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More than he, © YOuth in the’ U.S. fy) Ployed, in Italy and i poung people account Mt yamately half of all & a3 The United States Orld Report bitterly All other countrhes, $7.00 one year hb © as _ “superfluous” ° Nncouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. . Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one yeor; $2.75 for six and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6. huth condemned to be generation remarks that some of the recent university graduates suddenly become taxi drivers_ warehouse- men or salesmen in book stores. With every passing year an ever larger number of young factory and office workers and students, starting or preparing to start an independent life, begin to realize the deep injustice of the capitalist system, the inhu- man and hypocritical nature of the “free enterprise” society which deprives its children of the most elementary human right—the right to work. Why then are bourgeois ideologists surprised by seething student meetings, mass youth demon- strations and recruits who re- fuse to fight for ideals alien to them! The ruling quarters of the capitalist countries are in need of an obedient youth, youth which could be sent both to the dirty war in Vietnam and to sup- press Ulster “rebels.” However, the face of the pres- ent younger generation in the bourgeois world is to an ever greater degree determined by the democratic working and stu- dent youth who are taking the road of protest, the road of struggle against exploitation and rightlessness. The younger gen- eration in the capitalist coun- tries rejects the existing order ever more firmly, is looking for a new way, is activizing. the struggle for the social and poli- tical reorganization of society. (Pravda Editor—MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. <}; 193 €. Hastings St., months. 00 one year. Labor's growing united strength The delegates to the convention of the B.C. Federation of Labor have made an outstanding contribution to the strug- gle for the genuine independence of our country. They called for a program to provide. jobs. They declared their unalterable opposition to a wage freeze in any form. They, denounced the Trudeau government for “its desire to help the big corporations.” And they didn’t stop there. This great labor convention attacked Nixon’s economic policies of aggression aimed at making Canadians pay both for the U.S. war in Vietnam and for the U.S. takeover of Canada. With this the delegates joined their clear call for new trade policies, for Canadian trade agreements with “European and Asian countries.” They fused the struggle “for an inde- pendent Canada with a mature and full employment economy.” The burning question of our country’s independence was joined with the basic struggle against Canadian monopoly, against U.S. imperialism. Last week’s B.C. Federation of Labor convention came shortly after its his- toric “Shutdown for Survival” to pro- test the U.S. Amchitka nuclear test. Canada’s west coast organized work- ers have splendidly demonstrated their solidarity for peace, for jobs, for Cana- dian independence. Their actions parallel the solidarity of all Quebec organized labor in support of the workers’ right to defend their jobs and the democratic rights of the people. : Labor in Canada is on the move with increasingly united power. Welcome, delegates to the C.P. convention! The Canadian Tribune warmly greets the delegates to the 21st (50th Anni- versary) Convention of the Communist Party of Canada that opens this Satur- day in Toronto. We wish them the best of success in their deliberations for the cause of peace, independence and demo- eratic progress of our country. The Communist Party alone among ‘the political parties bases its policies on scientific principles, on the Marxist- Leninist teaching. At its conventions it analyzes the situation, studies the way in which events are developing, and pro- poses such policies ta the working class that would influence events to their benefit and to the eventual establish- ment of working people’s power and the building of a new social system of brotherhood, equality and plenty for all in Canada. Never has it been so necessary to throw a searchlight on events and the road ahead as now when on the one hand we are being shoved into econo- mic crisis and further subservience to monopoly and U.S. imperialism, while on the other hand the road is open to win a Canada where we are masters in our own house and conduct our affairs in the interests of our own country and people. The U.S. intruder “It was not known if the Intruder was equipped with nuclear weapons.” This was the succinct comment by a spokesman for the Canadian Forces Bese Bee ae the crash near Ed- monton last week of a United Navy Intruder bomber. ee He added that the plane, its type- name precisely defining its aggressive nature, was on a routine U.S. Strate-. “3 Air nea exercise, anada must now put a stop, once and for all, to U.S. bomber Syernichts criss-crossing our skies. They do not serve the cause of peace, of friendship between nations. In their gaping bellies these planes carry catastrophe for our people and for the world. They per- petuate the cold war of imperialism and the danger of world conflagration. This paper has welcomed recent moves of the Trudeau government in the direction of an independent foreign policy. The Industrial Exchanges Agreement, the Protocol on Consulta- tions, and most recently the General Exchanges Agreement, all signed be- tween Canada and its northern neigh- bor, the Soviet Union, have been greet- ed by the Canadian people as contribu- tions to peace, to international friend- ship and co-operation. But Canada cannot fully implement these new policies of international de- tente, wiping out deadly cold war vestiges, as long as our country is chained to the dictates of U.S. impe- _rialism’s policies. We can end the flights of U.S. nu- alee maliers over our land, and we can do it by getting out of NORAD NATO — now! 2 ‘ges Jobs — not armaments U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Con- nally has blusteringly proposed that Nixon’s 10% surcharge might be lifted if the auto trade pact with Canada were _ to be revised in the interests of U.S. auto monopolists. But what Connally has not talked about openly is the United States “gun- point” blackmail. The Nixon govern- ment is demanding Canada purchase $509 million worth of U.S. armaments to equalize the present U.S. deficit in arms purchases between the two coun- tries. Most of this “deficit of death” consists of the blood-stained sales of Serene weapons for U.S. im- perialism’s war against the Vietnam. : So Auto workers in Canada and the On- tario Federation of Labor with them have opposed any change in the auto trade pact that will cost the jobs of Canadians. : So now all Canadians should de- nounce this armaments blackmail by the United States. Any militarization of our economy has to be fought. Who does not know today that it was the militarization of the U.S. economy that was at the root of its inflation, of its balance of payments crisis? The answer for Canada is: No $509 million for arms. purchases, neither from the U.S. nor any other country! We must use that money in a program for jobs, not for destruction! PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1971 — PAGE 3