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Liberals have no A-arms mandate

HALT PEARSON-US.

ARMS DEAL URGED

‘Parliament, not Pearson, supreme’

, Meeting with U.S. President Kennedy at Hyannis Port only a few days before
Parliament opened, the head of Canada’s minority Liberal government, Lester B.
Pearson, agreed to surrender Canada to U.S. pressure to arm its forces with nuclear

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FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1963
VOL. 24, NO. 20

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DON’T LET THEM MAKE
US AN A-BOMB TARGET

NO to nuclear arms!

Barbaric racist acts in
U.S. South condemned

Indignation exploded across -the

United States and around the
World this week over the barbaric
attacks on the Negro people in
Alabama.
_ Following the bombings,. beat-
Ings and mass arrests of Negro
Men, women and children, huge
Protest meetings and demonstra-
tions took place in the main U.S.
Centres demanding the President
act to halt racist brutalities and
Uphold the civil rights of the
Negroes.

Indicative of the mass protests
Was a parade of ten thousand in
Boston to the Statehouse; over

9,000 converged outside Independ- -

ence Hall in Philidelphia; and in
all major cities large delegations
to authorities and meetings of pro-
test demanded Federal action.
a Weekend's reign of terror
ne Ku Klux Klan and other

racist - *
'St_attecks on the Negro com-

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munity, forced President Kennedy
to send Federal troops to two
military bases in Alabama and
to take steps to federalize the
state’s national guard.

In Toronto last week the United
Jewish People’s Order wrote U.S.
Attorney General Robert Ken-
nedy, and Alabama Governor
George C. Wallace, protesting the
egroes and demand-

attacks on N :
ercession on

ing “immediate int
behalf of the Negro people fight-
ing for equal rights in the state of
Alabama.”

The letter, signed by secretary
Sam Lapedes, said ‘‘the use of
high power hoses and the entire
panoply of brutal terror strikes
a_ particular chord in our hearts
for it is painfully reminiscent of
the actions of Hitler’s . gangs
against our people.”

Also last week the Toronto news-

See CONDEMN, ps: 3

‘lear arms,

weapons.

Reacting sharply to the minor-
ity Liberal government’s plans
to force through unpopular legis-
lation, especially the decision on
nuclear weapons, the National
Committee of . the Communist
Party, meeting in Toronto, last
weekend, decided to publish an
important statement as an ad in
newspapers across Canada calling
on the people to block the Liberal
betrayal.

Headed “Pearson Has No Man-
date for Nuclear Arms!’’, and
sub-headed “Parliament — Not
Pearson—Is Supreme,” the state-
ment reads:

Fellow Canadians:

Parliament meets today, in a
fateful session.

It is led by a Liberal minority
government, supported by only
41% of the voters.

The Liberals made an all-out,

lavishiy - financed effort to get
a Parliamentary majority, a
“stable government”. Almost

every newspaper and the radio
and TV backed them.

The Liberals failed!

They failed because a majority
of the voters rejected their nuc-
pro-Americane plat-
form. But Pearson now flouts the
will of the people by rushing off
to Hyannis Port to promise Ken-
nedy that Canada will take U3
nuclear arms.

Back in Ottawa, Pearson says
that he does not believe a nuclear
agreement needs parliamentary
approval.

That is to say having been de-
feated in his aim to control Par-
liament, Pearson wants to by-
pass Parliament, to. rule once

more, as Liberal governments

‘have done so often,, by cabinet

decree and Order-in-Council.

This cannot be allowed.

The majority of M.P.’s — Con-
servative, Social Credit and NDP
—should demand that Parliament
debates nuclear arms — and the
majority of M.P.’s should vote
down the Kennedy-Pearson nuc-
lear policy.

The people’s will must be done
and 59% of them turned down the
Liberals on April 8.

Fellow Canadians!

Parliament is supreme — not
the Pearson cabinet.

Write or wire your M.P. to-
day—saying that the will of the
people must prevail, that the US:
plan for a nuclear Canada must
be turned down.

Peace, and our country’s secur-
ity—yes, the lives of all of us—
will be imperilled if we accept
Kennedy’s nuclear plans.

Let us put Canada first! No
U.S. dictation via the Liberals!

Let the majority of Parliament
stop the minority Liberal govern-
ment from foisting nuclear bombs
on Canada.

—National Committee,
Communist Party of Canada

AT HYANNIS PORT. Last weekend Lester Pearson, head of a min-
ority government, surrendered to U.S. demands on major issues
such as nuclear arms and the Columbia River.

Pearson-Kennedytalks
bring early danger of
Columbia River sellout

“Danger that the Pearson ad-
ministration will proceed with

ratification of the draft Columbia
River treaty without even the
public hearings promised by the
previous government is indicated
in the Kennedy-Pearson commun-

U.S. astronaut L. Gordon
Cooper, who was successfully
launched in orbit Wednesday
morning. The im set for the
space shot is to complete 22
orbits of the earth.

ique from Hyannis Port’, Nigel
Morgan, Provincial leader of the
Communist Party warned this
week.

“The Prime Minister’s_ state-
ment that all that’s needed to
eliminate ‘the last barriers to
ratification of the treaty is cer-
tain clarifications and adjust-
ments as a protocol to the pres-
ent treaty’ shows how far the
sellout has gone,’’ Morgan charg-
ed

‘Liberal promises of so-called
‘renegotiation’ during the election
have been exposed as no more

than a slick campaign gimmick.
“Mr. Pearson’s statement

proves what we have contended
right along that the basic pro-
visions of the draft treaty are to
remain intact — primacy of U.S.

‘storage’ over Canadian ‘genera-

tion’, surrender of Canadian
power and jobs, the go-ahead for
the U.S. Libby development, and
approval of High Arrow flooding.

“Pearson is going to give the
U.S. everything they want if he
can get away. with it’, charged
Morgan.

“The draft Columbia River trea-
ty represents a deliberate and cal-
culated betrayal of our interests’’,
he said. ‘‘In addition to surrender-
ing our rights to river diversion
(which will ‘ccisively influence
not only the amount but the cost
of Canadian generation) Canadian
rights: to control river flow with-
in Canada are being handed over
to a foreign power.

“The draft treaty gives the

See COLUMBIA, pg. 2