Of the Tribune, told an attentive’

. Nature

Ontario Communist Party leader William Stewart (left) is shown
Presenting 12,500 signatures to an electoral official required for the
Party to qualify under the new Election Finance Reform Act as a
‘Political party. The Ontario election has been set for Sept. 18. The
Ontario Communist Party has already nominated in 21 ridings.

Immigration hearings
branded as big farce

The national debate on im-
Migration, centred around the
areen Paper, was termed a
farce” by a Communist Party
Spokesman last week at a salmon
-’ake in Vancouver under the
auspices of the party’s City'Com-

Fred Wilson, business manager

audience that it would be “naive”
fo think that a discussion on im-
Migration is “unconnected with
ur worst unemployment crisis
Since the 1930’s, with the growing
facist attacks throughout Canada,
With the white power slogans, with
le murder of black children, and
eee Open violence against East
Ndians in South Vancouver,
€snel and Ft. St. John.”

A real discussion on immigration -

Policy was never the government’s

intention, he said, but from the -

,elning was meant to be a
paorum for every right-wing,
ascist and neo-fascist
°rganization in the country to whip
Up a reactionary and racist. at-
Mosphere.

: ‘And it is a cover-up, a smoke-
creen to give an air of democracy
4n anti-democratic policy which
S already been decided,” he

charged. “The Green Paper is

Mor e than a discussion on im-
a 8ration policy — it is a program,

Calculated attempt to divert
ies tion away from basic political
to ues and to provide ammunition

"ight-wing racists and bigots.”
dence of the discriminatory
of the hearings of the

Parliamentary committee on the

— Mittee

aren Paper was their ready
b €ptance of the brief presented
“Wy fascist organization, the
to €stern Guard” but their denial

© Communist Party of the

"ight to appear before the Com-

th The Communist Party was not
disor; _ only organization
Said ‘minated against,’’ Wilson
bee Here in Vancouver when the
ressive Chinese community
peared to oppose the Green

Aap armed. with a_ petition
brie & hearly 10,000 names and a
m Signed by 40 Chinese com-

‘nity organizations they were

allotted only five minutes to
present their views.”

In the opinion of the CP, he ex-
plained, the Green Paper’s main
thrust is to limit immigration into
Canada by a quota system which
would set a global limit and limits
on immigration from specific
countries, and would then control
immigration by tightening
restrictions on the, point system
which individual applicants must
pass to be admitted into Canada.
The point system would be
modified — and in fact already has
by regulatory changes to the
Immigration Act in 1974 — to place
far greater emphasis on oc-
cupational, educational and
literary skills.

“This has a two fold effect,”
Wilson said. “Firstly, itis a built-in
racist feature which discriminates
against Asians, Africans and Latin
Americans, and secondly, it gives
an advantage and a preference. to

managerial and upper class-

persons from those countries.

“The Green Paper is a document
which seeks to revitalize old forms
of class domination, to blame
workers for their economic ills, to
divide them and pit white worker
against black worker against
Asian worker. Discussion or not,
this is the policy of the govern-
ment.”’

The CP program for im-
migration recognizes the need for
millions of additional people in
Canada, he stressed, but those
people must be admitted on the
basis of a sound and constructive
policy that would be closely related
to economic growth. “Open the
doors to our factories and work
places, put our people to work, and
we can keep our doors open to new
Canadians.”’

Wilson said that immigration
policy must be absolutely non-
discriminatory. ‘‘We should have
no quota system against any
country,” he declared, “no point
system which discriminates
against any people or sets personal
standards that favor rich over

poor.”

DEMOCRATS FIGHT BACK

CIA behind fascist
attack in Portugal

More than 80 per cent of the

trade union work force in Portugal

laid down their tools for half an
hour on Tuesday in a massive
general strike and protest against
the pro-fascist violence which has
swept through northern Portugal,
burning and looting Communist

. Party and trade union offices in

more than 70 terrorist attacks.
The general strike was called by
Portugal’s two million strong trade
union federation ‘‘Intersindical’’ to
protest the fascist attacks that
have seen more than 20 Inter-
sindical offices destroyed since
mid July. Fifty Communist Party
offices have also been assaulted.
The overwhelming response to
the call for the general strike was a
public show of support for: the
Armed Forces Movement and the
new provisional government
headed by president Costa Gomes
and premier Vasco Goncalves.
- The national security

organization of the Armed Forces.

Movement, ‘‘Continental

Operations Command,’’ indicated -

in a communique last Wednesday
that a wave of arrests in northern

“towns revealed that the outlawed

fascist party ‘Popular National
Alliance’”’” and its youth
organization were responsible for

_ organizing the attack squads. The

terrorists are reported to have
admitted to have been funded and
supported by “certain political
groups” based in Spain.

The AFM has pledged to take a
hard line against terrorists and
both Intersindical and the Com-
munist Party have stated that they
will defend their property and
rights if attacked.

“Tf we don’t stop the counter rev-
olutionary offensive,’ CP leader
Alvaro Cunhal told.a rally of 20,000
in Lisbon last week, “‘it can reach a
situation where it could threaten
the very existence of our liberties,
opening the way to a reactionary
armed coup and a terrorist dic-
tatorship.”’ ;

Cunhal said that the AFM had
the means to deal with fascist
activity but that effective action
must be taken immediately. He
called on all democratic forces in

SUGAR

Cont'd from pg. 1

six month period from October 1974
to March 1975 profits. were
$93,411,000 compared to the same
month period the year before of

$57,017,000. Not satisfied with these

excessive profits, B.C. Sugar has
recently invoked a new round of
price hikes, the latest of them
coming last week.

B.C. Sugar owns all four sugar

‘refineries in Western Canada,

giving it virutal control of the
sugar beet industry. and the
refining and sale of sugar. This
enables it to set prices at will,
without any competition from
other world sugar producers. The
Food Prices Review Board reports
that the pricing situation is even
worse on the Prairies than in B.C.
because there is absolutely no
relation between the market price
and cost of production.

It’s good that Ottawa has drawn
public attention to the sugar
monopoly. The question now is:
What is Ottawa going to do about
it? Words are not enough. Action is
needed to force sugar prices down
and to protect consumers from the
corporate greed of the B.C, Sugar
Refinery.

“Portugal to close ranks and

eliminate divisions among them.
“The greatest danger,’’ he said,
“is really the very crisis of the
revolutionary process. The main
question at the moment is that of
political power. The question of
knowing and determining who is
ruling the country, how one must
govern and with whom one must
govern.”

Communist
Alvaro Cunhal.

' Meanwhile, the alignment of
forces inside the country became

.Portugal’s — leader,

clearer last week with the
revelation that representatives of
Socialist Party leader Mario
Soares had held secret meetings in
Spain with the exiled General
Spinola, reportedly under the
auspices of the American CIA.
Throughout the growing right-wing
campaign in the country the
Socialist leadership has remained
conspicuously silent although local
SP organizations in northern towns
have condemned the fascists and
even worked in unison -with
communists and AFM soldiers to
defend local offices.

The events of recent weeks have
borne out the warnings of the
Communist Party that the counter-
revolutionary stance of the
Socialist leadership would play
into the hands of right-wing forces.
“The fascist fire-raisers have
dipped their torches in the anti-
communist flames fanned by the

Socialist Party leadership,”’
Cunhal declared at the Lisbon
rally.

Internationally, the alignment of
forces also cleared this week as
tremendous international support
and solidarity with the Portuguese
revolution made itself felt.
Organized labor -in France and
Finland, Britain’s student

‘progressives. It ha s

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organizations, the 150 million

member World Federation of

Trade Unions and many other -

‘groups have made public
statements in support of the AFM
and the revolutionary process.
Simultaneously, last Thursday
-Henry Kissinger told a meeting of
businessmen in Birmingham,
Alabama that the U.S. will ‘oppose
and speak out against the efforts of
a minority which appears to be
subverting the revolution for its
own purposes.” Kissinger said that
the U.S. and NATO “stand ready to
help a democratic Portugal.”’
Kissinger’s statements, soun-
ding as if written by Mario Soares,
have proven somewhat em-
barrassing for the group of 80
“American leftists’ who have
recently taken out full page ads in
major U.S. newspapers supporting
Soares and denouncing the com-
munists and the AFM.
Of graver concern though was a
. direct threat aimed at the Soviet
Union that it should not ‘directly
or indirectly” influence events in
Portugal. Harking back to the
fascist Salazar-Caetano regime,
-Kissinger referred to Portugal as
an “old friend and ally” and
threatened that the U.S. would
consider Soviet involvement as a
violation of the Helsinki agreement
on European security.
Kissinger’s statements were
clearly aimed at diverting the
world-wide attention on the ac-
tivities of the CIA in Portugal. In
an expose that has received wide
publicity former CIA operative
Philip Agee publically identified
some 42 CIA case officers working
in Portugal to forment anti-
communist violence. Agee charged
that the “top priority” of the CIA is
the infiltration of the AFM to
further divide the military and lay
the basis for a counterrevolution-
ary coup.
Spain and Brazil have become
involved with theCIA in their ploys
against. the revolution. It was
confirmed this week that the new
Brazilian ambassador to Portugal
is Gen. Carlos Albero de Fontoura,
the former head of the Brazilian
gestapo or National Intelligence
Service. Fontoura’s claim to fame
is the infamous ‘‘death squads” —
a highly trained group of assassins
which claimed credit for the
murder of over 400 Brazilian
. also been
Bt activities

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in Portugal are be
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