Bonn prepares for H-arms

West Germany is planning to
build 700-ton U-boats able to fire
nuclear rockets — flouting the re-
strictions her. own allies placed
on the size of Bonn’s submarines.

The plan was ‘‘leaked’’ last
week by Admiral Karl-Adolf Zen-
ker, a former Hitler officer — he
helped prepare the invasions of
Denmark, Norway and Holland
—now commanding Bonn’s navy.

The leak, in an interview in the
Kieler Nachrichten, was accord-
ing to Bonn sources, deliberately
made during President Kennedy’s
talks with Prime Minister Mac-

millon about the mixed-manned
nuclear force.

The new move is yet another
step by the ex-nazis in Bonn to
get independent control of nu-
clear weapons. Admiral Zenker
made it clear that the big U-boats
are for use ‘‘in the deeper waters
of the Baltic Sea.”

The Western European Union's
Paris agreements restrict the size
of German submarines; last Oc-
tober they were amended, at Ad-
enauer’s request, to permit ves-
sels up to 450 tons.

Russell hits arms for Iraq

LORD RUSSELL

The recent ‘decision of the Brit-- |

ish government to. send military
equipment to Iraq has been con-
demned in a statement issued by
Earl Bertrand’ Russell.

Lord Russell also said that the
refusal of the Iraqi government
to allow his representatives to
visit the country tended to con-
firm reports of brutal warfare
against populations and of numer-
ous executions of political oppon-
ents.

Russell had written to Presi-
dent Arif of Iraq in February and
received permission for his rep-

_resentatives to visit the country.

Arif has since done an about face
on the request.

Independent Kenya in Dec.

Kenya will become independent
on December 12, subject to the
necessary steps being completed
in‘ time, according to a White

- Paper published in London, Eng.

recently.

A conference on the final form

of Kenya’s constitution will start
in London in late September and
it is hoped that the East African
"Federation of Kenya, Tanganyika

Freedom marches throughout
the U.S. will reach their climax

_ Aug. 28 in a march on Washing-

ton. This was the decision agreed
on by the Students Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee, the Con-
gress of Racial Equalit y and the
Negro American Labor Council

- recently.

The march will emphasize Negro
support for the civil rights pro-
gram of President Kennedy in the

A new peace organization cal-

led Universities Committee on the
Problems of War and Peace has ©

‘been organized among faculty
members on 60 U.S. campuses. Its
first action was insertion of a

full page ad in the New York —
Times asking citizens to write

President Kennedy urging a com.
prehensive nuclear test
treaty.

Headquarters fox the committee
are at = State ocak Legs in

ban!
Yack".

and Uganda will be inauguratcd
before the end of the year.

Britain will not retain a base
in Kenya and her forces are to
be withdrawn over a period of
up to 12 months from the date of
independence.

The question of the defence fa-
cilities which Britain and Kenya
might be able to offer each other
after independence would be a
matter for further discussion. -

Giant march on Washington

face of expected filibustering tac-
tics by Dixiecrat and Republican
senators.

Groups in 28 cities have already
begun coordinating their activities
with that goal in mind.

~The three groups agreed to
press ahead with the gigantic

- demonstration even though they
had not been encouraged to do so-

by the President or any other pro-
minent member of his administra-
tion.

Profs form new peace group

ment which rejects the concepts

of a nuclear “balance of power"

to preserve peace, and of “the in-
evitability of nuclear war.”

In the newspaper ad,,signed and
paid for by 1,000 faculty members
from 84 schools, the committee
stated: ‘“‘There is no system of
defence capable of fully protect-
ing the U.S. from an all out at--
. A better strategy for
peace cast focus upon oportuni-
ties for skilled negotiations.”

The appeal declared that ‘“‘t

‘argument over the number of oe

site inspections must not deflect

us; it is of a ce a and not a.

* subiccts

*

B.C. labor lashes out
at ‘stifling’ confab

A growing section of B.C.’s la-
bor movement is raising its voice
in condemning the recently held
labor - management conference.
(See adjoining editorial comment
and earlier story on Jage 7.)

Thirty-two trade unionists

the agenda and prcceaure were
“undemocratic, stifling, and cal-
ulated to prevent consideration of
views which do not co‘ncide with
the views of 15 selected panel
members.”’

In a signed statement distribut-
cd te delegates from labor and
management, the unicnists de-
scribed the gathering as
ceenference at all but
of prepared lectures.”

(Early in the sessions, chairman
Dr. J. T. Montague announced
that appointed panelists would
speak on a number of selected
fcllewing which dele-
gates could submit written ques-

tions.)
William Stewart, president ot

the Marine Workers and Boiler-
makers union, asked reconsider-
ation of the policy on the grounds
it denied delegates the right to
ask verbal questions dnd gave the
chairman the power to determine
which written questions would be
posed.

United Fishermen & Allied
Workers secretary Homer Ste-
vens said he had attended a fed-
eral-provincial conference on na-
tural resources in Montreal two
years ago with 711 delegates pres-
ent. In spite of the number, tne
conference premitted questions

“not a
a_ series

and brief comments from the _

floor.
The chairman said both points

would be noted. He later announc-
ed that he had polled the plan-
ning committee and its members
had ‘unanimously decided to
stand by the rules.’’ With that,
he adjourned the conference and
refused to allow discussion of the
ruling when the afternoon session
opened.

Stevens attempted to place on
record remarks made by prov-
incial labor minister Leslie Pe-
terson in the legislature, January
31. At that time, Peterson had
said: “To ensure adequate time
for discussion, I would suggest
that the conference extend over
a three day period.”

Stevens was prevented from
making his contribution, however,
as was Betty Donaldson (Mine
Mill).

In addition to the statement of
the 32 unionists, the well known
Vancouver firm Trade Union Re-
search Bureau issued a statement
in which it charged that ‘‘inost
of the real problems facing the

working people of B.C. were by-

at-
tending the conference charged |;

On June 26, 27 aNd 28 a labor-
management conference — was
held in Vancouver. The confer-
ence, sponsored by the prov-
incial Dept. of Labor, was to
have dealt with industrial rela-
tions and was no doubt prompt-
ed by labor’s militant struggles
last fall at Allied Enginering,
Zeller’s ete.

At that time the employers,
the government and the courts
all combined against labor; po-
lice dogs were turned on_ pic-
kets, injuMctions were indiscri-
minately isued, men were jail-
ed for acting on picket lines,

Editorial comment

and so on.

The conference was ostersibly
held to try to resolve this  sit-
uation. But instead of being just
that—a_ conference— it turned
out to be a forum with a captive
audience for a few selected per-
sonalities. The right wing lead-
ership of the trade union move-
ment joined haads with the boss-
es and prevented rank and file
questioning aNd discusion.

It is hardly likely that un-
democratic procedures such as
these will do anything to help
create smoother industrial rela-
tions in B.C., or anywhere in
Canada, for that matter. —

passed in a maze of generalities
and platitudes.

“The entire atmosphere of the
proceedings was one of unreality
and bias. How could it be other-
wise when representatives of the
second, third, fourth and _ fifth
largest unions in the province
were denied the right to speak?”’

The TUR statement continued:
“Some idea of the unreality can
be gotten by reviewing the lec-
tures on the impact of technologi-
cz) change on collective bargain-
ing. Despite the official recogni-
tion that there was a rapid ad-
vance in mechanization and auto-
mation and a growing number of

people entering the labor market,
the chosen panelists could find
little time to seriously consider
the historical solution to this vital
question—the shortening of the
working day.

“It is a fact that Mr. R. Bell,
Director of Research for the Can-
adian Labor Congress; gave his
opinion that this basic demand
would be of little use in the solu-
tion of the problem.

“Because discussion. from th
floor had been ruled out, the
mistaken impression was . left
that the labor movement as @
whole agrees with this opinion.”

“SAY THAT ouR AIM 1S To MAKE AN HONEST DOLLAR E
DON'T MENTION We MADE 200 MILLION L

Two Tories deplore U.S. Control

Two former Tory cabinet

ministers have stated that the ©

U.S. exercises too great an in-
fluence in the economic life
of Canada.

H. H. Stevens, now 85, told
a Kiwanis
couver: “We as Canadians
should say very plainly that
as America’s outstanding cus-
tomer we claim the right to
have you sit down with us
and study” the extent to-
which our economy is paw
_ gated. ;

He was speaking at the panetne

to mark the 187th Independence |

Day (July. 4) celebration of the
cS; ertere :
Pointing to a long list of prod-
ucts bought by us from the U.S.—
steel, rubber, coffee, wool, ete.—

he showed that the U.S. produces _

none of these commodities, but in -
turn buys them elsewhere, We,

_ Walker

meeting in Van-.

-S. than 180 million
~buy from Canada. ~

“Canada is —

as a nation, get no credit for
these purchases made intollen a

middle man.
Prior to this, Senator David
(a former minister of
public works in the Diefenbaker
cabinet) told an audience in Buf-
falo, New York, that 18 million

Canadians buy more from the U.-

“You can appreciate how con-
cerned we are as we see our econ-
omy being gobbled up by Ameri-
cans inroads,”
ers, : :

Walker also defended Canadian

~ wheat sales to China — ‘‘even

though it might offend American

policies’’—and proposed continu-_

ed saying

with

‘trade with Cuba,
Snot at war
Gaba =."

It was natural,

he fitted: that

with the high degre of control]

_omy.

Americans

he told his listen. —

and ownership in the U.S. of ma
basic industries, many Canadial

- feel the fundamental trouble

Canada is the ‘‘branch plant eco

”

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