Hall urges more pressure to halt Vietnam conflict By RICK NAGIN MINNEAPOLIS — Gus Hall, Communist Party Presidential candidate, said that the peace plan proposed by Sen. George McGovern is “a great step for- ward.” McGovern, Hall told news- men at a press conference, “now presents a real policy for ending U.S. aggression, not only in Viet- nam but throughout Indochina.” Hall welcomes most of Mc- Govern’s plan which echoed, he said, the people’s demands for peace. He urged increased mass pressure to force President Nix- on to end the war immediately, and hailed the anti-war demono- strations organized throughout the U.S. Nixon, he said, has no inten- tion of ending the war if he can help it. What Nixon is doing, said Hall, is “trying to orches- trate various variations on the Inhuman war means more aid urgent now The United States’ blockade of North Vietnamese ports has not prevented the recent safe-ar- rival of two shipments of cloth- ing, medicines, etc. sent by the Children’s Committee of Cana- dian Aid for Vietnamese Civil- ians,.and a further consignment, the 38th, left Vancouver on the Soviet S.S. Kungur, Oct. 10. The 25 crates contain 3,835 chil- dren’s garments, blankets and bandages; 300 pounds of knit- ting wool; 566 yards of clothing material; surgical dressings; 150 pounds of Vitamin D; medical books, and other items with a total value of $12,590. Still the need for aid of every kind has never been ‘more tirg- » ent. The new phase of extend- ed devastating, indiscriminate bombing of South and North the use of electronic instru- ments, and development of ever more inhuman _ anti-personnel weapons result in wholesale slaughter , burning and crippling of civilians, most of whom are children. The destruction of hospitals, and the desperate shortage of essential medical and surgical supplies makes it impossible for increasing numbers of casualties to receive prompt and adequate attention. It is a calamity beyond calcu- lation. The Committee for Aid to Indochinese Civilians appeals to Canadians to contribute gen- erously now to help the innocent --children-who are victims of ‘this prolonged»atrocious war. For further information call or write: Mrs. Sheila Young, 1768 West llth Ave., Vancouver 9, theme of ‘sensitivity.’ He is try- ing to create an atmosphere that everything is so sensitive about the peace negotiations that you dare not vote against him. This is a complete fraud. General Thieu blew that theme sky-high when he said Wed- nesday that anybody who says anything about coalition govern- ments in South Vietnam will be shot in five minutes. That in it- self proves that peace is not close at hand.” ‘In addition, Nixon has ex- panded the bombing to the previously off-limits of Hanoi. “You would have expected him at least to have stopped the bombing if negotiations for _ peace were really at a sensitive stage.” Hall called Nixon’s present bombing of North Vietnam “the most heinous brutal crime in the history of mankind.” Nixon’s aim, he said, ‘is to destroy dams and dikes and thus kill one million people and three- fourths of the country’s crops. “Whether he achieves this goal will depend on the weather and on the ability of the Viet- namese people to repair the dikes.” To counteract the repair work, Hall said, Nixon is satu- rating the country with anti- personnel ‘bombs. ~ The’ Honeywell Corp:, with headquarters in Minneapolis, is one of the main manufacturers of these weapons, and Hall de- clared that the corporation’s chief stockholders and execu- “WHATS WRONG WITH You - 65% OF YOUR DAILY BODY-COUNT GUoTA!” tives should be put on the dock- opposed to ending ets and tried as war criminals. war, while McGovern re He ridiculed the “empty rhet- the liberal side of capitali | of Trotskyite candidate tics and is progressive 10 50% | Andrew Pulley, running for areas and backward in 0 Vice-President, who was quoted here as saying that both Nixon china but a hawk on the that | “fascists” East,” Hall said, adding ] and “choosing between them is _McGovern’s policies toate en Hitler and __rael could easily lead to an© and McGovern are like choosing betwe (Mussolini.” Nixon and McGovern, said, are both capitalist politi- ern makes no real propos@ cians and defend corporate re- closing down the military e actionary, racist, anti-labor and lishment. Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia— _ B.C. (Tel. 733-9018). | ane Oy FY Cm, |, ee , FULSTRUP? YOU'RE ACHIEVING OMY | thers: “McGovern is a dove on Mid | d Is : Vietnam in the Mid Ea McGow Js for |! stab Hall In addition, he said, dicting a br t¥ eocecs utal and vicious system It is with great sorrow that I come to Vancouver to speak at a protest rally about the horrible and tragic death of a brother, Fred Quilt. Al- though I did not know Fred personally, I know the kind of life a brother lives. What has happened to Fred Quilt is not new to the Native people of Can- ada. Brothers and sisters die every day throughout the nation as a result of the brutal and vicious system of racism and its agents. However, with Fred Quilt it is of greater concern. The circumstances surrounding his death are obvious and definite. This brutalized death is clearly understood by the brothers and sisters who experience the injustice and cruel- ty of apartheidism. Also there is great concern for one another in our native nation today. Because of increasing viciousness of the white establishment against the Native people, we are draw- ing closer together. This becomes necessary in our struggle for survival. THE POLICE PRESENCE The organization and the procedure of the inquest of Fred Quilt tell us of the Hitler-type society being forced on us. The two people involved in the savage death of Fred Quilt are police- men and the coroner is a retired police- man. The jury which was all white was picked by the policemen connected with this tragedy. It is this gestapo organization and the entire judicial system’ which we have to be concerned about. This same white ruling class, its machinery and the police agents have operated in a racist and absolute manner ever since the Europeans slaughtered the Boethuk Indians of Newfoundland in the early times. Historically, the Mounted Police were established to oppress and to wage war on the Native people when leading to a second inquest. small bowel. ed from The New Nation. . PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1972—-PAGE 8 The death last November 30 of Fred Quilt, a Chilkotan Indian from the Williams Lake, B.C. area while in RCMP hands, aroused a storm of protest Eye-witnesses stated that the RCMP both kicked the victim and jumped up and down on his body. He died from poisoning caused by a rupture of the Despite the eye-witness and medical evidence, the majority verdict of the hand-picked juries attached no blame. It said death was caused by “an un- known blunt force applied by an unknown object to the lower abdomen” and that it was sustained “between the time Quilt was removed from the Quilts’ vehicle and assisted to the police vehicle.” The address below was delivered at a protest rally in Vancouver, by Howard Adams, nationally-known Indian spokesman and university lecturer. It is reprint- ~Coroner and the lawyers. 1 sys . their lands were being seized from them. At the time, the white ruling class established their institutions to give themselves. all the power advantages and privileges. It is no different today except that there are different persons making the decisions and brutalizing the people. Murder has always been a part of the activities of the white ruling class from the early days of the Boethuk Indians to the present time. Judicial murder, like that of Louis Riel and systematic murdering of the Native people under the philosophy—‘‘the only good Indian is a dead Indian”— has always been a part of the Canadian Law and Order. RACISM AND VIOLENCE Historically, the judicial system is based on racism and violence. It is unlikely to start changing after four hundred years. We must stop these institutions, like the courthouse behind us today, from masquerading under the labels of law and order and The Just Society. The Fred Quilt issue should focus on the border and social and politi- cal issues such as the racist. judicial system and the terrorizing police force. We should not restrict ourselves to the techniques of procedural questions of the inquest. However, we should concern ourselves with some _signifi- cant matters of the inquest, such as public inquiry and the circumstances surrounding the death of our brother. We must do more than demand that the Attorney-General examine the re- port of the coroner. It is action that we want, and not a legal quarrel. We should not bother ourselves with try- ing to improve the relationship between the Native people and the Mounted Police for that is not a possibility. After all, the official duty of the police is to intimidate, control and keep us in our place. The Mounties operate according to their sterotype images of us as savages. The only way the Native people can have better relations with the Police is to bring them under the control of the local brothers and sisters in our reserves, Metis communities and ghettoes. Native people together with white allies must show the government that we mean business. We should march in mass against these tools of oppres- sion and we should call for a release of our brothers and sisters who are - nals. This kind of racism and ’ we not justified in suggesting held as colonial prisoners. rh We should organize a National on bunal and bring to trial all the pe? involved in the tragic death of Ke | Quilt; and especially Constables ane well and Eakins as well as the jury = i. The entire racist and tyrannica trial | tem of Canada must be put OP og | before the people of Canada. If ye ‘ sary we could make it an Interna tee Tribunal or take our case to the UM ig |. Nations. At this world court we i 9 bring many cases of brutality, discret nation, terrorism and murder © oq | brothers and sisters that have aan place in all the provinces of Can@ rice | We must insist on an end to Pout brutality and to injustice by the © we |i system. If this does not end, the? jay |. will be forced to ask ourselves @ out | serious question: Must we defen@ 4 selves by whatever means are 2°” sary? p> & In Saskatchewan the Native in™ 0% of the penitentiary account fOF “ail of the population. In the womal” (7 in Prince Albert, Native wome? 14 count for 90% of the prison POP’ | tion. Z COURTS DISCRIMINATE — Ue This is glaring evidence that inst |, police and courts discriminate ag’ us: | us, terrorize us and ruthlessly ja ini Native people are not greater ial # c re | ism must stop. If it does not i ait i ge brothers and sisters that they relat themselves by whatever way aM > ae we provide assistance if possible jot Our struggle must be for free nd | and liberation from the racist oy colonial regime that holds us 1” dage. Let the death of our brothel in Quilt be the beginning and ae point for our freedom and liber