x BE fe 3
a gers of Britain’s 269,000 coal miners decided Jan. 26 to hold
Was ‘ke ballot and to recommend a national coal strike. The decision
ti made at a meeting in London of the Executive Board of the
tonal Union of Mine Workers. —
by at Support for the coal miners was pledged the day before
+ pons 10-million-member Trade Union Congress, which takes
Sebati Nation’s entire organized. labor movement. The stage now
esenle Set for a. major class confrontation in Britain which could
of ee, into a nationwide movement like the famous general strike
panienh Gormley, NUMW President, said on Thursday the strike
me wall take about two weeks to complete.
are miners will get all the support they want,” said Harry Urwin,
lar ae aoneral secretary of the. Transport Workers’ Union.. Britain's
said a) The TUC will give full support for any call from the miners,
Bee yn head of the Amalgamated we! of piginesting
» Ori i. . ‘ . 7 a itis
auto Moikdenn. second biggest union, which takes in all Br
af ae 65,000 coal miners in Yorkshire have already voted for
u-scale strike. Arthur Scargil, NUMW Yorkshire secretary, (above
is Pee ncing the decision at a press conference), said the issue
is nie between the Tory wage-freeze policy and the miners, and it
said .9°!Ng to be the bloody miners.” The miner's attitude, Scargill
of th pone of “smouldering anger in view of the inflexible attitude
ty © waxwork in No. 10” — a reference to Heath’s wax dummy-
Pe stance and his No. 10 Downing Street residence:

Pp AUEW WON’T WORK ON CHILEAN WARSHIP
ae OUTH — Ariy work that may be required on a Chilean
City’s 'P In the naval dockyard. here was blacked Jan. 18 by the
tome met committee of the engineering union, AUEW. The
With eae also urged union members not to co-operate in any way
in p € training of Chilean naval officers, which has continued

ortsmouth despite the ‘junta takeover.
_ tesy stip arrived in Portsmouth early that week on a cour-
Tetar ~ at the invitation of the Royat Navy. AUEW district sec-
pack. ory McCarthy commented: “The sooner that ship is sent
playing’ the better. The last time the Tory government started
are ee with a fascist state, it drew us into a world war. Now they
arting to do the same thing again.”

BERLIN, GDR — Government and
Party leaders here have set the record
straight on Bonn’s_ long-developing
triple tactic of blasting the GDR as
hostile while itself trying to muscle in
on West Berlin and reviving the old
hate-slogans of the cold war.

Sniping against the GDR has been
increasingly fashionable in West Ber-
lin and West German media and gov-
ernment circles, not to mention outright

spirit of detente

By FILS DELISLE

cratic Union, on normalizing agree-

ments between the two German states.
By the beginning of the year, sniping
had turned into an outright cannonade.
This past week, West German political
leaders, commercial media and TV, and
West Berlin Lord Mayor Klaus Schuetz
have been turning the air blue with
their attacks against the GDR.
Chancellor Willi Brandt also joined
the game in a speech in Bonn’s parlia-
ment. This past week, however, also

F yevanchists in’ the Christian Demo-

Despite the West German signatures on treaties with the GDR,
voices are being raised in the FRG for a return to the cold war.
Our photo shows one of the meetings between the FRG and GDR
which led to the signing of the treaties in 1972
TRE :

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, Leonid Brezhnev, is visiting the Cuban Republic this week.
Before leaving for Havana, the Soviet Party leader said in Moscow:

“! was very glad to accept Comrade Fidel Castro's invitation to
visit the Island of Freedom.

“It gives me special satisfaction that | will be able to familiarize
myself with your country, with the achievements of the Cuban revo-
lution, to greet the heroic Cuban people and convey to them the
admiration of Soviet people over their revolutionary enthusiasm and
courage.

“It is with satisfaction that | am looking forward to the meeting
with Comrade Fidel Castro.on Cuban soil. | am convinced that the
forthcoming talks with him and other leaders of the Cuban Republic
will facilitate the further deepening of the friendship between our
fraternal parties, between the Soviet and Cuban peoples.”

brought a firm refutation by the
GDR of the attacks from West
Berlin and Bonn in temperate
but unequivocal languages.

The GDR Foreign Ministry is-
sued a statement declaring that
Chancellor Brandt’s attacks on
alleged GDR intransigeance in
relations with the FRG “were
meant to cover up the fact that
in 1973 there was a marked loss
of tempe” in the FRG’s own im-
plementating of normalization
treaties. The Foreign Ministry
expressed hope that “the derail-
ing of the FRG Chancellor” on
this issue “doesn’t mean that the
prophesied upswing in the FRG’s
further businesslike relations
with the socialist countries is
already stalled at the beginning
of the year.”

Erich Honecker, General Sec-
retary of the Socialist Unity
Party, declared that “only strict
observance of treaties and agree-
ments arrived at’ can be the
basis of the process of normali-
zation in relations between the
two German states. He added
that for the GDR the issue is
security and peace in Europe.
“Hence our concern for the in-
violability of borders and respect-
ing of sovereignty and equality
of states. Only on this basis can
reasonable and useful interstate
relations develop.”

Despite “all the nonsense”
uttered in the FRG about the
supposedly recalcitrant attitude
of the GDR “‘on questions of re-
laxation of tensions, we are
ready as before, in accordance

\

with our agreements, to base our —

@ Cont'd. on pg. 8

Ontario CPC demands judicial inquiry

a ORONTO — “People are beginning to ask
ae Watergate is a U.S. phenomenon, or
Sea ‘we do not have all the elements of a
Wil Watergate right here in Ontario,” charged

illiam Stewart, Ontario leader of the Com-

munist Party in a letter sent to Queen’s Park

this week

1 The letter, sent to Premier Davis, Liberal
peiler Robert Nixon and NDP leader Stephen
we Bointed out that “in the past two weeks
of urther public exposures have been made
Conflict of interest of members of the Ontario
ica ment, one of them a member of the On-
the. Cabinet, John Yaremko, solicitor general,

other MPP James Jessiman, Fort William.

©
; aoe disclosures folow a pattern which has
sa aed the entire life of the Davis govern-
net One scandal after another involving cab-
;, ministers or MPPs of the government, or
th has unwound leaving the Ontario electorate

not have all the elements of a ‘mini Wategrate’
right here in Ontario.
“In these circumstances we are totally dis-

loopholes.

tical patronage.

satisfied with the measures taken by the Ontario
cabinet to deal with those found using their of-
fice to enrich themselves at the expense of the
people of this province, or measures which they
have passed to plug some of the more obvious

“We do not think this government can be
trusted to police itself any more than the peo-
ple of the USA think President-Nixon should be

the judge and jury of his actions.

“We are therefore asking that the Ontario
Legislature set up a judicial inquiry into the
Ontario government and cabinet which. would
include: lang holdings, financial and corporate
conections, possibility of connection with crim-
inal elements, whether or not, as rumored there
is a widespread system of payola or kickbacks
on government contracts in operation, and poli:

the ulating that what we are sighting is simply
a tip of the iceberg, that what is concealed is
Pike a grand scale, the effects of 31 years
pages political power by this gov-

“ :
Ses Cople are beginning to ask whether Water-
1S a ‘U.S. phenomenon’ or whether we do

“The request for such an inquiry cannot be
dismissed on the grounds that it is unecessary.
The basis for such a request arises from the re-
cord of members of the Ontario government and
cabinet. In fact if the government considers it
has nothing to hide, it should welcome an op-
portunity for such an open tribunal.” .

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1974 PAGE 5

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