Commission.

foons.

ments and exploiters.

TV “documentary” peddles lies about Indians

The Union of Ontario Indians has served notice that unless
the second showing of the CTV documentary “The Taming of
the Canadian West” is withdrawn, they will apply for a court
order against the network and the Canadian Radio-Television

This one-hour show slanders the Indians and perverts history,
Marie Marule, a representative of the National Indian Brother-
hood, declared at a press conference in Toronto. It represents
the plains Indians as violently hostile to settlers, whereas in
fact they were friendly and helped the newcomers. It also por-
trays Indian women as prostitutes and Indian chiefs as buf-

All Canadians should back this protest. We need truth, not
lies about our country’s history and about the Native Peoples
who have’ suffered so much injury and insult from racist govern-

Britons wage campaign

to free Angela Davis

By JOHN WILLIAMSON
LONDON. — In common with
the rest of the world there is

. rowing concern in Britain to

save the life of Angela Davis
from the reactionary, racialist
and rapacious Reagan-Nixon ad-
ministrations.

The visit of Louise Patterson,
secretary of the New York An-
gela Davis Committee, to Brit-
ain in March sparked off. an
organized defence activity. Prior
to that time there had been a
YCL demonstration before the
American Embassy, protests had
been’ sent by the Communist
Party General Secretary John
Gollan and articles in the press.

With the establishment of a
national Angela Davis Defence
Committee in London, there are
now local committees in eight
cities. Meetings have been held
in 20 cities. Petitions, folders,
badges have been produced and
are being distributed. Resolu-
tions are being adopted on a
growing scale and sent either
to the U.S. Embassy or to Con-
sulates in Liverpool and Edin-
burgh — and in some cases to
Washington and California.

The defence of Angela and the
Soledad Brothers was combined
at an enthusiastic overflow meet-
ing in London’s Central Hall and
at a concert in the Mermaid
Theatre.

Three thousand packed the
Hall with several hundred unable
to gain entrance. Speakers were
Howard Moore, James Baldwin,

Penny Jackson and John Thorne.

The concert audience heard
well-known singers and instru-
mentalists. Speakers were Moore,
Penny Jackson and Bernadette
Devlin, M.P. The concert was
organized by the Afro-American
Solidarity Committee.

During their stay here both
Moore and Penny Jackson ap-
peared on television and were
heard by millions of viewers.

Mr. Keith Grant, well known
artist,-on the occasion of the
unveiling of his latest dynamic
and controvesrial sculpture, :Je-
dicated to Joan of Arc, said: “I
personally wish the work to be
accepted as a dedication to An-
gela Davis who is a living exam-
ple of courage and heroism
manifested throughout history
by those who have seen clearly
the way to a better future and
have understood the sacrifices
involved.”

This new landmark has a mul-
ti-faceted dome of perforated
steel, pierced and circled by
gleaming steel rods, which in a
four-minute pattern of color
changes—-green, blue, white and

red — symbolize the iinal four
minutes of Joan’s ordeal at the
stake.

“Saint Joan finds her modern
parallel in the imprisonment and
impending trial of Angela Da-
vis,” Grant said. :

The London Defence Commit-
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1971—PAGE 10

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tee is a representative one and
sponsors include Philosophy Pro-
fessor Wolleim, famous West
Indian cricketeer Larry (now
Lord) Constantine, trade union
leaders Michael McGahey (Scot-
tish miners’ president) , E. Mars-
den (construction engineers’
president), Alan Sapper (TUC
General Council) and Lords
Gifford and Milford.

The aim is to spread the ac-
tivity in defence of Angela Da-
vis as widely as possible and
to involve sponsors from the
broadest possible circles. The
Committee feels this represents
the wishes of Angela herself,
who stated “We must seek out
all the doors which still remain
ajar, however slight the opening
may be ... We must draw the
masses into the arena of strug-
gle via the mechanism of a
broad defence movement. The
failure to do so, justified by the
claim of ‘revolutionary purity’
- +. Can too easily become a ‘ool
in the hands of our adversaries.”

The activity in defence of An-
gela Davis is in accord with the
well-known activities in Britain
Over the years in defence of
Sacco-Vanzetti, Tom Mooney,
the Scottsboro Boys and the
Rosenbergs and others (includ-
ing the protests 16 years ago
against the deportation of John
Williamson himself from the
U.S.—Ed.).

While we are fighting to
wrench our country free from
the grasp of U.S. imperialism,
let us not forget that Canadian
monopoly is playing the impe-
rialist game in various parts of
the world, especially the Carib-
bean. We can’t truly defend
Canada unless we at the same
time defend the victims of Cana-
dian imperialism.

We reprint here an excerpt
from an article by Lennox Pat-
rick Keith, headed “The Myth of
Canadian Generosity”, which ap-
peared in The Carillon (Regina)
and has been reprinted in seve-
ral other student papers:

“At a New Year’s party one
inebriated celebrant proceeded
to tell me just how generous he
and his fellowmen were since
they were paying for my higher
education. My reply to him was
frankly unprintable. But just in
case there are others who think
that the few students from the
Caribbean are responsible for
the tight money situation in
Canada, I shall take some time
to put them straight.

“The plain truth of the matter
is that Canadian business is
slowly milking, the Caribbean
islands dry. Furthermore, if pre-
sent trends continue, the natives

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of them all —
Lev Yashin

By BERT WHYTE

The name of Lev Yashin will
go down in sports history along
with those of Jack Dempsey,
Bill Tilden, Willie Hoppe, Babe
Ruth, Sonja Henie, Joe Louis,
Bobby Jones, Paavo Nurmi, Wilt
Chamberlain, Maurice Richard,
Suzanne Lenglen, Valery Bru-
mel, Red Grange, Bob Beamon
and others equally famous.

On May 27 in Moscow 100,000
football fans will pay tribute to
Yashin, who will be playing his
final game before retiring — a
match between an all-star world
team of players from 11 count-
ries, and a Dynamo Squad.

Yashin told a large press con-
ference that he does not expect
to play the full game but will be
in action for at least the first
half.

The “goalkeeper of the cen-
tury” was born in 1929 and be-
gan his sports career while
‘working as a fitter at a factory
in Tushino. He joined the Mos-
cow Dynamo junior team in1949,
became a spare goalie for the
senior squad in 1952 and their

‘first goaltender in 1953. Since

then he has played in 326
matches for his club, taken part
in four world championships and
two European cups, been chosen
three times as goalie in an all-
world team and in 1963 won the
Golden Ball as the best player
in Europe.

Sport is only a part of Ya-
shin’s life. He is a deputy of the
Moscow City Soviet and is a
student. at the higher-party
school under the Central Com-
mittee of the CPSU.

In 1960 Yashin was awarded
the Soviet state’s highest decor-
ation — the Order of Lenin.

PRICES REDUCED

In Czechoslovakia price cuts
have been announced of from
10 to 33% on a wide range of
consumer goods, clothing, TV
and radio sets, refrigerators,
synthetic textiles, tinned meats.

would have to look for shelter
under the Atlantic Ocean. Since
Jacques Cousteau has not built
his undersea kingdom as yet,
these folks would indeed be in
big trouble.

“It is estimated that Canadian
businessmen have invested close
to one billion dollars in the
Caribbean—in Guianese bauxite,
Bahamas hotels, Trinidad oil,
Jamaican minerals, and in banks,
hotels, and insurance companies
through the islands. These in-
vestments bring in close to four
hundred million dollars in profits
annually. In other words, one
million dollars a day or six hun-
dred dollars every minute of
every day.

“O.K. — let us say that 20%
profit on investment is reason-
able. Clearly this figure of 40%
is unconscionable, and there are
those who say that is a conser-
vative estimate. Men like Taylor
of Toronto, and Kramer of Re-
gina, have their hands deep in
this kind of commercial robbery.
Only they call it playing the
businessmen’s game.

“But this, my friends, is a
very ruthless game, where the
big boys make the rules, which
they change to suit their con-
venience. If you play along with

Chile stands guard

Threatened from outsit!

By RICK NAGIN
SANTIAGO—As Chile moves
to recover its national resources

and industries owned at present -

by U.S. capitalists, it is working
hard to create an international
climate of support in case of
conflict with the U.S.

This was the general conclu-
sion to be drawn from a dis-
cussion held by Chilean Foreign
Relations Minister Clodomiro
Almeyda with journalists par-
ticipating in “Operation Truth.”

Almeyda, 48, is a member of
the central committee of the So-
cialist Party. A lawyer by pro-
fession, he has also worked as
on economist and a philosophy
professor.

Journalists from Western Eur-
ope, Latin America and Austra-
lia, and this reporter from the
U.S., met with Almeyda.

Two Concepts

Two basic concepts underly
Chile’s foreign poljcy, Almeyda
said. They are that the present
period is one of transition from
capitalism to socialism, with
each country moving in its own
way and at its own time; and,
second, that this policy must
basically aid the construction of
socialism in Chile.

them, you are a nice guy, even if
your country is being viciously
raped. If you don’t play their
game, they have nice words for
you like ‘Commun ... .’ you know
the rest.

“The jJatest development is
land speculation. Some Canadian
businessmen are buying out the

land in the island at exorbitant -

prices. Naturally the local people
can’t compete, and will soon be-
come landless in their own
country. The only alternative is
to throw the damn Canadians
and Americans out, before it is
too late.

“As for other examples of
Canadian business, let us take
the case of a bottle of rum. It
is bought in the islands for one
dollar, brought to Canada, dilut-
ed and bottled, then sold for six
collars. That is a 600% increase
and all the extras go into the
pockets of Canadian business-
men and the Canadian treasury.
This is known as having a pre-
ferential market. (Ha, ha, ha.)”

* * *%*

It’s no laughing matter, of
course. It’s an exposure of Cana-
dian imperialism, which it is the
duty of all patriotic Canadians
to combat and defeat.

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coming of spring. Reindeer sledge races are a feature.

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