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“These guys don’t seem to know we're fighting for freedom.”

Statement issued by
anti-Vietnam war group

The Vancouver-based Committee,
Against Canadian Production for
U.S. war last week released a
statement on its activities which is
briefly summarized below.

“On February 4th, 1968, the:
Committee Against Canadian
Production For U.S. War organized a
protest at a meeting in Vancouver
addressed by Paul Hellyer, a
minister with portfolio in the Cabinet
and a candidate in the Liberal Party
leadership. Critical observations
have been made of our Committee’s
Participation in the vigorous
heckling and vocal opposition
directed towards Paul Hellyer at this
meeting.

“Our Committee has met several
times since the Hellyer meeting and
has critically appraised the event
and has considered both the helpful
criticism of our friends in the
movement for peace as well as the
hostile criticism of the pro-
establishment news medias.

‘The unanimous agreement of
those associated with our
Committee, those who were there
and those who were not, is that the
criticism of our Committee’s actions
is justified and gave the pro-
establishment news media a
welcomed opportunity to divert

_ attention from the issue of Canadian

involvement to an issue of
democracy. Paul Hellyer had the
right to speak and those interested in
hearing him also had the right to
hear. Our actions that evening in that
regard encroached upon that very
basic right.

“This does not in any way change
Our appraisal of Paul Hellyer
(amongst the most hawkish in the
Liberal Cabinet) or of the Liberal
Cabinet as a whole, as relates to
their successful efforts in involving
Canada, both materially and
morally, in the American war in
Vietnam. It is our estimation that
the majority of Canadians do not
support the American war in
Vietnam.

“The Liberal Cabinet continues to
attempt justifying Canada’s
complicity; i.e. Hellyer’s statement
to students to be careful not to
become great moralists over the
Vietnam war as part of their
education is being paid for by the
sale of Canadian goods, including
arms, to the U.S.

“The Liberal Cabinet also resorts

to lying and deceit as shown by Paul -

Martin’s press statement, which was

provoked by a demonstration at the.

Vancouver International Airport
attended by our Committee. During
the conference at the airport, Paul
Martin stated: Whatever we sell (to
U.S.) goes only to non-sensitive
areas. He firmly denied Canadian
arms are being used in the Vietnam
war (see Vancouver Sun, Feb. 2/68).

‘“‘These statements ‘were
recognized by most as such a blatant
fabrication that they hardly needed
to be refuted. Several days later Eric
Kierans, said: ‘I know enough to
know we are sending them (arms).
Such talk as Martin’s is just diddling
around, pretending the Pentagon
does not know the final destination of

the arms. If the arms are not going”

to Vietnam, there must be some
incredible warehousing problems in
the U.S.’(Vancouver Sun, Feb. 5/68).

“Since the formation of the
Committee Against Canadian
Production For U.S. War three
months ago, we have called
numerous demonstrations. We have
distributed and mailed over 40,000
pieces of relevant information and
leaflets, and at the same time have
led a boycott against Dow products
(Saran Wrap, Handi-Wrap, etc.) at
the Safeway stores, and have
through picketing and shopping-in
forced the removal of these products
from the shelves of six Safeway
stores.

“These modest achievements of
our Committee have been
accomplished at a time when the
danger of further escalation of the
war has become increasingly
critical.

“Our Committee is not hesitant in

being self-critical of an action and
admitting an error. We welcome the
helpful and friendly criticism of our
friends in the peace movement, and
our Committee feels confident that
the experience we have gained, both
positive and negative, in the last
three months of intensive activity
will enable us to more effectively
contribute to the movement in our
country to end Canada’s involvement
in the U.S. war in Vietnam.”

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‘No’ vote urged on
North Shore college

Ina statement issued this week the
North Shore Club of the Communist
Party declared its support for the
idea of a Community College.

“However,” said the statement,

“the college, to be of real benefit to
the people must be established and
financed by the Provincial

Government with a democratically

constituted Board of Control.

“Voters on Vancouver Island and
in the Interior have already turned
down college plebiscites which
lacked these features. The
Communist Party is urging a ‘NO’
vote on March 7 as a first step
toward the establishment of a
Community College on a proper
basis.

“Traditionally all higher education
costs have been the responsibility of
the Provincial Government. They
have received assistance in the form
of education grants from the Federal
Government. But Premier Bennett
has amended the B.C. Schools Act to

include Community Colleges in an.

attempt to foist some of the
Provincial Government’s
responsibility for financing higher
education onto the already
overburdened municipal taxpayer.

“The amendment to the Schools
Act also provides for a College Board
of Control the majority of which

Alberni gets
kindergartens

PORT ALBERNI, B.C.:— One of
the rewards for electing a
progressive majority to Alberni
District School Board was realized
last week when it was announced
that kindergarten classes will be

inaugurated in the Alberni Valley in

September for children born in 1963.

Kindergarten sessions of 22 hours
in morning and afternoon shifts will
be held at Eighth Avenue, Calgary,
Alberni, John Howitt, Cherry Creek,
River Bend, Faber and Beaver Creek
elementary schools.

would be either direct Government
appointees or Government
employees. Provision is made for
only one elected trustee from the
municipalities.

“Tf the plebiscite should pass on
March 7, it will establish the
precedent for the increasingly
obvious attempts of the Bennett
Government to dump its financial
responsibilities onto small taxpayers
in the urban areas. It will set a
precedent for taxing homeowners to
pay for higher education. It: would
also help to establish the pattern of
undemocratic controls at a ‘regional’
level. For these reasons we urge
voters to say ‘NO’ on March 7 to
Bennett’s plans.

“We further urge everyone
concerned with this problem to join
in the demand for the establishment
of a North Shore Community College
with the full cost of construction and

operation covered by the Provincial ,

Government and for a
democratically constituted College
Board of Control to include elected
representatives from the
participating municipalities and also
representatives from labor and
ratepayers organizations in the
areas.

“‘We believe a united effort of the
people can gain a genuine

Community College for the North ~

Shore. Anyone wishing further
information may call M. Rush, 985-
5580.

CELEBRATE

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

SUNDAY — MARCH 10th — 2 P.M.

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MRS. SHEILA YOUNG will speak on
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Canadians
at CP parle

A delegation from the
Communist Party of Canada is
participating in the International
Consultative meeting which
opened in Budapest on February
26 to which all Communist and
Workers’ parties have been '
invited. j

The Canadian delegation are
William Kashtan, national leader
and general secretary; Nelson |
Clarke, national organizer and
Samuel Walsh, chairman of the
National Committee, Communist
Party of Quebec.

The consultative meeting will
consider the agenda and date for
an international conference.

The Communist Party of
Canada has re-affirmed its
support for such a conference
which in its view should be held
at ‘‘the earliest date possible’. It
also expressed the view that the
conference focus its attention on
“‘curbing U.S. imperialist
aggression in Vietnam and
elsewhere and compelling it to
accept peaceful coexistence not
only in words but in deeds.”’

Before the delegation departed
for Budapest, Kashtan expressed
confidence the consultative
meeting would ‘‘mark an
important step forward in
consolidating unity and thereby
give an impetus to the cause of
peace and socialism.”

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re: Baboth & Kovacs
“IN THE SUPREME COURT
OF ONTARIO

NOTICE TO MARY BABOTH and
IGNACZ KOVACS, of the Province
of British Columbia.

TAKE NOTICE that an action has
been commenced against you by
George Baboth in which the
Plaintiff’s claim is for dissolution of
his marriage to Mary Baboth on the
ground of the alleged adultery of
Mary Baboth with Ignacz Kovacs
and for the custody of the infant child
of the marriage of George Baboth
and Mary Baboth and that it has been
ordered that service of the Writ of
Summons and Statement of Claim
and Special Notice of Trial upon you
be effected by this advertisement. If
you wish to defend this action you
must enter an Appearance in the
Registrar’s Office at Osgoode Hall,
Toronto, on or before the 21st day of
March, 1968, and deliver your
Statement of Defence within ten
days thereafter. In default of
appearance, this Action will be set
down for trial at the Toronto Non-
Jury Sittings within sixty days of’
such default.

.GORDON A. MACARTNEY, 365 Bay
Street, Toronto, Ontario, Solicitor
for the Plaintiff.

M. R. McKinnon,
Assistant Registrar, S.C.O.

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