Wily President Nixon deliver-
ed an ominous and thoroughly.
false speech on his position on
Vietnam over a national TV
hookup Tuesday, His- statement
makes it clear that, just as dur-
ing the Johnson administration,
the U.S. imperialists will not vo-
luntarily end their imperialist
aggression in the Far East.

Bourgeois commentators gave
the public little comfort, for
there was none to give. Nixon
dredged up all the lies used by
Johnson to “justify” U.S. impe-
rialism’s attacks against the
Vietnamese. In an effort to both
divert the protest movement,
and turn public opinion against
it, he blames the difficulties the
United States imperialists have
in achieving their aims in Viet-
nam on the widespread opposi-
tion at home. :

In October the greatest de-
monstration of anti-war and
anti-imperialist sentiment in the
history of the United States took
place. The U.S. aggression
against Vietnam promises to be

one of history’s great water
sheds, which accounts for the
stiff-faced desperation of Presi-
dent Nixon.

The demonstrations have be-

come a mass political challenge
to the policies of the administra-
tion. Hence President Nixon’s
attempts to speak about the
“silent majority” for whom, he
implies, he speaks.

The answer to _ President
Nixon is for all anti-war forces
in both the United States and
Canada to escalate the effort for

- peace in face of the open inten-
tions of the U.S. imperialists to
escalate their war in Vietnam.

The swell of the anti-war
movement is gathering momen-
tum across Canada. Vietnam has
become the focal point for all
the peace forces. The success of
the October demonstration in
the United States—far beyond
the hopes of those who initiated
it—testifies to the growing anti-
war and anti-imperialist senti-
ment among the masses.

Canadians, living in a country
that can be classified as the
closest ally to the United States,
have a responsibility to the Viet-
namese. There are demands that
we can, and must, make on the
Trudeau administration. Canada
ships hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of war materials
to the United States. Canada has
representatives on the United
Nations who must be compelled
to speak up against this crimi-
nal and barbarous war. Poison-
ous chemicals used in Vietnam
are tested on Canadian soil.

When Canadians take to the
streets, they are doing the job
the government ought to be do-
ing, and are strengthening the
peace struggles of courageous
American peace fighters.

Across Canada preparations
are already under way.

In Montreal the Vietnam Mo-
ratorium Committee has planned
— events for Nov. 13, 14 and

A silent Candlelight Parade
through Montreal streets on
Thursday, Nov. 13, will proceed
from St. Louis Square at 7 p.m.
to the Cenotaph in Place du
Canada (Dominion Square).

Following addresses by a num-
-ber of speakers, a 24-hour Vigil
will commence beside a lighted
“Vietnam Peace Torch.” The Vi-
gil will continue until the follow-
ing evening.

The torch will then be carried
to the Paul Sauve Centre, Where
at 8 p.m. on Friday, November
14, a mass public meeting will
hear a delegation representing

the Provisional Revolutionary
Government of South Vietnam.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 7, 1969—PAGE 8

_ Nixon escalates war

Other speakers to address the
meeting will include David Lew-
is of the New Democratic Party,
Fernand Daoust, vice-president,

of the Quebec Federation of La-
bor, and Doctor George Wald, a
prominent peace leader in the
U.S.A.

On Saturday, Nov. 15, the
Vietnam Moratorium Committee
in Montreal ‘is inviting “‘all peo-
ple of good will to join us as a
welcoming group to meet and
greet the U.S. Quakers at the
Canadian-U.S.A. border at Rock
Island at 2:30 p.m.” At that
time, Quakers and friends from
the Amherst area plan to cross
into Canada with cash gifts “to
be used for aid, in the form of
medical supplies, to all victims
of the Vietnam war.”

The Vietnam Moratorium
Committee in Montreal has an-
nounced that a cavalcade. of
cars will leave from Montreal to
greet the Quakers at the border
and to bring them to that city.
Those who can come, or who
can transport others, have been
asked to contact: Edward Martin
Sloan at 277-7954, and Margaret
Watts at 277-6869.

In Toronto a wide-range of

activities is now being prepared.
The committee plans a march on
November 15th, to assemble at
Queen’s park at 1.00 p.m., to
march to College, College to
Bay, Bay to Queen Street, to the
Nathan Phillips Square for a
rally.

Committees are being estab-
lished in the high schools. Dele-
gations of high school students
are going to school boards to
request permission for teachers
and principals to hold seminars
or discussions on the Vietnam
war.

The National Convention of
the New Democratic Party just
concluded has endorsed the No-
vember demonstrations.

In Winnipeg a public meeting
will be held on November 13th
to hear two representatives of
the South Vietnamese Revolu-
tionary government. The meet-
ing will be held at St. Mary’s
Cathedral (auditorium) . The two
South Vietnamese representa-
tives will also speak on Novem-
ber 14th at a meeting at, the
University of Manitoba.

Speech shows U.S.
seeks to spread strife

Dr. James G. Endicott, presi-
dent of the Canadian Peace Con-
gress, issued the following state-
ment in response to President
Nixon’s special message to the
American people on the war in
Vietnam:

The Canadian Peace Congress
expresses its deep disappoint-
ment with President Nixon’s
Nov. 3 speech to the American
people and to the world. It is
quite clear that he has no plan
for peace in Vietnam but, in-
stead, a plan for military victory
by proxy, using an American
financed and equipped Vietnam-
ese conscript army. He will keep
a large American army in Viet-
nam to enforce this policy and
try to arrange for the Vietnamese
to-do the dying.

Let everyone be quite clear
that President Nixon’s plan for
what he calls “peace” means a
long war, probably escalated into
Laos and Cambodia, and carrying
with it unforeseen consequences
in South East Asia.

One extremely _ significant
point in the speech was the re-
fusal even to mention the Na-
tional Liberation Front or the
Provincial Revolutionary Gov-
ernment of South Vietnam. Presi-
dent Nixon ignored their reason-
able and workable program.

President Nixon’s speech in-

cluded a crude falsehood about
how the United States became
involved in Vietnam. He claimed
it was due to “aggression” from
Hanoi after the Geneva Accords
of 1954. That is a bare-faced,
warmongering lie. The U.S, in-
volvement began as early as
1950 in helping the French in
their colonial war of aggression
against the Vietnamese people.
Before the Geneva Accords of
1954 the U.S. had already spent
over $2,000,000,000 on the war,
in aid to the French, President
Nixon’s mentor, John Foster
Dulles, wanted to drop atomic
bombs on the Vietnamese army
at Dien Bien Phu, before the
Geneva Conference. Once again
Nixon has threatened Vietnam
with the use of ‘America’s nu-
clear shield”.

The Canadian Peace Congress
calls on all honorable people who
know the facts about the U.S.
war of aggression in Vietnam to
repudiate President Nixon’s Nov.
3rd speech, expose its falsifica-
tion of history and make clear
its real intention for a long war
aimed at the conquest, by total
destruction, if necessary, of Viet-
nam. This may well be the road
to disaster.

Join the. Moratorium protests
Nov. 15 and in December. Defeat
President Nixon’s plan for a long
war in Vietnam.

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UE’s medicare postcard peti-
tion campaign, designed to pres-
sure the government into bring-
ing in needed changes in On-
tario’s Health Services Insur-
aance Plan, has hit high gear.

Thousands of workers in UE
shops in key areas throughout
Ontario have signed the petition
cards which call on Premier
Robarts to immediately amend
OHSIP to’ eliminate premium
payments, for no additional me-
dical charges over what OHSIP
pays, and for no private insur-
ance companies.

Many UE locals have taken
the medicare campaign to the
public. UE locals in Welland
have run large advertisements

Aid Vietnamese kiddie’

The Congress of Canadian
Women, which recently collected
and sent $13,500 and children’s
clothing valued at $6,000 to Viet-
namese children, victims of U.S.
aggression, has joined a world-
wide campaign to build a welfare
centre for the protection of
mothers and new-born babies
and a pediatric hospital in Viet-
nam.

The drive was initiated by the
Women’s International Demo-
cratic Federation.

Canadian women are urged to
collect funds and sew children’s
garments. The CCW plans to
send linens and hospital beds as
its special contribution. Beauti-

“Miners want democracy too!”

In a fighting speech in Arnold,
Pa., Joseph Yablonski, candidate
for international president of the
UMWA, presented the main ele-
ments of his program for the
Miner’s Union. He declared that
control over all union matters
must be placed directly in the
hands of the membership of the
union.

“This country claims to pro-
mote democracy all over the
world. It is high time to bring
some of that democracy right
here to the miner’s union in this
country.”

He proposed if ‘elected, to
amend the union constitution by
the adoption of a recall clause

so that incompetent officers at
all levels can be removed by the
membership at any time without
waiting for formal elections.
Yablonski stressed that 30
percent of all coal mined in the
U.S. is produced in non-union
mines, Owned mainly by the big
power companies. He scored the
leadership of the union for fail-
ure to undertake a strong organ-
izing campaign and which even
permitted coal from non-union
mines to be dumped over union
tipples. This also results in a big
loss in royalty payments into
the Miners’ Retirement Fund.
“Everyone knows that the
price of everything has increas-

ed sharply in recent years. But
there has been no increase in
royalty payments into the Fund
since 1952,” he charged. “‘The
only place to get money for
higher wages and better retire-
ment benefits is from the coal
operators. And that takes a mili-
tant union led by a strong, dedi-
cated leadership. No such effort
has been made in these many
years.” There was no mistaking
the response of the audience.

He then raised the need of
again regaining the respect of
the American labor movement
for the miners’ union, and for
revitalizing its militant, fight-
ing spirit and traditions.

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