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Organizations in the
City of Winnipeg, is an
€xcellent example of
8N action to stop the
Neutron bomb. It’s a
Perfect example of the
Way men and women
fom many walks of life
and backgrounds, with
Various points of view
Can unite on the most
Crucial of world issues,
and make an issue for
Canada’s _govern-
ment: In the name of
life itself, ban the neut-

peared in the Win-

nipeg Free Press and

~ the Winnipeg Tribune,
May 8. —

fon bomb! The ad ap-

IN THE NAME OF LIFE ITSELF

STOP THE NEUTRON BOMB

The neutron bomb repre
nuclear threshold.

sents a dangerous escalation of the nuclear arms race and a lowering of the

It is recommended by the Pentagon with the absurd argument that it could achieve victory without

provoking an all-out nuclear war. and the added cynical argument that it is a “clean” bomb because -

it destroys only people not property.

Security can be assured not by stepping up the arms race, but by stopping it through agreed
sicaenaciedt by all countries. This is the purpose of the United Nations Special General Assembly

on Disarmament, May - June 1978: This spec

ial session was called in response to the demand of

people all over'the world to be relieved of the growing danger of nuclear war and the burden of the

arms race.

World spending for military purposes is now 350 billion dollars annually; more than the total income

of the poorest quarter of mankind.

Canada's ‘‘defence” budget of
contributing factor to our presen

It is time to stop this mad race of
attached message and mail it tot

3.4 billion, scheduled to become § billion by 1980, is a major
t problems of inflation and unemployment.

mankind to self-destruction. We urge all Canadians to sign the
he Honorable Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada,

House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario. (No postage required).

ENDORSED BY: R. Steen, Mayor of Winnipeg;
H. Bostrom, M.L.A.; L. Desjardins, M.L.A.; R.
McBryde, M.L.A.; J. Cowan, M.L.A.; T. Bar-
row, M.L.A.: A. R. Adam, M.L.A; Rev. 0.
Malinowski, M.L.A.; R. Bockstael, Councillor;
J. Zuken, Councillor; C. Keeper , Councillor;
A. Wade, Councillor; A: Skowron, Councillor;
W. Chérnopyski, Councillor; Mary Kardash,
School Trustee; Luba Fedorkiw, School Trust-
ee: Rev. R. P. Hamline, Exec. Sec. Adminis-
tration, Winnipeg Presbytery, United Church;
Rev. H. Unruh, Staff, Winnipeg Presbytery.
United Church; Rev. J. Redpath, United
Church; Rev. P.- Petursson, Unitarian Minister;
Man. Peace Council, Voice of Women; Con-
gress ‘of Canadian Women; Association of
United Ukrainian Canadians, Provincial
Comm. and Branches 7, 59, 165, 224, 324,
114; Workers Benevolent Assoc. of Canada
and Branches 1, 143; Federation of Russian
Canadians; United Jewish Peoples Order City
Committee and Br. 16; Ruth Pear, Ft. Garry
Rep.. N.D.P, Prov. Council; V. Schroeder,

Pres. Man. New Democratic Party; Rachel
Browne, Artistic Dir. Contemporary Dancers;
Rev. B. K. Morris, Co-ordinator, St. Matthews-
Maryland Community Ministry: R. Penner,
Prof. of Law, Univ. of Manitoba; J. Ryan, PhD.,
Assoc. Prof. Univ. of Winnipeg; M. W. King,
Prof. Univ. of Manitoba; F. L. Marcuse, Prof.
Psychology, Univ. of Manitoba; C. Gonick,
Prof. Economics, Univ. of Manitoba; B. Ham-
mond, Assoc. Prof. Education, Brandon Univ.;
Ester Koulack, Prof. Sociology, Univ. of Win-
nipeg; R. Dale Gibson, Prof. of Law. Univ. of
Manitoba; Manitoba Action Committee on
Status of Women; Can. University Services
Overseas Development Unit (Man.); Mennonite
Central Comm. (Man.); Anti-Apartheid Move-
ment (Man.); World Federalists Winnipeg Br.;
W. C. Ross, Communist Party; Don Browne,
social worker; Lawrie Cherniack, lawyer; D.
Dabee, Guyanese Assoc. of Man.; James
Connolly, trish Republican Club; Ukrainian
Senior-Citizens Club; R. A. Mayer, 1st vice-
pres., New Democratic Party; Charles Hu-
band; Muriel Smith.

Contributions to cost of ad may be made to Neutron Bomb Protest Committee, Box 3963 Station ‘B’,

Winnipeg R2W. 5H9. Tel: 582-4248.

Message to Prime Minister Trudeau

Clip and. Mail

As Canadians we call upon you as Prime Minister of our country to oppose the deployment of the

“ Neutron bomb by NATO and ask President Carter to stop its production.

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Pugwash meet agrees
urgent measures needed
to prevent nuclear war

TORONTO — The 30th Pug-
wash symposium, meeting at
Trinity College here on the May 6
weekend, deliberated on ways to
avoid nuclear war, the dangers of
such wars, and the relationship of

nuclear development to the threat

of war.

Thirty scientists, political sci-
entists and defence analysts from
10 countries took part in the
discussions, which were closed to
the press. The topic, nuclear war,
was chosen because of the pro-
ximity of the United Nations Spe-
cial Session on Disarmament
which begins at United Nations
Special Session on Disarmament
which begins at United Nations
on May 23.

A Canadian professor, John C.
Polanyi, chairman for this meet-
ing, took seriously the threat of
nuclear war by the year 2000,
“because, of the increasing re-
liance on nuclear weapons and
because of the continual spread of
nuclear weapons to new
nations.”

Dr. Georgi Arbatov, director of
the Institute of U.S. and Canada
Studies of the Soviet Academy of
Sciences, said the USSR saw a
need for ‘‘urgent measures,” if
such war was to be prevented
from becoming a “‘sad reality.”

Dr. M.M. Kaplan, director-
general of Pugwash conferences
on sciences and world affairs,
warned that the public “‘has to
understand what nuclear war im-
plies.’”’. Without that under-
standing the chances of its occur-
ring increase, he said.

Participants were from Cana-
da, USA, USSR, Federal Repub-
lic of Germany, France, Israel,
Egypt, India, Sweden and United
Kingdom. Among them were: Dr.
George Ignatieff, provost of Trin-
ity College; Lord Zuckerman
former chief scientific adviser to
the British Government; Gen.
E.L.M. Burns, school of inter-

national affairs, Carleton Univer-
sity; and for one day, Prime Min-
ister Trudeau, who attended as an
observer.

The Pugwash Conferences
were begun in 1957 after Bertrand
Russell and Albert Einstein called
upon the world scientific com-
munity to inform the general pub-
lic about the facts of the nuclear
age. Canadian-born industrialist,
Cyrus Eaton, funded the first
such conference, which was held
at his birthplace, the town of
Pugwash, Nova Scotia.

NO! TO THE ARMS RACE

PRINTING UNIONS |
STUDY AUTOMATION

TORONTO — The CLC has
agreed to help printing unions
finance a $30,000 study into ways
to combat the heavy impact of
new technology on jobs in the in-
dustry. Jim Buller, president of
the Toronto Typographical
Union, states that his interna-
tional union alone has lost 29,000

members in the last 10 years.

wouldn't be * OTC Io Te

1

Now we have it. There will be no

lection this July. The Master has spo-
f Xen. The prime minister has decided

¢ that the odds are too long to chance an

election at this moment. And, looking

@ at it from where he sits, it makes sense.
| Sut from the point of view of democ-
| Tacy it is a travesty.

/ Me
j In keeping with his past perfor-
4 mances in staging his charade of ‘elec-

Hon on election off”, the prime minister
eae to play ducks. and drakes
Sit the electorate. Now he says there
7 uld be an election in October, but not

€cessarily an October election. He
“ouples this remark with a reference to
oblige stitution, saying Canada is not
ee to hold elections on a given day
eh TY SO many years like many other
._Untries. And he speculates that
Perhaps” we should.

* * *
| ab Trudeau cannot be faulted for his
ee under our present electoral
_ Stem. Neither under this system can

faulted for his jockeying for elec-

Parti advantage over the opposition
1s through destabilization tactics.

| cay ht he can be faulted for is his cyni-

thi attempts to hide the main reason for
Mability to set a definite time slot for

“with apologies to Farley Mowat.

The election that

the election. And that is the growing

political instability evident in the land.”

An instability that is rooted in the deep
and stubborn crisis which holds the
whole country in its grip. This is
Trudeau’s dilemma. It is a matter of
grave concern of monopoly.

ae ee

The monopolists, who are the actual

‘masters of our land, are deeply con-

cerned about the outcome of the elec-
tion. They, too, have studied the results
of the most recent gallup poll which
showed the Liberals and Conservatives

‘running neck and neck in popular sup-

port. If this neck and neck race con-
tinues until the votes are counted, then
there is a strong possibility that
monopoly will be saddled with a weak,
bickering minority government of
either Liberals or Conservatives. Such
a prospect is not a pleasant one for the
monopolists to contemplate in these
times of continuing social unrest.

What monopoly wants is a strong
right-wing majority government,
whether it be Liberal or Conservative,
willing and able to protect and advance
its interests. It wants a government un-
ited around a right-wing program di-
rected to overcoming the crisis at the

Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World

expense of the living and social stan-
dards of the working people.
* * *

Consequent to the desires of
monopoly, both the Conservatives 'and
Liberals are eager to serve as the
handmaidens of the monopolists. As a
result there exists between them a
fierce competition to prove which one
can best serve the profit interests of
monopoly. In the race to win the elec-
tion not as the most favored party of
monopoly, the Conservatives strive to
subvert the evident popular desire for
change into reactionary paths. which in
effect would push the country further to
the right. On the other hand, the
Trudeau government is doing every-
thing it can to cut the ground from
under the feet of the Conservatives.

Being in command of the situation
from the point of view of the timing of
the election date, Trudeau is in a better
maneuvering position than Joe Clark.
Once he and his advisors conclude that
the Liberals have the edge, then we will
get a firm election date. But time is run-
ning out for the Liberals. Therefore, we
can expect a lot of fancy foot-work on
the part of the Liberals in the coming
months.

* * *

But it is precisely in this connection

that the glaring travesty of democracy
is revealed. Why should the timing of
the election date rest on the whim or
political ambitions of one man who
happens to be the Prime Minister at a
given moment? Where is the protection
for ordinary citizens in such a proce-
dure which cynically rates them as only
pawns in the electoral chess game? It is
high time the voters put an end to such
games that take control of the timing of
elections out of their hands.
* * *

We could take a leaf out of the elec-
tion procedure in the socialist coun-
tries. For instance, Article 91 of the
Constitution of the USSR states: ‘*The
term of the Supreme Soviet of the
USSR, the Supreme Soviets of the
Union Republics, and the Supreme
Soviets of the Autonomous Republics
shall be five years. Elections to Soviets
of Peoples Deputies shall be called not
later than two months before the expiry
of the term of the given Soviet.”’

In Alf Dewhursts’ last column, NDP’s
Broadbent’s ‘stable minority’ an error
appeared. ‘‘Surely, economic policy is
no benefit of social significance?” was
printed. It should have read: ‘Surely,
economic policy is not bereft of social
significance?”.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—May 26, 1978—Page 9