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|| LPP RECOMMENDATIONS

leader, this week.

i “The interests of this coun-
| hy, of its workers, farmers and
‘mall business people demand
: 4 change,” said Morgan.

} “Next Monday the people
|™ill have an opportunity,
| Which may not come again for
{Nother five years, to elect
a 2 MPs from this province who
2 Will fight to protect the peo-
Th se against the greed of a

pndiul of monopolists who
| Wn and, through the St. Laur-

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‘Union membership reject a
| hciliation majority report
7; 8tng a four-month “truce”
; wane contract dispute and
i ae district president Joe
lt tris has labelled it “a trap
F Sy eal away our rights to

ike at a time when we can
Nike with chances of success.”

aes

M4 thi he majority report, brain-
vd of conciliation board

“airman G. Wismer, was de-
WNced in scathing terms by
igncouver Labor Council pres-
thy S Lloyd Whalen at Tues-
» Night’s council meeting.
embers in my IWA local
Ve not been Wismer-ized or
led one bit,” said Whalen.

People's interests
idemanding change

An appeal to voters to make next Monday’s fed-
*ral election a day of reckoning with the Liberal govern-
Ment and all those who support its anti-national, pro-U.S.
} Policies was made by Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial

ent government, control the
country.”

Morgan appealed for sup-
port for the two Labor-Pro-
gressive candidates, Maurice
Rush, LPP Vancouver secre-
tary, in Vancouver Centre, and
Tom McEwen, veteran labor
editor, in Vancouver South.

The LPP; he said, was also
“recommending to electors in

Continued on back page
SEE RECOMMENDATIONS

WA rejects ‘trap’
eadies strike action

i An IWA-conducted strike vote is proceeding among 32,000
| S0ast woodworkers and leaders of the province’s biggest union
Preparing for possible strike action by July 1.

The IWA district policy

committee recommended the

“The majority report has
aroused hostility and bitter-
ness and if the intention was
to rile the workers, they went
about it the right way to en-
sure a 100 percent strike vote.

“Eveyone knows that there
is an improvement in the mar-
ket situation and that trade
with China is opening up. But
even dispensing with these
factors, we know that the op-
erators have made millions in
profits these last few years
and. can well afford a wage
increase. z

Continued on page 5
See STRIKE

World scientists

ask H-tests end

Throughout the world scientists are joining their voices in an appeal to their

governments to end nuclear tests before incalculable harm is done to this and future
generations. In the U.S., Britain, Japan and the Soviet Union this week, scientists
warned that continued H-tests threatened humanity.

The most dramatic appeal was that made by 2,000 American scientists who

have signed a petition calling
for an end to all nuclear bomb
tests.

In a TV interview, Dr. Lin-
dus Pauling, American Nobel
Prize winner, warned that un-
less the tests were stopped:

@ One million people would
lose from five to ten years of
their life span.

@® Two hundred thousand
children in each of the next
20 generations would be either
mentally or physically defec-
tive from the effects of in-
creased radiation.

Announcing the scientists’
appeal, Pauling said the 2,000
signatures were received in
four days from Wednesday
to Saturday last week.

Among the signatories to the
appeal were two other Nobel
Prize winners, Dr. H. J. Muller,

‘who was prevented by the U.S.

Atomic Energy Commission
from telling the atoms-for-
peace conference at Geneva in
1955 of the danger of radiation,
and Dr. Joseph Erlanger.

The appeal reinforced earlier
and repeated warnings by
scientists in other countries,
notably by Dr. Albert Schweit-
zer, who recently. said in a
broadcast over the Norwegian
radio that any increase in the
already existing danger
through further tests would
constitute ‘“‘a disaster to hu-
manity.” P

In the Soviet Union, four in-
ternationally known cancer
specialists, Professors Engle-
hardt, Blokhin, Mayevsky and
Larionov, said that mankind is
faced “with the menace of
grave diseases which might be.
come widespread if tests of
these weapons are continued.”

In this country, speaking at
New Westminster last week,
Dr .Brock Chisholm, . former
head! of the World Health Or-
ganization, declared that 50,-
000 people throughout the
world will die as a result of
every nuclear bomb test.

Both in Britain and the US.,
official government reaction
followed a familiar cold: war
pattern.

In Britain, where representa-
tives of 12,000 scientists

through their Association of
Scientific Workers, recently
called for ending of H-test,
Prime Minister Harold Mac-
millan attempted to refute the
scientists’ estimation of the

danger as armist. In the

House of Lords, Lord Cherwell,

himself a physicist, resorted

to what Canon Collins, speak-

~ Continued on page 9
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WITH CHINA’ NOW?

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