DISARMAMENT

While tens of thousands marched for

ee in Vancouver April 27, around the

a vince thousands of other B.C. resi-

| “ils staged local marches and rallies
8 for an end to the arms race.

“1 Victoria 5,000 participants braved
Sin to march in the capital’s fourth
a Walk for Peace April 26. They
Do €d from Centennial Square down

lglas Street to a rally at the provincial
Sslature.
heed peace activist Terry Padgham
= fora ban on U.S. nuclear equipped
om PS, which visit Victoria harbor
= the Canadian Navy base at nearby
Auimalt.
ee Permitting nuclear weapons in the
Or at least once a week, and by fed-
80vernment complicity in the arms
with We've gone from being a country
NO enemies to becoming an enemy,”
told the rally.
€ Said Victoria’s peace movement
Work coming “part of a global net-
re. of committed peace activists.
Ysicist Michael Pentz, of the British
ayy Pash for Nuclear Disarmament,

Spoke at the rally organized by the
paler Victoria Disarmament Group.
ve constructed a doomsday
| ff RB aa and it’s out of control,” Pentz,
| Sid for Vancouver’s peace festival,
by toria’s peace march was endorsed
} ; me 90 businesses and 500 individu-
} “80 placed their names in a news-
| arch ad promoting the event. The
| Sve and Tally also had the backing of
] iss area unions, including the Inter-
oo Woodworkers, the Canadian
x ie of Public Employees and B.C.
_, ‘ment Employees Union.
Vente McBride of the Nanoose Con-
| [ae Campaign told the rally there
Use apcence that some of the weapons
Ali the United States military raid on
fF a Were tested at the Canadian Force
8¢ at Nanoose Bay, up-Island.

March in Campbell River, some 200
he wed from the labor centre to a
bine? community hall Arpil 26 when
| p,. “aicelled plans for the usual rally at
‘shore Park.

Kamloops turnout record
as B.C. walks for peace

Some 600 marchers in Prince George
moved from the government buildings
through the downtown to St. Michael’s
Anglican church fora rally and fundrais-
ing lunch in the city’s fourth annual
Walk for Peace April 26. The march had
the support of local trade unions and
church groups, and the school board
prior to the event asked teachers to urge
their students to participate and “relieve
the psychological pressures” of living in
the nuclear age.

Donna McHenry of the Prince
George Campaign for Nuclear Disar-
mament said newspaper and television
ads, and large outside bus boards

March of 500 moves through downtown core in Kamloops peace walk April
26.

donated by the Standard Bus transit
company promoted the event.

Over in Kamloops, the largest rally of
its kind in that Interior city’s history saw
an estimated 500 march in the sixth
annual Walk for Peace April 26.

Val Carey, president of the Kamloops-
Shuswap Peace Council, credited the
USS. raid on Libya for the high turnout.

The march wound its way through the
downtown core to a rally at Riverside
Park where veteran B.C. Peace Council
member Jonnie Rankin pointed out the
significance of the recent nuclear-
weapons free zone declaration by Kam-
loops city council. She noted New
Zealand became a nuclear-weapons free
nation after its cities and towns and
made such declarations.

The cost of the walk was paid by
labor, church and political organiza-
tions.

In the Kootenays , more than 100
marched April 27 from the town of Sil-
verton to New Denver, peace activist
Anne Godderis reported.

At the rally, Conservative MP Bob
Brisco (Kootenay West) hit the U.S. for
continued nuclear tests and for rejecting
the Soviet Union’s offer of a joint morat-
orium. The march also involved the
communites of Trail, Castlegar, Nelson,
Kaslo and Grand Forks.

Several busloads of area residents also
attended the Vancouver Walk for Peace,
Godderis said.

Best Wishes

to our brothers & sisters
in the labor Mmovernent .
on this May Day, 1986

United Food & Commercial Workers

Local 2000

Leif Hansen, President
Hugo Tims, Secretary-Treasurer

379 - 12th Street, New Westminster, 525-8811

MAY DAY GREETINGS
to all our friends
in the labor movement.

International Longshoremen’s
& Warehousemen’s Union
Vancouver Local 500

MAY DAY
for

working class solidarity and werld peace

from the
uncil of Carpenters

MAY DAY
GREETINGS

to members

and supporters

of Labor

for Peace and Jobs

Steveston Shoreworkers Local 8 __
United Fishermen & Allied Workers Union

to all
our friends

in the labor
movement

Marine Workers and Boilermakers
industrial Union Local 1

PACIFIC TRIBUNE, APRIL 30, 1986 e 11