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US.-SAIGON
PEACE SABOTAGE HIT
PARIS—There can be no per-
Regent peace in Vietnam until
se U.S. and Saigon stop sabo-
ene the Vietnam. peace agree-
ma and. carry out its provi-
Ons. a Provisional Revolution-
ht Government of South Viet-
Hel Tepresentative said on
Wednesday in Paris. PRG Mini-
Ster of State Nguyen Van Hieu
Ee ented a three-point ‘plan for
Oring peace on Wednesday

at the 10th meeting between
PRG and Saigon representatives.

The plan called for: 1) imme-
diate withdrawal of forces in
‘South Vietnam ‘to lines held on
January 28. when the cease-fire
began; 2) immediate talks on
cease-fire enforcement between
local PRG-Saigon commanders:
3) establishment of clearly-de-
fined communications corridors
aftet determining areas control-
led by the respective aides.

Brezhnev’'s visit to FRG
furthers Europe detente

_By NORMAN BORODIN

Ee eating political figures, lead-
flzati ‘Workers’ and public orga-
Sentatin ‘and influential repre-
i‘ Ives of the business world
ah € Federal Republic of Ger-
thei bre continuing to express
: nen hopes and conviction
May oe forthcoming visit on
gener to West Germany of the
ss al secretary of the CPSU
ney iy mittee Leonid Brezh-
Havel Tesult in the further
tual} Borne of fruitful and mu-
a, €neficial cooperation. be-
N the two countries, as well
€ strengthening of Euro-
a Security, °
nancellor Willy Brandt has
: Cterized the visit as one of
‘ary importance.

ane Bait Majority of West Ger-
Brezin. tical observers consider
if hig visit to be an event
has be Oric _ significance . which
of eegme possible as a result
Sides, Mutual efforts of both
ogy at were the concrete fac-
and mm, events that preceded
Brezhnee® possible the visit of
lessly a to the FRG? Doubt-
ave he positive changes that
World w@l¥ taken place in the
in By Situation, and particularly
Chan, Pe: The nature of these
decisis: Was emphasized by the
of Tae of the plenary meeting

“© CPSU Central Committee,

adopted on April 27, 1973, which
reads in part:

“The active and constructive,

foreign policy pursued by the
CPSU, a policy which rests on
the great strength and prestige
of the Soviet state and the sup-
port of the entire people, pro-
motes an improvement in the
world situation.”

The decision also stresses
that the positions and unity of
the fraternal socialist countries
have become stronger, as has
the influence of their concerted
policy on the course of inter-
national events, the principles of
peaceful coexistence have won

_ wide recognition as norms in the

relations between states with
differing social systems,,and the
cold war is yielding ground to
a detente. :

The Federal Republic of Ger-
many started taking part in the
general process of relaxation of
tensions on the European conti-
nent relatively recently, only
after the coalition government
of the Social-Democratic and
Free Democratic parties came to

_power in 1969. It was then that

the new coalition government
worked out and started to im-
plement a realistic and construc-
tive foreign policy, which be-
came known as_ Chancellor
Brandt’s ‘“Ost-Politik.”
The Soviet-FRG Treaty, sign-
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| Steel local fights
Giant ITT monopoly

ogf RICHARD ORLANDINI
berg aaWA — The 250 mem-
Local i United Steelworkers
Ble tha 00 are waging a strug-
battle pthelr leaflets call ‘the
™osquit, the elephant and the
88 are 0." The Oshawa work-
tip Mal On strike against Onta-
a ‘rable Iron Co. which is
horas diary of one of the
orate largest and richest cor-
“4 leonopolies — ITT. .

Feb cal struck the plant on
On;
doy, With the company broke
Ff the 8nd since the beginning
Com Strike the best that the
be ued “offered” can only
the sinker’ as lousy. Before
Were s € the hourly workers
82.86 pecne a base rate of
Cent o6 T hour and the most re-
: 60 ony proposal has been
bree Sake Pay package over
fits Me as. Nor are the bene-
On x Ted _any great shakes.
Poga} is Pension plan the pro-
Norma} f0F a reduction of the
ftom 67 Tetirement age of 65

But na Never Agreed

< Meat nee’ Piche, president

iat anotpee told the Tribune

werk t er major ~ stumbling

he Com, Settlement “has been

“Onsiga, P28Y’s refusal to even
& cost of living clause.

Ty 28 after the negotia-.

The ‘ITT management told us

_that ITT has never agreed to a

cost of living clause with any

of their 500 subsidiaries where -

contracts are negotiated.”

‘So ‘after almost 11 weeks of
strike, negotiations have little
improved over where they were
on February 28 when the strike
began. The. one new element is
that the giant ITT has threat-
ened the workers and the city

of Oshawa with a complete

Closure of the plant if the com-
pany doesn’t get its way.

The small local’s battle with
the giant monopoly has been
compounded by what the work-
ers see. as a lack of assistance
from their international union.
When discussing the strike as-

sistance from the international,

the local’s president said, “It’s
the International Steelworkers
policy to provide $10 per week
in strike pay and that just isn’t
enough. We have received some
additional support from -the re-
gional Steelworkers and from
donations from other locals in
Oshawa. But it’s hard to get by
on what we are getting -in
strike support.”

-. Boycott ITT

‘The members and officers of

the local had hoped to get some

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Education cutbacks
fought by teachers

By MARK SYDNEY

TORONTO—More than 6,000 angry teachers marched from City Hall Square
to Queen’s Park in an after school demonstration May 14 protesting Ontario gov-
ernment cutbacks in education that are hitting Metro school boards.

The long column of elementary and secondary school teachers, student teachers
students and school maintenance staff from all Metro boroughs took more than an
hour to move along the two-mile route. Carrying a host of placarils with slogans

such as “Education cutbacks — Save now, pay later”, “Go
minister Thomas Wells) is stagnant”, “We need a
e kids”, the teachers were

“Ontario’s Wells (education
purge of Queen’s Park”, and

at

Metro Toronto teachers’ leaflet cover.

“Budget cutbacks hurt th

save us from Davis”,

cheered on by passing motorists
and_ pedestrians.

At the rally before the march

began, chairwoman Liz Barclay
welcomed the teachers “to a
historic action. This is a militant

‘and angry response to the purge

of education going on in our
province.” She pointed out that
the demonstration had the sup-
port of: the Canadian Union of
Public Employees, the Ontario

‘Federation of Labor, and the

Metro Toronto Labor Council.
“And this ‘is only the begin-
ning, she concluded to a cheer-
ing crowd. ae

“This is the first time teachers
have gone out on a march in
Ontario,” said Irene Conkin, pre
sident, District 11, High School
Teachers Federation. “At the

same time as this march, teach-

ers from Essex County are hav-

‘ing their own demonstration.

And what is more #mportant,
this is the first time that ele-
mentary and secondary teachers

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anadian policy untenable

TORONTO — An important
section of the main report to the
plenum of the Central Commit-
tee of the Communist Party,
May 12-13, dealt with Canadian
foreign policy.

In pointing out. the necessity
for a foreign policy free from
U.S. domination, it was shown
that while giving lip-service to
this position, the Canadian gov-
ernment in many instances pur-
sues the opposite. ;

The conduct of Michel Gau-
vin, head of Canadian armed
forces in the International Com-
mission of Control and Super-
vision in Vietnam, is an exam-

ple. “Rather than pursuing a
course directed to stabilizing
the situation in Vietnam, the

government and its spokesmen _

on the ICCS act as a cover for
U.S. imperialist aims . . .”, the
report states.
Chicanery and Worse
“How else can one explain

Mr. Gauvin’s statement. that the.

troops of the Democratic Repub-
lic of Vietnam have-no right to
be in South Vietnam? By ad-
vancing this position Mr. Gauvin
is picking up something U.S. im-
perialism was compelled to drop
during the negotiations and in
the cease fire agreement. Ap-

2

Concerned Canadians, simultaneously with’ actions to
prevent U.S. imperialism from continuing its aggression in
Indochina, are continuing to send direct assistance to the
Vietnamese people.. While previously children’s clothing
intended for Vietnam was of dark coloring in order to prevent
bright colors from becoming a target for U.S. invaders, now
the turn is to cheerful colors and toys.

One Toronto woman, over 80 years of age, who had been
king clothes for dolls for the
Vietnamese children. Above, Lil Green, convenor of the
Ontario Voice of Women Knitting Project for Vietnamese
Children, with some of the dolls. :

knitting clothing, is now ma

PHOTO — EDYA WEIR

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1973—-PAGE 5 .

parently what U.S. imperialism
and its puppet Thieu could not
achieve by force of arms, Mr.
Gauvin is striving to:accomplish
by chicanery and worse.” =:
Mr. Gauvin’s “objectivity”
and “impartiality” around the
helicopter incident was alluded
to, in which he accused the NLF
of moving the copter from its

original: position. An. ICCS, teant

later admitted that the helicop-
ter had strayed from its desig-
nated course. ' 2

The report states that “These
actions of Mr. Gauvin which the
External Affairs Department and
presumably the. Canadian. gov-
ernment endorse,
pretense that the Canadian gov-
ernment is taking an impartial
course . ... Canadian pelicy
should -be directed to helping
stabilize the situation in South
Vietnam by upholding the cease
fire agreement.” |
; Recognize PRG

One of the most. important
steps in this direction, the report
says, is to compel the-release of
all political prisoners held by the

Saigon regime. The government

must also- recognize the Provi-
sional Revolutionary Govern-
ment of South Vietnam, and aid
in the reconstruction of the
DRV in order to play an effec-
tive role in upholding peace in
Vietnam.

Turning to European security,

the plenum demahded that Can-

ada take a clear and unequivocal
position with respect to the in-
violability of post war borders

in Europe. Vital to world peace

and security, it is also a condi-

tion for. the development of —

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