A New Zealand correspondent reports:
The movement, ainst French nuclear tests at Muroroa is gaining ground in New Zealand. On August 8 Hiroshima Day March at Auckland, Eddie Isbey, president of the North Island Waterside Workers' Union, stated that his union would black French goods if test preparations continued. The Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Indonesian trade union federation have urged similar action on their affiliates,
In Aucklend a Committee for Resolute Action against French Tests has been set up under the chairmanship of a student, Richard Northey. Ad Hoc committees in Wellington and Christchurch are cooperating with it. CRAFT's aims include an embargo on supplies from New Zealand to the testing site, and the convention of a Southern Hemisphere conference on the tests. Its main objective, however, is to organise the sending of a vessel, or vess 2ls, into the testing area "to deter the French from holding their proposed testing series," CRAFT has received extensive press and radio publicity. At the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament national conference in late August, some CRAFT supporters opposed CND concentration on the objective of a nuclear free zone, and wanted more action directed against French tests specifically. CND, on this issue, seems at the tail of the anti-nuclear test movement.