THREE-COUNTRY ANTINUCLEAR DEMONSTRATION PLANNED
BASLE, Switzerland -~ German, French and Swiss opponents of nuclear weapons plan to meet here Monday April 19, the day after Baster, to stage a big demonstration against war and for peaceful collaboration among all peoples. Basle was the site of the famous 1912 Socialist Peace Congress.
The antinuclear fighters plan to come to Basle after participating in demonstrations in their own countries against nuclear armaments. Meeting in the outskirts of the town, they will march to the square in front of the cathedral. One of the main speakers will be the chairman of the Cantonal government of Basle.
The demonstration is being sponsored by the Swiss Movement Against Atomic Armament as the climax of a two-and-a-half day march under such slogans as "Bread for the Peoples -- Not War," "Switzerland to Act for Denuclearized Zones in Europe," "Against Atomic Weapons Both Bast and West," and others of a more local nature,
The Basle trade-union federations are actively supporting the march and the rally, much to the annoyance of the leading bourgeois newspaper Neuve Zurcher Zeitung. This journal, along with most of the Swiss bourgeois press, has persistently denounced the Swiss Movement Against Atomic Armament as "antimilitaristic" and "Trotskyite- Communist" inspired, and has slandered it as being a "tool of Moscow."
Backers of the Movement hope that the encouragement offered by the Basle unions will help inspire similar support for the antinuclear movement in Germany. The movement there suffered a serious
setback when the Social-Democratic party gave up its campaign against “atomic death"; and since then the unions in Germany have been reluctant to support antinuclear activities.
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