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Of its people, its farmers,
benfit of a few ... We
© choices: support cur-
Onomic policy or move to
it. I personally opt to
Current policy.”
half of the union execu-
r. Atkinson called for
Mation of a farmers’ task
Stopping bad legislation
enough,” he said. “We
levelop meaningful alter-
to the bleak future
for farm people by the
9rce.” (This refers to the
Agriculture in the Seven-
'epared by the Trudeau
Ment’s Agricultural Task
{Which recommends driv-
Mhillion people off farms
Seventies).
& a full picture of what
"Oposed farmers’ task

that the NFU intends
© an attempt to conduct
Sele for a major farm
In the interests of the
» aS the union’s answer
Wa’s task force, based
88s roots participation.
lon’s intention to estab-
Sk force is an outcome
Tecognition of the need
Come its main weakness
Kk of policy—which has
ly weakened the work of

since its formation.
€ union has consisten-
sed political participa-
h task force

© farmers’
Sentially be political in
*r, and could open the
* independent farmer. po-
Xctions.
t Alternative

— expression that the
, mbers have been “‘learn-
.° many delegates said,

the need to develop
» Progressive answers to

reactionary
Mlicies,
phe Trudeau cabinet has
' Message conveyed in
home of recent provin-
‘tions appeared in a sto-
* on the front pages of
®S newspapers. Coin-
with the opening of the
vention, Canada’s agri-
Minister H. A. “Bud”
Weiled a $150 million,
Togram to buy up mar-
mers. Apparently the
Proposes to “help” some

armers plan action

ill do was not given, it

agricul- |

187,000 farmers, or a goodly
portion of them, to “retire”
from farming. The real estate
value-of these farms ranges

from between $3,000 and
$20,000. ©
Mr. Olson said that ‘while

there is a need for some farm
consolidation to take place, it
would be unwise to allow the
current trends to.result in the
domination of agriculture by a
handful of giant corporate
farms.”

In speaking to a “land bank”
resolution at last week’s Sas-
katchewan NDP convention,
Premier Allan Blakeney said
that his government had such a
scheme under active considera-
tion. So it seems that land na-
tionalization has a small toe-
hold in contemporary Canadian
politics. :

Roy Atkinson said that the
$150 million proposal doesn’t
really answer the farmers’ dilem-
ma. He said that the NFU is
calling for a new economic poli-
cy which will “remove the cause
of the farmers’ problems.”

Ottawa’s Policy

The next day, in a manner
reminiscent of the legerdemain
of the late Jimmy Gardiner,
Canada’s bland minister of
agriculture elaborated to the
delegates on his program to
“save the family farm.” His re-
marks make it clear that the
Trudeau government is smart-
ing from the criticisms of and
massive opposition to its Task
Force proposals, although all it
has come up with is more
sophisticated versions of the
same. Certainly the $150 mil-
lion, which is to cover the
costs of operating the program,
not the total cost. involved, are
preparations for the federal
elections. :

Mr. Olson blamed what he
called the opposition’s filibuster
for holding up the government's
proposed marketing legislation.
In the question period that fol-
lowed, NFU president Atkinson
pointed out that the govern-
ment hadn’t allowed the so-
called opposition filibuster to
hold up its new tax legislation.

A number of resolutions came
before the convention, some of
them evoking lively debate. In
the main they reflect the con-
tinued growth of capitalist con-
centration in agriculture, the
anarchy of production which
still rules, the changes brought
about by modern science and

China's advance.

has heen harmed
hy Mao's policy.

MOSCOW—The present pol-
icy of the Chinese leadership is
hurting China herself, A. Nade-
zhdin shows in an article in the
newspaper Sovietskaya Rossia.

“In its desire to split up the
socialist community Peking not
only undermines the world revo-
lutionary movement, but also
puts the brakes on the direct
building of socialism, first of all,
in China, as also in Albania.
For these countries, which were
formerly backward in both the
social and economic aspect, close
cohesion with world socialism is
decisive for successful develop-
ment along the socialist road.
And as long as they marched to-
gether in the same ranks with
other socialist countries, both
these countries invariably gained
victories on this road, The USSR
and other developed socialist
states rendered them the broad-
est aid in the solution of the key
problems of socialist construc-
tion.

“The USSR alone had com-
mitted itself to render in 1950-
59 to the People’s Republic of
China aid in the building, ex-
pansion and reconstruction of
more than 400 big plants, separ-
ate shops and other projects.
More than 350 of them were ful-
ly or partially put. into operation.
In the period of 1952-61 the Eu-
ropean socialist countries helped
China fully or partially build
over 260 enterprises, shops, tech-
nological plants and other eco-
nomic projects. The factories
built with the assistance of the
Soviet Union supplied China al-
ready back in 1960 with 8.7 mil-
lion tons of pig iron, 3.4 million
tons of steel, 80% of the tracks,
more than 90% of tractors, 55%
of steam and hydraulic turbines,
25% of electric power and 25%
of aluminum.

“Had China not turned from
the track of close cooperation
with the socialist camp, had the
Chinese leadership not replaced
the task of creating the material
and technical basis of socialism
with that of boosting the coun-
try’s military potential, there is
no doubt that China would have
achieved new success in indus-
trialization and the development
of a socialist society.”

The article also deals with
Chinese expansionism, showing
that the present Chinese leaders
have not reconciled themselves

to the independence of the Mon- :

golian People’s Republic:

“Back in 1936 Mao Tse-tung
stated categorically in his inter-
view to U.S.. journalist Edgar
Snow, that after the victory of
the revolution in China the
Mongolian People’s Republic
would ‘automatically,’ ‘of its own
accord’ (?!) return within the
fold of the Chinese state. In Ap-
ril 1945 Chou En-lai’s personal
secretary told U.S. officials that
the Chinese leaders would like
to ‘join Outer Mongolia (i.e., the
MPR) to China.’ In 1954 Mao
Tse-tung posed before the Soviet
government, with purely great-
power high-handedness, the ques-
tion of’ joining up Mongolia to
China. He was told in this re-

‘spect that he should address

such a question to the Mongo-
lian people, to the government
of the MPR, and not to the So-
viet Union.”

Yahya regime tottering

@ ‘Continued from page 4

countries for help to solve the
problem of refugees who have
flooded Indian territory. Urgent
and effective measures to solve
this problem could have pre-
vented the dangerous develop-
ment of events.

“At the start of April this
year the President of the Pre-
sidium of the USSR Supreme
Soviet, N. V. Podgorny, sent a
message to the president of
Pakistan which contained a
strong appeal ‘to take the most
urgent measures to cease the
bloodshed, the repressions
against the population in East
Pakistan and to go over to the
methods of a peaceful political
settlement.’ :

“A somewhat different reac-
tion followed from other pow-
ers. As the New York Times
wrote, the United States which
had not ‘denounced the repres-
tions in East Pakistan and had
not sought a genuine political
solution, now directly charged
that India had been chiefly re-
sponsible for the conflict, and
having continued for several
months to give military aid to
Pakistan, ceased immediately
aiding India. This can hardly be
described as ‘absolute neutral-
ity.’

“The British government did
nothing whatsoever to stop the
repression and terror in East
Pakistan, although Pakistan,
like India, is a member of the
British Commonwealth of Na-
tions.

“In the aggravation of the
situation in the Indian sub-con-
tinent an instigator’s role has
been invariably played by the
Peking leadership. Peking has a
direct bearing on the present
developments, it’s role in them
is particularly provocative. On
the one hand, the Maoists
sought in every way to pene-
trate into East Pakistan and
through their agents preached
there a ‘popular war.’ On the
other hand, they publicized
their support for the military
regime in Pakistan, in their at-
tempt to turn it into an instru
ment of their chauvinistic, great-
power policy in Asia.

“The efforts of the present
Chinese leadership are aimed at
attempting to strengthen their
positions in Asia by all means.
Peking is constantly increasing
military aid to Pakistan. It has
time and again issued state-
ments on its preparedness to
render every possible support
to Pakistan in the struggle
against India. It is in place to
recall that already at this stage
of the aggravation of the rela-
tions between India and Pakis-
tan the Peking leadership has
taken steps to render military
aid to Pakistan. At the begin-
ning of last November a dele-
gation headed by Bhutto, the
chairman of the Pakistani Peo-
ple’s Party, was invited to Pek-
ing. Incidentally, on the dele-
gation were the commander of
the air force, chief of the gene-
ral staff and chief of staff of the
Pakistani navy.

“Fanning the conflict between
India and Pakistan, the Maoists
are actually attempting to car-
ry out a policy of setting Asians
against Asians, this being open-
ly kindred to the American
‘Guam doctrine.’

“The Peking envoys have
found themselves in the same
camp with the U.S. when dis-
cussing the Indian-Pakistani
question in the UN. Together
with Washington they attempt-
ed to force the acceptance of
such a ‘solution’ of the prob-
lem which would actually mean
the freezing of the conflict, its
procrastination, evading the
main question—that of the situ-
ation of the millions of the in-
habitants of East Pakistan.

“The Soviet Union is attent-
ively following the course of
events, taking into account the
fact that they are developing in
direct proximity of the USSR
frontiers and hence concern the
interests of its security. The
Soviet government is of the
opinion that the governments of
all countries should restrain
from steps which in one way or
another would mean their in-
volvement in the -conflict and
would lead to a further aggri
vation of the situation on tt
Indian subcontinent.”

—

SS

The opening ceremony of the French experimental plant Mirabelle

built at the Nuclear Research Centre in ger Senses Paris) took

place at the Institute of High-Energy Physics in
- Region). This unique instrument several stories tall has been design-

rpukhoy (Moscow

ed especially for operation with the world’s biggest atom smasher,
the Soviet 70 BeV proton synchrotron.

The cooperation of the scientists of the USSR and France in the
sphere of high-energy physics is expected to be an important stage
in learning the nature of matter.

, _ technology, and the declining
V4. \ standard of living. for the ma-.
Z jority of the farmers.

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