Jott LE LL IL ern eens CAPTURED U.S. ARMS IN CUBA. Here is one of many, stacks of U.S. rifles and ammunition peuches captured by the Cuban militia and army. Fighting inL despite U.S. aos stops actions As the Pacific Tribune went to press it was reported that a cease fire was going into effect in Laos, raising hopes for a peaceful settlement of the dispute. See | Last week, after the British-' s,out renewed military action Soviet appeal for a cease fire, | actions by the provocative US. and its stooges threatened | by the pro-neutralist forces. Behind the cover of these baseless charges the U.S. sent for a time implementation of| an additional 300-man force of the cease-fire. One high pro-U.S. official in Laos attacked the idea of a 14-nation conference in Gene- va. At the same time the U.S.! press agencies spread stories | U.S. servicemen to Laos. Mean- while, a British Foreign Of- fice spokesman ~last Friday | Said there was no real evi- dence of large-scale Henteey in Laos. Kennedy Cont’d from pg. 1 the strongest possible terms: the imperialist .. . actions of | the U.S. 3 ‘The resolution, which pass- ed unanimously, to support the “struggle of the Cuban people for self-determ- ination in their affairs and their right to use their natural and other resources to advance their standard of living.” Pass this paper on to your friends also resolved | Doctrine , This week the National Ex- |ecutive of the Communist : Party said the Kennedy doc- trine cannot be accepted by the Canadian peonvle. To so do, it said, would be to ‘acquiese in President Kennedy’s outrag- eous claim that the U.S: has the right to intervene in Cana- da’s domestic affairs by arms if necessary if the Canadian } government undertakes action that is not Pate to the U.S: Enunciation ‘of the Kennedy doctrine was a direct and offi- cial denial of Canada’s sov- eignty by the President of the U.S., it charged. : (For more on the Kennedy Doctrine see page 2 and edi- torial on page 4). ~ | An Saielis Canadian - YORK THEATRE The MILESTONES ' FOLK SONG GROUP / PRESENT OF Seni American and Songs from Many Lands Saturday, MAY 6 - 8:15 p.m. i Doors Open 7 Admission—$1.00 Commercial and Georgia 745 P.M. Meany Policies Criticized Over 275 US labor leade : open drive for peace, jo By SAM KUSHNER CHICAGO—More than 275 union leaders, national and local, meeting here opened a drive throughout the ranks of labor for peace, jobs and freedom. From 12 states and Canada, more. than 30 AFL-CIO inter- national unions and 50 local unions came here to a confer- ence for this purpose, sponsor- ed by six top union leaders and the American Friends Ser- vice Committee (Quakers). The six leading unionists were A. Philip Randolph, president. Sleeping Car Porters; James B. Carey, president, Interna- tional Union Electrical .Work- ers; Frank Rosenblum, secre- tary treasurer, Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Emil Ma- zey, secretary treasurer, Unit- ed Auto Workers; Patrick Gor- man, secretary treasurer, Am- algamated Meat Cuters; and Arnold Zander, president, State, County and Municipal Workers. The conference unanimously called upon all labor organiz- ations to set up staff positions and departments to deal with peace, including the indus- trial union department of the AFL-CIO and the internation- al unions: It is planned to set up a speakers’ bureau on peace, as well as to make edu- cational material, films and tapes available. A national coordinating com- mittee, it was agreed, was to be set up. One question posed was the holding of regional labor peace conferences in the near future. 3 While Stewart Meacham, national head of the peace edu- cation -committee of the Friends, and former official of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, submitted these recommendations, a delegate from the Machinists Union in Michigan interrupted him and asked. _*Is it understood that these proposals are within the con- text of a program for disarma- ment and a transition to a peace time economy?” This was accepted by the committee and the delegates. Other proposals approved in the panel discussions included the need for a thirty hour work week at forty hours pay, exchange of union delegations between capitalist and social- ist countries and the need for more independent political ac- tion by labor. While these pro- posals were not put before the conference as a whole, they had widespread support among the delegates. The tone was set at the out-| set in the message from Pat- rick Gorman, by his assistant, Hilton Hann. “We musi either be for peace or complete destruction,” said the message. “The latter gives surety of death; the former hope for life.” Gorman pledged that “I shall remain an active mem- ber of the peace movement.” He also called for a peace- time economy to help igs tee jobs. Frank Rosenblum, the wind- up speaker, urged the delegat- es to help “create an aware- ness of the threat of nuclear warfare’ and help ‘change the climate so that some things can be done” for peace. A “groundswell” for peace was needed, he said. He warned that “the effects of McCarthyism” still inhibit the peace movement. He said letters had urged him not to appear at the conference, while some urged him to at- tend. He said the John Birch Soc- iety and McClellan commit- tee’s attack on labor were dan- gers to freedom of action. Rosenblum spoke of the peaceful intentions of the Sov- iet Union and called for dis- armament to help “dissolve the cold war.’ He placed a major share of the blame for the cold war on the “‘military- industrial complex,” and de- clared that the “incentive for the national security program has been _ profits.” "Tt is by our actions that we will be judged,” he reminded the delegates. The -call for demonstrative action for peace was voiced by many including Harry Ross, a member of UAW _ President Walter Reuther’s staff, who fh gh dias VELVLLYA “Find out who put ' suit in my suggest ECCLES in Br. declared from the £09 "Let us invite the space man to Americ# 7 give him a great recep! i did a tremendous shill The unionists applale Emil Mazey, UAW brought out into the long smouldering ~ of a that many unionists 4 of the foreign policy Py cements of AFL-CIO 4 dent George. Meany: 4) eign policy, Mazey ai fortunately Meany ha chief advisor Jay Lovey Lovestone, a bitte Soviet cold warrior, | of cently testified before th ate Internal Security mittee, calling for an int in cold war measuté ey been regarded as the att { of AFL-CIO: foreign poli ! Meany on foreign Poy as far to the right as ay | ing downstairs, said’ Mi -That: meeting wa, “th held by-the Indepen™® erican Forum, which that two thirds of ‘o speakers were mem a the John Birch societ) Photo shows a view of the giant rally ix in Peking U.S. attack on Cuba. Placard reads “Cuba Ye No.” The meeting was addressed by Peng Chet of the Communist Party’s Political Bureau. ; May 5, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE 3 rf