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Greek CP hails left election win

The Communist Party of Greece has hailed the left
Victory in last Sunday’s municipal elections and has
urged left unity in this Sunday’s runoff.
__In last Sunday’s vote, the first municipal elections held in Greece
tor 11 years, the left won a majority of the elections, including the
Mayoralties of Athens and other large cities. The pro-government
Candidates backed by Premier Constantine Caramanlis were largely

defeated.

“The time has come for the government to take account of the will
of the people,”’ said the statement issued by the CPG.

“The people’s victory was most marked in those places where the
unity of the democratic forces was complete. In those places where the
Progressive forces acted as united allies in the elections, the democrat-
ie candidates were either elected in the first round or are in the lead in

€ Second round (runoffs).’”’

‘

The CPG urged its members to do everything possible to ensure
democratic victories in the runoff elections this Sunday.

Reaction, revulsion over ‘Operation Babylift,

Election year tinsel _

BUDGET IGNORES

ECONOMIC NEEDS

Like getting meat to market’

_ Film of president Ford carry-
Ing Vietnamese babies off a
Plane in California is enough to
Make decent people sick. The
Initial reaction, however, to the
President of a country which has
SO mauled and brutalized the
Vietnamese people, should be
tempered with a look behind
this world-wide, orchestrated
Obscenity.

Naomi Bronstein, who return-

ed from Saigon on the plane
April 6 with 61 Cambodian and
Vietnamese children, has shed
Some light on what is going on.

Calling the sudden race by West-

€rn nations “like getting meat to
the market,” Ms. Bronstein said:
“We started this work six years
ago when it was not fashionable
to save orphans. Where were, all
those planes when we needed
them before? . . . This province
' Wants 200 babies. This province
Wants 300. Australia is trying to
Outdo the U.S. The U.S. is trying
to outdo someone else . .

“The feeling in Saigon, and-

this is mine also, is that the
children are being used for a big
Show,” she charged.

‘On April 7, the Saigon regime
Caved in to pressure from coun-
tries like Canada, the USA and
Australia and agreed to permit
“Operation Babylift” to go on.
American Embassy sources in
Saigon admit to this pressure,
Which was exerted following
Wide protests in South Vietnam
against the mass removal of
children.

Opposition parties have called

the dperation “filthy and dirty”
and that the South Vietnamese
regime was “using the issue for
propaganda to create emotion
and ask for more aid.” Roman
Catholic priest, Chan Tin, de-
nounced the exploitation of or-

phans and charged the United

States and the Thieu regime are
responsible for the deaths of
about 100 orphans in the crash
of a U.S. Galaxy which had
brought in tons of ammunition
and was flying out children.

In South Vietnam, mothers are
pressured into signing wavers
for their children to U.S. adop-
tion agencies who run homes in
Saigon. One such mother, 28-
year-old Thi Liem, was reported
in tears as she signed her three
children away last week. All
have U.S. sponsors who contri-
bute $15 per month. Thi Liem
sells soup on Saigon’s streets for
$11 per month.

Meanwhile politicians like Im-
migration Minister Andras, On-
tario Minister of Community and
Social Service Rene Brunelle and
others are beating the drums —
with a target for Canada of 500
Vietnamese children to be air-
lifted. Money is available, evi-
dently, from federal and provin-
cial coffers to finance the full-
scale kidnappings.

The Provisional Revolutionary
Government of South Vietnam
appealed April 4 for aid from the
UN children’s fund (UNICEF) for

the millions needing medical aid, ~

food, vitamins and clothing in
recently liberated areas of South
Vietnam.

the Ford: Administration.

_ Asia.”

exercise.

tional and social liberation.”

Communist Party condemns
this ‘shameless kidnapping’

“Canadians must condemn the obscene and shameless
kidnapping of close to 2,000 children from South Vietnam by

“All of this is a show to cover up the responsibility of U.S.
imperialism for the death of countless numbers of children
in Indochina, and the bankruptcy of its policies in Southeast

The Communist Party of Canada, in this statement issued
by its Central Executive on April 7, called upon Canadians
“not (to) allow themselves to be sucked into this shameful

“They should demand, jinstead: immediate emergency
relief in the form of medical and food supplies to the
children in the areas under the control of the Provisional
Revolutionary Government, and the areas still held by the
Thieu Administration; an end to the shipment of war mate-
riel from Canada to the USA, which is then handed over to
the Thieu Administration; the recognition of the PRG in line
with the Paris Peace Agreement; immediate withdrawal of
U.S. imperialism from Indochina.

“The people must be allowed to determine their own
destiny without outside. interference,” the statement says.

It asserts that, “U.S. imperialist policy is in shambles in
southeast Asia, and in the Middle East.” How long must
the Canadian Government hang on to the coat tails of U.S.
imperialism?” the Communist statement demands. “It's high
time it separated itself from a policy which has no prospect,
and advanced a distinctly Canadian foreign policy — one
dedicated to the principles of peaceful
détente, and support for the peoples striving for their na-

co-existence,

Conference

INmaps steps

to battle Chile's junta

By FILS DELISLE

Tribune Berlin Correspondent

It has been revealed that a
conference of “the leading or-
gans of the Chilean Socialist and
Communist parties for work
abroad” have met here and
agreed on measures to streng-
then their joint activities.

The communique issued by
the -participants in the confer-
ence declared: “We greet the up-
surge of the protest movement
and mass struggle for. better liv-
ing conditions in our country.
The resistance which will lead
to the overthrow of the fascist
junta is now reaching a higher
stage.”

The communique said that the

. conference was marked by un-

animity in the analysis of the
situation in Chile and that the
agreements made between the
representatives of two parties
conformed to views held by so-
cialists, communists and others
working inside the country.
* * *

Japanese business and _ politi-

cal leaders are showing more
realism than their Canadian
counterparts.
_ That is evident from trade
agreements the Japanese have
been signing with the German
Democratic Republic and from
the reception accorded the GDR
parliamentary delegation during
its stay in Tokyo.

A delegation, led-by volkskam-
mer president, Gerald Goetting,
was last week received by nume-

rous Japanese leaders and_par-
liamentary bodies. Kenzo Kono,
president of the Japanese Upper
House, informed the GDR dele-
gation that it has been decided
that the upper house will set up
a Japan-GDR friendship body.

Recently a GDR_ economic
mission signed a series of eco-
nomic agreements with Japanese
leaders in Tokyo. Both sides
took the view that the agree-
ments, designed to extend trade
and commerce between the two
countries, would benefit both
appreciably.

* * *

Condolences have been rece-
ived here from statesmen, labor
leaders and many others on the
death of Herbert. Warnke who
has buried last week.

Warnke, for 25 years chairman
of GDR’s Free Trade Union As-
sociation (FDGB), devoted half a
century of work to the labor.
movement : locally and interna-
tionally.

* * Bee

Special emphasis has_ been
placed here on the election of
the GDR to a seat on the United
Nations anti-apartheid commis-
sion.

The election to anti-apartheid
body is viewed here as recogni-
tion of the GDR’s record in up-
rooting and exterminating all
vestiges of racism, anti-Semitism
and other types of chauvinism,
in what was once the heartland
of nazism.

TORONTO—The Ontario bud-
get, brought down on the eve-
ning of April 8 by provincial
Treasurer Darcy McKeough,
“does nothing to get at the basic
economic problems facing the
people of this province,” said
William Stewart, Ontario leader
of the Communist Party of Can-
ada.

“Any way you look at it it is
totally and cynically related to
the election,” Stewart charged.
He said that to begin with, the
budget assumes an upturn in the
U.S. economy by year’s end,
while up to now the Ontario gov-
ernment’s’ own figures predict a
U.S. economic slip of 3% on last
year.

“Two major budget points,” he
noted, “—a 2% sales tax cut and
a $1,500 grant to first-time home
buyers — not only expire Dec.
31, but: the 2% tax cut is the
same the government added on
after the last election; and with
homes at $58,000 and up, carry-
ing charges would remain form-
idable despite the grant.” Build-
ers, he pointed out, are under no
controls as to what they charge.

“Furthermore, it does nothing
for the nearly 50% in the prov-
ince who live in rented quart-
ers,” he said.

He criticized the Davis Gov-
ernment for delivering a budget
two days before the Ottawa
energy meeting which, if it rais-
ed oil prices, could affect the
economy so as to render this
budget useless.

The budget, he said, fails to
deal seriously with urgent eco-
nomic needs — prices, unem-
ployment, even housing.

a

Stewart was scheduled to ad--

dress a Communist Party elec-
tion rally April 8, at which he
indicated he would go into some
detail to expose the hollow ges-
turing of the élection year On-
tario budget.

JOBLESS RATE
STILL CLIMBS

Unemployment, for the ~
fifth straight month, con-
tinued to soar reaching
7.2% of the workforce in
March.

According to Statistics
Canada, this is up from
6.8% in February and is
the highest rate recorded
since 1961 when the rate
also stood at 7.2%.

Most of the jump was
registered in the Mari-
times, Quebec and On-
tario with the West stay-
ing unchanged. The 7.2%
figure represents 840,000
jobless. An Ottawa-bas-
ed research group pre-
dicts the rate will climb
to 8.5%. Canada has not
had a rate above 8%
the 1930s.

In the U.S. the jobless
since’ the Depression in
figure stands at 8.7% —
highest since 1941,

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