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“If we insist on the right for
Canada to decide its own affairs,
then we must also support the
same right for the people of
Vietnam,” William Kashtan told
an appreciative Toronto audience
last Wednesday at the public
meeting winding up the Com-
munist leader’s tour of western
Canada in preparation for the
federal election.

“If the government of France
can tell the U.S. to end the
bombing and return to the peace
talks, why is the Canadian gov-
ernment still silent? Prime Min-
ister Trudeau must tell Nixon to
withdraw from Indochina and let
the people there decide their
own affairs. He must end the
sale of arms to the United
States, which are used to make
war on the Vietnamese people!
And is it too much to ask Mr.
Stanfield, Mr. Caouette, Mr.
Hellyer, yes and Mr. David Lew-
is, to make that demand?”

Mr. Kashtan traced the roots
of the present harsh U.S. eco-
nomic aggression against Can-
ada, as of its bloody war in
Vietnam, to the growing crisis
of American foreign policy,
which has suffered defeat after
defeat. The role of world gen-
darme, which U.S. imperialism
assumed after World War Two,
has collapsed; the economy is
near stagnant; the Almighty
Dollar is faltering. And the more
difficulties the United States en-
counters the more it turns on its
friends and allies.

He criticized Trudeau’s “dip-
plomatic game” of representing
Nixon as a “good guy” and Con-
nally as the “bad guy” in res-
pect to Canada. Actually they
both express the aim and intent
of U.S. policy, whether in trade
relations, the Auto Pact, or
pressure to revalue the Cana-
dian dollar, which is to provide
advantages for the U.S. at the
expense of Canada.

“The purpose of the conti-
nental energy policy proposal is
to provide the U.S. permanently
with Canadian power, changing
the direction of Canada’s devel-
opment from manufacturing to
a raw materials base, a hewer
of wood and carrier of water, oil
and gas. The 2,600,000 new jobs
needed by Canada in the present
decade won’t be found by dig-
ging up our raw materials and

Speaks on May Day
in Winnipeg

John Weir, production editor of
the Canadian Tribune, will ad-
dress a public May Day concert-
meeting in the Ukrainian Labor
Temple in Winnipeg on Sunday,
April 30 at 2 p.m. Manitoba born
John Weir was closely associated
with the progressive movement in
Winnipeg at various periods. He
edited the Mid-West Clarion
weekly there-in 1939-40,

top selling, start

shipping them to the U.S., but
by processing them here!

“Can we rely on Trudeau to
do this? Stanfield? Or David
Lewis, whois reported in the
press as suggesting a deal —
concessions to the U.S. on en-
ergy resources in return for con-
cessions to Canada on the auto
pact? What kind of a deal is this
that would barter away our long-
range potential for industrial
development? What is needed is
a clear declaration that Canada
is not for sale to U.S. monopo-
lists, to whom the Canadian
wealthy are selling it piece by
piece.

“Canadian monopolists claim
that we don’t have the capital
here to develop our country, but
they find the capital inside Can-
ada to finance the U.S. takeover
of the Canadian economy, as
Royal Bank of Canada chairman
Mr. McLaughlin recently dis-
closed, The essence of the policy
of Canadian big business is to

make a profit even if at the end

there’s less and less in it for
Canada and the Canadian people.

“Prime Minister Trudeau now
proposes a $10-million project
for the opening of Canada’s
North. We are in favor of that,
provided that it isn’t opening it
for the U.S. monopolies, and if
the rights of the native peoples
are fully taken into account.
But we are also for another $10-
billion plan to overcome dispar-
ity in other regions of Canada,
investment to build up our eco:
nomy, the manufacturing indus-
tries on the basis of our vast
energy and raw materials re-
sources, under public owner-
ship.”

Whenever the election is call-
ed, this will be at the centre of
attention, and it will remain the
basic question of Canadian poli-
tics, Mr.. Kashtan stated. Noting
that according to a public opin-
ion poll 43% of the Canadian
people as of now don’t know

Angela's lawyers gagged

SAN JOSE — Judge Richard
Arnason last week tightened the
gags even further on Angela
Davis and her attorneys. He or-
dered the lawyers not to discuss
the case in public — not even
the gag rule itself.

The same gag was placed on
Miss Davis before the start of
the trial. This leaves the defense
with no way of speaking direct-
ly to the public while the media
remains free to continue spread-
ing lies and confusion.

A press conference last week
by the National United Com-
mittee to Free Angela Davis and
All Political Prisoners apparent-
ly prompted the judge to issue
his new ruling. The committee
had attacked the press campaign
to link Miss Davis with the Carr
murder.

Next door to the Davis trial,
a trial continued of 18 persons
arrested Jan. 28 at a demonstra-
tion outside the San Jose court-
room during pre-trial motions on
the Davis case. They are charg-
ed with violation of Penal Code
Section 169 which forbids de-
monstration near courtrooms
designed to “influence’”’ trials.

Defense Attorney Thomas J.
Ferrito at the trial of the 18
pointed out that the sheriff’s of-
fice admitted on the witness
stand that the law, passed Sep-

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tember 1970, was not known
here until almost the eve of the
trial.

On the witness stand Charlene
Mitchell, executive secretary of
the Free Angela Committee, her-
self facing similar charges for a
demonstration here on Feb. 2,
said her group. challenges the
constitutionality of the law. The
demonstration, she said, had
been aimed mainly to draw pub-
lic attention to the injustices
against Miss Davis and the effort
to draw a curtain around the
trial. She noted that two days
after the demonstration, “we got
12 more seats” in the courtroom
for spectators.

The trial continues. After six
weeks and 40 witnesses, the pro-
secution has not produced evi-
dence that by any stretch of the
imagination could connect An-
gela to the August 7 events.

In her opening speech, Angela
Davis called the prosecutor’s
case ‘“‘a product of guesswork,
speculation and conjecture” and
a “sick kind of game.” She out-
lined in clear terms her long
struggle in defense of the Sole-
dad Brothers and all political
prisoners, her work as professor
of philosophy and her aim to
help organize effective political
movement for progressive social
change.

who they will vote for, he dealt
with the election on the back-
ground of the economic situa-
tion in Canada.

“Our economy remains in a
condition of semi-stagnation and
we are told that there is ‘excess
capacity’! in industry,” he said.
“Two-thirds of the new invest-
ment in manufacturing is not
for expansion but to modernize
plant, which results in the pro-
duction of more goods with less
workers. Productivity and un-
employment are increasing at
the same time. Wage and price
controls wouldn’t solve the prob-
lems' of the economy, they only
sharpen the exploitation of the
workers and poverty. Monopoly
capitalism cannot exist without
gouging the working people; it
creates mass unemployment as
a permanent feature.”

Trudeau promised a “just so-
ciety” but nothing has changed,
Kashtan charged. Poverty, re-
gional disparity and inequality
of income remain. Hundreds of
millions of dollars are_spent, but
this money doesn’t go to the
people, it goes to enrich, the
U.S. and Canadian monopolies.

Conservative leader Stanfield
now promises an “incentive so-
ciety,” which means giveaways
to millionaires to raise their pro-
fits with the false hope that this
will somehow seep down to the
people.

Trudeau promised “participa-
tory democracy.” We are for such
democracy where the people
have a real say in the economy.
But that’s not what Trudeau
means. He is talking about not
going into the nation’s bed-

rooms. And as for participatory,

democracy, we have the example
of the new labor code, the legisla-
tion on competition, the tax re-
form. bill, which all were with-
drawn and whatever slight pro-
gressive content they contained
was removed under pressure of
big business.

Trudeau speaks of a “profit-
able” nationalism and Stanfield

’ speaks of a “sound” nationalism,

while U.S. imperialism takes
ever greater chunks of Canada.
The Canadian people in their
majority have made up their
minds in favor of Canadian in-
dustrialization and Canadian
control of the economy, but
nothing will be changed until
the working class takes the lead
in the struggle for genuine Cana-
dian independence,

After describing the gather-

. our people.

‘example, is reported 4 i

ing coalition of Tories, now
ing right-wing Liberal |
in Quebec, Social Credit |
tion Canada, and the ae ;
anti-labor and anti-demiay
actions and legislation Wij
ince after province, Mr.
characterized this as pais
overall drive to shift polll®
the right. ‘i
“What is needed,” he Sy
united struggle to push ;
to the left, to elect a
of progressive candidat
cluding NDP and Coe
MP’s, to give Canada 4 ice
rection. This new a
would guarantee a job OFM,
for every Canadian as 4 ¥f
based on an all-Canada te
ment plan. It would ¥@
real equality for out

tions. It would launch ee

housing construction rp
It would provide an mit
ment in the quality of

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the national income, Bf if
creased old-age pensions if

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and a guaranteed ann
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“We need real partion

right to a say in the
the economy, with lab fh
secure. We need not an fo
policy’ but rising incom®
people! S
“This calls for public
ship of the energy and patil
terials resources, 0 cals
credit and insurance. It
an independent policy an ¢
pursuing further the and é
toward friendly relation ist }

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changes with the socl@”),
developing countries. ©
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withdrawal from NAT fw
cannot stay independé
we are tied to the 98° |
U.S. militarist machine:

It is of the greatest 1.
ance to elect Commun”.
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the Communist Party ove
fights for unity to achi NDP
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that he is in favor jo)
review policy, if th@ “ict
work then he’ll be for Py,
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can he pone such ening i
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NDP is ‘respectable. ~ pi!
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furthering the long-r4?
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coalition and electing © agit
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class composition, t0 ini
nopoly and end U.S. dom
and to open the door
toward socialism.
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ing here April 10, 7°04
with Nixon’s visit a” ing
tral issues in the col
tion Communist Pal “ial 7
Wm. Kashtan warned ey ;
policies followed by t def
government, which pe fa f
to eliminate the fam Y ol!
will continue to be follo™
the elections are ove! al
He said that despil? ft
claims, the eliminatio? ne
of thousands of farmer po”
improved the econom! ate
of those farmers WhO, “iyo &
It has not increas Fe
come; ‘he: said. :

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