By LOUISE MARTIN A HAVANA — Over 95% of Cu- Ce $ eligible voters cast their bal- ots for delegates Oct. 10 to the Uunicipal People’s Power As- Ssemblies. — a consolidation of More than 17 years of Revolu- ey Power, the consolidation Of Victories achieved since the mph of the Revolution on anuary 1, 1959 which the Cubans Tefer to as the culmination of “100 years of Struggle’’. ene for representatives to © Municipal People’s Power Ssemblies was not a legal duty : ther, it was the citizen’s moral ‘€sponsibility as a member of soc- _ iSty. And those who cast their bal- _ Ot participated in the most demo- _ “fatic elections ever held in this ae phere, an example of oot democracy, power in the _Mands of the vast majority, the Working people. S 0 politicking, no electioneer- fie, no demagogy, in these elec- Cae Candidates were nomi- €d — from two to eight in a | Constituency — in August, in a enbourhood meetings held in Very urban and rural community Oughout Cuba. They were ao proposed by the people © knew them, the residents of ir Own communities. pe ollowing their nomination, €ir biographies and _photo- 8taphs were posted in public a €s to enable the people to Udy them and to make their de- By VLADIMIR VASILYEV aOSCOW (APN) — ‘‘....We a Continuing the work to de- Yeélop equal and mutually advan- &eous relations with the “apitalist states,’ said. CPSU pveral secretary Leonid rezhnev to the recent Central ©mmittee meeting. . ze is indicative that Brezhnev a d the signing of an Agreement Assistance to Economic, In- UStrial, Scientific and €chnological Cooperation with it pe sstem countries. He billed non eing ‘in full accord with the ey and the letter of the Final Ct adopted in Helsinki’’, - = € fact that a Canadian gov- R Ment delegation, headed by reign Affairs Minister Donald Foreign Affairs Minister Jamieson speaking to the Monument to Jose Marti in Havana’s Revolution Square. cision. To be elected, a candidate ‘had to receive over 50% of the, votes cast. In cases where no candidate received an absolute majority, run-off elections be- tween the two candidates receiv- ing the highest votes took place on Oct. 17 Oct. 10th’s elections were the first phase in the electoral process going onin the country, within the framework of the process to- wards institutionalizing the Revolution, putting power more directly in the hands of the people themselves. Municipal People’s Power Assemblies were consti- tuted on Oct. 31. USSR-Canada trade, _ Jamieson, and a large group rep- resenting Canadian business cir- cles visited Moscow, proves the above-mentioned agreement has not remained on paper. Jamieson visited the USSR to take part in the First Session of the Soviet- Canadian Commission set up in conformity with the Agreement. Trade between Canada and the USSR has reached its highest level of the post-war period. This year alone Soviet foreign trade organizations have signed agree- ments with Canadian firms to supply $100-million worth of goods to Canada. But if before Soviet exports to Canada consisted mainly of raw materials, half-finished products and some consumer goods, today press in Moscow 9n arrival for Canada-USSR trade talks last month. EXAMPLE OF SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY They elected the members of | the Executive Committees and the delegates to the Provincial People’s Power Assemblies. Ac- cording to Cuba’s new political- administrative division, the coun- try will be divided into 14 prov- inces instead of the present six. On Nov. 2 the Provincial As- semblies met to elect the dele- gates to the National People’s Power Assembly, the highest or- gan of state power in Cuba. This body will be constituted in a ceremony on Dec. 2, thus con- cluding the electoral process in the country. The importance that the elec- tions will have in the country’s institutionalization, leadership and administration was under- lined by Fidel Castro. He said that the creation of the organs of People’s Power implies structural changes and the decentralization of powers which were held by the central government, with the Transkei ‘independence’ described as sham by UN On Oct. 26, the Transkei be- came independent. The United Nations General Assembly voted 134-0 not to recognize this ‘‘inde- pendence’. The United States abstained. On the same day, Canadians Concerned about Souther Africa (CCSA) held a public meeting in Toronto to protest the Transkei’s ‘independence’’. Speakers were from the African National Con- gress of South Africa, the Cana- dian Council of Churches, the Un- ited Auto Workers, and the Young Women’s Christian As- sociation. Background material on the Transkei pointed out that the ter- ritory is divided into three sepa- rate areas, with the port being de- clared a ‘‘white’’ enclave; 70% of the Transkei’s income is derived- from outside the territory, by the transfer of an infinite number of | activities, services and tasks to the jurisdiction of the People’s Power organs. This means not only that the people will be more directly rep- resented by their own neighbours, but that they will have very important respon- sibilities in their hands. ‘‘People’s Power — That Really is Power’, proclaimed the Cuban newspaper Granma. And that’s the power that exists in Cuba. Soviet deliveries include more and more Soviet-made machinery and equipment — tractors, machine tools, power equipment and aircraft. Jamieson said in Moscow that Canada also wanted to extend the range of goods and the volume of trade with the USSR. Along with wheat and other grain supplies, Canada in 1975 sold the USSR. equipment for gas fields, textile production, timber industry, radio and electronics industry and — ship equipment. The past period saw the emergence and development of new forms of Canadian-Soviet cooperation within the framework of the Mixed Com- mission for Cooperation in Apply- ing Scientific and Technological Achievements in Industry set up in 1971. Active work of its various sectoral groups has resulted, for example, in the fact that tests of ~ Soviet-made turbo drills have ‘ been completed at oil and gas de- posits in Alberta and Canadian oil — drilling equipment has been tested in Siberian permafrost condi- tions. ‘If five or ten years ago’’, said Brezhnev, ‘‘the task was tocreate the basis for norma] relations of , peaceful coexistence with Fr- ance, the Federal German Repub- lic, the USA, Canada, Italy, Bri- }12 tain and other capitalist states, we have advanced further. We began 18 developing ever more extensive ~ cooperation in the field of politics, economics, science, technology and culture.” : THE SOVIET UNION OFFERS AID TO E.E.C. COUNTRIES system of migrant labor; 90% of the agricultural products con- sumed in the Transkei are im- ported (mostly from white South Africa). The territory cannot sus- tain itself, and merely serves as a labor reservoir for white South Africa’s economy. It was pointed out that the Xhosa-speaking people were compelled to accept Transkeian citizenship or become stateless. The South African government will then be able to claim that majority rule exists because all non-whites would be citizens of other countries’’. This is rejected by the majority of South Africans. The Transkei is still under a state of emergency and South Af- rica’s race laws still apply in that territory, and will continue to ap- ply as long as the white South Af- rican government is in power. BS OE i Abie ts ac ae BRUSSELS — The Soviet Union is offering to heip the weaker economies in the European Economic Community through increased trade with itself and other countries in COMECON. In particular, the USSR is willing to boost its trade flow with Britain, the weakest EEC nation and also with Ireland, Italy and France. The Soviet Union suggests much greater use of barter deals whereby EEC machinery and other goods could be exchanged for USSR raw materials. Britain’s trade with COMECON countries, for example, now stands at a mere 3.2% of its total. MORE COMMUNISTS ARRESTED BY SPANISH POLICE MADRID — Spanish police Oct. 22 arrested the general secretary of the Catalan party, Gregorio Lopez Raimundo on unspecified charges. Earlier in the week police arrested Luis Lobato, a member of the party’s executive committee and accused him of taking part in illegal ae ees amnesty for political prisoners. He was freed on n 24: COMMUNIST CANDIDATES SHOW BIG GAINS IN U.S. ELECTIONS NOV. 2 NEW YORK — Scattered and preliminary returns for Communist candidates showed large gains across the board in the Nov. 2 national elections. In Cleveland, the Hall-Tyner ticket doubled its vote over 1972. In Chicago, the CPUSA candidates received two to three times the ’72 levels and the CP candidate for governor is expected to top last times’ effort. os In New York, in the more than 500 polls watched by Hall-Tyner workers, the ticket gained over twice the 1972 vote and CP Senatorial candidate, Herbert Aptheker’s vote was four times last election’s total. In the 64th Assembly district in Manhattan’s Lower West Side, Hall- Tyner won 1.5% of the vote and Aptheker 4.2%. In Nassau County Hall-Tyner won 748 votes and Aptheker 1,600. Highest ever in that county was 200. In Connecticut, Joel Fishman, CP candidate for Congress polled 1.4% of the vote in the Third Congres- sional District, up 50% over 1972 and ran third in a four-way race defeating the Wallace-backed candidate. Running for State Legislature in Seattle, the CPUSA candidate polled 1.07% of the vote. Other returns from the deep South and elsewhere show the same trend for Communist candidates. nd ’ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 12, 1976—Page 7 *