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pelled to deal with issues they
fully intended to keep under the
rug until after the vote.
Canadian independence, equal
voluntary partnership of French
and English Canada, a plan to
build the Canadian economy to
provide two and a half million

new jobs and raise living stand- —

ards through nationalization of
the energy and natural re-
sources, protection of the family
farm — the politicians and the
press are compelled by life —
and the Communist campaign —
to take these issues up, how-
ever gingerly.

Continued public pressure can
place these real issues in the
very forefront before long.

The workers and farmers, and
in particular those sections of
the organized labor movement
that are affiliated to the NDP,
will advance the people’s cause
immeasurably by convincing the
NDP leaders to more realistical-
ly face up to these issues, dis-
carding the Right-wing pose
as an alternative Liberal party.

The real issues insist on being
dealt with. Those who voice
them need the utmost support.

The Communist Party is be-
ginning the coast-to-coast distri-
bution of its election platform.
Communist leader William Kash-
tan is touring Quebec, Ontario,
Western Canada. Communist
candidates are campaigning in
thirty ridings, bringing the is-
sues to the attention of the
public everywhere t hrough
meetings, _ leaflets,

canvassing. :
Help to provide them with the

sinews of war — finances — and
the muscle — electioneering
work — and let the 1972 federal
election mark a basic turn in
our country’s policies. —J.W:

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publicity,

Sport and politics

The result of the four Canada-USSR
hockey games played in Canada and of
the Summer Olympics in Munich has
made many Canadians take a deeper
look at the state of physical fitness and
sport in our country. Basic questions
are being asked and discussed, such as
‘state responsibility for health and phy-
sical fitness programs and opportuni-
ties, mass participatory and commer-
cial spectator sport, amateur and pro-
fessional status, and sportsmanship.

Canadians, just as the Americans,
have been jolted out of the illusions
about our superiority in the realm of
sport and physical fitness. The truly
amazing showing of the athletes from
the socialist countries in international
contests in particular has shaken faith
in the concepts that have become rooted
during recent decades. While some of
the discussion still seems to look for
gimmicks to explain the changes, more
and more people are fixing their atten-
tion on fundamental questions, the re-
lationship between general health care,
physical fitness programs and the devel-
opment of sport on a mass scale — and
the responsibility of government for
this.

In a socialist society the solution of
this problem stems naturally from the
nature of the society itself, while here
responsibility for this important realm
of human welfare is relegated to the
individual, to sports moguls who are out
to make money, and at best to the
meagre effort that can be made with
limited finances in the communities.

There is no reason why this should
continue. The phrases “participatory
democracy” and “just society” have be-
come a mockery, but there is no reason
why the people can’t change all that.
Even in sport.

Can Canada afford to spend the
money necessary to provide our people,
above all the rising generation, with
conditions for good health and physical
fitness, for the development of sport
and athletics?

Other countries can, why can’t we?

Yes, sport is a political matter. It .

should occupy a relevant place in the
present federal election campaign.

Because of its importance and be-
cause masses of Canadians are deeply
interested in it, the Tribune has under-
taken to devote a page to sports in
every issue. We hope this addition will
meet with our readers’ approval and
that they will contribute to make it a
success.

Grossly misleading

In last Saturday’s issue of The To-
ronto Star, the paper’s executive editor
Mark Harrison retracted, in a weasely
sort of way, the anti-labor “poll” story
carried in that paper’s weekend Cana-
dian Magazine of September 9, which
was roundly condemned editorially in
last week’s Tribune.

“Star story was accurate but grossly
misleading, says editor’ — reads the
heading over Mr. Harrison’s article.
The “accuracy” evidently consisted in
accurately reporting the “findings” of
a fake poll of.a limited circle of persons
answering “loaded” questions. The es-

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sential descriptions of the story —
“grossly misleading” — means that it
was not only inaccurate but false.

While Mr. Harrison takes a good
deal of space detailing how this “poll”
was manufactured, he covers up the
fact that this was not an isolated case,
an accident, but an expression of the
paper’s policy, which feeds its readers
on anti-labor bias, anti-Soviet “scares”
and reactionary. opinions day in,- day
out, in “news” as well as editorials.

This particular item was too raw, the
readers couldn’t swallow it, so it had
to be withdrawn. But the general policy
continues.

Stronger public reaction can probably
compel Right-wing publishers and edit-
ors to draw in their horns still further.

Height of hypocracy

: Of course, terrorism is senseless—it
is born either of despair or of criminal

_ conspiracy. Terrorism should be eradi-

cated.

But to eradicate it you need more
than pious wishes, loud denunciation or
technical safeguards. The root causes
that provoke it, and the climate of vio-
lence in which it unfolds, must be done
away with. =

It is the height of hypocrisy for the
U.S. to declaim against the Palestinian
Black September group that was re-
sponsible for the Munich terrorist
action when it daily for years is per-
petrating the most horrible of terrorist
— genocidal and ecocidal — crimes
against the men, women and children
and the very soil of Indochina. :

It is the height of hypocrisy for the
warlords of Israel to stir up a frenzy
of anti-Arab chauvinism over the crime
at Munich when it continues its aggres-
sion against its Arab neighbors, its per-
secution of the Palestinian Arabs, its
ne ang air apis in the Nixon tradi-

lon, burning villages an i
children in Tekan ees

By all means, let us take all the neces-
Sary precautions against terrorist ac-
tions (the Soviet Olympics Committee’s
plea at the beginning of the Games that
safeguards should be guaranteed at
Munich went unheeded, for example)
But don’t let condemnation of individ.
ual acts of terrorism become a smoke-
screen for justifying the wholesale
terrorism against innocent people by
governments —the U.S. in Vietnam and
U.S.-backed Israel in the Middle East

Stop coddling terrorist ultra-Right
groupings for Cold War aims.
eels above ay act to bring to an end

e horrors being perpetrated i i
nam, in the Middle Fest. ie ioe

They themselves say...

_ When the smoke clears after th -
tions in Canada and the U.S., rae eee
contentions between Washington and
Ottawa will surface again. The new
U.S. president, whoever he is, will un-
doubtedly then. take strong measures
to sort out the U.S. balance of payments
problems. The results of this for Can-
he ce be wap saaaat, but the Cana-

voters won’t be aff
until after they vote. oo

—Financial Post, Sept. 9

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