PROTEST IN VANCOUVER AGAINST VIETNAM WAR
Vancouver
+ Paaay reale, secretary of the Vancouver Labor Council, told a ‘pally. of 1,000 people August 6 that the trade unions should be involved in the. movement against the war in Vietnam even for selfish reasons. “It is workers who are first sent overseas and workers who are. first killed in any war," he said in his opening remarks as chairman. The rally, held at the- Peace Arch on the U.S.-Canada border as part of the International’ Days of Protest against the war in Vietnam, then heard talks by Grace MacInnes, NDP Member of Parliament from Vancouver-Kingsway; Dr. Giovani Costigan, Professor of History at the University of Washington; and Richard Lord of Yakima Valley College in Washington.
A car cavalcade, taking people from Vancouver to the rally, was organized by the Vancouver Vietnam Day Committee. Twenty cars carrying signs demanding "Withdraw U.S. Troops from Vietnam Now" =<" and "End Canadian Complicity" passed through the many smaller com- ~ munities -between Vancouver and the border. .
Also as part of the International Days of Protest, a panel discussion sponsored by the ‘Vietnam Day Committee was held Sunday” evening. Jim Harding, past: ‘president of the Saskatchewan New Demo-:: cratic Youth and national chairman of the Student Union for Peace Action; Randy Enomoto, graduate student at the University of British Columbia and recent student candidate for chancellorship of the university; Ray Burns, chairman of the UBC Vietnam- Day’ Committee; Peter Cameron, a leader of the UBC "March of Concern" fee protest; and Joyce Meissenheimer , a member of the Vancouver Vietnam Day Committee, participated in the panel on "What we can do to stop the war in Vietnam." The meeting was chaired by Judy Peterson, chairman of the Vietnam Day Committee.
The discussion from the panel and from the floor ‘centered around the problems of building an antiwar movement in ‘Canada, theprogram and organizational forms that the movement should adopt and » the importance of action aimed at exposing the complicity of the 7 Canadian government in the war.