Me Dar AEE Deena taker tein eel eae ee Me PRO re RET I? 5 fet SNS FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1975 Resolution before legislature Ten of these Trident subs will operate through the Straits of J football field, and capable of destroying 408 cities, 6,000 miles away. uan de Fuca. Each one is twice the size of a Tribune Second Class Mail Registration No. 1560 VOL. 37, No. 11 = 15° By-MAURICE RUSH Public indignation is growing in British Columbia as people from all walks of life become aware of the details of U.S. plans to build its Trident nuclear missile sub base a few miles from the B.C. border. Labor councils, public rallies, peace workers, environmentalists, and many others, are adopting resolutions demanding the Canadian government protest the U.S. decision to go ahead with construction of the Trident sub base at Bangor, Washington. The B.C. legislature is expected to deal with a resolution this Thursday or next, introduced by Dewdney MLA Peter Rolston, which calls on the House ‘“‘to protest to the U.S. government through the Canadian government the current building of the massive Trident missile base at Bangor, Washington... on moral, ecological and territorial ground- See The resolution will also ask that B.C. send an official delegate to the conference for a Nuclear Free Pacific, being held in Suva, Fiji, April 1, to 6, 1975. It also asks that a government fund be set up to conduct research ‘‘to determine whether or to what extent there is involvement with the U.S. military,’’ and asks _ the Legislature to ‘‘give moral support to groups protesting the Trident = pase. =<" Last November the U.S. Congress voted the money to proceed with the construction of the super sub base at Bangor. Time Magazine reported in its January 27 issues that pouring of concrete for the Trident base has begun, and, as reported in the PT last week, contracts are being let for the construction of- housing ac- commodation for the staff who will man the base. The Bangor base is not just ‘another sub base. The — public should realize that what is being built a few miles from the B.C. border is something entirely new in MAOIST PROVOCATION HIT an well organized, united, broad Mocratic movement is urgently Ged in Vancouver to stamp out : ism,” Nigel Morgan, provincial i 8 of the Communist Party, a Ted in answer to the latest of a Mber of attacks on members of © East Indian community. vd There j : ; isas win, Probl erious and growing nC €m of racist attacks centred ~anadians of Indian extraction, mig, Can spread to other im- ‘ye ant groups unless'it is checked lately!) he warned. “Bast children are intimidated Schoo] Olested on their way from been by Many Indian adults have hom Tutally attacked and beaten, S have been damaged and Indian and m ransacked, windows broken _and women and children terrorized, and people even assaulted at the entrance to the Vancouver Sikh Temple. “The Communist ee be condemned such at- ees we disassociate ourselves from Maoist Hardial Bains in which he misuses the honored name of the Communist Party of Canada and calls oy vigilante action as a hairy ending racism,” Morgan s : “Bains is not, and never has been associated” with the Communist Party of Canada. He has no right to use the name of our Party. ue makes a profession of usurping u : honored name of the Communis Party, slandering and making a wild caricature of the Communist movement. It is shocking to see the Vancouver Province, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and radio stations like CJOR, assisting him in this,’’ Morgan said. “Bains does a great disservice to the East Indian community in his call to a handful of supporters to take the law into their own hands. His advocacy of ‘meeting violence with violence’ only serves to divide and isolate the democratic forces that alone can challenge and compel action to end this grave threat to the security and safety of the innocent victims of racist violence,” he declared. “This is an issue that can, and should unite all democratic forces — trade unions, ethnic groups, church and community organizations as well as all political parties,’ Morgan stated. “Strong pressure is needed to put an end to racism; to call a halt to inflammatory statements like those emanating from Con- servative M.P. Ron Huntington and mayor Art Phillips. Public pressure is needed to stir the law enforcement agencies to decisive action; to eliminate all vestiges of discrimination in government immigration policies and other social services; and to launch a well-planned educational campaign against racism, starting in the schools,’’ Morgan concluded. ‘ Black dot shows location of Bangor sub base on the Hood Canal and its proximity to the B.C. border. - ‘the strategic nuclear arms race which takes a giant step towards nuclear destruction for mankind. It provides the U.S. with the ability to destroy in a first strike the major cities of the world and the nuclear deterrent of other countries, and is bound to lead to a new and ac- celerated nuclear arms race with all its horrible consequences for mankind. But entirely apart from the fact that it moves in the opposite direction from nuclear disar- mament and detente, and towards accelerating the arms race, the base presents some terrifying dangers for the people of B.C. Consider these facts: o Ten Trident subs will operate out of this base. These subs are 550 feet long, double the size of the largest subs up to now, and twice the length of a football field. Each sub will carry 24 MIRV missiles with 408 nuclear warheads, each capable of destroying any city or centre of population 6,000 miles away. Taken together, the ten subs with their 4,080 warheads, stationed at strategic parts of the world, could destroy most of the world’s centres of population. o The sub base is expected to come into operation by 1978 and the subs will operate through the Straits of Juan de Fuca from Owen Sound, which is their only passage See TRIDENT, pg. 12 INSIDE Expand Trade With Socialist Lands ..Pg. 3 Women’s Day Hally .. 5. Pg. 3 Mayor Joins Racist Cry os Pg. 11 CUPE Blames Council For Impasse In Talks .Pg. 12 ae y