Peace Assembly
for united action

they NELSON CLARKE
tt the we Outstanding feature
Peace Ssembly of the World
May Ouncil held in Budapest,
iins 6 was its success in
ha op cbether diverse forces
Aitusly whom had not pre-
is Worn icipated in work of
Dele tld organization.
Biting woes. from the United
Abarthes Special Committee on
tio i id, and on Decoloniza-
iby, tttibuted constructively
ISCussion,
Same time, the As-
: Thed with satisfaction
‘Ben off: PC has now been
: cial status in UNESCO.
lis of 52S @ large participa-
‘thding Btoups from Africa, in-
Dreaniy representatives of the
Ren of African Unity.
the ously pressed upon
Memped oy the necessity of
the 5 P world-wide activity
Milonic, se2!° against the racist
the rege arcelino Dos Santos,
anigheeted leader of the Mo-
© liberation movement
‘eal ¢ ) made an eloquent
| *Sembiion more time at future
lem of €s to consider the prob-
Tica, and for increased

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representation of African move-
ments on the Secretariat of the
World Peace Council.

In a previous report, this writ-
er has mentioned the work of
the representative delegation
from the United States. A note-
worthy contribution was _made
in the second plenary session by
Professor Sidney Peck, spokes-
man for the People’s Coalition
for Peace and Justice who des-
cribed how the memorable
Spring Offensive in the United
States was forged into a great
coordinated action between
groups which favored emphasis
only on the single issue of Viet-
nam, and those which stressed
the needs to link the war with
the issues of racism and poverty
at home; between groups which
favored single massive demon-
strations, and those which favor-
ed many smaller actions em-
ploying non-violent civil disobe-
dience.

The Canadian delegation re-
flected within itself the new di-
versity of the peace movement.
Together with Dr. James G.
Endicott, and Misha Korol of the

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§
tsk. Cp election call:

8
Fe WILLIAM BEECHING

Gy
tesserae At the centre of
“NE heag -©Wan election stands
jel all Or people’s unity to
tts : 1, pressive labor legis-
Y Sehts gh 2cing it with a Bill of
‘ ee and for new
: apn. velop the prov-
tect altura, frdusteiel and
I op 'tchewar® potential, the
the'™unist p, Committee of the
e June 9 arty declared when
thee | 3 election was an-

the

pbsalg MPaign of the Thatcher
4 ieg ae follow. the twin
hn Ways tax and resources
ing they -° big business,
tip Wage ‘ty to preserve a
1 8 mon Climate attractive to
putatcy Poly capital,

es will concentrate on
bor ee the election on an
as mem. His. govern-
ation ™Mposed compulsory
0 ino all labor, and pro-
uce labor courts.

4a y and Social Credit.

Ving} big business.

( a Berm Constituencies have
"Main yrandered to confine

vote into a few

Broad, people’s unity

more concentrated _ electoral
areas. So badly are they gerry-
mandered that the Liberals
themselves joke about it. Thatch-
er’s recent attacks on what he
calls “special privileges” for
Quebec, and his support for the
War Measures Act, g0 hand-in-
glove with his proposals to curb
labor. He hopes to win the farm
vote as well with his anti-labor
stance.

NDP provincial leader Allan
Blakeney, in a press release said,
“The fundamental issue of the
election will be agriculture, how-
ever unclear it may seem at first
blush . . . It will also be clear
to the farmers that if they vote
Liberal it will be interpreted by
Ottawa as support for the Libe-
ral farm policy . . . but if they
vote New Democratic in a mas-
sive way, it will be clear to the
federal Liberals they are on the
wrong track, and will reassess
their agricultural policies.”

The Communist Party will
actively campaign in the elec-
tions behind a program appeal-
ing for unity to defeat Thatcher.
The broad outlines of its cam-
paign will be that this election
takes place during a maturing

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New era opening for

Canada- Soviet relations

EDITORIAL

Canadians welcome the climate of
confidence embodied in the protocol
and communique of Canada and the
USSR. They reject the dangerous at-
tempts of reactionaries to perpetuate

the cold war.

This paper has fought and will con-
tinue to fight unceasingly against the
disastrous economic policies of mono-
poly and of the federal government
that have resulted in mass unemploy-

ment in our country.

At the same time, we endorse Prime
Minister Trudeau’s statement last Fri-
day in the House of Commons when,
in answer to Tory attacks on the Pro-
tocol on Consultations between Canada
and the Soviet Union, he declared that
only “a climate of confidence, a climate
in which men of differing social and
economic systems trust one another,
can achieve a satisfactory, just and con-

tinuing peace.”

The Canadian Tribune, in full sup-

port of the position of the Communist
Party of Canada and of the overwhelm-
ing number of Communist. and Work-
ers parties in the world, has firmly
stood for the policy of peaceful coexist-

ence between states with different so-

cial and economic systems as the essen-
tial basis for peace and social advance.

The recent agreements between Can-
ada and the Soviet Union are rooted
in this correct policy. They serve to ad-

vance in friendly cooperation the mu-

nique.

CPSU General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Prime Minister
Trudeau in May 19 Kremlin meeting.

Trudeau USSR visit

an unqualified success —

By BERT WHYTE
Special to the Tribune

MOSCOW — What benefits
will Canada derive from Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott Tru-
deau’s recent visit to the Soviet
Union? It was not his first look
at the land of socialism — he
participated in an economic con-
ference in Moscow 19 years
ago, and paid a second visit in
1961.

But this time there was a dif-
ference. As the leader of our
country he came on an official
visit to discuss questions of
political relationships, cultural
and scientific | relationships,
trade relationships. It was a
serious mission, one which
could help determine the future

course of Canada in interna-

tional affairs. :
The measure of its success

can be registered in the cries of
anguish emanating from Wash-
ington. Nixon’s war hawks find
particularly unpalatable Section
2 of the Soviet-Canadian Proto-
col on Consultations which
states that in the event of a
situation arising which in the
opinion of the two governments
endangers the maintenance of
peace or involves a breach of
the peace “the two governments
will make contact without de-
lay in order to exchange views
on what might be done to im-
prove the situation.”

Despite the fact that the
Protocol on Consultations says
clearly that such consultations
are not aimed against any third
country, “Big Brother’ in Wash-
ington is uneasy.

“Will you be taking any spe-

e continued on Pages 6-7

tual interests of the peoples of both
countries, for their mutual benefit.
Reactionary circles, however, have
lost no time in spewing their hatred on
these historic agreements. Sections of
the press, and spokesmen of the federal
Progressive Conservative Party are
A Sia to undermine the spirit of
friendship in the protocol and commu-

Ever the opportunist politician, John
Diefebaker for reasons of his own has

chosen to forget the role of the
U.S. State Department in bring-
ing about the fall of his own
government. He chooses to for-
get the split in his own former
Tory cabinet over the U.S. de-
mand to- install nuclear-armed
Bomarc missile bases on Cana-
da’s soil. Instead, he poses as
one who is “shocked” by Mr.
Trudeau’s intimation that Can-

ada feels economic, cultural and

military pressures from the
United States.

Former Defense Minister Doug-
las Harkness—notorious for his
abject subservience to the Pen-
tagon when he was in Diefen-
baker’s cabinet — tottered out
of the past to mumble about the
Soviet Union as “the only real
threat to Canadian security,”
etc.,. etc.

The present Defense Minister
Donald MacDonald disposed of
him by saying that Harkness
“gave us a first-class flashback
to the vintage 1950 cold war
days.”

To all the “cold warriors” of
the Tory party who rose in the
House of Commons trying to
pillory the Soviet-Canadian Pro-
tocol on Consultations, the New
Democratic Party house leader
gave a reply that we heartily
welcome. Mr. Stanley Knowles
maintained the Conservatives’
attack “boils. down to a com-
plaint against the government
for the steps the Prime Minister
has taken to try to establish
friendly relations with the Soviet
Union. Please do not indulge in
redbaiting, and please do not
complain about building bridges
of friendship.”

Reactionary preachers. in
Canada of the cold war echo as
always the U.S. State Depart-
ment, which wants at all costs
to prevent friendship and un-
derstanding between the
ples of Canada and the Soviet
Union,

’ The common sense. of the
Canadian people will not per-

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