Outgoing CLC president Don-
ald MacDonald on behalf of his
Organization has unfortunately
lumped on the bandwagon and
Sent a telegram to the USSR
Seassador to Canada over the
oy affair. Although
ose 45 words, the cable
| : wo im n is-
wie of fact. It tt hee
Bei pe canadian Labour Con-
rest sae protests the ar-
a ut charge of the well
Riviee oe - world - renowned
Solzhenite er oe Alexander
against hie is direct attack
deplored uman rights is to be
seek and will) make the

ng of a permanent detente

More and more difficult.”

wig zhenitsyn was not “arrested

Out charge.” He was charg-
i e ae &
. Se Article 64 of the Cri-
al Code of the Russian Fe-

*ration with “deeds deliberate-

ae American Federationist,
cio magazine of the
ae December, 1973, issue,
chan the text of letters ex-
ae between George Meany,

a of the AFL-CIO, and

eutsch. Vetter, president of the
undes er ~_ Gewerkschaftsbund
sy ee retend (DGB) on the
takte Of the DGB’s Ostkon-
ty and developing detente be-

S0¢} | Western Europe and the
"alist countries.

aN a long run, it is impos-
Sanita. shut off by a cordon
Zens ay of violence, one’s citi-
fom the outer world if-
ee to make peace more
he = - Europe and, thus, in
Meany So writes Vetter to
».and he continues: “It

took
i 2 years before relations

With Ba

ations t Europe’s labor organ-

f
elit the consequences of the
teat the then trade union in-
Contacte! to make bilateral
Othe, _» POSsible. More than any
the aed of German society,
to ee unions are committed
Peace hg detente and a stable
Son oe US is the principle rea-
Dhasj, Cur Ostkontakte.” (Em-
HS added)

Dly ne Part of Mr. Meany’s re-
eee: “You state in your
have tat AFL-CIO and DGB
differs €n, during recent years,
Mort, Views and actions on
Iter, Ut issues of national and
8 tag chal policy’ resulting in
Ih my *angement’ between us.
Ion. Pinion, there is only one
Mangegr Issue which has “es-
| ati a In recent years and
at relat} € Policy of Ostkontakte,
a fens with the communist
Any ot ons” of the Soviet bloc.

| Mion et differences on trade
| ate ineclicy which we may have
| With, 'Stificant in comparison
With "© Problem of exchanges
“Se0 ( Mmunist organizations

: ™phasis added)

Ditome Pove excerpts are the
achang, the very heart of the
eCIg: They reveal that the
; ay Co leadership is irrevoc-
: Slicy Mmitted to a deliberate
Seeking to wreck nego-

BY BRUCE MAGNUSON

ad sufficiently recover- -

ly committed to the detriment
of the state and expressed in
rendering assistance in the pur-
suance’ of hostile activities
against the USSR.”

The procedure was as follows-
At 5 p.m. on Feb. 8 he was
summoned to appear at the in-
vestigation department of the
prosecutor’s office. He failed to
appear. A second summons was
issued on Feb. 11. Solzhenitsyn,
upon receiving it, typed across
the document his categorical re-
fusal to appear and handed it
back to the messenger.

For disobeying a summons, he
was then subject, under Article
73 of the Criminal Code to ar-
rest and, on Feb. 12 was taken
to the Investigation Depart-
ment’s cells. He was informed
by Mikhail Malyarov of the pro-
curator general’s office that cri-
minal proceedings had been
launched against him under Ar-
ticle 64.

Facts distorted in CLC cable

His folder number Case 3-47-

74 contained materials showing

Solzhenitsyn systematically had
engaged in criminal activities
aimed at undermining the Soviet
system, actively helping the
most reactionary forces in their
attempts to frustrate the process
of detente and galvanize the
cold war.

In accordance with Article 7
of the Law on Citizenship of the
USSR he was deprived of his
Soviet citizenship and expelled
from the country on Feb. 13.

Contrary to the CLC’s charge
that he was “arrested without
charge,” Solzhenitsyn was charg-
ed, arrested and expelled under.
the prevailing laws of the USSR.
And, rather than this action
“making the seeking of detente
more and more difficult” the
charges brought against him
were precisely because of his
active efforts to undermine de-
tente.

EVs{t) Rvns\|q Detente or catastrophe —
Time to take a stand

tiations between East and West
on detente as the first step on the
road to a lasting peace based on
the principle of peaceful co-
existence.

This fact is further empha-
sized by an article in The Typo-
graphical Journal, official organ
of the International Typographi-
cal Union, in its January, 1974,
issue. The article is titled, ‘““Tak-
ing Another Look at Nixon’s
Policy. of Detente With “the ‘So-
viet Union”, and consists of ex-
cerpts from a speech by one Dr.
Mary V. Beck, Executive Direc-
tor of a so-called Ukrainian In-
formation Bureau, July 18, 1973.

No Reference

The article claims that ever
since the end of World War J,
both through private and public
channels, Americans have been
pouring into the Soviet Union
every conceivable kind of aid
and assistance, including good
old American know-how. (?)
“During World War II alone, 11
billion dollars worth of lend-
lease was dispensed to them with
our generous hand and they
haven’t paid us back a dime.”
‘There are no references to So-
viet sacrifices, nor the fact that
America and the Soviet Union
were allies in a war to defeat
fascism. (Emphasis added)

Prominently displayed is a
statement by Meany, giving his
strategic and tactical position.
“On behalf of American labor I
have a message for the capita-
lists and the commissars. We are
not buying the idea that we fur-
ther the cause of peace with
freedom by unilateral conces-
sions to the Soviets with nice
profits to American business. For
us human freedom and human
dignity have always come before
the dollar That’s what the labor
movement is all about — by
definition. But, frankly, I’m not
surprised that the Nixon admin-
istration has a different set of
values.” (Emphasis added)

Since when has George Meany
been opposed to ‘nice profits for
American business?’ Who’s and
what freedom and dignity is he
talking about as coming before
the dollar?

Working People Pay

‘The fact is that the working
people of the United States pay

dearly for Mr. Meany’s commit-
ment to the imperialist policies
of U.S.A. and its profiteering
monopolies. These policies are
well-known to the world as ex-
pressed concretely in Vietnam,
Chile, Spain, Greece, Africa and
wherever the CIA and USS.
armed forces intervene to pro-
tect or establish fascist dictator-
ships, or to prop up shaky capi-
talist regimes at the expense of
American working class tax-
payers.

That is why Mr. Meany toge-
ther with some of his other labor
lieutenants sit on an official U.S.
National Commission for Indus-
trial Peace. Thats is why the
Globe and Mail reporter Wilfred
List was able to write from Bal
Harbor, Florida, where the AFL-
‘CIO Executive Council have been
meeting that: “Labor generally
has been the most cooperative
sector of the economy during the
period of wage and price con-
trois 25 @

But Mr. List, in the same ar-
ticle, also has to report that the
workers are growing restive, and
that the union leaders who want
to ‘be statesmanlike” — the po-
lite term used for class collabo-
rators who are prepared to sell,
out to the boss at workers’ ex-
pense — “will have the mem-
bers to contend with.”

A Bread and Butter Issue

The struggle for peace today
is a bread and butter question
for labor. The AFL/CIO policy of
scuttling detente means more in-
flation and more disastrous lay-
offs. Inside his “Fortress Ameri-
ca” Mr. Meany is now pushing
for the Burke-Hartke protection-

trade bill which could cost hun-
dreds of thousands of Canadians
their jobs. And there willbe no
exemption for Canada from any
such legislation.

This is why, in considering
resolutions for the forthcoming
CLC Vancouver Convention in
May, priority ought to be given
to peace and Canadian indepen-
dence, as the only basis upon
which the buying power of
wages can be protected along
with security in employment, not
to mention life itself.

In the year of the 25th anni-
versary of the World Peace
Council, peace supporters are
meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, Feb.
15-20, to consider the ne-w
world climate for peace, and the
appropriate broadening of the
character of the World Peace
Council.

Canadian participants in the
Sofia meeting are: Mrs. Jean
Vautour, organizational secre-
tary of the Canadian Peace Con-
gress; Mrs. Jeannette Morgan,
executive member of the same
Organization and a member of
the Preparatory Committee for
the World Congress of Peace
Forces; Melvin Zimmerman,
professor of French literature,
York University, a member of
the Faculty Committee on Viet-
nam, and of the International
Committee to Free Vietnamese
Prisoners; and Michel Agnaieff,
director of social and political
action of the Quebec Teachers’
Corporation, and editor of their
magazine.

Chandra Note

A note circulated by WPC
Secretary General Romesh
Chandra to all members of the
World Peace Council and peace
movements throughout the
world emphasizes the existence
of tremendous possibilities for
the strengthening of the work
and activities of the peace
movement, particularly in the
World Peace Council.

Its main thesis is that “the
changes in the _ international
; Situation and the new possibili-

ties provided for the WPC
through its growing co-opera-
tion with other organizations, at
the international, regional and
national levels requires a change
of a consequential nature in the
work and activities of the World
Peace Council”.

Broader Membership

The note proposes broadening
WPC membership in the sense
that future membership of the
WPC should reflect the broad
composition of the peace forces
in any country allowing “the
integration into the WPC, in
One way or another, of the
groups, associations and organ-
ized parties which are associ-
ated with the general move-
ment for peace and national in-
dependence.”

This, the proposal goes on to
say, is in the interests of the
national peace movement as
well as the overall struggle for
peace.

The proposals also call for
direct representation of national
organizations in the Council.

Such a proposal, the note ex-
plains, will lead to the practical
implementation of the real
spirit of the rules and regula-
tions of the WPC.

In: this context, the note pro- .

poses, the candidates for mem-
bership of the Council to be
elected in- Sofia should, to a
large extent, be representatives
of national organizations, in ad-
dition to the usual individual
representatives.

New step on road to
unity of peace forces

The 100 days that have passed
since the World Congress of
Peace Forces (in Moscow) show-
ed that its ideas have met with
a most favorable response among
wide circles of the world public.

Tens of thousands of meetings,
comments in the press, and in
radio and TV programs, speech-
es by public and political leaders
in different countries prove that
the Congress has exerted great
influence on public opinion. ~

“This conclusion was drawn by
the Steering Committee of the
World Congress of Peace Forces
in session in Moscow Feb. 9-10.”
reports Oleg Demenko, corres-
pondents of Novosti Press
-Agency (APN).

He says that, “representatives
of 20 international organizations,
and of national committees of
34 countries took part in this ses-
sion which was held in conform-
ity with the congress resolution
“Follow Up Action”. Its aim was
to discuss the way and means of
continuing contacts and coopera-
tion among all those who sup-
port efforts for peace.

Canadians Participate

Representing Canada at the
Steering Committee meeting
were Jean Louis Roy, professor
of French studies at McGill Uni-
versity and prominent in the
Humanist Organization, and“ Dr.
James Foulks, professor of phar-
macology at the University of
British Columbia. Dr. Foulks was
also B.C. chairman of the pre-
paratory committee for the
World Congress of Peace Forces.

‘It was pointed out at the Steer-
ing Committee meeting that the
Moscow congress was the largest
forum of peace and public move-
ments and organizations in his-

story. It expressed the unbend-
ing will of the peoples to streng-
then universal peace and secur-
ity. It ushered in a new stage of
struggle of peace forces for the
establishment of real peace and
friendly relations among the
peoples.

The World Congress marked
only the beginning of joint na-
tional and international efforts

‘of strengthening mutual under-

standing and co-operation
among the people of most dif-
ferent political convictions in
the interests of peace, national
independence, human rights and
social progress.

Displaying Interest

The current session of the
Steering Committee of the
World Congress has become a
new step on the road of further
development of concerted ac-
tions of peace champions.

It has been decided to form a
standing liaison committee of
the World Congress of Peace
Forces consisting of all the
organizations and movements
which had taken part in the
work of the Congress.

Romesh Chandra, general sec-
retary of the World Peace Coun-
cil, was elected its chairman.

The committee will unite rep-
resentatives: of 120 international
and over 1,100 national organ-
izations, that participated in the
Moscow Congress in October
last year. Arthur Booth
(Britain), representing the In-
ternational Peace Bureau, was
elected vice-chairman.

The permanent committee,
Romesh Chandra said, is open
for any organization that agrees
with the principles and the
spirit of the congress.

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