h By NELSON CLARKE
; HON and his generals continue
Pein essly escalate their war
Rap St the Vietnamese people.
‘, €scalating is the great strug-
MM, democratic mankind for
MH *Md self determination in Viet-
he F
y | interac Vietnamese people of
: Beorth and the south are deal-
Myc Ore telling blows against
h Bs of ere S80r- The protests of the
Hh... ‘he world against the cruel
Pret, Te now joined by the gov-
: hi of over 40 countries.
‘Ris ue World crisis around Viet-
PP sry Coming to a head in a de-
MM, e8le between the policies of
hang Which could lead to world
all the powerful forces de-

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Ay jet i
hs a €nd to the aggression. Vietnam, hee keep two considera- the Vancouver Labor Council, the
adian j tions in mind. nited Electrical Workers, and Local
thes overnment flect-
at Impact this Gtanic worl First, as the demonstrations on Oct. 1005, USWA. (Stelco, Hamilton) not
Mies i It has shifted away from 21, and in Quebec on Nov. 17 impres- enough labor bodies have gone beyond
Mi Macy”, as was first shown sively show, there is an increasingly that stage to give active encourage-
the SPeech to the UN General wide section of the Canadian people ment and leadership to their members
; hy last September. In a number especially those already participating to take part in demonstrative activity. |
Ph jalent statements, although in the peace movement who are pre- Perhaps, one of the problems here is

tens foyutinued evasive on the
be hag ollowing an end of bomb-
of, UeVertheless spoken of the

IM ey Mt of their choice, and has

Ie dap tore forthright in warning

2p
tt RNY letnamese people to the

€t of further U.S. escala-

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f Poe mt Statements, as some in
Cu reg vement do, only as more

Ptivay” 1S to ignore the fact that

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of this country from U.S. policy.

The struggle will take many forms,
including in all probability demonstra-
tive actions at plants making those
goods for the U.S. war machine. It is
to be hoped that all such efforts will
seek to build understanding and unity
with the workers in the plants con-
cerned stressing the positive alter-
natives of peaceful production. Every-
thing that is done should form part of
a pcwerful movement directed to the
demand that the Canadian government
stop the sale of over $300 million of
war equipment to the United States as
long as the aggression goes on.

It seems to this writer that in the
present situation, readers of the Cana-
dian Tribune, who are in their over-
whelming majority devoted to the fight
for peace and self determination in

pared to demand, together with com-
plete dissociation of Canada from the
war and an end to arms sales, that
Canada stand up for the complete
withdrawal of United States troops
from Vietnam, allowing the Vietnam-
ese people to settle their own affairs
in peace, freedom and independence.
We have to guard against any ten-
dency to fall behind this sentiment on
the part of those forces with whom we
are working most closely, while we

undertaken ovér several months of
consistent work by a group of young
people in Toronto.

In a similar context, active trade
unionists face the challenge of how
the full weight of the membership of
the unions as a whole can be brought
to bear on the issue of Vietnam —
recognizing that the action of the
working class which makes up the
great majority of the population will
be the decisive factor in tipping the
scales to peace.

Here it should be said once more
that the organized labor movement in
Canada has by and large taken a good
stand on Vietnam as registered in re-
solutions adopted at Congress, and
federation conventions, and in local
unions. With such noteworthy excep-
tions as the B.C. Federation of Labor,

the issue'of Vietnam as one which not
only presents a profoundly moral
problem to all men, but which is
directly related to the economic strug-
gles of the working class of Canada.
Yet as the Communist Party’s state-
ment last week said, an important
contributing factor to inflation “is the
U.S. war in Vietnam which has tied up
a major part of that country’s eco-
nomy in producing for war, paid for by

a € Canadia tand, to= the people but not delivering any pro-
W n stand, to é 4 ig any p

Mey th that of man : strive to win all those forces to an ducts for sale to the consumer market
hts y other gov : :
fea et th understanding of the need and possibil- As Canada’s economy is linked to the

leant the UN Assembly, has
{1 Neg algyi ei@htened the pressure
There “Nn on Johnson and com-
HT kd to ae Many factors which
Mike infice pot — the military
Vietn “teas on the aggressor by
ODDositin: People, the vast world
; te ited to the war, the dissent
"ho into d Statés itself which
Ah” which cles Of U.S. big. busi-

VS hee, + € Canadian govern-
Ay’! to oe or At the same time it
mh ae factors at work at

"Wider ~the increasing pres-

nied POPular Support. This
Hy *2Urase ey Made very strongly

ity to find the ways of drawing hitherto
passive and confused sections of the
people into action.

Which brings me to the second con-
sideration—that is the need to do all
that can be done to encourage new
forces to come into some kind of ac-
tion however limited against the war.
Clearly, Martin’s recent statements, as
did Gordon’s before them, open up
new possibilities of drawing many
supporters of the old parties into
some expresison of opposition to the

are demonstrating, demonstrations are
not the only, and usually not the first,
form of activity in which they parti-

cipate.

U.S. economy by innumerable ties,
war-rooted inflation in that country in-
evitably spills over into ours.”

\ And certainly too, it is of great con- :

cern to the labor movement to see to it
that Mitchell Sharp’s current budget
slashing is directed not against the
people of Canada, but against the
totally unnecessary and _ unrealistic
arms budget which is maintained at its
present levels because Canada con-
tinues in the NATO war alliance with
the U.S.

BD opine 8 Sections of Canadi

Pinion os of Canadian war. ig a i

Ny, which a : This illustrates the kind of argu-
‘ te Bove paunot be! “ig Although more and more Canadians ments that need to be elaborated on

by progressives in the labor move-
ment, to show that the fight for a
better life for Canadian workers is in-
separably linked with ending the war

hy} convicti oes ‘
if ey ggpeace can crt ues The development of widening move- in Vietnam.
f *eressin With redoubled efforts ment of women knitting for Vietnam We can only have confidence that
Hy 8 can be children is a good example of a é y I a
Ah, this 1; ended. ese ‘activity in which many people the Vietnamese people, splendidly sup-
hg fact th light that we need to form of ie engage. Indeed the ported by the Soviet Union and other
weight 12t Martin is not movin first teehee ment for medi- socialist countries, with the mounting
hositisy, line t 8 whole area of the move solidarity of all the world’s people, and

W ition, Owards a full i-
te Stray en did Martin i
y tement Bht line?) Coupled with
eh 8 above mentioned has
Angra pritical assertion that
Ia With * Concerned with what
' See materials ex-
nn inition that Martin can
AB &xpec¢ to move off.
lseug a the coming months
Revel Uniteg Pine the sale of
f Mt Re in he States will occupy
about : ® fight of Canadians
fomplete dissociation

States.

_ for example for me

cal aid has great potential in bringing
very large sections of people into ac-
ivity in suppo é
Saas It ‘ages be hoped that in the
coming months, the example of the
Vancouver tag day will be taken up
in more cities across Canada.

There is a lot more that can be done
to take the issue of Vietnam to people
in their homes through the canvassing
of people on a community basis asking

dical aid, and an
ssion of opinion with respect to
oe "Vietnam war. Such a project was

rt of the Vietnamese -

not least the people of North America,
can defeat and end the United States
aggression. :

And let us have no doubt about it—
that victory made possible by the
united actions of millions upon mil-
lions of people around the world will
open up a new era for mankind, giving
the most powerful impetus to every
movement for democracy, freedom and
social advance in every part of the

‘globe, leading to to the socialist future

of ail humanity.

(NO

The Intrepid four tel

| why —

nam, but not Americans. With only seven percent

because in our opinion the murder and neapiess
slaughter of civilians through the sys rashes
bombing of an agricultural, _poverty stri
country, by a technological aor is ae ae :
i the U.S. must discontinue a
te out of Vietnam, letting the
Vietnamese people govern themselves.
We believe that further escalation in Vietnam

ly TOR
fl bigs Which na? the aircraft carrier, USS

‘ d been on duty in the Gulf of
*hy : y in the Gull o
lp North Vietnam, reached Yosuko,

thay Mi

Ninth a, {7ce! Barilla, Richard D. Bailey,

y ee behing ner and Craig W. Anderson re-

a Noy, 5, When the Intrepid left on Oct. 24.
yin wh: a joint press conference

iin hich they explained their reasons

We Pring Ship,

of the world’s population and control of one
third of the world’s wealth, Americans should
make a humanitarian stand rather than a mili-
tary stand.

We believe that all military expenses should
be cut. The money now spent for the war effort |
should be rechanneled into health, education
and welfare, throughout the world. .

It is our: fervent hope that our actions will

i i confrontation with
bag AT Te vid Ww move you, wherever you are, whoever you are, to
do whatever you can to bring peace to Vietnam.

China, resulting in a world war.
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