a vi Sboda and N. V. Podgorny. “Our 5 . hood friendship, the brother- # Stoog oncu’ Peoples, has with- Brezhney. nse” said Leonid f e arrival a meeting honoring \ telepat; of Czechoslovakia’s 4 Moscow which arrived in j Temembe On October 28. “You the .’, he continued, “how ’ Bacety ne days of the dis- Soviet gy umich deal only the ®S8sistanc ion offered practical | But a to Czechoslovakia. | Peferreg eos Czechoslovakia J alliance national betrayal to try, Adie the socialist coun- | Memberec oslovakia was dis- Hitlerites and occupied by the count: The task of pulling 4 Weng), 7, OUt of slavery, of 8 its ie ts unity and return- shoulde Ndependence fell on the De, Din. Of the working peo- of lee the working class Sard, Oslvakia and its van- “ Communist Party. lotical peeve Years of the his- the men attles against fascism Dattisane = Our Soviet Army, our 0 the pel Our Soviet people COmmon vttlefields against the and in b €nemy on Soviet soil, f Creo attles for the liberation Side ¢ Slovakia, saw by their Who fo Czechoslovak patriots tious one bravely. The glo- a the Ist Czechoslo- aa Whose men fought int of t Shoulder with the Nt stry € Soviet Army, the ores pele of the sons of our the Si © memorable days e is ig national uprising onal comre, 1024 of _interna- be Soy mbat brotherhood of Sth, nion and Czecho- te ie heroic road that Ty, with a great vic- “Pep ru; ary 1948 became a RB AO BI 2 SS RN NO SS = [= — SS SSS SSS SSS SE a ’ oO Ash @o co CG SS oy to f=] & 4 eve of celebrating i Of the October Re- € 30th anniversary _ of Western Uk- cn the 25th” Ukrainian S.S.R., rablete 1 aniversary of the en fro iberation of the Uk- ue Both t the Hitlerite invad- te req the tg €vents, which se- 4 Sqrtory F nity of all Ukrainian ft tore Bata € single Ukrainian ign: and its freedom from €ssion, were the re- « Se Velen in Ought indepen- Peopie hood to the Uk- SS gol peoples of the took part in the S f Is if p t fr ip 4 ‘ M f [ / eas of the delegation from Czechoslovakia on arrival in iy end, for an official visit on an invitation from the CPSU Central: i “fs pe the Presidium of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet and the i; is Feecment being welcomed at Vnukovo Airport. In foreground i ight: A. N. Kosygin, O. Gernik, L. I. Brezhnev, G. Husak, L. it 0! av ‘A common bond turning point in the history of Czechoslovakia when the work- ing class, the working people, ‘finally took their destiny, the destiny of the state, into their own hands and began to build socialism. The Soviet people spared no efforts to help the Czechoslovak brothers to organ- ize their new life. All these years _ the alliance of our countries guaranteed the freedom and in- dependence of Czechoslovakia and our co-operation helped us ‘to jointly solve many problems of building socialism. “Nothing and no one can shake the friendship and bro- therhood tempered by life and joint struggle. We marched to- gether, we are marching toge- ther and together shall follow one road to our common future —to communism.” Cut Soviet office staffs The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers have ordered a cut of 1.7 billion roubles in expendi- tures on management next year, nearly two billion Canadian dol- lars. The aim of the decree is to cut through duplication, bureau- cracy and excessive time spent on meetings and conferences. The persons relieved of their managerial posts will immedi- ately be placed in other jobs in the expanding Soviet production and service branches of the economy. Ukrainians celebrate battles to liberate Ukraine,” the Ukrainian-language Toronto pa- per Word and Life recalled edi- torially. “Sons of the Ukrainian people fought on the fronts in Russia and other parts: of the U.S.S.R. Victory over the com- mon foe was achieved by joint struggle, through friendship and unity.” : The paper recalls the terrible ravages inflicted on the. Ukraine by the German nazi invaders. However, it points out, “indus- try, transport and agriculture were rebuilt in record time and with unprecedented speed. The people of the fraternal republics came to the aid of Ukraine. The entire Soviet Union took part in the restoration.” By SAM WALSH More than 20,000 people, mostly students and teachers, demonstrated in Québec City against Bill 63 and in favor of unilingualism (French) in Qué- bec. Bill 63 declares (for the first time in history) French as the priority language in Québec; as the language of work; as the language of instruction in schools, with parents having the right to request that English in- struction facilities be provided for their children but these chil- dren too will have to have a working knowledge of French before graduating; that all immi- grants will be taught French. These are the principles in the Bill. The very big gap in the Bill is the fact that its interpretation and the practical measures to achieve these ends are left en- tirely in the hands of the Minis- ters of Education and Immigra- tion, a cause for very legitimate concern. But the Communist Party of Québec cannot take a negative attitude to the ririnciples of Bill 63. Those who oppose the Bill in principle do it from two extreme nationalist points of view. They are the unilingualists of both communities. The French-speak- ing unilingualists say that if par- ents are given the choice of language of instruction for their children, French will die in Qué- bec. Raymond Lemieux, leader of the LIS, of St. Leonard notor- iety, said if the Bill is adopted he would send his children to an English-language school. Beale, extremist leader of the other camp, objects to making French compulsory in English-language schools or classes. i The first position denies the ordinary democratic right of freedom of language, and under the guise of fighting “Anglo- Saxon” domination directs its main fire at the working people of immigrant groups who realize that to get decent work their children must learn English. The actions of the LIS in St. Léo- nard, and the support they got from Michel Chartrand of the Montréal Region of the Confed- | eration of National Trade Unions, has left deep scars in the labor movement. The other position denies the fact that French is the national language of Québec and hence that people who come to live here need to learn it. In supporting the general prin- ciples of this Bill, the Commun- ist Party of Québec wishes to make it perfectly clear that even the most honest efforts to put the principles in practice (hardly to be expected from the Cabinet ministers) will in no way get to the root of the problem—which is that English is the language of work in most of the big indus- tries, financial and commercial institutions in Québec, thus se- verely limiting access of French- speaking people to jobs in their own country. And why is English the lang- uage of work? Because the ownership and control of these . enterprises is in Anglo-Canadian and U.S. monopoly hands. Legis- lation such as Bill 63 can only mitigate the effects of this fun- damental problem. But another kind of legisla- tion could readily make French the language of work and radi- cally reduce the demand for Eng- lish language instruction in the schools. This has been proved by one striking experience in Québec. When hydro-electric power was in the hands of a few Anglo- Canadian and U.S. monopolies not only was English the lang- uage of work, but it was even claimed that the nature of the industry, the technical terms and all that, not to speak of the fact that hydro-electric power was being supplied to the U.S.A., made it impossible to use French Diefenbaker calls for closer Canada-USSR co-operation Before leaving Moscow, form- er Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker said in an interview with Novosti Press Agency: “The most remarkable impres- sion (of the U.S.S.R.) is one of deep friendliness on the part of the people, on the part of the average citizen of your country, their good will and, in particular, so far as we Canadians are con- cerned, a measure of frankness and friendship . - Re : “J have been tremendously im- ressed,” said Mr. Diefenbaker, “by the attitude of the people and their obvious desire to g0 ahead with the building of their country, to attain greater and greater economic heights, all of which can only be achieved if ce is preserved.” 28 Diefenbaker was of the opinion that Canadian-U.S.S.R. co-operation in political, econo- mic and cultural spheres, and joint efforts by different coun- tries for the good of their peo- ples are the best way of achiev- ing warm and friendly relations. He thought that concerted ef- forts to develop the North might provide one of such spheres of co-operation between the U.S.S.R. and Canada. “What has been done by the U.S.S.R. in this connection,” he said, “is to me one of the most phenomenal courses of action that have been taken anywhere at any time. I would like to see a degree of co-operation between our coun- tries on northern development that has not yet been achieved. We have merely touched the borderline. You have given us the benefit of your experience in development in the north, but much more remains to. be -done...” as the language of work. But lo and behold! when they were na- tionalized, all these “natural” barriers disappeared - literally overnight. French immediately became the language of work. The great Manicouagan dams are being built by workers using the French language. Electricity is still being sold to the U.S.A. There has been no disastrous blackout. There was no law forbidding the use of English, no “uniling- ualism”. There was no need for marches of protest on the part of English-speaking workers. Unfortunately, René Lévesque, who was at that time the Liberal cabinet member who had piloted through the nationalization of Hydro, declared that there would be no more of it any- where in ‘any industry in Que- bec. His opposition to Bill 63 now is thus a “dog-in-the-man- ger” attitude. He didn’t have the guts to carry on with the social changes that could lay the basis for eliminating national discrimination, and now is run- ning with all the petty bourgeois nationalists who want to impose French and force assimilation of immigrants into the French- Canadian nation, and hence op- poses Bill 63, even though he is obviously embarrassed by the chauvinist posture this obliges him to assume. To solve the whole question fundamentally and for all time, what is necessary, in our view, is both self-determination for the French-Canadian nation in Québec while guaranteeing the democratic rights of language and culture for the English- speaking minority regardless of ethnic origin, and above all, plus the socialist transformation of society—the elimination of the exploitation of class by class. For only the elimination of the exploitation of class by class lays a solid base for the elimina- tion of the exploitation of nation by nation. In the meantime we will look on Bill 63, a product of conflict- ing inerests of the big bourgeoi- sie in Québec (which tends to be more internationalist than the _ petty bourgeoisie because big capital is international), from the standpoint of the interests of the working class of Québec—which tends to be internationalist be- cause unity of the workers with- out distinction of nationality or language is absolutely vital and fundamental. The fight around Bill 63 should be to see to it that both sides of the Bill — French as the priority language of Québec, and the right of par- ents to choose English-language instruction for their children, are strengthened and upheld. U.S. makes poison bullets Another shocker coming out of the United States is the news that the U.S. army produced and stockpiled more than 20,000 poi- son bullets. The bullets contain botulin, beter known among people as the toxin that kills ducks and all sorts of animals in certain kinds of poisonous water. According to the press, there is no known evidence of the bullets having been used, nor is it known whether or not produc- tion of poison bullets continues. The press tells us that these poison bullets could logically serve only one purpose: assassi- nation.. They are .38 calibre. A slight wound could cause death. KAOAS—CGCT S Add MIY OW— Fh While there may not be evi- dence that these bullets have been used, as the press asserts, it is more than a coincidence that the first memo to appear on their manufacture is in 1966, one year after the stepped up attacks of the U.S. imperialists against the Vietnamese. : There is a poisonous chemical manufacturing set-up called The Pine Bluff Arsenal, which has both biological and chemical production facilities, using five Officers, four enlisted men and 328 civilians. — The Hague Convention of 1907 © — signed by the U.S.A. — pro- hibits the use but not the manu- facture of poison weapons, — _PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 7, 1969—PAGE 5 JKT QRIDAF SSS WEEE pecans vivir is