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NATO bullets greet
Chilean miners strike

A leading Chilean Communist
declared in Toronto last weekend
that U.S.-sponsored “ Alliance for
Progress” ammunition had been
used in a massacre of Chilean
Copper miners, on strike last
March in the El Salvador mining
Camp, a subsidiary ofthe Ameri-
can Anaconda company.

Maria Maluenda, a deputy from
Santiago in the Chilean Parlia-
ment and a member ofthe Central
Committee of the Communist
Party of Chile, said cartridges
used also bore the imprint of
NATO stamped on them,

She made the charges in an
eloquent address to the 19th con-
vention of the Communist Party
of Canada as a fraternal repre-
Sentative of the Communist Party
of Chile, Six men and two women
had been killed, she said, and 35
wounded,

Senora Maluenda also charged
that the much-publicized Project
Camelot had been a “United
States espionage operation,” with
Canada slated as one of the first
Countries for investigation.

She said her party’s newspaper,
E1 Siglo, had played a large part
in the exposure of Camelot, which
the U.S, State Department and
Pentagon tried to carry out in
her country under the cover of
Sociological research. The Chil-
ean Parliament unanimously con-
demned this flagrant intervention,
She added.

Dealing with her party’s
program .she said Chilean Com-
Mmunists. regard socialist-com-
munist unity — through the 10-
year-old Front of Popular Action
—as fundamental to the achieve-
ment ofa genuine anti-imperialist
gOvernment,

At the same time they regard
workers who support the ruling
Christian Democrat Party as
“class brothers” with whom unity
is needed. Communists and so-
Cialists supported the govern-
Ment’s draft agrarian law and
demand its speedy enactment, she
continued.

“Our main enemy,” she stress-
ed, “is United States imperialism;
our duty is to unite all anti-im-
perialist forces, whether inside
or outside the government,
whether supporters of socialism
or not.”

She denounced U.S, actions in
Santa Domingo and said her party
is intensifying its solidarity with
the people of Vietnam, “in whose

battle is summed up all the
heroism of our time.”
Claude Lighfoot, fraternal

delegate of the Communist Party
of the USA, also brought delegates
to their feet in a standing ovation
following his greetings to the con-
vention.

“My nation has emerged as
perhaps the most hated nation
ever known in the history of the
world — and I do not exclude
the Roman Empire and Hitler’s
Germany,” Lightfoot declared,

“This is not in the interests
of the American people and I
solidarize myself with you when
you resist U.S, encroachments on
Canada’s sovereignty.” He told
the convention of the deep-going
ferment at all strata of American
foreign policy.

Lightfoot also dealt fairly ex-
tensively with the dangers of a
fascist takeover in his country
and how these dangers affect Ca-
nadians and-all other peoples in
the Western Hemisphere,

The future of mankind rests
not only on the danger of a
thermonuclear war, he said, but
also on how well mankind can
adjust to a rapidly expanding
population by utilizing the re-
sources ofthe world to reorganize
the entire world — structurally,

“The problems of scientific
and technological advance point to
the need of socialism and com-
munism,” he said.

Da Nang blood bath

by Ky-U.S.

After having drenched DaNang
in blood, U.S.-armed Saigon
Puppet troops this week claimed
they had destroyed all resistance
in the South Vietnam city and
Occupied the rebel pagodas.

At the same time, in Washing-
ton, officials welcomed the
achievements of their puppet
Premier Ky in Da Nang and they
“looked forward with cautious
Optimism” toa full scale resump-
tion of the main war against the
Vietnamese people,

The end of the revolt came when
American tanks and Saigon para-
troops surrounded the two pago-
das which had been the centre
of the resistance, U.S. Marines
also occupied a large ammunition

‘dump held by the last major re-

Maining pocket of anti-junta
troops, :

- At least 1,000 people were kill-
ed and wounded in the eight days
of bitter and bloody fighting inDa
Nang and although the fighting was
Said to be over, late reports

indicated a handful of snipers

Were stubbornly clinging to their
Posts, ;

forces

The commander of the attack-
ing forces, Gen. Dong, said that
about 400 local troops had been
taken prisoner and claimed that
nothing would happen to soldiers
and junior officers.

Fred Wright (UE News)
“They say if we pulled out we
weuld lose face!’

But New York newspapers of
Monday, May 23 showed pictures
of one such soldier being shot
down in cold blood by a Saigon
officer,

In Saigon, demonstrations
against Marshal Ky’s regime con-
tinued and troops and armed
police are again using tear gas
against demonstrators

‘GO LEFT, YOUNG MAN’

CP convention opens
with stirring keynote

“Canada needs a foreign policy
which could make her a vital
force for peace in the world,
The best place to begin is by
publicly dissociating itself from
U.S, aggression in Vietnam and
demanding U.S. withdrawal from
“that country.”

National leader William Kash-
tan made this proposal in his
keynote address to the 19th con-
vention of the Communist Party,
which opened its four-day ses-
sions inToronto onSaturday, May
21,

The convention. was attended
by about 160 delegates from coast
to coast,

“The sharpened international
situation and the increased threat
of nuclear war emphasizes not
only the need for a truly inde-
pendent and democratic foreign
policy but equally the need to build
a powerful movement of the Ca=-
nadian people to achieve it,”
said Kashtan,

He added that the interests of
‘Sanada lie in supporting the ef-

‘rts of peoples to achieve their

ational independence and free-
dom, not in acquiescing in their
suppression, Canada should work
for genuine disarmament and op-
pose West German acquisition
of nuclear arms; stop acting as
front-man for the U.S, and rec-
ognize People’s China and the
German Democratic Republic;
extend two-way trade with all
the socialist and newly liberated
countries; re-examine its re-
lationship to NATO and NORAD,

Dealing with the struggle
against foreign control, Kashtan
called U.S, subsidiaries operat-
ing in Canada “Trojan horses”,
U.S. control and domination over
our economy has already reached
a stage which, unless checked and
reversed, will lead to the com-
plete loss of our independence
and sovereignty, he said,

Publication of Walter Gordon’s
book, A Choice for Canada, at
this time, may not be unrelated
to the possibility of changes in
leadership of the Liberal Party,
the Communist leader said,
“More important, however, is the
fact that it gives expression to a
rising Canadian consciousness
and to growing opposition to U.S,
domination of our country,”

Kashtan foresaw the possibility
“of new alignments and a power-
ful national and democratic move-
ment shaping up around the
central issue of foreign control
which could well be the key
question of another federal
election within the next few
years,”

Speaking on French Canada, he
said that “inseparably linked
with the issue of independence
from U.S. domination is that of
the survival of Canada as one
country, as a democratically
united bi-national state.” Demo-
cratic solution of the crisis calls
for anew Canadian Constitution,

“Last year the Communist
Party of Quebec was established
as a distinct entity,” said Kash-
tan, “This action was an integral
part of the struggle of our party
for a voluntary equal partner-
ship of English and French Can-

WILLIAM KASHTAN, national leader of the Communist Party oi Canaaa, as he
delivered his keynote address to the party's 19th national convention. Many
delegates, including fraternal guests, commented the address would become a

landmark in iviarxist-Leninist work on this conzinent.

ada and the adoption of a new
Canadian Constitution.”

Discussing the economy of our
country, the Communist leader
said the problem is not “old
time inflation” but “monopoly
rigged prices through which huge
profits are amassed at the
people’s expense.” That is why
workers are striking for substan-
tial wage increases and improved
living standards,

“The technological revolution
will require a fundamental change
in society if its benefits are to
accrue to the people,” he said,
“In addition to the struggle for
job security and for full employ-
ment the labor movement ought
to step up its fight for a guar-
anteed annual wage (or income)
not only for workers but for
farmers as well,”

To cope with the technological
revolution, education must be
free (including university edu-
cation), said Kashtan, “This ap-
plies equally to the extension of
vocational training and the re-
training of workers to give them
new skills, These workers ought
to receive at least 90 percent of
their earnings while in training,”

In the final analysis the new

—Photo by Stan Lynn

policies Canada must have can
only be realized if a democratic
majority replaces the old line
parties in Parliament, Kashtan
contended. *This process will
be speeded up to the extent that
all the forces of the left unite
for common aims,

“Communists work for a peace-
ful transition to socialism, said
Kashtan, “With the achievement of
socialism in our country all the
democratic rights and institutions
of the people will not only be
protected but extended. ...

“In our conditions in Canada,
we reject the idea of a one party
government as being anecessary
condition for the transition from
capitalism to socialism, and work
for the formation of a multi-party
government whose aim will be
the building of socialism, And
we See the possibility of opposi-
tion parties continuing to function
providing they respect the laws
of the government building so-
cialism,”

At one time it was said, “Go
West Young Man.” More recently
it was changed to “Go North
Young Man.” Today, said Kash-
tan, we say to these young people
and adults too: “Go LEFT Young
Man.”

Dr. A.M, Inglis, chairman
of the Canadian Aid for Viet-
nam Civilians, has announced
that in the future the committee
plans to send medical aid to
injured civilians living in the
area presently under the
Saigon government, through
the International Red Cross
at Geneva, as well as to the
areas it has helped all along.

The committee has sent a
letter to Prime Minister Pear-
son urging the Canadian gov-
ernment double its present

Vietnam Committee
extends aid to Saigon

medical aid to Vietnamese
civilians° and this be shared
according to population and to
need in three areas of Viet-
nam: :

The area under the Saigon
regime, 10 percent; the area of
South Vietnam under theNLF,
45 percent; the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam, 45 per-
cent, This would be consistent
with Canada’s neutral position
on the International Control
Commission, the letter pointed
out,

May 27, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3