Question all candidates

Seek end to Vietnam war

By JIM LEECH

The Canadian Peace Congress
campaign to rally Canadians for
practical efforts to end the Viet-
namese war reached into the fed-
eral election campaign with pub-
lication Sept. 16 of a question-
naire for candidates.

The decision ot invite candi-
dates’ endorsement of its Can-
ada-wide peace efforts was
made at a weekend meeting of
the CPC’s Presiding Committee,
made up of delegates from Que-
bec, B.C. and Ontario regions.
In brief, the Congress, which
represents peace workers from
coast to coast, challenges can-
didates to take a stand on the
U.S. war against Indochina.

Delegates elected Rev. John
Morgan president of the Cana-
dian Peace Congress and Cana-
dian representative on the World
Peace Council. Mr. Morgan was
also named to attend the WPC
presidential council meeting in
Chile, October 3-9. |

By unanimous decision, the
meeting endorsed the campaigns
of the World Federation of De-
mocratic Youth build the Nguyen
Van Troi children’s hospital,
and that of the Women’s Inter-
national Democratic Federation
to build a mothers’ and chil-
dren’s hospital — both ‘in Viet-
nam.

The questions peace workers
are urged to put to candidates
at election meetings, on hot line
shows or wherever candidates
meet the public, arose directly
from receipt of a letter from
Prime Minister Trudeau’s office,
defending the government’s limp
“opposition” to the U.S. war
against Indochina, and sales of
war materials by Canada to the
U.S. for Vietnam use.

The PM defends “such defence
production sharing  arrange-
ments . . . as an ally of the
United States in North America
and in NATO” and, it follows,
in Indochina.

The Peace Congress calls upon
all those involved in work for
peace to seek commitments by
each candidate to:

Speak out openly for a com-
plete and immediate cessation of
the U.S. war in Indochina.

# Demand that the Canadian
government make strong de-
mands for the U.S. to stop all
bombing of dikes and dams ‘in
Vietnam, withdraw all armed
forces, and renounce the use of
meteorological warfare (i.e. the
seeding of clouds to cause
storms and flooding during the
monsoon season in conjunction
with destruction of dikes and
dams).

Demand that Canada cancel
all mutual defence agreements
with USA, withdraw from
NATO and NORAD, and dis-
continue the Canada-U.S. de-
fence production sharing agree-
ment which provides armaments
for use against the Indochina
people.

The Peace Congress target is
widespread endorsation of its
twin campaigns — signatures on
the petition of the World Peace
Council, addressed to Nixon, ta
save the Vietnamese dikes and,
signatures on post cards ad-
dressed to the Canadian prime
minister. The latter message
reads:

“I petition the government to:
a) Demand that the United
States withdraw all armed forces
from Indochina immediately and
negotiate peace on the basis of
_the: seyen-point peace plan. of

the Vietnamese people and’ b)

gress:

condone.

Peace Congress hits Nixon's veto

The following telegram was sent to U.S. President Nixon
by the Presiding Committee of the Canadian Peace Con-

“The Canadian Peace Congress strongly protests your veto
of the Security Council resolution which rightly condemned
the flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter by the
State of Israel in its bombing and invasion of the territories
of Lebanon and Syria, which resulted in the death of dozens
of non-combatants including many women and children. This
action by a state cannot be equated with the crime com-
mitted by individual terrorists in Munich which no one can

"Your representative defended the Israeli action as being
justified by the fact that Lebanon and Syria shelter refugee
organizations, some of whose members resort to terrorist
activities. We point out to you, Mr. President, that the United
States shelters many such organizations, and that, by this
reasoning, Cuba, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and many
other countries would be justified in bombing your country.” .

stop immediately all Canadian
sales of armaments and weap-
onry of war for use against the
Indochinese people.”

The meeting heard reports of
endorsation of both campaigns
by labor bodies such as the Van-
couver Labor Council (which ap-
proved the card campaign), labor
leaders such as Louis Laberge,
Fernand Daoust and leaders of
the CNTU (backing the dikes
petition), and the International
Congress of Geographers meet-
ing in Montreal (who warned of
the dangers of dike destruction).

The delegates heard reports of
Hiroshima Day activities in
August. In Vancouver the Peace
Action League, a union of sever-

al organizations, held a success-
ful vigil and obtained signatures
on 600 specially-printed post
cards. In Toronto a vigil and
leaflet distribution were carried
out. Hiroshima Day was marked
in Montreal by a press confer-
ence of public figures — a jurist,
a geographer, an ecologist, a
civil liberties representative, a
writer and a priest.

Peace workers are now get-
ting organizations outside their
usual scope to endorse the end-
the-bombing, end-the-war, end-
Canadian-complicity campaigns.
Municipal governments also pass
resolutions and, in some cases,
circulate campaign postcards.

Must make Vancouver
proper Canadian port

By JAMES BEYNON

VANCOUVER — Eric Waugh,
Communist candidate in Burna-
by Seymour charged that the
piecemeal development of the
port by the federal government
is a mere drop in the bucket,
and that the election ‘‘come-ons”
do not begin to meet the re-
quirements, such as a modern
container terminal.

Seattle is now becoming a

Windsor unions
condemn bombings

WINDSOR — Pearl Wedro of
Toronto, secretary of the Labor
Committee for Peace in Indo
china, addressed the Labor Coun-
cil meeting here on Sept. 12. She
described the World Assembly
which she attended in Paris last
spring and dealt with Nixon’s
escalation of the war in the re-
cent months and the responsi-
bility this places on workers
everywhere to act on behalf of
peace without delay.

Miss Wedro lauded the recent
conference of trade union repre-
sentatives that launched the La-
bor for Peace organization in the
USS.

A resolution from the floor de-
manding that President Nixon
immediately stop U.S. bombing
in Indochina and agree to a
peace settlemeiit “was! adopted!

‘ “Wriahimously. |

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1972—PAGE 4

major terminal for the handling
of Canadian goods. Vancouver is
losing roughly 30% of the cargo
business, jobs and revenues
through the short-sightedness of
the government. This trend is
increasing. Fesco, the Soviet
shipping company, is the latest
in making Seattle its North
American terminal for container
ships.

The Communist Party calls

for the immediate implementa- ~

tion of plans for the develop-
ment of cargo-handling facilities
to end the slow death of Van-
couver aS a major port on the
pacific coast.

A modern dry-dock, capable
of handling any tonnage coming
into the harbor is necessary.
Present facilities limited to
11,000 tons result in the loss of
many thousands of jobs to ship-
yard workers and allied trades.

Modern port facilities and a
dry-dock are only part of a pro-
gram necessary to put Canada
and Vancouver back into the
shipping business.

Erich Waugh called for the
establishment of a Crown Cor-
poration to build’ a Canadian
merchant fleet. Ships built in
Canada, manned by Canadians,
mean jobs. One shipbuilder re-
quires five workers in allied
trades to provide components.

The building of a steel mill in
B.C. to utilize local raw materi-
als — iron-ore, coal, natural gas,
etc. — is an integral part of
the industrial development of
Canada © and ‘ specifically» fship:
building.

By JOHN WEIR

The terrorist gang led by
Dmytro Kupiak was tried in the
Ukraine (the chief in absentia
since he was making a new
career in Canada) for the killing
of over 200 men, women and
children in 1944-45. The num-
ber of victims was well over
200, but these were the ones
selected for the actual charges.
I couldn’t personally interview
all of the witnesses (I had read
their testimony and watched the
trial proceedings on film) but
of those I did talk with school-
teacher Lydia Poroniuk left an
especially indelible impression.

She was only four and a half
at the time. Her mother, Maria
Nachas, a schoolteacher in the
village of Hrabova, had just
placed the child in the bath tub.
They were in holiday mood be-
cause her father, Kostyantin
Nachas, a district school inspec-
tor, had come home for the
weekend. This was in the even-
ing of Feb. 17, 1945.

Suddenly a group of bandits
walked in, looked around and
told the husband and wife to go
into the bedroom. Maria left the

child in the bath and went.

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Lydia heard shots, and froze it {
her ‘bath (that saved her life, sit
believes, because if she Cl
and drawn the attention of ill
killers to herself, she woul
have been shot as other childte!
were, including infants).
watched them hurriedly ransach
the house for valuables #
vanish into the night.
A neighbor woman took I
she grew up without a fathe |
and mother’s care, but 8 i
people helped. She is now
school teacher with two chil
of her own. But she can’t fi
She was too upset to g0
me to the cemetary where ©")
parents are buried. ooh
“I am always sick for a W”
after,” she said. “And “
Canada really be the kind j
country where they would putt
bandit, a murderer, in gO |
ment?” sah
I explained that Mr. Kure
is so far only a Conserva™ |
candidate, not a member of Par
government, but she kept © |
peating: —
“What shame! What shalt
(I have part of that interv!
with me on tape.)
(To be continued)

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“Lang's anti-labor talk
evades farmers’ plig!

SWIFT CURRENT — “Mr.
Otto Lang’s deliberately vicious
attack on trade unions is a clear
indication that working people
can expect more unemployment,
poverty and do-nothing after the
elections are over,” said William
Beeching, Saskatchewan leader
of the Communist Party, speak-
ing to a.group of party support-
ers here.

Mr. Beeching, who is Com-
munist candidate in Regina,
said, “the fact is that it has
been the policies his and pre-
ceding Tory governments have
followed which have ruined tens
of thousands of farmers and
driven them from the land. It
has been a regular feature of
elections for farmers to be told
they should grow all the grain
they can; then, once the elec-
tions are over, the government
complains that the farmers have
produced too much.

“Mr. Lang, using technical
lawyers’ double-talk, dodges the
real problem plaguing farmers—
the problem of rising costs
brought about by monopoly pro-
fiteering and U.S. imperialism’s
war against .VietnaniisThese are’
the same companies which are

“The real issue in this,
tion,” further stated Mt of
ing, “is the elaboration ©.
policies which would keeP 4
ers on the land, contro”
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income, which would 4
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