EDITORIAL _

- Peace is the only answer

If there ever was a time to get Canada off
the U.S. foreign policy war chariot, it’s now.
If there was ever a need for an inde-
pendent Canadian foreign policy, that need
has never been greater. The unbridled chal-
lenge by the Reagan administration to world
stability and world peace reached new
heights these past weeks as Washington ap-
pears determined to instigate a conflict in
Central America.
The latest provocations against Nicaragua
— open admissions of military acts and
destabilization — coupled with increased’
U.S. assistance to the junta in El Salvador are
bringing events in the region to a boil.
Add to this the awesome new weapons’ sys-
tems the United States is planning to install in
Western Europe and its anti-Polish crusade
and the direction of U.S. foreign policy
Stands sharp and clear.
_ Canadians last week learned we are plan-
ning to permit the U.S. military to test the
Cruise missile system in Alberta. “Its terrain
is similar to that of the Soviet Union,” the
mericans tell us.
And, rather than a burst of protest from
Ottawa telling our southern neighbor that
such talk is provocative and this country
dissociates itself from war preparations,
Canada’s External Affairs defends the plan.
Many Canadians reminded Trudeau of his
1979 speech to the United Nations in which
he called on the world to suffocate the arms
race. Our Prime Minister once spoke out
against nuclear arms proliferation and weap-
Ons’ testing.
They wonder how these views square with
- Canada’s complicity in perfecting a first strike

‘S. weapons’ system for use against the
USSR. People are asking why Canada parti-
Cipates in manufacturing Cruise com-
ponents, why we’ve backed Reagan’s attack
On detente. ,

Voice of reason

‘a movement calling itself the Nuclear
eapons Freeze Campaign is taking hold in

the U.S. as more Americans realize there is no >

Winner in an all-out atomic exchange.

From New England to California 279
Congressional districts and 280 communities

ave now sent messages to Reagan calling for
an immediate freeze on production and de-
ployment of nuclear weapons. This is an im-
Portant step, showing as it does the American
People have a better grasp on reality than
their administration.

| Flashbacks

25 years

CANADA AGAINST A-TESTS |

As the 5-power disarmament talks re-opened in

ndon March 18, Canada’s Health Minister Paul

artin said this country would seek a limitation on
the testing of nuclear weapons.

Martin told the press Canada’s view is that nuclear
tests should be preceded by registration of the
intention with the UN and that agreement be sought
'n limitation of tests.

Canada feels that outlawing of such weapons Is not
Yet possible, though it supports the principle of
ultimate prohibition coupled with adequate inter-
National control. The opening of the 87th meeting of

© UN Disarmament committee will also examine a

os seven-point disarmament and inspection pro-

‘ Tribune,
March 25, 1957

Step by step Ottawa, under the stewardship
of Mark MacGuigan, is aligning Canada with
U.S. foreign policy. We’ve boosted our mili-
tary spending to a post World War Two re-
cord. We’ve permitted the U.S. military to use
Canada as a buffer zone, and now a testing
ground.

We've been among the most hawklike voi-
ces in NATO councils and have refused to
condemn American moves in Central
America for what they are.

No more “honest broker” role for this
country; no more peace-keeper image.

Millions of Canadians, given the facts of
the danger inherent in backing Reagan and

Haig, would opt for an active policy to pursue

peace and detente. There is mass sentiment
in this country for making Canada a nuclear
weapons free zone.

A campaign to isolate the hawks in Ottawa,
to rescue Canadian foreign policy and turn it
toward the search for peace is on the agenda.

"ACCORDING To THIS WERE NOT
UNEMPLOYED; WERE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED:

4.5 million on the streets

During the two weeks Parliament was shut

- down, Statistics Canada revealled that Cana-

da’s jobless today officially number 1,119,000
— the highest figure since the Depression.
The real figure exceeds 1.5 million people.

And, while federal and provincial govern-
ments blame each other for the state of the
economy, offering nothing but more of the
same for millions of Canadians without work,
the Communist Party has put forward a com-
prehensive program for recovery and
development to take this country out of the
crisis.

Its aim is to reach one million people with a
clear-cut set of proposals which include:

e A major job-creating investment pro-
gram in the areas of transport, forestry and
housing;

e Process natural resources in Canada and
build secondary industry on that basis;

e Further develop the public transit sys-
tem, establish Crown Corporations for the
production of mining machinery, offshore
oil and gas equipment; develop the machine
tool industry and establish a publicly-owned
Canadian auto industry;

e 100% Canadianization of energy re-
sources and related industries through
nationalization under democratic control;

e Anexcess profits tax as part of the aim of
nationalizing banks and the credit system,
use the enormous funds of the banks for an

50 years

THIS IS CANADA 1932

Canada 1932 isa huge breadline lashed by the whip
of a vicious ruling class. Today, charges of vagrancy
or disorderly conduct fade into insignificance before
the more serious accusations of sedition, inciting to
riot and Section 98.

In one short year eight working class leaders are.

sent down to Kingston for five years each; six workers
in Montreal are framed by the perjured testimony of

lice and stoolpigeons; 25 miners are rounded up
after the brazen police murder of three miners in
Estevan.

The brutality of the police exceeds all former
records in attacks upon workers’ meetings and
demonstrations. Mass deportations of foreign-born
workers are the accepted policy of this government. |

The Worker,
March 26, 1932

all-Canadian development program to
strengthen Canada’s independence;

e Establish exchange controls;

e Reduce the arms spending program by
50%. :

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$111,904,000 the previous year. It shows what it costs to
keep account of a crisis-ridden society.

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‘RAND STRIKE SMASHED

While South African government troops are break-
ing the last resistance of the Rand general strike,
fantastic stories appear in the capitalist press ap-
parently to pave the way for drastic reprisals. Some
say the strike was inspired and financed by Moscow,
others represent the strikers as savage maniacs.

The cold facts are that the revolt began when
workers refused to accept mine-owners demands for
wage reductions and replacement of white reer ty
lower paid Black labor. Planes were sent in to
the union headquarters resulting in 80 deaths and
troops surrounded the Rand.

The strikers seem to have put up stiff resistance but
have gradually been surrounded and captured with
6,000 now held prisoner.

The Worker,
April 1, 1922
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