Continued from page 1 another rally takes place up-Island | lM Courtenay focused on the de- Mand for the removal of U.S. nuc- “ar weapons from the Comox base, Across the border, both ricans and Canadians will Sather at Point Julia on on’s Kitsap Peninsula. That demonstration —planned for Aug. 8 — will likely coincide with the arrival of the first Trident huclear submarine, slated for in- Stallation at the Bangor base. There are more plans for UN Week in October and then come the ‘Teferenda in November. What’s more, there is a commit- “* — and action — for peace in Cities and towns throughout British lumbia. The tidal wave of sup- Port for disarmament that cascad- €d through the streets of Van- COuver Apr. 24 — when 35,000 People marched in the city’s Iggest-ever peace march — is Teverberating across the province. What was the source of that Seemingly sudden — and massive , demand for peace, for nuclear 5 ament? __ Allevato and Kennedy, who, " Ogether with the committee, were Mpelled to national prominence by the force of 35,000 people mar- » acknowledge that they were prised by the sheer size of the Tally. But they can see now the 4 ents that created the upsurge. .. | think people had been frightened for some time with the Credible arms build-up — thetalk missiles, the neutron bomb Nd Cruise missiles,’’ says evato. Butit was U.S. president Reagan d secretary of state Haig’s talk of 4 ‘winnable nuclear war’ and the | Preparations for civil defence that y sTOught the issue home to * Ousands of Americans, she says. The civil defence plans brought » “ arms race right down into the » ‘Ommunities. It made people lize that their government was “tious about waging nuclear War,? And suddenly, the campaign for Nuclear freeze, begun quietly j Nearly two years before, became a National issue in the U.S., raised in Own meetings all over the New and states and elsewhere, and championed by a resolution by ) Shators Edward Kennedy and ) k Hatfield. The massive out- uring of support spilled over into j Canada. if th Allevato notes that Apr. 24 was €end of ‘“‘Ground Zero”’ week in € U.S. with the result that the €dia ‘‘was very receptive to our @ Messages about the Apr. 24 rally.” i For Canadians too, the arms y . C€ came home with the .an- fumcement in March that the C Sderal government had agreed in j Ptinciple to allow testing of the new | Seration U.S. Cruise missile at Id Lake, Alberta. { tht another stream leading to {| ,° Confluence of events came from i Mp Wa with the declaration by six of C $ — three New Democrats, two 4 0Servatives and one Liberal — , Jat they were dissenting from of- { ‘lal government foreign policy - 8d were issuing their own minori- Teport. __ That report, tabled in the Com- Mons in April, called for Canada to declared a nuclear-weapons free | he, for cancellation of the Cruise Nissile testing agreement, for a ar freeze and adoption of a Jabor council’s role was decisive’. FRANK KENNEDY . .. labor movement beginning to see the lin BPISARMAMENRT between arms race and unemployment. “no first use’ pledge. It quickly became a program for thousands. “The minority report had a significant impact on the whole community,’’ Kennedy says, in an interview from his office in the Canadian Area of the International Longshoremen and Warehouse- men. “Tt made people realize that peace crossed all political lines.’’ All of those streams came to- gether—the sudden new awareness of the danger of nuclear war, the’ scope of opposition and what he calls ‘“‘a new group of students coming out of university seeing money being poured down the rat hole of the arms race while their education is cut back’’ — to create a torrent of support for disarma- ment. The change was dramatic. The April event had previously been marked as an International Day of Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1980 and again in 1981 with some 3,000 peo- ple turning out. The protest had been aimed at diverse targets in- cluding nuclear technology as well as nuclear arms. This year, the Peace Council, as well as other peace organizations which saw the massive protest growing in Europe against the deployment of new missile systems, urged that the focus be on nuclear arms. They prevailed despite op- position from’ some small groups who wanted to keep the event as it had been the first year. As well, some weeks before Apr. 24, the Vancouver and District Labor Council took the initiative in calling a meeting of all groups in- terested in organizing the Apr. 24 march and rally. From that meeting End the Arms. Race was born. And its co- chairs, represented the most “senior” peace organization and the labor movement, which as Ken- nedy sees it, is important for the future of the peace movement. The prominence of the labor council in the committee did not, by itself, bring other unions into participation, he says, but ‘‘the And the labor movement “‘is awakening to the peace issue’, Kennedy says, pointing to the resolutions adopted by the recent convention of the B.C. Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees as well as those debated by the last B.C, Federation of Labor convention. “And (B.C. Federation of Labor president) Jim Kinnaird has shown the connection between the arms race and economic problems,’’ he says. Kinnaird was a featured speaker at both the Mar. 6 rally, held in conjunction with the Coalition for World Disarmament conference, and the Peace Arch rally June 12. Kennedy also sees the beginnings of an appreciation in the trade union movement that the arms race and the economic issues like unemployment and inflation are linked. But it is only a glimmering so far. “I keep pressing the point — that the arms race contributes to unemployment and the recession. ~ But there’s a long way to go yet.”” He thinks the trade union move- ment should itself have a peace CARMELA ALLEVATO Cruise missile issue brought the arms race home to Canadians. Apr. 24 was ‘tidal wave of support’ committee representing a wide range of unions. He’s also hoping to get together decumented research material showing the economic conse- quences of the arms race. And “‘T’ll talk about it wherever I can,”’ he says. The comment is typical of his commitment to the issue. As the president of the labor council and the secretary-treasurer of the Cana- dian Area of the ILWU, he’s got as much trade union work as many could handle. An interview, in fact, is squeezed in between negotiating sessions in what has become a pro- tracted set of talks on a new longshore contract. “But as far as I’m concerned, everything else is secondary (to the peace issue),”’ he says. Allevato echoes that, emphasiz- ing the it “‘really is the most para- mount issue. “After all, you’re dealing with the survival of the world,’ she points out. She also admits to a personal stake in striving for disarmament. At the time she assumed the presidency of the B.C. Peace Council, a little less than two years ago, she was pregnant with her daughter Martina, now 11 months old. “JT look at my daughter and I think, ‘maybe she won’t makeit to school age, maybe there won’t even be a world.’ It’s a real possibility. “J think thousands of people began to think the same way — and began to act — when the U.S. ad- ministration started talking about ‘winnable nuclear war,’ she says. As president of the peace council which is affiliated through the Canadian Peace Congress to the 137-million-member World Peace Council, she was acutely aware of the peace movement sweeping Europe, bringing hundreds of ~ thousands into action against the deployment of new missiles in Europe which heightened the threat of nuclear war on that conti- nent. The peace council had been itself campaigning on the issue with the ‘Peace is Everybody’s Business”’ petition, but with the announce- ment of a federal government agreement to test Cruise missiles in Canada — missiles which are to be deployed outside London — the chilling reality of the arms race was brought home to Canadians. That issue has in turn provided the focus for the latest End the Arms Race campaign. “The ‘Refuse the Cruise’ cam- paign is something we can do in Canada — it makes people realize that the arms race doesn’t just af- fect the big countries, that we’re in- ‘volved too,’’ Allevato says. ‘“We’ve got to talk to people and : tell them that Canadian taxpayers are providing subsidies to Litton Industries to build the guidance systems for the Cruise missiles. And the government wants to test the missiles in Canada. ‘‘We’ve got to force the govern- ment to cancel that agreement.” New campaigns will follow as End the Arms Race continues. And as Kennedy comments, ‘‘the com- mittee has a long life yet. “J think the momentum will continue until people can see that the fear of the arms race is gone. 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