Why Tories captured
Ontario on Oct. 21

Cont'd from page 5

What it does prove is that
you have $6 million for cam-
paign funds and the public
treasury to use as a_ bribe
trough, as Davis did during the
campaign, and an opposition
which fails to focus on a devel-
oping crisis‘in the economy, you

can still buy an election in
Ontario.
Elections, however, do not

make political consciousness; at
best they reflect it, at worst, as
was the case in this election,
they obscure it. Political con-
Sciousness is produced in the
day to day struggles against
monopoly, against the boss
class, against the speculators
and the land sharks, in the fight
for peace and Canadian inde-
pendence. This struggle will go
on and intensify to the extent
that the Tories pursue the same
policies which led Ontario into
the present crisis. This sobering
thought prompted an editorial
in the Globe and Mail on Mon-
day, Oct. 24 warning the Tories

that it was the “progressive”

not the “conservative” in the
PC’s program that the electors
voted for. It must be added that
the reality is the “conservative:”
The “progressive” is simply the
illusion that the Tory image-
makers, backed by the public
purse, invented.

A most cursory examination
of the election results would
indicate that a substantial num-
ber of Liberal votes shifted to
the Tories in “*: to modify
any possibility of a growth in
NDP strength at Queen’s Park.
There is little doubt, Robert
Nixon to the contrary, that the
deal was in between Liberals
and Tories at a pretty high level
in this province.

It would require a_ closer
examination than this writer
has been yet able to give, to de-
termine whether NDP losses
were in some instances due to
loss of working class votes or
deflection of middle class votes.

Waffles Gained

What seems to emerge, how-
ever, if one counts the signific-
ant gains of the three Waffle
candidates, one of whom was
elected, and two of whom in-
creased not only their actual
vote, but their percentage vote,
by large margins, is that where

NDP candidates broke from the
pattern of bourgeoisie politics
and undertook to tackle the real
issues in one way or another,
substantial gains were made.

This will undoubtedly stimul-
ate the leftward moving cur-
rents in the NDP and challenge
the-present leadership to break
with its collaborationist policies.
At the same time, however, the
overall effect of the election
could tend to disillusion work-
ers in the process of breaking
with capitalist political parties,
and set back the cause of inde-
pendent labor political action.

A further cause for reflection
by the labor movement is the
fact that the Tories captured 78
seats with 44% of the vote
while both opposition . parties
combined with 39 seats and
55% of the vote. This is a grim
reminder of the undemocratic
nature of the electoral system
and should prompt labor to
fight for a form of proportional
representation where such an
unfair distortion of the popular
will cannot be repeated.

Finally it would appear by
NDP successes in North and
Northwest Ontario that the
depth of the provincial crisis
has struck first and hardest in
that area. It was there that the
NDP campaign came down hard-
est on the issues and‘it was ob-
viously that the charisma cam-
paign of Davis could not ob-
scure the role that the Tories
have played in Ontario over the
years,

Time for Action

This is indeed the portent of
things to come. Day by day in
the period ahead, beginning
with the long hard winter facing
Ontario, the facade invented to

obscure the real Tories will be _

stripped away by unfolding eco-
nomic and social problems in
our province. This is no time to
“lay me down and bleed awhile”.
It is a time to head into the
struggles for jobs and better liv-
ing standards of the people
with a double dedication.

That kind of political action
—not preparations for the 1975
provincial elections—is what is
required now, and it is that
kind of political party which
will rally the Ontario workers
behind its banner.

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Soviet guest warmly greeted

Cont’d from page 5 ;
the train from Ottawa passed
Valois on the approaches to
Montreal to see the big welcome
banner held by waving chil-
dren.

For the most part, Mr. Kosy-
gin didn’t get the chance to talk
to many of the workers in the
plants he visited. But their de-
sire to see and to meet him was
clearly evident in all of them.
They, and all who observed Mr.
Kosygin on,these industrial and
laboratory and power installa-
tion visits, were mightily im-
pressed by this remarkably ac-
tive 67-year old man. His tech-
nical knowhow earned him

plaudits wherever he went.

Originally depicted in the pub-
licity media as a rather dour
person, Mr. Kosygin soon chang-
ed that. He impressed all around
him with his humor and warmth
of personality.

Friendship between Canada
and the Soviet Union received a
great impetus through his visit.
But that it didn’t: start with his
arrival was shown by the Can-
ada-USSR Society in B.C. and
by the Quebec-USSR_ Associa-
tion. Both published a number
of ads welcoming the Soviet
visitor.

In his answer to the first
question put to him in his Ot-

People’s China in UN

US. takes

“The majority decision of the
United Nations to seat the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China in the
UN and in the Security Council
is a long overdue recognition
that the People’s Republic of
China, and not Chiang Kai-shek,
speaks for the Chinese peoples,”
declares a statement issued by
the Central Executive of the
Communist Party of Canada.

“For 22 years United States
imperialism strove to erase the
existence of the People’s Repub-
lic of China. This time it met
with ignoble defeat.

“In taking the action it did,
the United Nations has in prin-
ciple reaffirmed the universality
which should be the basis of the
UN. This should now be follow-
ed up by bringing the German
Democratic Republic, the Demo-
cratic Republic of Vietnam and

‘ the Democratic People’s Repub-

lic of Korea (North Korea) into
the UN.

“For the past 22 years, the
Communist Party of Canada has
consistently fought to have
Canada recognize the People’s
Republic of China and press for
its inclusion in the UN. This
battle is now won. However the

“struggle does not end there. The

complex international situation,
the ever present danger of ag-
gression, the growing struggle
for national and social libera-
tion, and the more favorable
conditions for a peace offensive

By DON CURRIE

WINNIPEG — _ Seventy-five
young people, carrying picket
signs demanding bail for Angela
Davis, paraded up and down
Portage Avenue last Saturday.
The. march was preceded by
Street petitioning, when more
than 300 names were collected
and hundreds of leaflets distri-
buted. People crowded around
the petitioners to hear the facts
about the Angela Davis case.
Some of the young petitioners
went into the large department
Stores and others took over
booths reserved for selling
Manitoba Sweepstake tickets.

The Manitoba Committee to
Sree Angela Davis estimates
{his as an important break-
chrough in bringing the Angela
(Javis issue to large numbers of
\Winnipegers and was gratified
it the degree of unity achieved.
‘Members of-the New Democra-

tic Youth, the Young Commun-
ist League, Women’s Lib, and
the newly-organized Black Ac-

tion Movement joined forces in

a militant protest.

The demonstration .was joined
by Shirlee Williams, represent-
ing the National United Com-
mittee to Free Angela Davis,
who was in Winnipeg at the in-
vitation of the Black Action
Movement and was fulfilling
speaking engagements at the
universities and local churches.

The Manitoba Committee to
Free Angela Davis prepared a
statement for presentation to
the U.S. consulate after the de-
monstration, which was widely
distributed on the streets. It said
in part: “We are demanding
the immediate release of Angela
Davis from prison under reason-
able terms of bail . . . The denial
of bail for Angela Davis is-dis-
crimination on racist and poli-
tical grounds and a flagrant

’ACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1971—PAGE 6

violation of human rights. We
agree with the recent statement
of the board of the Madrona
Presbyterian Church in Seattle:
“When the president of the Uni-
ted States removes a convicted
murderer, Lt. Calley, from the
stockade, and Miss Davis, who
has only been accused, is denied
bail, this only serves to illus-
trate unequal protection of the
laws of this country’.”

The statement concluded by
declaring that the struggle
against racism, imperialist war
and exploitation to which An-
gela Davis has dedicated her
life, affects the life of every
Canadian and the fight to free
her is our concern.

The meeting concluded with a
moment’s silence in memory of
George Jackson and appeals by
Mrs. Sylvia Currie, chairman of
the Manitoba Committee, and
Shirlee Williams for continued
united effort to free Angela.

a beating

exemplified in the 6-point pro-
gram of the Soviet Union, all
these emphasize the need for
coordinating the efforts of the
socialist countries, of all anti-
imperialist forces.

“It is to be hoped that Peo-
ple’s ‘China and its representa-
tatives in the UN will replace
anti-Sovietism and division by
a policy of unity of action, one
directed to strengthen the cause
of peace, democracy and social-
ism and_ the anti-imperialist
struggles of the people.”

Historic Kosygin visit

Cont'd from page 5

ers’ Association dinner held in
his honor Monday, Oct. 25 in
Toronto, on the last evening of
his eight-day visit to Canada,
Premier Kosygin returned to the
subject of the international divi-
sion of labor.

He decried the opinion of those
who say that because Canada
and the Soviet Union have dif-
fering social and economic sys-
tems there‘can be no close com-
munication between them. To
the applause of his audience, he
stated, “We hold a_ different
view.”

Expanding on the necessity for
peaceful coexistence, of inter-
national cooperation, he _ said,
“While our social systems are
different, we have a lot in com-
mon and we share this with all
peoples. We all of us want to
avoid clashes and wars.” With
his words broadcast throughout
Canada, the premier of the So-
viet Union then declared, “You
may rest assured our entire do-
mestic and international policy
is designed to meet that noble
and humane goal.”

Quietly, movingly, he remind-
ed his listeners that the peoples
of the USSR are “probably sec-
ond to none in their knowledge
of the horrors of war.” (The
CMA president in his opening
speech had referred to the ‘“in-
credible sacrifices’ of the So-
viet peoples in the defeat of Hit-
ler.) Mr. Kosygin was applauded
when, briefly, he recalled for
Canadians how in that war “we
fought shoulder to shoulder with
you.” 2

He then described how the So-
viet Union today stands second*
in the world in volume of pro-
duction. As he explained, his
mention. of his country’s econo-
mic strengths — for example, in
power production, in engineer-
ing, in metallurgy — was intend-

- and

_ build up their economies ploy

. Soviet Premier Kosyg!”

tawa press conference,
Kosygin declared _ that
friendship between the

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his many observations ‘
“cannot be spoiled by. ie
Soviet actions of any ill

groups.”

This morning, just befor t
Soviet premier left our ce
to fly to Cuba, a Tora h
driver volunteered to got
comments on the anth th
demonstrations _ outside Kosy
Science.Centre where i al
gin spoke the night be Nie
members of the Canadian
facturers Association.

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Canadian Jewish Congres
porters and storm-trooper a
bers of the Edmund Bu tel
ciety and of the Jewish
League, with ethnic grouP if
tionaries, together spew! ‘ial
common hatred of the 5°
Soviet Union.

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