US.-Thieu axis blocks peace @ Continued from page 5 would be a reality in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are only too aware that as Swedish MP Bertil Zachrisson said to conference participants: “There is no peace in Viet- nam. The Paris Agreement is not being implemented; on the con- trary,” he said, “it is being sa- botaged by the Thieu regime and its supporters inside and outside of Vietnam.” Zachrisson’s fellow MP, Bri- getta Dahl reiterated that the USA and Saigon were sabotag- ing the Paris Agreement in the same way that the Geneva Agreement of 1954 was once evaded, Dahl said: ‘Saigon has prevented the political solution and the establishment of the de- mocracy prescribed by _ the Agreement. “Thieu has opposed the set- ting up of the Council of Na-; tional Reconciliation and Con- cord and the holding of free elec- tions. He denies the existence of the third force which the agreement envisages.” Whereas the DRV released all POWs held in its territory after the Agreement was signed, the number of political prisoners in .Thieu’s jails increased to over 200,000. Also the conference was shown ample evidence that Saigon has mobilized enormous military forces to launch land- grabbing and combing-out opera- tions, and ‘barbarous attacks against liberated zones. A state- ment issued by the PRG-charged the Thieu regime with the mas- sacre of 20 primary school stu- dents and the wounding of 40 others at Cy Lai on -Mar. 9, }974. The Conference charged the United States with a large: share of the responsibility for the continuation of the war against the Vietnamese people, saying, “the United States has intensified its military and eco- nomic aid to the Saigon ad- ministration. They have sent in massive supplies of arms and - war material, leaving there and bringing in tens of thousands of Military advisors camouflaged as civilians and setting up dis- guised military commands to di- rect the war machine and the re- pression by the Saigon regime.” Because the DRV, the PRG and the third force view the Paris agreement as theis first line of defence against the con- tinuing aggression of Thieu and his U.S. supporters, delegates at the Stockholm Conference pledged to defend the agree- ment and to fight for its actual implementation. As Mme Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of the PRG, has Peace body maps _anti-arms plan ®@ Continued from page 5 world disarmament, Mrs. Vau- tour stressed that everyone’s aid is needed. “In every community, people who are concerned for peace can get their friends and neighbors together to set up committees for disarmament. Through let- tess to their members of parlia- ment, the prime minister, the External Affairs Department, the Canadian representative on the UN Committee on Disarmament, they can demand that the gov- ernment take concrete steps to- wards disarmament.” This kind of activity would help ensure that Canada withdraws from all military alliances and becomes a force for peace in the world, Mrs. Vautour said. “The close relationship be- tween the trade union move- ment for improved living stan- dards of the working people and the enormous costs of the mili- tary ‘defence’ budgets,” she said, ‘“‘makes it imperative that the trade union movement also lend its full support to the struggle for disarmament, de- tente, and peaceful co-existence. “Many of the religious de- nominations too, out of. their deep concern. for the rights of all people are doing a great deal to strengthen and advance the struggle for peace,” she said. “There are now in Canada dozens of organizations such as the liberation support commit- tees in the struggle against fas- cism and colonialism, the com- mittees against the. detention and torture of political prison- ers, as well as hundreds of in- dividuals active in their own organizations, all of which is part of the growth of what is be- coming a large and powerful movement for peace in our country. : “The Peace Congress,” Mrs. Vautous explained, is actively helping “to unite all those vari- Ous and important peace organ- izations and movements in a program of action, which will en- sure that our country becomes a leader among nations in promot- ing detente.” authorities.” site or sites in Canada? OTTAWA — Questioned in the House of Commons on Wed., Mar. 27, Defence Minister Richardson admitted that while “none of our aircraft are equipped with nuclear mis- siles,” Canada has them in storage at Comox, B.C. and other places, “under the joint control of Canadian and American This is how the question arose, with Conservative member Allan B. McKinnon (Victoria) making the query: Mr. McKinnon: Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Min- ister of Defence. Are there nuclear or atomic warheads for missiles or weapons held at Comox, B.C., or at any other Hon. James Richardson: Mr. Speaker, none of our aircraft - are equipped with nuclear missiles, but we do have in stor- age, and this has been public knowledge for several years— nuclear missiles at Comox and at the other bases from which our interceptor squadrons take off. Mr. McKinnon: Are such warheads solely under Canadian control and, among the aspects of such control, could a decision to return the warheads to the United States be taken unilaterally by Canada, or are we bound by the NORAD agreement to accept NORAD combined directions? * Mr. Richardson: Mr. Speaker, the missiles are under the joint control of Canadian and American authorities. They could be sent back by Canadian direction. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1974—PAGE 10 said: “The plan of the USA and. Saigon is to annihilate the PRG and the Paris Agreement. Only by removing and annihilating the PRG can they. render the Paris Agreement inoperative. “But we will not allow them to destroy the Paris Agreement, which is the fruit of decades of suffering and sacrifice. The PRG is firmly resolved to accomplish its duty to the nation. Our task is to strengthen the PRG so it will be capable of performing its duty. i “We attach great importance to world public opinion and feel that if many countries were to recognze the PRG this would provide powerful support for the forces in south Vietnam which are working for the implementa- - tion of the Paris Agreement. This would be one way of bring-. ing about an international acton to force the USA and Thieu to adhere to the Paris Agreement for peace.” Hospital workers ready to defy la fl @ Continued from page 5 because if the hospital adminis- trations and the provincial gov- ernment lose in their drive to keep wages low, the union leaders fear that the adminis- trations will contract the jobs out to agencies to provide jobs to workers at a lower pay scale. The union launched a massive radio advertising campaign in February and more recently be- gan a poster campaign with 10,000 posters calling on Toron- to residents to “Help Toronto Hospital Workers Catch-up.” The public response, according to union officials “has been very favorable.” The response wasn’t so favor- able however, for Mayor Paul Cosgrove of Scarborough. It seems that the mayor became — so angry with the posters all over his borough that he called the union’ and demanded that. the posters be removed. The hospital workers refused. Then, to compound the mayor’s frus- tration, the municipal workers workers the right to strike. Support for hospital workers ‘A major confrontation is looming between the Davis gv" ernment and hospital workers in Toronto. Hospital wel have indicated they will strike May 1st, if a satisfactory settlement is not reached by then. This strike would be !” defiance of the provincial legislation forbidding The Davis government is carrying through the monopolf offensive on the health, educational and living standards Ks the working people. In line with this it has imposed budge: ‘ ary ceilings on health spending which constitutes mo effective wage freeze, re-inforcing this by imposing @ ban on compulsory arbitration on hospital workers. a This convention of the Metro-Toronto region of the Coe _munist Party of Canada, convened to elect delegates to t i 22nd Central: Convention re-iterates its full support for ee hospital workers. We demand: (1) An immediate settleme! based on the just demands of the hospital workers. ‘la Scrapping of all legislation that restricts the right to Be of these workers. (3) Removal of the budgetary ceilings {0 restrict the quality and quantity of health services, wages paid to hospital workers. : We are pledged to fight as a Party and through the trade unions and other organizations to which we belong. assure a successful conclusion to the hospital workers st Resolution passed unanimously at thé Metro-Toronto region convention of © Communist Party of Canada. rkers hospital strike including © rike f the in Scarborough, who have pub- lically supported the hospital workers’ “catch-up” campaign also refused to take the posters down. Growing Support The hospital workers have also been getting support from other elements in the labor movement. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (national) has pledged financial support for the strike, the Ontario Teachers’ Federation has called on its membership “to help pro- vide the bodies for massive picket-lines” and the Ontario Nursing ~Association has also pledged to offer support during the strike. The president of the Toronto Labor Council, Donald Mont- gomery, who is also on the Board of Directors of the River- dale Hospital, is scheduled to issue a public declaration of support of the hospital workers at the next meeting of the labor council, 3 More support will still be ¥ The press in North and South Vietnam -few in attendance, now ‘Battlefield is our worksite Since the Paris agreement came into effect on January 28, 1973, there are two zones of control in South Vietnam and within each zone there are dif- ferent interpretations of “free- dom.of the press”. In an article in “The Demo- cratic Journalist” the monthly journal of the International Organization of Journalists, Nguyen Trung Trinh reported that in the zone controlled by the Thieu regime, the repressive “press law” is being applied to stifle any opposition. The law stipulates a registration fee. of 20 million piasters (Saigon cur- rency) for dailies and 10 million piasters for periodicals, and bans the printing of anything “harm- ful to the national security” or “offensive” to the president, the vice-president, and to the. am- bassadors of the allied coun- tries. And finally, the “law” pro- vides for prison terms ranging from six months to five years and heavy fines for any breach in the law. As a result of Thieu’s “press laws” the number of. dailies since late 1972 has fallen from 43 to 17 and of the 17; the ma- jority are easily recognized by readers as being financed by the Thieu administration or the CIA. Papers that are not under Thieu’s direct control often ap- pear with blank space captioned “censored” and are subjected to confiscation, the ransacking of editorial offices and the man- handling of reporters. ‘Nguyen Trung Trinh also re- ’ ported that since 1955, “37 jour- nalists were thrown into jail,” serving “prison terms adding up to 200 years.” Many journalists who were fired for having disagreements with Siagon’s “official” lines have taken to producing mineo- graphed newslatters, newspa- pers and reviews, most of which are illegal. In the liberated zones the story is completely needed in a strike, if the bot tal workers are to succeed e fying the repressive Bill *™ 1965 legislation provi’ ™ fines of up to $10,000 Pere an and $1,000 per member tg illegal strike. The 6,000 hospital workers ny they are up against. ee j secret ballot was taken, ion leadership emphasi é. a strike was illegal and am ers in some hospitals st tion 99% in favor of strike ac They also know an takin’ stand that they will be ened on the provincial gove? sith whose cut-backs in bot dy Je and education, have alfe®” ie to a confrontation W! at tt | teachers. The attendancs pitt union meetings -of the Keto” workers has skyT ya Where once there. We 7 {0 80% of the membersht. going to the meetings 1° ined strategy. And at all th een # ing the emphasis has scoff | unanimous “No!” to Compr arbitration. i autor “There are some 50 pu po at the central, regional a is? vincial levels.” The fi | publications by ee yous peasants, womens a z seve” : organization as wel literary magazines. _ “Furthermore” Ti ‘et “there is the ‘soul the Nr Struggle’ publishe : Rome Eront for Liberation iach lished in English a0”; pp There are also the Oa (Liberation) Press ASS “yo the ‘Giai Phong’ Red ynd working conditions wer ioe standably, very hard ‘ r.” «rte Pong fighter iM wt were killed in combat he 1955 and 1972, among of Tung, former presiden Jo Patriotic and Democi? in } nalists’ Association. BY up as in death, Vu TURE Ji the motto of his org@” “The battlefield is OUF ” site”. nh rey 0)