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Quebec leaders being escorted to jail.

the International Typographical
Union strike.’ He then con-
demned Bill 19 for its attack on
the working class and went on
to point out that the struggle
in Quebec was a class struggle
with the working class taking
the lead.

The debate culminated in a
unanimous standing vote which
pledged the support of the en-
tire trade union movement in
Canada for the repeal of Bill 19
and the immediate release of
the jailed Quebec unionists.
President MacDonald summed
it up when he reported that
never before “has the trade
union movement in Canada seen
more unity.” ;

After the Quebec resolution
the convention turned its atten-
tion to the international resolu-
tions. These, perhaps more than
anything else at the convention,
pointed to the schizophrenic re-
lationship the Canadian labor
leaders have with the U.S. On
the one hand the resolutions
called on the Canadian govern-
ment to present a resolution 2
the UN for the admission 0
both West and East Germany,
while on the other it went far
beyond the demands of NG
in calling for “the withdrawa
of the North Vietnamese forces
from south of the D.M.Z. _De-
spite what was at times vnoy
ous debate the Vietnam reso :
tion passed without amen -
ments. This schizophrenic alee
tionship was again exemplifie

Continued on page 6

Nixon talks peace,
retreats in words
at Moscow summit

U.S. President Richard Nixon has
arrived in Moscow with words of peace »
and co-operation on his lips, while in
Indochina his minions keep pouring
death and destruction on the inoffensive

eople. While that contradiction dem-
onstrates that the imperialist U.S. eagle

rom affiliated organizations and individuals prominent
in Dee cent from all parts of Canada gathered at an
e of the Canadian Peace Congress in Toronto
John Morgan (top photo) was elected president.
f the gathering.
(Photos by Edya Weir.)

inspiring conferenc
last weekend. Rev. J
Lower picture shows a section o

Treaties end tension

The ratification of the Mos-
cow and Warsaw ‘treaties by
both chambers of the Parlia-
ment of West Germany is of
tremendous _ significance for
peace in Europe and the world.
This means that the borders es-
tablished after the defeat of
Germany have at last been re-
cognized by West Germany and
that the source of tension and
continual friction maintained
since the war’s end in the heart
of Europe, threatening to end
in the flames of war, has now
been removed. ee

Canadians, who have twice in
this century been called on to
sacrifice young lives in world
wars started by Germany’s rul-
ers, can only welcome the great
step achieved to make Central
Europe a zone of peace.

Ratification was held up al-
most a year with the right-wing
opponents in _ Bonn finally
giving in when it became evi-
dent that the majority of the
people wanted the _ treaties
signed and sealed and normal
relations established with East
Germany and the other social-
ist neighbor countries. Faced
with the challenge of going to
the polls on this issue, ,the
Christian Democrats chose to
abstain rather than vote against

atification.
: APN observer Spartak Beglov

wires from Moscow the follow-
ing observations on reactions to
the measure in the socialist
‘countrieés.

“The moral, political and legal
importance of these treaties for
the destinies of Europe can
hardly be. overestimated. The
solemn proclamation of the prin-
ciple of inviolability of borders
and of renunciation of force to
settle issues is a great achieve-

" ment.”

A great deal of the credit goes
to the consistent peace policy of
the German Democratic Repub-
lic, which exerts a most favor-
able influence on furtherirfg the
process of detente.in the centre
of Europe,

The Moscow and Warsaw
treaties faced West Germany
with the alternative: either a
policy of peace or a policy of
war, either detente or growing
tension, either a _ policy of
cooperation or of deepening the
split. The Bonn Government has
chosen the path of political re-
alism.

It is still a matter of grave
concern to see the persistence
of certain circles inside and out-
side West Germany in trying to
turn the clock of history back
and prevent Europe from mak-
ing its decisive turn towards
lasting peace, security and co-
operation.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1972—PAGE 5

has not turned into a dove, it. also
demonstrates that the failures suffered
by the American aggressors—the col-
lapse of “Vietnamization” has now
been followed by the collapse of Nixon’s
provocative mining of North Vietnam
harbors—are compelling them to twist

and turn.

On his first day at the Soviet
capital, where he was received
politely but with restraint, Nix-
on said: “The United States and
the Soviet Union are both great
powers — ours are both great
peoples. In the long history of
both of our nations, we have
never fought one another in war.
Let us make decisions now
which will help ensure that we
shall never do so in the future.

“The American people want
peace. I know the peoples of
the Soviet Union want peace.
My fervent hope is that we, as
representatives of our two peo-
ples, can work together to en-
sure that all the people of the
earth can enjoy the blessings of
peace.”

Soviet President N. Podgorny
stated in reply that ‘the Soviet
Union deems it possible and de-
sirable to establish not merely
good but friendly relations be-
tween the USSR and the United
States” and will make every ef-
fort at the meeting to achieve
“positive results” and justify the
hopes placed in it by peoples
of both countries and beyond.

Nixon said he wanted to make
peaceful coexistence a “reality”
and that the U.S. does not seek
“a preponderence of power”
(which has been the proclaimed
basis of the “get-tough” U.S.
policy since the inception of the
Cold War). He said he hoped
to be able to conclude a stra-
tegic arms limitation treaty and
other agreements relating to
trade and other exchanges be-
tween the two countries.

Recalling the comradeship-in-
arms of the Soviet and Ameri-*
can people during World War
Two he “lamented” that it has
taken too long to establish a
similar relationship in peacetime.

The talks in earnest have be-
gun with a meeting between
Nixon and CPSU general secre-
tary Leonid Brezhnev.

Speculation in the capitalist
press that there might be pro-
posals for a “deal” ta end the
U.S. war in Indochina at. this
meeting were scotched by con-
sistent Soviet support of the
peoples of Southeast Asia in
combatting U.S. aggression and
demands for U.S. to negotiate
peace at the Paris talks on the
basis of the program advanced
by the Provisional Revolution-
ary’ Government of South Viet-
nam. In Paris representatives of
North Vietnamese and the pro-
visional South Vietnamese gov-
ernment declared that efforts to
sepaarte them from their allies
are in vain and that a political
solution must be sought by the
U.S. at the peace talks.

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