| \ ' ; f f ; | | | I | I British March For Peace B : v Bs ®fore the big Aldermaston march got under way the British kee Staged peace demonstrations all over the country lead- Sup to the march and rally at Trafalgar Square in London. eS *P Photo shows demonstrators outside the U.S. air force base a Aeon : ii 2 Ruislip, Below, a sit-down demonstration outside the Min- a of Defence buildings in London. The sit-down protested —vSlear weapons and U.S. Polaris bases in Britain. People March In Many Centres stay out of the nuclear arms The mareh, which was spon- sored by the UBC Nuclear Dis- armament Club and the B.C. Committees on Radiation Haz- ards, was part of world wide demonstrations « against nuc- = \lear arms highlighted by the mighty British . Aldermaston 48-mile march in which many thousands participated. The Vancouver march stretched out over three city '|plocks. Taking part were peo- ple over 70, tots in baby bug- gies, workers in hard-hats, stu- dents from university, teen- agers, ,professional workers and: a good number of trade- unionists. It wound up at the city. hall where the Rev. Phil- lip Hewitt of the Unitarian Church addressed the gather- ing from the steps. The theme of Rev. Hewitt’s adress was “co-existence or no-existence”’. Pointing out that the differences which di- vide man are illusory when compared to the danger of nu- clear war, Mr. Hewitt said “The Holy» wars; the war be- tween Christians and Moslems, Catholicism and Protestant- is -méost much in blood and suffering and now they live side -by side.” Answering the cynics who say “war always has been and always will be,’ Mr. Hewitt ‘stated, “the same people said the same thing about slavery, -but slavery has been elimin- ated from a large part of the Labor council asks “fight Bill 42 conference” before April 15. nae urgent request that the an €deration of Labor con- ates fi conference of all affili- retin fight Bill 42, and a aS that local Teathe hot submit affidavits as ie pager the act prior bi Conference, was passed a i Vancouver Labor Coun- : ea night. é Proposal asked that the Maes be called before at - The actual resolu- th Passed was submitted by Marine Workers and tebe ace Union but let- 800 ae Packinghouse Local ith the Rock and Tunnel such ee aoe read asking for The conference. stated sac kinghouse Local Not to lat they have decided Sign the affidavit and Boile have already elected two dele- gates to attend such a ‘confer- ence. A host of legal opinions were cited on the floor which) seemed to prove only that the legal profession was waxing rich interpreting the new Bill. Sam Jenkins, Marine Work- ers, stated that his union has no less than three legal opin- ions in its possession, all of which contradict one another. He suggested that this bill was going to be defeated by labor bracing its feet and fighting. Speaking of the affidavit, which requires the signing of- ficer of a local union to Swear that the monies collecte d through check-off by the em- ployer will not be used in any way for political purposes, Jen- kins said: “Who am I to sign an affidavit accepting responsi- bility for future actions of. the members of my union.” Last week the Pulp and Sulphite Workers in Prince Rupert decided to refuse to sign the affidavit required un- der Bill 42 even if it meant the cancellation of the check- off. ee, ee ~ VL... also heard a request from: Local 400 of the Can- adian Brotherhood of Railway all labor organizations, wheth- er affiliated with the C.L.C. or not, be ‘admitted to the New Party. The executive ex: pressed some sympathy with matter was out of their juris- | diction. and Transport, Workers that} the proposal ‘but claimed the|~ race, No nuclear arms parade in city draws big turnout Under banners proclaiming “No Nuclear Arms for Canada - The Arms Race Is Suicide” and “Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons - Peace on Earth, Let Canada Lead,” about 609 determined people shielded by a canopy of umbrellas, marched three miles through the rain-swept streets of Vancouver last Saturday demanding Canada earth and soon will be elimin-| Nuclear whole earth.) Just. as industrialization is| ated from the making slavery obsolete( so is the atomic era making war obsolete.” “Mankind is standing on the threshold of a new wonderful life of culture and abundance. And at the same time it is standing on the brink of ex- tinction. It is people like us give the lead,” he said. Marching in front of the parade was Mike O’Dane, president of the U.B.C. Com- mittee of the Combined Uni- versities Campaign Arms. and Gordon Inglis, a Vancouver school teacher who is chairman of the B.C. Committees on Ra- diation Hazards. Parades also took place in Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina and Saska- toon. Premier Douglas of Sas- katchewan spoke to the Regina marchers and Rabbi Abraham | Feinberg to the Toronto dem- gathered here today who must onstration. Premier Douglas called for Canada’s withdrawal from NORAD, banning of all nu- clear weapons on Canadian soil and leadership in the U.N. Againstifor progressive disarmament. Ratepayers urge all-out campaign for city wards ; A public meeting called by the Cassiar Ratepayers in the Hastings Community Centre Tuesday night adopted a resolution asking the Central Council of Ratepayers in Vancouver to call an all-in conference to launch a cam- paign for a ward system. After hearing Donald Green- well, president of the Hastings Community Centre, outline the problems facing the city, the meeting unanimausly decided to press for a ward system. Also last week the Van- couver Centre Liberal Associa- tion passed a resolution urg- ing the ward system intro- duced in Voncouver. Association president Arthur Hodgkisson said “We think the ward system is the only way people in the East End will get a voice in the operation of the city.” Canada’s anti-nuclear club ie ne i Ss