The fourth plenary session of
the Berlin Conference of Catho-

\nderscored the necessity for
‘Ooperation between Christians,
arxists and all forces interest-
‘d in securing peace in Europe.
| Notwithstanding _ passionate
éliscussions and differences in
etailed questions there was
stomplete unanimity on the need
efor an all-European conference
-°n security and cooperation, as
elhe best road toward collective
-S€curity based on the peaceful
n0existence of states with differ-
s*Nt social orders.

-| The forum also unanimously
e’dvocated the recognition of the
dSDR under international law by
gall European states.

f/ The presence of 250 Catholic
elersonalities from 23 European
r“ountries, 50% of whom came
y tom non-socialist countries, tes-
jlified to the broad commitment
e'0 the subject of the meeting.
2 The participants included 50
2 Miests, apostolic administrators,
‘relates and other church digni-
» tries. One-third of all partici-
Yants responded for the first
> ‘Ime to an invitation from the
> “Ontinuation Committee of the
f*trlin Conference.

>> In conference circles it was
‘Pointed out that the Secretary-
1“eneral of the Papal Commis-
1ion Justitia et Pax, Monsignore
»Stemillion, sent a message to
the Berlin meeting. The United
Nations Secretariat, prominent
“ardinals and bishops from many

atholics and Marxists
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western European countries also
sent messages of greetings. Ob-
servers attended from the Chris-
tion Peace Conference and the
World Peace Council.

The conference not only dis-
cussed questions of European
security but dealt with hotbeds
of crises and conflicts created
by imperialism in other parts of
the world. At the final plenary
session, impassioned demands
were raised for an end to the
criminal U.S. war in Indochina, a
peaceful settlement of the Mid-
dle East crisis on the basis of
the UN Security Council resolu-
tion of November 1967, as well
as for a solution of the Indo-
Pakistani conflict and the prob-
lems in northern Ireland.

Participants in the conference
also expressed solidarity with
the national liberation move-
ments in Africa as well as with

all other peoples fighting for na- _

tional independence and social
justice. This is manifested by
the general resolution adopted
with large majority.

The meeting of Catholics from
European states extended frater-
nal greetings to all believers
who together with all people of
good will are practising Pacem
in Terris (Peace on Earth). They
reiterated their determination to
intensify cooperation with other
Christian and secular peace

movements and to put into prac-

tice the resolutions passed in
Berlin.
—UWE VOELSCHOW,

ADN editor, Berlin

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A clear call to action

The campaign for full employment
launched by the Canadian Labor Con-
gress will be welcomed by all Canadian
working people.

Calling on all its affiliates to partici-
pate fully in the country-wide demand
for government action to guarantee
jobs for all Canadians, the CLC cam-
paign can.serve to generate the mighty
power of united labor around the sin-
gle, most pressing issue facing the
workers—jobs, and an end to rampag-
ing unemployment.

During the last two years provincial
federations, labor councils and_local

‘ unions, as well as the Communist Party

of Canada, have called on the CLC to
undertake just this kind of campaign.

It can become a truly massive cam-
paign if the CLC invites and encour-
ages the unity in action of all organiz-
ed labor.

This labor unity can in turn become
the powerful basis for an even greater
one, the unity of labor with all the
democratic forces of our country.

The Communist Party in 1969 ad-
vanced the slogans of “1,000,000 new
jobs” and “A job or an adequate income
for all Canadians as a right.” They
became the rallying ery of tens of thou-
sands of organized workers in struggles
against unemployment.

Now with the CLC full employment
campaign, millions of workers, those
with jobs and the unemployed, can ad-
vance in a great, united struggle for
jobs and against monopoly.

1972 opens with a resounding call to
action!

The way ahead

Who in his right mind chooses to
float in polluted waters? Canada’s Fin-
ance Minister Benson, evidently.

As one of its architects, he gleefully
applauds the Group of Ten decision that
the Canadian dollar is to be allowed
to continue to float, finding its level, he
hopes, below that of the devalued U.S.
dollar.

We cannot share his merriment.

The waters on which the Canadian
dollar is now floating teem with the
wreckage of the throne on which the
U.S. dollar so long squatted. The deep
economic and monetary crisis of U.S.
imperialism is directly attributable to
its desire to exercise political, economic
and military sway over the capitalist
world. Through devaluation of its dol-
lar, U.S. prestige has now suffered a
serious blow.

Mr. Nixon announces the lifting of
the U.S. 10% surcharge on imports.
But what of the wage-freeze he impos-
ed on the American workers? It’s still
very much “on.” For it is on the work-
ers’ backs in all capitalist countries
that monopoly unloads its crises.

The capitalist press in Canada speaks
of three concessions our country is ex-
pected to have to make to the United
States in return for removal of the 10%
surcharge and for the continued float-
ing of the Canadian dollar: Changes in
the auto trade pact that will cost thou-
sands of jobs; increasing the amount
of purchases Canadian tourists can
make in the USA; and, most despicable,
to hu U.S

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_There’s a fourth concession, already
silently agreed to by the most reaction-
ary section of Canadian monopoly and
one the press doesn’t mention. That’s
the one that calls for pooling Canada’s
natural and energy resources with the
United States, whose own resources
are rapidly depleting.

_ These are mighty dangerous waters
indeed, the kind that can submerge
Canadian independence.

For the future of the working people
and of our country’s economy there are
other waters, great, open and calm
waters, beckoning. We nosed into them
when Canada and the Soviet Union in
1971 concluded their pacts of friend-
ship and mutual confidence, for ex-
changes of trade, science and culture.

The economy of the socialist coun-
tries is a stable economy. It knows no
recessions or crises, monetary or any

.other kind. There is no unemployment,

only growth, building for the happin
and welfare of the Teople. De

The recent Gallup poll, showing that
67% of Canadians “endorse closer ties”
with the USSR, simply confirms what
the peoples of both countries had al-
ready evinced.

This is the way ahead for Canada in
1972 — for peace, for Canadian inde-
pendence, for jobs and social progress!

Season's greetings

This is the season when people wi
one another health and henninee: mae
the age-old cry wells up from the
depths of humanity for “peace on earth
and good will among men,” when we
ring out the old year and ring in the
new, resolving to make it better than
the one before.

We extend warm season’s greetings
to all our readers. We wish them and
their loved ones the very best. We ex-
tend the wishes also to all Canadian
working people, to our brothers and sis-
ters of all nations, races and countries.

But it takes more than wishes to win
peace and friendship, to create the con-
ditions for health and happiness. It
takes action—long and sustained, unit-
ed and courageous effort.

For generations, for centuries—aye,
for milleniums !—the people were offer-
ed hope—the hope inspired by sages
and martyrs, the hope defiled on the
dips of canting priests and slavemas-
ters. Today we can replace hope by con-
fidence, wishes by action, martyrdom
by victory.

In our century Man is rising, taking
the fate of humanity in his own hands,
establishing peace on that part of the
globe where he is already the master,
advancing it over the whole of the
world.

Some people want to turn the clock
of history back to the Middle Ages.
Some already want to undo the first
steps to discard the cold war which
were taken by Canada earlier in the
year. But their efforts are in vain.
Humanity’s road lies forward—to so-
cialism—not back to robber barons and
the inquisition rack. Canada’s road in-
evitably must follow in 1972 the steps
begun in 1971.

So we wish you hard and happy work
and struggle in the New Year.

That way lies victory for our fondest
aspirations, —__