1 The NATO defence committee
4st week “pinpointed” various
tgets for nuclear bombs in the

Republic, Poland and
€choslovakia as initial vic-
S—and grudgingly agreed to
Tmit Western Germany to dis-

Uss Outstanding problems with
Ye socialist countries. Canada’s
of External Affairs
in favor of East-West

ister
Oke
Iks,
Talks between the U.S.S.R.
d Western Germany on the re-
Unciation of force and other is-
‘es Opened this week. The Bonn
80vernment’s signing of the
ti aty on nuclear non-prolifera-

10n was a major step in paving
€ way for the meeting.

© Warsaw Pact countries’
arty and government leaders,
€eting at the same time as the
ATO powers, called for the
velopment of relations be-

: he all states and the recogni-
d

N of existing European bor-
“tts. The meeting called for an
to U.S. aggression in Viet-

and for action to compel
© Carrying out of the UN deci-

Iddle East.
© failure to fulfil the Secu-
Council’s resolution of Nov.
1967 on the Israeli. aggres-
» the statement declared, “is
COuraging the aggressor, lead-
\© [0 the discredit of the United
ations and a dangerous aggra-
tion of the situation.”
While the peoples of Europe
Most governments favor the

kicked out:

_There are 3,000 concrete work-
© in Toronto’s residential con-
Struction industry. They’re main-
4 Italian and Portuguese-speak-
© Canadians and they’ve been
a game” for union-busting
Astruction companies and their
hired “independent union” or-
izers,

Ive international unions in
€ Council of Concrete Form-
: Unions have succeeded in
nosing and ending the opera-
, 4s of the notorious collusion
‘ti tween nine Toronto construc-
,°N companies and the inde-
yn dent union controlled by
‘uno Zanini.

As the result of the announced
tention of the Council to pre-
Nt proof that Zanini’s “union”
last summer been set up and
~ancially supported by the con-
Ctors, counsel for both the
_€ companies and Zanini ad-
Ruted before the Ontario Labcr
wlations Board they could not
tablish that Zanini’s “union”
‘presented a majority of the

sini group, called the Cana-
ai Concrete Forming Work-
8, and the nine contractors.
€ five international unions
Ve started a campaign to or-
q.z@ the 3,000 Toronto resi-
“ntial construction concrete
orkers. Their jobs are no Jong:
threatened by orders from
Osses’ supervisors and fore-
N to “join Zanini’s union or
home.”

ns on restoring peace in the

Warsaw Pact proposal for a
European all-in security confer-
ence in the first half of 1970, the
NATO ministers were Cool to
the idea while paying lip service
to the necessity for it. Their
statement suggested such a con-
ference should be put off until
“existing contacts will be devel-
oped so as to enable all coun-
tries to participate in discussions
and negotiations on substantial
problems of cooperation and se-
curity in Europe with real pros-
pects of success.”

While wars and threats of war
continue and the hawks of im-
perialism are accelerating their
efforts to prevent peace from
being firmly established, the
world actions for peace are com-
pelling negotiation of agreé-
ments to limit armaments and

put out the flames of armed:

conflict.
President Nixon gave no evi-
dence of willingness to end U.S.

‘aggression against Vietnam in

his radio-and-TV address to the
nation, but his twistings on the
question prove that the vocal
majority of Americans and
world opinion in opposition to
his policies are making them-
selves felt. Much greater pres-
sure is needed, however, to
compel actual change, i.e., the
withdrawal of U.S. forces from
that country. .

Four-power talks — Britain,
France, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. —
are continuing, on how to stop

the war in the Middle East from
flaring up into full-scale fighting
with inevitable involvement of
the great powers.

Negotiations between the
U.S.A and U.S.S.R- on strategic
arms limitation are continuing in
Helsinki with progress reported,
but informed sources say that
any test moratorium on multiple
independently-targeted re-entry
vehicles (MIRV) will have to
emerge from the talks within the
next few months to prevent a
catastrophic nuclear arms race.

MIRV is the technical name
for an intercontinental ballistic
missile carrying several (three to
15) nuclear warheads which can
be fired independently of one
another at different targets. With
the older ICBMs, one missile
meant one warhead; with MIRV,
it is impossible to tell how
powerful a country’s missile
strike force is.

Once the U.S. perfects a MIRV
through flight tests (expected in
May-June), experts say, there
will be “‘no holds barred” in the
arms race.

Most NATO members have cut
their draft period to less than 18
months. Some, like Britain, have
abolished it. The U.S. is the only
NATO country which has a two-
year draft. West Germany told
the NATO meeting in Brussels
that it is considering an 18-
month draft term. At the same
time, it pledged 460,000 troops to
NATO forces.

European leaders urge

conference

A meeting of leading figures

from 26 European countries in
Vienna concluded with an appeal
for the establishment of an ef-
fective system of European se-
curity and for the speedy con-
vocation in Helsinki (Finland) of
a conference of European states
on security and cooperation.

In the course of the three-day
non-governmental conference
about 300 representatives of dif-
ferent political, social and reli-
gious outlooks and movements
had: frankly discussed topical
problems of safeguarding peace
in Europe, and participants un-
animously adopted a Vienna De-

claration, calling on all states to

recognize the inviolability of all
existing frontiers in order to es-
tablish peaceful conditions in
Europe. Relations between coun-
tries should be based on equal-
ity and on the renunciation of
the use of force.

on security

Participants agreed that last-
ing peace in Europe can be best
guaranteed by the collective en-
deavours of the European states,
and by the establishment of an
effective system of European se-
curity which is open to all states,
big and small, to members of
military groupings and to neu-
trals, to capitalist and socialist
countries. This oppeal calls upon
all political parties and public’
organizations to contribute to-
wards detente and security in
Europe.

During the commission debate
all speakers emphasized the ur-
gent need for the recognition of
the German Democratic Repub-
lic in terms of international law,,
and the acknowledgement of the
Oder-Neisse border. A_ similar
call was made to declare the
Munich agreement,’ dismember-
ing Czechoslovakia in 1938, null
and void ab initio. ;

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Atrocities in Chicago |

Murder of Black Panthers

If the U.S. Congress does not
investigate the police murder of
two Black Panther Party mem-
bers in Chicago last week, the
latest of 23 such killings of the
militant movement’s _ leaders
within the past three months,
the group will bring charges of
genocide by U.S. police to the
United Nations.

Fred- Hampton, 21, was shot
to death in his bed when police
broke into the Chicago ghetto
house at 5a.m. on Dec. 4. Mark
Clark, 22 years old, was also
murdered, four others were shot,
including two women, and the
police hauled off four mcre, in-
cluding a 19-year old woman
who was eight months pregnant,
to prison, cynically charging
them with “attempted murder.”

Fred Hampton, who was chair-
man of the Illinois chapter of the
party, recently addressed a
meeting in Regina, (reported in
the Tribune on Nov. 26), left
Canada under compulsion while
his two companions were de-
ported by the Canadian autho-
rities.

Hampton and Clark were the
twenty-seventh and _ twenty-
eighth Black Panther members
shot by police since January. In
the last six months 40 leaders
and 125 members have been ar-
rested, some facing life sent-
ences and execution.

“Tam appalled,” Leon Small,
executive director of Americans
for Democratic Action, told the
press. “Something’s peculiar
when they attempt to wipe out
the entire leadership of an or-
ganization.”

Hampton died of two gunshct
blasts to his head at close range
and three bullets in his heart.
There were no marks that would
show that he or the other vic-
tims fired in self-defense.

“This Chicago massacre oc-
curred at a time when millions
of Americans, together with
hundreds of millions of people
around the globe, are horrified
by revelations of the massacre
at Songmy in South Vietnam by
U.S. troops in March 1968,” the
New York Daily World wrote in
an editorial.

“The two events are separat-

Dear Friends,

we shall continue our work.

exploitation and injustice.

tagon.

of conscience.

Once again we appeal to make sure, by your gifts, that

For twenty-one years the forces of peace have been
maintaining a constant struggle to prevent a Third World
War. Sometimes it has seemed a long and nerve-wracking
strain. But in the process of history it is not long. We can
see that history is developing in favour of ending war,

Counter-revolutionary wars, supported and waged large-
ly by the United States are facing military stalemate and
moral and political defeat. The October Moratorium move-
ment and the Vietnam Mobilization actions will probably
force President Nixon to reconsider the plans of the Pen-

Peace is, indeed, the business of all the people.
We must continue to do our best to challenge all people
of goodwill to make the struggle for peace an obligation

Yours fraternally,
JAMES G. ENDICOTT.

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: More than 250 policemen oe
tacked the Black Panther Party

ed by 18 months in time and
several thousands miles in space.
But what is common to both far
outweighs the accidents of time
and space.

“First, the old men, women
and children murdered at Song-
my were brown-skinned people,

whom U.S. soldiers call ‘gooks’, —

‘slopes’ and ginks’; and the youth
murdered, wounded and arrest-
ed in the Chicago ghetto house
are black people whom U.S.
police call ‘burrheads’ and ‘nig-
gers’.

“Far from being accidental,
isolated occurrences differing
from usual, normal happenings,
Songmy was but one instance
of a decades-long pattern of U.S.
military behavior toward non-
white peoples trying to achieve
national liberation and indepen-
dence, a pattern clearly visible
in the wars against Mexico, the
Phillippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba,
Korea and many Latin American
peoples; while Chicago is only
the latest instance of ‘police ac-
tion’ against Indian Americans,
Afro-Americans, Mexican-Ame-
ricans and other non-white Ame-
ricans whose struggles for equal-
ity are considered a threat to
‘law and order’.”

Quoting an AFL-CIO union
Official to the effect that “‘if the
Nixon Administration gets away
with wiping out the Black Pan-
ther Party, the labor movement
will be next in line,” the paper
calls on “all Americans who
treasure the liberties they now
enjoy” to act “to preserve those
liberties by demanding and or-
ganizing to expose and punish
the murderers of Songmy and
Chicago.”

POT

CANADIAN PEACE CONGRESS

CHRISTMAS APPEAL
1969

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