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Danger, troops at work

Greek democracy
under attack

Following the army takeover in Greece last Thursday,
the Communist Party of Canada sent the following telegram
to External Affairs Minister Paul Martin:

“Shocking attack on Greek democracy, widely believed to
have been engineered by the CIA, calls for a sharp condemna-
tion by the Canadian government, Canada must refuse to

recognize this military dictatorship, Our responsibility is all

the greater because we have permitted ourselves to be allied
with Greece in NATO.”

Another wire to the Greek ambassador in Ottawa sharply
protests the army coup and condemns persecution of Greek
patriots,

The Army regime in Greece continued mass arrests of
progressives this week following the military coup last Thursday
to head off the coming Greek elections at which the democratic
forces in the country were expected to win an overwhelming
majority.

Many of those arrested have been shipped off to the barren,
rocky island of Gavdos. A spokesman for the regime denied
reports that 8,500 people had already been seized, but officials
would not say how manyarrests had taken place since the Army
seized power,

George Papandreou, 79-year-old former Premier and
leader of the Centre Union Party which had been expected to
win in the coming May 28 election, was arrested in the first
hours of the coup and is reported tobe in hospital under guard.

In 1965, King Constantine and the Greek right ousted the
elected Papandreou government because it wanted to remove
plotting right wing top officers from the forces, The coup
staged last Thursday night was prepared long in advance,
High army officers began banding together two years ago,
a spokesman for the regime admitted.

It was learned that on Friday, the first day of the coup,
the King, together with Gen, Spandidakis, Army Chief of Staff,
and Deputy Premier in the army regime, drove to the country
home of Queen Mother Frederika, the former Hitler Youth
member whose interference in Greek politics has frequently
stirred the wrath of the Greek people.

A foreign correspondent reported after meeting with a
spokesman for the regime in Athens that the coup was led
by a group of young staff officers who wanted to set up a regime
patterned on the Franco and Salazar governments in Spain
and Portugal,

Protests against the military dictatorship and demands
for immediate release of all political prisoners should be
addressed to: His Excellency Aristide N, Pilavachi, Ambassa-
dor of Greece, Chateau Laurier Hotel, Suite 110, Ottawa 2,

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On the occasion of labor’s international holiday — May Ist — the
Committee of the Communist Party addressed the following message fo Cane

working people:

May Day has become sanctified
as the international day'of labor
when working men and women
review past events, draw plans for
the future and demonstrate their
unity and solidarity in the struggle
to achieve abetter life in apeace=
ful world,

This year May Day has a
special significance,

Flaunting world public opinion

United States imperialism is_

continuing and extending its war
of aggression against the people
of Vietnam. Instead of ending
its bombings as a means of
opening up negotiations, the U.S.
government pursues a policy of
genocide and scorched earth, Its
aim is not a just peace but dom-
ination of Indo-China and control
of Southeast Asia,

Unfortunately the Canadian
government still refuses to speak
out against this criminal policy
when it should be uniting with
all other peace-loving countries
and peoples’in a united demand
that the U.S. government end its
bombing of Vietnam and begins

serious negotiations with. the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
and the South Vietnam National
Liberation Front.

United States imperialist
policy is taking the world to
the precipice, But peace can be
preserved if labor in Canada
unites with labor throughout the
world to end this criminal policy.

At home labor is faced with
new problems and challenges.
Monopoly is trying to place
shackles on labor by laws which
would replace the right to strike
with compulsory arbitration.
Pressures are being mounted to
force workers to accept a form
of wage freeze while profits and
prices continue to soar.

Certainly there is need for
changes in labor laws to conform
with the needs ofthe technological
and scientific revolution, But they
must be changes which restrict

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