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‘When will peace come...

pee. MARCH 12, 1965
VOL. 26, NO. 10

Fernie ghost town if
freight rates boosted’

The future of the coal industry
aa Crows Nest, Fernie and
ves manding towns, has been
a €d in jeopardy by a railway
oe now before the House of
eae Which, if passed, would
A freight rates from $5.13

On to $7.45 a ton for ship-

m
€nts from the Fernie mine to
‘Ncouver,

in

oe briet submitted by the coal
s os in B,C, and Alberta
a e Commons railway com-
ie €e said that they will be
fed to close if the provision
Passed, Publisher of the

€rnie Free Press, Adrian Ken-
Said last week that without
© Mine Fernie would become

nedy,

Ss Be
= madre woman with child demon-
<n i for freedom and equality ex-

aN ifies the great struggle in Ala-
Slice pee week for the right to vote.
struggl rutality have not stopped the
rote e, but have spread it. Next
plani, Sale demonstrations are

“2 @d in Selma and other parts of

®tnor Wallace's state.

just another Interior ghost town,

Hundreds of miners would be
affected, Natal village commis-
sioner Siro Cimoline said if the
mine were closed many people
would remain in the area but
would have to become welfare
recipients,

‘This week Nigel Morgan, B,C,
leader of the Communist Party,
wired the chairman of the rail-
way committee in Ottawa ex-
pressing deep concern over the
problem, He said it was ex-
tremely difficult to move the
coal at the present rate and
would be “impossible” at $7.45
proposed,

The wire said more than half
the population of 3,000 depended
on coal and urged action to
block the increase, maintain jobs
and spare the communities. “It
would be a callous and colossal
blunder to permit the freight rate
boost,” concluded the wire,

Vietnam
feature
next week

Next week's issue of the
PT will carry a special two-
page feature exposing U.S.
policy in Vietnam and ans-
wering the big lie about
“Communist aggression.

This special feature will
contain factual material ex-
posing the U.S. deception
and the duplicity of the
Canadian government in
supporting the U.S. policy
in its minority report on Viet-
nam.

~ Don't miss this issue! Or-

der a special bundle and
see to it that your friends
and neighbors get a copy.

India-Poland majority
report on Vietnam —

BRAND U.S.
AGGRESSOR

India and Poland, two of the three nations on the Truce Supervision Commission
on Vietnam, charged this week in a majority report that U.S. bombings of military
installations in North Vietnam ‘‘idicate violations of the Geneva agreement.’ They
were also highly critical of Canada, the third member of the Commission, whose min-
ority report, also releasedthis week, is aimed at whitewashing U.S. aggression in Vi-

etnam.

News media carried large
headlines in Vancouver and
across Canada featuring the
charges in the minority report
written by the Canadian repre-
sentative, J, Blair Seaborn,
Press, radio and TV gave only
minor coverage to the majority
report, obviously hoping to build
up public support for the U.S,
action in South East Asia,

In effect, the majority report
not only strongly condemns the
U,S, violations of the Geneva
accord, but is equally sharp in
its denunciation of the Canadian
delegation’s. role in Vietnam,

The minority report by the
Canadian delegation justifies the

U,S, action on the grounds “that
North Vietnam has increased its
efforts to incite, encourage and
support hostile activities inSouth
Vietnam.”

It bases its conclusions on a
bulky list supplied by the South
Vietnamese government (which
one of the nine?) claiming infil-
tration from North Vietnam,
Some of the figures on arms,
equipment and men supposedly
entering South Vietnam even ex-
ceed the figures given in last
week’s White Paper by the U,S,

~The minority report attaches the

list from South Vietnamese auth-
orities without questioning them
and as proof of its charges,

The Indian delegation’s report

_ |

Some of the 150 persons who paraded around Victory Square last Saturday

urging peace in Vietnam.

—Fisherman photo

Peace march in city

It was a beautiful spring day
and the crocuses were just be-
ginning to push through to the
sunlight, bringing the first sign
of spring and new life to Van-
couver’s Victory Square lastSat-
urday afternoon,

This was the setting for 150
men, women, youth and children
who marched around the Square
urging that life should be allowed
to go on and urging action to
save the world from thermo-
nuclear destruction,

The marchers carried plac-
ards which read: “Millions died
in two wars—No More!” “Better
peace active today than radio-

active tomorrow,” “Stop World
War 3,” “Stop the war in Viet-
nam,” and “Mr, Johnson: peace
not war.”

Particularly noticeable in this
demonstration was the large
number of young men and women
taking part, Many hundreds of
leaflets were distributed to pass-
ers-by addressed to Prime Min-
ister Pearson; The leaflet, show-
ing a Vietnamese man holding a
young child who had been badly
burnt by napalm bombs during a
raid, said: “We don’t want our
children to come to this end,” It
urges Pearson to press for

‘negotiations and warns that U,S,

aggression can lead to war,

sharply quarrels with the Cana-
dian report on shipments of men
and arms into South Vietnam
from the north, and objects to
Canada using a report ofthe legal
committee of the truce commis-
sion without sanction and rejects
these conclusions outright,

The Polish delegation accuses
Canada of trying to distort the
causes of the events and for at-
tempting to justify the U.S, action
against North Vietnam,

It has been known for some
considerable time that Canada
and Britain were under strong
pressure from Washington to re-
lease the minority report in an
attempt to provide public justi-
ficaton for its acts of aggression

.- in South East Asia,

Canadian External Affairs
Minister Paul Martin received a
hostile reception in Parliament
Monday when he spoke on the
minority report and the crisis in
Vietnam, Opposition parties were
almost unanimous in expressing
the view that Canada must not
follow U,S, policy blindly,

H, W, Herridge (NDP-Kooten-
ay West) demanded that Canada
call for “an immediate cease fire
in the war conducted by the United
States in Vietnam,” Opposition
Leader Diefenbaker said that
Canada should not become “aca-
boose on the UnitedStates train,”

The demand is growingin Par-
liament for a full-fledged debate
on the Vietnam crisis,

Writing Tuesday from Ottawa,
Charles Lynch, well-known poli-
tical commentator, said the North
Vietnamese and Chinese “will
have no doubt. that Canada has
abandoned her role as a peace-
keeper and has now become a
party to the dispute itself, Our
strong-worded attack on the goy-
ernment of North Vietnam makes
this clear, and constitutes an
acceptance of the Washington line
on the nature of the battle now
being fought in South Vietnam,”

Lynch writes: “Our position is
underlined by the acceptance by
the Canadian government of evi-
dence put before the commission
by the government of South Viet-
nam, , .,Itis important to realize
that Canada’s position is not
based on personal observation by
Canadian officers in North Viet-
nam or South Vietnam—rather,
as our official statements indi-
cate, it is based on evidence
submitted by the government of
South Vietnam,”