Manitoba NDP MLA‘s—

‘Vietnam federal matter’

By DON CURRIE

WINNIPEG — Peace workers in Manitoba have greeted and en- dorsed the call of the Canadian Peace Congress for broadened peace action to compel the U.S. to withdraw from Vietnam and for efforts to build a stronger and more active coalition of peace forces in Canada.

At a public report-back meet- ing in Winnipeg, Doreen Plow- man, secretary of the Manitoba Peace Council, Mike Mokry, provincial secretary of the As- sociation. of United Ukrainian Canadians and Mrs. Stella Sey- chuck, representing the National Executive of the Workers’ Bene- volent Association gave detailed reports on the conference.

Reviewing local peace actions, Mrs. Plowman reported that during the Nixon blockade of Vietnam harbors the Manitoba Peace Council participated with other anti-war groups on a march on the Manitoba Legisla- ture. Peace council supporters had phoned Manitoba NDP MLA’s calling on them to speak out in the legislature on the crisis. The MLA’s, while expres- sing concern, said that the war in Vietnam was “a federal is- sue” and all statements were made by federal spokesmen. Mrs. Plowman told the meeting that the reply of the MLA’s was unacceptable and that the war in Vietnam was everyone’s busi-

Demand CPR pay taxes in full

WINNIPEG — Councillor Joe Zuken will lead a delegation of citizens to a meeting with the NDP caucus of the Manitoba Legislature on June 22 to de- mand the CPR pay full taxation of its Winnipeg properties.

The meeting is the high point of a petition campaign by the Labor Election Committee call- ing upon the Schreyer govern- ment to rescind the present agreement which permits the CPR to pay only partial taxes on its multi-million dollar muni- cipal properties.

The LEC petitioners have been receiving strong support in door-to-door canvassing and are

ness since what was at stake was the possibility of nuclear war and that every public of- ficial had an obligation to speak up.

It was reported that the Mani- toba Peace Council presented a brief to Prime Minister Trudeau during his recent visit to Win- nipeg demanding federal gov- ernment action to end Canadian arms shipments to the U.S. for use in Vietnam.

The meeting adopted. resolu- tions to Trudeau and Nixon calling for lifting the blockade, ending the bombing and setting the date for the complete with- drawal of all U.S. forces from Vietnam.

A telegram was sent to U.S. Judge R. Arnason and Califor- nia State Attorney Younger de- manding dismissal of the trump- ed up charges against Angela Davis.

The meeting endorsed a state- ment calling upon the federal government to support the wide- spread public opposition in Man- itoba to the presence and activ-

ity of West German troops —

which are scheduled to come to Camp Shilo and nearby Carberry Hills to test tanks.

Mrs. Plowman reported on a meeting to ve held on June 8 to draw up plans for action on the Peace Congress postcard cam- paign and joint U.S.-Canadian rallies at border points during the summer.

working for a large turnout of supporters to back Councillor Zuken’s presentation.

The demand for full taxation of the CPR is supported by Win- nipeg City Council, several com- munity committees and citizen advisors groups.

The Labor Election Commit- tee has appealed to its support- ers to be on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature on Thurs- day, June 22 at 6.30 p.m. for a brief demonstration preceding the meeting with the NDP caucus.

Petitioners are continuing to petition until the day of the demonstration.

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Troops of the People’s Tri province.

Liberation Army transporting munitions during the offensive in Quang

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Hit complicity in cruel U.S. war

By JIM BRIDGEWOOD HAMILTON—Amid wall ban- ners demanding: “End Canadian Complicity,” “Set a Date for Total Withdrawal from Indo- china,” and “End the Arms

Race,” 100 people last week,

viewed slides and applauded speeches attacking the war in Vietnam.

The meeting, which heard Rev. John Morgan, recently elected president of the Cana- dian Peace Congress, Mrs. Kay MacPherson of the Voice of Women, and David Monie of the United Electrical Workers, was organized by a pro tem Hamil- ton Peace Committee.

Mrs. MacPherson narrated while slides showed automated warfare. They exposed Cana- dian manufacturers such as Northern Electric, Bata Engin- eering, CCM, and others as pro- ducers of component parts and weapons used by the USA in Vietnam, Laos. and Cambodia.

“The Americans may be with- drawing troops,” Mrs. MacPher- son said, “but they are being replaced by a computerized war.” Tens of thousands of elec- tronic sensors and other listen- ing devices are dropped through- out south-east Asia. When the sensors are activated by either seismic or acoustic disturbances,

they transmit radio signals to a relay platform that flies over- head 24 hours a day.

Anticipating that the libera- tion soldiers may walk too quietly for its devices, she said, the Pentagon has purchased mil- lions of “button bomblets,” dis- guised as animal droppings, that snap, crackle and pop if they are walked on.

These sounds are easily regis- tered in a computer bank back at “the: base, she said. Strike

_orders relayed to attack aircraft

are fed into their on-board com- puters. This programming en- ables them to fly directly to the target with no further naviga- tion needs. Weapons are auto- matically set off at the proper moment.

There are no unmanned air- craft used for monitoring; and laser-guided bombs can come within six feet of a target, from four miles distance.

Some of the slides showed the hideous anti-personnel bombs meant to blow off legs and arms, so that it takes up to six or 10 doctors, nurses and attendants to care for one casualty.

Mrs. MacPherson concluded by stating that a computer cap- able of waging a world war is now being built by Honeywell Corp.

Rev. John Morgan likenet American aggressors 1 china to those in Italy, Ge” and Japan in the 1930's.

Pointing out that Asia is both below ground with Ma) als and above with great for ot and coupling this with the ‘ost voir of cheap labor, he ©* the empire the imperialists - to carve out. id ra

They won’t win, he sa md cause the world is aro US} quite apparent that in t post the great majority are °P to the war.

Dave Monie, UE delegty d the Paris World Asse de} Peace involving 84 count, 8 nounced such union offi? i) AFL-CIO head George Met | supporting Nixon’s dirty

On the other hand, — Canadian trade union! come out in support of t movement, such as DOE a Donald, CLC president erst Hutchens (IUE); Ray se met (USWA), Grace H4_ oid) (CUPE), and the foremos in His F an champions of peace own union.

proof that atrocities Us Hitler and Mussolini 4t€ compared to the ones nessed tonight.”

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APPEAL TO THE MOTHERS OF THE WORLD

(Statement of the Women's international Democratic Federation Council Meeting, Varna, Bulgaria, May 1972)

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LL OF US, women and mothers, want to live with our families in peace and hap- piness.

But this legitimate aspiration is denied to our friends of the countries of Indo- china, who have been living in the tor- ments of war for more than a quarter of century.

Disdaining international law, the government of the United States persists in trying to estab- lish its domination over this part of the world.

Thwarted by the irresistable Struggle of the peoplxs of Indochina, who are determined to de- fend their right to national independence, the U.S. is further intensifying its technological, electronic and chemical air war for the purpose of systematic destruction of human life.

Indochina has become a testing-ground for sophisticated: weapons which can be used to- morrow anywhere in the world.

The children of the Indochina countries are being bombed incessantly, without let up at the rate of two tons of explosives per minute.

We, the representatives of 108 women’s or- ganizations in 97 countries from all continents attending the Women’s International Democra- tic Federation Council Meeting in Varna, Bul-

garia in May 1972, are horrified and outraged at these abominable crimes.

WOMEN, MOTHERS OF THE WORLD!

We urge you to join us. Condemn these crimes. Demand that President Nixon put an immediate end to the aggression.

e@ We demand the total cessation of the in- tensive bombing of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, an independant sovereign state;

@ We demand the immediate, total and un- conditional withdrawal of United States troops, an end to the bombing and all other acts of war against South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia;

@ We demand that the United States Govern- ment cease all support to the governments it has established and which are manipulated in- struments of war and neo-colonialism, and that it let the peoples of Indochina decide freely on their destiny without foreign interference.

© We call upon our governments to intercede or reinforce their intercession with the United States Government for an end to the war;

© We support with all our might the women and mothers of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, who are heroically taking part in the legitimate struggle of their peoples; .

: ; out © We shall intensify our material aid t

sisters in these countries; f ynds

e@ We shall multiply the collection of child to hasten construction of the Mother and Welfare Centre in Hanoi.

FRIENDS IN THE UNITED STATES:

Unite to intensify your courageous senistte against the war policy of the Nixon Adm noe Hf tion. Demand the immediate return of yOu bands and sons.

FRIENDS IN THE COUNTRIES wak: INVOLVED IN THE INDOCHINA

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Demand that your governments end ere

port for this U.S. policy. Rid your tet 5 United States bases.

WOMEN, MOTHERS OF THE wor?

: p if Through immediate and energetic aa On gether with the courageous women orror © china, we shall end the suffering and all mar this war of aggression, condemned by mt nd” kind! Peace and Liberty for the peoples china!

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