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news the huge armada of ships and planes maintained

y U.S. imperialism to fight the national independence
Movements of South East Asia. This force is now being

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DELIVER PROTEST TO U.S. CONSULATE

ered additional nuclear equipped ships to join the Sev-
enth Fleet. Despite denials that the U.S. does not intend
to use nuclear arms except in an “emergency”, the U.S.
is builling up its nuclear striking power in the far east.

Dominican intervention hit
at city rally and march

"se letter protesting the U.S,
vention in the Dominican
Republic was delivered to the
aa Consulate General in Van-

ver last Thursday night by one
pared citizens who marched
oa a public meeting in Van-
Ollver’s Pender Auditorium to
a the Consulate offices at
forgia and Burrard Streets,

Called by the Vancouver com-
Bee of the Communist Party
en “Hands off the Dom-
m gan Republic,” the meeting was

€nded by over 250 people,

, aay secretary William Stewart
aced the background of the
Struggle in the Dominican Re-
yee and charged that the U.S.
famoes were sent to the Island
Beer eress the popular demand
Constitutional government,

me traced the history of Amer-
& 1 intervention against the
po Island and the struggle
a € Dominican people for dem-
a acy and independence and
‘“arged that the U.S, action was
Almed at keeping the old military
Clique in power,

Stewart pointed out that the
ae intervention was in violation
= all existing treaties and

arters and urged Canadians to
Protest the U.S, act of aggression,

© said the U.S, had resorted

° the “anti-Communist” slogan
i cloak to cover its inter-

10n but that the real issue
Was democracy,

The meeting's chairman, PT
é Ssociate Editor Maurice Rush,
aid the U.S, had a long history

of intervention in the Dominican
Republic and pointed out that
U.S. Marines occupied the Island
in 1916, years before there was
a Communist Party anywhere in
the Western Hemisphere,

The meeting decided to stage
the protest march to the U.S.
Consulate after adopting a state-
ment addressed to Avery Peter-
son, Consul-General in Van-
couver, which stated:

«Im contravention of the United
Nations’ Charter, in violation of
the agreement of the Organization
of American States (of which the
United States is a member) and
in complete violation of all con-
cepts of national sovereignty and
the right of nations to self-
determination, the U.S. govern-
ment has sent Marines into the
Dominican Republic to interfere
in the internal affairs of that
sovereign nation,

«This arrogant assumption that
the United States is some sort
of super state which can dictate
the forms of government other
states can enjoy, can only en-
gender hostility and antagonisms
and push the world further towa rd
the brink of war,

The letter concluded by de-
manding that the U.S, Marines
be withdrawn from the Domini-
can Republic and urged that the
Dominican people be allowed to
settle their own affairs,

The meeting also adopted a
resolution to Prime Minister
Pearson which expressed dis-

Nuclear warheads at
Comox base protested

Cont'd from pg. 1
there’s nothing more to fear from
8n accidental nuclear explosion
an from an explosion in the
8arage next door, The power of
Quelear blasts is too well recog-

Charlie Stewart

in hospital
Readers of the PT will be sorry
perer that Charles Stewart, who
€red a stroke some weeks ago
a recently returned home, had
Telapse Tuesday night and is
Pack in Surrey hospital, The PT
JOins all his friends in wishing

im a speedy recovery.

nized, Everyone knows today that
all human progress — in fact
life itself depends on preventing
thermonuclear war.”

*Can the Pearson government
be compelled to change its mind
and honor its signature on the
partial test ban treaty? Yes, it
is still not too late for public
opinion to cancel the nuclear
arms agreement with the U.S.A,
Canada should set an example to
the world by returning the U.S.
nuclear warheads and U.S, troops
to the U.S,, and declaring Canada
to be a nuclear-free zone,” con-
cluded Morgan,

satisfaction with “the weak am-
biguous statement® of the Prime
Minister over the U. S, action.

«There is absolutely no justi-
fication for U.S. Marines in the
Dominican Republic. They are
interfering in the internal affairs
of another country, contrary to
the Charter of the United Nations
and the Organization of American
States, said the resolution,

“As Prime Minister of a coun-
try which is pledged to uphold
the Charter of the United Nations,
and a country into whose internal
affairs the U.S. is prone to in-
terfere quite readily, we ask for
a clear statement from yourself
deploring this arrogant inter-
vention by the U.S. We urge that
you demand the immediate with-
drawal of U.S, troops,” concluded
the resolution,

Carrying placards which read,
«Get out of Dominican Republic,”
«Let the people decide their own
government,” Hands off the Dom-
inican Republic,” the 100
marchers paraded along Gran-
ville Street and Georgia to the
Consulate building. While pickets
paraded outside, William Stewart
delivered the letter of protest to
the U.S. Consulate offices,

LABOR ROUNDUP:

Broader democracy urged

for parley on

Protest against undemocratic
procedures which would deny
participation and discussion at
the Labor-Management Confer-
ence, scheduled to meet in the
Vancouver Bayshore Inn on May
19, has been forwarded to Labor
Minister Peterson by United
Fishermen and Allied Workers
Union secretary Homer Stevens,

Organized labor through the
media of the Vancouver Labor
Council had previously protested
the limited opportunity provided
by the 1963 conference for labor
to fully express its viewpoint on
labor-management problems, in-
stead of being “lectured” and
limited to questions from the
floor,

While some small improve-
ment in this regard has been
effected insofar as labor rep-
resentation is -concerned, the
UFAWU secretary’s letter of
protest to Peterson is still valid,

Stevens’ letter points out that
while only two spokesmen for any
section of labor are listed on the
conference agenda as panelists
or speakers, CLC vice-president
Joe Morris and secretary E, P,
O’Neal, B,C, Federation of Labor,
no provision is made for repre-
sentation from the big UFAWU,
Mine-Mill or other independent
unions, or other non-affiliates of
the CLC,

The letter points out that “this
ruling is going to perpetuate the
concept of a series of lectures
and deny the free exchange of
opinion which should be part of
any conference.” The UFAWU
secretary proposed that the con-
ference’s rules should be altered
to provide for independent unions
on conference panels, the ad-
vance distribution of prepared
papers, and regulated discus-
sion and questions allowed from
the floor,

Such a conference, Stevens
maintains, “would assure aprop-
erly organized conference on the
important. questions of economic
and technological change, and its
implications on the policies and
progress of both labor and man-
agement,”

While full details are not avail-

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able, it is reported that the To-
ronto Mailers Union has voted to
reject a union contract agree-
ment signed last week with the
three ITU strike-bound Toronto
newspapers,

The Mailers walked out in sym-
pathy with Local 91 of the ITU
on July 9th last year when the
Toronto papers attempted to
smash the Typos union with com-
puter installations, Since then
these Toronto dailies, the To-
ronto Star, Globe & Mail, andthe
Toronto Telegram, have been
operating with police-protected
scab labor,

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Establishing a precedent which
could well be followed by other
trade unions, the Vancouver Civic
Employees Union (Outside Work-
ers) Tuesday of this week un-
animously endorsed a resolution
on the Dominican Republic, to
be forwarded to Prime Minister
Pearson, The resolution states:

“This trade union calls upon
the Canadian government to de-
mand in the United Nations the
removal of all U,S, troops from
the Dominican Republic, This
trade union also calls upon our
government to declare itself in
favor of non-interference in the
affairs of the people of the Do-
minican Republic, in order that
the Dominican people may
achieve responsible government
according to their own wishes,”

Commenting on his union’s
resolution secretary Jack Phil-
lips told the PT “in the fight for
peace the issue of international
workingclass solidarity must find
a greater expression inthe ranks

of Canadian organized labor,”
* * *

The IWA strike at the Frolek
Sawmills in Kamloops, now in
its seventh month, is still holding
solid, Forced into negotiation by
public and union pressure, the
Frolek management made a pre-
tense at “bargaining,” accom-
panied by its demand that five of
the striking IWA workers bedis-
charged, This the union flatly
rejected,

In its anti-union and scab-
herding campaign, the Frolek
management has operated in open
defiance of all Labor Relations
laws in B,C,

A giant rocket, similar to that used for launching the
Vostock and Voskhod spaceships trundles across Red
Square at the 65-minute military parade marking the
20th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism. The above
rocket is 117 feet long. The Soviet Union called for an

agreement among the powers to ban the use of nuclear

weapons. Leonid Brezhnov, First Secretary of the Com-
munist Party, told a meeting ‘‘The Soviet Union never
intended or intends to attack anybody. But nobody
should try to confuse our eagerness to uphold world
peace with toothless pacifism.”

May 14, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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