Lee | | NO BuMl MU VB jum curpn le mand Woodworkers denounce nuclear weapons END iB Mca JL. 20, No. 35 om ‘ a VANCOUVER, B.C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1961. <> 10¢ Hankined on brink of war warns K With this clear warning S9: y “Premier Khrushchev last }, day told an Indo-Soviet itilship meeting in Moscow , | the Soviet Union is ready : icin an agreement on total Tmament’ at any time. €t the West put forward By, Pos for control over },! disarmament—the Soviet on will accept them—the Met Premier said. He added : loviets ready to sign |greement at any time “Mankind is on the brink of another military tragedy. Prréssive forces want to plunge the world into another bh - As a pretext for this they are using the question of }* Peace treaty with Germany.” that his country would. wel- come “businesslike talks’? with the West ‘which would result in the conclusion of a German peace treaty.” Coupling his appeal for talks Khruschev warned that “neople who want disarma- ment must unite against those opposing disarmament and are preparing to unleash a third world war.” OMMUNIST PARTY IN NEW APPEAL The National Committee tada, meeting in Toronto Ning statement: MNadians will not be drag: into thermonuclear war ‘@ Berlin to serve the inter- : Of the same German mili- .* we fought in two world vee Xe this is exactly the dan- big Which we now face. The 4 of our country, the issue Pareace or war, hangs in the 7, °2ce this autumn, 22 years ?,, pee outbreak of World The war crisis has. been L8ht upon the world by the Kless activities of the U.S. *tnment and military. ,. Stegarding the lessons of Sry, they have once again Nise the West German mili- ‘ts and revenge seekers. hy 28 West Berlin as a base Nite heir provocations, the U.S. Mary is encouraging the i German. militarists to hn ch eastward to destroy the w 8n Democratic Republic Mi to restore the borders of a tarist Germany to those " by Hitler’s reich by seiz- Olish territory. “at would mean world Monuclear war. Xteen years after the end } “© war they have refused Poy Ign a peace treaty which heutralize Germany. 2222 DO a Tf p= PE a Baek D 2523 No war over Berlin! of the Communist Party of last weekend, issued the fol- The Diefenbaker govern- ment shares responsibility for this crisis. It is in an aggres- sive military alliance with U.S.A. and Germany through NATO. It adds to world tensions by military -build-up and now plans to accept U.S. nuclear arms for Canada. But. the government’s poli- cies can be changed. Pressures ; from: outside and inside our country are already making it | necessary for Prime Minister Diefenbaker and External Af- fairs Minister Green to talk about negotiations. This pressure must grow to compel the government to break with U.S. policy — to stand up for Canada and for peace, for Canadian neutrality. Peace is in the hands of the people. The terrible danger of; war can be averted if Cana- dians join with the people of the other NATO countries to demand that there shall be ao war over Berlin. : *The socialist countries and the non-aligned countries have declared for peace, negotia- tions and general disarm? See NO WAR, pg. 3 S RACE, ACT OR PEACE SAYS |.W.A. A call for peace through negotiation and condemnation of the present arms race highlighted a resolution adopted by the IWA Western District Convention, which wound up its deliberations in Vancouver last Sunday. Representing 32,000 wood- workers in the western prov- inces the resolution declared its opposition to nuclear weap- ons. Text, of reads: . “This convention go on rec- the resolutions ord as being opposed to the! arms race being carried out by the major powers in the world today and declares its opposi- tion to nuclear weapons and particularly the testing of nu- clear weapons on Canadian soil, and that our government at all times strive to bring about peace by~ negotiations and declare their opposition to war.” Meanwhile, speaking in the House of Commons this week, H. W.. Herridge, CCF’s for- eign affairs critic, said his party strongly opposes. any idea that Canada should go to war if fighting erupts over Berlin. Herridge, who represents Kootenay West, said Canadians do not want to “follow on the tail of the U.S.” He said the Canadian people want us to become leaders among _ the neutral nations. War over Berlin, he said, ‘‘is unthinkable and indefensible.” An ominous sign that the Diefenbaker government is moving closer to a decision 1) adopt nuclear weapons for Canada’s armed forces came Tuesday with a statement by Defence Minister Harkness. Speaking to the House of Commons he said, “It is the policy of the government that our forces should not be re- quired to face a potential ene- my with inferior weapons.” It is believed that the Dief- enbaker government has al- ready made its decision and that an announcement is “im- minent.”’ The Pacific. Tribune has re- peatedly warned that. the Tories are trying to create a “climate” in which to justify nuclear arms and that the Ber- lin crisis is seen as a “good’’ -{ world tensions pretext. This. warning is now being borne out. Meeting in Toronto last weekend, the National Com- mittee of the Communist Party of Canada issued a state ment charging that the Dief. enbaker government ‘adds to by military build-up and now plans to ae- cept U.S. nuclear arms for Cos nada.” The statement, full text of which appears elsewhere, urges increased public. pressure “to: compel the. government. to break with U.S. policy—ta stand up for Canada, and for peace, for Canadian neutrals ity.” 55,000 sign N- arms petition; Over 4,000 sign in one day Downtown Vancouver was inveéded by peace petitioners last Saturday as the B.C. Peace Council staged a mass canvass’ which resulted in over 4,000 Arms For Canada appeal. signatures to the No Nuclear! Close to 100 people stationed themselves on corners be- ginning at Gore and Hastings and ranging up Granville Street. Some petitioners collected over three hundred signatures and according to Peace Council officials the reception to the appeal was overwhelming. All petitions must be in Toronto by Sept. 30 and will be presented to the governmeni shortly after that. Until then an all-out effort is being made by paign. all groups supporting the cam- The last available count on the number’ of people signing was 110,000 nationally. Fifty-five thousand of those have been collected in B.C. Courtesy THE FISHERMAN TRADE UNIONISTS OFF TO CUBA. Photo shows the B.C. trade union delegation prior to leaving Vancouver airport for Cuba September 2. The delegation will spend two weeks on a fact finding tour. Shown from left are A. H. Bud Barker, representing the Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union; Charlie Wilson, Marine and Boilermakers Union; Mrs. Jospaine Foort and. husband Ted Foort, the latter of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union; Gunther Hogrefe, Ocean Falls Pulp and Paper Workers Union; and Paddy McElligott, Oil and Chemical ol Workers Union. jae