{ President Nixon’s bombers continue rain eo a oe lestruction ing death and d on the people of Vietnam. Former U.S. Attorney-General Ramsey Clark, returning from a two-week visit to North Vietnam, said the bombing is “inhumane beyond description — little babies, women and old men are being killed.” He reported he saw numerous in- stances where U.S. B-52s had destroyed schools, hospitals, churches, apartment houses and day care centres. Sean McBride, former Irish External Affairs minister, who also visited there, declared he was convinced U.S. bombing of dikes is “systematic and intentional.” Solidarity with Vietnam By OLGA TROFIMOVA MOSCOW—A month of soli- darity with the Vietnamese peo- ple’s struggle is now on in the Soviet Union from July 20 to August 20. Resolutions adopted at mass rallies and meetings strongly condemn the latest escalation of the bandit-like actions of the American military. It was with great interest that Soviet public opinion followed the work of the conference of 27 European Communist and Work- ers’ Parties against the Amer- ican aggression in Vietnam held in Paris at the end of July. The conference was attended by a Soviet delegation led by Boris Ponomarev, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. A call to all who hold dear the inter- ests of peace tO display more actively their solidarity with the Vietnamese people and to pool their efforts in support of the struggle of the Indochinese peo- ple sounded in a declaration un- animously adopted by the con- ference. The Soviet-Vietnamese Friendship Month is a concrete confirmation of this call. ~ The Soviet Union welcomed the news that a special.group of the International Commission for the Investigation of U.S. War Crimes in Indochina arrived in | the DRV to collect material evi- dence testifying to the atrocities of the American aggressors. The Commission has a representative of the Soviet Union, too. ; E. Frank, general secretary of the Commission, during a stop- over in Moscow, told journalists that the group intends to inspect dikes and dams bombed by American planes, visit DRV mili- tary and civilian hospitals, and to collect other evidence testify- ing to the use by the U.S. armed forces of means of destruction of the civilian population. All ma- terial gathered will be presented to the next session of the Com- mission. : ; The offices of Soviet news- papers, the radio and the Novosti Press Agency have a large mail these days—statements and let- ters from public organizations, workers and men of culture, scientists and writers, all ex- - pressing feelings of friendship and solidarity with the Vietnam- ese patriots. . The’ Soviet trade unions are in the front ranks of the interna- tional movement of solidarity with the people of Vietnam. “Shifts of Solidarity” are held at mills and factories, whose participants donate the money earned to the Vietnam Fund. CANADA MANPOWER SCABBING KITCHENER — The members of the United Brewery Workers, Local 173, who are on strike against Dare Foods Ltd. have had an- other obstacle placed in the way of a settlement. The first obstacle was smashed when, after a long and bitter struggle the workers forced the company to fire Richard Grange and his scab-herding agency. Now the striking workers are faced with the. federal gov- ernment acting as a strikebreaking agency. The Canada Manpower office in Kitchener is, according to the union, supplying workers for the strikebound plant. Union officials have asked Labor Minister, Martin O’Connell, to halt the flow of applicants to the plant but to date the government has taken no action. The workers, 90% of whom are women, began the strike May 29. The workers are seeking a higher wage package and wage par- ity for women. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1972—PAGE 4 e~. Government, big business accomplices in sell-out Public ownership of all natur- al resources and nationalization of the banks, trusts, insurance companies and the credit sys- tem were called for in a presen- tation by the Ontario Commun- ist Party to the Select Commit- tee on Economic and Cultural Nationalism of ‘the Ontario Legislature. The, presentation, made by Ontario Leader of the Commun- ist Party William Stewart, CPC Education Director Norman Freed and Ontario organizer Ed McDonald, told the Committee that foreign longterm invest- ment in Canada in 1945 stood at $7.1 billion while by 1969 it was $34.9 billion, a increase of $27.8 billion. About 80% of this in- vestment is American. During the same period we have paid out over $29 billion to foreign investors and in addition squan- dered $32.2 billion on armaments such as the Bonaventure and the Avro. Arrow. Thus, Mr. Stewart said, we have wasted $32 billion in NATO and NORAD schemes to protect ourselves from the Soviet Union which never posed any threat economically or militarily to Canada, while we have dished out $29 billion to foreign (mainly U.S.) investors who took over the commanding heights of our economy without firing a shot. The presentation showed that the process of U.S. takeover was not accidental, or something we just drifted into, but a delib- erate process entered into’ by both government and big busi- ness, a calculated policy, con- sciously carried through by state monopoly capitalism. To prove this the Communists quoted from documents issued by the Party beginning in 1947 up to the present. Beginning with an article in the National Affairs Monthly, December 1947, “The Abbott Plan: Step to Eco- nomic Domination” documents were entered into the record to show how the Communist Party consistently exposed the sell- out and put forward alternate proposals for Canada. Quotes were given from “Keep Canada Independent” by Tim Buck, is- sued in January 1948 as a mass pamphlet: “Why be a Doormat?” by Stanley Ryerson, a pamphlet issued in April 1948, “The Yan- kee Occupation of Canada” by Tim Buck, March 1950, “Cana- dian Independence and People’s Democracy,” Feb. 1952, “Canada for her People,” the Communist Election proposals behind which 100 Communist candidates ran under the slogan of “Put Can- ada First”; “Canadian Indepen- dence and a People’s Parlia- ment, Canada’s Path to Social- ism,” the Program of the Com- munist Party adopted in March 1954, “Canada in the World Crisis” by Tim Buck, a pamphlet issued in 1958, “The Road to Socialism in Canada,” the amended Program ‘adopted by the Communist Party in October 1969, “Challenge of the 60’s” by Leslie Morris, the Keynote ad- dress to the March 1964 conven- tion of the Communist Party. “Why Canada Should Get Out of NATO” by Wm. Kashtan, general secretary of the CPC. Feb. 1969, “Say No to Austerity,” Wm. Kashtan 1969, “A New Direction for Canada,” June 1972, by Wm. Kashtan. The brief also quoted from statements of leading U.S. and Canadian spokesmen to show the absolute complicity in turn- ing Canada into a raw materials source for the U.S. Two directly opposed lines of policy arose in response to the world realignment of forces tak- ing place after World War II. One, which shaved the official policy of the state and big busi- ness, was that of economic inte- gration with the USA, abandon- ment of economic and even poli- tical sovereignty, entanglement in NATO and NORAD as part of the U.S. global strategy to roll back the frontiers of world so- cialism. The other line, representing the interests of the working class and all democratic, patrio- tic forces in Canada was put for- ward by the Communist Party: that of refusing to be drawn in- to the U.S. Cold War plans, ex- panding our trade with the Com- monwealth countries, opening widespread trade with the social- ist countries and the underdevel- oped countries which were in the process of carrying through anti-colonial revolutions, build- ing the manufacturing base of our economy, developing our na- tural resources in Canada and undertaking a national energy scheme to encompass our oil, water and gas. We are now witnessing the fruits of the policies pursued by Canadian monopoly and federal and provincial governments, the presentation went on to say. The main point of the Communist presentation was to emphasize that there was absolutely no so- lution to the growing problem of U.S. economic and cultural domination contained in the pol- icy of making the climate more attractive for private domestic or foreign capital. Private _capi- tal, or more precisely, monopoly capital, knows no patriotism or national interests, it is only con- cerned about the greatest re- turn on its capital investments. It is this anti-social and anti- national position of monopoly which will only lead us into deeper crisis unless its power is curbed and controlled. The Communist Party spokes- men appealed to the Committee, which consisted of MPP’s from the Progressive Conservative, Liberal and NDP parties in On- tario, to rise to the heights necessary to realize that the im- mediate choice is not between a “free-enterprise or socialism”’ solution to the question of Cana- dian control, but between curb- ing the power of domestic and foreign monopoly, or drifting further and further under U.S. domination and turning our peo- ple into hewers of wood and drawers of water and oil, to al- low U.S. imperialism to turn us into a raw materials hinterland. These are the real choices facing the Canadian people. Mr. Freed debunked a number of popular myths concerning the need for U.S. capital invest- ments. He showed that the capi- -porations act in the inte tal necessary for Canadian © pansion and balanced economié development is available in Cal ada without degrading 0ovf standard of living, but elevating é it. The facts prove that in the last decade the outflow of capital ft from Canada to the U.S. has & ceeded new U.S. investments ™ all years except 1965-66. Thesé two years were boom years f0 U.S. spending, associated wit the escalation of the dirty wat against the people of Vietnam New investment of U.S. capita in 1960-69 amounted to $5,479 7 million; outflow of capital to the form of interest, profits, ties, etc., amounted to $8, million. Mr. Freed pointed 0U that U.S. takeovers are finance by funds created in Canada a? made available by Canadian banks. We have ample capital ™ develop our own country, an@! we need loans we will make them without paying the price of ownership and control of our economy to foreign corporations: He also pinned the argume?” that we should ignore the pres ent alarming extent of owner” ship and control exercised the U.S. over the Canadian eco J on ne omy, and concentrate ; Canadian investment fields for development. This completely ig: } nores the fact that with most ° the basic industries and nate resources of our country und U.S. control or ownership it ! virtually impossible to plan any comprehensive way the as anced industrial development Canada. The argument that quire multi-national comP?" tions (read U.S. trusts) to act it good corporate citizens, the face of reality. su their own profit and the openings closing, moving of plants, m° ment of capital, expansion workforce or closing dow? whole towns is of no conce™ them. The conclusion t governments at the fede provincial levels should from Communist Party stated, 16 dit over the responsibility for. the ecting the economic life country instead of leaving scent : monopoly, and that the PC” ay governments had display tind unswerving propensity for 4 on behalf of monopoly than the people. ; ward j The Communists put fol" to a broad, sweeping progts es: repatriate Canadian resou not’ In closing, the delegation wid? ed that these were Cana’ ine proposals champione Res Communist Party, and strict found it impossible to ! js 8 itself to provincial propor re" a matter which could n° solved finally at that level: ing In addition to the ab0Y ge? Communist _ proposals over the question of dem rights of the Native re measures to save the '* ajity opportunities for youth, of women, and education needed are laws which will of these observations 4 d fe