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AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO:

Confusion,

Students at the University of
Toronto have voted by 5,434 to
2,222 to withdraw from the Can-
adian Union of Students.

Observers on campus saw the
explanation for this backward
step in wide-spread confusion
about the role of CUS, and in
disunity within the ranks of the
Students Administrative Council
on the issue.

Although SAC was on record
in support of CUS by a vote of
19 to 4,- its president was
allowed .to openly campaign
against the Student Union. The
Council “impartially” voted
$1,000 to the supporters of CUS,
and $500 to its opponents.

The need for a strong union
of university students has, of
course, not been removed by the
vote.

A joint statement of the U. of
T. Communist Club and the
Young Communist League issued
before the referendum pointed
out that University administra-

disunity defeats CUS

tions and faculty have their
Canada wide organization. “Why
shouldn’t the student councils
band together as well to further
the student’s interests in lobby-
ing the federal government or
the provincial government and
its Department of University
Affairs on the relevant issues of
the day and on such questions
as student loans, housing, and
the legislation necessary for uni-
versity reform, as well as joint-
ly organizing research on stu-
dent issues, national and prov-
incial seminars, and _ student
services such as life insurance
and cheap charter flights? Why
not?”

The statement continues: “It
is true that CUS resolutions in
the past have sometimes got too
unrealistically far ahead of the
political consciousness of Can-
adian students, whom the Left
has clearly still a considerable
way to go in winning over. But
you certainly couldn’t level this

Aims.

By BERT WHYTE

For the firist time in space
navigation three piloted ships
interacted in orbit, and for the
first time the welding of metal
was performed in orbit. The next
step in man’s race to other plan-
ets will be the construction of
permanent orbiting piloted sta-
tions.

Moscow gave a _ tumultuous
welcome to the “heavenly seven”
when they arrived in the Soviet
capital. Hundreds of thousands
of citizens cheered the cosmo-
nauts at Vnukovo Airport, and
along the twenty mile route into
the city. A meeting and later a
banquet was held in the Krem-
lin Palace of Congresses.

Five cosmonauts—Shonin, Ku-
basov, Filipchenko, Volkov, Gor-
batko—were awarded the title
of Hero of the Soviet Union, and
presented with the Order of
Lenin and the medal “Golden
Star’. Vladimir Shatalov and

Man-made Earth Sputnik "INTERCOSMOS-1"
pictured below being assembled. If was
launched by the U.S.S.R. on October 14, 1969
in conformity with the Socialist Countries
Collaboration Program in the Fields of Re-
search and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful

Alexei Yeliseyev, who were in
space for the second time were
awarded their second medals,
“Golden Star’. At the reception
Premier Kosygin congratulated
them on their great achievement
of carrying round our planet the
Red Banner of the Soviet Union
inscribed “peace, progress,
science for the sake of mankind.”

Leonid Brezhnev, in_ his
speech, stressed that the Soviet
Union stands for international
cooperation in space exploration,
and paid tribute to the moon
landing of American astronauts.

The building of orbital stations
is the key problem of cosmo-
nautics today, and the welding

‘ experiment carried out on Soyuz

Six. obtained information on
how various metals are welded
and cut and how they melt in
the conditions of space vacuum
and weightlessness. In the near
future we may expect the con-
struction of orbital scientific
space stations.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 31, 1969—Page 6

criticism at the latest CUS con-
gress, which was so overwhelm-
ed with the desire to appear
‘moderate’ that it wouldn’t even
pass a resolution opposing the
tragic U.S. war in Vietnam,
although most Canadian stu-
dents are in fact against that
war. We Communists and mem-
bers: of the Young Communist
League, disagree with such a de-
cision, and we shall campaign
to reverse it, but we certainly
would not advocate the dissolu-
tion of mass student unions like
CUS and the Ontario Union of
Students merely because they
have not adopted the policies of
the Communist Party .. .”

The statement concluding with
a call to vote against withdrawal
says: “Who would benefit from
the dissolution of CUS and OUS?
Certainly not the students.”

The experience of coming
struggles for student’s needs
and rights can be expected to
bring this point home.

.$150 BILLION

In a single decade the Euro-
pean colonial system which
had taken centuries to build
has been largely liquidated by
a combination of positive ideas

and dedicated people most of
whom could not tell a machine

gun from a rake. During this

period the United States Gov-:

ernment has spent nearly $150
billion in an effort to pacify the
villages of Vietnam. With such
a sum we could have rebuilt
half the cities of the United

States and gone a long way
toward eliminating poverty
throughout America...”

—Chester Bowles, former Am-
bassador to India, in a letter
to the New York Times, Oct.
14.

DO ALL ROADS LEAD TO MOSCOW? Visiting Canadian deleg?
tion being received by I. Spiridonov, Chairman of the Supreme dion
From the right: C.R. Morgan, First Secretary of the one
Embassy; Joel Aldred, smiling TV adman; Robert Ford, Cande’
Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and friend.

National Farm Union presi-
dent, Roy Atkinson, said, in an
address to the 14th Annual Con-
vention of the Saskatchewan
Federation of Labor that the
B.C. longshoremen had establish-
ed a new principle in bargaining,
by striking, and at the same time
keeping grain moving in the in-
terests of the farmers.

“This,” said Mr. Atkinson,
“demonstrated that union peo-
ple and farmers can have a
great deal of understanding and
that we can work ourselves into
an alliance.”

He told the Federation con-
vention that it is true that farm-
ers have an antagonistic attitude
towards labor, but claimed that
this was as a result of being
brainwashed, so that farmers do
not understand what unionism
really is. As farmers begin to
understand themselves the need
for collective bargaining, he

said, this attitude is beginning
to disappear.

“We believe in the principle
of free collective bargaining,”
said Mr. Atkinson, “we’re not
interested’ in compulsory bar-
gaining legislation. We've not-

The first Conference of union-
ists and students held in Ontario
took place at the UAW Educa-
tion Centre at Port Elgin on Oct.
18 and 19.

The conference is a joint pro-.

ject of the Ontario Union of Stu-
dents, the Canadian Labor Con-
gress and the Ontario Federation
of Labor.

In ‘opening the conference,
David Archer, President of the
OFL, pointed out that students
still appear as an elite in the
community — not so much as
formerly — but still today the
majority of children from work-
ing class families do not have
the opportunity to attend uni-
versities even though their par-
ents pay a great part of the taxes
for their upkeep.

The policy of the Federation,
he said, was to support the abo-
lition of tuition fees at the uni-
versity level. He hoped that the
day would soon come when abil-
ity and desire were the qualifi-
cations for entrance. Anything

less was discrimination — “the
dollar barrier to education.”
Anyone who has examined the
text books of this country, he
added, knows that no group or
organization of people as repre-
sentative of a large section of
the Canadian community has
been so grossly neglected over
the years as the trade union
movement. “In most history

books, we just don’t exist and.

never did exist. We play no role
and have never played any im-
portant role in the development
of our nation.

“Students today, more know-
ledgeable than their elders, can
hardly credit this. They want to
know—not only the facts about
unions, but about everything
else in the world around them—
from the smallest to the biggest
— people, unions, corporations,
government, and _ everything
else .. . including peace and war
and race and religions and all
that enters into the human
struggle.”

ent
iced when the govel® mide
intervenes too quickly

or the other takes the
sho

of: “what the hell, why >"

we negotiate when we “),
the government do it for Uj
Mr. Atkinson told the
union delegates that the
al Farmers Union will
union picket lines. “ 1g not
cross them,” he said, “That pets
to say some of our mel
haven’t and that’s not say ut
some won't in the future
that’s our position.”
He referred to
about western Canada
from Canada as a waste
“You and I don’t elect
ernment anyway. The t¢
ernment is the big, PriV@ "ge
porate interests and
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vested and the economy 18 riot!
He ‘stated that the N@ ing
Farmer’s Union has no int tcl!
of affiliating with any Fo caid
party. He considered he js
that the job of the farm UM joi
to get political parties 0? 1008
toes to make sure the
after the people’s interest®

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Kent County, belonging 8 of
385 of the National F? gigs
Union spearheaded the bg
back of educational taxe5: , py

They are being packe ty
NFU officials across the Bi, of

Gerald Pellier, presideX

- local 357 of the NFU 1" ain

county proposed withholg
education taxes to get 4 “pelt
in the education base (tio?
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when he originally props cot
to a district meeting 0? =
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Now, however, the prercfo®
ports that NFU member he
Kent county will be pack! pret
tax holdback. Lloyd Brie™ ontie
dent of local 385, repree gor!
Howard, Orford and — ect?
townships, said that a Gio!
meeting had adopted 4 ™ itl
to promote the move ' j4¢
hold taxes. The other nit 4
have taken similar acl ne &
Kent county, although af off”
the others have yet pass®
cial resolutions.

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