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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1972—PAGE 4

Ban poison weapons!

Having over the past years
succeeded in reaching agree-
ments banning the testing of
nuclear weapons — except
underground tests on which the
United States still insists — and
outlawing bacteriological war-
fare, the Soviet Union is press-
ing to put an end. to chemical
warfare as well. Originally, at
the 1969 General Assembly of
the UN, the USSR had proposed
to have chemical weapons ban-
‘ned at the same time as germ
warfare, but the U.S. wouldn’t
agree.

Last week the Soviet delegate
to the 25-nation Geneva Dis-
armament Conference, Alexei
Roshchin, tabled a draft treaty
to ban chemical weapons as “an
urgent and important measure,”

Under the Soviet draft, spon-
sored also by six other repre-
sentatives of socialist countries,
signatory states would under-
take “never in any circum-
stances to develop, produce,
stockpile or otherwise acquire
or retain:

“Chemical agents of types
and in quantities that have no
justification for peaceful pur-
poses. :

“Weapons, equipment or
means of delivery designed to
use such agents for hostile pur-
poses or in armed conflict.”

States would also pledge to
destroy or divert to peaceful

~ purposes, as soon as possible—
but not later than a time limit
to be agreed and inserted into
the final treaty—all such chemi-
cal weapons in their possession
or under their control.

Alexei Roshchin said the draft
was based largely on the treaty
panning germ weapons conclud-
ed at the conference last year
and subsequently approved by
the UN General Assembly.

Like the germ weapons treaty,

the draft provides for signatory
states to consult and co-operate,
if necessary through internatio-
nal procedures within the frame-
work of the UN, over any prob-
lems that might arise in imple-
mentation of the ban.

On the key question of polic-
ing the ban, it proposes a com-
plaints system under which a
state can report to the Security

.Council any suspected violation

by another state. :

Signatory states would be
bound to co-operate in carrying
out any Security Council inves-
tigation on the basis of the
complaint.

The United States has used
chemical weapons profusely in
Southeast Asia to kill and maim
people, destroy crops, level
forests and make uninhabitable
large areas of Vietnam.

While Canada has not itself
applied germ or chemical weap-
ons against other peoples, it is
charged that wide scale re-
search is conducted in Canadian
universities to perfect such
means of mass extermination for
the U.S. military, and experi-
mental chemical warfare labora-
tories are functioning in Alberta.

Our government’s hand are
not clean. We, should support
the Soviet proposal.

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Nixon — Canada’s
not for sale!

The joint communique issued March
22 by the Communist Parties of the
USA and Canada stated: “We express
our common concern as to the real pur-
pose of President Nixon’s visit to Can-
ada. There exists a grave danger that
he comes not as a friend of the Cana-
dian people but as ‘the enforcer’ of a
Pirate policy on behalf of the U.S. im-
perialist syndicate.” a

This is what William Kashtan, gen-
eral secretary of the Communist Party
of Canada and Communist candidate in
the Toronto-Davenport federal riding,
will be warning Canadians about—“Tell
Nixon Canada’s not for sale!”—during
his election tour that starts April 7 in
Edmonton and concludes April 12 in
Toronto.

His tour comes at a moment when,
preparing to accommodate Messrs, Nix-
on, Connally and that whole cutthroat
company, Canada’s Energy Minister is
advancing the sell-out proposal for a
“Joint Canadian-U.S. arrangement” for
construction of the Mackenzie Valley
pipeline. ; :

From bitter experiences, like the B.C.
Social Credit betrayal in the Columbia
River deal, Canadians know just who
gets the short end in “joint arrange-
ments” with U.S. imperialism.

The Communist leader will be speak-
ing across Canada on behalf of his
party’s federal election program at a
time when “mass unemployment” Ed-
gar Benson, now Canada’s Defense
Minister, is saying that “what is good
ee United States is good for Can-
ada.”

No! From every corner of our Tand
the message to Nixon when he comes
here must be: Canada’s not for sale!

- Support Quehec’s
united Iahor front

The 24-hour March 28 general strike
of public employees in Quebec repre-
sented a new high level of organized
labor unity in Canada. It was the great-
est, most massive strike in the history
of our country.

The Common Front of Quebec’s three

centres of organized workers—the Que-
bec Federation of Labor (CLC), the
Confederation of National Trade
Unions, and the Quebec Teachers Cor-
poration — united in action those of
their 210,000 members who are paid
directly or indirectly by the Quebec
government.
_ For the first time in history workers
in Quebec walked out in a general strike
with the declared, united objective of
compelling the government to grant
their just demands.

For all government office employees,
for teachers, hospital workers, hydro
and other public and para-public em-
ployees, Quebec labor’s Common Front
is determined to win a $100 minimum
weekly wage and an annual 8.3% in-
crease in a three-year contract.

The dispute is far from settled. The
Bourassa Quebec-Liberal government is

Still ‘insisting on 4.8% arinual wage in-

so far by pro-monopoly govern :
Common Front is ready if neces
to call for further massive solidal
demonstrations. :

All organized labor in Canada shi!
now rally to support of the Que
workers. The Common Front of Que!
organized labor can and should bec? ;
the Common Front of the whole Cal)
dian trade union movement, led by (iy
Canadian Labor Congress, around
just demand for a minimum $100 w
wage.

The historic March 28 one-day 7)
eral strike against the Quebec gov)
ment’s anti-labor policies provide
ther evidence that the workers of
bec are advancing from economic§
gle to a new, higher stage. ¢

With almost every aspect of Wi}
dian life now racked by the crisis?
cies of state-monopoly governmeny.
situation calls for a similar advan
all organized workers in Canada.

Fascist terrorists ©

must he scotched |

A guard was killed and other per
were injured when two powerful b@
were exploded Tuesday morning f
building housing a Cuban goverl™
trade mission in Montreal. If theré
still persons in Canada who are “ie
opinion that we are dealing with a
timate protesters,” let them take ais
look at what’s taking place and @
again. ‘a.

The murder in Montreal, the 4
Kosygin” violence and assassiit
plots, the vandalism to the Book, to!)
premises and our Tribune offices 12
onto, the destruction of the Ru
People’s Home in Vancouver .. #8
a pattern there. F

Yes, it’s the same pattern as the”
spiracy to kill President Allende
engineer a coup in Chile, as the ot

‘ings and the emergence of the

fascists in Italy, as the string 0 7)
ders in the United States. It’s the, i
as the mad orgy of mass destruct! f
Indochina, as the legal lynching
under way for Angela Davis, ®
spurious spy scares and malicious
propaganda. .

Reactionaries, crazed by the adv
of democracy and socialism throvs
the world, are prepared to try
what Hitler tried and failed.

Our governments cannot es
share of the responsibility. 4
“screened” the DP immigrants | jj
the war with the sole criterio! tes 4
anti-communism, opening the Bea
fascist terrorists and war crim asl
Who refuses to extradite persom® ‘i!
ed in their native countries 1 Joi)
trial as war criminals? Wh0, gi)
hand over Puerto Rican patriot deat
berto Pagan to U.S. and possible © gil
while coddling a Kupiak and evn fh
ing him the privilege of stand Al
Parliament? — ; 3 i)

Who gives a foul thug who phy
attacked the head of a friendly i
a couple months’ holiday behi2™ i
and then winks an eye when he 1!
with the other fascist Burkeites
renamed Western Guard) to ¢
the Social Credit party in Ont |
their political vehicle? © o,f

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