Use law at effective enough, change against Kian, rally demands TORONTO — United Com- munity action against the Ku Klux Klan was the theme behind arally organized by the Riverdale Action Committee Against Ra- Cism, May 31. RACAR spokesperson Deirdre wer criticized all levels of 80vernment before the crowd of ut 500 demonstrators for not taking effective action against the o . “If the laws are there, use 3 them,” she said. ‘If the laws em.”’ The media also came under fire J m Power for its uncritical 5 Coverage of the KKK. She cited a = an newsletter which congratu- -d the press for aiding them in ir efforts. The protestors filed past the Dundas East former headquarters TRIBUNE Of the Klan. Members of the sect, _ three dressed in robes, held their S in Nazi salutes at the de- Monstrators. Several bystanders _ applauded as the rally went by. Several organizations endorsed event including immigrant _ Organizations, churches, ethnic, _ Women’s and gay rights groups and the Riverdale Club of the _ Communist Party. The Irish Prisoners of War _ Committee joined the protest, its spokesman said, to disassociate itself fromthe Klan. Recent. media coverage had linked a Klanswoman sympathizer to the Irish Republican Army during re- ports on the aborted Klan-backed _ Coup of Dominica. The event ended in a concert in a local park featuring the Gayap Rhythm Drummers and the No Frills rock group. Children’s Day peace message .-TORONTO — Intemational Children’s Day, June 1, is marked In many ways throughout the * world. The Toronto Association for Peace, on this day ‘‘dedicates itself to work with double urgency for peace on earth,”’ says a Chil- dren’s Day message. _ TAPpoints out that the escalat- | ing arms race endangers our chil- n in two ways. “It is an unconscionable cost, Now exceeding $500-billion annu- ally and deprives them of food, Shelter, education, medical care. the poorer countries of the World, where the majority of the ‘ World’s children are born, and also among the Native people of Our own country, infant mortality 18 10 to 20 times higher than it is Under decent conditions. But €ven the children of the relatively uent majority of ‘Canadians Suffer from cutbacks in daycare and education, while our iGefence’ budget has more than Mpled in the past 10 years.” © Peace organization notes that, All countries increase their «Ty expenses in the name of = Onal security’. But one can- by increase one’s own security Increasj : ; bties ons the insecurity of “CANADA Klansmen and sympathizers hold up their arms in Nazi salutes in front of their headquarters on Dundas St. E. in Toronto. About 500 protesters filed past the Klan office and through the local community to back demands for legal action against the racist organization. : WINNIPEG — A long-term agreement involving the sale of a minimum of 25 million tonnes of Canadian wheat and feed grains to the Soviet Union over a five- year period was announced May 26 by the Canadian Wheat Board. .. The...new.. agreement - was negotiated between representa- tives of the Canadian Wheat Board and V/O Exportkhleb, the Soviet grain trading corporation. The Wheat Board’s announcement followed the ex- change of letters between the governments of Canada and the Soviet Union endorsing the new agreement. The letters were signed on behalf of the Govern- ment of Canada by Senator Hazen Argue, minister of state for the Canadian Wheat Board, and Boris Gordeyev, deputy minister of foreign trade for the USSR. ‘This agreement demonstrates the excellent trading relationship that has existed between the Wheat Board and Exportkhleb for many years,’’ said Esmond Jarvis, chief commissioner of the Canadian Wheat Board. ‘*The agreement assures west- em Canadian farmers that the Soviet Union will-continue to be an important and growing market for their grain and underlines the expanding market opportunities grain farmers in this country will have in the future,’ Jarvis said. The new agreement, which will _ be in effect from August 1, 1981, to July 31, 1986, is the largest single long-term. agreement ever. negotiated by- the Canadian Wheat Board. As with other long-term agree- ments of this kind, separate con- tracts for the sale of specific quan- tities of grain for shipment during specified periods will be negotiated: periodically. Grain producers welcome deal SASKATOON — National Farmers Union president Ted Strain says the Canadian Wheat Board announcement of a 5-year —25 milliontonnes—grainexport agreement with the USSR will be welcomed by grain producers throughout the prairie region. Strain said that although Cana- dian Wheat Board exports to the Soviet Union in the past year were close to four million tonnes, the grain deal will inject a higher degree of stability into future market outlook and enable far- mers to increase grain production with greater confidence. “What makes this kind of deal possible is the orderly marketing system in place for wheat, oats and barley, but it would be im- practical to consider this kind of arrangement for non-board grains’’, Strain observed. He said the sale was also signi- ficant because it committed the USSR to a more consistent vol- ume of imports from Canada than has been the case in a number of past years. ‘*Farmers have been told by the Wheat Board to expect grain ex- ports of 30 million metric tonnes by 1985 but this contract puts some substance to that projec- tion’, Strain noted. The . International Wheat Council recently reported that world wheat consumption ex- ceeded production in 1979 and 1980 and world carry-over stocks have been declining. Axworthy gets his women’s meet OTTAWA — Lioyd Axworthy finally got a meeting on women and the constitution that he could be comfortable with. About 800 participants met here May 30 in a one-day seminar held under the Advisory Council on the Status of Women. The conference originally scheduled for last February was postponed amid charges that Axworthy, the minister responsible for the status of women had pressured the council to hold the conference at a less politically sensitive time. -* Council president Doris Anderson and six other council mem- bers resigned in protest. A counter-conference held last February and attended by 1,000 called for Axworthy’s resignation and the overhaul of the council. No resolutions of this type were presented at the May 30 meeting. ‘‘It was very tightly controlled,” said Muriel Duck- worth one of the speakers. The day was limited to panel discus- sions and questions from the floor. _Axworthy was featured speaker at a banquet hosted by his ministry. Nan McDonald, director of work among women for the Com- munist Party, called the proceedings “a whitewash. The Liberal Party took this opportunity to inform their women ‘about the issues. There was no room for resolutions, debate or voting. It was intended to give credibility to the council and Axworthy,”’ she said. ‘‘ The presentations from the panels were a regurgitation of what women have been telling government since 1975. There was no mention of Native women, French Canadian rights or control over natural resources.” Marlene Prere-Agamauy of the Native Women’s Association, after painting a picture of the grim realities facing Native women and children, had to leave the meeting. She criticized CACSW and the government for not providing funding to Native women’s groups to attend the conference. ‘‘ This councils gets plenty of money’’, she said, ‘‘Native women have to support themselves.” Muriel Duckworth injected a new theme into the proceedings. She called for Canada to be designated a nuclear free zone in the constitution. She also came down heavily on Canada’s involve- ment in arms sales and the squandering of resources on arma- ments. ‘This is at the crux of the matter,’’ said McDonald. ‘‘But the conference never took her up on it. Our natural resources could be used to create jobs. They could be used to generate the revenue to support the social services women need to be on an equal footing with men.”’ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 12, 1981—Page 7