ABOVE: Hamilton organized workers greet Trudeau with demand

for ‘Jobs—no Tricks!’.

End the arms race

is call of USSR

By BERT WHYTE

MOSCOW — “In all major
directions of foreign policy we
have taken definite steps for-
ward,” Leonid Brezhnev said at
an election meeting at the
Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

He cited as “first and fore-
most the signing of the treaty
_of friendship and cooperation
with the United Arab Repub-
lic’. Then he went on, to say:
“One should also recall the re-
sults of the visit to the Soviet
Union by Prime Minister Tru-
deau of Canada. The Soviet-
Canadian Protocol on Consulta-
tions, just as the Soviet-French
protocol signed earlier during
the visit to the USSR by presi-
.dent Pompidou of France, con-
vincingly demonstrates the
great opportunities for active

political cooperation between
states with differing social sys-
tems. The greater the interest
displayed by our partners in
maintaining peace, in develop-
ing economic, scientific-techni-
cal and other contacts, the wid-
er will be such opportunities
and the easier it will be to car-
ry them inta life. This applies
in full measure to such a major
problem of modern times as the
ending of the arms race. The
struggle against militarism, for
disarmament, has always been,
since Lenin’s time, an inalien-
able component part of the
foreign policy of the Soviet
state. Our country, our Party
remain loyal to this line today,
too”.

Dealing with internal ques-
tions, Brezhnev noted that the
24th Congress of the CPSU
“signified a fundamental turn
of all its branches, of all the
leading bodies and cadres of the
Party and state, towards solv-
ing the tasks of raising the
people’s welfare. These tasks
have never been posed on such

a broad plane before. The inter-
ests of the people, the concern
for its well being, for its spiri-
tual and cultural growth, this is
the supreme essence of the
Party’s activities. For this the
Party itself was created, for
this the revolution made. For
this Soviet people staunchly
overcame the greatest odds and
have made enormous §$sacri-
‘fices.”

At another election meeting
Alexei Kosygin stressed that
“on the whole we have every
reason to look optimistically at
the development of events in
the world.” He said: ‘“Political-
ly, economically and in the
field of defenses the Soviet
Union, the entire socialist com-
munity are now much stronger
than in previous years. This is
realized both by our friends and
our foes.

“Our Party and state invari-
ably consider it one of their
most important tasks to pre-
serve and strengthen peace. But
our policy has never been tan-

tamount to passive expectation |

of change for the better in in-
ternational relations. It has al-
ways been a policy of active
struggle for peace and interna-
tional security.

“In pursuing this policy the
Soviet Union has never surren-
dered and will not surrender
such principles as_ solidarity
with the revolutionary, libera-
tion forces on.earth, support for
the cause of freedom and inde-
pendence-of the people and for
the right of the peoples to inde-
pendent development.”

Touching. on relations with
Canada, Kosygin said: “The re-
sults of the recent visit to the
USSR by the Prime Minister of
Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau
accord with the interests of the
peoples of the Soviet Union and
Canada, the cause of peace and
relaxation of international ten-
sions.”

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1971—PAGE 8

People —not cars!

By ALF DEWHURST

Ontario Premier Davis’ an-
nouncement to the Legislature
on June 3 that Metro Toronto’s
Spadina expressway will be
stopped permanently at Lawr-
ence Avenue climaxed an inten-
sive two-year battle by oppon-
ents of the expressway, led by
the Stop Spadina Save Our City

- Co-ordinating Committee.

The decision to stop construc-
tion of the $137 million express-
way was coupled with a pro-
mise of the Ontario government
to make “substantial” increases
over what it now gives for sub-
way construction.

The stopping of the Spadina
expressway is an historic vic-
tory for united people’s action.
It proves that governments —
even Tory administrations—can
be influenced by the organized
activity of people. Its signific-
ance extends far beyond the
boundaries of Metro Toronto. It
places Toronto among the first
cities in North America serious-
ly attempting to come to grips
with the transportation prob-
lem.

The extent of the victory is
underlined by the fact that when
construction was halted in 1970,
pending a public review forced
by the wide-spread opposition,

$74 million had been spent by.

Metro and the Ontario govern-
ment on its construction.

But the real victory for those
who believe cities should be for
the people lies in these words of
Premier Davis: “It is our con-
clusion that if we are to serve
adequately and _ sensibly the

MOSCOW—The Soviet Union
has just completed another first
in space exploration and tech-
nology. With the docking of the
Salyut (Salute) unmanned
spacecraft and the the three-
manned craft Soyuz 11, a scien-
tic space laboratory has been
established in orbit.

The big workship, Salyut, was
launched about six weeks ago.
Soyuz 11, with cosmonauts Do-
provolsky, Volkov and Patsayev
aboard, went into orbit on June
6 and docked with Salyut the
next day. The two craft make
up a research centre the size of
a railway car.

Apart from the complex pro-
cess of pinpoint accuracy need-
ed for docking, the altitude of
the craft in its orbit around the
earth is of prime importance.
The closer to the earth, the

‘more the craft is susceptible to

atmospheric pressure which
pulls it towards the planet. Thus
une shorter its possible period
of life.

In two complicated man-
oeuvres. the Salyut was taken
from an orbit of 165 miles above
the earth, to 175 miles, and
now rests in an orbit 185 miles
above the earth, increasing its
life-span considerably. This had
all been done by rockets fired
from the Soyuz craft. Now its
systems have been shut off, and
the cosmonauts must rely on
the ,workship Salyut’s equip-
ment until, the time to return to
earth.

The most important experi-
ment being carried out by the
crew is the simple fact of being
there as long as they are. The

transportation needs of the To-
ronto area, both in the suburbs
and downtown, we must place
our reliance on means and
methods other than those which
will encourage and proliferate
the use of the passenger car as
the basic means of transporta-
tion.”

Mr. Davis’ words underscore
the conclusion made by_ the
Metro Committee of the Com-
munist Party in its policy state-
ment on transportation (March
1970) which said: “It is past
time to reassess the roads sys-
tem which is the basic element
of Metro Toronto’s transporta-
tion plan. This system clogs the
streets, fills the air with pollu-
tion, cedes valuable land to the
automobile, lowers the assess-
ment rolls, destroys community
environment, and is out of tune
with the needs of modern urban
life. The concept of personal
mobility in large urban centres
must eventually give way to the
social concept of public trans-
portation in the common inter-
ests of all urban dwellers ...A
correctly balanced transporta-
tion system for Metro Toronto
in our times demands that pub-
lic transit, and not the private
automobile, be the centrepiece
of the transportation plan.”

In acclaiming this historic
victory of united people’s action
and getting Ontario’s de-
cision to halt Spadina, over the
opposition of Metro Toronto
Council and Toronto City Coun-
cil, the Communist Party is of

travel time that it takes to
reach Mars, one of the closer
planets is a little over three
months. Prolonged experiments
in larger and more sophisticat-
ed space laboratories now under
development are also proposi-
tions that require a lengthy
stay in a weightless atmos-
sphere.

Man is a complex physiolog-
ical creature who evolved in
certain conditions prevalent
upon our earth. Changing those
conditions, for example sub-
jecting him to long periods of
weightlessness, might have cer-
tain adverse effects upon his
physiological make-up. We must
know all about the _ conse-
quences to man before extended
flights and long periods of work

in space laboratories can be
undertaken.
Another important conse-

quence for future space explor-
ation is the following: a viable
program must include orbiting
space stations, launchers, and
laboratories of considerable

‘servation of the

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