_‘Tocsin B'—nationa war scare set for Monday | SEE STORY BELOW <.-= = 4 | is aa Pacific WoL. 20, NO. 43 VANCOUVER, B.C. PRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1961 A Endicott to =k Dr. James Endicott, chair- man of the Canadian Peace Congress, will speak at a pub- lic meeting in Vancouver's Pender Auditorium, Friday, November 10 at 8 p.m. Sunday, November 12 he will speak at Nanaimo’s Plaza Hotel at 8 p.m. On Monday, November 13 he will address a meeting at the Golden Slipper Hall in Victoria. Meeting starts at 8 p.m. Endicott recently attended a World Council of Peace meet- ing in Warsaw, and returned via Berlin. Subject of his ad- dress will be “Hot Spots in the Cold War.” He will also report on the Berlin crisis. Block pressure to boost ' the B.C. Executive of the | “A powerful, well-financed blicity campaign is under- May to pressure the Bennett Vernment to up the ante to Tmer B.C.E. coupon clip- “ers,” Nigel Morgan, B.C. lead- of the Communist Party larged today. “It is a deliber- attempt to sabotage the €gislature’s takeover plan d deny the people the ad- tages of public ownership. _is precisely what Premier ennett predicted and exposed st month. Watered stock and’ To our readers: - | AN URGENT “APPEAL *® There is only ‘one eek left in the Pacific 4 The: Editorial Board } es this urgent appeal Yo all readers ‘and’ ‘sup- |Perters of our paper: to 8° all out in the remain- ig few days to fulfill all rive quotas. Final results of the ‘ive will be published CE. price urges Morgan An appeal to Pe B.C. government to hold fast and not € stampeded into granting a fiat to the B.C. Power Cor toration to sue over the B.C. Electric takeover, was made Communist Party this week. financial juggling by top ex- ecutives of the company had already resulted in overpay- ment. “Any additional compensa- tion to former shareholders can’t come from anywhere but the pockets of light and power consumers and decisively re- duce the cut in light rates and transit fares which the people of B.C. expect from ° public /ownership of this vital utility,” said Morgan. “Attorney ‘General Bonner’s statement at UBC last week that top” ‘men in his depart- ment are still studying the ap- plication’ and a décision will be issued shortly, indicates there is a grave danger that the Ben- nett government may change its mind. If they. ‘do we will have no one to thank more than Mr. Strachan of the New Democratic Party and the Liberals, both ‘of whom have come out as defenders of the B. C.E. coupon clippers, under- mining one of the few good de- cisions | this _ government has made. What a tragedy they are not as zealous in defending the interests of B.C. consumers who are already paying among the highest. light rates to be found anywhere in the coun- try!” See MORGAN, pg. 3 CITY OFFICIALS PEACE AT CENOTAPH - Prayers for peace AN and wreaths of remembrance were banned from Vancouver's Cenotaph at Victory Square for Remembrance Day by city officials in an action this week which shocked the public. Last Monday night the Parks Board turned down an application by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and _ the Quaker Society of Friends for a “prayer vigil’ on Remem- brance Day, Saturday, Novem- ber. 11. Plans of the pacifist groups called for a vigil of 20 to 30 persons standing with heads bowed while one member held aloft a placard reading. ‘““We Pray For Peace.” was to start at 11:30 a.m. fol- lowing the Remembrance Day Services, and continue until 7:30. p.m. ; Spokesman. for the vigil, Mrs. Mildred Fahrni, said the eight - hour prayer-for-peace vigil will be held despite the Parks Board ban. She said they were prepared to go ahead “whatever blockages de- velop.” Other groups in and out of the city are planning to take part in the peace vigil. Mrs. Kathleen Langston, president of the Voice of Women, told the press the vigil had been announced at her group’s last meeting and a number of members are expected to at- tend. From Gibson’s Landing about 15 members of the local Committee for Control of Ra- diation Hazards plan to catch the .6:10 ferry and start a march to the Cenotaph from Park Royal in West Vancou- ver at 9 a.m., reaching Victory Square about 11:30 a.m. The White Rock Focus Club, spon- sors of the recent “March For Life,” said their members will take part in the vigil. UBC MARCH Also this week the UBC Nu- clear Disarmament Club an- nounced it will wind up a full week of events at the campus with a parade from the Uni- versity gates to the Cenotaph on. Saturday. The club. an- nounced that about 100 are ex pected to takepart. The students parade will leave UBC gates:at 11:a.m. and proceed: -down- 10th. Ave:: to Alma.: It will down Alma. to Broadway and along Broadway to- “Cambie, stopping at the ° City Hall grounds at: 12:50 for lunch and entertainment by folk singers.) The parade will leave the City Hall at 1:30 p.m. and pro- ceed down Cambie to Robson, along Robson to Granville and down Granville to Hastings, ar- riving at. Victory Square at 2:20 p.m.; to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph. As the Pacific Tribune went to press protests were. mount- ing against the action of. civic. officials in trying to ban Re- membrance Day peace activit- ies at the Cenotaph. Harry Rankin, prominent civic leader and candidate for council in the Dec. 13 election, The vigil] <* strongly condemned the ban. {lice to stop the public from tak- “As a veteran nobody is go-/|ing part in a ‘prayer-for-peace’ ing to tell me whether I and/|vigil should be roundly con: my friends can go to the Ceno-|demned, and _ so_ should at- taph to lay a wreath,” he said, | tempts by the press to stir up adding, “the city official who | provocation on Remembrance threatened to call in the po-! Day.” “Lest we forget’ White crosses still mark the graves of Canadian soldiers who died in the war against German militarism. Some of these were ordered murdered by Nazi general Kurt Meyer, now once again a big shot in West Germany. Most Nazi generals are now back in power in West Germany, and trying their best ta change the outcome of World War 2 by provoking.a new war. Tocsin B’ aims to step up war fever in Canada Coming immediately after Remembrance Day, the Federal government plans to carry through the biggest peace-time war scare in history on Monday, November 13, under the guise of civil defence exercise “Tocsin B.” Part of the Canadian govern- ment’s plan to “talk tough” over the Berlin situation, op- eration “‘Tocsin B” is aimed at impressing the world that Ca- nada is getting ready for war. At an unannounced time on) November 13 the Emergency Measures Organization will launch ‘“‘Tocsin B.” Sirens all over Canada will sound the warning that would be used in the event of a nuclear attack. All radio programming will cease, and for 90 minutes radio broadcasts will be devoted to” information and _ instructions for the alert. Fearing a_ possible panic, announcements will be carried through the day that it is a mock exercise, not the real thing. then - proceed } NO WAR OVER BERLIN. These two scenes show mem- bers of the Communist Party’s deputation to Ottawa on October 28 to urge negotiations now for a peaceful settle< ment of the Berlin and German problems. On page two is a summary of the brief presented to the government by the delegation. so 0 ne am pe an eee