VOL. 19, NO. 47 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1960 “Canada could get $100 million a year in Cuban trade.” That's what a Cuban government official said last week. But we won‘t get it if the U.S. has its way. Last year Canada’s exports to Cuba: stood at slightly over |S AMERICANS BACK CUBA $15 million, which was about ; e ‘ | average for the last five years. | Canada stands to increase its! trade with Cuba almost. seven fold according to the above VANCOUVER, B.C. ae 10° All jobless attend VIC rally A rally for all Vancouver unemployed has been called | by the Vancouver Labor Council in the Pender Audi-! urged to torium, Monday, November 28 at 1.30 p.m. . Announcement of the meet- ing follows a recent decision of the B.C. Federation of Labor convention to set up a Province-wide unemployed or- ganization. It is expected that Meetings will be held in all the main centres to establish organization and plan action. A leaflet put out by the | VLC urging the unemployed) to attend says that the meet- ing will ‘set up an unemploy-| viation of the unemployment! Carribean waters in a direct €d council to assist the unem-| ployed with problems related to unemployment insurance, social assistance, evictions, foreclosures, etc.” The leaflet further states that. the purpose of the new unemployed organization will be to “help the unemployed, help themselves through or-| ganized effort to force all levels of government to take, immediate action for the alle-| situation.” t Alsbury ‘enemy’ sa ys labor election support withdrawn TOM ALSBURY . .. Servant of big busi- Ness and enemy of organized labor.” &¢ | Tom Alsbury, NPA-backed' candidate for mayor, this week was denounced by the Vancou- ver Labor Council as a servant of big business and an enemy of organized labor. The VLC executive announ- ced that labor’s endorsation of Alsbury for mayor in the Dec. 14 civic election had ‘been withdrawn and that the VLC, will consider what other. ac- tion it will take in the mayor- alty field. Action followed Alsbury’s support in city council for compulsory arbitration for firemen and policemen in wage negotiations. Civic un- ions have long fought such a step by reactionary aldermen. statement, reported this week in the Vancouver. Sun. However, the U.S. govern- ment is determined to stop |trade between our two coun- | tries by whatever means pos- | sible, despite mass unemploy- [ment in Canada which _in- creased trade would help alle- viate. The aim of the U.S. is to | isolate Cuba and bring about |the overthrow of the Cuban government by force. This aim of the U.S. was con- firmed in aq recent report in! ' the London Daily Mail that the U.S. has created a $1 mil- lion base in Guatemala for training anti-Castro forces. Ac- cording to the report the U.S. | Central Intelligence Agency | with its notorious head, Allen} in charge of the: Dulles, is operation. The U.S. aim is further con- firmed by the action last week in sending an aircraft carrier and other naval forces into provocation against Cuba and an act of intervention in South American affairs. | Canadian friendship and. trade with Cuba does not fit! into this scheme of things. The result is increasing- pressure ' on Canada to join in the em- bargo against Cuba.. § Indicative of the U.S. pres-|; sure was a story by the Van-}; couver Province’s- Ottawa cor-|i rsepondent recently who said, | “At least one Canadian sub- sidiary is reported to have been forbidden by its parent; company to sell in Cuba.” He also reported that the Canadian government is check- ing all shipments of Canadian merchandise to Cuba to make sure no American-made com- ponents are included. Such an attitude by Ottawa consider- ably narrows the field of trade with Cuba since very few manufactured items in Canada do not contain some parts made in the U.S. Also last week the Toronto Star reported that an eastern auto parts exporter, Ralph Ma- lach Industries, had been stop- SANTIAGO, CHILE—Picture shows a mass demonstra- | tion headed by trade unionists, writers and cultural work- ers and leading statemen, in support of-the Cuban revolu- tion. BOGOTA, COLUMBIA—Columbian people hold a rally to express solidarity with the Cuban- struggle against U.S. imperialism. Huge banner reads, “Solidarily with Cuba to the end.” ped from filling a $1 million; ies in Canada dictating with Cuban order for auto parts) from Canada hecause U.S.-con- trolled Canadian firms refused to fill it. The failure of the Diefen- baker government so far to make a clear cut declaration of friendship and trade with Cuba is significant. So is Ot- tawa’s self-imposed restrictions on goods containing U.S. com- ponents and its failure to take whom we can or cannot trade. An early declaration by the Federal government of friend- ship and trade with Cuba is urgently needed. Such a siand would make it clear to all that Canada does not support the U.S. adventures in Cuba and South America. It could lead to a new era of expanded trade and friendship with the peoples of Cuba and Latin a stand against U.S. subsidiar-| America.