SIE ROEIT BEE SUS RNEENT URE! SARUM I EAE T ARE. ALF ET LR TE he —— af Oppose Bonn-Paris treaty BERLIN — An appeal to all working people and democrats in France and Germany to struggle against the ratification of the Adenauer-de Gaulle military pact was made at a conference recent- ly by the Communist Parties of these two countries. Delegations of the French Party “led by Jacques Duclos and of the illegal West German Party led by its secretary Max Reimann The Bonn-Paris alliance in perspective met in East Berlin and planned a great campaign against the Bonn- Paris treaty. The two parties said that the ratification of the pact would: @ Accelerate the armament and war preparations, sharpen the tension in Europe and endanger peace. © Put a tool in the hands of those now planning a crusade against the Socialist countries. ® Help the former Hitler gen- erals to get control of nuclear weapons. @ Hinder the peaceful solution of the German problem. ®@ Set louse an offensive of the monopolies: against the working people and threaten the living standards of countless people in the Common Market countries. “It is a pact of war against peace, reaction against progress, and monopolies against the peo- ple,’ the declaration of the two Parties said. U.S. party answers China The Communist Party of the Unitied States has issued the fol- lowing statement: “We have received inquiries about our reaction to the editorial statement of the Communist Par- ty of China regarding the policies of the Communist Party, USA. “We regard the editorial in the China People’s: Daily as a com- plete distortion, and a total mis- representation of the policies and viewpoint of the Communist Par- ty, USA, on all counts. Never- theless we are not going to enter into a discussion about this editor- ial at this moment. “We hold that in our policy, pro- gram and tactical line, which are known to millions of Americans, the Communist Party, USA, is fol- lowing a correct and creative Marxist path. However, most of the Marxist working class parties have now concludea that the best interests of the struggle for world peace, of the struggle for national liberation and against imperial- ism and of-the struggle for social- ism are best served by ending the public debate. We are in agree- ment with this viewpoint. “We will continue to fight for our policy of peaceful coexistence and struggle against the monopol- ists in the interests of our. class and the American people in this period of history, and for advanc- ing the struggle for socialism.” Africa smouldering fuse White supremacy policies in Africa could lead to violent ex- plosions. This warning was stress- ed recently by African freedom leaders commenting on the situ- ation in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. “Ready, set, go—home!” In London, England, Duma Nokwe, exiled general secretary of the African National Congress, said he -hopes the British public will find a way to persuade its government and industrialists that “they are going a little bit too far’’ in supporting the Hendrik Verwoerd regime in South Africa by the sale of arms. At a rally in Trafalgar Square British Labor Party leader Har- old Wilson. pledged that a labor government would stop sending arms to South Africa as long as apartheid continued. Joshua Niomo, president of Rhodesia’s banned Zimbabwe Af- riean People’s Union, warned in London that’ unless something was done to arrest the deteriorat-: ing situation in Southern Rhodesia the country will go to pieces. Castro hits false story Cuban Premier Castro has re- futed the content of an alleged newspaper interview with him published by the Paris newspaper Le Monde recently. Dr. Castro told. the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina in Havana that he had given no in- terview to Le Monde, but in late January had an unofficial talk with Le Monde’s correspondent. This acidental meeting with the journalist possibly ‘‘served as a pretext for reactionary pro-im- perialist elements who are inter- ested in harming the inviolable friendship which has existed and always will exist between Cuba and the Soviet Union to concoct this intrigue,’’ Castro said. “T should like to avail myself of this opportunity -to reaffirm the profound respect and friendship which we Cuban revolutionaries entertain for the Soviet Union, its - Communist Party and Nikita Khrushchev.”’ April 5, 1963—-PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 8 URGE STUDENTS REFUSE COOPERATION Professors blast ROMP actions Twenty-six professors from the faculty of the Universty of Al- berta have signed a statement condemning RCMP activities on Canadian campuses, and declar-. ing that ‘‘the only way to stop it... is for university professors and students. to refuse co-oper- ation.” In an interview with the Cana- dian University Press on: March 22, RCMP Commissioner C. W. Harvison admitted, after months of ‘pressure from university teachers, and-~ afier numerous denials, that the RCMP carries on extensive activities on Cana- dian campuses. In a vicious MeCarthy-like re- view of the activities of the Com- munist Party of Canada, which strongly echoes the line of the FBI in the U.S., Harvison states that ‘“‘in the university commun- ity enquiries we made into a stu- dent’s background are often di- rected at professors.” He makes it clear that the RCMP expect university profes- sors to continue to provide them with secret information on stu- dents. This practise has aroused faculty members all across Can- ~ ada. The statement, s‘gned by the 26 professors, states that ‘“‘univer- sities must remain free and this is not possible with any kind of thought control.” The statement adds: ‘‘If police action is introduced into univer- sity life for reasons other than law enforcement, then university life cannot remain free. “A policeman cannot tell wheth- er new thoughts are good or bad —only that they are not in his book of approved ideas. On the other hand, if a creative thinker knows that Big Brother is watch- ing and that Big Brother has a big stick, his independence of thought is endangered. “We please to tell ourselves that Canada is a free country and that our universities are free. Police activity which attempts to con- tro] thought and expression in the interests of maintaining our free- dem must, by its very nature, end by destroying them. “This type of police activity on Canadian university campuses is intolerable and the only way to>— stop it is for university professors and students to refuse co-operation.”’ Morgan hits cent-a-day rate cut by B.C. Hydro “The sharpest pretest needs to be registered over the one-cent per day rate cut proposed by B.C. Hydro’’, Nigel Morgan,~B.C. leader of the Communist Party, told the Pacific Tribune this week. ‘Tt’s ridiculous. Another exam- ple of big business favoritism by the Bennett government,’’ he de- clared. ‘‘For out of the $54% mil- lion reduction, almost $44 million will be handed tke big industrial and commercial users, and 30c per month, or Ic per cay to the small 100 kw. consumer. “Equalization of rates in the less-populated areas of the prov- ince was used last time to justify the extremely small reduction’ Morgan said. ‘‘Now we’re faced with a further withholding by the Bennett government of the bene- IN NANAIMO. Posters and sidewalk signs all over Nanaimo condemning nuclear arms greeted ‘Mike’ Pearson as he ar- rived in the hub city to speak at a reception Saturday. This sign is alongside one of the Nanaimo highways. Over 1,000 leaflets against A-arms were distributed. fits of public ownership of our hydro and gas utilities, “B.C. light and gas rates re- main among the highest. in the. country. Nothing short of the strongest and most united effort by the consumers will force the Bennett government to pass on to the people the lower rates and benefits that shou!d be theirs. “The saving of federal income and corporation taxes, amalgama- tion of services, and elimination | of corporate dividends, could make for quite a saving but not if we allow them to funnel it off to their big business friends’, concluded Morgan. Bomarcs Cont'd from pg. 1 edge of the wedge. Once the principle of Canadian nuclear armament is established the heat will be put on us to harbour Polaris submarines in our ports, to establish ICBM bases and to become the northern half of Fortress America—the Ameri- can nuclear military district. That is the truth behind the headlines. A vote on Apri] 8 against ac- cepting nuclear arms is a vote against Canada’s hopeless ,en- tanglement in Fortress America —the stronghold of American ag- gression and a threat to world | peace. Costly Business A recent issue of U.S. News and World Report states that — each American is now paying . $277 a year in ‘defending the West’? from socialism. HOT WELCOME FOR “MIKE” IN VIC- TORIA. Liberal leader Lester Pearson is shown being escorted by an aide through a wall of 80 anti-nuclear arms pickets at the Royal Theatre in Victoria last Friday: Pearson, holding Igis wife’s arm, has @ worried look on his face.