ANGELA FREE!

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press release that “There are
many other political prisoners
whose freedom is yet to be won.

Members of .the Quebec labor
movement, and other prisoners
in the United States and through-
out the world await our aid. We

hope that the voices of the mil-

lions who helped free Angela
will now turn to those who are
still behind bars.”

Canadians can be proud of,

the part they played in this vic-
tory. Concerned people across
Canada organized into defense
committees, held large public
rallies, circulated the true facts
about the frame-up, gathered
thousands of names to bail peti-
tions and raised a considerable
amount of money to help build
her defense fund. This work was
not and could not be left to the

likes of the Toronto Star. Their
line about ‘‘equal justice for the
minority” is a lie—in the Angela
Davis case just as in the shame-
ful treatment of the Canadian
native peoples, the Metis, Cana-
da’s black population, the work-
er on strike and others who
challenge the unequal and re-
pressive capitalist state.

This spirit of pride and deter-
mination is contained in a mes-
sage sent to the United States
Communist Party by the Com-
munist Party of Canada:

“Convey to Angela Davis
greetings of the Communist
Party of Canada and its sup-
porters for the great victory
achieved. It is a tribute to her
courage and steadfastness, and
to the solidarity of the Amer-
ican people and the peoples of
the world.”

World-wide campaign
to save Pagan’s life

A world-wide campaign has
been undertaken by the Organi-
zation of Solidarity of the Peo-
ples of Africa, Asia and Latin
America (OSPAAAL) on behalf
of a young man imprisoned in
Canada, whose life is in danger
if he is handed over to the U.S.
authorities.

Since last October, the young

Puerto Rican _ independence
fighter, Humberto Pagan, has
been imprisoned in Ottawa,

charged with entering the coun-
try illegally. Canadian immigra-
tion authorities have held
several hearings on whether or
not to deport him to the United
States. Both the FBI and the
repressive bodies of the Puerto
Rican colonial government have
requested that the Canadians re-
turn Pagan to Puerto Rico where
he is charged with crimes alleg-
edly committed in March 1971.
In a clumsily devised case in

which the only witness is an_
officer of the shock force, Hum- .

berto Pagan was accused of kill-
ing the chief of the police shock
force on March 18, 1971, when
that repressive body invaded
university grounds and attacked
the student independence sup-
porters who were demonstrating
against the presence on campus
of a training corps for the: Re-
serve Officers Training Corps
(ROTC), a U.S. military organi-
zation that operates at Puerto
Rico University.

As a result of the police ag-
gression, hundreds of students,
professors and others were
wounded. Colonel Mercado, a po-
liceman and a cadet died.

Accustomed to killing stu-
dents and workers with impu-
nity, the repressive agents
committed every type of physi-
cal abuse against those identi-
fied as independence supporters.
They also proceded to invent
false accusations against hun-
dreds of independence militants
and even against persons who
had no connection with the uni-
versity and the March events.
Along with Pagan, young Miguel
Hudo Ricci was also charged
with the death of the policeman.
But the repressive forces that
acted with such efficiency on
that occasion, have never come
up with those responsible for
the death of the taxi driver
Adrian Rodriguez and the stu-
dent Antonio Martinez, assassin-
ated by the police in September

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1972—PAGE 8

1967, and March 1970 respec-
tively, during harsh police re-
pression against the University.

From the very moment of his
arrest, Pagan was - threatened
with death and so was his fam-
ily. On several occasions, police
agents made attempts against
his life. This situation, along
with the declarations made by
the puppet governor, Ferre, as
well as those by other officials
of the colonial administration,
insisting—before the trial had
been held—that Pagan was guil-
ty, forced him to leave the coun-
try to save his life.

From the moment of his ar-

rest in Canada—in which FBI*

agents intervened — Pagan has
urged the Canadian authorities
not to deport him to Yankee ter-
ritory due to the threat against
his life. In the hearings held up
to now, numerous well-known
Puerto Ricans, intellectuals, uni-
versity professors, lawyers and
the Catholic Bishop Antulio Par-
rilla, have made _ statements
concerning the climate of repres-
sion and terror imposed by the
United States and the colonial
puppet government against Pu-
erto Rican independence fight-
ers. All have stated that Pagan’s
life would be in danger if he
were returned to Puerto Rico.

Pagan’s lawyers and_ the
Puerto Rican _ independence
forces have made efforts to have
various governments accept Pa-
gan and certain countries have
agreed to receive him and offer
him asylum.

The Puerto Rican indepen-
dence movement is waging a
world-wide campaign of solidar-
ity with Humberto Pagan. The
OSPAALA joins this campaign
and demands Pagan’s release
from jail and his exile to a
country prepared to receive him
and guarantee his safety.

The organization asks that
copies of declarations, state-
ments, petitions, etc., should be
sent to Prime Minister Trudeau
and to the newspaper Claridad,
Toscacia Street, 1153, Urb. Villa
Capri, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

THREE CANADIAN WOMEN
AT WIDF MEETING

Hilda Murray, Mary Dennis and
Nora Rodd represented the Con-
gress of Canadian Women at
the Council meeting of the World
Federation of Women which is-
sued the stirring call on p. 10

vention.

Labor Counc! A LONG WAY YET 10
TO WIN WORLD P

(Canadian Peace Congress Staten

didn't discuss
CLC decisions

As usual, before last week’s
Toronto Labor Council meeting
began, the delegates and mem-
bers of the press picked up at
the table in the back of the hall
the reports to be discussed. A
quick reading indicated that the
most significant discussion of
the meeting would be on the re-
port of the CLC convention in
Ottawa and many of the dele-
gates looked forward to it.

After the meeting opened a
few reports were discussed and

then the point on the agenda
was reached where the CLC re-
port came up. TLC President
Don Montgomery asked for a
motion to receive the report.
The motion was made from the
floor, seconded, and before any
discussion could take place a
vote was taken and the motion
carried. That ended any possibil-
ity of discussion and the dele-
gates proceeded to the next
order of business.

After the meeting many of the
delegates were asking, “Why did
the executive avoid any discus-
sion?”

By and large, the report writ-
ten by Murray Tate and Don
Montgomery was a good one. It
dealt with the accurate appraisal ~
of the Quebec resolution,. men-
tioned the CLC’s stand on the
foreign takeover of Canadian in-
dustries and the drive to organ-
ize the white collar workers. It
also dealt with the labor unity
resolutions and mentioned that
a resolution (No. 30) “may have
considerable bearing on the ulti-
mate result and which was
adopted by the convention calls
for moves to bring all legitimate
trade unions in Canada into the
CLC if they accept its aims and
agree to abide by the constitu-
tion.”

The opinion expressed by
some delegates was that failure
to criticize the convention’s in-
ternational resolution on Viet-
nam, which was weak, was the
reason for the disposal of the
report without debate.

But what happened was that
the delegates were denied the
opportunity to discuss all the
actions taken by the CLC con-
(R.O.)

Westinghouse

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now that the negotiations have
resumed.

The most. encouraging thing
about walking the bricks with
the strikers at Westinghouse
was the attitudes of the tempor-
ary workers. In the past, stu-
dents were hired just to prevent
effective negotiations by the
unions. That is changing now
and, as one temporary worker
who is trying to make enough

money for school next year told
the Tribune, “I came here just
to make as much money’ as I
could in the shortest period.
Now I’m on strike but I’m not
going to give up and work some-
where else. I may not go to
school next year, but I’ve worked
with many of these strikers and
I’m not going to quit them in
my own self interest.

“Besides I’m learning more
about people here than I would
in school,” he finished.

The Canadian Peace Congress welcomes the
nounced agreements between the USA and the
arrived at during the visit of President Nixon to

as important steps in the direction of easing wo

_.The agreements on strategic arms limitations, the |

of military confrontation, an early date for the |
~ European Security Conference, nd for joint m:
- flights in 1975 will contribute to the possibility.

co-existence in the world.

_ We believe, riahgbal) that it would be a serious

logical and chemical wea

pons,
- “the recognition of the right of peoples to esta
social systems, ee real peace in the

Regina peace symposh

By ED LEHMAN

REGINA — A peace sym-
posium was held in our new
Labor Centre on May 27. Spon-
sored by the Voice of Women,
it was chaired by George Smith,
secretary of Regina Labor Coun-
cil. Speakers were: Sheila Wil-
son VOW (Calgary); Pastor
Peterson, Central
Church; Edna Meakes, Canadian
Peace Congress (Sask.), and
David Gehl, Communist youth
leader.

The symposium opened with
four very beautiful peace songs
by two members of the Regina
Folk Guild.

Pastor Peterson, who was a
minister in a Chicago Black
Community, spoke of the in-
volvement of his church in the
anti-war effort, of the inter-
relationship between peace and
civil rights in the U.S., and the
battles of some draftees to gain
conscientious objectors’ status.
He stressed the need to organ-
ize the ‘silent majority” in op-
position to the war.

Sheila Wilson spoke of the
Voice of Women’s concern about
the war and the atrocities com-
mitted by the Americans there.
She also spoke of the meetings
held with Vietnamese women
last year in Canada and em-
phasized. Canada’s involvement
in the war and the effects of
the weapons Canada helps sup-
ply to the U.S.

Edna Meakes, veteran Sas-
katchewan peace fighter, re-
ported on the recent Canadian
Peace Conference. She stressed
the actions that must be taken
to stop the war in Vietnam: the
mobilization of the growing
peace interest in Canada, trade
unions, youth and students, the
women’s organizations and
church. groups.

Dave Gehl outlined the rea-
sons for Nixon’s desperate es-
calation of the war and the pro-
tests against these actions. He
told of the grave threat of a
third world war posed by Nix-

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