ELECTIONS Continued from page 1 unity policy excluded some of largest unions like the} (Civil Servants, Teamsters, B.C. | Telephone Workers, Mine Mill, Fishermen,. Teacher’s Federa-| tion, Civic Employees, United Mine Workers and split the} building trades and many! ether unions: down the middle. | The big lessons of this elec- | —_ is that the inPors anc farm US. base protested A the mass demonstration} against the U.S. Bomarc mis-|} sile base at Mont Laurier,| Quebec was held Saturday, September 10. Buses and ears assembled at Park Lafontaine in Montreal and paraded _ through city | streets before - proceeding to! the base. The demonstration, organ- ized by the Quebec Comn ist Party, protested against nuc-j lear armaments and basis in! Quebec and Canada. NOW PLAYING-ONE WEEK ONLY Sept. 14 to 20 —; by the 19 | bune will carry ' tions. | BACK VIEW NN movements still need to create | a united alternative political| movement which will be all- embracing.” An important aspect of the election was the defeat of La- bor Minister Wicks and Agri- culture ‘Minister Steacy. There has been widespread opposit- ion to Socred labor and agri- culture policies. The major issues of the cam- paign were brought forward candidates of the Communist Party whose rela- tively small vote does not re- flect the widespread support | found among the people for its platform of peace, jobs, se- curity. The issues raised by the Communists remain at the centre of the political stage in B.C. and will feature promin- ently in the political struggles in the months ahead. Next week the Pacific Tri- a final round- up of the election results as well as the final vote for Com- munist candidates and addit- ional comments on the elec- spanenenneney AN OVERWHELMING EPIC OF WAR. a ° , FATE OFA MM AN’ Filmed wher BEHIND BARBED Ww ——, ENTIRELY } IN ENGLISH Serge iBondarchuk : Bs nee STUDIO THEATRE 919 Granville St. — MU 3-1511 Showing continuously from 12 noon to 12 midnight daily. ‘Passing of German leader is mourned | sorrow at loss of a great world |/ism. He, 'munist and Workers Parties Canada-US spy on allie say two young Americani By MARK FRANK Pacific Tribune Correspondent MOSCOW—Canadian officials are wor king Agency of the United States to crack codes and gather intelliget & 40 nations including their own allies. | National Sec urity from over All such secret data is used} |to further the policy of aerial} | espionage U-2 incident, penetrations and} ae | communications of more than as in the notorious} overflights of the Soviet Union | and China, and developing in- | formation for a “strike first’ nuclear war of aggression. These were some of the facts revealed at a press conference here Sept. 6 by two former | NSA code-crackers, Bernon F. Mitchell, 31, and William H. Martin, 29. They sought political asylum | in the Soviet Union and were granted Soviet citizenship after renouncing U.S. citizenship as a protest against the policies of dangerous overflights of socialist countires and the an- nounced preventive war aims of the American military. After describing how the U.S. exchanges data on code- cracking with Britain the two former NSA men said “besides the United Kingdom the Unilt- ed States maintains close co- Operation with Canada in the field of communications intel- ligence. As we know from our The death last week of Wil- helm Pieck, first President of the German Democratic Re- public is being mourned around the world. President Pieck’s death at the age of 84 of heart trouble brought to a close a lifetime of working class struggle from the age of 18. The Communist Party of Canada in a cable to Walter Ulbricht signed by Tim Buck said: “Our Party expresses deep fighter against fascism and for peace, democracy and _ social- not Adenauer, repre- sents the true spirit of Ger- many embodied in the German Democratic Republic which he did so much to build.” The Canadian Communist Party sent a. delegation of Stanley Ryerson, Harry and Annie Guralnick, to participate in the funeral which was held Saturday, September 10. Representatives from ‘Com- all over the world will attend | successfully reads the secret | 40 nations including its own the funeral in Berlin. hand in g glove with the highly sed previous experience in work-, ing at NSA the United States! allies.” They revolted, they said, at the U.S. government’s practice of lying about violations of the airspace of other nations. They were disturbed by. the way the} U.S. intercepted secret mess- | ages of its own allies and was willing even to recruit agents from the Pine of these] | allies. A specific case cited was the paying out of money to a code clerk working at the Turkish embassy in Washington. The flights of U.S. planes along and over the borders of the Soviet Union are routine, they said, “and the number of such flights is far greater than is generally supposed: by the U.S. public.” Reasons for making a public statement at this time about their disappearance at the end of June of this year was that a public statement they had left in a safety deposit box in the state bank of Laurel, Mary- ae had been seized by the | States.” government and _ suppress) They had left instructions | it that it be publicized. M they declared that the government “sometimes se@ ly manipulates money and itary supplies in an effort bring about the overthrow governments which are felt be -unfriendly to the a These facts were told the e in an orientation lecture deliv, q ered when they went work {0} NSA. In making their revelatly they said in their note back in the USA that og didn’t want to discourage ™ American people. ‘There att individuals of great inet and resourcefulness in amen who if given a chance can 4 tify some of the tragic acl of the United States goves ment in recent years.” ~ Their statement made i0 i U.S. ends with an appeal i both the Unied States and Soviet Union devote their ene : gies to competition in the ¥ in logical and economic rd . rather than to the develop™ 4 of newer and more pow® means of destruction. . ae Endicott speaks here on rearming German) Dr. James Endicott will speak at a public m in the Street Railwaymen’s Hall, 125 E. 8th Ave., Fri Sept. 23, at 8 p.m. He will fly directly from Germany, where he has been addressing a number of rail- lies of the International Union fag ‘ ~ DR. JAMES ENDICOTT September 16, 1960—E ectis? ido! ay of Anti Fascist pesistam hs Fighters, to Vancouver oy ae gin a national tour of Ca Dr. Endicott is an nt tional figure in the pe of movement and one of its me . colorful speakers. Prior y O departure he stated that, js] ~ rearmament of Germany (g] - placed a time bomb for W! 4 the heart of Europe bomb must be defused bY 2 oe prohibition of nuclear W ons for any part of Geni and general controlled armament.” 2 ‘i es His tour of Canada Pig} promote the appeal World. Peace Council © iy meeting of all. heads a pe ernments, whether more U.N. or not, to get a con cot” agreement for complet® - trolled disarmament. > ACIFIC rmBuNE Pale