q The Soviet Union, Sept. 11, in 4 letter to UN secretary-general urt Waldheim, has called for 4n international treaty to ban all : paeat weapons tests. The let- a Proposed placing the matter is the agenda of the regular €neral Assembly session which pened Sept. 17. - Spoke of new positive de- opments in world relations and urged that political détente be Supplemented by measures in |, © military field “to put an end he arms race, to reduce arms Peduction and, in the final ana- | Ysis, to embark upon general Complete disarmament.” moviet. Foreign Minister Gro- ie cited the major steps 1 leved so far, beginning with A 1963 partial test ban treaty tng including the 1974 ban on jneetground testing between Fok and U.S. as leading in this “rection. hoe General Secretary, Leo- © vital need to stop nuclear v S proliferation this summer . fn he told a Moscow audi- |“ “The level of contempo- au Science and technology is | nh that there arises a serious | “Nger that a weapon may be USSR asks nudear Weapons test ban pact Tezhnev “had spoken about ° Political détente should be followed by steps in the military field Put an end to the arms race, reduce arms production and embark complete and general disarmament, proposes the Soviet Union _ ‘lS session of the United Nations General Assembly. created that would be yet more terrible than nuclear arms. Man’s reason,” Brezhnev said, “make it imperative that an in- surmountable barrier be raised to prevent such a weapon from emerging.” On Aug. 4, a press release is- sued by the USSR Mission to the United Nations warned of the growing threat from China in the nuclear race. “For 15 years the Chinese leaders have been taking a negative stand on the problems of disarmament, ter- mination of nuclear testing and arms limitations.” The letter described China’s growing nuclear arsenal and ma- nufacturing capacity of Ura- nium-235 and Plutonium-239. It estimated that China today has between 10 and 25 intercontinen- tal ballistic missiles each with a range of 10,000 kilometres and a payload of a 3 megaton war- head. « : _ “Now speeches are heard in Peking, over and over again, of the fatal inevitability of a new world war,” the statement re- ports. “They repeat Mao Tse tung’s call to ‘prepare for war’, ‘dig tunnels deeper’ and ‘stock 299 more grain’. Se ee > ee US. attitude revealed NITED NATIONS — The ted States’ attitude toward rey, World nations was clearly feed here Sept. 15 at the aN of the seventh special ses- Whi of the General Assembly for ch was to draw up proposals the bridging the gap” between BS and industrialized coun- eon While guaranteeing their Omic independence. hil ‘S. ambassador Daniel Moy- tht Slandered delegates from ttinaig’ oping nations as “doc- Wh Te third world delegates” Ug Were demanding that the caus Plead guilty to being the ‘ang. f injustice in the world Rap pdmit responsibility for the ‘Nati €tween industrial capitalist hen and developing states. __“* two week meeting preced- : AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL ag « Sctibing the United States Mess» € world’s worst welfare leader Time magazine says this Welfia: Of the Free World has a dihign® System that costs $45- nef @ year to run, delivers aha wtS to 25 million Americans Ment aires 250,000 _govern- ~~ €mployees to administer. No ‘bridging the gap ed the opening of the General Assembly Sept. 17 and some pro- gress was noted. The U.S., how- ever, suddenly declared that the session “had the making of a failure.” MINORITY GOVERNMENT IN ONTARIO Labor has key to’ economic changes “The resounding rebuff administered to the Tories, and the election of the New Democratic Party as the official opposition, showed the depth of dissatisfaction of . the people . . .”, said the Ontario Executive of the Communist Party in a preli- minary analysis of the Sept. 18 elections. : (The solid, 32-year Tory rule was broken with the results: Tories 51 seats, down from 74; NDP 38 seats, up from 20; Liberals 36 seats, up from 23. One seat is still being contested with a slim majority registered for the NDP and the Liberals requesting a recount.) “The Ontario elections have we akened the grip of big business on Queen’s Park,” emphasized the Communist Party statement, “and has opened the way for the labor, farm and democratic movements to press for real change in economic and social policies. “It is quite clear that the call of the Communist Party for ‘the defeat of the big business par- ties and for the election of a large progressive bloc that could have formed the government, was in tune with the sentiments ‘of the voters. It is also no exaggeration to say that the Communist campaign was a ma- terial factor in the outcome of the elections.” (Communist candidates ran in 33 ridings — up from 5 in 1971 — and won over 9,600 votes.) “The ecdnomic and social crises which led to this rebuff for big business remain,” the Communist statement says. “Not a moment must be wasted in pressing the new advantage the working people have at Queen’s Park. The Communist Party has written. to Premier Davis. pro- sposing the Legislature be con- vened by Oct. 6, and outlined the issues we believe must be ‘dealt with. We will also take these proposals to the peopie of ‘Ontario through leaflets, news- paper ads and meetings to mg- bilize them in support of such a “program.” ’ The main points include: e Building of 200,000 housing units in 1975, and 150,000 a year until 1980; Ontario and Ottawa to: subsidize mortgage interest rates at 5% for home buyers; assemble vacant urban land un- der public ownership; roll back rents to Jan. 1974 levels with immediate rent control; security of tenure and right to organize for tenants. e Roll back prices to Jan. 1973 ‘levels and establish a prices re- view board with teeth in it. e Roll back energy prices to Jan. 1973 levels; set up a public energy corporation. e Undertake a $5-billion, 10- _ year program for Northern De- velopment to a) create jobs for Ontario’s people, b) eliminate re- gional disparity and discrimina- tion, c) double the population of the north. e Establish a Commission to bring forward proposals for the repatriation of Ontario’s indus- tries and mineral resources now under U.S. control. _ e A farm stabilization pro- gram to preserve the family - farm and rehabilitate our sag- ging agricultural industry; a land-use plan to designate all land 2s industrial, agricultural, residential, park and recreatio- nal or resource. e Expand Ontario’s trade re- lations with the socialist world and newly developing countries. %* * % The Communist Party state- ment continues: _ anti-monopoly “The labor movement should unite around such a program of far-reaching reforms and rally around: it all those who, in this election have indicated their de- sire for real change — farmers, ‘small businessmen, students and intellectuals, housing and_ten- ants’ movements, poor people’s organizations, senior citizens, Native Peoples, immigrants — ‘and not least, the people of the north who are smarting under conditions of economic and cul- tural inferiority. « The task is to join the strug- gles of these various movements against monopoly with the ac- tions of the large NDP groups in provincial parliament. If this is done it can result in big gains for the people of this province and ensure that when the next election comes (and it cannot be too far away), the old-line par- ‘ties can be finally routed and a progressive majority seated in the Ontario Legislature. Ont. Communists ~ congratulated on fine effort TORONTO—In a letter to the Ontario Committee of the Com- _ munist Party Sept. 22, the Cent- ral Executive Committee con- gratulated the “fine election campaign undertaken by the Party and the 33 standard-bear- ers who did it credit in the cam- paign. “The modest’ increase in the vote for our candidates shows that we are on the right road and that as our Party establishes firmer links with the working class and in the constituencies, support for our policies will grow a hundredfold and find its reflection .in serious electoral breakthroughs by our Party. “The overall results of the election show that the break with the parties of monopoly has taken on considerable strength. Anti-monopoly sentiment is ris- ing and this is mirrored in the electoral advances of the NDP at this time. “More favorable conditions exist now to deepen and extend sentiment and movements and our role in them and continue to push politics in a leftward direction. We are sure our Party will seize hold of the new opportunities inherent in the situation and fight ever ‘more vigorously to advance its program of unity and of struggle and at the same time build the Party, YCL and press.” . “Maximum unity of the labor movement will also be required to back up the demands of the Civil Service Association of On-. tario for free collective bargain- ing and the right to strike. Com- munists will continue to lead ih the fight for support of the CSAO to. enjoy normal trade union rights as well as the basic fundamental democratic rights enjoyed by all citizens to parti- cipate in elections and to sup- port the political party of their- choice. “Central to this unity and the objective of this fight should be the creation by this legislature - of a Labor Bill of Rights that wculd include the right to a job “as well as the unfettered right to strike. “We call upon the organized trade union movement, the con- stituency organizations of the NDP, the farm unions and or- ganizations, tenants’ and hous- ing movements, all movements of the people, to take ‘united action around such proposals as these and others which your or- ganization considers necessary for real and meaningful change. “Don’t wait for Queen’s Park to act on your behalf. Act to- gether. for change and together we can force Queen’s Park to — move. 5 “Make this Ontario legislative session work for the people!” it? TORONTO—Mr. Troung Tan, Minister of Information and Cul- ture in the Provisional Revolu- tionary Government of South Vietnam, will address a public meeting here on Sept. 27, 2 p.m. in the Elizabeth Room of the King Edward Hotel. : His meeting is part of a Can- ada-wide tour organized by the Canadian Aid to Vietnam Civi- lians in Vancouver and is sup- ported here by a number of or- ganizations who have been long pe a _active in the anti-war movement. - Mr. Tan is also endorsed by Ox- fam. . The purpose of the visit, fiv ‘months after the victory of the Vietnamese people, is to provide an opportunity for Canadians to hear about the tasks of recon- struction as well as give more insight into the terrible condi- tions left by the war. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 26, 1975—Page 5 | |