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The new Stockholm Appeal calls for the banning of all weapons of

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destruction as a major objective of the world’s peace forces.

Canada won't participate

A United Nations Conference on
ial Discrimination will be held

ih Ghana in 1978. In solidarity

_ With the conference and rejecting

terms the Canadian Govern-
Ment has posed concerning its par-
ticipation, the 23rd Convention of
CPC passed the following

_ Tesolution:

This 23rd Convention of the
Ommunist Party of Canada con-
‘emns the statement of the Cana-

lan representative to. the UN.

that Canada will not participate in

| the U.N. Conference on Racial

'Scrimination to: be held in

' Ghana in 1978 unless the equation

Churches demand Ottawa
-J0in in condemning racism

_ in conference on racism

of Zionism with racism is with-
drawn from a previous UN
Resolution.

The Communist Party of
Canada calls upon the Trudeau
Government to reverse its posi-
tion on this question and to take
serious steps to carry out an inde-
pendent and progressive foreign
policy that will align Canada with
growing world forces of peace,
progress and socialism and, to
abandon support for imperialist
plotting of counter-revolution,
war and genocide. In so doing,
Canada will participate in the
growing anti-racist movement
throughout the world.

The Anglican Church of
anada and the United Church of

_ Nanada, in separate statements,

ave condemned’ the racist
Policies pursued by the Vorster
Tegime in South Africa and have
Called on Ottawa to join in the
Struggle for justice that is
Underway.
The Anglican Church’s state-
Ment reads in part:
ee The current open expressions
dissent in South Africa while
© in some of their consequ-
pes are also a sign of the in-
~OMmitable spirit and hope burning
og hearts of the vast majority
‘ Its black population and a sub-
tantial minority of its whites.
1¢ Government of South Afri-
Ca's deliberate and violent exploi-
tion of the black peoples of
South Africa has been approach-
'ng its denouncement — its ulti-
oe exposure as one of the most
IClous and oppressive racist re-
8imes the world has ever seen...
i at we are witnessing now
S the beginning of the inevitable
rumbling and destruction of this

_Tacist and oppressive regimé. Ev-

Ww attempt is being made by the
Orster regime to delude the

World, and particularly Western

Nations, that the dissent is being
°rganized and fomented by ‘‘ter-
Torists”” and ‘‘Communists’”’ and
€xternal agitators. Churches and

ir members within and outside
South Africa are included in at-
lacks and many black and white
Churchmen have been detained,
-anned, exiled or otherwise sub-
Jected to the Government’s
Violence.

‘““The Vorster regime has de-
monstrated again in recent weeks
it has but one policy towards the
Blacks and any who support their
struggle — violence. Canadians
through our churches, govern-
ments, banks, corporations and
media must now more than ever
demonstrate that they support the
legitimate struggle of the Blacks
of South Africa for freedom and
oppose the racist Vorster regime

The United Church sent this
message to the Department of Ex-

ternal Affairs:
~ “In view of the present crisis in

‘South Africa, we reaffirm the pos-

ition of the United Church of
Canada which has consistently
condemned the racist policy of
that country. We believe that the
present uprisings are symptons of
the underlying injustice of its
whole social and economic sys-
tem and may indeed be followed
by further violent protests even
more serious and extensive
against that system. We call upon
the Government of Canada to
convert its rhetoric against apar-
theid into a much firmer public
policy stand. We submit that
Canada’s stated position on
South Africa’s racist policy is de-
cisively compromised by permitt-
ing Canadian industrial and com-
mercial participation in a system
that exploits the poor both in the
Republic and in Namibia over
which the Republic of South Afri-
ca’s control has been declared il-
legal by international law and re-
pudiated by the United Nations.

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23rd Convention sets Appeal
as priority task for the Party

As an historic fighter for peace
the Communist Party of Canada
passed the following resolution re-
affirming its support for the Stock-
holm Appeal at its 23rd Conven-

The world wide struggle to stop
the arms race and to begin the
process of disarmament is thé de-
cisive element at this time to
make détente irreversible and to
extend it to cover the whole
world. Putting a stop to, or slow-
ing down, the arms race will mark
the beginning of the extension of
détente to the military sphere.

It is important to note that the
arms race rather than diminishing
intensifies of late, as the govern-
ments of the imperialist states in-

= cluding Canada yield to the

‘theory’ of ‘peace through
strength’ advocated by the cold
war warriors and the military-
industrial complex.

Throughout the years the
Communist Party has consistently
advocated the ending of the arms
race as a necessary prerequisite
for establishing a just and stable
world peace. Today we say that
this is not only necessary but,
building on what has been
achieved in the development of
détente and growing recognition
of the necessity of peaceful co-
existence, it is now possible to
win this objective.

The 1950 Stockholm Appeal

was a powerful mobilizer of world
public opinion against the nuclear
arms danger. The success of that
Appeal visibly demonstrated that
ordinary people play a vital role in
defence of peace.

Today, the different conditions
in which millions upon millions of
people have been won to the de-
fence of peace, gives cause for
confidence in the success of the
mass movement of the peoples of
the world to stop the arms race.
Without such a mass movement
the arms race will not be stopped.

The new’ Stockholm Appeal
is another powerful instrument
for peace through which the im-
mense power of world public
opinion can be effectively
mobilized in united action to stop
the arms race and ban all nuclear
weapons.

The new Stockholm Appeal
calls for the banning of all kinds of
weapons of mass destruction as a
major objective of the world’s
peace forces. The road to the
achievement of this objective as
projected by the Appeal lies
through such concrete measures
as complete and universal ban on
nuclear weapons tests, creation of
nuclear free zones, the prohibi-
tion of the development and pro-
duction of any new kinds of
weapons, or systems of weapons,
of mass destruction, the earliest

convening of the World Dis-
armament Conference decided
upon by the United Nations.

For all of the above reasons this
23rd Convention of the Com-
munist Party of Canada whole-
heartedly and unreservedly en-
dorses the new Stockhold Appeal
1975, and pledges that the Com-
munist Party will do everything in
its power to ensure the successful
fulfillment of the campaign for
Signatures and endorsements of
the Appeal.

This Convention underlines the
urgency of the movement around
the Appeal. More and more, pub-
lic opinion must be alerted to the
everpresent danger of world nuc-
lear war that is a natural con-
comitant of the arms race; and the
striking contrast between the
huge waste of human and material
resources embodied in the con-
tinuation of the arms race and the
unfilled needs of economic and
social development.

The Convention asks all Party
committees and clubs to continue
to place the new Stockholm Ap-
peal to Ban the Arms Race and
struggle for universal and com-
plete disarmament with security
for all countries, as a priortiy task
of the Party. And in doing so, to
do everything possible to make
the signature campaign a success
in their localities. ‘

Soviet minister of agriculture explains
misconceptions concerning grain harvest

MOSCOW — The Soviet Un-
ion needs ‘‘a ton of grain per
capita each year to fully satisfy
the requirements of the popula-
tion for food, to set up adequate
reserve stocks and to fulfill our
export commitments,” Anatoly
Goltsov, deputy minister of ag-
riculture, said in a recent inter-
view.

Noting that the USSR ‘“‘not
only buys grain, but also sells it,”’
the 47-year-old Goltsov admitted

‘the difficulty of solving the prob-

lem. He said that the current
five-year plan (1976-80) envisaged
average yearly output of 220 mill-
ion tons.

This does not mean that there is
a food shortage, but that ‘‘we are
experiencing ... a shortage of
fodder grain.”’ Nor does it mean
that Soviet agriculture has not re-
gistered successes.

Touching on the thesis some-
times spread.in the West, that
prior to the October Revolution,
Russia exported grain, and now is
importing it, Goltsov called the
charge not serious.

“In 1909-13,’’ he said, ‘“Russia

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| The Soviet Union requires a ton of grain per capita to satisfy food, reserve and export requirements.

accounted for more than a fourth
of world grain export, but ...
when some 14 million tons of
grain were exported, 30 million
people, i.e. every fifth citizen,
starved in Russia.

“Before the collectivization
(1926-29),’” he went on, ‘‘55 mill-
ion tons of grain were gathered in
an average year. In 1971-75, de-
spite the fact that four out of five
years were climatically unfavora-
ble, the average annual harvest
topped 180 million tons. Thus in
the lifetime of one generation of
peasants the grain output more
than tripled.”

The recent food conference in
Rome had stated, he pointed out,
“that to satisfy the growing de-
mand for bread, the world grain
output, which now stands at ab-
out 1,200 million tons, should
grow by about 25 million tons a
year. At such rates the world
grain output would double in 48
years. The experience of the
USSR, as you see, shows that
such rates can be considerably
outstripped.”

Although the grain target for

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1976 in the USSR had been met,
Goltsov said, it does not fully
satisfy the requirements. How-
ever, he dismissed the suggestion
in some quarters that the present
good harvest was because of good
weather.

“Our country,”’ he said, ‘‘pro-
duces about two-thirds of its grain
in areas which are systematically
stricken by droughts which are
more severe than the
‘meteorological catastrophe of
the century’ experienced by
Western Europe this year. The
USSR’s main grainbaskets lie in
the critical farming zone, and har-
vesting almost always involves
risk.

“If under conditions of severe
drought the USSR succeeded in
gathering in 140 million tons of
grain, it was not bad at all.”’ He
added: ;

“‘The good harvest was
achieved due to the intense work
of collective and state farmers,
the maximum use of all factors of
the intensification of production
(technical facilities, fertilizers and
land reclamation)’’ and proper
farm management.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 12, 1976—Page 9