Canada-USSR relations
established 30 years ago

By VLADIMIR SAZANOV

MOSCOW “The hand-
shake of our premiers across the
north pole is added proof that
the Soviet Union and Canada
are good neighbors who closely
co-operated during World War
{I and can co-operate still more
closely in peace time. I regret
not having had an opportunity
of taking part in the joint strug-
gle of our countries in wartime,
but I rejoice over the develop-
ment. of their relations today.”

These words, spoken in pure
Russian, were addressed by Mr.
P. Trottier, Counsellor of the
Canadian Embassy to the repre-
sentatives of the Moscow pub-
lic assembled in Friendship
House on June 12 to mark the
the 30th anniversary of the es-
tablishment of diplomatic rela-
tions between the USSR and
Canada.

Seated at the table decorated
with the flags of the two coun-
tries were members of the board
of the USSR-Canada Friendship
Society, and various public
figures, as well as Madame
Frances Arbour, member of the
Quebec-USSR_ Friendship So-
ciety executive, who is visiting
the USSR.

Opening the meeting, Mikhail
Tsaryov, president of the USSR-
Canada Friendship Society, who
is an outstanding Soviet actor,
greeted Mr. Trottier and the
Canadian guests and wished
them success in the lofty mis-
sion of promoting friendly con-
tacts, mutual understanding,
good-neighborliness and _ co-
operation between Canada and
the Soviet Union.

Nikolai Pankov, vice-president
of the Union of Soviet Societies
for Friendship with Foreign
Countries, gave a detailed ac-
count of the development of
friendly links between the USSR
and Canada over the past 30
years. He stressed that from the
very beginning the establish-
ment of diplomatic relations and
military co-operation in the war
against German - fascism had
been. warmly ‘hailed by both the
Soviet: and Canadian public. He
quoted the words of Prime
Minister Mackenzie King in 1943
that all Canadians hoped that
the establishment of diplomatic
relations between Canada and
the Soviet Union was a prelude
to a long period of mutual un-
derstanding and alliance be-
tween the two peoples in time
of war and peace.

A meeting with the Canadian
premier of that period was de-
scribed by the first Soviet min-
ister to Canada, Fyodor Gusev,
who had arrived in Ottawa ex-
actly 30 years ago, having spent
11 days on a_half-round-the-
world trip aboard an airplane.
He recalled that he found in
Canada a most lively interest in
the USSR and its people, and
vigorous support for the Soviet
Union’s fight against fascism.

“Today one has to spend not
11 days, but a little over 11
hours to get from Moscow to

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Canada,” he said, ‘and this is
symbolic, the distance between
our countries has diminished in
many respects.

“International tension, a re-
sult of the ‘cold war’, had
slowed down the development
of Canadian-Soviet relations. In

that situation considerable steps

to promote links between our
countries were made with the
visit to Moscow in 1955 by the
then Canadian Minister of. Ex-
ternal Affairs Lester Pearson
and the conclusion of the
Soviet-Canadian trade agree-
ment in 1956.

“Today it can be confidently
said that the start made in June
1942, is developing into fruitful
co-operation in many fields, in
a consolidation of mutual under-
standing and good _neighbor-
ship.”

The speaker highly assessed
the results of the exchange of
visits last year between Prime
Minister Trudeau and. Soviet
Premier Alexei Kosygin.

“There is no doubt that a
friendly and constructive dia-
logue is developing between
our countries,” Nikolai Pankov
said.

“The Soviet-Canadian proto-
col on consultations, the meet-
ings which are now periodically
held in implementation of this
protocol make it possible to find
new useful points of contact be-
tween the positions of our coun-
tries and develop more actively
mutually beneficial bilateral co-
operation.”

Referring to the important
changes in Soviet-Canadian re-
lations, speakers at the meeting
praised the work of the USSR-
Canada Friendship Society.
Since its founding the society
has conducted a vast amount of
work to familiarize Soviet peo-
ple with the life, history and
culture of the Canadian people.
The society organizes exhibi-
tions of books by Canadian au-
thors, works of Canadian artists
and photographers and draw-
ings by Canadian children and
arranges demonstrations of do-
cumentary and popular-science
films. .

Every year Canada Day is
marked at the friendship house,
meetings are held in Moscow
and other cities, picture exhibi-
tions are arranged and films
devoted to Canadian culture,
science and arts are. shown.
Every year members of the
Society visit Canada “and on
their return tell about all they
saw.

“We will continue to main-
tain and promote contacts. with
Canadian organizations favor-
ing further extension of friend-
ly and cultural links between
the peoples of Canada and the
Soviet Union,” Nikolai Pankov
declared. He praised the work
of the Canada-USSR and Que-
bec-USSR societies and report-
ed that “the USSR-Canada So-
ciety is meeting with under-

standing and support on the.

part of many government and
public institutions.”

The meeting ended with a con-
cert by Soviet performers in
which the well-known Canadian
singer Renee Claude, now on a
concert tour in the USSR, took
part.

A U.S. bank reports, and who
should know better, that two-
thirds of U.S. farmers earn half
their income from off-farm jobs.
Many have sold off livestock
and taken jobs as a mote re-

30) & ~ydiable source of income.
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The City of Toronto will honor
the late Margaret Fairley in a
ceremony dedicating Margaret
Fairley Park on the evening of
June 23. The new park, at Bruns-
wick Ave. and Ulster St. in crowd-
ed midtown Toronto, to be used
as a children’s playground, ac-
knowledges this Communist auth-
ors’ consistent work for social
progress.

Mrs. Fairley, whose husband,
Prof. Barker Fairley, survives her,
and who is remembered for her
books, The Spirit of Canadian
Democracy, and The Selected
Writings of William Lyon Mac-
kenzie: 1824-1837, and as editor
of New Frontiers’ (a Marxist liter-
ary magazine), died in February
1958. :

The creation of the park was
the direct result of the unselfish
work by the late Mrs. Fairley, who
led neighbors to the Parks and
Recreation Committee to plead
for park space for children.

Ontario cabinet hea
anti-poverty progr

Welfare as a right, not a privi-
lege, and adoption of the con-
cept of ending poverty, were two
of the major ideas pressed upon
Ontario Cabinet members when
they met with Ontario Anti-
Poverty Organization spokesmen
on June 15.

The meeting was further evi-
dence that changing conditions
now force monopoly govern-
ments to.sit down with and lis-
ten to people’s organizations
such as OAPO.

In its brief to the Davis gov-
ernment, the OAPO called for
“a complete overhaul of the
Province’s welfare system, mak-
ing it a right and not a privilege,
recognizing that it is a failure
of society and not the individual
that makes public subsidies
necessary. ‘

“We ask for an immediate in-
crease in family benefits for
food, shelter, clothing, fuel,
health care, recreation, etc. We
recommend for a family of four
an income of $5,000.”

The brief urged the -“‘enact-
ment, of legislation giving wel-
fare recipients the right to have
grievance committees selected
by recipients in every welfare
office. with these committees
empowered to issue emergency
aid.”

The brief stated that “60% of
the poor are not on welfare. They

_are active members of the labor

Wide audience for Viet
visitors in Hamilton

By LARRY EASTON

HAMILTON — Well over 200
people filled the engineering
auditorium at McMaster Univer-
sity to hear two representatives
of the Provisional Revolutionary
Government of South Vietnam
denounce the barbarous war be-
ing waged by the United States
against the Vietnamese people.

The meeting, organized by the
newly - constituted Hamilton
Peace Council, attracted an
audience of concerned youth,
trade unionists, Voice of Women
and others, highlighting the
broad spectrum of Canadians
troubled by this brutal war.

George Sarger, a scientist at
McMaster, expressed the grow-
ing concern by many in his pro-
fession who are disturbed that
the fruits of a rapidly expanding
scientific technology are being
channeled toward developing
sophisticated weapons of de-
struction. “The expansion of
science must be harnessed to
serve the public good,” he said,
“and not the private interests of
a few.”

Mr. Van Ba stressed that the
war will come to a speedy end
when United States sits down
at Paris with the Vietnamese
representatives, accepts the 7-

point peace plan for troop with-
drawal and an end to hostilities,
abandons the Thieu regime and
permits the Vietnamese people
to settle their own affairs. He
thanked the peace movements
of the U.S., Canada and the
whole world for their support
and asked them to continue the
struggle.

The meeting, chaired by Mrs.
Mary Kaludger, adopted two re-
solutions addressed to Prime
Minister Trudeau and President
Nixon. The first, submitted from
the audience by Murray Thomp-
son, a Hamilton trade unionist,
demanded the U.S. accept the 7-
point peace plan and end the
war immediately... Thé second,
also adopted unanimously, was
presented by Mrs. Donna Elliot,
president of the local chapter of
the Voice of Women, on behalf
of the Hamilton Peace Council
executive demanded an end to
Canadian complicity, a stop to
the sale of arms to the U.S. and
the immediate resumption of the
Paris peace talks.

The financial appeal was made
by Mrs. Nancy McDonald, a

local trade unionist and member
of the Hamilton Peace Council
executive, realized $174.12.

assisted by nearly 600,000.

food for a family of four.

ing for 270,000 people.”

COSTS OF THE U.S. AIR WAR

Some costs of tHe U.S. air barbarians over Indochina in
terms of civilian welfare, are suggested in four paragraphs in
Pezcework, a publication of Washington Labor For Peace:

“The cost of one month’s 1,000 B-52 sorties would approxi-

_- mate the Administration’s 1971 attempted $47-million cutback
in the school-lunch program, reducing the number of students

“The $52.5 million cost of the helicopters lost in the Laos
invasion in 1971 equals the cost of 17 local health centers,
each treating 40,000 patients annually.

“The fuel for one jet for one hour equals 214 months of

“Qne aircraft carrier costs the same amount as public hous-

force, working for lit
or, in some instances /@
they would receive 0?

To rescue these wOrM®
the OAPO demands 2 & _
annual income of
$5,000; a substantial in
the minimum wage #
pond with the guarantee!
income; government
leading to processing Of
es here to result in jo
tion compelling comp’
use 75% Canadian com
in manufacturing.

A moratorium on pia?
ures for up to one al
moratorium on_ perso!
of the unemployed,
measures advocated.

The delegates asked
minimum wage be su
raised from the prese®
poverty level.

The delegation, led
ordinator Mike Carsot
men and women
centres from Ottawé
sor.

“The reason for ihe
ment’s friendly receP
executive mem beh ;
Brudy after the mee
due to the fact that
is fairly well repres’
southern Ontario and
labor support, as W
and community bac%: i

The Ontario Federal?
bor which backs thé |
tion, sent Jack While |
the delegation. SKIP vel
the Community Dev
branch of the ontarl f
ment acted as @ res
son for the OAPO, #*
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member of Wome?
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der Robert Welch, ;
Secretary, would ™
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meeting to the full’®
decisions. a

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worry that we ae a
rushed into a welfat® a
brief pointed out that
share of governme! a
tures changed litt

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tralian farmers hee ctl
switch to beef PIO. ced
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years ending March

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