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VOL. 19, NO. 14 VANCOUVER, B.C.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1960

Canada votes for West
German bases in Spain

Last Friday’s decision of the NATO defence ministers
in Paris, allowing West Germany to establish military
bases on foreign soil, will be protested at a mass meeting
in Vancouver, Sunday, April 10 at 8 p.m. at Pender
Auditorium. ae

The Canadian government
put its stamp of approval on
German bases by sending De-
fence Minister George Pearkes
to the Paris meeting, where he
voted with the others to allow
German military forces to ex-
Ppand outside German territory.

Tom McEwen, editor of the
Pacific Tribune will be feature
Speaker at the meeting which

is expected to roundly — con-
demn Canada’s stand in sup-
Port of German bases.

NATO  chief-of-staff, U.S.
General Norstad, who favors
West German military and
“supply” bases abroad, was as-
Signed the job of interviewing
a number of government on
the issue. -

COUNCIL WRITES OTTAWA ON JOBS

‘Vancouver city council on March 29 decided to send a
communication to Minister of Labor Starr expressing concern
over the unemployment situation. It asks the Federal govern-
ment to advise the council of any public projects that could
be implemented. - ge ge

The action arose from a delegation of the Unemployed
Workers Action Committee, which stressed the seriousness of

DEFENCE MINISTER
PEARKES

... he went to Paris last
week to vote for German
bases .«- .

applause.

Introducing the resolu-
tion Council secretary Paddy
Neale denounced the police
attacks on workers “with
whip- and club” to force
them back to work. Many
delegates joined in con-
demning the South African
government’s racist policies.

Earlier in the week the VLC
joined with the B.C. Federa-
tion of Labor in a wire to the
CLC national office which
urged the strongest possible
protest, and asked that “the

CLC insist that the govern-
ment of Canada go on record

1 gn condemnation of -the. mas-

sacre of South African natives
by the government of that
country.” | Bs; a2

Meanwhile, students at the
UBC expressed ‘their indigna-
tion- by sponsoring a petition
by 15 student organizations
which has already been signed
by 1000 students. The petition
reads:

“We, the undersigned stu-
dents of UBC are deeply
shocked by the mass killings
and suppression of democratic
rights by the government of
South Africa. We urge the
Canadian government to regis-
ter the strongest possible pro-
test against further violence.”

Letters have been sent by

university campuses asking
them to take part in the peti-
tion.

Action on jobless
demanded by VLC

Charging that 14 percent
of the labor force in B.C. is
out of work, Vancouver
Labor Council Tuesday
night demanded a special
meeting May 2 with Labor
Minister Starr in Ottawa to
discuss the serious jobless
crisis on the Pacific Coast.
It was announced that all
B.C. labor councils and B.C.
Federation of Labor will be
asked to take part in the meet-

ing which will follow the CLC
convention meeting in Mont-

the problem and asked Council to press for immediate action
on a public works and housing program. :

real the end of April.

UBC students to five other

A world-wide boycott of South Africa was urged by Vancouver
Labor Council Tuesday night in a special resolution introduced by
the executive. The resolution was passed unanimously amid loud

Natural gas exports to
US. hit as betrayal

“The Diefenbaker government’s decision to permit
export of 6.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to the U.S.
constitutes one of the most shameful betrayals of Can-
ada’s national interest in our history,” Nigel Morgan, B.C.
leader of the Communist Party, declared in a statement to
the Pacific Tribune this week.

“The Diefenbaker govern-
ment has reversed the position
it took in the Trans-Canada
pipeline debate when it con-
demned its Liberal. predeces-
sors for their surrender of our
vital interests,”’. Morgan said.
“They have capitulated to the
Frank McMahon - Tulsa Okla-
homa’ gas trust who stand to
make a. fabulous fortune out
of the Federal Energy Board’s
decision. Its a deal for which
they will never be forgiven
when the real effects of con-
tracting for the export of 565
million cubic feet per day of
additional gas for the next 25
years becomes felt.

Diefenbaker’s policy of sur-
rendering Canadian interests
to the U.S. has got to be stop-
ped,’ Morgan concluded.

- » « makes killing ...

The fiery cross of the hooded KKK is again burning
throughout the southern U.S. as “white supremacists”
threaten violence against Negroes who are fighting for
an end to segregation and discrimination. The U.S.
Communist Party in a special telegram to President
Eisenhower has demanded federal intervention to uphold
the Constitution.

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