4) More than 100 Toronto women, most of them dressed in black, took part in an impressive parade of mourning from the United States consulate to the ceno- taph at city hall on the evening of June 4, where they laid a wreath in mem-. 18,000 at Gardens rally condemn Johnson policy A storm of protest in the U.S, has greeted the U.S, govern- ment’s announcement that Amer- ican commanders in Vietnamare free to use American forces to launch open offensive actions against the guerrillas, In New York an 18,000-strong rally, sponsored by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and 30 other organizations in Madison Square Gardens on Tuesday night roared disapproval of President Johnson’s military adventures, Senator Wayne Morse declared that meetings such as this “are the great force which can end the war in Vietnam and get the U.S, off the suicidal path toward atomic war.” Following the meeting, several thousand joined in a march to the U.N, led by Morse, Mrs, Luther King, Dr, Benjamin Spock, Canon Collins of Britain and socialist leader Norman Thomas, The United Auto Workers was officially represented by Stanley Greenspan, assistant director of the union’s International Affairs Department who brought greetings to the meeting in the name of 1,250,000 auto workers, Among the organizations sup- porting the rally were the Student Non- Violent Co-ordinating Com- mittee, New York Conference of + the Methodist Church, Central Conference of American Rabbis, North-eastern Region of CORE, Rabbinical Assembly, University Committee to Protest War in Vietnam, Women’s Strike For Peace, Retail, Wholesale and De- partment Store Union, District 65. Morse told the rally that “if we continue the present course, it won’t be long before 300,000 troops, then one million are com- mitted and we are involved in an all-out war.” Mrs, Martin Luther King saic that “peace and human rightsare so closely related that we can say they are one and the same, For what doth it profit a nation to gain civil rights for all of its citizens if there is no world in which to exercise these rights?” Professor Hans Morganthau, University of Chicago, said: “Our government lives in a world of, its own making. It bases its policy not on facts, but on ‘facts’ it has created to support its policy. He warned that the war in Vietnam was “not only an unjust war, a war that can’t be won, but a war that will brutalize us,” Dr. .Benjamin Spock charged that our government “violates international agreements, jeop- ardizes the very existence of the U.N., alienates its allies, antag- ‘onizes the neutral nations and is ready to attack or intervene in any small country by which it feels threatened,” EARL RUSSELL, noted philosopher, said last week that Pres. Johnson's decision to bring full-scale war to Vietnam showed his contempt for world opinion. ‘He will be noted as the most brutal and incompetent of all American president's to date,’ said Russell. He appealed to Ameri- cann to “hold a new march on Wash- ington to protest against the mad- ness apparent to all.” Dressed in black, women marchers protest Vietnam war Vietnam The B.C. Peace Council has set this coming Saturday as the first major effort on d town Vancouver streets to collect names on the postcard petition calling on Prime Minis “s Pearson to act to end the war in Vietnam. The petition is part of a Canada-wide 0” launched by the Canadian Peace Congress. Meeting in a special executive meeting Tuesday night, the B.C, Peace. Council called on all peace-loving citizens who want to help to come to the council’s office at the Pender Auditorium, 339 W, Pender St., this coming Saturday. Canvassing on down- town streets will take place be- tween I p,m, and 4 p,m. The council is also printing 15,000 copies of a special na- tional leaflet, the front page of which is reproduced here, The four page leaflet quotes out- standing world figures on the Vietnam war, The council is also printing 10,000 postcards as well as the postcard message in petition form, Any of this material is available to other organizations and individuals by contacting the peace council inthe Pender Audi- .torium, For all citizens willing to help in this vital campaign the B.C, Peace Council is calling a cam- paing meeting for Tuesday, June 22 at 8 p.m, The meeting will discuss the campaign and lay further plans, It was disclosed last week that a group of teachers at the Uni- versity of B.C, have circulated a letter to the Learned Societies Conference meeting at the. UBC which calls on Prime Minister Pearson to “redouble your efforts to bring about a peaceful solu- tion to the war byissuinga public statement of Canada’s inde- pendent policy and bringing to bear all the diplomatic pressure you can on the two parties con- cerned,” Also, last weekend, a confer- ence called by the Canadian Friends Service Committee in Ottawa adopted a proposal calling on the government to hold public hearings on Canadian policy in Vietnam before the External Af- fairs Committee of the House of Commons, ory of the Vietnamese war victims. On Sunday a conference of women at Tor ‘onto’s Union Station sent a delegation of 10 women to Ottawa to present @ brief to Prime Minister Pearson and to interview MPs. ' ~Leific Postcard petition for 5B peace launche owl iste! Stop the KILLING | This is the front of a four page leaflet being widely circulated in CO™ ada as part of the postcard petition campaign. Below in the postcar Readers are urged to sign it. s o — - 2 ee ee Se ee ee ee Ge ee Gee Gee ee eee ee ee cee eee es eee ae eee es ee RT. HON. L. B. PEARSON, POSTAGE Prime Minister of Canada, FREE Ottawa Dear Mr. Pearson: Please use Canada's influence openly and forcefully now to: : 1. STOP THE WAR IN VIETNAM 2. Negotiate for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. 3. Let the Vietnamese people decide their own affairs. Signed, ee me ee ee ee ee eee Ee Gee eee eee me ome eee eee eee ees ee eee eee eee oe oe oe EEE ERR a eg Cae i ee Oe a e \ aN