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Aftermath of H-Bomb

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ng niloactive fish are being checked with geiger counters after
rs eaded in a Tokyo market. Captain of the craft that carried
., 290 of tuna ‘reported his vessel was showered with “snow-

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te ashes” while 80 miles away from site of Bikini H-bomb blast

March 1.

Victoria conference
debates Labor Act

VICTORIA, B.C.

So
ing oe delegates represent-
Unions +” CCL and independent
ennett ;

b / government’s new
major tions Act, Bill 28, by
ed tat a vote have recommend-
that ¢ Bill 28 be withdrawn and
stead € Sovernment introduce in-

ammendments to the old

Meeting here to consider .

Industrial Conciliation and, Ar-
bitration Act. ;

This proposal was submitted to
the trade union conference by a
joint executive committee of the
CCL and TLC provincial organiza-
tions, and despite strong opposi-
tion from rank-and-file union

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See LABOR

Rodd speaks Sunday

Gs Bill 7 in

_ Co
‘Ntrog:

cea with the expected
Teas in the House of Com-
oppo S weekend of the bitter-
demoe Sed anti-labor and anti-

_ “Tatic clauses of the revised

ROsco
mtn E S. RODD, Qc

House

Criminal Code, Roscoe S. Rodd,
QC, national chairman of the
League for Democratic Rights,
will be in this province to speak
on Bill 7, the government’s en-
abling legislation.

This coming Sunday, April 4, 8
p.m., Rodd will speak on “Cana-
dianism or McCarthyism” in Pen-
der Auditorium here. Sharing the
platform with him will be Dr.
Barnett Savery, UBC department
oi philosophy; Stanley Wilcox,
president of the Street Railway-
men’s Union; and Jack Phillips,
secretary of the Vancouver
branch of the League for Demo-
cratic Rights.

A noted city criminal lawyer,
Tom Hurley, has added his voice
to those across the country con,
cerned over the threat to labor’s
rights posed by sections of Bill 7
now coming before the House.

In an opinion written for Local
213, International Brotherhood of

Continued on back page
See RODD

US,

DEFIES

WORLD IN
HELL-BOMB
“TESTS

Defying world appeals for abandonment of its hydrogen bom
Atomic Energy Commission this week revealed that it had io elias
in the Pacific on Friday last week. This second explosion followed by less than a
month the hydrogen blast at Bikini which aroused world-wide alarm when Congress:
man Chet Nolifield, member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, * belatedly ad-

mitted it had been “out of. con-
trol.” :

The danger to which U.S. H-
bomb tests expose the world has
been succinctly described by these
experts in the past two weeks:

LEWIS L. STRAUSS, chairman,
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission:
An H-bomb big enough to “take
out” any city in the world can
now be made.

DR. JOHN BLATT, Australian
atomic scientist: ‘Nowhere safe
enough to test bigger atomic
weapons.”

IWAO OTSUKA, of Japanese
Scientific Research Institute:
“Wartime use of atomic death ash

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SEE HELL-BOMB

rit

‘We must act now for life’
declares Peace Congress

Canadian Peace Congress has issued a formal statement calling
on the federal government “. . . to at once insist that all H-bomb
tests be stopped.” In a dramatic appeal issued March 30, the Con-
gress proposed that Canada urge internationally-controlled banning
of A-bombs and H-bombs at the Geneva Conference on April 26.

: The statement, released by act- 5
ing secretary Bruce Mickleburgh,
declared, “We must, we can, act

last citizen, this country is afraid
of the hydrogen bomb. We must,
we can, act for life. The apathy

for life.” at Ott is d

’ ttawa is
F Text of the appeal is as fol- We all “i gids ‘that not one
ows: man, not one woman, not one

child is safe. This is the final
madness of the cold war and the

From the government to every

wie eigiie

lpp proposes new national policy

arms race.
¢ What we do for life we must
do. together. For weeks the Can-
adian Peace Congress has been
asking every MP to speak up. If

Continued on back page
See APPEAL

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