Plan B.C. H-test protest
Public asked | $3940

to sign appeal

“Stop all atomic tests’’ is to be the slogan for a one-day
public campaign against nuclear explosions, planned for
Saturday, April 14, by B. C. Peace Council.

Men and women throughout the province will be asked
to sign an appeal, addressed to members of parliament,

U.S. Defense Secretary

Charles E. Wilson has
Warned the U.S. Congress that
atomic stockpiles are approach-
ing the point where either the
U. S. or the Soviet Union could
Practically wipe out the world.”
The toughest problem facing
U.S. planners, he said, “is the
Unlimited race to destruction.”

Hungary

stating:

“We call on all countries to
stop testing atomic and hydro-
gen bombs. ;

“We want Canada to work for
an international agreement to
end these dangerous: explosions
at once.”

Canvassers will wear lapel
tags, bearing the ‘message, “I
protest atomic tests.”

“We appeal to everyone, indi-
viduals and groups, to take part
in. this one-day effort against
the ‘tests, against all tests, be
they American, Soviet or those
of any other country,” said Ray
Gardner, council chairman.
“This is but one event, though
an important one, in a contin-
uing local and world-wide cam-
paign for a ban on the tests and
an agreement on disarmament.”

Volunteers may obtain appeal
forms and further information
from the council’s offices, Room
41, 144 East Hastings, Vancou-

ver.

revises

trial, frees many

Revision of the trial of Laslo Raj
foreign minister, and release of innocent
Was announced on Thursday last wee

orkers’ party.
The majority of the arres

Mind your own
business, British
firm tells U.S.

LONDON

. An official U.S. attempt ‘to

interfere in British trade with

a has just received a sharp
Tebuff,

The story is told by the Lon-
“on Export Corporation which
‘a February 1955 purchased
"Om a European supplier a
ppantity of aureomycin, an an-
tDiotic used in*the treatment

Pneumonia and meningitis.

narith full approval of the Bri-
os S0vernment the aureomycin
Hae then sold to China. The

Tporation points out that the

Tansaction was in line with the

20 ‘ :
S°vernment’s policy of encour-

anne export to China of pro-
gia necessary. to peaceful de-
opment.
deena that would have been
S end of the affair had the
de embassy fh London not de-
wed to meddle in it. It did so
ro asking the corporation to
Vide detailed information of
© contract.
the c Corporation answered: “As
Saca ecton involved ‘no Am-
re firm, London Export Cor-
oa on Ltd. found no reason
Cia) ®part from normal commer-
USage in not revealing de-

taj x
pent contracts to outside

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BUDAPEST
k, former Hungarian
people then arrested,
k by the Hungarian

ted Social Democrats have al-

ready been freed. Others are
to be released under an am-
nesty. ;

These developments were an-
nounced in a speech to party
officials in Northern Hungary
by Matyas Rakosi, secretary of
the Hungarian Workers’ party,
and reported in the Workers’
party newspaper Szabad Nep.

As quoted by Reuter, Rakosi

id:

Se ISINCE the unmasking of the
imperialist agent Beria (Soviet
police chief ‘who was shot two
year ago) and in Hungary the
gang of Peter Gabor (former
police chief) the trial of Rajk
has been revised on the initi-
ative of the party leadership.

“The revision of other cases
is in progress. es
Sethe inapeent people who have
been convicted will be rehabil-
itated. Others will benefit from
an amnesty.

“The cases of the Social Dem-

ocrats who have been convicted
will also be revised. The major-
ity of them haye been freed and
the rest will be set free shortly.
Those who have not committed
any crimes have been or will
be rehabilitated.”
e As long ago as June 1955,
Hungarian Communists reject-
ed the “cult of the individual,”
Rakosi said.

Since then, “We have taken
numerous measures to ensure
strict respect of socialist legal-
et “in the light of the Soviet
20th Congress we were able to

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VOL. 15, No. 14

PRICE 10 CENTS

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, APRIL 6, 1956

Shoji Shibuya and Masami Hagiwara, fraternal delegates from Japan attending the recent an- -

nual convention of United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union, are shown above wearing
hand eee oe sweaters, presented to them by the: union. The Japanese guests told the smil-
ing women delegates who posed for the picture with them that “the th
matches the warmth in our hearts.” . pag ener, BS

Japanese union men tell
of fight to end H-tests

“There are more than 600 United States military bases in Japan and projects are

steadily underway’to expand these bases for atomic armaments,”

two Japanese trade

unionists visiting Vancouver told the recent convention of United Fishermen and Allied

Workers’ Union.

: The fraternal delegates from ‘Japan, who are returning home this week after mak-

ing’ a thorough study pf the
B.C. fishing industry, are Shoji
Shibuya, general secretary of
the All-Japan Fishermen’s Coun-
cil, and Masami Hagiwara, chair-
man of the Japan Council of
Marine Products and Cold Stor-
age Union.

Delivering their joint speech
to the convention, Hagiwara
made these points about US.
domination. of Japan and the
feeling of Japanese people on
further H-bomb tests: 4

“Japan has still not attained
complete independence follow-
ing her military defeat. Our
country is under United States

control and certain groups of
Japanese monopolists, .catering
to American wishes, are plan-
ning to fofce our-country back-
ward ‘politically.

“Notwithstanding the fact that
following the acceptance of the
Potsdam declaration, the em-
peror system was scrapped, mil-
itarism disbanded and democ-
racy. adopted, they are once
again attempting to enforce
militarism in Japan and are
supressing even the basic rights
of the workers.

“Thererare more than 600 U.S.
military bases in Japan. Pro-

jects are ‘steadily underway to
expand these bases for atomic
armaments. Vast areas of Jap-
an are being taken up for that
purpose despite the fact that
our country is already very lim-
ited in area.

“Territory so far taken up by
the Americans for these pur-
poses amounts to more than the
total area of Shikoku, one of
the four islands of which Japan
is composed... Public opinion
against these expanding pro-
jects is getting stronger, both

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