Afro-Asians back test ban

The executive meeting of the
Afro-Asian solidarity organiz-
ation in Nicosia, Cyprus, early
last month, reiterated the organ-
ization’s strong policy of peace-
ful coexistence by adopting a

resolution ‘‘appreciating the
Moscow nuclear test treaty.’’

The resolution said it was
hoped the treaty would be fol-
lowed up by other moves toward
“the complete banning of testing
and manufacturing, stockpiling
and using nuclear weapons.’’

The peaceful coexistence stand
was also spelled out in a declar-
ation reaffirming ‘‘ adherence to
the principles of peaceful co-
existence among independent
states with different social and
Political systems, to the struggle
for peace, for general and com-
plete disarmament, and for the
prohibition of nuclear tests, for
the destruction of nuclear
weapons, and the liquidation of
military bases,”’

While the overwhelming maj-
ority ofthe 29 delegations present
endorsed this strong peaceful
coexistence stand, reservations
or opposition were expressed by
a number of delegations, includ-
ing China, Japan and Indonesia.

The Chinese delegation sub-
mitted a proposal that the Moscow

treaty be condemned. This was

turned down, however, and the

meeting set up instead an edit-
orial committee of represent-
atives of Algeria, South Vietnam,
southern Rhodesia, Cyprus and
the United Arab Republic. Its
resolution in support of the
partial test-ban treaty was
adopted by the meeting.

In other decisions, the Nicosia
meeting decided to:

—Convene a meeting this year
to draw up plans ‘‘to speed up
the struggle in areas under the
domination of imperialists and
their puppets,”’

—Set up a committee under the
permanent secretariat in Cairo
to aid the people ofSouth Vietnam.

—Call on the Afro-Asian solid-:
arity movement to render all
possible assistance, including
military assistance, to freedom
fighters in Asia and Africa.

—Declare fraternal solidarity
with the struggle of the Cuban
people against U.S. imperialism.

—Support the
Cypriots to change one-sided
treaties and agreements imposed
on them by imperialism.

—Condemn all forms of racial
discrimination.

Push rights bill in U.S.

Acall for mass pressure to win
Congress passage of the
strengthened civil rights billwas
issued recently by Gus Hall and
Benjamin Davis, top Communist
spokesmen in the U.S.

Passage of the bill ‘‘was the
demand of the greatest and most
impressive peaceful demonstra-
‘tion in the history of our coun-
try on Aug. 28,"? says their
statement. :

**Within Congress the Dixie-
crats in alliance with Goldwater
Republicans use their positions
in committee and the filibuster
threat to blackmail other Con-

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gressmen and Senators in an
effort to scuttle all meaningful
civil legislation.

The Hall-Davis statement con-
cludes that: ‘‘The experience of
Aug. 28 must now be used to
move greater millions. Congress
and the administration must
break the segregational stran-
glehold on civil rights and pass
that bill now.’’

Last week the National Council
of Churches of Christ in the

U.S. called on the Kennedy Ad-—

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Runs for
city council

WILLIAM STEWART, well
_known trade union and politi-
cal figure in Vancouver, was
this week nominated as an in-
dependent candidate in the
forthcoming civic election.

Stewart urges program

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to end transit crisis

A plan to solve the serious
transit crisis in Vancouver was:
projected in a campaign launched
this week by William Stewart,

Independent candidate in the
forthcoming Vancouver civic
elections,

“For twenty-five years,’’ he
said, ‘‘successive ‘‘Non-Parti-
san’ administrations have done
nothing about a steadily deterior-
ating transit system.

“They supported the B.C
Electric every time they raised*
fares or cut service. They have
ao answer now,

**Keep the transit system, the
NPA says to Mr. Bennett. We
don’t want it. But what about the
poor transit riders, Mr. Mayor
and City Council? Service is de-
plorable, busses are overcrowd-
ed and most parts of the city lit-
erally inaccessible by public

struggle of.

coming week,

Public rallies to mark
46th Soviet anniversary

The 46th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolutior
in Russia will be marked in Vancouver and New Westminster this

Maurice Rush, PT Associate Editor, will speak at a concert-
meeting at the Russian People’s Home, Thursday, November 7
at 8 p.m. Communist Party organizer Charles Caron will address
a banquet and concert in New Westminster’s Dreamland Hall on
Sunday, November 10 at 3:30p.m.

Photo shows a Soviet doctor calling at a home to give a physical

check-up to an infant. Attention to the health needs of the people

‘has given the Soviet Union the lowest infant mortaliy rate in the

world, and extended the life span to ‘‘three score and ten.”

Buck on differences

Con’t from pg. 10

stand the new, objective content
of the world struggle for peace,

They refer to mankind’s age-
old yearning for peace as though

pacifism was the only element

in it. They look upon the horror
with which hundreds of millions
of men and women in all coun-
tries reject the prospect of world
nuclear war as though it was
simply an attempt to evade
struggle, or a conscious retreat
from it. $
The Chinese leaders fail
completely to recognize that, in
the new conditions and the rela-
tionships of political forces which
characterize contemporary poli-
tics, the world-wide struggle for
peace is charged with powerful
democratic potentialities.
Because the source of the dan-'
ger of war isimperialism, andthe

maintenance of peace will be a

major defeat for the ‘‘nuclear

madmen’’ ofimperialism, recog-

nition of the central contradic-!'
tion in world politics brings,im-
mediately, realization of the fact
that the world-wide struggle for
peace is charged with powerful,

virtually revolutionary implica-

tions.

Blind to Lenin’s favorite mot-
to ‘‘green is the tree of life’, the
Chinese leaders fail to grasp the
significance of the thesis in the
81-Party Statement that ‘peace
is the loyal ally of socialism for
time is working for socialism,
against capitalism.’’

In the real interests of man-
kind, for the integration of Marx-
sim-Leninism in the great world

movement which expresses the
hunger ofthe people for peace, for
an end to all wars, for the most
rapid advance of socialism and
its triumph over capitalism on
aworld scale, Marxists-Lenin-
ists everywhere must fight to
strengthen the unity of our world
movement by rejecting the er-
roneous position of the central
committee of the Communist
Party of China toward the line
of the world communist move-
ment,

- and transit properties inthe area.

transit.”

How to solve this problem?

**Vancouver needs a munici-
pally-owned and operated transit |
system’’, William Stewart went
on to say, ‘‘a system whith is
subject to the needs of this com-
munity,

‘Vancouver should. demand
that the provincial government
establish a utility district for the
Greater Vancouver area giving
it distribution rights for gas, hy-
dro and operation of the transit

‘system,

**Vancouver could subsidize a-
dequate, cheap, public transpor-
taion out of the profits from the:
sale of gas and electricity and
still have money left to lower
taxes on homes, a

“This system,’’ he said, ‘‘is
in operation in all other major
provinees where there is public
power. New Westminster, B.C.
‘operates in this manner. This
system of operation was proposed ©
for B.C, in 1946 when a Royal
Commission brought down its re-_
commendations on power in B.C. —
This was blocked by the NPA and
the B.C, Electric.

‘*In my brief to Vancouver City
Council in March 1962’’, added
Stewart,’’ I suggested Council
take up this proposal and act on —
it. It is time now for the people —
to demand such a solution.

**T have just issued a postcard —
addressed to City Council and —
which I hope all people will sign —
and send to the Mayor,

“The card urges Vancouver
City Council to take whatever ©
steps necessary to compel the —
provincial government to enact —
the terms of the Royal Commis-—
sion recommendation of 1946. It
proposed a Lower Mainland Utili- —
ty District and that this District —
should acquire the electric gas —

“This will allow usto organize —
a transportation system giving uS-
cheap rapid transit, eliminate the
need for expensive freeways, and
offer a solution to the transit
¢risis in Vancouver.’’

More Germans

moving East

A total of 1,112 West Germans
moved to the German Democrat-
ic Republic during August, —
according to official figures pub-" :
lished in Berlin,

About one-third of the people —
moving eastwards are young peo-
ple between 19 and 25, and the
remainder mainly older workers
and farmers with their families. —

During 1963 immigrationtothe —
GDR from West Germany has —
averaged about 200 persons per
week,

——

William Turner, prominent in Burn”
aby ratepayer and civic circles,

nounced his candidature for Al
maninthe upcoming Decem in
Burnaby elections. Turner said”
his announcement he would vray
voters to give him one vote 970
throw the balance of their suP
behind the BCA-Labor slate

___ November 1, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pa