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The Conference held on Sun-
day, February 23 at the IWA
Auditorium, called to plan an
anti-Vietnam war demon-
stration for Easter weekend,
finished the day with two
Mobilization Committees and
two projected demonstrations -
one on Easter Saturday and one
on Easter Sunday, The Saturday
demonstration is scheduled to
leave the CNR statign at noon
and converge on the Court House
and the organizers of the Sunday
demonstration plan to march
from Stanley Park to the Court
House.

The Conference, instead of
focussing on the urgent and
tragic fact of the Vietnam war
itself and the necessity to bring
it to an end, became a battle-
ground for warring ideologies
and rival leaderships.

One group, which describes
itself (Ubyssey, February 28,
1969) as ‘‘a more youthful and
militant coalition of forces in-
cluding SFU’s Students for a
Democratic University,’’ takes
as its slogan ‘‘March in
Solidarity with the National Lib-
eration Front Against Im
perialism."’

The othe group, according to
the Vietnam Day Committee
Newsletter, was responding to
the ‘‘appeal of the U.S. anti-war
movement and the Vietnam
Mobilization Committee’’
calling for the setting up of ‘‘the
bodies necessary to organize a
demonstration against the

_Vietnam war."

The slogans are ‘‘Solidarity
with the Anti-War G.I.’s, and the
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Complicity."’ ‘Vietnam for the
Vietnamese.”

At this point it is perhaps
useful to ask: ‘‘What happened
to the Co-ordinating Committee
to End the War in Vietnam which
staged such a successful demon-
stration and conference in
October 1967?’’ The full answer
to that question requires a more
detailed and exhaustive an-
alysis than can be given here, but
it is a fact that the seeds of the
present disunity can be traced to
the events following _ that
weekend.

Despite the stated function of
the Committee as the organizer
of large mass actions for peace
in Vietnam and the under-
standing that it would be called
together when necessary for that
purpose, persistent attempts
were made to build a ‘‘perm-
anent’’ organization against the
war in Vietnam with head-
quarters and staff. This was of
course, doomed to failure since
its disparate composition made
made it totally unsuited for
carrying on the day to day work
of the movement unless it super-
seded the functions of the exist-
ing peace groups.

Thus many organizations
simply opted out, and some
formally withdrew, feeling they

were wasting their time in
fruitless discussion and
oneupmanship.

That this is not just a local
phenomenon is attested to by
such factors as the rival demon-
stration in Toronto last year and
the state of the movement in the
United States. The Guardian, in
its January 4th issue analysis in

. considerable detail the history

of the National Mobilization
Committee to End the War in
Vietnam which ‘‘in October 1967,
brought an estimated 100,000
people to confront the war-
makers’, but in Chicago in mid-
1968 ‘‘managed to call on a bare
12,000 people.”’

The same struggles were
waged there, which evidently

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made impossible the
participation of those who did
not want to take sides in the
ideological and tactical battles,
but felt deeply the need for
united demonstrations against
the war in Vietnam.

The same tendencies were
evident also in the Hemispheric .
Conference last November in
Montreal, where attempts were
made to use the Conference as a
sounding board for various
causes the objective result of
which would only have been
blunting -the focus of the
Conference on ending the war in
Vietnam.

A united movement of all
people whatever their age,
politics or religion is more than
ever vital if the savage war in
Vietnam is to be stopped swiftly,
and ways will have to be found to
achieve it.

Unfortunately, neither of the
two demonstrations set for
Vancouver on April 5th or 6th
offers an opportunity for an
effective united demonstration
of the city’s anti-Vietnam
forces. Many city peace
organizations have withdrawn
from the sponsoring committee
and are not officially taking part
in the demonstrations, but are
leaving it up to their members
and supporters to decide for
themselves whether they wish to
take part. .

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