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Continued on page 6
See B.C, ELECTRIC

5, INTERVE!
HREATENS PEAGE

I

Out of the welter of reports from the Middle East since overthrow of the reactionary
Nuri Said regime in Iraq last weekend one inescapable fact emerges: the Eisenhower
administration’s decision to send U.S. marines into Lebanon has created a grave threat to the
peace of the entire Middle East and the world.

As they landed at Beirut, U.S. marines themselves confirmed suspicions voiced by
newspapers around the world that the U.S. was seeking a pretext to intervene in the internal

Ukrainian Festival
in city draws 6,000

From its opening Salute to the Pioneers to its closing
We're For Peace, the Ukrainian Festival held at Exhibition
Park here last Saturday was a triumph. It was at once the
finest single cultural contribution made by working people to
British Columbia’s centennial program and a triumph over all

affairs of Lebanon, where
the discredited Chamoun gov-
ernment has been fighting a
losing battle against opposi-
tion armed forces. The U.S.
marine spokesmen disclosed
that U.S. warships had been
circling for days in the east-
ern Mediterranean waiting
for orders.

The U.S. failed to obtain
from UN observers the pre-
text for intervention it was
seeking in order to maintain
its strategic anti-Soviet en-
circlement policy and _ safe-
guard Western oil interests.
The UN observers reported
that they had been unable to
find any real evidence of
Syrian infiltration of Lebanon
as charged by the Chamoun
government and that, in any
case, the “vast majority” of
those fighting against Leban-
ese government forces were
Lebanese.

Overthrow of the Nuri Said
regime and reported assassi-
nation of King Faisal IL
Crown Prince Abdullah and
Premier Nuri Said by revo-
lutionaries was seized upon
by the Eisenhower regime to
send U.S. marines into Le-
banon, ostensibly to protect

Continued on page 6
See THREAT

NORAD: Greatest
profit gouge of all

STORY ON PAGE 2

those who have tried to dis-
tort the real significance of
the centenary by excluding
working people from partici-
pation.

‘J had no idea your festival
was of such impressive dimen-
sions,” stated Mr. A. Sereth,
who substituted for Harold
Merilees, Vancouver Centen-
nial Committee chairman, ad-
mitted in his official greetings.
But the Vancouver Centen-
nial Committee, which refused
endless petty difficulties for
it, had little cause for any-
thing but chagrin. The festi-
val’s success must have been
equally galling for those in
and around the department of
citizenship who sought to de-
tract from it by placing all
their official support behind
Ukrainian Week activities
which had the support of only
a reactionary minority of
the Ukrainian community on
the lower mainland.

The Vancouver daily press
reflected the official attitude
toward the festival. In con-
trast to the publicity given to

‘Ukrainian Week activities, the

festival received scant men-
tion. The Vancouver Province
of Monday this week carried
a short but fair report, but
readers of the Vancouver Sun
would never have known
from that paper the festival
had been held.

Despite all these difficulties,
6,000 people packed Exhibi-
tion Forum last Saturday and
another 1,600 who had lined
up in the vain hope of getting
tickets had to be turned away.

The program — the crea-
tion of hundreds of working
men and women who devoted
their evenings and. weekends

to rehearsals over a period of
months — had a profesional
polish without losing any of

the amateur verve and spirit
that gave it a special quality.

This quality that made per-
formers and audience one dis-
tinguished both the theme and
rendition of the program but
nowhere more so than in the
children’s Drill of the Roses,
The work of the Association
of United Ukrainian Cana-
dians among children has won
commendation wherever there
is a Ukrainian Hall. Yet even
to those familiar with it the
faultless execution of the drill
came as a heart-warming sur-
prise to those who appreciated

Continued on back page

See FESTIVAL

Shoreworkers
accept award

A unanimous conciliation
board report in the dispute
between United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union
and the Fisheries Association
has awarded some 3,600 shore
workers in the union a 5%
percent wage increase across
the board. Additional fringe
benefits covering annual and
statutory holidays with pay,
insurance improvements and
other benefits are included in
the board’s recommendations.

UFAWU shoreworkers> have
voted to accept the award,
while Liberal ex-minister of
fisheries James Sinclair, now
president of the B.C. Fisheries
Association, has indicated ac-
ceptance by his principals,