitude
of the trade union movement to
the Easter marches? To march
or not to march? Is this a legiti-
mate action for the trade union
movement to participate in?

First it has to be stated quite
unequivocally that the supreme
issue of our times—war or peace
—is staring us in the face at
this time as a result of US.
military provocations in Viet-
nam.

Secondly, it -has to be said
just as unequivocally, and with
due regard to other pressing !S-
sues facing the trade unions,
that the ending now of the war
in Vietnam takes precedence
over all other questions.

Some trade unionists might
consider that this emphasis of
the danger of U.S. military ac-
tions escalating into world
nuclear war to be an exaggera-
tion: like crying “wolf” when
no real danger exists.

Ml Fire of death

is her protest
over Vietnam

RS. ALICE HERZ, 82, who

set herself on fire Mar. 16

in protest against U.S.
policy in Vietnam, died Mar. 26
in Receiving Hospital in Detroit.

Mrs. Herz, a refugee from
Nazi Germany, active and lucid
of mind, burdened beyond res-
pite by the evil of the U.S. war
in Vietnam, poured cleaning
fluid on her-coat on Mar. 16
and turned herself into a flam-
ing torch.

The week before she had
walked with 10,000 other De-
troiters in protest against the
violence in Selma, Alabama.

On her way to the hospital
Mrs. Herz told Fire Lt. William
Pousho: “I did it to protest the
arms race, all over the world.”

A note found in her purse
said, “I choose the illuminating
death of a Buddhist to protest
against a great country trying
to wipe out a small country for
no real reason.”

Several days before, Mrs.
Herz had announced her inten-
tion to set herself aflame in a
letter to U.N. Secretary General
U Thant.

Her letter read in part: “As a
citizen of the world in full pos-
session of my physical, mental
and spiritual capabilities, I ac-
cuse Lyndon B. Johnson, Presi-
dent of the United States, for
his decision to wipe out whole
countries ...”

To the American people she
wrote: “Your presidents, start-
ing with Truman through John-

But just consider the course
of U.S. action in Vietnam. First
there was the “advisors” stage;
then came the “retaliation”
phase followed by “calculated
escalation” of bombing North
Vietnam in depth; then the use
of poison gas.

Now it is reported that Gen-
eral Taylor is demanding 350,000

troops. What next? Atom
bombs?
So far North Vietnamese

troops have not entered South >

Vietnam to counter-attack US.
bases there. Their restraint is
remarkable. But such restraint
has its limits. And when that
time comes North Vietnam will
not stand alone. For she has
powerful allies in the Soviet
Union and People’s China and

the countries of the whole so-
cialist system.

U.S. President Johnson and his
military advisors are quite
aware of this. But they seem
determined on a collision course
with North Vietnam and her al-
lies.

If a collision comes, Canada
will not escape, for we are
bound to the USA through the
NATO and NORAD military
pacts. We stand in imminent
danger of being dragged into a
terribly destructive war. If for
no other reason. than self-
preservation we are duty-bound
to act now.

By their own constitutions all
unions are committed to pro-
tect the vital interests of their
members. What, may we ask, is

son, have deceived and mis-
guided you through hatred and
fear deliberately whipped up
during the last 20 years. You
have allowed your lawmakers to .-
appropriate endless billions of
dollars for an arsenal of de-
struction unlimited.”

Mrs. Herz was an ardent paci-
fist, convinced of the futility of
war; a member of the Unitarian -
Church, of the Women’s Inter-
national League for Peace and
Freedom, and Women Strike for
Peace.

A widow of a German physi-
cian, she fled her native Ger-
many in 1933 in protest against
Naziism. She lived in France, as
a news correspondent for a
Swiss newspaper, until the Ger-
man army entered Paris.

After several months in de-
tention camps she arrived in
the U.S., settling in Detroit.

‘J cannot speak for my
mother and she has. not been
able to talk to me,” her daugh-
ter told newsmen. “But I know
there was more than just the
remembrance of Jewish perse-
cution, of war and her personal
experiences in her action.

“She is responsive to reality
and completely aware of the
policies of this country. She has
been alarmed since the late
1940’s. She believed we were
drifting into a situation. She
didn’t do it to satisfy her soul,
or as a kind of solace for de-
pression. But as an attempt to
stir action.”

ches

of greater importance to union
members than life itself? Of
what value economic and social
gains if the world should be en-
gulfed in nuclear war?

On Easter weekend members
and supporters of all peace or-
ganizations will march in major
centres across the country for
an end to the war in Vietnam.
The government will note the
size of these marches as an in-
dication of the temper of the
people.

If these marches are joined
by unions and their members in
significant numbers the govern-
ment will sit up and take notice.
The voice of labor can be the
strongest in the land. Labor on
the march for peace can deci-
sively influence our government
to speak the mind of the Cana-
dian people to U.S. President
Johnson. ;

The urgency of the situation
demands that every unionist
make it his business to do
everything possible to make
sure the sound of labor’s march-
ing feet rings out’ strong and
sharp in the Easter marches.

Get your union to march if
you can. Do not fail to march
yourself.

April 15, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7