No nuclear arms, say 1000
at Vancouver May Day Rally

An. enthusiastic May ay
meeting of over 1,000 heart-
ily endorsed a resolution ex-
pressing “unqualified opposi-
tion to nuclear arms for Canh-
ada” and calling upon Prime
Minister Pearson ‘to allow
this question to be fully aired
and debated in parliament be-
fore any decision is made.”

The rally, sponsored by the
Vancouver Trade Union May
Day Committee, was held on
May 1 at the Pender Auditor-
ium in the city, and was ad-
dressed by Bert Herridge,
NDP MP for Kootenay West,
Cedric Cox, NDP MLA for
Burnaby, and Homer Stevens,
Secretary-Treasurer of the
UFAWU.

In stating his aoposiiens to
nuclear arms, Herridge also
pointed out that the battle
for civil rights must not be
allowed to slip.

“Students from four univer-
versities came to my office in
Ottawa recently,” he said.
“They informed me that the

RCMP had asked them to,

join the NDP and Ban The
Bomb clubs and to supply the
RCMP with membership
lists,’ he revealed, in making
a plea for all Canadians to
stand firm for their civil
rights “and the maintenance
of our freedoms.”

Cox told the audience that
he looks forward to the day
“when we can invite Premier
Khrushchev, the Prime Min-
ister of Britain and Premier
Castro to speak in Vancouver
on May Day,” and added that
“the trade union movement

must accept the responsibil-
ity to activate the workers to
celebrate May Day as Interna-
tional Labor Day.”

Stevens, speaking primarily
on the North Pacific Salmon
Fisheries Treaty, stated that
his union has consistently ad-
vocated “a new treaty to
which the Soviet Union (now
excluded) would be a party—
but the U.S. government is
opposed. He charged that the
U.S. says “if necessary, our
fishing industry is expend-
able, because ‘we must keep
Japan in our orbit’.”

In addition to the nuclear
arms question, the meeting
adopted the following reso-
lutions:

@ Called on the senior gov-
ernment to institute a program
of Canadian development of
secondary industries and the
repatriation of all nautral re-
sources under foregin control;

e@ Recommended that the
CLC launch a_ nation-wide
campaign to institute the
shorter work week;

@ Demanded the re-nego-
tiation of the Columbia River
treaty, with General Mc-
Naughton being re-appointed
head of the Canadian negoti-
ating team;

@ Called for the signing of
a 4nation salmon fisher‘:s
treaty and th. establishment
of a 12-mile limit by Canada;

e@ Extended ‘warm, frater~
nal greetings” to David West
and Joseph Hendsbee, incar-
cerated at Oakalla Prison be-
cause of their trade union ac-
tivities.

Brutal attacks on U.S.
Negroes rouses protests

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he would go to join the demon-
strators.

The Negro press in the U.S.
has sharply criticized the U-S.
government for its policies. The
influential Baltimore Afro-Ameri-
ean said last week:

“The United States can find
ways to protect South Koreans
from North Koreans. It dispatched
warships to guarantee the safety
of Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa;
It can prosecute a shooting war
in Vietnam; It can send millions
of dollars worth of arms to
help the Indians defend them-
selves against the Chinese; It Can
provide a haven and _ financial
support for thousands of refugees
from Castro’s Cuba.

“But it is completely helpless
to safeguard the constitutional
rights of its own citizens from
heavy-handed police oppression of
an embittered segregationist in
Birmingham.

“At least that is what we are
told by spokesmen for the U.S.
Justice Department. Frankly, we
don’t believe it.”

WIRE KENNEDY

Last weekend a group of 54
film stars, union leaders and oth-
ers telegraphed President Ken-
nedy deploring what they term
his “indifference” to racial dis-
turbances in Birmingham.

The telegraam was signed by
Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte,
Van Heflin, Lena Horne, Fredric
March, Paul Newman, Sidney
Poitier, Anthony Quinn, Robert
Ryan, Shelley Winters and Joanne
Woodward from show business.

Other signatories were James
Baldwin, the author, Rev. Harry
Fosdick of New York’s Riverside
Church, and Michael Quill and
Phillip Randolph, union leaders.

The telegram urged the Presi-
dent: ‘‘Put aside your indiffer-
ence and all political considera-
tion, and respond with effective
positive actions to the needs of
the Negro citizenry of Birming-
ham, Alabama, and throughout
the land.

“How sadly we view the total
moral collapse of your response
to the pleas of millions of Amer-

icans"

PEACE RALLY
HEAR
DR. JAMES ENDICOTT
Speak On

“NO NUCLEAR ARMS FOR CANADA’

Pender Auditorium-339 W. Pend
Thursday—May ! 6th—8 p.m.

Everyone Welcome

nag Ausp: B.C. Peace Council

B.C. trade unionists off to Cuba

B. cc trade union delegates are now at Van-
couver International Airport last Friday just be-
fore takeoff for Cuba via Mexico. From left to
right: Elmer McEachern, UFAWU; Richard Gor-
den, Oil, Chemical, Atomic Workers Union;
Eileen McEachern, Women’s Aux. UFAWU;

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Peter and Ann Swaykoski, tourist; Gladys Bjar-

nason and husband, Emil; director of Trade
Union Research Bureau; Murphy Stanley, UF-
AWU. On the same plane bound for Cuba was
Sun columnist Jack Scott, Bill Stewart, Marine
Workers Union, left Tuesday to join the dele-
gation.

—Fisherman photo

URGE —M ACT TO STOP PROFITEERING

W omen protest sharp
rise in sugar prices

Prompted by rising public
indignation at the rapid in-
crease in the price of sugar,
and the fact that monopoly
control and market specula-
tion appear to be responsible
for the spiraling mark-up of
prices to the consumer, the
Women’s Commission of the
B.C. Communist Party this
week wrote Prime Minister
Pearson and leaders of the
other three parties.

“The phenomenal rise in
the pricé of sugar to the con-
sumer from 7.03 cents to 15.04
cents per pound retail during
the period January 1962 to
April 30, 1963, with as yet no
indication in view of a halt
in this price spiral, raises
doubt as to the authenticity
of these rapid price rises,”
says the letter.

Pointing out that sugar in
the U.S. retailing at the much

U.S. admits meddling

Charges of calculated interference by the U.S. in the
recent election were confirmed recently in a column by U.S.
syndicated columnist Richard Starnes.

Calling U.S. meddling “adroit statecraft” Starnes says:
“the American State Department brought down the bumb-
ling, crypto-anti- Yankee government of Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker and replaced it witha regime which
promises to be faithful to the concept of Canadian-American

interdependence.

“American intervention was coldly calculated to do
precisely what it did, and it was a brilliant success.”

A recent demonstration for freedom in a Johannesburg park
in South Africa.

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lower price of 11.01 cents, the
letter charges “that specula-
tion on the Canadian sugar
market is being carried on at
the expense of Canadian fam-
ilies.

“Increases in the price of
sugar, with present consump-
tion in Canada of from 95 to
100 pounds per capita, means
an extra yearly cost to the
consumer of $6.00 per year,
or $22.80 for a family of four,
to the period ending April 30,
1963, and prices are still ris-
ing,” says the letter.

The letter urges the gov-
ernment “to investigate spec-

ulation on the Canadian sugar
market, and further, to act to

stabilize the price of this vital
commodity at a fair price, in
line with sugar prices compar-
able to those of January,
1962.”

Confirming the charges
made in the letter from the
Communist Party’s Women’s
Commission, was a statement
in the Financial Post of Jan-

uary 23, 1963. The Post article .

said, “the recent sharp rise
in world sugar futures has
been a boom to the specul-
lators who bought them.”
The Post article indicates
that higher prices are being
paid for sugar and stored
some time ago. Profiteers

have been waiting to specu-.

late on new high prices, and
not on the eurrent year’s crop.

The Women’s Commission
of the Communist Party, in a
statement accompanying the
letter, says that housewives
and small bakeries are faced
with the prospect of even
higher mark-ups with the can-
ning and preserving season at
hand.

It urges women to write
their MP’s and the Prime Min-
ister, urging that the govern-
ment act to stop these profit-
eering practises by food mon-
opolies at the expense of Can-
adian families. Parliament
convenes April 16 and no pos-
tage will be necessary.

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