URING the past few weeks
we have been subjected to
* constant barrage of propa-
Sanda concerning the merits
Of civil defense in relation to a
Nuclear holocaust. These, in
Our opinion, have been delib-
ate calculated attempts to
ke the general public be-
ve that they can survive a
7 Suclear war unscathed if they
ake certain measures to pro-
€ct themselves.

We say there is no civil de-
€nse which has any meaning
N the face of thermonuclear
War. And we believe THIS is
he truth that people should be
old. :
Instead, while being prepar-
d to admit that there is no
protection when it comes to
last, it is generally being
tated that fallout shelters can
‘Provide adequate protection
‘trom radio active fall-out.

We are told for instance, that
Most fall-out will be dissipated
7 ‘n 48 hours. We are told that
N-most instances if one were
0 stay in one’s fall-out shelter
Or two weeks it would then
€ quite safe to emerge and to
7} bick up the threads where life
7 had been left off prior to the
War.

We believe that this is the
Worst kind of deception. In
his connection we would like
© quote a press release from
Colorado State University dat-
€d September 11, 1961. Dr.
John N. Wolfe, head of the
Atomic Energy Commission’s
Environmental Science Branch
tates:

“When man’s environment

The civil

_ Recently the Communist Party in North
Vancouver District presented a brief to
‘council giving reasons why present civil!
defense plans are a farce. We here present
“@ summary of that brief.

has been made incompatible

with his existence he has had
to emigrate or perish. Thus if

man has no place to go, fall-out)

shelters would offer only tem-
porary respite from death.”
Again we would like to;

quote from the - Province of;-

October 3, 1961, a Washington
press release:

“In response to inquiries the
Atomic Energy. Commission es-
timated that the intense heat
generated by~-explosion of a
100 megaton bomb in the. air
would ignite fires over many
miles radius. Such bombs
could start firestorms that
would sweep over thousands
of square miles.’

These are only a few state-
ments from authoritative sour-
ces on the real character of
atomic war. Many more could
be quoted because many scCi-
entists and people in a position
to know have tried to warn
the people of the results of
such a war, and of the futility
of seeking to protect ourselves
through such efforts as_base-
ment fall-out shelters.

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HAT then can be done?
Permit us to quote the
Quaker organization, the
Friends Committee on Nation-
al Legislation. They state:

“We believe the Civil De-
fense tests especially tend to
create an atmosphere of tension
and preoccupation with war,
which makes possible ever in-
creasing military demands and}
controls. By encouraging the

acceptance of the inevitability
of war and a false sense of a
curity this program tends to

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weaken our nation’s determin-
ation to explore peaceful solu-
tions to the utmost.

“Equally important, Civil
Defense siphons off the efforts
of many concerned and dedi-
cated persons and millions, and
potentially billions of dollars of
resources, which could better
be devoted to constructive con-
tributions to peace, such as
working to achieve disarma-
ment, to relax international
tensions, to show friendliness
toward those who suspect us,
and to improve the welfare of
those in need through interna-
tional co-operation.” :

The Communist Party says

that the deception that is being|

propagated about civil defense

is harmful not only in that it!

creates the illusion that people
can easily ‘survive a nuclear
war but also that this idea
leads to an acceptance of the
idea of war as the solution to
problems.

No longer do writers on civil

there is war.” Now they say,
“when ‘war comes,” as though
it were some inevitable thing
about which nothing can be
done. We say that the building

of this war psychosis is harm-

ful in that the most beastial
and selfish side of people is
appealed to and encouraged.

In some parts of the United
States, from whom our author-
ities are taking their lead in
the matter of Civil Defense,
sanction is being given to the
idea of defending your shelter
from your neighbors with a
machine gun. The Vancouver
Sun recently carried the news
release from New York that
the Rev. L. C. McHugh, asso-
ciate editor of the Jesuit maga-
zine “Roman Catholic Week-
ly,’ had stated in an editorial
that man is entitled to defend
his shelter by shooting inva-
ders.

N North Vancouver a partic-
ularly objectionable exten-

defense use the phrase “if| sion of the “war is inevitable

By DAILY WORKER

O you want to pay off your
house mortgage, put two
Cars in your garage, and get a
ix-figure account in the bank,
| 8ll before Christmas?

You can do it in America if
You jump on the band-wagon
] °f the war maniacs.
An advertisement in the
American magazine Salesman’s
Opportunity tells you how.
Join in “the direct selling op-
Portunity of this generation”—
he nation-wide distribution of
all-out shelters.
- This full page, two-color ad-
Vert makes difficult reading
Or the sane man or woman,
f both on account of its jargon-
} Tidden illiteracy and the
_“Rausea and rage it induces. But
“Ne scheme is clear enough.
_ A Mr. Anthony Varase, ex-
| cutive director of the Nation-
4l Fallout Shelter Sales Cor-
Doration; with an address in
cHenery, Illinois, offers
American salesmen and women
'] ,the best fallout shelter to be
7. hag on the market.”
Here is all they have to do:
Ck up the phone; call ten
Sf your customers’ friends!
€ll them you are now in the
allout shelter business. Secure
8 verbal promise from these
eople that they will not buy a
fallout shelter until you can
8et by to see them.

“They will agree to do this

for you when you tell them |
they can earn many times the
purchase price of their own
fallout shelter by calling ten
of their friends and inviting
them to be at’ their home on a
specific day or evening at a
specific time...

“Ten thousand dollars cash
and more (bonuses) is what
this simple procedure can net
you now. A mean piece of
business you say? Why stop
with ten calls? Forty-six mil-
lion homeowners will be pro-
tected by fallout shelters! .. .
distributors can double, triple
and quadruple $10,000 dollars.
This is pure cream!” (Sponsor-
ing bonuses).

e

FTER the ‘pure cream” of

the easy . market comes

the “whipped cream” (to

quote the advert again) of fund
raising.

“As well as enrolling your
friends to sell fallout shelters,
you also enroll organizatioins
—churches, clubs, Freemasons
and ex-service organizations
are suggested—to sell fallout
shelters in aid of their funds,
or to raise money for chil-
dren’s homes, camps, hospi-
tals.” (No irony is apparently
intended).

From this you get your
sponsoring bonuses” which will
“put Dame Fortune in your
pocket NOW!’—making you a

financial and presumably so-
cial success.

You get the message, as the
advert asks? Wait a minute;
that’s only how you do it. Why
you do it is even more appeal-
ing—or ‘appalling—depending
on your viewpoint.

The ‘favourable civilian sur-
vival ratio”—i.e., the percent-
age of people who survive a
nuclear war — has got to be
weighed on the side of the Uni-
ted States “where it rightfully
belongs.”

These people not only re-|.

gard a nuclear war as inevit-
able (“Fallout shelters are here
to stay and but very definitely

. . now are, and will be into
the forseeable future, a focal
point in the American Way of
life’),
sp HEY also see the cold war

continuing after the nucle-
ar war and America has got to
come out of the nuclear war
with more people to continue
the cold war. —

In this case, says the advert,
the government is behind
them.

“You never had a deal PRE-
SOLD like this one! Your Gov-
ernment, starting with the
commander-in-chief, our Presi-
dent, is going directly to every
citizen of this country with
every media and means of
eommunication at his disposal
and he has them all, to tell, tell

‘Get rich quick on fallout shelters’ |

and tell (sell, and _ sell, and
sell) of the absolute vital need
now to prepare for any even-
tuality which is the absolute
vital need of fallout protection
by adequate shelter!”

“This very. moment your
joint venture with Uncle Sam’s
multi-billion-dollar fallout shel-
ter program! YOU ACT!”

If you are now convinced
that this is the greatest selling
opportunity of all time, you fill
in a cut-out coupon at the bot-
tom of the advert. This says:

‘Dear Mr. Varase: ‘“A—OK!
I’m in- orbit, the view here is
beautiful! Business all over the
place just like you said! What
speed! I’m reaching for my
minimum goal of 1,000 and
success.

“Enclosed find 20 dollars for
my sales kit’—Gieger counter
and suicide pills? — “and my
membership enrolment fee in
the National Association of
Fallout Shelter Dealers, Man-
ufacturers and Installers,
whose ethics I faithfully prom-
ice to uphold.”

Consider for a moment the
profits being made by firms
like this out of the cold war,
and their vested interest in
maintaining and heightening
brinkmanship and tension.

Then go out and fight even
harder for international dis-
armament and peace, which
will put-an end to their un-
speakably vile antics. :

November 3, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7

idea” is the planned extension
of nuclear warning drills into
the public schools. The School
Board, according to the press,
has adopted a policy of send-
ing children home by an
agreed plan with parents in
the event of a nuclear warn-
ing. This procedure undoubt-
edly involves practise drills
and mock attacks and objec-
tively can only have one effect

—to upset the children, in-
crease tensions and_ install.
“militarist” ideas at a very
early age.

The Communisi Party holds
the view that there is only one
defense against thermo-nuclear
war. That is to prevent it from
ever taking place.

The world stands on the
threshold of a golden age in
which mankind through the
scientific progress that has

_| been made, can eliminate from

the earth forever, disease, hun-
ger, ignorance, greed and all
the evils that have plagued the
world. At this moment in the
development of society, it is
unthinkable that we should
permit mass inhiliation of
the world’s population by the
misuse of science’s discoveries.

We call on our government
to press for general, complete
and total disarmament (with
complete inspection), and thus
end the danger of nuclear an-
nihilation. We say there must
be settlement of the Berlin
question by immediate negotia-
tions. We call for Canada to
assume a neutral position in
the cold war. Canada from a
position of neutrality can be a
powerful force for world
peace. We believe, as do many
thousands, that peace is our
only defense in the nuclear age.

Banquet to honor
44th anniversary
socialist rule

A giant banquet and dance
to celebrate the 44th anniver-
sary of the founding of the
first socialist state will be held
Saturday, November 11 at the
Ukrainian Labor Temple, 805
E. Pender St., commencing at
6:30 p.m.

Feature speaker will be PT
Associate Editor Maurice Rush.
A concert program highlight-
ing the Mitestones will be pre-
sented, followed by dancing.

Admission for the entire eve-
ning is only $1.50 per person.
Children 50c.

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