Canadian professors urge negotiations in Vietnam the University of Manitoba, the University of Ottawa, the Univer- sity of Saskatchewan, Trent Uni- Professors from 14 Canadian WNiversities have called for im- Bette hegotiations to end the tr in Vietnam, the talks to be Undertaken with ditions, thout precon ‘ : Beaceation led by Professor a . gensten of Ottawa’s Carle- ty held a 40 minute ee with Prime Minister = “i and presented him with oe YT written at Carleton and i. are by staff members from €r universities, ee letter was signed by 306 Ginys Members from Carleton ae of Alberta, McGill (he aad and Sir George Wil- York Pecrelty in Montreal, Chie Niversity in Toronto, the a malty: of New Brunswick, €n’s University at Kingston, versity at Peterborough, the University of Waterloo at Water- loo, the University of Western Ontario at London and the Uni- versity of Montreal, The letter said, in part: “The people of Vietnam have already suffered far too long and cruelly in an ideological struggle that has involved greater powers out- side their borders, Canada’s duty, it continued, was “to seek an immediate end to this war andcallfor immediate negotiations, to be undertaken without preconditions.” It described insistence oncer- tain preconditions as cynical and immoral, U.S. losing in S.E. Asia, Prof. Sibley tells rally Be NPEG — “It is only a ine of time until the Amer- a Aa either voluntarily re- _ ee South Vietnam or will ites: to do so,” Professor 1a Q. Sibley of the Uni- ed of Minnesota told a Voice Omen meeting here on April The U.S, pacifist was the centre Cone PPPerocccevesccececegeeere Workers Benevolent Assn. Of Canada Progressive Fraternal Society -Aters to all your needs in the Life Insurance field LIFE INSURANCE ENDOWMENTS PENSION PLANS WEEKLY BENEFITS Apply to: B.C. office af 805 East Pender St. or National Office at 595 Pritchard Ave. Winipeg 4, Manitoba See ee PPeccccccccceconeeoeens COCO COCO OOSEE OOOO OEEEOOOOOOOSOSOEOOCOCOHOCOOOOE CHT OOOH HCE SEE SOOSOHEFOSESHOSOSOHPOSOSHSOSOEDOSOOOS 2643-East Hastings Street LOOKING FOR UNUS AT POPULAR PRICES? ’ We have an interesting choice of goods from the. 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Try to negotiate, to preserve human life.” Professor Sibley asserted that any foreign policy that has anti- Communism as its central core cannot deal with the burgeoning nationalist movements, How can a policy in Southeast Asia com- bine economic aid with napalm bombing? Americans forget that their nation was bornin national- ist revolution, he said. UAL BUYS Vancouver 6, B.C IN CANADA’S PARLIAMENT Pearson promises much but evades real issues By NELSON OLARKE A Speech trom the Throne, gives a government the oppor- tunity to make a great many statements of its good intentions, without having to spell them out in any concrete way. This most certainly applies to the recent Throne Speech, The extent of the promises made to many sections of the people with respect to “the full utilization of our human re- sources and the elimination of poverty” has created the wide- - spread impression that the Pear- son government is laying the groundwork for an election inthe fairly near future. The program outlined is too. extensive to be gotten through one session, especially at the rate at which this Parliament moves, It is not likely then that Pear- son has no intention of trying to get it through, but hopes to get himself into the position of holding. an election in which he can point to the fine promises he has made without being compelled to do anything definite about them? Back: in power, with the clear majority which he hopes to receive, he could afford to for- get about them. A striking illustration of the © evasiveness of the program out- lined in the Throne Speech is provided by its reference to health services, All that is said is that the federal government will meet with the provinces to discuss joint action which “can most effectively contribute to programs that will provide health services to Canadians on a com- prehensive basis.” Yet the government has be- fore it in the Hall report, a well worked out and generally excellent plan for a national medicare program, [If the government seriously intended to do anything about medicare, it would say that it endorses the Hall report and will discuss with the provinces how to implement it. Quite clearly, this particular and rather decisive front of the «war on poverty” will not ad- vance without the powerful de- HEAR Charles Caron speak on ‘“‘ONE COUNTRY— TWO NATIONS”’ Tues., Apr. 27, 8 p.m. DELL HOTEL Whalley Ausp.: Surrey Club, CPC BEQUESTS TO PACIFIC TRIBUNE From time to time the ‘PT’ re- ceives bequests from the estates of friends. The legacies have ranged from $10 up and over a period of years have been of considerable help in keeping our presses rolling. The ‘PT’ appreciates such bequests because they evidence the legators’ confidence in the future of B.C.'s leading labor paper. Anyone inter- ested in such bequests please contact the Pacific Tribune. velopment of organized public pressure, In the same way, the Speech actually manages to avoid facing up to any of the real problems facing Canada, In the first place, to speak of a war on poverty without speaking out against the very real danger of the destruction of our country in a thermonuclear war is to’ completely evade the most urgent question of this moment, Despite the mounting pressure within Canada for a forthright statement criticizing the U.S. aggression in Vietnam, which has brought this heavy crisis upon the world, the Throne Speech says essentially nothing on interna- tional affairs that could not have been said at any time in the last decade. Secondly, there can be no real ‘progress in the direction of the implementation of the reforms the government talks about with- out a new constitution which will recognize the existence of two nations within our country and clearly re-define the responsi- bilities as between the two nations on the one hand and as between Old friend of Ottawa and the nine provinces of English Canada on the other, The government projects nothing to meet this problem except the Fulton — Favreau amending formula which in fact does not meet the problem at all and instead would fix even more firmly upon us the strait- jacket of the outworn and un- democratic British North Amer- ica Act. Thus the failure to face reality - in the world is duplicated by the failure to face reality in Canada, because it appears more and more unlikely that this amending formula will ever be adopted, in view of the intense mass op- position developing to it in Quebec. Thirdly, the government in all its fine talk about a war on poverty gives not the slightest indication that itis contemplating any measures that will do anything to put the big monopolies under control, Let us never forget that it is the system of monopoly cap- italism which is responsible for the poverty in Canada, To say this is not to suggest that many things cannot be done short of socialism to overcome poverty, but they will only be done on the basis of a struggle to com- pel the monopolies to shoulder the cost of projected reforms, The people of Canada cannot rely upon the Pearson govern- ment to give them the reforms which it talks about in such glittering generalities, These reforms will have to be fought for by the united action of the people, and that action has to be aimed at curbing the power of the great monopolies, winning of a new democratic constitution and adopting a new foreign policy of peace, Furthermore, it is in such united action that the surest ‘guarantee lies for the election to the next House of Commons of a large bloc of progressive MPs, This, and not dependence on the Pearson government, is the road forward for the labor move- ment, and all progressive Can- adians, PT named Trail’s No. One Citize Dr, W, J, Endicott, a prac- tising Christian who has been active in the peace movement in the West Kootenays for many years, has been named Citizen of the Year in Trail, A cousin of Canadian Peace Congress president James G, Endicott, Trail’s Dr, Endicott has been a subscriber and sup- porter of the Pacific Tribune for many years because he feels the essence of democracy is the right to hold a viewpoint which challenges the status quo. We join his many friends and admirers in offering Dr, Endi- cott our warmest congratulations upon being chosen Number One Citizen by the people of his home town, April 23, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 11 —Trail Times Photo Senge?