Top Bonn official gets
‘life’ for war crimes

A sentence of life imprisonment
was passed in Berlin last week
on West Germany’s highest civil
servant—Dr. Hans Globke, State
Secretary to Chancellor Aden-
auer. i

Dr. Globke, aged 64, was tried
in his absence on charges of
“creating the legal foundations
for the Hitler dictatorship in
Germany.”

Hans Glboke in 1941 dressed
in Nazi uniform. That year he
assumed the Interior Minis-
try-posts in charge of "The
New Order in the West.”

100,000 to march in U.S.

On Aug. 28 an estimated 100,-
000 marchers will descend on
Washington and the White House
to demand Negro freedom now.

A call to take part is going
to Negro and white groups —

_ labor unions, churches civic, fra-
; ternal and educational bodies.

“They are marching for the
hungry, the jobless and the un.
trained of all races. They are
marching for better schools for
all children. They are marching
for those Americans who,
through no fault of their own,

have reached the bottom,” said

the Journal of the United Mine
Workers.

Quake losses

As the P.T. goes to press, sur-

- vivors and dead are still being

pulled from the ruins of ancient
Skopje, the capital of Yugoslav
Macedonia. An earthquake has de-
stroyed four out’ of five buildings
in the city aud left between 6,000
and 8,000 wounded and dead. —

Two German’ women, sole sur-
~ vivors of the 300 guests in the
Macedonia Hotel, told of their
escape. “The hotel started to

wobble and, gripped with panic, ©
_ we went out by the main staircase

just as we were in our nightdress-

PAUMANT AT

He was accused of committing
with other persons war crimes
and crimes against humanity be-
tween 1932 and 1945, and so con.
tributing to the annihilation of
whole peoples and millions of
persons.

Known as the “Grey Eminence
of Bonn,’”’ Globke has held the
reins of open and secret govern-
ment in West Germany for 14
years.

Under him are the West Ger-
man Secret Service and the Fed-
eral Press Office. His depart-
ment decides appointments and
dismissals. The most significant
documents for Dr. Adenauer go
over his desk.

He is chairman of the State
Secretaries’ Committe for De-
fence which initiated the notor-
ious Spiegel case last autumn.
He is also head of the Shadow
Cabinet of 25 state secretaries,
of whom 15 have known Nazi
records.

Dr. Globke has said he intends
to retire next October 1, at about
the same time as Dr. Adenauer.

The paper declared, ‘‘the rest
of us have got to stop arguing
moderation, we have got to stop
tinkering. The Negro problem,
as the white majority calls it,
is not the problem of a particular
group; it is an American prob-
lem. Massive neglect demands a
massive remedy.”

NAACP Executive Secretary
Roy Wilkins said the march on
Washington was to influence Con.

gress to pass President Ken- ~

nedy’s civil rights program.

“Tt may not be the best pro-
gram, but it is the best program
ever offered by a president,’’ he
said.

heavy

es. As soon as we got out in the
street, we saw the hotel collapse
like a sand castle, burying every-
one inside.” Eyewitnesses also
saw the City Hall disappear in a
cloud of dust.

Yugoslav Army units are spear-
heading relief work. Survivors
of the disaster have been evac.
uated to surrounding districts and
big efforts are being made to en-
sure food supplies for them.
Teams of surgeons and_ skin
specialists have been flown in,
but damage to the hospitals has
made it difficult to treat the
wounded. Many injured people
are lying in the corridors and
yards of hospitals in neighboring
towns.

The epicentre of the quake was
in the heart of the city. It felled
the railway station, the Army
Club, the National Bank, and
many housing estates built since
World War II. More than half
of the city’s 200,000 people have
been left homeless.

Two days of national mourning
were held when all public events
jand entertainments ‘were can-
celled.

On Tuesday a seubrid earth
tremor was reported in the city.
The Yugoslav government has an. .

nounced the city will be rebuilt

on a new, safer site.

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Test han pact wins wide approval

Cont’d. from pg. 1

and to consult with them continu.
ing discusion on this question with
the purpose of achieving agree-
ment satisfactory to all partici-
pants.

“A brief exchange of views al-
so. took place with regard to
other measures directed at a
relaxation of tension,’’ said the

communique.
URGE EAST-WEST PACT
Immediately following the

agreement on the draft treaty
Soviet Premier Khrushchev said
that provided there was good-
will, an East-West non-aggress-
ion pact could be agreed quickly.

“There will be no lack of such
goodwill on our side,’’ he said in
an interview with Pravda and
Izvestia.

Such a pact was an internation-
al question of first priority and
“it would have a beneficial in.
fluence on the entire situation,’
he said. :

Asked what form a non-aggres-
sion treaty might take Khrush-
chev said, ‘‘We are convinced it
will not be difficult to reach agree-

B.C. ELECTRIC

Cont'd. from pag. 1

interests of B.C. and to sell-out
the Columbia to the U.S. It never
had any intention to pass the
benefits of public ownership of
the B.C.E. on to the consumers.

‘It intended from the beginning
to retain the high rate structure,
among the highest in North Am-
erica, to compel the public to
finance, along with cash received
from the sale of the Columbia
to U.S. interests, to develop the
Peace River.

“This scheme by Premier Ben-
nett has blown up in his face,
and has placed in ieonardy nnb-
lic ownership of the B.C.E., which
is backed by the overwhelraing
majority of British Columbians.

‘The people of B.C. have a
vital stake in the fight now going
on. It would be a serious mistake
to leave this matter entirely up
to the courts to be decided.

_ “The demand of the people of
B.C. for public ownership of the
B.C.E. with the full benefits of
such ownership passed on to the
consumers in lower rates and
better services must now be
heard more loudly than ever,”

_ concludes the statement.

ment. There are not and cannot
be any spe OuaLable obstacles
here.”’

The nuclear test-ban treaty was
“a good start’’ and showed how
international problems could be
settled on mutually acceptable
terms. Addressing himself to the
Western powers Khrushchev said:

“Let us now go farther toward
easing international tension and
abolishing the old war. This will
open the way to settling the fund-
amental question of general and
compiete disarmament.”

MANY TO SIGN

Dozens of countries, including
Canada, have already indicated
a willingness to sign the test ban
treaty. In the US. it is reported
that a powerful grass roots pres-
sure from among the public has
forced reatcionary senators to

give way reluctantly to ratifica-~

tion of the treaty.

Main criticism of the test-ban
pact has come from France. West
Germany and People’s China.
French Premier de: Gaullt made
it clear that France will re-
ject the treaty and press on
towards becoming a fully-
fledged nuclear power. He also
expressed opposition to a non-

BURNABY LABOR
PREPARES FOR
CIVIC ELECTION

At a meeting of the Burnaby
Labor Committee held in Jubi-
lee Labor Hail Wednesday,
July 24, it was decided to hold
a further meeting in Septem-
ber to prepare for municipal
elections.

At the September meeting,
committees willbe set up to
organize labor’s maximum
participation in the Burnaby-
municipal elections.

A report given at the Wed-
nesday meeting, and unani-
mously adopted, shows that of
the three municipal parties
Labor is now the challenger.

The last two elections show
that while the N.P.A. has
made gains, labor has also in-
creased substantially.

, The B.C.A.’s support has de-
clined to the extent that it is
considered doubtful if they can
elect one candidate, on their

own, in the December election.

FIRST TIME IN 800 YEARS. The first Papal envoy to Russia in 800
years, Bishop Francois Chauriere (right), chats with 85-year-old
Patriarch Alexei of Moscow and All-Russia. Bishop Chauriere is the
“personal representative of Pope Paul VI at the celebration in Mos-

_ cow to mark the 50th anniversary of the Patriarch’s appointment.

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agegresion pact.

Meanwhile Monday’s People’s
Daily in Peking, China, criticized
the treaty as an attempt of the
nuclear powers to obtain a nuc-
lear monopoly and a U.S. move
to weaken the socialist camp by
restricting China and other social-
ist countries who do not now pos-
sess nuclear weapons. ;

It also charged that the treaty
is an imperialist trap. %

This week Soviet newspaper
Pravda accused France, West
Germany and China of seeking
to block a test-ban treaty. Izvest-
ia also rejected Chinese charges
that the three powers were con-
spiring to maintain a monopoly
of nuclear weapons by agreeing t0
the pact.

Meanwhile, the eyes of the whole
world will be on Moscow next
Monday when British Foreign
Minister Home. U.S. state secre
tary Rusk, and Soviet Foreigt
Minister Gronivka meet to form-
ally sign the test-ban treaty. —

Describing the treaty as ‘“‘the
first major breakthrough in the
long and bitter cold war, the
B.C. Peace Council announced it
will hold a carcade and rally this”
Sunday, the anniversary of Hiro-
shima Day, in Stanley Park
Hallelujah Point.

In a statement on the rally the -
Peace Council declares:

“We here in Canada can do our —
part by seeing to it that our gov”
ernment reverses its decision tO —

This is no time for the spreading
of nuclear weapons to nations not — i
now possessing them. It is the |
time to press forward towards
an end to the arms race and
towards general and complete”

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include Vancouver Civic Employ-—
ees (Outside Workers), Street
Railwaymen’s Union, Pulp and
Sulphite, etc., while Atlantic Sea
board unions in Halifax, including
the Seafood Workers Union,
Marine Workers Union, and Mat- —
ine Workers Federation (CLC)
has also pledged ‘‘full support”. —

At press time it was learned
that B.C. Labor Minister Peter-
Minister of
Fisheries Robichaud have pro
posed a “six man’ committee,
three from each department. AS
seen by the UF&AWU and other —
sections of organized labor, the —
work of this committee will be
aimed primarily at restrictive
measures prohibiting strike action ;
in the fishing industry, and im- —
posing a form of compulsory arb-
itration in place of free collective —
bargaining. Such a move in the
opinion of organized labor, not
only constitutes a threat to the
UF&AWU, but to all unions.

At press time it was also learn-
ed that the Fisheries Association
and the union, on the recommend-
ation of the provincial and fed
eral ministers, were considering —
going into arbitration to end the
present deadlock.

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