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in cutive of the South
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the Situation—the fact
Vietnam libera-
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and demand its
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cause we try always to show
our goodwill by many times ad-
vancing proposals so that the
United States, as the biggest
imperialist power, can withdraw.
without losing face. We have
shown the world we want a
peaceful solution—but always
peace. with freedom and inde-
pendence, not otherwise.

Asserting that the Nixon ad-

ministration is seeking all
means to block the Paris talks
and the Seven Point peace pro-
posal, Van Ba declared, “The
United States today is manoeu-
vring to mislead the people of
the world.”
- While it is true, he continued,
that the U.S. has withdrawn
about 200,000 of its troops, they
are either GIs who have finished
their service of 18 months, or
wounded, or staff office work-
ers—“the main combat troops
still remain.”

The U.S. bombing of South
Vietnam, which intensified after
Nixon took office, continues un-
abatingly. Every month United
States planes drop bombs on
South Vietnam that average the
equivalent of 12 of the atom
bombs dropped on Hiroshima.
Van Ba cited other facts of
death like this one—all straight
from U.S. Pentagon official
figures: Over 120 million pounds
of toxic chemicals and poisons
have been sprayed on South
Vietnam, six pounds -per person;
470,000 people have been pole
soned and more than 1,300,000
hectares (about 3% million
acres) of rice fields and gardens
destroyed.

“The war continues,” stated
Van Ba, “and U.S. casualties
are at the same rate as pefore
their troop withdrawals start-
ed.” He spoke of the great sig-
nificance of the Highway 9 vic-
where the United States has to
agree to withdraw all its own
forces and those of its allies
and puppets from South Viet-

m.
ee Bither Nixon has to De
tiate peacefully, on the basis 0
the peace proposals we have
made, or we will answer the
cannon of U.S. imperialism with
our cannon. In all this,” he con-
cluded, “we always distinguish
‘between the American people,
who want peace, and _ their
Sete of the delegation,
Mr. Van Ba expressed thanks
for the sympathy shown a
Canadians for, the struggle fe)

_, the Vietnamese people.

ixon's attack!

Must extricate ourselves
from U.S. grip, says C.P.

Sunday evening U.S. President Rich-
ard Nixon broadcast another of his
surprises — a 10 percent surcharge on
imports to the United States, a 90-day
(to start with) wage and price freeze,
and floating of the U.S. dollar,:a dec-
laration of economic war against com-
petitors abroad and living standards
at home. Canada is immediately affect-
ed due to the “continentalist” policies
of our governments since the war, with
a big rise in unemployment and “fol-
low suit” attacks on wages and labor
rights in the offing. _

The Central Executive of the Com-
munist Party of Canada issued the
following statement to the Canadian
people in this crisis:

If President Nixon really wants to

“break the back of inflation” the first
steps he should take are the withdrawal
of U.S. troops and material from Indo-
china, the withdrawal of U.S. military
bases from other countries, a sharp re-
duction in military expenditures, and
an end to aggression. Here is the im-
mediate source of inflation, of the
financial and currency crisis and the
international balance of payments de-
ficites :
The 10% surcharge on imports, the
release of the U.S. dollar from the gold
standard, the imposition of a wage and
price freeze, will not curb inflation.
Their aim is two-fold: to overcome the
growing economic and financial crisis
mm the USA by passing it on to other
countries in the form of a trade war;
and to load iton the backs of the Ame-
rican working people through a wage
freeze and other means. |

The Nixon measures point up the
fact that the United States dollar has
been devalued, that the Bretton Woods
agreement which was to have estab-
lished a stable relationship between
various currencies has collapsed, and
that U.S. imperialism through the 10%
surcharge on imports has. undertaken
protectionist measures against its trad-
ing partners. As Mr. Robert MacIntosh
of the Bank of Nova Scotia aptly put

/

it, the U.S. “is holding a gun to the
head of the rest of the world.”

It would be extremely harmful to
minimize the dangerous character of
Nixon’s measures and their grave con-
sequences for Canada. They are being
used to compel changes in Canadian
economic policies, in the auto agree-
ment,in energy policy. These policies
will increase unemployment in Canada.
The drive to impose a wage freeze on
Canadian workers will now be stepped
up, using Nixon’s decision as a “model”
to be followed.

The growing economic and financial
crisis of U.S. imperialism will not be
solved by the Nixon measures. They
will aggravate the international situa-
tion and harm the working people of
the USA.

The U.S. crisis, which reflects the
growing instability and crisis of the
whole capitalist system, can in part
be alleviated by a genuine policy of
peaceful coexistence and by policies of
economic cooperation with all countries,
in the first place with the socialist coun-
tries.

The measures taken by the Nixon ad-
ministration emphasize anew that Can-
ada must extricate itself from U.S.
control and domination, and pursue a
course leading to genuine Canadian in-
dependence.

We welcome. Canadian Labor Con-
gress president Donald MacDonald’s
statement that Canadian organized
workers oppose any attempt by the
Trudeau government to follow Nixon’s
example by imposing wage controls in
our country.

The Canadian people should now de-
mand that the government undertake
immediate steps to protect Canada
from the effects of Nixon’s latest poli-
cies. The working class and above all
the organized labor movement have a
special responsibility to fight for those
national economic and social policies
that can prevent Nixon’s program from
being placed on the backs of Canadian
working people.

“It does frighten one.dt is the special file on dissenters.”

: eit.
Frente oe “eae Get

. , Saturday, Review,

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