Witch- -hunt hits Britain

LONDON — A “contemp-
tible McCarthyite attack”
was the way in which the
Communist Party of Britain
termed the recommendations
of the Radcliffe committee,
published and accepted re-
cently by the Tory Macmillan
government.

The Radcliffe committee’s
recommendations instruct
heads of civil service depart-
ments not to negotiate where
they consider ‘“‘security”’ ques-
tions arise, with union offici-
als “whom they have reason
to believe are Communists.”

While the report admits
that it is not the policy of the

Communist Party to encour-:

age in any way its members

‘to undertake espionage.

In a statement the Com-
munist Party said the Rad-
cliffe recommendations are
directed against ‘‘all civil ser-
vants who hold progressive
opinions. Their aim is to
initiate a new witch-hunt in
the civil service.’’ The state-
ment called on the British
people to repudiate the Rad-
cliffe recommendations.

U.S..clergy oppose H-arms

More than 500 American
ministers and lay church
leaders have disassociated

. which
- seven religious groups affili-

themselves from President
Kennedy’s recent threat to
use the H-bomb and called
on the government to cease
testing and producing nuclear
weapons.

“As Christians we affirm
that we cannot under any
circumstances sanction the
use of nuclear and other
mass-destruction weapons, nor
can we sanction using the
threat of massive retaliation
by these weapons for so-call-
ed deterences,”’ said their
statement.

They called .on the Chris-
tian Church to warn the
American people that it was
un-Christian to seek the “ex-
termination of Communists.”

Their statement was issued
by the Church Peace Mission,
includes more than

ated to it.

SS in U.S.A..

Discrimination against
Jews has become “virtually
a built-in part of American
living.”

Adenauer-

Diem Axis

West Germany will be ask-
ed to give military aid to
Premier Ngo Dinh-Diem, dic-
tator of South Vietnam, the
West German newspaper “Die
Welt” reported recently. The
newspaper quoted U.S. Sena-
tor Allen Ellender, Democrat,
as source for the report.

That is the charge made
by the Anti-Defamation
League of the B’nai B’rith in
the United States after a
series of surveys it has made
in the past five years of anti-
Jewish bias in that country.

The league stated that U.S.
Jews were confronted with
the contradiction that al-
though they have unpreced-
ented security, this bias
against them has become
practically institutionalized.
The league’s findings are to
be published in a book this
month called ‘Some of My
Best Friends.”

FIGHT CITIZENSHIP

DISCRIMINATIO

A fight against citizenship discrimination by the federal government is a major aim of th
formed Canadian Council of National Groups. Photo shows the council’s executive at its first meeting
from left to right; W. Grbich, G. Okulewich, J. Boychuk, A. Nozinich, M. Sago, J. Gershmann, E

and M. Lucas.

PEACE, SECURITY, EMPLOYMEN
HIGHLIGHT MAY DAY SLOGANS

“Peace!” “Job Security!”
“Kmployment!” ... these
are the slogans that have
been adopted by the Van-

‘couver May Day Commit-

tee, in preparing for what
promises to be a particular-
ly colorful May Day parade
and rally on Sunday, April
29.

In a prepared statement re-
cently released, the commit-
tee said:

“War preparations in 1962
cost every Canadian $100 a
year. Labor bears the brunt
of this gouge for nuclear war.
The Geneva Disarmament
Conference has spurned the
people’s desire for peace as
nuclear tests continue. The
voice of labor must ring out
clear and strong to free Can-
ada from a nuclear holocaust;
for Canada’s withdrawal from
NATO; a firm peace through
total world disarmament. The
figure of labor lies in a world
at peace.

“Automation adds more
workers to the ranks of the
jobless. The monopolies’ pro-
fits swell to record levels. In
lumber, McMillan-Bloedel an-
nounce a $2 million profit
hike soaring to $27 million net
profit for 1961. Lumber, min-

ing, oil, to name a few corp-
orations, have never had it so
good. — ;

“Labor’s struggles for high-
er wages and job security are
entering a new stage. The
fight for the shorter work-
week will be won as surely as
labor was successful in win-
ning the 8-hour day. -

“Labor condemns the at-
tempts to divide it by union
raiding. It will rebuff its ene-
mies by fighting to organize
the unorganized; for higher
wages and the shorter work-
week.: Labor is girding itself
against monopoly’s attack
around policies that will build
a united trade union move-,
ment:

“Canada’s jobless grow in
numbers. New markets of
Asia, Africa and the Socialist
world can provide new jobs
for Canadian workers just as
the boom in grain sales to
China have benefitted B.C.

_and the prairie farmer.

“Labor must speak out to
save the Columbia and Peace
Rivers and other hydro re-
sources for Canada. Our pow-

er resources, publicly-owned, °

must be developed as an all-
Canadian east-west power
grid to provide cheap, abun-
dant power for industrial ex-
pansion to provide new jobs.”

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RLECTION

The rally will be hel
Exhibition Park at 2:00
and will be addressed, 2”
others, by Harvey Mu
vice-president of Mine -

Featured speaker wil
UE president C. S. Jae
who attended the WFTU
gress held last Decem?*
Moscow. Jackson, an in!
tionally known trade ©
leader, was the only
trade unionist from
America to attend the
cow congress, and he
pected to deal with so™
the highlights of that ‘
ering which represente?
million trade unionists
around the world.

A concert program ~
ing the popular folk 5!
group “The Milestones
also entertain the rally

SIR BERNARD LO

U.S. space
program milital
says Lovell

Famed British scien
Bernard Lovell, dire

‘the radio astronomy

tories at Jodrell Bank.

~ land, told a Los Angeles

conference last week t
Americans, not the &
are the ones whose spac
grams have military

> tones.

He told the reporte
“America has space Pr?
obviously of military 5”
cance,’ The Russians, bee
ed, are motivated onlY _
basic desire to unde
and control the human
onment.

April 19, 1962—P ACIFIC TRIBUNE