THIS WEEK What is the state of Canadian agriculture? It is undoubtedly in & state of acute crisis, says an article by Roy Atkinson, presi- dent of the National Farmers Union. The article is abridged from a speech made by Atkinson to the recent convention of the ew Democratic Party. —PAGES 4 AND 5 U.S. war escalates, but so do th the past week the United States’ dirty war against the we namese people was again €pped up while at the same Me, more and more Americans to the streets to protest against the. war, : An Official of the American 1 hey Association suggested Onday that the U.S. should © chemical agents in the war, © call came in a signed edi- al by Dr. Richard L, Kenyon € weekly Chemical and En- Steering News, At the same time the well ae admirer of Hitler, Mar- ks Nguyen Cao Ky, Washing- S latest puppet in Saigon, “a he is planning a new anti- Sai Munist Asian Axis, Ky left Sia on Sunday for a trip to = pala and Thailand, pro- ng his axis, ‘faa the veil of anti-Com- little a there appeared to be oe doubt the dictator was des- ately trying to scrape up more Hea fodder to make up for the of Vietnamese prepared to Koy (cali ekg >, not Aah T » 5 THIS WEEK VOL. 26, NO. 33 ERIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1965 What is the background to : the latest blow struck at Mal- : aysia by Singapore’s secession? : Are the people of Vietnam and : Malaysia taking part in the: same struggle or is there no con- : nection? Do they face common enemy? What will happen next : in Southeast Asia? —PAGE 7 protests fight and die against the National Liberation Front, His trip came on the heels of an announcement that the U.S, puppet government in South Korea had decided .to bolster Ky’s sagging forces by sending 15,000 troops into Vietnam, Meanwhile, more and more demonstrations opposing the war are taking place virtually in every major U.S, city and par- ticularly in Washington, Signifi- cantly, most of the demonstrators are young people, In Canada, J.B, McGeachy re- cently wrote in the influential Financial Post that “it is be- - coming clear that the problem in Vietnam is not how to win the war but how to save the Ameri- can face,” McGeachy suggests the only way to save face for the U,S. is to negotiate with the NLF, stop bombings immediately, call for a cease fire and withdraw all troops “when there is a firm arrangement that free elections will be held,” The United States suffered a eae tine defeat in the United tho, when its ambassador, mitted Goldberg, publicly. ad- Os this week that a majority Ons in the UN were opposed . --Nerican. policies in connec- 0} . ‘ n with alleged “peacekeeping” Perations, hu re : UN had been handcuffed Sista es due to American in- Ce that all countries must in eee to pay for the debacle Simi) (Belgian) Congo and other aY Operations, oe f Soviet Union, all other the se States represented in TEtiseg France had steadfastly eae -pay for imperialist Tes operated through the a UN Charter clearly Couneiy that only the Security tek has: the right to assess er nations, The so. called acekeepin Perations pe ping ci in question were never : ae by the Security Coun- * Only: by - sembly. Y the General As The ‘ i Americans had insisted os Countries must be made 8Sey. Te in these clearly illegal losin des, under penalty of tog. their UN vote for failure ue: d9 So, ; S announcement that thie abere" Ss deman d was now being dropped is a clear indication that the overwhelming majority of na- tions were opposed to the Amer- ican position, Had theissue gone to a vote, the U.S. would have suffered an embarrassing public defeat, L.A. Negro riots are result of torment, fears AN EDITORIAL ARTICLE What ever was the spark that set off the recent conflagration in the Watts section of Los Angeles, one thing is very clear: the root causes have been present for generations. The torment, the tears, the frustrations of decades could no longer be endured in silence and the unhappy people of this Negro ghetto lashed out in a blind fury which engulfed friend and foe. The background to the events in Watts closely parallels simi- lar eruptions last year in major Northern U,S, centres, Everywhere the. story is the same, A high rate of illiteracy; slum dwellings; poor schools; more than half the ‘people on social assistance of one kind or another; crime, prostitution and alcoholism rife; massunemploy- ment; precious little prospect for improvement, When such inhuman conditions are coupled with an ever present police brutality, the results are easily predictable. In their desperate attempt to do something — anything — about their savage environment, some of the people of Watts attacked all the hated symbols of a life denied them, The results have been toted up by all major Canadian news media, The commercial press, radio and TV have reminded us again and again that 33 people were killed, over 800 were in- jured. more than 3,000 were arrested and property damage exceeded $200 million. And yet. they all missed the point, The carnage has ended, “law and order” have been re- stored, What happens now? Are the Negro people of the United States going to receive any prac=- tical help (advice aside) to lift them out of their sub-human misery? ‘LIE DOWN — OR YOU’RE DEAD’ i i ichbor- f MOVE IN. White cops in a Negro neic pe’ se to “get touch ' with the hood rarely need an excu local inhabitants. Police attitudes and arro gance in —Br. Daily Worker Photo the Watts areo of Los Angeles played no small part in the explosion there last week. Above people “‘ar-' rested on suspicion of looting” get typical treatment. Will the Great White Father in Washington quit spending $6 to $7 million a day to rain death upon the poor peasants of Viet- nam and instead allocate the money to clean things up in his own back yard? These, it seems to us, are pertinent questions, There is another aspect tothis sad affair which shouldn’t escape the notice of thoughtful Cana- dians, Our own skirts are far from clean, The Native Indians and Eskimos of Canada exist in conditions every bit as deplor- able as those of their black brethren to the south, And fully one-third of our coun=- try—all of French Canada—is a subjugated nation with its cul- tural, economic, social and political rights denied it by the English power structure, The bombings, the demonstra- tions, the protests and arrests which have been a feature of life in French Canada for the past few years all attest to this fact of Canadian life. We are living in an era of his- toric and irrepressible change, People after people has shed the straitjacket of colonialism and won an independent place in the sun, Everywhere, oppressed people are on the march and winning impressive victories, These victories cannot be kept secret — neither from U,S, Ne- groes, Vietnamese peasants, nor French Canadians, They see the tide of progress all around them and. yearn to be immersed in its warm waters, Violence and the taking of human life cannot be condoned, but the only way to avoid vio- lence is to guarantee all peoples that which is rightfully theirs, F SUNRISE,