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Stop the wave of
arrests in Greece!

_ The Communist Party, follow-
ing upon the most recent wave
of mass terror and arrests sweep-
ing across Greece, protested by
Cable to the Greek Government.
The protest addressed to Prime
Inister Androustsopoulos reads
as follows:
__.We have learned with great
indignation of renewed mass
terror on the part of your gov-
ernment against Greek demo-
Crats fighting for the restoration
of democracy in Greece. We
have been informed that the ter-
Tor, which has spread across the
whole country, has resulted in
© mass arrests of democrats.
The Communist Party of Can-
ada strongly condemns the pu-
nitive mass terror and arrests
and demands that your govern-
ment.. immediately. release all

Oe SA

sey ORONTO — Delegates from
‘en labor Councils were among
Ms Se who took part in the work-
pices of plans for action in
ys arity with democratic Chile
h an Ontario Conference held

ere last weekend.
Labor Council delegates from
ane Oakville, Brantford,
et ton, Guelph, Toronto and
Saas were joined by dele-
a from locals of the United
a Workers, United
tric Re ere, and United Elec-
al’ Workers, as well as repre-

: Sentatives of the Student Admin-

Bove Council of the Univer-
Ce, ny roronto, Voice of Women,
a lan Peace Congress, Com-
ae Party of Canada, New
Ba ocratic Party, local Waffle
sae a few church organiza-
eres a number of progressive
ee 1c groups, and movements
International solidarity with

€t oppressed peoples.
: - conference opened. under
c airmanship of Peter Rus-
..1 Principal of Innes College,
es _ report on the situation
senting aa Martinez _Tepre-
Renin ile Democratico in
Chile Democratico he explain-
stry ees : direction to the
fntinas: Outside the country. It
= ee not only the parties of
ei but also MIR
ary Lefty, of the Revolution-

Lessons of Unity

Today,” Martinez said, “there

those so arrested including An-
tonis Ambitiellas and Nikos Ka-
londis, members of the Political
Bureau of the Communist Party
of Greece and leading Party
functionary Mina Yannou.”
The Party wired Minister of
External Affairs Sharp urging
the Governent do all in its
power to prevail upon the Greek
Government (which is a NATO
partner) to stop the mass terror
and to release immediately all
Greek democrats arrested as a
result of this punitive terror.
Interviewed by the Tribune,
Party organizer Alf Dewhurst
urged that all democratic organ-
ization in Canada condemn
the mass terror and arrests in
Greece and petition the Cana-
dian government to intercede
for the release of those arrested.

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is no responsible popular organi-
zation which is not in our unity,
because we have learned the les-
sons of unity. The Christian De-
mocrats are not within our unity,
but now at least they are not
with the junta, and they too are.
learning the lessons.” ;

Later in the Conference, in
dealing with some questions
about tours of Chilean speakers
in this country, Martinez stress-
ed that Chile Democratico is the
representative of the anti-junta
Chilean people, and it asks that
it be respected as such by all
those who wish to undertake
public activities in connection
with Chile.

The Conference which was or-
ganized by the Canadian Com-
mittee for Solidarity with Demo-
cratic Chile unanimously under-
took to:

Nothing but pomp for Ontario

Davis policies
sides

By WILLIAM STEWART
Ontario Leader,
Communist Party

The Fourth Session of Onta-
rio’s. Twenty-ninth Parliament
cpened last week with official
pomp and not much else for
hardpressed Ontario workers and
farmers.

Totally ignored in the Throne
Speech was the crisis situation
confronting Ontario municipali-
ties this year where whomping
tax-increases are being forecast

as a result of inflation and

mcunting demands on the pub-
lic purse for such services as
health, welfare, roads, transpor-
tation to say nothing of educa-
tion.

Housing was once again brush-
ed aside with vague references
to the government’s policy of en-
couraging the “private sector” to
increase its efforts for low and
middle income housing. This at
a time when dire warnings are
out that rents. are likely to jump
by an average of $30 a month in
Metro Toronto because of the

DAVIS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, 1971 — three years later, scan-
dals, education cutbacks, rising living costs. The Throne Speech
promises nothing but more of the same for Ontario.

—Establish local committees
in support of the democratic
people of Chile in Ontario’s
major urban centres. (Delegates
present from Windsor, Niagara,
Hamilton, Guelph - Kitchener .-
Waterloo, and a number of other
areas undertook at the. confer-
ence to take steps in this direc-
tion.)

—Step up pressure on the Can-
adian government to ensure
quick entry into Canada of re-
fugees from Chile and their best
possible re-settlement here.

—Mount an effective and agi-
tational campaign against the

abrogation of human, political

and democratic rights in Chile,
and for the freeing of all politi-
cal prisoners.

-—“Encourage” the Canadian
government “not to have any fin-
ancial or commercial dealings
with the Chilean government,
either on its own or.as part of
international consortiums.”

—Maintain co-operation and
co-ordination with Chile Demo-

-cratico as “the appropriate way

of working as part of the inter-
national solidarity movement.”
Specific plans in various areas
of concern were discussed in
work-shops which reported to a
plenary session chaired by David
Archer, president of the Ontario
Federation of Labor.
: Trade Unionists
Speaking for the trade union
workshop, Pat Clancy, president
of UAW Local 707 outlined a

practical immediate program to
“set started on” in the labor
movement including as a first
priority demands from union or-
hee for freedom for

ilean labor leaders, the open-
ing up of doors to refugees, the
return to Canada of the RCMP
units which are screening appli-
cations in Santiago, and pres-
sure on Ottawa to withold any
and all financial assistance; and
for the boycott of Chilean goods.

Other specific proposals were
forthcoming from work-shops on
the refugee situation, and in the
areas of educational institutions,
churches, and community organi-
zations.

Particular stress was laid on
the possibility of developing
campaigns for the release of in-
dividual political prisoners in a
certain trade or profession on the
basis of an appeal to their Can-
adian counter-parts. The Com-
mittee is now receiving and col-
lating much specific information
in this connection.

Indignation

The workshop on Community
Organization made the point that
the achievements of local democ-
ratic institutions under the pre-
sidency of Allende hold much of
interest to community organiza-
tions in Canada, and that the
possibilities exist among such
groups of developing broad. pro-
tests against the junta’s action
in firing every elected official in
Chilean municipalities.

crisis

shortage of apartment dwellings.
Home ownership is beyond the
reach of working people.

Inflation is simply referred to
as a responsibility of senior gov-
ernments and no indication given
that the Ontario government in-
tends to do anything to block
the brutal profiteering of the big
monopolies.

Threat to Teachers

Health and education needs —
two crisis areas in Ontario —
are mentioned only by way of a
threat of legislation to impose
compulsory arbitration on Onta-
rio teachers, and a vague refer-
ence to some improvement in the
Health Plan.

A welcome reference was to
government intentions to intro-
duce elements of a sports, fitness
and recreation program, and to
action for extending the day-care
centre program for working
mothers, a much overdue re-
sponse.

The government’s promise of
an income support program for
older citizens no doubt reflects
pressure from provinces such as
B.C. whose payments for the
aged go beyond Ontario’s.

Perhaps the most significant
proposals concern development
of the North. Here the govern-
ment speaks of a road-link to
James Bay through Moosonee
and the establishment of a port
at James Bay. Linked to this are
references to governing councils
for unorganized territories in the
North, expanded electrification
and communications, hooking up
four additional communities with
Ontario air services. and the
widening of Highway 17 be-
tween Sault Ste. Marie and Sud-
bury.

Davis Denial

The reference in the speech to
government attempts to stabilize
Ontario’s energy supply in the
light of Middle East develop-
ments, its preoccupation with
Northern development, and in
particular the road link to a new
port on James Bay appear to in-
dicate some as yet unpublicized
deal with Quebec to exploit the
natural resource and energy po-
tential of the North. Davis denies
this but the implications are ob-
vious.

They involve actions by the
governments of the two largest

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HANDS OFF TEACHERS,
URGES ONTARIO CPC

TORONTO — Failure to
settle the strike of teachers in
York County (north of Toronto)
rests squarely on the: intract-
able attitudes of a reactionary
majority on the School Board,
the Ontario Executive of the
Communist Party declared in
a statement at Tribune press
time. “Under no circum-
stances,” the statement con-
tinued, “can this be used by
the Tory government as a pre-
text for imposing compulsory
arbitration on the teachers.
Instead, the ~ government
should take negotiations out
of the hands of the board and
bring them to a speedy con-
clusion on) the: basis ‘of the
just demands of the teach-
ers.”

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