Graduation exercise. Cambodia, class of ‘70!

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The meals are all-inclusive on
your ticket, which opens the
doorway toacloth-covered din-
ing table, undreamed of in ear-
lier days. Opposite me sat an ob-
viously English type with an
accent you could cut with a
knife.

His wife was quiet, and only
committed herself on the food
she wanted. Next to me sat a
young woman, also English, re-
turning to Vancouver.

The English gent talked as
though he was in the chips.
“We're just doing this for a
lark,” he said, “we’ve come
over on the Empress . . . and
are going on to Vancouver. Then

we're visiting my brother in

New York.”

“What a vast country, never
ending lakes and woods. I say,
I saw a chap, dressed just like
a lumberjack, yawning in his
door this morning. You’d never
see anything like that in Eng-
land.”

“You’re English?” he asked
the young lady.

“Yes, but I haven’t lived in
England for several years. I live
in Vancouver. I went back to
England, and couldn’t stick it.
That Wilson is a disaster to
England. you know.”

“Oh, I wouldn’t say that,” he

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you know, a dyed-in-the-wool
Tory, and I think Wilson’s saved
England.”

“Not at all, I came to Canada
and worked here, saved money
and went back, and I just
couldn’t stick it. The wages are
too low.”

“The average wage, my dear
girl, is 20 pounds, you know.
What more do you want ”

“Oh no,” the young lady said,
“I’m a woman, and women
aren’t paid that much, I can tell
you. I got (she named a figure
in the middle teens) and I
couldn’t get along on_ that
amount. I couldn’t get ahead. I
was getting deeper in the hole,
so I packed up and came back
to Canada. And I believe that a
lot: of English workers don’t
get 20 pounds a week,” she said
defiantly.

“Well, you’re wrong,” he
said, “and, as for me, I think
Wilson is one of the cleverest
statesmen we’ve ever had the
luck to have. No one else could
have pulled us out of it like
him, and saved Britain. In fact,
I’m going to vote for Wilson in
the next elections, and I’ve
never voted anything but Con-
servative all my life.”

What better characterization
of this right wing social demo-

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The guilt is Nixon’s

President Nixon is just as guilty of
the deaths and woundings of student.
peace demonstrators as if he had pulled,
the trigger himself. The victims were
barely out of their teens. ;

Nixon is already “justifying” the
murders with the old techniques of
whitewash, weasel words and meaning-
less platitudes. Nothing can justity
snuffing out the lives of human beings
because their intense disagreement
with official government war policies
leads them to militant actions against
those policies.

Violence is being used against pro-
test movements in the United States
on an increasing scale. It is directed
against the new, militant upsurge for
social and economic change. The
military-industrial complex wants it
stopped. Black Panthers earlier be-
came the focal point of the Nixon Ad-
ministration’s attack on democracy.
The Nixon-Agnew speeches recently
encouraged the shootings at Kent.

The behaviour of many of those who
demonstrate and march on the picket
lines is a direct reaction to the violence
of the repressive machine of capitalist
America. It is a reaction to the mili-
tarization of the social, economic and
political life of the United States.

The Canadian working people, stu-
dents and intellectuals and the peace
movements have a direct responsibility
to let President Nixon know that we
are afraid of the turn to fascism dis-
cernible in the policies he advocates
and takes.

We salute the young heroes who lost
their lives in a noble cause. We express
our solidarity with all those in the
United States who are acting for an
end to U.S. imperialism’s wars of con-

quest, and for democratic advance at -

home. '

The best way Canadians can express
their solidarity is to send protests to
Nixon, to have resolutions of protest
passed at meetings and in the people’s
organizations. Now is the time for the
great trade union movement both of
Canada and the United States to bring
its full power to bear in the struggle
for peace and democracy.

Let President Nixon know that demo-
cratic Canadians oppose his policies of
violence and the dirty war against Indo-
China.

United peace actions

The military-industrial complex of
the United States has extended the war
to Cambodia and Laos.

The capitalist press tells us that
Nixon claimed he “had to” do it, even
if it spoiled his chances of re-election.
This was to show how necessary the
President felt it to take this awful step.
How in the world could the re-election
of a glib capitalist politician be equated
to the mass bombings and outright
murder of entire populations?

In order to win the world’s markets,
the system of politics, economics and
ideology in the U.S.A. has increasingly
been militarized by the military-
industrial complex.

_The juiciest war contracts go to the
biggest monopolies. Hundreds of high-

yanking retired officers are on the pay |
rolls of the big monopolies with com
tracts to supply arms. The key posts of |
Secretary of Defense, of the Army,
the Air Force and the Navy, and thell™
Under Secretaries, are held by meh
who represent these major arms mon
polies.
The big monopolies in the U.S.A. alt
looking at fascism to meet the upsurge
of militant, democratic dissent.
eannibalization of American youth
the war machine is creating its oppos!
tion. The opposition to the war is more
widespread and broad than ever before
The need of the hour is the unity ®
all the forces for peace against mil
tarism and reaction, in conformily
with the decisions adopted by the I
ternational Meeting of Communist an
Workers’ Parties, which said:
“The existing situation demands |
united action of Communists and all
other anti-imperialist forces so that
maximum use may be made of the
mounting possibilities for a broade
offensive against imperialism.”

Make the polluters pay

When you turn on the radio early #
the morning in Toronto you often heal
these words “Pollution in the air is 4
acceptable levels.” By noon a haze ha
settled over the city and if you are @
the airport it looks as though it’s ral
ing over Toronto. a

The fact that the authorities havi
just “discovered pollution is P@™
enough, for when pollution bothers t
politicians, it’s got to be pretty bad.

The capitalist media are engineer!
great discussions to, if you please, di

The multi-billion-dollar question 38:
Who’s going to be stuck with cleaning
e are told it’s “our” fault, a”

that it will take a lot of time and mon®

payer with the cost of cleaning up. 7. ,
big job for us victims is to make Die
business pay the full cost. The money
it has saved by dumping its poiso?
into the air and lakes has gone to !
coupon-clippers and bank accounts.

A phone call for peace

Now is the time for Toronto citize™
to exercise their democratic right 2
phone the Mayor to protest City Cou
cil’s decision which instructs the am
ronto Public Library to.permit an ant
communist exhibition by certain ¥?
named persons and organizations. ,

We are told council took the decisiO?
because some unnamed persons obje¢*
ed to the Lenin exhibition held in 1
ronto’s public library — a display G.
conformity with the decision of UNE
CO declaring 1970 Lenin Year. Ks

It is not democratic to exhibit borat
like Mein Kampf — which broug
death to over 50,000,000 people in &
world. And any claim that it is dem,
cratic is a flimsy excuse to help ae
forces of right-wing reaction W
would take us to fascism and war. —