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quads in the July 23 issue
Ocialist Veteran Tells of
Beles of Past Years” and I
38 Certainly impressed by it as
Ba known Julius Stelp for
aa Many years and I could
, -olsiderably to this article.
s he matter of fact I was also
a founding meeting of the
the a Party of Canada held in
stil een Hall in 1921 and I
adm; ave the receipt of my
‘ssion to the party signed by
ve Kavanagh (who died in
. Talia some years ago). It is
ould yee 23, 1921, so I
Bin, ike to send Centennial
Mary; gS to all members of our
Comm cee ninist Party, the
aero Unist Party of Canada, all
8s this land of ours.

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and cok “Builders of B.C.”
man page 150 the names of
Methioned est leaders are
DOW de ed, many of whom are
emg Bill also stated:
names are many more whose

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ination it would mean discrim-
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Valuable net tbutions are just as
€ to the labor movement

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learn rkers of Canada cannot
strupples much about the great
109 a that went on in the past
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Comey 1 memory to our fallen
Canada to build a socialist

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Wayne Huff, Victoria, B.C.
writes: The issue of July 16 is
really a masterpiece, especially
the article about the fascists of
Czechoslovakia where the guilty
birds left in a hurry to get to
Canada and the USA in order to
save themselves.

It will be a pleasure getting
these copies into the hands of
political science teachers down
in the USA where I came from so
that I do not have to breathe the
same air as Nixon and his host of
murderers breathe. . .

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Gerry Delaney, Campbell
River, writes; I was very-glad to
read of the overwhelming
success of the press drive and to
see the pictures of those-inspir-
ing propagandists, the bonus
press workers. Long may they
reign!

I am sending a revised version
of this poem of mine published
first in the People’s Advocate of
1936. With best regards to you
and the staff and the wrappers

Propaganda
Propaganda!
What a word!
It’s music
It strikes a cord
In the hearts of those
who want a better world.
Propaganda!
So the jobless can have a job!
Propaganda!
So the homeless can have a
home!
Propaganda!
So the oppressed can be freed!
Propaganda!
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No More Hiroshimas was the theme of the vigil on August 6 in the courthouse square in memory of the first
atomic blast which took thousands of lives and loosed a new horror in the world. At times passersby joined

the group above to protest atomic blasts anywhere in the world.

No more Hiroshimas

By DOROTHY MORRISON

On Friday, August 6, people all
over the world remembered
August 6, 1945 when the first
mushroom cloud cast its ghastly
pall over a city and the world.

The anniversary of the de-
struction of Hiroshima was
formally commemorated in Van-
couver by a number of people
who met on the court house plaza
and stood in a quiet circle around
a flaming torch supported on a
black pole. Facing the street a
simple white cloth banner gave
the message ‘No More
Hiroshimas.”’

The vigil, organized by the
Peace Action League lasted
from four in the afternoon to ten
at night. People came in from
the street to see the pictures of
Hiroshima victims, displayed on
a folding screen.

A young man from Japan
assisted in giving out leaflets
explaining why Hiroshima must
be remembered. (When the
bomb fell on Nagasaki he was
seven years old. He was near
enough to Nagasaki to hear the
blast and see the strange red
light that filled the sky.)

A young Japanese research
physicist sat quietly on the steps

near the fountain watching and
listening to the Japanese music
which was a constant reminder
of the meaning of the ceremony.

A mother with her two boys

“came and a number of grand-

parents. There were school
teachers, a social worker, and a
young father and mother with
their first child, a baby girl, ina
marsupial bag.

Up to thirty people at a time
took part in the vigil which
became more impressive as
time went on. As darkness came
the street seemed to be shut out,
while the lights from nearby
buildings threw trees and people
into silhouette.

The fountain gushed. and
subsided, the water, colored by
lights, slipping glassily over the
impressionistic figures of the
big rock sculpture. Those who
kept the vigil had time to feel the
contrast between the present
beauty and the past horror; time
to understand the feelings of the
various people who came to
participate or to watch; time to
pledge to work for peace.

To quote the leaflet which was
distributed near the entrances

to the plaza: “To commemorate
the tragedy of Hiroshima is
meaningless if the holocaust of
Indochina is ignored. Just as

Hiroshima was used as a testing

ground for the first nuclear
bomb, so today, the countries of
Indochina are serving as guinea
pigs for ever more terrifying
American weapons of total
destruction.”

The leaflet urged all Cana-
dians to protest further shipment
of military merchandise to the
U.S. for use in South East Asia.
“We must write to our M.P.'s
and to our Prime Minister urging
an international ban on the
manufacture and use of these
monstrous weapons.”

A leaflet giving information
about the ‘planned Amchitka
blast was also distributed.
Letters to Prime Minister
Trudeau, to M.P.’s, to M.L.A.’s.
and President Nixon are needed
to stop the blast.

The lesson of Hiroshima is
clear. Now is a time to turn a
deaf ear to those who tell us that
ordinary people can do nothing
or that it is too late. Now is a
time to act for peace.

Tenants fed-up

The Burnaby Tenants As-
sociation have found through a
survey taken this summer of
some 1,414 tenants, that 59
percent of them believe they
should have the right to bargain
collectively with a landlord.

The consensus seemed to be
that they felt they were second-
class citizens so far as munl-
cipal, provincial and federal
governments are concerned.
Although they pay taxes through
their rent, they are not allowed
to vote on money by-laws, there
has been no real effort to get
themrenrolled on voter’s lists (78
percent had never been on the
municipal voter’s list); that
there is too much freedom for
the landlord and not enough for
the tenants under present laws,
ie, landlords can evict tenants
without giving reasons, etc.

The BTA urges all tenants to
register now for the December
municipal _ elections. Ed
Rottaire, a member of the execu-
tive said a concerted effort must

be made to elect a democratic.

council that will be concerned
enough about tenants to act,
rather than just talk, about their

problems.

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