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Indonesian people face
Malaysian war threat

Indonesia continues to be
threatened by British neo-colon-
ialism and its puppet creation,
Malaysia, Speaking in Vancouver
last week, Christopher Mayhew,
Britain’s Navy Minister, dis-
closed plans are afoot to send

more arms and men to confront
Indonesia,

At the same time announce-
ments were made in London that

Important meet
of Warsaw Pact

As the PT went to press last
Wednesday leaders of the Soviet
Union and all the socialist coun-
tries of Europe were gathered
in Warsaw, Poland, for a special

“Meeting of the Warsaw Pact coun-

tries,

While no announcements had
yet been made, it was expected
that items high on the agenda
would include discussion of the
U.S, - proposed multi-lateral
force and*West Germany’s 20-
year Statute of Limitations.

_Other topics expected to be
discussed included the danger -
OUus Situations in South East Asia
and The Congo,

It is the first session of the
political advisory committee of
the Warsaw Pact in about 18
months and is being attended by
top party and government lead-
ers of the member nations, The
Capitalist press is widely specu-
lating that “Western observers
are fearful” it could result in
new moves aimed at relieving
international tension,

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a force of V-bombers will fly
to Darwin, Australia, on “mobili-.
ty exercises,” Darwin is Aus-
tralia’s major air base closest
to Indonesia.

London further announced that
the British navy’s 50,000-ton air
craft carrier Eagle had arrived
in Singapore to join Britain’s
80 vessel Far East fleet and
more than 50,000 servicemen
already ‘in the area, This repre-
sents the largest fighting contin-
gent Britain has had in that
sphere since the Korean war,

And Malaysia’s defence minis-
ter revealed plans to arm*Home
Guard” units and set up depots
to train 6,000 men.

At the same time in Jakarta,
Prime Minister Sukarno of Indo-
nesia said his country would not
declare war over the menace
posed by Malaysia, but warned
that if Indonesia were attacked
she would strike back.

Sukarno said he would welcome
another UN mission to North
Borneo to determine the wishes
of the people there regarding
Malaysia,

He said that even though Indo-
nesia had left the UN, he had no
objection to a survey providing
it was “genuinely democratic”
as had been agreed to at the 1963
Manila pact,

Under that agreement a UN
mission was sentto Borneo to find
out if the people there genuinely
desired to become part of the
Malaysian federation, But before
the mission could conclude its
work, Britain declared Malaysia
had already become an accom-
plished fact.

Sukarno indicated Indonesia’s
pullout of the UN was not ir-
revocable and stated it would
continue to act on a number of
special UN agencies, notably the
World Health Organization,

Buck: democracy

The National Committee of the
Communist Party meeting in
Toronto this week opened with a
report by national chairman Tim
Buck dealing with the political
situation.

In his report, Buck declared
that “there is a marked upward
trend of democratic action in
Canada, and of its power to in-
fluence the course of events .. See!

In this situation, he charged
that the monopolists are develop-
ing “a new counter -offensive
against the workers,” expressed
in widespread use of injunctions
and in “organized scabbery.”

“The lock-outs and strikes in
which these workers are being
increasingly involved,” Buck
continued, “are the beginning ofa
great social struggle that is de-
veloping to decide how the com-
ing re-organization of Canadian
economy is to be carried through,
and what its results are to be
for the masses of the people,”

He charged that “since the
Pearson government took office

the U.S, has been taking over con-
trol of our country faster than
ever,” He directed attention to
developments in the automobile
industry: “Contrary to the as-
surances being given concerning
free trade in automobiles and
parts, and in spite of the fact that
some very transitory advantages
may be derived from this, the
over-all effect of integration is
to transfer control of Canada’s
economy to foreign hands,”

With respect to the internation=
al situation, Buck noted the
“world wide growth of the deep
popular desire for peace,” but
warned that “the forces of re-
action of the drive towar arestill
very strong,”

He sharply criticized the John-
son administration, pointing out
that while the President had “as-
sured the people that he would
honor the sovereignty of new in-
dependent countries, less than a
month after the election he asso-
ciated with Belgian reaction in
one of the most shameful inva-
sions of another country ever
recorded, . ,. The President as-
sured the people that he would

LABOR ROUNDUP: /

UE demands action
to resolve dispute

At a recent meeting of execu-
tive officers and shop stewards
of te 6,000-strong United Elec-
trical, Radio and Machine Work-
ers (UE) aresolution was adopted
strongly condemning Toronto
newspaper publishers “for their
consistent and adamant refusal
to return to the bargaining table
to seek a just resolution of this
long dispute,”

The UE meeting urged Premier
Robarts of Ontario to intervene
by calling “on the publishers to
immediately resume negotiations
with the Toronto Typographical
Union and to bargain in good
faith to achieve a settlement,”

The UE meeting also “pledged
all-out support to the cause of
the members of the Toronto
Typographical Union who were
compelled to strike in defence
of their working conditions and
union by the millionaire publish-
ers of the Toronto Star, Tele-
gram and Globe & Mail.”

The January 14 edition of the

Western District Union, Mine-
Mill reports Local 5044, United
Steelworkers of America, ten-
dering an apology and legal re-
imbursements to MM District
Board Member Al King, for slan-
derous allegations contained in a
brochure issued by the Steel
local.

The apology is signed by four
top officials of the Calgary Steel
Local 5044,

Having failed to force Mine-
Mill union members back to work
since last August on its own
company -dictated terms, and
closed down its operations as a
means of intimidation, the Ana-
conda Copper Company of Britan-
nia has now resorted to another
tack: that of evicting Mine Mill
workers from their Union Hall.

This action against the Union,
typical of the Anaconda Company,
opened in the Supreme Court of
B,C, Tuesday of this week,

King brutally attacked

Rev, Martin Luther King Jr,,
whom the world recently ac-.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

e G &
not spread the dirty war in Viet-
nam, but within weeks of the
election, General Maxwell Taylor
announced that having discussed
the matter with the President

personally, he will‘stepup’ mili-
tary operations across the fron-

claimed when he was-awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize, was brutally
attacked by a hate-maddened
racist when he tried to register
at a previously all white hotel in
Selma, Alabama, last Monday,

His assailant, a member of
the ultra-right National States
Rights Party, was immediately
arrested, Later in the same day,
U.S, nazi feuhrer Lincoln Rock-
well and one of his storm troop-
ers were also jailed in the
Alabama town, Efforts to de-
segregate hotel rooms and eating
places were highly successful.

But attempts to have Negroes
register as voters ran up against
a vicious sheriff who prevented
them from entering the Court
House and arrested hundreds of
people,”

Canada

tiers of South Vietnam,”

Buck called on the government
of Canada to immediately demand
the re-convening of the Geneva
conference to restore peace in
South East Asia,

Elected leader of CP

al

‘WILLIAM KASHTAN

HEADS CP OF CANADA. The PT re-
ceived the following telegram from
Toronto late Tuesday afternoon: ‘Wil-
liam Kashtan unanimously elected
national leader and general secretary
Communist Party at meeting National
Committee Tuesday.’

Kashtan is a former national secre-
tary of the Young Communist League
of Canada. For some years now, he
has been a member of the party’s na-
tional executive, occupying the posi-
tions of executive secretary and labor
secretary.

He is the author of many tracts and
pamphlets, notably on trade union
affairs, and his labor column has been
a regular feature of the PT for several
years. He is widely respected in the
Canadian and international trade
union movement.

January 22, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3