@ Continued from page 5 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 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1973—PAGE 10: 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. ®@ Continued from page 5 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. @ Continued from page 5 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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