New foreign policy Continued from Page 5 the Sunday afternoon to ex- change views on ways and means to institute or continue activities for a new foreign poli- cy for Canada. These . groups were: Universities, Church, La- bor, Community, Agriculture. Special issues examined were Vietnam, Chile, Greece, and de- portation of Haitians. Co-chairmen of the Assembly were Chester A. Ronning and Yvon Charboneau. ° : The Assembly would have Canada play an active role in - the upcoming UN Disarmament Conference, extricate itself from the Defense Production Sharing Agreement with the U.S., reduce the military budget by 25-50% over the next two years, not to renew the NORAD Agreement, cease to participate in NATO military agreements, abandon the Suffield CBR Labs, and to . convert most of Canadian mili- tary industries to peaceful pro- duction. : The Assembly generally sup- ported Canada’s UN peace-keep- ing participation but urged that such activities should not divert the government from genuine peacemaking efforts at the poli- tical level. It favored Canada abandcning the Mutual Aid system for arms as a means of getting out of arms export and etablishing special precautions about the export: of civil goods which could be easily converted into military hardware. : While appreciating the im- portance of trade and commerce the Assembly was of the opinion that peace and security and so- cial justice should not be sub- ordinated to economic objectives as is presently the case in Can- ada’s foreign policy objectives. The Assembly was of the opinion that the government should con- trol foreign investment in Can- ada as well as the flight of Cana- dian capital abroad. That it should remove tariffs harmful to the development of third world countries and remove strings on Canadian aid to the developing countries, The diversification of Canda’s trading partners was advocated, including the importance of trad- ing“with the socialist countries. Advocated also was the estab- lishment of diplomatic relations ‘with the German Democratic Re- public and other countries and governments such as the. Peo- ple’s Republic of Korea and the Provisional Revolutionary Gov- ernment of South Vietnam. The Assembly urged the gov- Women’s ‘Year greeting card with the word PEACE issued to mark March 8 as International Women’s Day by organizations in Ecuador. An __ International PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1974—Page 10 ernment to take a stand on the continuing war in Southeast Asia by pressing for enforce- ment of the Paris Agreement and for the release of political prisoners in South Vietnam. The government was urged also to press for the implemen- tation of UN resolutions relating to the Middle East, for the early convening of. the Geneva .Con- ference, recognition of the. legiti- mate rights of the Palestinian Arab people including the right of self determination. The Assembly would have the government stop condoning the government of South Africa through maintaining Industry, | Trade and Commerce offices there to promote Canadian trade with South Africa; condemn the Pinochet regime in Chile, stop deportations to Haiti, and offer economic aid to Portugal in re- cognition of the massive changes in the government of that coun- try. The Tribune hopes to give fur- ther coverage to the work of the Assembly in a future issue. GDR greets Continued from Page 5 are reported to have been saying is something out of step with the times and the facts. . Thus Ottawa claims that the Ottawa-Berlin negotiations have supposedly been stalled almost from the beginning on the ques- tions of the bringing together of families whose members live both in Canada and the GDR. Firstly, every informed diplomat here knows that the final com- munique on the exchange’ of am- bassadors between Canada and the GDR has already been pre- pared and approved by both sides. Secondly, on the question of re-uniting divided ‘families, it is also known that the GDR has proposed a formula under which both sides would agree to con- sider every “humanitarian” ques- tion brought up by one side or the other. Thirdly, both socialist and capitalist countries in Europe recently agreed at the Geneva talks preparing a European Se- curity Conference, on the prin- ciple of the right of families to be re-united. That means that _there should be no further diffi- ‘culties in working{ out an agree- ment on this question between Ottawa and Berlin. A further Ottawa claim, that the GDR seems to have lost in- terest in diplomatic relations with Ottawa now that it has exchanged ambassadors with Washington violates all common sense and plain evidence provid- ed by GDR diplomacy in prac- tice. Firstly, ever since summer, when the last official negotia- tions took place in Warsaw be- tween the GDR and Canadian ambassadors to Poland, the GDR ambassadpr has used a number of diplomatic functions there to. approach the Canadian ambassa- dor without protocol and to im- EXPLOSIVE STRIKE ENDS McMASTERVILLE, Que. — A 12-week strike at the Canadian Industries Ltd. explosive plant in McMasterville is over. The 600 employees at the plant, members of the Syndicat des Travailleurs des Produits Chimiques de McMasterville (CNTU) ratified a two-year con- tract with the company last week. It calls for a total of 32.7% increases in wages and better working conditions and fringe benefits. PPP charges bauxite deal GEORGETOWN, Guyana — The People’s Progressive Party has charged the Burnham gov- ernment with making a secret deal with former Canadian- owned Demerara Buxite Compa- -ny nationalized in 1971. The terms of agreement work- ed out at that time, charges the PPP, have been changed in favor of the company. Originally, the agreement ‘was to pay Demerara $100-million at no interest to be paid out of profits over an inde- finite period. The new secretly negotiated terms now give the company $107-million at 6% interest (less a 25% withholding tax) to be paid out in 20 years. “This new agreement,” says. the PPP, “further entarnigles Guyana in the tenacles of imperialism by appointing a company with South African ties, Phillipp Bros., as selling agents of our bauxite .. .” U.S. envoy press on him the GDR’s continu- ing desire to bring negotiations to a conclusion, Secondly, the GDR has shown that it is inter- ested in relations with countries with population of less‘than one million as well as with those with over eight hundred million, such as China. This was clearly demonstrated during Prime Min- ister Horst Sindermann’s just completed official tour of various countries of the Middle East and - Asia. His trip took him to Iraq and Syria, both very much small- er than Canada, to tiny Kuwait, with its infinitesimal population of 150,000, then on to the more populated countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh, and finally to India with its more than five hundred million citizens. In all of these countries Sin- dermann made agreements on expansion of trade and other contact to the mutual advantage of all concerned. This week, closer to home, the GDR signed a new trade pact with Austria, with a population of about eight million, Yet Ottawa, which through Prime Minister Trudeau’s recent visit to Europe has intimated it wants contacts with other coun- tries in order to get out from under the load of U.S. domina- tion, doesn’t seem to be aware of how other countries are pro- fiting from precisely such con- tacts. with the GDR and other socialist countries. - : All Canada has to do it to fol- low the lead of all’ the other developed capitalist countries, including the USA, which want business with the GDR as much as Canada needs it but who have gone after it while Ottawa has merely been watching the world go by on this question. As far as the GDR is concern- ed, it can be said with greatest authority that it is ready to sign documents and the final commu- nique now gathering dust. U.S. JOBLESS WASHINGTON — Nearly six million persons were out of work in the United States last month as the unemployment rate jump- ed to 6.5%, the highest level in Ss years, the government report- ; The November increase in the jobless rate, from October’s 6% level, prompted the White House to acknowledge the economy is deteriorating more rapidl anticipated. See ne Liberals welcomed SIU | Continued from Page 5 it was the only thing closely resembling a Canadian merchant navy in embryo. This task, plus: the govern- ment’s eagerness to get into the cold war, also called for the smashing of democratic union- ism, behind a smoke-screen of anti-communism and its replace- ment by the Seafarers’ Interna- tional Union, imported from the USA. : In 1948 the Canadian Sea- men’s Union was again engaged in a strike against two shipping companies. : On July 3, 1948, the Canadian Tribune ran a front page picture of Humphrey Mitchell and com- mented: “Here is Humphrey Mitchell, Dominion Minister of Labor. “Like Pontius Pilate, he wash- es his hands of responsibility in the strike of the Canadian Sea- men’s Union. _ “He won’t budge. He bumbles and mumbles and dodges and ducks, “He said the seamen’s strike is a ‘jurisdictional dispute’ al- though commissioners he .him- self appointed reported that the companies are wholly wrong,\ and that the CSU is right. “The seamen want recogni- tion of their union and the 48- hour week.. The companies re- fuse, under the camouflage of the “red bogey.” Mackenzie King and Mitchell give them aid and comfort. And while Humphrey Mitchell bumbled.and mumbled and dodg- ed and ducked, he also stalled for time, to allow another union come in to raid the CSU. His stalling lasted until Sept. 15, 1948, when the Seamen’s Inter- national Union, directed by one of Mitchell’s cronies, Frank Hall entered the Canadian scene to break the strike. : Later the SIU, aided by the Liberal government -and some labor bodies that were enraptur- ed with the cold war hysteria, broke the seamen’s strike. A militant chapter of Canadian trade union history closed with the defeat of the Canadian Sea- men’s Union, But the debt of the OO Adventure NEW YEAR IN MOSCOW ALL INCLUSIVE DEPARTURE 26 DECEMBER RETURN 8 JANUARY 7 DAYS IN MOSCOW ‘5 DAYS IN LENINGRAD SIX THEATRE PERFORMANCES IN THE HEIGHT OF THE THEATRICAL SEASON ‘To reserve space or for further information. please contact The experts in travel to the USSR GLOBE TOURS 2679 Hastings Street East/Vancouver B.c./253-122! : SIU to the Liberals remained 0 7. be paid. ~ 5 * The SIU has probably beet y= paying back that debt to succes: 7. sive Liberal governments {0f. h years. This government has been caught collecting on its lone — standing usury. z Suing Whelan. “Mtr over rotten eggs \: “hes TORONTO — Mike Carsoty 6j president of the Ontario. Anti- &.) Poverty Organization is takin ce the Federal Minister of Agricul Yom ture, the National Farm Product Me, Marketing Council, and the C4 Mey nadian Egg Marketing Agency Aite to court. “tire Carson, rt and all the egg consumers © ep; Canada is suing because *® dio, minister and the agencies hal Me destroyed. at least 28 millioa eggs. The statement of claim ac: cuses the government of p0 planning that resulted in “nigh price levels for eggs.” r The ‘statement also allege> Nd that “through incorrect and ne” ligent calculations on the part © the Agency with respect to t levels of egg production and ess ‘hily quotas and further with respec’ tp to incorrect and negligent as (0 lations in relation to the pric paid by the said Agency tO © various provincial market! R: Boards for surplus eggs,” C4™ dian consumers were “deprivé of the opportunity to purch eggs at a reasonable price, sf were deprived of the opportu! o to purchase and consume eg; | which otherwise were availabl ] 200,000 collectors The Soviet Philatelic Soci (stamp collectors) has 200 members. Founded in: 1966, | Society has, during the past fo A ta cl years gained 38,000 more ad Le philatelists and about 50, ] oun ople. oh A . Soe to. mark the sm anniversary of the victory ° io ; German fascism, an intern? ay 7 nat exhibition ‘“Socphilex a will take place in Moscow, lio 4 8-18, organized by the Philate™ Vi representin himself” if P a in as) he ts TWIN BASIS @ FROM MONTREAL