— = moved to tiny cell PALO ALTO, California — § Angela Davis was moved be- ‘Ween 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. Dec. 2 from her cell in the Marin County jail in San Rafael to Gn even more cramped cell in the jail here. : The move, made under Cover of darkness in a driving Tain, brought out a small band ‘of her supporters to an all- ; ight vigil in front of the ¥ arin County jail. a She is now in the North Holding Cell on Grant St. in Palo Alto in a 6 by 8 foot cell. Tthe cell has two beds, but she is alone. This jail has no Out-of-door’ area at all; all- _/ ®ntrances are through underground tunnels. Prof. Davis’ trial is slated to begin in Superior Court here Soon after the first of the year. Her lawyers had asked for the trial to be held in San Francisco, maintaining that she has a better chance to a fair trial there than in Santa Clara County. It had been expected that the trial would be held in San — Jose, the county seat, but Palo Alto, a predominantly white ) upper-middle class university town, was chosen, authorities |) claimed, for its superior jail facilities. Stanford University is located in Palo Alto. The move, according to a representative of the National Committee to Free Angela Davis, further endangers her life have her freed on bail. == | eines from page 4 t recognize this fact. If Ot- va refuses the fundamental t of self-determination, then ; Nebec would be justified in sep- ytiting and he felt certain that ) Relish- speaking workers across ada would understand, “The resolution passed unani- s Susly was that Quebec has the } ht to self-determination, up to ‘% pocaing the right to seces- = as the question of the Nch language is concerned, as heat was generated and ty little light was shed. For shit the floor of the conven- q was convulsed with a con- ltt of whether the proceedings uld become unilingual — 'ench. A resolution was adopt- which eliminated simultane- ls translation but this was later hulled when it was discovered ‘tat quite illegally the transla- , Ons had ceased before the vote as taken. A final resolution on peuaee was equivocal, stating at French was the official dap: ge of Quebec. The QFL withdrew officially y 0m the New Democrats by re- _Oving Article 66 fom its stat- “ites, which had given the social- _~Mocrats token endorsation. is move, according to some “legates, was a forward step ““nce it more or less.freed the ““deration’s hand. This thinking ‘@ reinforced when Mr. La- “rge said he could see the QFL Pporting- the NDP under cer- In conditions. :, Raymond Laliberté, president the Quebec NDP, made a , Peech to the assembied dele- ” tates in which he said there was ~.° vital contradiction in work- ‘8 voting for the NDP in federal €ctions and the Parti Québecois Fageeres: q e i h J / / {| Gnd health and makes even more urgent mass action to 1 ‘ Quebec labor advances in the provincial ones. Fernand Daoust, general secretary of the QFL said that in the last analy- sis it would be up to the General Council to develop its own poli- tical strategy. “This is our man- date,” he said. - The question of sectorial bar- gaining remains an extremely complicated issue. At first it was: opposed by the IAM. But when it came to. voting there was a change of heart and the dele- gates voted in favor of sectorial bargaining. This means that the QFL will seek to negotiate future labor agreements on an industry- wide basis instead of having sep- arate agreements for each com- pany in an industry. The elections were perforce an anti-climax. After taking the giant steps never before taken by Quebec labor the simple task of re-electing the leadership seemed quite tame. Louis La- -berge and Fernand Daoust were There elected’ by acclamation. was some scuffling for the vice- presidencies but no significant changes took place. Louis Laberge delivered a concluding speech which took on an added significance with ‘these tellings words: “We need a sacred unity of all the working people so that the massacre which daily con- tinues in the mills, the. lumber industry, the factories and the construction sites can be over- come. Unity!” Romanian tractors for Saskatchewan The Romanian government is negotiating with the govern- ment of Saskatchewan for the construction of a $15 million tractor assembly plant in the province. ’ Dumitru Dinescu, Romanian trade commissioner to Canada said in a seminar sponsored by the Board of Trade of Metro- politan Toronto that agreement could be reached by the end of the year. The plant will assemble trac- tors in the range of 45, 70 and 100 horsepower. By T. KOLESNICHENKO One of the principal issues of the present UN General Assem- bly session is that of calling a world disarmament conference. This subject has been included _in the session agenda on the ~ proposal of the Soviet govern- ment. The Soviet Union believes that to achieve a cardinal solu- tion of disarmament problems it is necessary to pool the.ef- forts of all states, irrespective of the size of their territory and population or the level of their military and economic potential. The Soviet proposal has met — with the approval and support of all delegations which are in- terested in easing international tention. It has been strongly backed by most of the speakers. Representatives of about 50 countries have taken the floor in the General Assembly dis- Nixon offers Trudeau ‘measure @ ' Continued from page 4 “The remarks of Mr. Drury, coming on top of alleged re- marks by Mr. Sharp, suggest that there are members of your Cabinet who expect you to go to Washington not to defend the. true interests of Canada but rather to accommodate U.S. imperialism. “We -do not believe the in- terests of Canada lie in helping overcome the U.S. international balance of payment deficit by creating one in Canada and by multiplying already high unem- ployment in Canada. If the U.S. administration is really con- cerned to overcome its interna- tional balance of payments deficit and strengthen the U.S. dollar some solutions are at hand. These lie in ending the U.S. war in Indochina, with- drawing from its military bases all over the world, curtailing military expenditures, putting an end to being the interna- tional gendarme of the world, interfering in the affairs of other countries and economic control over other countries. “The elimination of auto safeguards or defense sharing will not resolve the crisis of the dollar or the U.S. international balance of payments deficits. All it will do is undermine the- independence and sovereignty of Canada and add to already . high unemployment in our country. “We respectfully suggest your Government, and you Sir, do not capitulate to the pres- »sures of the U.S. Administra- tion. Canadians expect you to stand firm in defense of the true interests of our country and say no to the elimination of the safeguards, to so-called de- fense sharing, to a continental energy policy, to a further revaluation of the Canadian dollar. “Capitulation to U.S. pres- sures would be nothing short of disastrous for Canadian sover- eignty, industrialization of the country and the jobs of work- ing people.” Canadian railway revenue freight in the week ending Nov. 14 totalled 4,194,812 tons, down ‘3.5% from the corresponding week last year, Statistics Can- ada reports. cussion and those of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Mon- golia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Can- ada, Italy, Brazil, Lebanon, and many others have come out in support of it. However, as long ago as Sept. 8, the New York Post admitted that “the West regards the Soviet plan cooly,” but con- fessed that “raising objections - to it will be difficlut.” Never- theless, the United States tried to do this through its Secretary of State Mr. Rogers. Along with the U.S. represen- tative, a negative attitude to- wards the Soviet proposal was also taken by the delegate of China. The Chinese ~ delegation’s stand-in the UN can be profit- able only to the extreme reac- tionary imperialist forces who oppose disarmament. Earlier the Soviet Union had proposed the convocation of a conference of the five nuclear powers—the USSR, USA, PRC, France and Britain — to discuss nuclear disarmament issues. One of the nuclear powers — France — supported this Soviet initiative, but the PRC opposed it and then the USA and Britain hastened to announce that the convening of the five nuclear power conference therefore as- sumed a purely “academic” character. The ruling circles of the U.S. and Britain used this fromula to camouflage their unwilling- ness to participate in the five nuclear powers conference. Therefore,. by declining the Soviet proposal, the PRC ren- dered support to those imperial- ist circles in the USA and Bri- tain that for 26 years have been - opposing, in the United Nations and outside of it, the banning of nuclear weapons, and who have been coming out against general and complete disarm- ament. China's vote in the UN By rejecting the proposal to convene a world disarmament conference, which could prov- ide substantial stimulus to dis- armament talks, Peking added grist to the mill of the Emperial- ists. The entire course of the de- bates at the General Assembly session, and the decision of the consultative meeting of non- aligned countries, quite ob- viously prove that the Soviet proposal was met with approval by world public opinion as con- forming to the vital interests of all countries, including those of the “third world.” It is com- | mon knowledge that even the developing countries are com- pelled at present to spend an- nually $27,000 million for the maintenance of their armies. No wonder even the represen- tatives of a number of coun- tries which usually follow in the wake of the U.S. policies, this time did not dare to come out against the Soviet proposal. The Chinese delegate went against the will of most states represented in the UN, against the states of Asia and Latin America, Africa and Europe. The stand of the Peking dele- gate evoked widespread indig- nation and condemnation, ac- cording to many delegates, in- cluding those from the coun- tries of Asia, Africa’ and Latin America. Peking’s aim is to complicate the session’s work, and instead of having a busi- ness-like discussion of the ma- jor international problems, to use it as a rostrum for malicious attacks on the Soviet Union. There is hardly any need to say that such a position plays into the hands of those quarters which are interested in the pre- servation of international ten- sions,.in continuing the arms race, and in spreading hostility among nations. (Pravda) Youth plans for 1972 By LIZ HILL “United action of the youth and building of the Young Com- munist League and Young Work- er” was the watchword of the YCL Central Committee meeting held in Toronto Dec. 1 and 2. Focusing on the main issues facing young people, the YCL emphasized the centrality of the . struggle for Canadian indepen- dence on all fronts—in the fight for jobs for youth, for democra- tic education and for peace. With every indication that this winter will be one of greater difficulties and that more and more young people will be cata- pulted into a struggle “to save our generation,” the YCL set its sights to achieve stronger or- ganization and unity of the young people. Noting that the “radicalism” of the ultra-left, New Left and anarchists has nothing to offer the youth and in fact leads them into a blind alley of despair, the ‘YCL combats these harmful trends and works to unite the energies of Canadian youth against the real enemy — mono- poly capitalism. The demands of young work- ers and students come together in the fight for jobs, the Central Committee pointed out and call- ed on the YCL to work for the unity of the youth unemploy- ment committees and projected all-Canada action to overcome both general youth unemploy- ment and student summer un- PACIFIC TRIBUNE— employment. The YCL is stepping up its activities and organization in high schools, community col- leges and on university cam- puses. The Committee endorsed the World Federation of Democrati@ Youth (WFDY) program for con- struction of the Nguyen Van Troi children’s hospital in Hanoi. The YCL will make this campaign a priority project in its work for peace. The Committee also adopted a statement on the Federal Youth Report, condemning it as another smokescreen to hide the government’s refusal to deal with the needs of youth. “What is needed is a Bill of Youth Rights guaranteeing every young citizen the right to edu- cation, a meaningful job, to cul- ture and sport. A federal min- istry of youth should be set up to deal with needs of youth and ensure them a secure future.” A resolution called for re- doubled efforts to secure the re- lease of U.S. young black Com- munist woman Angela Davis, whom the Nixon regime wants to execute. Recruiting to the YCL and doubling the circulation of the Young Worker were placed as the main organizational tasks in 1972. ' Liz Hill was named gencral secretary and John Bizell chair- man of the Young Commu: ist League of Canada. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1971—PAG.' 9 SEE ERR