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GINGER GOODWIN CLUB,

CPC, Vancouver: At a club
meeting on August 20, 1968, the
following motion was passed by
the Ginger Goodwin club.

MSC— The Ginger Goodwin
club expresses strong criticism
of the Editorial staff of the
Pacific Tribune for the insertion
of the article ‘‘Czechs Publish
Trotskyist Manifesto’’ on page 6
of the August 16, 1968 issue. In
our opinion it is misleading and
dishonest in that (a) the headline
infers that it is the Czech
government that is responsible
for publishing the statement,
Which is not the case, and (b)
both the headline and cutline
have nothing to do with the
Content of the article quoted.
This use of headlines to distort
hews is characteristic of the
bourgeois press, and has no
place in a Communist paper.

In addition, it fails to counter
the real Trotskyist position,
which opposes the Dubcek
leadership, and calls for the
replacement of the leadership of
the Czechoslovakia Communist
Party with so-called “workers”
councils”. We request that this
motion be published in the
Pacific Tribune.

(Editor's note: The item men-
tioned above — including the head,
reproduction of the statement from
the Trotskyist paper, The Militant,
and the cutline — was taken exactly
as it appeared in the PT from the
U.S. Communist paper, Daily World.
We understand it was also repro-
duced in other left wing papers.)

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DAVE YORKE, Vancouver,
writes: I think the Tribune is to
be congratulated for publishing
the documents contained in the
September 13 issue, because a
careful reading of them clears
up the essential questions
regarding the military
intervention in Czechoslovakia.

That is, that no Czech Party or
Government body ever issued

any invitation to the five Warsaw
Pact countries to intervene, and

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All of the evidence (not to
mention the fantasy) used to try
and prove that counter-
revolution was impending in
Czechoslovakia, does not counter
the fact that the Czech
Communist Party and
Government simply did not
agree with that assessment, and
after all, it was by them that the
final assessment must be made.
Lenin didn’t leave any room for
doubt about that: “It would be a
betrayal of socialism to refuse to
effect self-determination under
socialism,” he stated in a work
titled ‘‘The Rights of Nations to
Self-Determination’’.

If any further evidence is
needed that the Communist
Party was in control of the
situation, it is found in the fact
that the people of
Czechoslovakia obeyed the call
of the Party not to resist the
illegal invasion, quite a
remarkable show of
responsibility and understanding
of the correct leadership of the
Czech Party.

No Soviet document states that
an invitation was issued by the
Czech Party or Government;
every statement of the Czech
Party and Government
absolutely denies it.

It seems to me, therefore, that
a clear understanding of the
issue of sovereignty and
independence in Czechoslovakia
is very important to
understanding the road to
socialism in Canada, where it is
precisely the issues of
sovereignty and indepence that
are at the heart of the matter.

How can one seriously argue
for winning independence from
U.S. monopoly, developing an
independent foreign policy, and
the right of Quebec to self-
determination in Canada, and
not defend those rights in
Czechoslovakia? *

How can Canadians who
subscribe to the principles of
peaceful co-existence at the

‘same time accept a situation

where military occupation was
used to settle differences
between states, where the
principle of non-interference in
the internal affairs of states
went down the drain?

For that matter, how can
Canadians who fight for peace
and self-determination in
Vietnam support intervention in
Czechoslovakia without
contradiction? Quite obviously,
the contradiction is inescapable.

I therefore think that the
course that will most
consistently and effectively help
socialism’s consolidation in
Czechoslovakia, and its
progress in Canada, is for those
Canadians who stand for
independence, peaceful

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co’existence, self-determination
and socialism, to forthrightly
express disagreement and
fraternal criticism to the five
Warsaw Pact countries who
undertook the intervention.

Any other course discredits
Canadian socialists, thereby
most effectively plays into the
hands of reaction.

‘IN NEW WESTMINSTER

Parents fight for

safety at crossings

NEW WESTMINSTER: The
Connaught Heights PTA here
formed a human chain on the
first day of school across Marine
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them failed. Refusing to be
moved, the parents said it was
the only way to guarantee the
children safe passage across the
street.

This problem arose out of a
widening of Marine Drive from
B.C. Hydro tracks to the new
Queensboro bridge. Guards are
now posted to ensure the safe
crossing of the children, and
worried aldermen in New
Westminster wonder who will
pay for the service - council or
school board or both - and who
will pay for any pedestrian
lights.

The responsibility should be
placed on the provincial
government, because the moving
of the Queensboro bridge is the
direct cause of this traffic
congestion.
not pay five cents to help remedy
the situation.

The PTA went to council with
two briefs to acquaint the Mayor
and aldermen with their plight.
They outlined the problem as not
just prevailing at school hours,
but all day and at night. Adults
and children have a constant
fear of crossing Marine Drive to
school, store, park or to visit
friends, seven days a week.

A suggestion for another
school on the river side would
not solve the problem. Only
proper sidewalks, pedestrian
lights, good signs or an overpass
will help correct a_ situation
which may bring severe
casualties in the fog area in
winter time.

The Communist Party has

called on New Westminster city
council, service organizations,
trade unions, PTAs, ratepayers
_and citizens to help resolve the
problem. It has also
congratulated the Connaught
Heights PTA for heading up the
move for safety of the people in

this area.
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Monday of this week a group of
mothers, angry over the failure
of the authorities to install a
traffic light at the busy
intersection at Twenty-first and
Southeast Marine Drive, decided

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