MARCH ON WASHINGTON NOV. 27

Stop Viet bloodshed, profs urge LB)

A giant march on Washington for peace in Vietnam has been set for Saturday,
November 27, and will follow a convention of committees to end the Vietnam war which
will meet in the U.S. capitol November.25-28. Meanwhile, more than 644 professors
and staff members from 49 universities; colleges and institutes called on President John-
son to “Stop the Bloodshed in Vietnam.”

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Compensation boost long
overdue, but more needed

“"TIncreases in Workmen’s
Compensation Board allowances
for disabled workmen, widows
and dependent children, and in-
creased funeral allowances, are
as welcome as they are over-
due,’”” Nigel Morgan, Provincial
Leader of the Communist Party
stated this week.

“Raising of the maximum
earnings for determination of
compensation payments to $550.
per month (the highest in Can-
ada) and provision for an annual
review and revision in accordance
with. the consumer price index
represents an important ad-

~ vance,”?

“Credit for the additional
‘twenty million dollars W.C.B,
recipients will get this year
should go to the labor movement
of this province—particularly the
trade unions, the N.D.P, MLAs,

and others like the Communist
Party, which pressed for impli-
mentation of the Tysoe Commis-
sion fiscal recommendations
without waiting for the next ses-
sion of the Legislature when the
full report is expected,’’ Morgan
stated,

‘*Action on a number of other
questions examined by the Tysoe:
Commission in the four-year
long hearings such as the princi-
ple of ‘payment for loss of func-
tion, instead of loss of income’;
silicosis and industrial deafness,
and compression sickness; as
well as more adequate provisions
for workmen’s appeals, are an-
xiously awaited,’’ he said.

‘*Compensation Act changes
will likely emerge as one of
the major questions atnext Janu-
ary’s Legislative session,
Morgan said.

In an advertisement in the
N.Y. Times they also took note
of the harassment that has been
unleashed by the Administration
against critics of its war policy.
The signers of the advertisement
vowed they would continue their
protest and would seek to win
support for their position from
colleagues and students,

Their statement said that ‘‘the
war in Vietnam is continuing
with ever-increasing human
suffering, mounting destruction
and diminishing hope for a just
and speedy resolution,”’

**A year ago the war in South }’

Vietnam was a civil war, even
though opposing factions were

instigated, supported and sup- |

plied from the outside, by both
the U.S, and North Vietnam, To-
day the struggle has become
Overwhelmingly a war conducted
by American armed forces
against a communist-led revolu=-
tionary movement,

“The people of Vietnam of all
political beliefs have been the
unwilling and helpless victims
of bombs and fire, The Ameri-
can people themselves are under=

going a brutalizing and degrad- |

ing experience. They are coming
to view without concern the in-
human suffering being inflicted
in their name against a defense-
less population.

“Mr. President, now is the
time to put an end to the kill-
ing,’’ says the appeal, It charges
that American intervention ‘‘is
now much greater than the inter-
vention from the North,’’ and

Ae ok OMAN CHUN ea

To the President of the United States

STOP THE. BLOODSHED IN VIETNAM

The above ad which occupied almost
a full page in last Sunday's N.Y.
Times was signed by more than 644
leading educationalists in the U.S.

~ Brazilian dictatorship ‘made in

‘The dissolution recently of all
political parties in Brazil by Gen,
Humberto Castelo Branco is a
confession of failure by Wash-
ington in its efforts to destroy
the resistance of the Brazilian
people to the efforts of U.S,
imperialism to impose a puppet
military dictatorship on that vast
and rich country,

The Pentagon, the Central In-
telligence Agency andimperialist
agents who now dominate the
State Department have decided
to rule Brazil with the naked
force of a military dictatorship,

Castelo. Branco’s military
junta, which had been installed
by Washington in a brutal putsch,
had demonstrated its ineffectu-
ality, despite the pouring-in of
hundreds of millions of dollars
of U.S, taxpayers’ money and
the imposition of all kinds of
restrictions upon the Brazilian

- people’s democratic rights,

The final straw was the recent
elections, Castelo Branca and his
Washington guides had obviously
underestimated the opposition of
the Brazilian people, or they
would not have called for the
elections. :

The provincial elections prov-
ed a-complete rout for the puppet
military junta, That the Brazilian
people were determined to show
their disapproval of all rightist
forces was demonstrated in the

' smashing defeat. of Gov, Carlos
Lacerda and his cohorts, rivals
of Castelo Branca for the favor
of U.S. imperialism,

Unable to vote for any other
democratic parties, the Brazilian
people threw their votes to the
Social Democratic party of form-
er President Kubitchek, who had
been shorn of. his political rights
for a period extending for the
next ten years,

Washington moved hastily to

.. the next stage of its operations in
Latin America, the imposition of-

outright brutal dictatorship,

This stage had already been
mapped at a conference in Rio
de Janeiro last August of a num-
ber of Latin American generals,
which was presided over by As-
sistant Secretary ofState Thomas
Mann,

It has become clear that Brazil
is to be the center of all of
Washington’s operations to de-
stroy democracy in all the Latin
American countries, Ever since
the Pentagon installed Castelo
Branco as puppet military dis-
tator, Washington has been build-
ing up Brazil for this subversive
operation,

Recently, Emilio Masquero,
head of the Catholic Confederation
of Latin American Christian
Trade Unions, revealed that U.S.
monopolies are investing huge
sums in Brazil in the building of
heavy armaments and military
equipment plants, ‘‘Brazil is be=
ing turned into a U.S, arsenal,’’
Masquero declared,

That Washington is preparing
for its operation to take over in

the rest of Latin America is
disclosed in reports coming in
from many countries in the south-
ern half of the Western Hemis-
phere,

Luis Hernandez Parker, anoted

Chilean newspaperman, explain-'

ed; ‘‘When necessary, these of-
ficers will be able to take such
delicate posts as the ministry
of finance, ministry of economics
and ministry of foreign affairs,”’

Obviously, Washington believes
this is ‘*necessary’’ now. The
Johnson administration has been
unable to weld an anti-Commu=
nist front among the governments

of Latin America, f

' Washington is alarmed that

this parley may get completely:

out of hand. There certainly was
nothing encouraging for U.S, im-=
perialism in a _ statement of
Chilean President Eduardo Frei
to U.S, Ambassador Averell Har=
riman four months ago, As re«
ported by Hernandez Parker, in
the Chilean magazine, Ersilla,
Frei, a Catholic who heads the
Christian Democratic party, told
Harriman:

“For you communism is a red
menace, However, the commu-
nism we know in Chile is some=
thing quite different, In general
features, it is a social and politi-
cal phenomenon, It is a Party
getting the support of the masses,
Apart from existing on the ter-
ritory of Chile it is also a party
of our people, And the things tak-

ing place in Chile hold good for

the whole of Latin America, ..

“Communists

‘This kind of communism: can
never be vanquished by means of
repressions, police and military
measures, aS your government
proposes, When the ‘so-called
law on the defense of democracy,
which you want to spread to the
whole continent, was in force in
Chile, we fought against this law
and were quite right in doing so,
because after these 11 years,
the Communist Party of Chile
gained even greater strength...

‘*It seems to me that the Ameri-
cans fail to understand why the
strengthen their
positions in the less developed

says that ‘‘the only victory to
which this massive military ac- ~
tion may lead is a conquest of
a decimated South Vietnam by
the United States. Surely the
American people do not seek
such a victory,

‘We ask you to stop the blood=
shed now. We ask you to order
an immediate halt to the des-
truction of villages and to the
burning of people’s food lest it
fall into enemy hands, Stop the
bombing raids and the waging
of offensive military operations.

“Let us. give the people of
Vietnam the chance to work out
their own peace, as promised by
the Geneva Pact of 1954, regard-,
less of what form of government
they. may choose, The actions
of the world should undertake

-) to guarantee such a peace, eee

“Mr. President, we cannot
support your Vietnam policy, The
current threats to investigate
protests by students or other
critics will not deter us from
speaking out against a wrong and
immoral policy. d

‘We shall oppose your pres-
ent policy in Vietnam openly
and vigorously, Only thus can
we do our part in trying to bring
about peace and to protect the
moral integrity of our nation,’’
concludes the ad,

U.S.A.’

countries, They strengthen them

‘because they are working for

some profound changes in the ©
social structure, . .’’

It is because of this attitude of —
Latin American governmental
leaders and, more importantly, ©
because of the rising struggles
of the peoples for freedom from
exploitation by U.S, imperialism
and for the right to determine
their own destinies that Washing-
ton is now resorting to out-right
dictatorship as the- means of
control, The dissolution of parties
in Brazil is the first step,

SUDBURY WORKERS HAIL VICTORY. Photo shows Mine Mill members cheering
the announcement on Oct. 28 that the Ontario Labor Relations Board had or-
dered a vote. On Nov. 5 the OLRB rejected Steel's application for a certification
vote at Falconbridge on the grounds that less than 45% of the employees were
members of Steel. The OLRB on Wed., Nov. 3, awarded Mine Mill top place 0"
the ballot in the forthcoming vote which is expected in two to three weeks.

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