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delays are not used as acover for
further intensive development of
weapons and stockpiling. Action
is urgent.

‘Underground tests must
cease and the ban must be ex-
tended to all tests everywhere.

‘*We must prevent the spread
of nuclear weapons in any form,
including such devices as the
multi-lateral force.

‘*‘We must secure nuclear-free
zones on land and sea, and an
agreement renouncing the use of
nuclear weapons.

‘‘We must press the 18-nation
conference at Geneva to make
progress towards a treaty of
general and controlled disarma-
ment,

“We must insist, meanwhile,
on the limitation and reduction
of arms budgets.

‘International issues cannot be
left as running sores — to re-
duce tension solutions must, as
they can, be negotiated, and se-
curity must be strengthened by
non-agression pacts,

~ Rei Kae *

*‘Disarmament andnational lib-
eration, with the safeguarding of
equal and sovereign rights, are
complementary in the struggle
for peace, Each strengthens the
other, and together they can help
to achieve the independence and
security in which alone peace
can flourish and all nations can
progress to the full.

**Colonialist war and every
form of foreign intervention and

pressure must be stopped forth- ©

with,

“Existing foreign military
bases, including Polaris bases,
must be dismantled and no more
established. Threatening man-
oeuvres by foreign armed forces
in any country’s territory or in
its air space or adjacent waters
must be forbidden.

‘Racial —_ dicrimination
every form must be opposed.

in

“Interference with trade and
industrial development by econo-
Mic blockade, discriminatory
measures, unfair competition and

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CRISIS IN GREECE. This exclusive photo sent to the PT by Betty Ambatie-
los, wife of the well-known Greek political prisoner, shows a picket line
in Athens on December 19 of relatives of Greek political prisoners. They

are demanding general

ty and rel

of political prisoners. This

week King Paul ordered a new election because of the inability of any
group to form a government. In the last election the progressive forces

won new strength.

the operation of aggressive trad-
ing alliances must stop.

*‘Cold War economic policy,
impoverishment of the poorer
countries by the extraction
of their wealth, must give way

to world trade on a fair and

equal basis and economic, tech-
nical and cultural co-operation
without strings to permit the full
and rational utilisation of re-
sources to the advantage of all
nations.

**A great campaien for all these
aims must be developed, on a
scale wider than ever before.
Peace activity in every land has
grown in vigour and diversity.

It must become stronger yet,

** All peace movement have but
a single purpose, though the com-
mon tasks of peace vary in im-
mediacy in every region. We ap-
peal to all people and all or-
ganizations to join their efforts,

The Soviet government pro-
Posed last week fresh consulta-
tions on enlarging the Security
Council and the Economic and
Social Council of the United Na-
tions,

The talks, said aSoviet Foreign
Ministry statement, should also
Seek the quickest way to expel the
Chiang Kai-shek representative
and restore to People’s China her
legitimate rights so that she
might ‘take a direct part in
deciding all questions.’’

If all the African and Asian
countries joined the common
front of those demanding immed-
iate restoration of China’s right,
the imperialists could no longer
prevent it, the Soviet govern-
ment pointed out.

It explained that it had recently
voted against Afro-Asian propos-
als to enlarge U.N. bodies, be-
cause the Chinese government,
in response to a Soviet inquiry,
had not indicated its approval
and the adoption of U.N. Charter
amendments without China’s con-
Sent, the Soviet government said,
“could play into the hands of the
Imperialist circles seeking to
create the ‘two-Chinas situa-
tion,’ ’?

But recently an editorial
article in the Peking People’s

Daily had expressed ‘‘for the

eid te

Soviets seek talks
on changes in U.N.

first time’’ Chinese government
approval of the proposed amend-
ments.

**If such a statement had been
made by the Chinese govern-
ment. at the time of the dis-
cussion in the U.N. General As-
sembly, the Soviet Union would,
of course, have voted for the
resolutions sponsored by the
Afro-Asian countries.’’

according to the methods that
best suit them and the priorities
that meet their needs.

‘End the nuclear menace, Se-

cure areal start on disarmament. °

Negotiate the issues in dispute.

Wipe out the relics of colonial-
ism. Achieve independence for all

- nations anf fair co-operation with

the economically less-developed
for the common good.

‘*Man must break through to
peace.’’

Thaw coming
on Berlin scene?

As a result of an agreement
reached between East and
West Germany, more than
250,000 people from West
Berlin visited friends and rel-
atives in the Eastern section
of the city over the Christ-
mas holidays, A total of 840,-
000 visitors permits were is-
sued by authorities of the Ger-
man Democratic Republic.

This new thaw in probably
the world’s most dangerous
trouble spot has brought to
bear new pressures from the
German people upon West
German ruling circles for re-
cognition of the GDR, The
popular sentiment has reached
such heights that a split ap-
pears to be in the making
between officials in Bonn and
Berlin authorities, headed by
Mayor Willie Brandt.

Teleprinters of this type, made in the German Democratic Republic, are
now chattering away in the Pentagon in Washington. The GDR
machines send and receive messages at the western end of the “hot
line” linking Washington and Moscow.

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ACROSS THE

NATION

New civic deal for Sudbury

The city of Sudbury, victim
of a massive union-raiding cam-
paign by the Steelworkers’ union
and prey to the giant U.S, tax-
evading International Nickel Co.,
seems geared for a new look on
the municipal front following
civic elections held there’ re-
cently.

The balloting amounted toa
vote for virtually a complete
change in civic administration
and policy. Former mayor Joe
Fabbro was elected to the chief
office and nine of the 12 alder-
men are newcomers, mostly
young people,

Indicative of the temper of the
voters were the results in Ward
Two which were a complete up-
set, Elected to the board of edu-
cation in this ward was Norman
Young, an executive member of

Kierans backs

Government spokesmen in
Quebec and Ontario last week
made speeches which contained
ominous overtones for the future
of Confederation.

Eric Kierans, former presi-
dent of the Montreal and Cana-
dian stock exchanges, and now
minister of revenue in the Que-
bec government, attacked the fis-
cal policies of the federal govern-
ment in whatever efforts it has
made to curb foreign investment..

He denounced what he said was
‘hasty discriminatory action a-
gainst foreign investment to close
the capital markets of the world
at precisely the time when Que-
bec, Ontario and the other prov-
inces need large sums for their
own development,’’

Although accounts of his re-
marks, made to an audience of 200
businessmen at Toronto’s Em-
pire Club, were not specific on

the point, it appeared Kierans had

the Mine Mill union,

With four to be elected to board
of control, Nels Thibault, national
education director of Mine Mill,
was almost elected, running a
close sixth in a field of 12,
He polled over 6,000 votes.

The newly-elected civic lead-
ers were quick to outline their
main aims for their 1964-65
term of office: to place the fin-
ancial mess that Sudbury finds
itself in, as a result of amal-
gamation pushed through by the
provincial government, squarely
at the door of the legislature.

Amalgamation excluded Cop-
per Cliff, and thus INCO’s smelt-
ing operation, and the profit-rich
corporation managed to escape
its share of the tax burden for
the provision of civic services.

U.S. investors

in mind Finance Minister Gor-
don’s very limited budget propos-
als to increase withholding tax
by five percent on companies that
do not make 25 percent of their
Shares available to Canadian in-
vestors by Jan, 1, 1965.

Commenting on Kierans’ state-
ment, Sam Walsh, Quebec lead-
er of the Communist Party,
stated:

**Kierans’ recent appointment
as representative of the Mon-
treal and Canadian stock ex-
changes in the Quebec cabinet
continues to make it very clear
that his policy in the Lesage
government is to encourage the
influx of American capital into
Quebec and hence to increase
American domination of the
economy of French Canada —
but with Quebec capital as its
junior partner rather than capi-
tal from English Canada,”’

Robarts talking tough, too

From another direction, Pre-
mier Robarts of Ontario made a
speech in Hamilton in which he
forecast a ‘tharder’’ line by On-
tario at the next federal-provin-
cial conference next year.

Robarts said he wouldnot agree
to any further federal-provincial
fiscal relations that could weaken
the province’s economy and that
a strong Ontario is necessary for
a strong Canada,

He said he had ‘‘grave mis-

givings’’ about any extension of
equalization grants to the other
provinces beyond the present for-
mula, based on the per capita
yield of direct taxes in Ontario
and B.C.

The Robarts speech was evid- -
ently a .warning to the federal
government that Ontario would
argue ‘‘provincial rights’’ in
order to advance the policies of
the monopoly — mainly U.S. —
interests in control of the prov-
ince,

Manitoba farmers hit N-arms

The ever-widening gap between
farm income and expenses, the
dwindling farm population, ques-
tions of peace and nuclear tests,
the continued pressure of big
business farming on small hold-
ings and the growing difficulties
for the small family farmer to
hold on ‘to his source of bread
and butter—these and many more
questions were featured at the
13th annual convention of the
Manitoba Farmers’ Union.

It took place at the Marlbor-
ough Hotel in Winnipeg on Dec-
ember 3, 4, and 5,

One of the highlights at the
convention was a debate on a
resolution calling for a ban on
nuclear testing and acceptance
of nuclear arms in Canada.

The convention finally adopted
a resolution calling upon the fed-
eral government *‘to do far more
to promote peace andto renounce
the use and storage of nuclear
weapons on Canadian soil and to
work dilligently for the complete
ban on nuclear testing in Canada

and everywhere,”’

(This MFU move followed
closely uponthe heels ofa similar ~
action taken by Saskatchewan
farmers only days earlier),

In the report of the Board of
Directors it was pointed out that
the farm index for 10 years,
1953 to 1963, shows that farm
machinery increased by 37.5
points, taxes and interests went
up 39.2 points, but farm prices
in this period show a drop
of 1.3 points.

This is a clear indication that
the farmers are caught in an
unending price squeeze, which
hits the smaller farmer most and
forces him to the wall every
time costs surpass a certain
maximum and income drops
below a certain minimum.

The convention was told that
this squeeze on the farmer has
resulted in a drop, over the past
10 years, of 90,000 farms in,
Canada—9,000 of them in Man-
itoba,

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