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FRIDAY, JUNE 7,1968

U.S. bombing of North Vietnam continues to kill, maim and
cripple civilians. The key to peace in Vietnam is for the U.S. to
halt bombing now. Canada cannot remain silent on_ this

question.

MASSIVE MEDICAL AID
URGED FOR VIETNAM

The Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians in
Vancouver has written Prime Minister Trudeau urging
that Canada launch a ‘‘massive Canadian medical aid
program for the people of Vietnam.”’ >

Pointing out that the need for
this is obvious and daily grows
more urgent, the letter points out
that for almost two years the
CAVC has attempted to persuade
the Federal government to
undertake such humanitarian
program but to no avail.

It charges that the little aid
being extended goes only to the
area under U.S. control. ‘‘To give
substance to the new image of
liberalism which you project,
why not set up a genuine medical

aid plan for all of Vietnam to

which volunteer groups and the
government will contribute?”
asks the CAVC.

The Vancouver-based
committee headed by Dr. Alan
Inglis,, has already raised
$75,000 in funds and supplies. This
week the CAVC announced that in

response to an urgent. appeal for —
rtificial limbs for children under _

ARRAS BSE 2 EF

fifteen years of age it is
launching a campaign to raise
funds for the purchase of

adjustable artificial legs to help

some of the thousands of child
amputees walk again.

Material for the campaign will
go out to some 4,000 names on the
committee’s mailing list in the
next couple of weeks. A national
response to the humanitarian
appeal is expected.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Sheila Young.
convenor of the CAVC’s
Children’s Committee,
announced last week that the 12th
shipment of children’s clothing
was forwarded aboard the Soviet
freighter S.S. Ostrogozhsk. The
shipment contained 1,910
garments and bed covers, 305
ounces of knitting wool, surgical

_ supplies: and four artificial legs,,

Stop arms sales,
emand U.S. halt
Vietnam bombing

“fhe fight for peace remains the key question in this election but both Prime
Minister Trudeau and Tory leader Stanfield continue to give support to aggressive U.S.
foreign policy, especially in Vietnam, which endangers world peace.

This was the charge made by
Vancouver East Communist
candidate Charles Caron at an
election rally in Clinton Hall last
Sunday. :

“It is important not to let the
old line parties slip away from
their responsibilities to effect a
real change in Canada’s foreign
policy,’ Caron told about 200
people at the Communist Party
election rally where he spoke
with Stanley Ryerson and
Vancouver South candidate Robin
Smith. (See page 8.)

He said the Communist Party
would press hard to influence the
great world-wide and Canadian
movement for peace, which has
forced the Paris talks on
Vietnam, to bring further
pressure on Canadian politicians
to end the U.S. war of aggression.
Caron declared his party gives
wholehearted support to a three-
point peace program which:

e Calls for an immediate
cessation of the bombing of North
Vietnam;

e Calls for an end to all
Canadian arms shipments to the
US.

.@ Calls for a peace settlement
based on the Geneva Accord of
1954.

They are not negotiating in good
faith. They are using time to try
and regain world prestige and
lost battle positions. Now that the
talks have begun the time is ripe
to intensify efforts to bring about

@ a settlement, not time to slacken
i, off,’ said Caron: :.

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“The U.S. is stalling at Paris..

Tuesday, June 1:

The Vancouver’ East
Communist candidate said that
because of the necessary concern
existing in Canada today over the
constitutional question, there is a
danger that-the old line parties
might be able to evade the
question of peace.

‘‘Trudeau, for instance, has
proven himself to be to the right
of the Liberal establishment,’

SPEAKS HERE. William Kash-
tan, Communist Party national
leader, joins the election battle in
B.C. this weekend when he

_ arrives to speak at three rallies.

Sunday, June 9 he speaks in New
Westminster's Dreamland Hall,
Church Street at 8 p.m. with
candidate Bob McLaren.

Monday, June 10, Kashtan will
speak on behalf of Communist
candidates Robin Smith
(Vancouver South), and Charles
Caron (Vancouver East), at the
Peretz School, 6184 Ash St. The
third meeting will be in support of
Mark Mosher in Port Alberni on

said Caron. ‘‘None of his
pronouncements about a so-
called ‘new look’ at foreign policy
have included the demand
previously voiced by Paul Martin
that the ending of U.S. bombing
was a first priority for peace in
Vietnam.”

Quoting recent statements of
Tory leader Robert Stanfield that
“we support the aims of U‘S.
foreign policy,’’ Caron said the
read mood in Canada is vastly
different from that expressed by
these spokesmen of the old line
parties, and that Canada should
get out of NATO and NORAD.

“There is a desire for a change
in foreign policy. This desire is
based on the deep suspicion that
exists with regard to U.S.
policies. The crisis of the old line
parties in Canada _ is
fundamentally one of their
support for U.S. imperialism.
This is the policy that has brought
about today’s high prices, high
taxes, record unemployment and
the danger of currency
devaluation.

‘“‘This crisis will not be
charmed away by the deception
of the image makers. We believe
it is possible to further shake the
establishment in this election, to
bring about a further rupture in
the two party systems, and to
prevent the formation of a

majority government pledged to

support the foreign policy aims of
the U.S.”

Caron said that based on this
belief, the Communist Party
calls for the maximum unity of
the Left to inflict heavy defeats
on the old line parties. and thus
play an important part in the
world-wide movement to secure

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