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Kashtan tells Nixon

“The people of Vietnam and
of all Indochina are fighting for
the right to decide their own
destiny without outside inter-
ference. This is what the Cana-
dian people also want for our-
selves, and the second reason
why we are here is to protest
the stepped-up U.S. imperialist
policy of striving to change
Canadian policies in a way that
would undermine our countrys
sovereignty and independence.

“President Nixon says that he
respects Canada’s identity. These
are strange words from him.
Canada has been here a long
time and will be for a long time
to come. The majority of Cana-
dians demand that Nixon re-
place his get-tough policy to-
ward Canada by a good-neigh-
bor policy based on genuine
equality betwen our two coun-
tries.

‘Tt is the inequality imposed
on Canada by U.S. imperialism
that is at the bottom of the diffi-
culties and sharpened relations
between us. The roots of this
policy lie in monopoly control:
of the economy and govern-
ment.

“Our coming here expresses
the views not only of our party
but of large masses of Cana-
dians. The U.S. must stop its
armed aggression against Viet-
nam and end its economic ag-
gression against Canada!”

The crowd, swollen to about
200 by this time, applauded the
speaker. This interest and wide
approval was also shown during
the march in the streets with
the main banners proclaiming,
“Mr, Nixon, Canada is not for
sale!” and “End your dirty war!
Return to the Paris peace talks!”
Placards were carried with slo-
gans in both French and English
calling for a halt to the bombing
in Vietnam, demanding that no
deals be made against the inter-
ests of Canada, etc. Communist
candidates from Quebec and
Ontario took part in the demon-
stration. :

Mr. Kashtan was interviewed
by Canadian and American TV
and news reporters. When one
correspondent wanted to know
why the demonstration had not
been publicized, Mr. Kashtan
pointed out that press releases
had been sent but evidently had
been blacked out by the media.
“Another example of the free-
dom of the press,’ he stated.

were massed, erecting barricades around the
building, pushing into crowds and goosestep-
ping with truncheons in hand.

“We've had enough of the government's
blackmail, veiled threats, preconditions and
vomiting on the workers," declared teachers’
union president Yvon Charbonneau on behalf
of the Common Front leaders. "The truth is
that the government simply doesn't want to
negotiate." :

Referring to the recent fund-raising dinner
in Montreal where Premier Bourassa told the
applauding assembled 5,000 wealthy and

putBEC CITY—Angered at the Bourassa
ciment's cynical refusal to meaningfully
| tate the strike of the 210,000 public

Ployees, the leaders of the Common Front
Unites the three trade union centres of

week in 1974."
The embattled

“high society" diners that he was preparing
to stop strikes of public employees, Mr.
Charbonneau said:

“In the name of the interests of high fi-
nance and the private sector who dictate
his conduct, the Bourassa Government and
Liberal Party, who organize fund-raising din-
ners at $100 a couple, refuse to allow all
workers in the public sector to have $100 a

workers of Quebec are -at

this hour standing in the front rank of Cana-
dian labor's struggle for its rights.

Halt war, negotiate peace’
angry world demand rises

“Stop the bombing! Return to the
Paris peace talks!” This demand was
being repeated all across Canada and
throughout the world as President
Nixon unleashed the full fury of air
and naval war against the people of
Vietnam.

A. statement issued in Hanoi, calling
for world protests against the stepped-

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t vigil at noon-hour Monday at the U.S. consulate (top
Ae ment over 100 Voice of Women, Canadian Peace Con-
gress and others protested the bestial bombing raids and naval
operations by the U.S. against the people of Vietnam, north and
south. Various actions to express Canada’s overwhelming protest
against the dirty war in Indochina are continuing to be held in vari-

ountry.

ste Pi and Friday the Communist Party of Canada organized
a parade on the streets (photo below) culminating at a gathering at
the Parliament where C.P. leader Wm. Kashtan addressed the crowd.

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up attack, stated that U.S. Navy
strength off Vietnam has increased

men on 20 ships to 35,000

men on over 40 ships, and the U.S. fleet
in the air of B-52 bombers has reached
180 planes with another 80 based in
Thailand and two new groups totalling
100 ordered to Southeast Asia this

The Vietnamese scored 12 hits
on U.S. warships and three were
set on fire. A total of 3,478 U.S.
planes have been brought down
since 1964.

A nuclear-armed aircraft car-
rier left Long Beach, Calif., for
Indochina April 10, according to
the Ad Hoc Military Build-Up
Committee. The committee was
given the information by a ser-
viceman at the base. The car-
rier, the U.S.S. Midway, is
carrying 75 planes armed with
nuclear weapons, 4,500 sailors
and 200 marines.

Bombing North Vietnamese
cities of Hanoi and Haiphong in-
flicted great casualties on peace-
ful citizens. The Soviet Union
has issued a sharp warning to
the U.S. on the bombing of four
Soviet ships in the harbor.

In Paris, Nixon was denounced
as “the greatest war criminal in
history” ‘by Ly Van Sau, spokes-
man for the Provisional Revolu-
tionary Government of South
Vietnam.

Denying that there ever were
“secret messages” from Nixon
offering to resume peace talks,
he said the Vietnamese have
continually demanded that the
U.S. return to the negotiations
table, but “Nixon replied with
bombs.”

En route to Hanoi, U.S. Com-
munist leader Gus Hall called
the bombings “the most brutal
crime in history” and _ said:
“Nixon has earned the right to
be called the mad bomber. He
must be restrained by all sane
and peace-loving Americans.”

Douglas Fraser, vice-president
of the United Auto. Workers en-
dorsed U.S. anti-war demonstra-
tions.

Angela Davis interrupted her
defense on framed-up murder
charges in California to issue an
appeal for united efforts to bring
to an end the “genocidal” U.S.
imperialist war in Indochina.

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