Canada's Minister of Agriculture, Harry Hayes (centre) is shown

in Lenin's study in Moscow during his recent visit to the Soviet
Union. Upon his return, a $22 million-plus wheat deal with the

USSR was announced.

CP campaign underway

Charles Caron, provincial
Campaign manager for the
Communist Party, has stated
that the party has completed
Nomination of its candidates
for the Sept. 30 election.

They are: Bill Stewart and
Ron Forkin in Vancouver Centre
Maurice Rush in North Van-
Couver, Ernie Knott in Victoria
and Jehn McCuish in Kamloops.

“All these candidates are
Very able spokesmen for the
Policy Communists advance,’
Caron said. “Bill Stewart, for
- Instance, has spent most of
his adult life in unions and is
Most anxious to meet on the
hustings the administrator of

‘C.’s anti-labor legislation—

€s Peterson.

“Maurice Rush in North

ancouver, Associate Editor
Of the Pacific Tribune, is a
: Veteran of the people’s strug-
8les in this province.

“John McCuish, originally
from Nova Scotia, is one of
the most colorful veterans of
the labor movement in this
country. You can expect these
candidates to have a great
influence on the debate of
the election.

“The election campaign has
started to roll,’ Caron said,
“and we expect its momen-
tum to increase from now on.’
We have established our EI-.
ection Headquarters at 740 E.
Hastings St., Vancouver. Phone
MU 5-9921.

“Money has started to coins
into our office in response to
our appeal. Election pro-
grams, posters and collection
cards will be available this
week. Public meetings are be-
ing scheduled.

“Let’s get into this impor-

tant fight for the future and |

survival of our people,” Car-
on urged.

McCuishchoseninKamloops

Veteran Communist John
€Cuish has been chosen to:
Carry the party’s program in

JOHN McCUISH

the constituency of Kamloops.
McCuish has a long and
colorful history in B.C.’s lab-

or movement. He did as much _

as any other living man to
first organize the province’s
loggers. When the IWA won
certification to represent the
workers in B.C.’s forests, he
was issued IWA Membership
Card No. 100 — the first card
issued in the province.

More recenti;;, he has play-
ed a prominant role in the
struggles of the unemployed,
holding the position of Vice-
Chairman of the Vancouver
Unemployed Council.

His candidacy will do much
to liven up the campaign in
Kamloops, where Tory leader
Fulton and Socred cabinet
minister Gaglardi are seeking
the single seat.

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Peace campaign
presses on to
‘dump’ Comox

The B.C. Peace Council has an-
nounced a series of measures de-
signed to step up the fight for the
removal of the nuclear dump at
Comox. The campaign will oper-
ate on two fronts—the federal and
provincial.

The council will be tackling all
MP’s before Parliament opens on
Sept. 30. It is urging people to
write to their MPs and/or Prime
Minister Lester Pearson express-
ing their opposition to the Comox
dump, particularly in view of the
Moscow test ban treaty.

“This is no time to spread nuc-
lear weapons around,’’ Laud
Gardner, council president, told
the PT. “Just when we finally
see some possibility of achieving
disarmament, our government
takes this brazen and truly fool-
ish step. This is not in keeping
with the spirit of the limited test
ban agreement.”

WILL VISIT MP’s

In addition to the letter writ-
ing campaign, Gardner said that
arrangements have been made
for delegations of people to visit
their MPs personally, prior to
their departure for the opening
of Parliament.

“The people of B.C. have dem-
onstrated over and over again
that they want no nuclear arms in
Canada,’”’ he pointed out. ‘‘We
are going to see to it that our
elected representatives are re-
minded of this fact.”

The fight against A-arms and
particularly against the Comox
dump will be carried over into
the provincial election also, he
stated. ‘‘We are urging all peace
supporters to attend election
meetings and quiz the candidates
on this vital question. We expect
every single candidate to take
a stand publicly—either he is for
the Comox dump or he is against
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RECALLS RESOLUTION

He drew attention to the reso-
lution condemning the spread of
nuclear weapons which was pass-
ed unanimously by the B.C. Leg-
islature in 1961, and stated that

‘the council would be issuing a

leaflet based upon that resolution.

(The resolution, introduced by
Camille Mather — NDP, Delta —
called on the legislature to op-
pose the spreading of nuclear
weapons to any country not then
in possession of them, including
Canada.

(Since the establishment of the
Comox dump, however, the Soc-
red government as well as the
provincial Liberal and Tory part-
jes have been completely silent on
this issue.)

Kurds appeal to Red Cross

The leader of the Kurdish armed
forces now defending themselves
against Iraqi attacks, Mustafa
Barzani, has appealed to the
International Red Cross for help.

In a mesage last weekend to
the organization (which is now
holding its annual conference in
Geneva, Barzani said that since
last March Iraq’s Baathist gov-
ernment has been carrying out
the mass extermination of the
Kurdish people.

“Flouting the Geneva conven-
tions,”” he said, ‘‘ troops of the
Bagdad government are bombing
Kurdish towns and _ villages,

killing _women, old men and

children.

“They are staging massacres
and are forcibly expelling civil-
ians from the oilbearing regions
of Kurdistan, shooting all Kurdish
soldiers taken prisoners, burning
crops with napalm, destroying
cattle and seeking to strangle the
Kurdish people through an econ-
omic blockade.”

Barzani, who is chairman of
the Kurdistan Democratic Party,
as well as Commander-in-Chief
of the Kurdish armed forces, has
appealed for urgent measures to
help the wounded, the sick and
starving.

Museum refuses mock missile

A 24-foot dummy Polaris mis-
sile, marked: ‘‘Death to -one
million children,’’ brought from
Glasglow, was. presented to
London’s Imperial War Museum
last weekend.

“We are delivering it to the
museum because we feel that
this is the appropriate place for
weapons,’’ explained Committee
of 100 national secretary Peter
Moule on behalf of the 500 demon-
strators with him.

But the museum’s director, Dr.
Noble Frankland, looked at the

proposed gift and said: “I could
not possibly accept it as a genu-
ine exhibit. It is somewhat be-

low our standards.’”’ After the
demonstration had laid _ the
Polaris down just below. the

museum’s bottom step and went
off to an adjoining park for a
meeting, Dr Frankland said: ‘It
is not my property.’”’ It was re-
moved by the parks department.

The demonstration had been
organized by the Scottish Com-
mittee of 100, about nine of whom
had marched the 550 miles from
Glasglow to London, carrying the
missile.

Solidarity in Spanish strike

General Franco’s Minister of
Information and Tourism, has
admitted that 25 Asturian miners
have been arrested on charges
of belonging to the Communist
Party. He claimed the men were.
not arrested for participation in
the strike, but ‘‘for provoking
unrest.” ‘

The government claims that
some 14,000 miners have been
locked out of the mines, but the
workers maintain that the actual
number who have gone out on
strike is more than double this
figure. Last Monday the lockout
was lifted temporarily, but not
a single worker showed up for
work.

In a statement sunnortine the

strike, the Spanish CP declared:
‘This: tense duel between the
strikers on the one hand and
the government, the employers
and the fascist syndicate on the
other, not only fills the working
people throughout Spain with
admiration, but marks the be-
ginning of united actions in the
autumn.

“It is the herald of the general
political strike which the masses
are beginning to regard as the
down-fall of the dictatorship.”

About 1,500 Spanish workers
employed in West Germany held
a protest demonstration in Frank-
furt last Sunday, demanding free
trade unions and the right to
strike in Spain.

Hero pleads for peace pact

Soviet war hero Marshal Sem-
yon Timoshenko spoke at a mas-
sive East Berlin meeting last
Sunday in memory of the vic-
tims of fascism.

Other speakers included British
lawyer D. N. Pritt, Q.C., and
resistance leaders from other oc-
cupied countries. Mrs. Eslanda

Robeson, wife of Paul Robeson,
was scheduled to speak but was
not well and her speech was read
al the meeting.

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Marshal Timoshenko called for
a non-agression pact betwee: the
NATO and Warsaw Pact countries
and for the peaceful solution of
the German question as one of
the most important of the world’s
problems today.

The German Democratic Re-
public, he said, was a full and
equal power among the socialist
countries and its sovereignty was
backed by the full strength of
the socialist world, including the
Soviet Union.

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