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CPC on Dr. J. G. Endicott |)

Peace forces remain united

In a letter sent to members of the Canadian Peace Congress
executive, peace workers across the country and the press on
January 10, Dr. Endicott charged that “increasing pressure”
on him because of his “opinion on China and the Sino-Soviet
dispute” caused him to resign from the Canadian Peace
Congress.

The letter does not disclose the source of the “increasing
pressure” upon him to resign. Dr. Endicott writes only of
“those who have demanded” his resignation. However, in an
interview he gave to Scott Young of the Toronto Globe and
Mail published on January 12, it is alleged to have been the
“Canadian Communist Party’? which demanded his resig-
nation. : : ;

This allegation is simply not true. The Communist Party has
never demanded his resignation. It was hardly in a position
to do so for it is not an affiliate of the Peace Congress.

The Communist Party enjoys close friendly relations with
the Congress and its officers based on a mutual concern for
the cause of peace. Our Party and its members have always
given their full support to the innumerable actions for peace
initiated by the Canadian Peace Congress since its founding
in 1949.

In keeping with the practise common to all cooperating
organizations, officers of our Party from time to time met
with Dr. Endicott, either at his request or ours, to exchange
views on questions related to Canada’s foreign policy and on
international developments. These informal exchanges were
found to be mutually informative and satisfactory, correspond-
ing to the overall ‘interest of the struggle for peace. We be-
lieve that such exchanges between officers of organizations
dedicated to the winning of just and stable peace between
the nations of the world are mutually beneficial and assist
all to play a more effective role in the struggle for peace and
an end to war.

In the more recent period we have exchanged views with
Dr. Endicott on the, ideological differences which have arisen
in the international arena and which Dr. Endicott mistakenly
refers to as the “Sino-Soviet dispute.” Our Party has more
than once expressed its view that the peace movement should
not become a vehicle for partisan struggle over the ideolo-
gical differences existing between the overwhelming majority
of the Communist and Workers’ Parties and the leaders of
the Communist Party of China. Our view is that peace per-
sonalities should do everything possible to help bring about
unity of action of all those forces which can be won for the
struggle for peace and against imperialism, rather than inject
issues into the movement which divide the peace forces.

Dr. Endicott has made it abundantly clear however, that
his attachment to the views of the Chinese leaders is so strong
that he has*chosen to abandon the organized mass struggle
for peace in order to free his hands for partisan struggle in
the peace movement on behalf of the erroneous positions of
the Chinese leaders. This he found necessary because he
could not win the Peace Congress for his views. This, we
submit, is the real reason for his resignation from the Cana-
dian Peace Congress. It was his own premeditated choice
made without being subjected to any pressure from the Com-
munist Party. The Party stands ready at all times to co-
operate with all organizations and individuals to assist in
bringing about an ever widening movement of the Canadian
people around the central issue of peace.

Central Executive Committee,
Communist Party of Canada.

Peace and independence |

for Indochina

What word but hypocrisy can be ap-
plied to the Trudeau government’s re-
fusal to dissociate our country from
U.S.. imperialism’s abominable war
against the Indochinese peoples?

To question, however guardedly, the
extent of U.S. domination of the Cana-
dian economy while increasing our
arms sales to the United States, and
through continuing silence giving ap-
proval to the U.S. war in Indochina in
all its hideous atrocity — this is the
shame the Trudeau government is forc-
ing on the Canadian people.

Nixon’s electioneering “peace plan”
has been universally denounced as
fraudulent. It calculatingly leaves him
the power to further escalate the war.

The Provisional Revolutionary Gov-
ernment of South Vietnam has set two
basic conditions for peace: Fixing a
date for total U.S. military withdrawal,
and an end to all U.S. support for the
puppet Thieu regime.

North Vietnam says: “If there will
only be a withdrawal of troops while at
the same time the United States does
not end its involvement in Vietnam, or
cut its backing for Thieu, then the war
has not been ended.”

Canadians cannot fight for our coun-
try’s genuine independece while our
government continues to give “aid and
comfort” to U.S. imperialism in its vain
efforts to crush the Indochinese peoples’
right to independence and the freedom
to decide their own affairs.

In Canada, as the Communist Party
maintains, the task of achieving genu-
ine independence “rests on the shoul-
ders of the working class and its
democratic allies.”

Today, it is these forces in the first
place that should demand the Trudeau
government immediately dissociate our
country from Nixon’s war policies.

Murder plotters
should be exposed

In a slick “turn things upside down”
cover-up job, the Ontario authorities
established an “inquiry” into charges
that police were allegedly rough on a
mob of three thousand assorted Burke-
ite storm troopers; riffraff of Ukrainian
and other nationalities that scooted out
of Central European countries together
with fleeing Hitler armies; Jewish De-
fense League gangsters; misnamed
Hungarian “freedom fighters,” that ac-
cording to the evidence were trying to
break into the building where Soviet
Premier Kosygin was speaking on Oct.
25 in Toronto.

There has been testimony presented
at the inquiry that should shock awake
any who still think in terms of “custo-
mary” police toughness and demonstra-
tors’ turbulence. We’re dealing with

~ murder!

The police have testified that they

knew of at least two assassination plots
on Mr. Kosygin’s life.

Weapons were confiscated by the po-
lice in some instances, we are led to
understand, as a precautionary meas-
ure. And in one case, a man was re-
portedly offered $50 thousand by two
others to kill Mr. Kosygin; the three
were put under police surveillance
which, according to Inspector Roy Sop-
let, head of the Metro police intelligence
bureau, “did break down shortly before
Kosygin arrived at the centre...

The authorities seem to have “forgot-
ten” the plotters’ names!

Are we dealing “only” with conspir-
acy to kill and an attempt to cover up
by making out the ultras, from whose
midst the assassins come, as the injured
party, or are we dealing also with what
looks like aiding and abetting crimi-
nals?

What’s wanted is a real inquiry, nam-
ing names and tracing the threads that
lead to Ottawa and Queen’s Park, and
a complete exposure and clean-up!

The Londonderry
massacre

Now we have the Derry massacre.
Thirteen Irishmen slaughtered. British
paratroopers murdering Irish people in
their own streets just as the despised
Black and Tan troops did in 1916. What
difference is there between these butch-
ers of today and Hitler’s 8S troops?

True patriots denounce alleacts of in-

dividual terrorism and anarchism. But

here we have civil war thrust on a peo-
ple by a foreign army.

Today the military terror unleashed
by British imperialism in Ulster has
brought a new stage to the people’s
struggle for their civil rights, their na-
tional and economic rights.

The solution to the crisis will be
found through people’s unity in strug-
gle for the democratic rights of the
eh people, led by the Irish working
class.

And Canadian democrats should help
them.

A deplorable decision

The temporary injunction granted re-
cently by an Ontario Supreme Court
justice, blocking a woman’s decision to
have an abortion performed legally, was
in fact a permanent injunction.

This judgment is a direct denial of
what must become the unquestioned
right of women. The time has long since
come to remove abortions from the
Criminal Code, for the provision of ade-
quate medical facilities to enable wom-
en to freely exercise their right to
abortions.

Mr. Justice Lieff’s decision has defied
that right. Unless quickly and success-
fully appealed, it can only result in the
perpetuation of all the horrors that
feudalistic legal and moral taboos are
tragically inflicting on women.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1972—PAGE 3