ste This young Ulchi boy, hereditary fisherman. = a cousin to our Canadian Eskimo, is a sents His people live along the Amur River where 1é he is pictured surrounded by a catch of fish. ft, Anti-Soviet furor plays Nixon game at _ A direct link betwéen the anti- ix Soviet campaign undertaken by t the Canadian Jewish Congress FY and the stepped-up confrontation iG" policies of the Nixon administra- YS tion was indicated by William ch Kashtan, general secretary of the sis Communist Party of Canada ina to ae given the Canadian ribune, n Warning Canadians against al- rs: lowing themselves to be “stam- in- Peded in an anti-Soviet direc- ay tion,” Kashtan declared that “Teactionary forces in Canada are f “Playing the game of American a matali and. of, Canadian “Monopoly.” ne; The following is the text of ar Mr. Kashtan’s statement: a “Democratic Canadians may at” well ask what’s behind this sud- I den well-organized campaign un- né dertaken by the Canadian Jewish Ongress. Is there a direct link .p° between it and the Nixon admin- te. istration, which in this past per- * has undertaken to get the yy" Wheels of the cold war rolling ipl again? al “President Nixon, it will be re- : et poles) Pledged an era of negotia- 1ons instead of confrontation When he was elected, but all the an’ World has been getting is con- ew frontation and cold war tactics 9) Combined with escalation of ag- 4 gtession. In Indochina he spread 8 war to Cambodia and Laos, ) a 'S now stepping up air at- .) 3 S on the Democratic Repub- mer of Vietnam, In the Middle ast he is arming the govern- oF sean of Israel with the latest Military equipment, ostensibly to ree paintain a ‘balance of power.’ In , ae Nixon is trying to pre- yu Se a sueebean Security Con- onan : : spbstacte a fa fact is the main “This step i ped-up policy of c Rae ef Peeauen Is closely ; related o- win ic difficul- votes Of the sist rare aries 10" Call that every time th US. ®cOnomy faltered Soe ine and went into jae 'sis American imperialism un- 0 BARE aggression against ano- at people, be it the Korean or Je! letnamese peoples. ete Contrast between the | I 5: Y &rowth and development nda c ween despite temporary ie Bae ties, and its consistent ve. Policy which is attracting s eeoresing Support from the eM cdiat of the world, is the im- Waive of qouice of the cold war -je8 merican imperialism to vel de turn public opinion against so- cialism, against the USSR. “The developments in the Middle East cannot be separated from this. “The Leningrad trials are a case in point. Men were tried, not because of their nationality or religion, but because of crimes committed against the laws of the Soviet Union. “It is deplorable, to say the least, for External Affairs Minis- ter Mitchell Sharp to join in this cold war campaign. It is all the more shameful in view of the fact that his government arbi- trarily took away the democratic and civil rights of the Canadian people, imposed the War Meas- ures Act, arrested. over 450 people and held them incom- municado, and undertook raids in over 3,000 homes. Laws are now imposed which-are directed to prevent dissent and opposition to monopoly policies in Canada. “But Mr. Sharp apparently does not oppose attacks against socialist countries and_ their laws, such as that organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress in Ottawa on Jan. 3. Nor do members of the ultra-reaction- ary Edmund Burke Society, who joined in last week’s anti-Soviet demonstration in Toronto, again organized by the Canadian Jew- ish Congress. “The Supreme Court of the Russian Soviet Republic was correct and wise in commuting the death sentences of two of the Leningrad accused. “The cold warriors are concern- ed, not with this particular ac- tion of the Soviet Union, but with its firm policy for a politi- cal settlement in the Middle East which demands that Israel withdraw from territories it seized as the essential basis for a just settlement to include the right of all people in the Middle East to exist. “The Canadian people should not allow themselves to be stamp- eded in an anti-Soviet direc- tion. Indeed, Canada’s ability to survive against the pressures of American imperialism depends upon its friendship with the so- cialist countries. Those interests who would try to weaken the bonds of friendship between our two countries, Canada and the Soviet Union, play the game of American imperialism and of Canadian monopoly, and of re- actionary forces in our country.” Permanent repressive legislation, a perpetual “climate of fear,” was the sinister response made by Prime Minis- ter Trudeau in Ottawa Jan. 4 to the of Quebec’s Committee of Eight for immediate repeal of the Pub- demand lic Order Act. Openly menacing Canadians with permanent suppression of their demo- demanding repeal of the Pub- lic Oxder Act, reflected wide- spread conviction of Quebec democratic forces that the ac- tions of the federal govern- ment are deepening the crisis there and in the whole of Canada. Faced with the facts that un- employment in Canada during 1971 will increase disastrously —the prediction is an average to retain police state laws permanently By MEL DOIG cratic rights and civil liberties, Tru- deau revealed for the first time his. government has no intention of with- drawing the present “temporary” Pub- _ lic Order Act until Parliament adopts permanent repressive legislation. The Committee of Eight, composed of 6.6% instead of the 6.1% official 1970 rate — Canadian monopoly through its govern- ment in Ottawa is preparing through anti-democratic laws to crush all opposition to the Tru- deau policies of destroying the jobs of workers. In spite of his earlier pledge that all troops would be with- drawn from Quebec by Jan. 4, Trudeau, with the connivance World-wide greetings on Tim Buck's 80th On the occasion of his 80th birthday on January 6, Tim Buck has been awarded the Order of the October Revolu- tion by the Government of the Soviet Union. Word of this great honor -accorded the be loved long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada reached the Canadian Tribune late Tuesday, January 5 as we went to press. Full details of the splendid tribute to Com- rade Tim Buck will be publish- ed in our January 13 issue. As we went to press, wires of greetings to Tim Buck on his 80th birthday (Jan. 6) were arriving from all parts of the world. The veteran Canadian work- ers’ leader and _ outstanding figure in the international Com- munist movement was greeted by fraternal parties, including the following: M. Vilner on be- half of the CP of Israel; John Gollan, CP of Great Britain; Pedro Saad, CP of Ecuador; Jesus Faria, CP of Venezuela; Marc Dramaux, CP of Belgium; CP of Finland; Ali Yata, CP of Morocco; Ezekias Papaioan- nou, Progressive Party of Work- ing People, Cyprus; CP of ‘Spain; Polish United Workers Party; South African CP; CP of Czechoslovakia; Rumanian CP; Bulgarian CP; Yu Isedenbal, Mongolian People’s Revolution- ary Party; Hungarian Socialist Workers Party; Vietnam Work- ers Party; People’s Progressive Party of Guyana; Yugoslav League of Communists. K. Zarodov, editor-in-chief of World Marxist Review also cabled greetings, as did the editors of the magazine African Communist. ‘HAPPY NEW YEARI’ Santa Claus, called Grandfather Frost in the USSR, strolls down a Moscow street. In the Soviet Union Santa ap- pears around the New Year’s holiday. of representative Quebec trade union- ists, teachers, editors and professors, of the St. James Street Bou- rassa government in Quebec, is maintaining troops there and in Ottawa ostensibly as ‘“body- guards for political leaders and other prominent individuals.” As an unemployed Montreal worker commented, money can be found to “protect” the mil- lionaires and their politicians, but jobless workers and their families are left to starve. The Trudeau government is not alone in its pro-monopoly threat to destroy bourgeois de- mocracy in Canada. John Robarts, retiring Tory premier of Canada’s largest in- dustrial province, has said his chief regret during his term of office was that the notorious Bill 99._— the projected Ontario Police Act of 1964 — had to be withdrawn in the fact of mas- sive public opposition to it. Now Robarts calls for “more string- ent. laws, more applied.” The whole ‘concerted attack: on -Canadian democracy, cen- tred in Ottawa but involving in its intention all governments in Canada, makes urgent the most powerful and united campaign to restore and to extend demo- cratic rights. David Lewis, deputy leader of the.New Democratic Party. -has * called for repeal of the Public Order Act. His action was wel- comed by William Kashtan, general secretary of the Com- munist Party of Canada. Asked to comment on the menace of permanent anti- democratic legislation, Mr. Kash- tan told the Canadian Tribune: “Prime Minister Trudeau’s remarks and those of Pearson and Robarts are the same — ostensibly to defend democracy you must- destroy it and take away the democratic rights of the Canadian people won through years of bitter struggle. “The climate of fear that these gentlemen are spreading is merely a cover to have Cana- dian people accept neo-fascism as a means of preserving capi- talism.-It is part of an authori- taranism arising from state monopoly control and from the growing economic and political domination by monopoly of the life of the country. “What it adds up to is that Conservatives and Liberals, and perhaps right-wing social demo- crats too, are prepared to shift policies to the right in the in- terests of monopoly profits. “But, as in everything else, what decides the issue is strug- gle, mass struggle, and it is united mass struggle which is today decisive in order to re- store and to extend democratic rights, and to defeat the new repressive measures that mono- poly is preparing for the Cana- dian people.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1971—PAGE 5 stringently .