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tell Ottawa: Enough!

Two marches on Ottawa to
protest and to end Canadian
complicity in the U.S. war in
Vietnam are planned by peace
activists in Montreal and Toron-
to.

The dates? February 27 and
28 for a two-day Ottawa demon-
stration which will see an estim-
ated/ 10,000 students from a
wide spectrum of Canadian uni-
versities, colleges and high
schools answer the call of the
McGill Moratorium Committee
to march under the banner —
“Enough!”

And Saturday, April 18 for
the March on Ottawa from To-
ronto and other Ontario areas,
as well as from Quebec, an-
nounced by the Spring Action
Conference of the Toronto Viet-

"nam Mobilization Committee.

Steve Howard, a member of
the executive of the McGill
Committee, told the Canadian
Tribune in Montreal, “The theme
of the Feb. 27-28 student protest
in Ottawa |is to end Canadian
complicity in Vietnam. We also
want Canada to change its im-
migration policy towards U.S.
war resisters . . . We intend to
express our solidarity with the
American anti-war efforts.”

Feb. 27 is expected to be de-
voted to a giant folk festival-
type gathering at thé University
of Ottawa. Saturday, the 28th,
will see the hosts of students
parade to Parliament Hill where
speakers will address them at
2 p.m.

Action theme of the Saturday,
April 18 March to Ottawa is
“End Canada’s Complicity —
Withdraw U.S. Troops Now!”

The Spring Action Conference
of the Toronto Vietnam Mobiliz-
ation Committee, held on Feb.
21 in that city’s Queen Street
United Church, unanimously en-
dorsed the VMC’s proposals for
the April 18 march and agreed
it be the “central action of our

spring peace offensive.”

It will come as the culmina-
tion of a week of world-wide
protests called by the American
anti-war movement.

Mrs. Phyllis Clarke, VMC exe-
cutive member, addressing the
conference spoke of the linkup
between the Vietnam war and
problems now confronting the
Canadian people. “By our March
on Ottawa,” she declared, “we
must make Trudeau reverse his
position. For two years, as far
as peace for Vietnam is concern-
ed, he’s been simply waiting for
his friend Nixon.” :

In the submission to the con-
ference of the VMC executive's
proposal that the April 18 March
to Ottawa relate the Vietnam
war to other areas of concern to
Canadians, George Addison,
executive secretary, said, “Viet-
nam is the number one issue’ in
the world. It unites us, and has
awakened the masses to what
it’s all about.”

The conference called on all
peace movements and organiza-
tions to undertake the mobiliza-
tion of their own members for

‘the Ottawa march, and stressed

the importance of all efforts to
have large trade union participa-
tion in it.

The April 18 “March on Ot-
tawa” will travel from Toronto
to the Canadian capital by train,
leaving Toronto’s Union Station
at 7:00 a.m. Costs of the round
trip will be $10 for adults and $5
for students and unemployed.

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WORLD SCENE

TIDE.OF STRUGGLE RISING IN INDIA

The meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
of India, Feb. 7-9 noted a mounting struggle of the poorest peasants,
farm-hands and tribes for land and against many forms of oppres-
sion. It also discussed the defeat sustained by the reactionary for-
ces, headed by the Jan Sangh-Swatantra bloc and the Congress
Organization. The last is a splinter from the ruling Indian National
Congress and is headed by the reactionary group known as the
“Syndicate” which opposes Premier Gandhi’s policies. The Central
Committee discussed plans to step up the struggle against the
reactionary parties and to expand the mass movement against the
monopolies and for radical agrarian reform.

ASK REMOVAL OF BAN ON CP OF GERMANY

More than 500 prominent trade unionists, professors, teachers,
and others of various political opinions have signed an appeal to
the Government and Bundestag of West Germany to lift the ban
on the Communist Party of Germany, banned in 1956. Otto Schoen-
feld made the appeal on behalf of the Central Workers’ Circles for
Lifting the Ban on the Communist Party of Germany, to which
Social Democrats, Free Democrats, Communists, members of the
Christian Democratic Union, and other organizations belong.

MORE PERSECUTION IN SOUTH AFRICA

Charges against 22 Africans arrested under the Suppression of
Communism Act were dropped, but all the defendants were imme-
diately detained again under the South African Anti-Terrorism Act.
The accused include Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela,
who led the outlawed African National Congress until his arrest
in 1964. Mandela now is serving a life sentence on a penal island
off..the South African coast. They, were accused of attempting ito

revive the Congress.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 27, 1970—Page 4

U.S. President Richard M. Nixon is

going all-out to win for
States what he calls an

North American Energy: Market.” He
has instructed the State Department to
actively seek a common energy resour-

ces policy with Canada.

A White House spokesman said that
U.S.A.-Canada discussions would in-

visit to the United States nea:.,
a year ago. There is every rea-
son to deduce that he came to
some secret agreement on this
question with President Nixon.

Since then there have been
frequent official meetings, inclu-
ding a visit to Washington by
Energy, Mines and Resources
Minister J. J. Greene, to explore

The Communist Party of
Canada sent an open letter
to all political parties and
MP’s regarding the propo-
sals to integrate Canada’s’
energy resources with those
of the United States.

The Administrative Assist-
ant to the Premier of New
Brunswick, and the Executive
Secretary of the Prime Min-
ister, sent formal acknow-
ledgements of receipt of the
Communist Party's position.

Mr. T. C. Douglas, natio-
nal leader of the New De-

_mocratic Party answered:

“Please be assured that
the New Democratic Party is
unalterably opposed to any
sell-out of Canada’s energy
resources. | am sending you
a copy of a recent statement
that | made to the press on
this matter. . . . In addition,
| am sending you a copy of
a policy statement that was
passed by the Federal Exe-
cutive of the NDP on the
Greene-Hickel discussions.
We in the New Democratic
Party believe that the issue
of Canadian economic inde-
pendence is now, and will
continue to be, the central
issue of this decade. | am
sure that you are aware of
the political content of our
stand in favour of indepen-
dence from the resolutions
that were passed at our re-
cent Federal Convention in
Winnipeg. You can be as-
sured that this is a matter
that we will not give up on.”

the subject with the U.S. Secre-
tary of the Interior, Walter
Hickel.

President Nixon says that the
securing of Canada’s vast, un-
tapped reserves of energy by
U.S. monopoly — hydro-power,
natural gas, petroleum, uranium
and coal—could be a formal
reality within 12 to 14 months,
although the physical implemen-
tation of the policy would take
longer.

The United States govern-
ment is putting on the pressure,
and they know where to apply

the squeeze—in the area of pro-

fits. The United States is threat- ©

ening to cut back imports of
Canadian oil from $00,000: bar-
rels to 600,000 barrels per
month.

Already the ‘propaganda! ex: ”

~ Plan would make Canada
a warehouse for U.S.A.

By WILLIAM BEECHING

the United
“Integrated

perts are at work dressing up
the latest betrayal of Canada’s
sovereign interests. Nixon’s
statement said, “All members
agree that a unique degree of
security can be afforded by
moving toward an_ integrated
North American energy market.”

Boiled down to its essence, it
means that, because U.S. raw
materials sources are endanger-
ed by the growing movements
against imperialism, Canada’s
reserves can provide a secure
source of raw materials for a
long time. Quite obviously the
U.S. State Department gives a
clean bill of health to the Tru-
deau Administration. Canadians

-may be sure that big monopoly

will increase its efforts to try to
make certain that Canadians do
not elect a government inimical
to American monopoly’s inter-
ests.

The whole scheme aims to
give the United States a certain
“self sufficiency” in the event of
war. Therefore, any continental
pooling. of resources must - of

necessity bind Canada even

closer to the plans of American
imperialism, and further limit
Canada’s ability to be neutral,
or to distinguish itself from.U.S.
imperialism’s -war making
around the world.

Just to what extent have the
plans for integration gone
ahead? The then U.S. Secretary
of the Interior, Stewart Udall,
stated in 1963, that there was a
U.S.-Canadian government plan,
and that the two governments
were moving in the direction of
creating a gigantic pool of their
combined natural resources.”

Recently the capitalist press
announced that two contracts
had been let for natural gas pipe
lines, one from Alberta, and one
from Saskatchewan, which are
expected to be in service by the
end of the year.

All this makes Harold Winch’s
concern about the need to estab-

clude U.S. access to the North West
passage for both tankers and pipe lines,
This means free access to the waters
the north for the U.S. monopolies, an@
pipe lines across the North West Tert
tories to link up with Edmonton, an@
then on to the United States. i

Talks on this question broke opel
following Prime Minister TrudeaU®

. 20 years are in conflict wi

lish Canadian surveillance df
our northern waters because ©
a possible threat of Soviet ° af
marines seem not just silly,
ridiculous and irresponsible: F
J. J. Greene has announ
his willingness to give gU that
tees to the United States a
the needs of American f
poly will be met first, regardl@
of Canadian needs. This m@
that water taps in. Canada?
run dry, and industry may va
to a-standstill, if the watet m)
power and raw materials n&"

are insufficient to provide ®
U.S. and Canadian needs.
The future of Canada dé
on the defeat of these '
monopoly interests. The fa%
that the policies followed by t
federal governments — 4 yo
Tory and Liberal—for th “ae
main trend of world devel
ment, They are policies
shut Canada off from the wel
wide possibilities of exP4™
Canada’s enormous’ res? ‘
give’ it'a potential for dram
expansion. The Nixon-It i
policy is an anti-national Por
the ultimate in the betrayt
the national interests of Cas
‘Canadian jobs -have bee
ported to the United Stat
plan for the developme? ad
industrialization of Cari
could mean a whole round
dustrial growth for our COV" 4
a higher standard of living
end to unemployment 4 wl
expansion of social se
education and housing, } of
of their deliberate curtail
There are forces—the og
ers, farmers,. small ae
men and other sections .
ciety—who do not bene” i.
these sell-out plans of : the
poly. They are the fore plate
can defeat. monopoly § jie
and replace them with |
whichvare in the interes

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