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Democracy in danger

(Editorial in The Daily World, New York, Mar. 17)

It would be perilous to the nation if the whole
American people did not become aware of the
issues in the Angela Davis case.

In-this frame-up the maximum penalty is being
demanded—Death! To a fateful degree the life
of democracy is at stake in the life of Angela
Davis.

The defense of Angela Davis is the defense of
black Americans against racist repression, the
defense of Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins, of all

_ political prisoners, it is the defense of the aca-
demic community, especially of black scholars,
against Ku Klux gagging; it is the defense of
the right to be a Communist.

J. Edgar Hoover had condemned her as guilty
and then put her on the ''!10-most-wanted" list to
invite assassination. President Nixon confirmed
the guilty verdict because for him, as for U.S. im-
perialism, democracy is guilty and must be de-.
stroyed, and Angela Davis must be destroyed be-
cause she is the symbol of militant democracy.
They decided to frame her so that she might be
destroyed "legally."

Herein lies America's stake in the Marin Coun-
ty trial. Herein lies America's stake in Angela
Davis’ freedom.

It lies in the fact that she is the symbol of
struggle for our democratic rights, the democratic
rights of all of us.

She is that symbol to the fascist-oriented Right;
she can be no less, she must be no less, for the
detenders of democracy. Therein ties, above all,
the meaning of the Marin County proceedings for
“Wwhite'’ America. And, for that reason the duty
of all progressives, radicals, Coramunists is to en-
list the support of all those whose fate is the fate
of democracy, to win the freedom of Angela
Davis by all-out support to the defense in the
present pre-trial stage of the hearings at the
Marin County Courthouse.

Editor —MAURICE RUSH
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Safeguard our resources

On the eve of its meeting this week
with the giant United States oil com-
panies’ consortium, the Trudeau gov-
ernment has hastened to give further
assurance of its cooperation with U.S.
imperialism’s plans for a continental
energy policy.

The proposed Mackenzie Valley oil
pipeline is essential to the advancement
of that policy.

Although the prime minister denies
that any firm commitment has been
given the U.S. for this alternative to
the original American plan to pipe oil
from Prudhoe Bay across Alaska and
then by tanker down Canada’s west
coast, his actions belie his words.

No cabinet minister speaks on such
a matter without Trudeau’s consent.
It was therefore no accident, but the
deliberate expression of government
policy, when Fisheries Minister Jack
Davis last Friday added his voice to
those of cabinet ministers Greene,
Chretien and Sharp in favor of the
Mackenzie Valley pipeline.

The Communist Party of Canada, in
the Feb. 24 statement of its general
secretary William Kashtan, alerted the
Canadian people to the dangers of this
proposal to build a 3,000-mile pipeline
across our territory to the U.S. border.

The “choice” presented us by Tru-
deau and Co., as the statement pointed
out, is between pollution of B.C. inland
waters or pollution of our Northland
—‘all in the interests of U.S. imperial-
ism, and for those who hope to make
‘some pennies’ out of the deal’ in Can-
ada.”

The fact is that the projected Mac-

_kenzie pipeline would make of those

3,000 miles nothing more nor less than
U.S. territory. The results for Can-
ada’s future would be catastrophic. “At
the least,” the Communist Party de-

clared, “Canadian sovereignty will be |

undermined; at the most, the whole
Northern area will become part of a
continental energy policy, with U.S. im-
perialism the main gainer and the
Canadian people the main loser.”

Faced with the spurious ecological
and pollution “choice” offered us by the
Trudeau government and U.S. inter-
ests, Canadians should urgently oppose
both the Alaska-B.C. coast route and
the Mackenzie Valley oil line to the
States. ;

_Canada has huge reserves of gas and
oil in its North and Arctic. They should
be nationalized and developed in the in-
terests of the Canadian people. And
when oil and gas pipelines from our
North are established they should be
publicly. owned, used in our people’s
interests alone, on Canadian territory
only — from the North to the East
free of all U.S. control.

We should be prepared to sell sur-
pluses, but must start first of all from

way” Mr. Young is talking #

the needs and interests of our pedl
and the maintenance and strengil®
ing of Canadian sovereignty. 7

Public ownership of oil and gap
the Communist Party maintains, Wy
be “first steps in a publicly-owne@®
operated energy policy whose #
the independent economic develop!
of the country.” 3

Formula for monopo

The Washington headquarters 9
international union of plumbers
pipefitters can undoubtedly throw
for us in Canada on the meaning ®
statement Tuesday by the chairm
Trudeau’s Prices and Incomes C0
sion that there are “less costly wa
combat inflation” than by the s0
tight money policies of our 8?
ment.

With typical evasiveness, Mr.
Young has not indicated just
“new weapons” the Ottawa gover
intends using now “to fight infla

Canadian workers well know th
sults of past and present
“weaponry”: Mass unemplo
Widespread plant closures and J
Wage cuts. And the bosses’ gt?
vicious refusals of wage increas®

What have Mr. Trudeau and Y
eredited Mr. Young got up their §
now?

It’s not as new as Mr. Youn
have. us think. He’s talking abo
controls. He’s been doing that
time. The fact that organized 14"
Canada has completely rejecte@
policies hasn’t stopped him—
deau, or monopoly.

They persisted because they
they had “friends” in the oF84
labor movement. The “Winnipes °
ula” proved this is so. Fi

That’s the name given to the®
to the Prices and Incomes Comm
to the Trudeau wage restraint Ls
by the international representall
the plumbers and pipefitters un?

Last November, they met 1
peg with representatives of th d
mission and of construction ak
employers. Undertaking to spe 4
their union’s 30,000 Canadian nf
the Washington-appointed pl
international reps endorsed 4
statement supporting restral?
wage increases and, of cours oe
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Earlier this month a Halifax ne
of the same parties agreed tha vc
ings in most sectors of the cons
industry now provide tradest 9
an acceptable level of compenst i ae
their contribution to the ind

To their everlasting honoty
onto Plumbers Local 46 (4,2 ee
bers) has rejected this deal a
bosses. It has lodged a protest “i
union’s international headqué
Washington. a

For all Canadian labor, the iy
peg formula” will be seen 45 74
so-thin edge of the wedge nolé
duction by Trudeau of a: eae
drive for monopoly’s aim of 3

wage controls. This is the er