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“YOU REALLY KEPT THE FAITH BABY!”

stead of 100 million is some
consolation, but not a victory.
Experts cannot confirm the ef-
fectiveness of the system or that
it will be adequate to combat
the highly developed Soviet
weapons.

“If we deploy the ABM, we
are in effect confirming an ac
celeration of the arms race we
are trying to avoid. By not con-
structing the defense missile
system, we can begin talks with
the Soviet Union with a posi-
tive offer.

“Estimates on the cost of the
Sentinel system have been set
at the five to six billion dollar
figure. This is considered to be
a low estimate. To make such
an investment an addition to
our already tedious defense
costs can only indicate to other
world powers that we do not
believe in our own peace ef-
forts.

“We are on the brink of
arms-control talks with the
Soviets, It would be hypocritical
to enter these talks in which
we seek to lessen world ten-
sions and establish peace be-
tween the two nations when
we are building better methods
of battle at home.”

Missouri Teamster

PA
ST = HAR RUINGTORA ~

CANADIANS MUST ACT

At this critical time Cana-
dians cannot and must not
give Mr. Trudeau what he has
asked for in the way of ‘a free
hand,” with respect to decid-
ing what Canada's position
should be towards the U.S.
anti-ballastic missile program.
There was never such a time
as the present, when the gov-
ernment needs to be instructed
by the people.

George Harris
in UE News

“Excuse me, am I early for the
la‘> night sitting or late for the
early morning one?”

Fighting convention

The 20th Convention of the Communist Party

of Canada meeting in Toronto over Easter
Weekend adopted, in spirited debate, a fighting
working class eg to meet the needs of the
Canadian people.

The main policy resolution defines the main
feature of the present time as being the grow-
ing demand for change involving ever-widening
sections of the Canadian people. The movements
for change, while still limited in scope around
specific issues, are being compelled more and
more to challenge the capitalist power structure
in the struggle to satisfy their economic and
social aims,

The convention noted that within the move-
ments for change forces are emerging which
question capitalism and search for socialist solu-
tions. The very emergence of such forces attests
to the fact that the socialist alternative grows
out of the very conditions of the present Cana-
dian reality.

In noting this fundamental truth of Marxism
the Convention issued a militant call to all Cana-
dian Communists to redouble their efforts to
build the Party and its Press amongst the ranks
of the working class and, in particular, amongst
the industrial workers the most decisive sections
of the class.

The Convention called upon Communists to
redouble their efforts also to win support
amongst the broad sections of the public for the
just struggles of the working class to win satis-
faction of their economic, social and political
demands.

It called also for the trade union movements
of both French and English Canada to unite the
workers of both nations that they may wrest
from the monopoly capitalist Establishment and
its main political vehicle of the moment—the
Trudeau government—a freely-negotiated new
confederal pact between the two nations, a new
Canadian Constitution, as being the best sov-
ereignty solution in the interests of the working
people of both nations.

The political struggles of the working class
against the capitalists are the bonds that make
it possible to unite the workers of all countries
in a common front for peace, democracy and
socialism, This great principle of working class
internationalism finds its embodiment in the
unity of the Communist and Workers Parties.
In full appreciation of this the Convention ane
ed its full support to the success of the Inter-
national Conference of Communist and Work-
ers’ Parties which will convene in Moscow on
June 5th.

The 20th Convention proved that the Commu-
nist Party is a force — a growing force — in
Canadian social and political life. We wish it
every success in achieving the great goals it has
set to help mobilize Canadian workers, farmers,
students and intellectuals to win their economic
and social aims of today, and the socialist future
of tomorrow.

Defence Dept. Too Busy To
Be Interested In Peace

The defence department says
its computer is so busy with
defence it doesn’t have time
for peace.

In brief, that is what De-
fence Minister Leo Cadieux and
Treasury Board President C. M.
Drury said in written Commons
replies to Mark Rose (NDP—
Fraser Valley West).

Mr. Rose had asked -how
much federa} money is being
granted to universities for stra-
tegic studies — $141,000 this
year from the defence depart-
ment; how much is_ being.
granted for studies of -hew to
prevent war — nothing; and

whether federal computers are
suitable and available for pro-
cessing peace research data.
Resources Minister J. J.
Greene said the computer in

_his department is suitable for

peace research and could. be
made available if the user
paid.

He was overruled by Mr.
Drury, who said a number of
federal computers — notabl
that of the National Researe
Council—may be suitable for
such work, but it 1s against
government policy to make any
of them ayailable to non@eu-
ernment users. — Commonwealth

ers

“PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 11, 1969—Page 3.