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The U.S. State Department is becoming increasingly con-
cerned over the forthcoming visit of President Eisenhower
to Japan. Mass demonstrations such as the one shown
above, which took place May 20 outside the Diet buildings

(seen in background), have protested his visit.

Noel-Baker speaks at
Toronto rally for peace

“The only alternative
death.”

This is the slogan around

which the newly formed Tor-|

Committee for Disarma-
public

onto
ment will organize a

rally in Massey Hall, June 10.)

The Committee is headed by
Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg of/
Holy Blossom Temple. Others)

taking part include Rev. James
M. Finlay, Rev. John Frank,

David Gauthier, chairman of
Toronto’s!

the University of
Committee for Nuclear Dis-
armament, and Helen Tucker,
of the national advisory com-

mittee on the UNESCO East-

West Major Project.

Feature speaker will be the
prominent British Laborite
Philip Noel. Baker who was

awarded the Nobel peace prize}

last year.

In its statement of purpose
he committee declares that
“sovernments urge that the

to peace is not war. It is

|threat of retaliations is our
best means of defense. But any
policy which. rests on the
threat of full-scale nuclear war
,is..almost certain. to be - sui-
cidal.”

The: Committee is stressing
the need for conventional as
well as nuclear disarmament,
and says that the Canadian
government should abandon its
plan to equip Canadian forces

adian territory, and appeal to
all other non-nuclear powers
to adopt a similar policy.
Also announced last week
in Toronto was formation of

a woman’s committee for peace}
headed by Lotta Dempsey of|

the Toronto Daily Star. Among
| those associated with the com-
| mittee are TV star Toby Rob-
jins and Controller Jean New-
‘man.

SUNDAY, JUNE

@ GAMES
@ SPORTS

; Buses will leave
from 11:30 a.m.
By car — turn left on 8th Ave. in Haney to old
Dewdney Trunk Highway, turn right to Web-
ster’s Corner, then follow Picnic Arrows.
EVERYBODY WELCOME

“ANNUAL A.U.U.C.
PROVINCIAL PICNIC

@ TASTY UKRAINIAN FOOD
®@ DANCING

19-—from 1 P.M.

805 East Pender

with nuclear weapons, should}
prohibit such weapons on Can-|

|

Develop Columbia power

for BC needs says CPC

“The real issue on the
primacy is going to be given
| or generation for Canadian

SUPPORT

FREEDOM

BOYCOTT |
SOUTH AFRICAN 'on his return from the Koot

Goops!

Support for the strug-
gles of the South African
people is expressed in a
new stamp, reproduced
above, which has been is-
sued by the B.C. Commu-
nist Party, Room 502,
Ford Building, Vancou-
ver. They sell for 35c per
100 and can be ordered
from the address given
here.

Did Canadian arms help

“Recent statements attribut-
ed to Provincial government
sources that a 40-foot dam at
Castlegar is under considera-
tion that could produce power
on the Canadian side and pre-
vent some of the flooding that
has aroused widespread oppo-
sition from Arrow Lakes resi-
dents is nothing more than an
attempt to becloud the whole
issue,” he declared.

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“First the Socreds tried to

do this in South Africa?

The South Africa paper

the Pacific Tribune office w

inquiry being conducted into

Carrying large pictures
showing some of the dead vic-
tims with huge wounds caused
by police bullets, New Age
carries this item:

“Some of the wounds inflict-
ed by the police bullets at
Sharpeville were huge, gap-
ing; horrible. The police have
flatly denied allegations that
they used soft-nosed bullets. |

“Whatever the police called |
them, the bullets behaved like
“dumdums,” surgeons .at the
Baragwanath Hospital said.
Doctors treating the wounded
were appalled at the injuries,
which they said were unpre-
cedented. The bullets: splinter-
ed after entering the body,
causing wounds far more
severe than usual.”

There is widespread specu-

From the business
manager's desk

The Pacific Tribune will
publish a special 12 page Can-
ada Day issue to. mark Can-
ada’s national holiday,

There will be many inter-
esting and exciting features in
the special issue. All press
committees and press workers
are asked to make early plans
for the widest distribution and
sale of this special issue.

It will also be a wonderful

chance to introduce the paper}

to new-readers and build our
much-needed circulation. Bun-
dle orders should be placed

early.

New Age has just reached
ith shocking reports of the
the massacre at Sharpeville.

lation that police may have
tampered with bullets by
blunting the tips. South Afri-
can police have demanded the
custody of every bullet remov-
ed from the bodies and were
constantly in attendance at the
hospital to take possession of
them.

NOTE: It was reporied to
the Pacific Tribune this week
that Dominion Store at Eaton’s
in downtown Vancouver last
week again had South African
jams for sale.

The conquest of Mt. Everest
by a group of Chinese moun-
taineers, who reached the
summit by the north slope,
a feat previously held to be
impossible, is being hailed
all: over the world. Photos
here show them resting
and climbing the slope. The
feat took two months.

Columbia River is whether -
to storage for U-S. interests,
needs,” Nigel Morgan, ..B.C.

| leader of the Communist Party, told the Tribune this week -

enays.

give the Columbia away to
Kaiser; when that failed they
tried to cut-in on the Peace to
make the giveaway easier; now
they’re trying to put across this
U.S. plan of development for
U.S. storage, which means loss
of Canadian soveriengty and -
control, and surrender of need--
ed power resources,’ Morgan
charged. F

“B.C.’s present power con.
sumption is rising at a rate of.
10% or better per year. It
doubles every eight years. of
so and by 1975 is expected tO
reach the 40 to 50 million kilo-
watt-hour level,” he said.
“Even now it’s going to be
a race against time if we are t0_
have the necessary energy tO
avoid the first ‘brown-out’
deadline in 1966. We should
redouble our efforts to insist
that the Columbia be develop-
ed on a basis that will put
Canada’s and our — interests
first.”

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