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allowing its representatives to become its
messenger boys.

It is useful to recall this now when the
Canadian Government expresses dissatisfac-
tion with the present Agreement and insists
on a political authority which would have the
responsibility of. implementing the Interna-
tional Agreement on Vietnam. To buttress
its case it argues that it doesn’t want a repe-
tition of the results following the Geneva ac-
cord of 1954 particularly with respect to the
work of the then International Control Com-
mission.

Your Government knows better than to
argue this way. If the 1954 accords were not
lived up to, it was not because the Interna-
tional Control Commission lacked powers,
but because the U.S. Government destroyed
the agreements. This is well known. This is
part of the history of the past 19 years.

The situation today is not that of 1954.
Moreover the functions and responsibility of

(Canada must honor agreement

What then is the basis of dissatisfaction
of the Government with the functions and
responsibility of the ICCS?

One can only conclude that what the Gov-
ernment wants is a change in the terms of
the Agreement, the: elimination of the rule
of unanimity, the handing over of the imple-
mentation of the agreement to some other
body and to release from responsibility those
directly involved in the conflict and in the im-
plementation of the Agreement. At bottom
such a proposal is directed at undermining
the Agreement to which Canada is a signa-
tory while trying to place responsibility for
this on someone else’s shoulders. This is not
a useful or helpful exercise and will throw a
shadow on the trip you are presently under-
taking. ;

We urge your Government to desist from
such a course and to work instead for the
implementatioon of the International Agree-
ment on Vietnam, and for the normalization

the ICCS are clearly defined in the Interna-
tional Agreement on Vietnai : ,
oe in the protocol dealing with the question. china.

n in Article 18

of Canadian relations with the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolu-
tionary Government and the peoples of Indo-

Berlin — July 28-Aug. 5

Festival committee set
for Canadians to attend

In a press release last week,
the newly-formed Canadian Fest-
ival Committee announced that
plans are under way to organize
participation in the 10th World
Festival of Youth and Students
to be held in Berlin, capital of
the German Democratic Repub-
lic, July 28 to August 5.

“Twenty thousand young peo-
ple from every corner of the
globe and 30,000 from the GDR
will converge on Berlin in the
spirit of peace and friendship.

“Canadian young people from
all backgrounds have partici-
pated in every World Youth
Festival since their beginning in

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Prague in 1947. During the past
26 years over 1,000 young Can-
adians have had the unique op-
portunity, through these Festiv-
als, to exchange ideas -with
others, become familiar with
various cultures, experiences
and viewpoints, and, thereby
helping to strengthen under-
standing between peoples.”

The committee announced that =

detailed information concerning
dates, costs, travel arrange-
ments, Festival program and
post-Festival travel can be ob-
tained by writing: Canadian
Festival Committee, 479 Queen
St. West, Toronto or phoning
(416) 368-4242.

July 28-August 5, 1973

S360"

(Festival costs plus airfare)

Swiss Air DC 10
Toronto/Berlin/Toronto

22 Day excursion rate
(9 days at the Festival)

Many interesting post Festival tours
are being arranged at low costs.

For detailed information:

Canadian Festival Committee
479 Queen Street West

4 Toronto 2B, Ontario

*Based on youth airfare rate.
Over 24 years of age add $78.

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cratic Party; Prof. Robert Colod-

ny, University of Pittsburgh,
noted historian and author; Dan

Heap, worker-priest and alder-.

man, Toronto City Council;
Harry Rankin, Vancouver alder-
man and lawyer; Prof. Vicente
Romano, Dalhousie University,
Halifax; and George Taylor, Sas-
katoon labor lawyer.

A key speaker will be Carlos
Elvira, who comes as a repre-
sentative of the Workers’ Com-
missions, the new labor move-
ment in Spain which now forms
a significant cpposition force
against the Franco regime. Two
other Spaniards, a lawyer and
a worker-priest, will tell about
the severe police repression
against those who take part in
work stoppages, strikes and
workers’ meetings.

The visiting lawyer and work-
er-priest, whose names cannot
be revealed until they leave
Spain, will take part in work-
shops on The Worker and the
Law and The Worker and the

_ Church. Other workshops in-

clude: Problems of Labor Or-
ganization, The Worker and the
Multi-national Corporations and
The Working Woman. Two
workshops will deal with trade
unions. in Spain before Franco
and the structure of the vertical
syndicates imposed on workers
by the Spanish dictator in 1939.

Provision has been made to

deal with other major social and

political factors in present-day
Spain such as. the question of
the nationalities, the growing
opposition among students, in-
tellectuals and professionals and
what likely will happen in the
“post-Franco” era. Leading trade
unionists, civil rights workers
and others conversant with prob-
lems of labor organization will
take part in workshops as re-
source people.

“The response from organized

labor has been most enthusias-

tic,” said Gloria Montero, execu-

tive secretary, Canadian Com-
mittee for a Democratic Spain.

“This clearly shows that trade
unionists across Canada are
deeply concerned that Spain
continues to deny its workers
basic labor rights. Not only do
we have the participation of
prominent Canadian labor lead-
ers but registrations are coming
in from union locals and labor
councils, as well as individuals.

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and a purpose . . . he helped
to inspire and develop the great
Youth Congress, which organiz-
ed thousands of Canadian youth
in a united front to defend their
immediate ,, interests.

“Tim Buck was an exemplary
Communist,” she said, “We
pledge to follow the revolution-
ary path opened for us by life-
long fighters such as Comrade
Tim Buck.”

Speaking for British Commun-
ists, Peter Kerrigan said his
own “association and friendship
with Tim goes back for nearly
40 years from the period after
he came out of prison follow-
ing the trial of the nine in Nov-
ember 1931.

“Personally, I know the job
he did in helping in the forma-
tion of the Mackenzie-Papineau
battalion . . .”” which fought in
Spain during the war of 1936-38.

“Tim was a great interna-
tionalist,” Mr. Kerrigan said, “as
a perusal of the records of. the

Metro Toronto Labor Council re-
cently voted to send two dele-
gates.”

’The conference comes at a
time of increasing repression
against the workers’ movement
in Spain. The past year has been
marked by widespread strikes
and work-stoppages throughout
Spain. Thousands of workers
have been dismissed from their
jobs for taking part. Many
others have been arrested while

some have been shot by the

police during strike actions.
“More than 30 years of terror
and police repression have not
been able to destroy the spirit
of the Spanish worker nor his

determination to organize demo- -

cratic labor organs under the
nose of the authorities,” said
Gloria Montero.

“In recent years, workers
have mounted a steady cam-

_ paign to demand better wages

and working conditions, the
right of assembly and the right
to strike. Now they are demand-
ing an end to the vertical syn-
dicates and the right to organize
labor unions of their own
choice. To help win this strug-
gle they need the support of or-
ganized labor in countries like
Canada which can bring influ-
ence to bear through the United
Nations, the International Labor
Office and through international
union bodies.”

All conference sessions will be
held at Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education, 252 Bloor
St. West, Toronto.

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