sident Nixon’s new “peace”
like his “new economic
icy,” bodes no good for the
ples of the world, says a
itement issued by the Central
cutive of the Communist
- of Canada. :
It is not a plan to end the
- in Indochina. It is a plan to
ntinue it with Asians fighting
ians and with the U.S. sup-
ing the weapons of mass de-
uction with which to keep its
pt, discredited and reaction-
y South Vietnamese puppet
ime in power. :
The so-called “peace” plan. is
aimed at bringing peace to
jochina; its real aim is to pull
= wool over the eyes of the
ple of the USA and of the
1d and help in the re-election
Richard Nixon as president of
US. :
This cynical manoeuvre of
icky Dick, in which he plays
litics at the expense of peo-
p’s lives, must be rejected.
Rather than welcoming the so-
led “peace” plan, Mr. Sharp

ould insist that the U.S. ad-
nistration accept the 7-point
ogram of the National Libera-
m. Front and the proposals ad-
Manced by the Democratic Re-
Mublic of Vietnam as the basis
‘Sr a peace settlement.

Continued from page 4
: 4 inducing mass unemploy-
The callousness and the cyni-
ism of Trudeau and Co., of
ory leader Stanfie!d in his de-
of the right to strike and
s call for an incomes policy
lakeney, the NDP premier of
skatchewan, also favors an
Icomes policy provided, of
‘Nourse, that it’s “equitable”’!)
today more evident than
r as federal electioneering
ets under way. ~— ;
Now and in all the months
ead the CLC president should
eclare his stand for policies of
employment, and act to win
em. Words, and certainly
sdbating Ones, will not do.
‘Let the CLC come out now

“Continued from page 4

pints of view also participate
this evening of information.
is also hoped that representa-
tives of the NDP, the Parti
ébecois, and other trade
mion centres will be present
vith leaders of the QFL to take
art in the debate.

‘A more far-reaching action
ategy is now being prepared
transforming the initiatives
the Labor Council and the
into a general offensive led
y the entire working class,
yhether working or paralyzed
unemployment,” said Mr.
errault.

“As for the Labor Council,
e are trying to break out of
our isolation, and create perma-
ent ties with all the natural
ies of our movement, whether
ey are to be found in popular
“movements, in the other trade
‘union centrals, or in political
‘parties. We are going to further
‘demonstrate clearly this inten-
"tion at the Forum, where we ex-
llNpect to assemble organized
| workers, as well as unemployed
I workers and welfare recipients.”
\ Mr. Perrault recalled the invi-
tation he had made the day be-
ore to the militants of the

d the Canadian government |

ON PLANS MORE WAR

Peace can-be restored in Indo-
china providing the U.S. with-
draws unconditionally from all
of Indochina. This includes not
only its troops, but its air force,

arms and navy, its installations -

and puppet troops. It must also
accept the inexorable fact that
the peoples of Indochina have
the inalienable right to deter-
mine their own affairs, free from
outside interference. This means
that the U.S. government must
end its support to the reaction-
ary puppet Thieu government
and accept the right of the
peoples of South Vietnam to es-
tablish a government of their
own choosing.

Nothing less can bring peace
to Indochina.

The Nixon administration
must be compelled to negotiate
in good faith.

What will compel it to do so
is the powerful and united pres-
sures of world public opinion.

The World Peace Assembly in
Paris on February 11-13 can be
an important step in that direc-
tion.

The Canadian people should
urge the Trudeau government to
pressure the Nixon government
to end this dirty war now!. Labor
must be at the centre of this
fight.

Demand moratorium

for an immediate moratorium
on all ptant closures; for jobs
or an adequate income for
every Canadian as a right; for
a 32-hour work week with no
reduction in pay; for a $3.00 an
hour minimum wage. Like the
demand for public ownership
of natural resource industries—
these are the deamnds proposed
by the Communist Party to
meet the job and living needs
of Canadian workers.

Only by unity in action can
-the full force of organized labor
today advance the workers’
struggle for jobs, and lead in
the forging of a mighty demo-
cratic, anti-monopoly and anti-
imperialist alliance. To the CLC
falls a great responsibility for
strengthening this unity.

i Montreal labor rally

Montreal Labor Council to

transform that body,;;and to

bring in themselves.new ideas
and suggestions for change.
In concluding, he pointed out

- that among the actions decided

upon here and now for the anti-
unemployment offensive, a peti-
tion to be signed by hundreds
of thousands of citizens is going
to be circulated during the next
few days.

This initiative, coming in the
wake of the Congress of the
QEL, constitutes one of the first
important acts proposed to mili-
tants by the new leadership
team -elected to the Montreal
Labor Council.

“The last congress of the
QFL gave precise mandates to
the leaders of the organization,”
affirmed Fernand Daoust. “The
militants unanimously express-
ed the wish to have us organize
and coordinate actions likely to
make deep changes in the eco-
nomic regime that oppresses
them. Now, among the dis-
astrous consequences of this
system based on the profit of
large financial groupings, unem-
ployment has become one of the
forms of oppression that weighs
most heavily on the entire
working class.”

Ontario CP asks
halt to layoffs

“Presently contemplated
mass layoffs by INCO and
Canadian International Paper
make a mockery of complacent
chatter about job opportuni-
ties and state of our econ-
omy,” says a wire sent by W.
Stewart on behalf of the On-
tario Committee of the Com-
munist Party to Prime Minister
Trudeau and Ontario Premier
Davis.

“Layoffs will have devastat-
ing consequences for Sudbury,
Cornwall, Temiskaming and
other communities already
hard hit by unemployment.
Imperative your government
clamp immediate moratorium
on layoffs, and take steps to
curb private corporate power
expanding profits at commun-
ity and taxpayers’ expense.

“What we need is a job for
every Canadian as a right or
an adequate income and ac-
tion by your government to
make this a reality.”

Peace meet

®@ Continued from page 4
patho-Russian Canadians; a re-
presentative of the Faculty
Committee Against the Vietnam
War, U. of T.; Francois Demers,
Le Soleil, Quebec City news-
paper; George Frejkov, CTV
News. in Montreal, for the CTV
network; Russ Haggerty and
Patricia Kavanagh, Niagara
Peace Movement.

Mrs. Laurette Chrétien Sloan
will attend the World Peace
Assembly as an observer from
the Féderation des femmes du
Québec; while Mrs. Tillie Tay-
lor, a Saskatoon magistrate,
will attend as an_ individual.
Yvon Boulanger will also take
part as an individual, while re-
porting on the World Peace As-

sembly for Le Devoir of Mont*’

real.

The Canadian peace delega-
tion will depart Feb. 9 for Paris
from the Dorval International
Airport. Further details about
the Versailles World Peace As-
sembly may be obtained by
writing Edward Martin Sloan,
Comité Moratoire du Vietnam,
P.O. Box 475, Station Outre-
mont, Montreal 154.

Terrorist murder

in New York

NEW YORK — On Jan. 26 an
incendiary bomb was detonated
in the offices of Sol Hurok, im-
pressario who _ specializes in
bringing Soviet artists to the
U.S. and Canada, killing recep-
tionist Iris Kones and injuring
six others, three of them seri-
ously. Another incendiary bomb
was thrown at another talent
management agency at about
the same time.

Telephone calls were received
by NBC and news media alert-
ing them to the terrorist acts
and using. the slogan of the
ultra Jewish Defense League,
“Never again!”

This latest outrage has open-
ed the eyes of many who hit-
herto looked on the JDL and
similar gangs as some sort of
“freedom fighters” to what they
really are, the fascist spawn of
aggressive imperialism.

TRADE INCREASE

Trade between the German
Democratic Republic and
Czechoslovakia will increase by
50% in the next five years.

Early federal vote

@ Continued from page 4

isma were added to the political
language of the country. This
suited monopoly well because
they needed a man who would
be “with it” in the eyes of the
young generation, who would
appear to reflect the deep-seated
desire of the Canadian people
for a more just society, and
their longing for a united Can-
ada, for standing up to the USA
—all this without changing the
power structure or weakening
monopoly in any way.

Today there is less of Tru-
deaumania and of charisma and
more emphasis on moderation,
on positive nationalism, that is,
the kind of nationalism ‘“‘which
enriches, not one which impov-
erishes.” By posing the question
this way Prime Minister Tru-
deau wants to make it clear to
the corporate interests that he
will not rock their boat or do
anything to exacerbate U:S.-
Canadian relations. This may
well be the slogan which the
prime minister will go to the
country with and around which
he will try to sell his policy on
foreign investment.

In any case, irrespective of
the image which will be project-
ed, the essence of Trudeau's pro-
gram will be that of consolidat-
ing the positions of Canadian
monopoly, both at home and
abroad.

In this respect there is a close
resemblance between Trudeau
and the late French President de
Gaulle. This may upset Mr. Tru-
deau and perhaps make de
Gaulle turn over in his grave.
The affinity lies in the fact that
de Gaulle, like Trudeau, defend-

ed the interests of state mono-
poly capitalism in his own coun-
try and pursued reactionary
policies as a consequence. At the
same time in the interests of .
state monopoly capitalism he
pursued policies which veered in

a direction somewhat different
to that of U.S. imperialism.

It remains to be seen whether
this will continue to. find an
echo with Trudeau in the com-
ing election.

Changes in the cabinet, the
two-price policy for wheat, the
refusal to call parliament and
force the air controllers back to
work, these and other steps tak-
en by the government, all speak
of the fact that we are actually
in the election battle now even
though it has not yet been call-
ed. The political pot is boiling
with the Liberals and Conserva-
tives busily engaged in mending
their political fences.

The Communist Party and all
progressive forces should lose no
time in putting the finishing
touches to their election pre-
parations.

All children are our
children

In a brochure published by
“Another Mother For Peace,”
in December 1971, we found this
dauntless statement: “President
Nixon thinks that by returning
our sons to us he will buy our
silence. But there is no mother
anywhere who is an enemy to
another mother, and all children
are our children. We will not
rest until our government’s bar-
baric war against the people of
Indochina is ended.”

Today's Joan of Arc

By SIDNEY CALLAHAN

When Angela Davis gets out
of maximum security confine-
ment to give a rare interview, I
listen. Does she affect me so
strongly because I’m rereading
all the known words of Joan of
Arc?

It’s not just the case of a trial
for her life that brings to mind
the parallel. More central and
puzzling is the question of mo-
tives and the chosen means to
an end.

Both young women felt singled
out and impelled to leave the
ordinary course of life ta dedi-
cate themselves totally to the
cause. Get the English out of
France; get freedom for black
people.

As Angela, the brilliant stu-
dent, said: “I felt that my com-
mitment to the. struggle being
waged by my people was some-
thing far more important than a
doctoral dissertation.”

Joan, too, at the behest of her
voices went to her king’s aid
overcoming all opposition. She
never killed anyone, but she ral-
lied and led military expeditions.
This good gentle girl had violent
warriors as her friends and com-
rades, Angela, also gently rear-
ed, admired and loved the viol-
ent George Jackson. She stands
accused of helping Jackson's.
brother do violence by purchas-
ing guns; by California law such
conviction could mean death.
Captured in New York, Angela
was sent to California for trial
where a fatal verdict could be
obtained.

Joan, too, was captured by the
Burgundians and then sold to
the English who then gave her
over to the church for trial. In
her case it. ostensibly was the
matter of her obedience to her
voices which got her burned as

heretic and witch. But in French-
controlled territory or even in a
neutral church court, she would
never have been condemned.
Only where her enemies could
put pressure on the judges. It
was a fair trial outwardly. All
the forms were adhered to. It
just so happened that with those
judges in that place Joan was
going to be discredited and put
out of the way once and for all.

Angela Davis is going to be
tried in’San Jose, which has a
black population of less than
two percent. She will be tried
by a California judge for the
murder of a fellow California
judge. There will be few wo-
men or blacks around. As An-
gela sees it, “It’s so clear that
the stage is being set for just a
complete railroad.” :

Angela has about as much
chance of being tried by a black
female judge and black jury in
a black ghetto as Joan had of
her appeal to be taken to France
or.the pope. A woman of action,
Joan underwent much suffering
in prison and once even re-
canted from fear of the fire. But
later she denied her denial and
reaffirmed the absolute impera-
tive to obey her voices. She was ,
burned for her faith.

So what of Angela Davis? Is
she to die for her commitment
to revolution and struggle for
her people? Nothing will be
quite so important for the rest
of us as insuring that Angela
gets a truly fair trial. We will
be the one on trial, along with
our whole system of justice.

Joan told her judges that she
was innocent and that they
should beware of judging false-
ly for their soul’s sake. In our
case, it’s the soul of the coun-

- try at stake. :

—Naticna! Catholic
Reporter, Jan. 14, 1972

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