uilding blind ce if Drawing by V. Avraamov Seek peace in U.S. Hall tells president. N side ORK (TASS) — If ; to Peevzin is really seek- erse his ote Peace, he should » end peecrent foreign pol- ples in 5 War against the intle U.S Ndochina and: dis- S bases abroad, said mmunist Party chair- mston here at the Openin ntion he Le Party’s 20th con- sR an Said the answers to Problems were not to be und : elf In Peking but in the U.S. Nixon deg. ID to Pekin Would ot help Salve oe : acing the American F situation “lea; Cue Micro Ing the U.S. Th SIS to crisis. eneral se S. secreta all communist ms 0F the ; Part i bbe, 2, oe r imperi yee Objectives of 8S nothi a’ism” and that there lat U. 48 in China’s policy Mtially imperialism could es- 'Sagree with, fa Be cow told it will be PBislative eae Govetrnment’s Oposals on foreign and investment wi Ptponemen ee. ek ere > Whi . ese meas- laceg mee Mecludes it bane Question g Pottom of the list nt ate, Coming before Par- ee the sording to the Speech her the ‘Saee Suggests that Own the _cbinet is badly split i, shifting on this issue ea forej Ing emphasis away ism t = Bracrship and in- “Canadian Pease S se ee TKS a4 to be the nub of Ts of th e recently by mem- i e g0 is vernment. Not so ( ) low; Drury to Treas, telegram was Wir td Minister illiam ~ Kashtan Mmunist Party of ‘ id er, aha ida &o of seekin i ig permis-. S€cute air techni-- ai government would ash vised to Settle the Nes Nicians on the Wo, on demands of 4 i. Oreover, th those ant Should ravuditite | ind Bui rae elements in it take nent who want ; “ ‘the right in Bs bargaining, “which! fe y Stkers inant to strike, from f @ public ser- “I pressures “ori Gus Hall said that while speaking about peace, Washing- ton was increasing its military budget and continuing its - pol- icy of economic, political and military aggression. He charged American capital- ism with trying to make the American working people pay the cost of its setbacks and ag- gressive policy, while using the country’s economic difficulties to justify a new onslaught on the people’s living standards. Pointing to the growing activ- ity of the black population, the women and the youth, Gus Hall said there were now realistic opportunities for pbuilding up a broad people’s coalition in the struggle for the interests of the working people. The 250 delegates unanimous- ly elected Angela Davis as dele- gate in absentia. Fraternal dele- gations from 34 countries, in- cluding Canada, took part in the convention. ‘victory for the entire War is stepped up as Nixon, Mao talk British miners are voting this week on the wage offer made by the National Coal Board. The 280,000 striking miners have achieved a British working class in their determined eight-week struggle and given a severe setback to Heath’s Tory government and the big business interests attempt to hold down wages and restrict the right to strike. The victory was achieved by united and determined struggle, in which mass picketing was a key factor, together with the growing solidarity of other trade unionists and the public, which despite cold and cut-off power, backed the strikers to the hilt. Kowtowing to Washington By WILLIAM KASHTAN, leader Communist Party very long ago Mr. Sharp called upon Canadians to “pray for the U.S. day and night.” He has since followed this up by cau- tioning Canadians to avoid “‘ex- cessive nationalism.” He under- scored what he meant by this when he stated a few days ago in Winnipeg that the “govern- ment sympathizes with the U.S. Administration in its desire to correct certain fundamental im-’ balances in currency and trade relations. We have made our contribution to the correction of some of these imbalances and are prepared to go further.” The reference to making fur- ther concessions on currency and trade relations should be carefully noted. Is Mr. Sharp saying the government is pre- pared to revalue the Canadian dollar upwards irrespective of its effects on employment in Canada? This is what the U.S. government is pressing for. Or is Mr. Sharp saying the govern- ment is prepared to eliminate the safeguards on the auto pact irrespective of its effects on employment for the auto work- ers? This too is what the Nixon government is pressing for. The Nixon government has made no bones about the kind of U.S.-Canadian relations it wants. This has been spelled out before and is spelled out again in. the stalemated trade negotiations. Underneath the the consistant drive of U.S. im- perialism directed to transform igpecifit issues is” people. It is well aware that a dominant feature of Canadian political life is the upsurge of Canadian consciousness and what some people have chosen to call “economic nationalism.” What it is striving to achieve via the trade negotiations and by other means is the crushing of this spirit and the defeat of those political forces which give expression to the striving for Canadian independence in one form or another. The U.S. government is dis- turbed by the first timid steps taken to withdrawn Canadian troops from NATO. It is dissa- tisfied with Canadian policy on the Arctic. It is not pleased with the measures taken to strengthen trade, cultural -and scientific relations with the USSR and those taken to norm- alize relations with the People’s Republic of China. The Nixon government doesn’t want a truly independent Canada; _ it wants a subordinate, compliant Canada. It calculates that there are economic and political for- ces in Canada, including ele- ments in the Canadian govern- ment, that oppose whatever limited steps may be taken un- der public pressure, to advance Canadian independence. The shift in in emphasis from foreign investments to that of improving U.S.-Canadian rela- military and industrial machine at the expense of the all-sided industrial development of Cana- da. No matter how it is sliced and how much it is denied, what is involved in these negotiations is whether Canada becomes a “hewer of wood and drawer of water, gas and oil” or. embarks on a full-fledged policy of in- dustrial development under Canadian control, based on public ownership of raw ma- terial resources, including ener- gy resources. Prime Minister Trudeau has denied that energy resources were part of the trade negotia- tions with the USA. This may be so but it is safe to say they were and are uppermost in the pressures of ithe Nixon govebn+ ment upon Canada. The fact is that overnmen Di need for improving these rela- tions. But it must start and be the Nixon tions :bears.-this:auts 5 2s No one can argue against ‘the, As this is being written U.S. President Nixon is in Peking, continuing his talks with Chair man Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. The word “peace” is pro- minent in their public speeches, and American political observ- ers say that “thorny” (for whom?) questions like Vietnam, Taiwan, relations with the Soviet Union and Japan will be avoided. Pravda political commentator Yuri. Zhukov wrote, “It is com- mon knowledge that the Soviet Union regards as natural steps towards normalization of rela- tions between the U.S. and the People’s Republic of China; however, only if this is not at the expense of other states. It “will be quite logical to deter- © mine the political essence of this Nixon visit to China ac- cording to its real meaning and results. “In doing so, we cannot dis- regard the evidence of the de- sire, both of the Peking leader- ship and of certain quarters in ‘Washington, to take advantage of the process of development of Chinese-American contacts to the prejudice of the relax- ation of the international ten- sion, against the interests of the socialist community.” Are there valid grounds for suspicion? On the U.S. side no one with eyes to see can doubt that the overtures to China have not in any way changed the aggres- sive course of American im- perialism. If anything, the esca- lation of the war in Indochina and renewed massive bombing of North Vietnam would sug- gest that Nixon feels more secure to do this in the sense of less apprehension of China’s entry in defense of Indochina. The Vietnamese themselves keep grimly repeating that the war will only end by negotia- tions at the Paris peace talks or on the battlefield, and not by way of any “deals” by anybody else. That’s pointed enough. How about People’s China? There have been changes. In © the recent past, according to press reports, about 250,000 in- tellectuals have fled to Hong @ Continued on page 10 __ Speaking at the CPUSA convention, Charlene Mitchell in her report on the campaign said that “this de- Se Mee atate xe cat wath Neti agate se