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‘Communist Party Appeal:

a, special resolution on,
ec. the national committee.
of the Communist Party at its |
-qmeeting last week called upon,
the Canadian people ‘‘to main-
tain -vigitance- against possibil-|
fties of -acts of. imperialist in:|
“tervention against. Cuba, to}
‘@trengthen the bonds of solid-|
arity and friendship between|
‘eur two countries, and to de-|

velop trade and cultural rela-;
‘ions with our good neighbor |
¥m the Caribbean.” |

The resolution continued.
- “Trade with Cuba is an ac-)
tive issue of great importance|
‘ia Canadian politics. On’ this|
“question, the Diefenbaker gov-!
ernment has wobbled. ~ While;
Ww has not followed the US. |
in breaking off diplomatic re-|
lations, and has received Cu-|
Wan trade delegations, it has)
capitulated to U.S: pressure!
“ey imposing restrictions on)
the range of exports to Cuba,
and by taking no action to|
actively help the development
ef Cuban-Canadian trade.

“The Liberal Party has play-
ed a despicable role as an
@pen opponent of trade with!
Cuba.

“Public action is needed to]
press the federal government!
to take measures to encourage |
the wide expansion of exports
te Cuba which is possible
through the extension of
credit to assist the industrial-
fzation of Cuba and the in-
ereased importation of Cuban
@roducts which in the main
sare not competitive with ours.
Bere is the most conerete way
4n which to develop our fight
for the new trade policies ad-
Wocated: in our policy state-
vanent — ‘Let’s Be Masters in
®ur Dwn House.’

| Strengthen Our Bonds of
Solidarity With Cuba

“There is among Canadians
a wide and- deep interest in
Cuba. The - stirring events

there are a source of inspira:| :

tion ‘and encouragement to all
progressive.
ally-minded. people. -From: the
experience’ of the: Guban peo-+
ple in- standing -up to- U-S.: im-
perialism,. many useful lessons
can be drawn . for our own.
_country.

“We - need to: ieee our, ef-

fort towards. making. it -pos-
| sible for. Canadian workers
and .farmers .to fully under-

stand. and take advantage of
the great assistance which has
come to them as a result of
the democratic Cuban revolu-
tion.”

With. these. objectives in
mind, the national committee
decided on the issuance by the
party at an early date of a
popular pamphlet-on -Cuba.

It called- upon the party to
work in co-operation with oth-
er democratic Canadians . for:

(1) The sending of delega-|-
tions to Cuba from labor and/}-

farm unions, CCF bodies, co-
operatives, cultural and other
organizations.

(2) The development among
businessmen of an understand-
ing of the realistic opportun-
ities for trade with Cuba- and
of the need to press the Cana-
dian government for the full-
est assistance.

(3) The encouragement of
cultural exchanges between
Canadian: and Cuban artists
and intellectuals.

(4) The enpilindaeinest: of
travel. to Cuba for individuals
and for groups, bearing in
ming that such travel is rela-
tively economical and within
the reach of many Canadians.

NPA council

again tries

sale of city’s airport

A five-member city council delegation packed its bags
fer Ottawa this week in still another junket aimed at
«gcuttling civic ownership of the Vancouver Airport.

Headed by Mayor Alsbury,
this ratepayer financed sortie
“has as its objective, working
@ut some sort of a deal with
@ttawa to allow city council
@ut from under its clear ob-
figation to develop the airport
@s a civic project.

A more cynical disregard
for the stated opinions of the
ypeople of Vancouver would be
@ifficult to find. On two occa-
*sions,, the most recent being
‘fest December, the ratepayers
wef Vancouver have rejected
‘proposals to sell the airport

“te Ottawa.

‘Less than two sabnths after

“@he voters spoke council . is
ii. _

again involved in manouvers
aimed at dumping its respon-
sibility with the ratepayers
footing the bill.

Two weeks ago when the
Oriana hove into the Vancou-
ver harbour it occasioned the
remark from its skipper that
“he was greeted by the warm-
est welcome and the worst
docking facilities,’ of. the
maiden voyage of that luxury
liner. 2

The harbour board is a Fed-
eral responsibility and those
who are so anxious to liter-
ally .“give’’ our -.airport. to
Ottawa would do well to con-
sider this. fact.

~

and _ democratic-} :

1,800 at ‘No Arms Race’ Rally

Speakers urge plebiscite
on nuclear arms in Canada:

).... “Fhe -question of nuclear, weapons for our armed.
_|forces must-be put.to: the. people of Canada in the form: of 3

a national referendum. We must - demand such -a “plebis«
tite,” 18007 people were told at a “No Nuclear Arms for),
-¢Canada”’ rally in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouvery
jFebruary. 9.

JOHN B. WITCHELL

PROF. J. G. KAPLAN

CP to meet
in convention

The Annual Convention of
the Greater Vancouver Com-
munist Party will meet Satur-
day, February 25th, and Sun-
day, February 26th, in the

Pender Auditorium, announc- :

ed city secretary Harold Prit-
chett.

The Convention will be pre-
ceded by a. membership meet-
ing Friday night, Feb. 24th,
where -the provincial leader,
Nigel Morgan, will report on
the decisions of the recent Na-
tional Committee meetings in
Toronto. é

Delegates representing 29
party clubs in the Greater
Vancouver area will consider
problems such as growing un-
employment, world peace, the
sell-out of the Columbia Riv-
er ‘and how such sell-outs af-
fect future jobs for citizens
of Vancouver and surrounding
municipalities. -

In addition, important. ques-

‘tions such as assisting labor

to beat back monopoly attacks
and building a broad united
front based on peaee, Canad-
ian independence and neuter
ity.

Speaking on the cee
man Race” John ~-B. Witchell
ripped into the supporters of
the cold ;war ‘and nuclear war
-as “traitors, people guilty of
treason. The real patriots,’ he
said, ‘‘are those who fight for
peace.-It is hard to find words
to describe the~lunacy and
criminality of the ideas «put
forward by those. who justify
the continued production, test-
ing and ultimate use of weap-
ons that can destroy human
civilization.”

Turning. to the American
elections _Witchell said that
while it was heartening to
notice the change in the tone
of Kennedy over the previous

gram of stepped up. arms and
missile spending to which Ken-
nedy has addressed America
will lead inevitably to war if
not -checked. He called for a
rejection of U.S. cold war
policy by Canadians. ‘US.
foreign policy is very nearly
Canadian policy,’ he stated.

The audience roared its ap-
proval when Witchell demand-
ed “either a change of policy
by the Canadian Government,
or a change: in the _ present
Canadian Government.”

“It’s up to the ordinary Can-
adian, you and me. Will Can-
ada accept nuclear weapons,
will we remain a_ sovereign
nation or will we become an-
other star on the American
iflag and be reduced to ashes. !

| “The Arms Race or The Hu-
-net- much.”

President nonetheless the .pro-| ».

—
5

“There is still time for us |
to decide,” ~he concluded, “ul

Also atdeoasind the ieee g
was Prof. J: Gordin Kaplan, >
from the Dalhousie Univers
sity. Mr. Kaplan singled out 2
the. “‘intellectual camp follows —
ers of the American military”
for - particular -- criticism He
sorted: them out into threg
categories: Those who favour
limited tactical atomic wary
those who favour going under
ground to escape ‘the con
sequences (bomb shelters); the
“macawber realists’ who aré
confident that those remaining
after a full scale nuclear -wat™
can reconstruct human cule
ture.”

In .an oblique feferente to
Professor Teller, father of thé |.
first H-bomb and Gordon!
Shrum of the University of
B.C. Kaplan said ‘‘never suffef
fools gladly.” He insisted that
these people were dangerous
and required constant ex
posure. ,

Kaplan confirmed a charg@ ~
by the Pacific Tribune on De@ te,
2, 1960, that atomic waste wad 4,
being dumped in the Paci
Ocean off the coast of B.C |
He stated thatthe UBC was
dumping such waste without &
the permission or knowledge
of the Atomic Energy Commis jy,
sion. They have been subs@ §,
quently instructed to stop thé j,
practise and the waste is noW qo
forwarded to Chalk River form
disposal.

Photo shows three Chinese Danabhatstes Wang Chien-yelt
(left) Chang Pao-chi. (centre) and Chang Tsu-chi

(right) who recently topped the world mark for sour p
cision jumping with delayed opesiity: