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from Vancouver.

$8,479.

the committee.

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P.O. Box 2543
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Money is being raised for artificial limbs to help the crippled -
children of Vietnam walk again.

Remember the children
of Vietnam this Xmas

“The urgent need of medical aid and all forms of
assistance has not lessened, particularly in areas of South
Vietnam where air and artillery attacks; and the use of noxious
chemical sprays have been intensified since the cessation of
hostilities against North Vietnam.”’

This was stressed in a press statement released by Mrs.
Sheila Young of the Children’s Committee of the Canadian Aid
for Vietnam Civilians this week, while announcing that a
Christmas shipment of four boxes containing over 900
children’s garments and blankets valued at $1,700 left Sunday,
Dec. 15 for Vietnam aboard the Soviet freighter S.S. Orekov

The Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians is currently ina _
campaign for funds to purchase artificial limbs for amputees
under fifteen years of age. So far, the appeal has realized

The committee, headed by Dr. Alan Inglis, is circulating a
special Christmas appeal urging the public to remember the
children of Vietnam this Christmas by sending in a donation to

Contributions to help the people of Vietnam can be sent to
the following address: Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians,
P.O. Box 2543, Vancouver 3, B.C.

NATO alliance iii

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world, and the working class
movement in the capitalist
world. An example of this, he
said, was the concurrence by
NATO at the recent Brussels’
meeting that the revanchist
West German government
speaks for all Germans.

This stand opens the door for
West Germany to undo the
outcome of World War 2. In
essence it supports West
German territorial claims in
eastern and central Europe and
denies the existence of the
German Democratic Republic.

The Communist leader said
that NATO has rebuilt West
Germany into a Frankenstein
again as was shown by the recent
currency crisis. ‘“‘For the first
time since the end of the war
West German bankers said ‘no’
to the U.S., Britain and France.
West Germany has now grown
again to the position where it
talks back to its masters.”’

Quoting West German
strongman Franz Joseph Strauss
that West Germany has been a
financial giant and a political
dwarf too long and that its
political power must now be

recognized, Kashtan said the
western imperialist states are
trying to turn West Germany
around again to the East, as they
did before World War 11.

‘How can there be a detente
between the socialist and capit-
alist states when the aim of
NATO is to strengthen and
support West German claims in
Europe,’ asked Kashtan.

“Canada can be an effective
force for peace if it adopted an
independent policy for peace.”
Kathtan said as long as Canada
remains in NATO it will remain
a puppet of the U.S. Canada’s
membership in NATO comes up
next year and Canada will be
faced with the choice of
renewing its military alliance or
withdrawing.

The Communist Party — of
Canada is launching a national
campaign for the withdrawal of
Canada from NATO. Plans are
underway to enter the national
debate, expected to get rolling in
the New Year, to rally support
among the Canadian people for a
new independent foreign policy
free from NATO military

entanglements.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—DECEMBER 20, 1968—Page 4

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LABOR SCENE

Bribery charge hurled

at Socreds at VLC parley |

Following the abrupt adjourn-
ment of the previous session of
the Vancouver and District

Labor Council (VLC) because of '

the sudden passing of delegate
Coray Campbell (Steel-
workers), this week’s session
opened with a brief tribute by
vice-president Syd Thompson
(IWA). ‘‘This brother,’ said
Thompson, ‘“‘stuck to his beliefs
to the end of his life, and his
death is a great loss to organized
labor, and especially to his own
union.”’

At the request of vice-
president Thompson VLC
delegates observed a standing
minute of silence in memory of
Coray Campbell.

DISRUPTERS

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cial convention,”
stated.

Delegates to the convention
reported that in recent weeks,
especially since the convention
was called to deal with the
activities of the Caron-Ruddell
group, 27 new members. had
joined the clubs of the Com-
munist Party in B.C.

Maurice Rush, Provincial
chairman of the Party in B.C.,
officially opened the convention
in the Fishermen’s Hall
Saturday morning. The intro-
ductory report was delivered by
Nigel Morgan, Provincial
leader, and William Kashtan,
National leader of the Party who
was concluding a national tour in
B.C. was a featured speaker
Sunday.

“Plans were laid to launch a

Morgan

campaign to help end the war in -

Vietnam and fight for Canada’s
withdrawal from NATO and
NORAD. One of the more
important resolutions adopted,
called for action by the Provin-
cial government to bring strip-
mining under strict government
control and protect the job oppor-
tunities of British Columbians
by pressing a program of
nationalization of foreign
holdings and imposing restric-
tions on exports of raw materials
that could be processed in B.C.
“Plans for the Party’s spring
Legislative campaign centred
around efforts to obtain repeal of
Bill 33; solution of the acute
housing, education and hospital
crisis, pollution control and
better provisions for municipal

tax relief and municipal amal,

gamations.”’

Joining the Caron-Ruddell
group of disrupters in Vancouver
was former Van-couverite
Charles Boylan, who deserted his
post in Toronto as editor of the
youth magazine Scan to come
here to join in the attack on the
Communist Party. 2

Not member of CP

The Communist Party in
Vancouver announced this week
that Bert Johnson is no longer a
member. In a letter explaining

‘his desertion Johnson wrote.

“The reasons are of course
political. The views I have
regarding . . . the Canadian CP
and its program are generally
know and have been for several

”

Executive Committee of the
Party is expected to deal with his
case in the near future.

Submitted in the VLC
executive report were letters of
resignation from VLC past-
president Ed Sims and Charles
Stewart, the 3rd VCL vice-
president. Both letters were
unanimously accepted by the
VLC delegate body, despite
Sims’ ‘‘note of sadness’ at

leaving the VLC, or Stewart’s .

“pledge” to try and make Bill 33

provisions work without having

to resort to compulsory arbitra
tion.

Wm. Stewart Berane
Workers) drew the “attention of
VLC delegates to a feature
column comment in the
December 4 edition of the North
Vancouver paper ‘‘The Citizen’,
which stated that more than 100
applications from prominent
union leaders had been received

by the Minister of Labor, seeking .

appointments to serve on Bill 33
mediation commission jobs,
people who had hitherto been
blasting Bill 33 no end.

“Since no names of such
applicants are given,’’ declared
Stewart, ‘‘such statements
which are also copied and run in
other coast papers, makes every
union leader here and elsewhere
suspect.”’

VLC Secretary Paddy Neale
stated that ‘‘despite many
rumors to the contrary, which
probably makes me more
suspect than most, I have never
made an application to the
board, and I don’t intend to make
any such application. I was
approached about four months
ago with the suggestion that I
would be acceptable as a
mediator, but I said, ‘Thanks,
but no thanks’. I am a trade
unionists and I hope to stay in the
trade union movement. I abide
by the rule of the majority and I
know the majority is opposed to
Bill 33.”’

Jack Phillips (CUPE) charged
the Bennett government with
‘‘wholesale bribery and
corruption of labor leaders” in
its desperate efforts to make the
compulsory arbitration
provisions of Bill 33 acceptable
to labor.

‘“‘What we are witnessing by
these appointments,’’ said
Phillips, “‘is an attempt to make
Bill 33 ‘respectable’ by political
corruption and bribery. They
have deliberately picked
allegedly militant trade union
leaders, some even with left-
wing leanings, in order to
hoodwink labor into accepting
Bill 33”’.

A recommendation from Local
1-217. of the International
Woodworkers of America (IWA)
for a one-day seminar of all shop

‘stewards in VLC affiliates be

held to plan new strategy in the
fight against Bill 33, was
approved by the VLC delegate
body. With many other unions,
the Vancouver IWA is “not
satisfied at the way labor’s fight
against Bill 33 is going.”’

The VLC gave unanimous
approval to the demand that the
criminal charges against the 114
students involved in the recent
‘take-over’ of the adminis-
tration building at SFU be
immediately dropped. Other
unions including Carpenters,
Bakery, etc., have already

‘forwarded letters to attorney-

general Peterson with similar

‘requests that these charges be

dropped forthwith.

Frank Kennedy, chairman of
the VLC Metropolitan Com-
mittee and chairman of COPE,
gave a brief interim report on
the recent civic elections and the
impact COPE had made in the
campaign. Aside from the re-
election of Alderman Harry
Rankin on the COPE slate, all

. other COPE candidates for civic

office had received substantial

: support.

‘Dancers of the Royal Ballet of Winnipeg are shown in Leningrad. They
have just completed a tour of the Soviet Union and were a sensation in

Moscow where they gave their final performances.

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