WORLD MEET TAKES ACTION
TO AID CHILE’S PATRIOTS

Communist Party condemns
recognition of Chilean junta

The recognition of the fascist military junta by the Cana-
dian Government is a sad day for Canadian democracy and
Canadian independence. No less is it a blow to all Chilean
patriots who upheld and uphold constitutional liberties and
democratic rights, including their sovereign right to freely
determine the road they wish Chile to take.

Why the indecent haste to recognize the military junta
whose hands are stained with the blood of thousands of
Chilean patriots and of countless others held incommuni-
cado and facing the threat of execution?

The Government had enough precedence to go on if it
had decided not to recognize the junta.

It took over 20 years before Canada “recognized” People’s
China. Canada has still not “recognized” the German Demo-
cratic Republic, the Republic of North Korea, the Provisional
Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam.

Could it be that Canadian Governments have a closer
affinity to reactionary, pro-fascist and military regimes than
Governments which genuinely represent the people of their
countries?

What is evident is that the Canadian Government has
succumbed to the pressures of the U.S. multi-national cor-
porations, the U.S. State Department, the CIA and the Penta-
gon, the fascist military junta, and to ‘its own fascist lover,
Ambassador Ross, who completely whitewashed the junta
and called for its immediate recognition.

Canadians could well ask: how many more reactionary

types and fascist lovers are to be found in Government
offices and ‘in the Civil Service?
_ The fact that the Trudeau Government has shamefully
recognized the junta whose hands are bloodied with the
death of 30,000 Chileans, does not mean that Canadian
democratic opinion should da the same.

On the contrary, they should show, in every way open to
them, their implacable hostility to the fascist military junta,
and their determination to be part of a world wide move-
ment directed to bring about the restoration of the sovereign,
democratic and constitutional rights of the Chilean people.
As part of this effort they need to add their voice to the
world wide demand for the immediate release of all political
prisoners held by the fascist military junta.

The struggle in Chile is not over. The Chilean people,
learning from the lessons of this past phase of their efforts,
are re-forming their ranks and forging stronger and stronger
bonds of unity. Whatever forms of struggle they evolve to get
tid of the junta, democratic Canadians should make un-
mistakably clear they are on their side.

Central Executive Committee,
Communist Party of Canada

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1973 — PAGE 4

HELSINKI—“The fascist junta must
answer for its crimes in front of the
tribunal of universal conscience. Man-
kind demands: ‘Stop the bloodshed,’
‘stop the assassinations and the perse-
cutions,’ ‘open the prisons,’ ‘stop the
tortures and close the concentration
camps,’ ‘respect the dignity of man,-
ideas and cultural values,’ ‘freedom for
the Chilean people’,” declared the dele-

ates at the International Conference
in Solidarity with the Chilean people.

The conference, held in Helsinki,
Sept. 29 and 30, and attended by over
250 delegates from more than 50 coun-

—

Beatriz Allende, daughter of the murdered president (left), with

Special to the Tribune

Vilma Espin, president of the Federation of Cuban Women, at a mass
rally in Havana to support Chilean women in which more than 30,000

women took part.

OTTAWA — A joint delega-
tion of the Canadian Commit-
tee for Solidarity with Demo-
cratic Chile and the Comité de
Solidarité Québec-Chile met
Sept. 27 with representatives of
three political parties and the
Department of External Affairs
to ask that Canada act on be-
half of the people of Chile.

The delegation of 25 people,
which had come from Toronto
and Montreal, had __ initially
asked to meet with the leaders
of the Liberal, Conservative and
New Democratic Parties. Of the
three, only NDP leader David
Lewis was in the city and
agreed to see the delegation.

Pierre Charpentier, director
of the Latin America division of
the Department of External
Affairs, and MP Pierre De
Bané, parliamentary secretary
to Mitchell Sharp, met jointly

with part of the delegation.
Both the Canadian Committee
and the Comité de Solidarité
had prepared statements, which
were presented, along with a
statement of the ‘Canadian Bro-
therhood of Railway, Transport
and General Workers union,
which had sent a representative
to participate in the lobby.
Argument Belied

Andrew Brewin, NDP MP,
who joined the delegation in Ot-
tawa, led off-the questioning. He
asked what Canada was pre-
pared to do about granting
asylum to Chileans or other
nationals residing in Chile
whose lives were in danger, and
who had expressed their desire
for asylum.

Both. Charpentier and De
Bané used this question as-a
lever to get to another demand
of the delegation, that Canada

tries representing all walks of life and
a wide spectrum of views, had been
ealled on the initiative of a committee
of Finnish parliamentarians, labor, stu-
dent and media leaders. Among thosé
present was a representative
Canadian Peace
Clarke of Toronto. It was opened by
the Minister of Education in the Finm-
nish government, Ulf Sundquist, who
introduced the Chilean delegation which
was composed of the leaders of Popular
Unity who had been outside Chile at
the time of the military coup, and mm
cluded members of the Socialist Party,

cal Party, and the trade uniot

of the

Congress, Phyllis

the Communist Party, the Radi-

movement.

On behalf of the Chileans V0
lodia Teitelboim, member of
Political Commission of the Cet
tral Committee, Communist Pat
ty of Chile, described to the
delegates the gains that Populat
Unity had brought to the Chilean
people, the attack upon the gov"
ernment by the multi-nation®
corporations, and world i |
perialism led by the U.S. g0V |
ernment. He showed how right
wing internal and external forces
combined to create conditions

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Free Corvalan —

and all detained)

In light of the threat of the}
military junta in Chile to county
martial Chilean Communist]
leader, Luis Corvalan,” the)
Communist Party of Canadas
Central Executive Committee
sent this wire, signed by Party |
Leader William Kashtan, ©
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau: | |

Strongly urge intervention bY
Canadian government to save
the life of the great Chilea?
‘patriot and world personalitY:
Luis Corvalan, general 5 ic
tary of the Communist Party 0
Chile. We ask your govern”
ment demand of the militaY)
junta immediate release at |
Mr. Corvalan and all politic!
prisoners held by the Chiled”
fascist dictatorship. .

:
not grant diplomatic recogh

tion to the illegal junta. ent

Each employed the argun in
that subsequently appeare ,
the statement of Mitchell ae ‘
announcing recognition © ni |
junta, i.e. that without rec? ie)
tion, Canada could do itt |
those Chileans or‘ other 4 ow
als desiring assistance. q it”
ever, Charpentier describe at
cidents belying the argum ho
where, four non-Canadians eft
had sought refuge in our fe:
bassy had left under :

conduct. asked .
Mr. Brewin and others erin \
how this was done, ,cons eet

that according to the hou!
nothing could happen Wo
formal recognition. :
Embassy Door Locked ji¢
Charpentier admitted
United Nations Commiss! .
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