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VOL. 19, NO. 1

Phone MUtual 5-5288

Authorized as second class mail by
the Post Ottice Department, Ottawa.

10°

VANCOUVER, B.C.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1960

Khrushchev forecasts
new Soviet arms cut

mMoscow—Even if its disarmament proposals are

not accepte

d the Soviet Union—which has already cut its

armed forces by over two million—may nevertheless go it
alone with further cuts, Premier Khrushchev forecast
While proposing a toast to the armed forces at the tradi-
tional New Year party in the George Hall of the Kremlin.

Khrushchev declared that
the USSR should not allow it-
self to be dragged into the
labyrinth of the arms race. It
should consider the question
of unilateral reduction of its
armed forces, relying on rock-

ets for defence.
In toasting ambassadors

from other countries, Khrush-

chev said that ‘‘today, whether
you want it or not, all roads
lead to Communism.” Then,
with a broad smile, he con-
tinued: “We will wait until
you take your grandchildren
on your knee to tell them how
once upon a time you did not
understand Communism.”

sae eS

Four million Japanese people from all walks of life took
part in united demonstrations throughout Japan recently
against the revision of the Japan-U.S. “security treaty.”
The Japanese people seek peace and trade with their neigh-
bors in the Far East, and are opposing adventurist mili-
tarist policies at home and abroad. :

COUNCIL

investigate the current

STS
VAL

Vancouver Labor Council this week unanimously endorsed a
Marine Workers resolution condemning the resurgence of anti-
Semitism in West Germany and calling on the United Nations to

nazi hate campaign which is spreading

rapidly.

Delegate Adolph Pothorn |
(Marine Workers) got a big
hand when he denounced
this rebirth of nazism and
traced its development and
growth in West Germany.
He charged that Hans Gott-
lieb, one of Chancellor Aden-
auer’s cabinet ministers, is
“the same man who drafted
Hitler’s infamous anti-
Semitic laws.”

(The swastika hate cam-
paign, which has spread into
a dozen capitalist countries
since its flare-up in West Ger-
many — see story on page 3—
reached Canada this week. In
Montreal swastikas were
smeared on downtown build-
ings. In Toronto a swastika
and the German words “Juden
raus’” meaning ‘Jews get out’
were carved into a wall sculp-
ture in the Royal Ontario
Museum. In Vancouver Abe
Arnold, editor of the Jewish
Western Bulletin, was told by
an anonymous phone caller,
“We are going to make soap
out of you.’’)

Ne cipk Sa te

VLC delegates also voted to
ask the Canadian Labor Con-
gress to protest further nuc-
lear weapon testing.

* % *

First nominations for VLC
posts were made Tuesday
night.

Ed Sims (Brewery Workers)
was nominated to run against
incumbent Lloyd Whalen for’
the presidency.

Secretary-treasurer A.. E.
Jamieson is retiring this year,
and E. P. (Paddy) Neale is the
only nominee to date to fill
that position.

Dave Chapman was nomin-
ated for first vice-president;
Mel Kemmis and George
Johnston for second vice-presi-
dent; Orville Braaten and Bud
Hodgins for third vice-presi-
dent.

Nominations for committee
chairmen; organization, Wy-
man Trineer; legislative, Jack
Henderson; public relations,
Al Coleman and Sam Jenkins;
grievance; Bob Buchanan,
Jerry LeBourdais, Syd Thomp-
son; education, Doug Gibson,
John Hayward, Bill Arland;
credentials, Al Barnes and

Alan Abercrombie,

‘YEAR OF DECISION’

NIGEL MORGAN

“In extending greetings for the New Year on
behalf of the: provincial committee of the Communist
Party of Canada, I appeal to all Pacific Tribune readers
to join in helping to make 1960 truly a year of decision
on the road to a warless world, people’s welfare and a
socialist future for Canada,” said Nigel Morgan, CPC
provincial leader, in a statement issued this week.

Text of Morgan’s message reads:

Great changes are in the making as the New Year
dawns. The struggle for peace, economic welfare and
socialism advanced spectacularly in 1959. The possibil-
ities for decisive victories for peaceful co-existence and
world disarmament, and for the channelling of vast
resources presently squandered on armaments for the
welfare of humanity constitute the immediate challenge.

. The aim of labor and progressive forces in British
Columbia should be to play their full part in achieving
this age-old dream of mankind.

Premier Bennett’s Christmas greeting reflects the
year of decision aliead for British Columbians, particu-
larly the fact that 1960 may be an election year and the
forthcoming budget of the B.C. legislature will be sugar-

Continued on Back Page
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