‘One small explosion for man,

One giant holocaust for mankind

Showing callous contempt for

that “decent respect for the
opinion of mankind” called for
by the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, the United States went
ahead last Thursday with its nu-
clear test in the Aleutians.

The public is now being told
that this was a test to determine
if further tests could be “safely
made.” Given the secrecy with
which the Atomic Energy Com-
:mission conducts its business,

“we are unlikely to easily find
out what the results of this reck-
less experiment were. ;

This time at least there was
no earthquake nor tidal wave.
But this is only the beginning of
the series. Nothing in the way

the Nixon administration has ©

handled the matter gives any
cause whatever for future con-
fidence.

What is certain is that the
fight against the tests will go on.

Protests came from the gov-
ernments of all the nations of
the North Pacific—Canada, the
Soviet Union, Japan. The note
from Canada’s Mitchell Sharp
was so polite and muted as to
arouse anger and _ ridicule
througout our country.
-“Izvestia, organ of the Soviet
‘government, charged that the
test would escalate the arms
race. :

In the last days before the
test, an unprecedented outpour-
ing of national anger surged up
from the people of Canada.

Responding in a matter of
hours to the call of students at
the University of Victoria, Can-

-adians mostly from the univer-
sities blocked border crossings
and airports from sea to sea.

Five thousand students from

the University of British Colum-_

bia and Simon Fraser gathered
at Douglas on the main Van-
couver-Seattle highway. 2,500
more were at Victoria Airport
-for the incoming Seattle flight.
At the ferry dock at Sydney, the
mayor of that Vancouver Island
port commended the students
for their orderly conduct.
Students from Winnipeg and
Brandon blocked Manitoba cros-
sings. 150 from Lakehead Uni-
versity went to the Minnesota
border.
There were 500 students
mostly from Landon’s Univer-
sity of Western Ontario at Sar-
nia, 200 from the University of
Windsor at the crossing be-
_ * tween that city and Detroit. Stu-

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dents from Brock and other
central Ontario — universities
were on guard at Niagara Falls.
The International Peace Bridge
across the St. Lawrence -was

. picketed by young people from

Queen’s at Kingston.

Five busloads went to the
Quebec-New York border from
Montreal.

Students from Fredericton
were at the crossing at Wood-
stock, N.B. In Halifax 250 sang
O Canada as a flight came into
the airport from Boston.

Torontonians demonstrated in
front of the U.S. Consulate. A
good sized contingent came

from York University with a _

letter from their Student Feder-
ation condemning the proposed
test, and supporting the borde
blockage.

The Canadian Peace Congress

which, together with the Viet--

nam Mombilization Committee,
had initiated the demonstration
distributed a statement which
changed that the test is “essen-
tially a preparation for nuclear
war. It is part of the search
for a safe shield behind
which a first strike to destroy
an enemy can be carried out.”

The Toronto police distin-
guished themselves by setting

‘up a closed circuit T.V. to

“watch” the demonstration.
When newspapermen discovered
the secret device red-faced cops
explaining they’ were “just try-
ing to see how it worked.”

They were still suffering from
jitters even the next day, when
with no demonstration going on,
a number of Toronto’s Finest
were observed surrounding the
consulate.

No violence was engendered
by the students. But in several

. places, a few motorists gunned

their cars and tried to smash
through the lines.

The most serious incident
took place at Sarnia when David
Pettinger, 20, from London was
dragged 300 feet by a car driven
by a woman from Port Huron,
Michigan. Police released her
from custody while they stuided
films to decide “what charges,
if any, should be laid” in this
murderous attempt. But four
students in Windsor were haul-
ed in charged with “obstruct-
ing” and “swearing” at police-
men.
~!eBrock, students used: their

imagination to good purpose
when they arrived at the border
to present to U.S. custom of-
ficials a broken globe for trans-
mission to Richard Nixon. The
inscription read: “One small ex-
plosion for man: one giant holo-
caust for mankind.”

The United Fishermen and
Allied Workers Union acting on
behalf of its 8,000 members
wired Prime Minister Trudeau
and the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission warning that leak-
ing radiation could serious con-
taminate or destroy the fish in
the Pacific.

1970 ‘Battle of Giants’

By WILLIAM ALLAN

The 1970 battle of the giants
in the auto industry is unfolding
as the United Auto Workers
with 1.6 million members calls
a convention Nov. 8-9 in Detroit
to map out demands for negoti-
ations with General Motors,
Ford, Chrysler and American
Motors. In ’70 there will be also
negotiated contracts for 125,000
Farm Equipment workers and
half a million workers in parts
and supplier shops, foundries
and aircraft.

The convention will map out
increases in the strike benefit
amounts, which at present is fi-
nanced by a contribution of 30
percent of each member’s month-
ly. dues. The total resources of
the UAW’s strike fund are $89,-
096,980.20. This is the largest of

any union in the American or-

Canadian labor movement. The
Teamsters have no strike fund.

Current strike payments are
$20 a week to UAW members
who are single, married mem-
bers receive $25 weekly and
those with children receive $30
weekly. There has been long time
dissatisfaction with the small-
ness of the strike payments and
this convention will discuss in-
creasing them.

Biggest discussion however, at
the convention of nearly 3,000
delegates will be what the U.S.
and Canadian members want in
1970 negotiations.

Some ideas of what the UAW

rank and file are talking about
was revealed by a poll on con-

te ee ee

A conference of non-profit
organizations is to be held in
Ottawa Nov. 12-13 in a bid to
persuade Parliament to reduce
postal rate increases that are
hitting their periodicals.

Conference plans were an-
nounced Oct. 1 by the Commit-
tee for Fair Postal Rates, form-
ed by 14 sponsoring national
organizations:

“We intend to appeal to hun-
dreds of non-profit organizations
to send delegates to Ottawa and
make their voices heard,” said
William Dodge, of Ottawa,
chairman of the committee and
secretary-treasurer of the Cana-
dian Labor Congress, one of the
sponsoring bodies.

“The postal rate increases are
effectively stifling free commu-
nication in a democratic society
by pricing the periodicals of
non-profit organizations out of
the market.

“To right this situation, our
objective is either an amend-
ment to the Post Office Act
granting second-class mailing
privileges to the periodicals of
non-profit organizations, or
changes in the postal regulations
so that the Postmaster-General
will use his discretionary power
under Section 12 of the act to
grant ‘second-class mailing privi-
leges to the periodicals of non-
profit organizations.”

tract demands conducted by
Grady Glenn, chairman of the
Ford Local 600 Frame Building
among sections of his members.

The poll revealed: pension to
be increased and age lowered, a
large wage increase, restore the
cost of living to the old formula
(no 8c annual cap on how much
they can get), better promotional
system into skilled classifica-
tions. These were followed by
cutback in production standards,
increased relief time, improve
general working conditions and
an end to compulsory overtime.

With over $1.5 billion in the
pension funds, controlled by the
companies under contract to
UAW, it’s expected that UAW
negotiators will make a major
thrust to raise pension amounts,
lower the age to 60 and below,
and add a cost of living escala-
tor. The courts recently ruled
that unions could negotiate eco-
nomic questions for their retired
members.

A sore point in the auto work-
ers’ struggles is constant esca-
lating cost of living, caused by
the war economy.

In Detroit, where the UAW
has 235,000 dues-paying mem-
bers and close to half a million
in Michigan, prices have risen at
a faster rate than the national
average. A recent U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics report show-
ed Detroit costs were up 6.6
percent in August over those of
August 1968. The national aver-
age price rise was 5.6 percent.
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Mr. Dodge said invitatl
had gone out to professio#
church, welfare, labor and OWN
non-profit organizations. P

He also said conference <
ticipants will call on member
of Parliament to inform nena
the implications of the PO”
rate increases. :

The other sponsoring orga
zations are: a

Boy Scouts of Canada, ae,
dian Association of Social Wor
ers, Canadian Council on Pe:
& Regional Research, Canadl fi
Federation of Agriculture, Can
dian Federation of Busin
Professional Women’s c¢ cat
Canadian Home Economics id |
sociation, Canadian Indust
Editors’ Association, Cana
Teachers’ Federation, Cana.
Welfare Council, Chemical In AS.
tute of Canada, Consumers
sociation of Canada, C0-0PY
tive Union of Canada, inci
Eskimo Association of Can@®”

The amendments exclu |
from second-class mailing a:
leges about 3,000 periodic 2 s)
fraternal, trade, profession® a
sociations and trade um!
credit unions, co-operatives f z
local church organizations: I)
some the monthly post@
jumped three thousand per i
Many have ceased or redU 5

publication.

d
ee

: : 105
leaders at the bargaining an

agreed to an 8-cents annuU ead
on cost of living raises, 1 oyt
of what would have beet 2°59
17 cents an hour, withou a8
cap. The rank and file demam op
that the. negotiators this
blow the cap off, or increas®
8-cents to much more a ye"
The auto negotiations
open early in ’70 and will
a big effect on the negotla™
of over a million teamster® tio?
a couple of million construe ew
workers, all in negotiating ~~
contracts at the same in
Fight back by the monOP? |;
in all three major industries
be rugged. The auto. barons ™
a cheap, quick settlement |
conditions in the shops l@t
is, especially on production ©,
dards, health and safety.”
will lockout to get it. The Be
sters are facing an empleo!
organized dual union oper
seeking a massive split, aid@
government harassment 9
union. The construction ©.
face lockouts as builders pay
huge “strike” funds and Pf?
tion for scabs by new antl! ip
laws being readied by y :
friend in the U.S. Senate, R
Griffin. f
But auto will be the target
the monopolists. It’s a $4
lion-a-year business, employ
1.5 million people with an ane it
payroll of $12 billion. The * jg
trusts have made $18 billio®
profits in the last 8 years
they don’t intend to giv
away.

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