Hanot > =. Haiphong - e@ thang Hoa-—, = eE - $ Vinh ==N Se HAINAY peel Fe. MHaTinh 4a moe , “a = Var TaN SN hLini Sa Bx YES oes (he) ver a) JET Ale FORCE WAS NAVAL BASES : whe, SUBMARINE: SeMaRINE oh. PROVOCATIVE Noy FLIGHTS OF US PLANES sees at ; 1071 FORCES z CAMBODIA o~ \ é Nig van] Phan Rang —4 __ SOUTH= VIETNAM=2 oo} L Sain é Jae, —————* “dues Capey—— ; _ TRNING : lane SOUTH VIETNAM INTO HUGE MILITARY BASE. This map from “New into o ee Indian paper, shows how the U.S. military are turning South Vietnam , ilitary base not only for the purpose of waging war against the Viet- ~§ People, but as a threat to all South East Asia. Charles Stewart to speak at city May Day rally : Charles Stewart, business agent of Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 101, will be one of the feature speakers at this year’s May Day rally in Van- couver, sponsored by the Trade Union May Day Committee, He will share the platform- with Kenneth A, Finis, Negro trade union leader from San Francisco, The concert-meet- ing will be held in the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse, Sunday, May 2 at 8 p.m, : Theme of this year’s May Day. will be “Peace, Freedom, Se- curity,” NEXT WEEK 30th Anniversary Souvenir Issue @ 20 PAGES IN COLOR @ IMPORTANT ARTICLES @ PICTURES, CARTOONS AND MANY INTERESTING FEATURES LABOR ROUNDUP Labor council hits Meany support of U.S. war policy This week’s session of the Vancouver and District Labor Council (VLC) approved arecom~ mendation “calling upon the Ca- nadian Congress of Labor to strongly oppose AFL-CIO execu- tive endorsation of President Johnson’s war on Vietnam,” as stated by AFL-CIO president George Meany, At the conclusion of a lengthy discussion on this motion, “Chuck” Stewart of the Street Railwaymen proposed an amend- ment to add that “this is the opinion of the members of this Vie “Anyone who speaks for labor - jn the U.S, or Canada,” stated another delegate, “has no right or authority to support such policies, and should be publicly i——} condemned,” Delegate McNeil of the ILWU said that at the Nuremberg trials “we hanged the Nazi warlords for such crimes, and should prob- ably consider hanging a few others, President Johnson doesn’t speak for the working class of his country any more than Pear- sen does, and obviously neither does Ari-GCIO president George Meany, He has plenty to do at home — liberating 50 million Americans from poverty,” Another delegate declared that Meany’s endorsation of the U.S, war in Vietnam represents the working class as “supporting an- other war, and labor is much, too silent about it, Are we going to ask our young people to fight a war which their parents don’t believe in? We should be sending food and machinery and text books to Vietnam, instead of killing.” ek A letter from the Oil& Chemi- cal Workers to the VLC urging greater participation of rank- and-file union members is plan- ning strategy and action in sup~ port of the Bookbinders strike at Mitchell Press, sparked a spirited discussion, VLC secretary Paddy Neale stated that there had been more activity during the past two months relative to the Mitchell Press strike than in the past two years, Neale also declared that “the door is open” to all who wish to help win this strike, The VLC also strongly pro- tested the large number of police cars and officers “tied-up” around the Mitchell Press plant, engaged mainly in scab-herding, “There is no violence,” stated Neale, “nor threat of violence, yet four police cars stay around for hours, mainly to intimidate pickets, A sheer waste of tax- payers’ money.” Vic Spencer of the Postal Em- ployees added a final punch-line when he drew VLC attention to thése “little blue papers” (traffic tickets) handed out to the public, and bearing the legend * in fine print, “Printed by Mitchell Press.” * * * Two Centennial projects were approved by VLC delegates, One from the Marine Workers Union proposing a nation-wide cam- paign for the seven-hour day to be won by 1967; the other in- troduced by the VCL’s Commit- tee on Human Rights, signaliz- ing. the 20th anniversary of the UN Declaration, and urging legis- lation to enforce all such rights, * * * The VLC executive reported receipt of a letter and printed material from one DavidStanley, self styled organizer of the so- called “Natural Order” with headquarters established at 1630 Albernie St,, Vancouver, Secretary Neale strongly con- demned the setting up of this organization and regretted that “such an “organization could be permitted in B,C, to spread race hate in violation of civil rights” and stressed the need of legis- lation to curb such activities, The printed material from this racist organization is in English and French, while content is mainly anti-Semitic, Omitted from the materials received by the VLC from “Natural Order” was a small yellow slip mailed to other individuals and organiz- ations, announcing the date of an “open forum debate” on the typi- cal nazi subject, “The Jews Killed Christ,” ILWU delegate McNeil report- ed that other similar racist publi- cations from U,S, centers and organizations such as the*Thun- derbolt” published by “State Rights,” were still coming into Canada freely, Delegate John Hayward of the Street Railwaymen expressed the hope that Premier Bennett’s re- cent statements about “preserv- ing our water heritage for our- selves” is genuine, “At least he is weakening,” stated Hayward, “but we were sold out on the Columbia, and surely not again, and again, You are being literally raped,” Hayward told VLC dele- gates, in the alienation of B,C, resources, cet: * * * Last week’s organized violence against IWA pickets at the seven- month Frolek Sawmills. strike at Kamloops by agroup of hooligans, | was brought to the attention of the Kamloops and District Labor} Council meeting by IWA Regional| representative Bob Ross, Ross told the KLC that “our people are not going to sit back in face of such actions, and will defend themselves,” Ross dis- played to council delegates some of the weapons these “goons” had confronted IWA pickets with, and the threats that they had made, The opinion is widespread that these latest acts of violence against IWA pickets has been in- stigated by the Frolek Sawmills, The New York Times. THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1965. MORTON SOBELL IS INNOCENT PRESIDENT JOHNSON and must be FREED SAY HAROLD C. UREY * BERTRAND RUSSELL * MARTIN BUBER and thousands of others Above is a portion of an advertisement published March 11th in | the Ne Times urging freedom for Morton Sobell. The ad is signed by a Hetlob iianaiatane _ pererernts and contains an appeal to Pres. Johnson for a ‘Citizens’ Full Par- don.’ Sobell has served more than 14 years imprisonment as a result of the Mc- eee hysteria during the Korean War. The ad appeals to the public to write April 23, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3