“Business as usual” ground to.

a halt, across the United States
on Oct. 15 as workers, students,
housewives and _ professionals
poured into the streets to ob-
serve the National Moratorium
against the Vietnam war.

Business closed down in Main
Street America, in towns like
Ames, Iowa, and Socora, New
Mexico, with church bells tolling
and black.arm bands everywhere
mourning the bloodshed in Viet-
nam.

Throughout the nation it be-
came clear on the streets and
campuses and in TV and radio.
interviews that hundreds of
thousands of last Wednesday’s
participants were new both to
the peace movement and to
demonstrations of any kind.

Everywhere these new peace
crusaders told the same story:
their hope or expectation that
things would change, that peace
would be closer, had been shat-
tered in recent weeks.

Dogged determination of peace
advocates had carried the mes-
sage forward in past years. Now,
there were new kinds of partici-
pation and in new places.

Unprecedented also was the
participation of GIs and U.S.
civilians in South Vietnam in the
appeals for peace.

Sharply distinguished in the
commemoration of Moratorium
Day was the unprecedented labor
reaction, symbolized by the ac-
tion of the Alliance for Labor
Action—the United Auto Work-
ers, the Teamsters Union, the
Chemical Union — and local
union actions.

The vast expansion of the
movement involving hundreds of
thousands actively, and affecting
millions who are still onlookers
shook up the professional poli-
tical structure even further.

In New York, for, example
Senator Charles Goodell, appoin-
to the Senate by Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller, following the assas-
sination of Senator Robert Ken-
nedy, has found himself plum-
meted into the political fore-
ground in a short time.

Only a few weeks ago, he
offered a mild resolution stating
it to be the intent of Congress
that the troops should be with-
drawn from Vietnam by the end
of 1970.. Rockefeller disagreed
with him publicly; and other
“Republicans gave him a glassy
stare. But his resolution became
a rallying point for peace forces
and during Moratorium Day,
Goodell toured a number of New
York State campuses to an en-
thusiastic welcome.

In Washington 70,000 men,
women and children bearing
50,000 lighted candles filed past
the White House. Mrs. Martin
Luther King who led the march
said: “It shows the marvellous
reawakening in the hearts and
minds of the American people
as they are moved to speak out
against this extremely destruc-
tive and immoral war. We have
seen that the only solution is to
bring the boys home, and bring
them home now.”

In New York 250,000 took part
in the day of protest against the
war. With Mayor John Lindsay

emerging as a leading figure in
the moratorium, politcal obser-
vers saw the day as very possib-
ly transforming the Nov. 4 city
election into an anti-war referen-
dum. His reactionary opponents
are finding that they have to
tone down the “law and order”
line which has dominated the
campaign to date.

In Detroit, Mayor Jerome
Cavanaugh -proclaimed Oct. 15
“a day of reflection and hope for
peace.” It is estimated that 100,-
000 citizens of Michigan took
part, including 35,000 who rallied
in Detroit's Kennedy Square,
with the backing of a. strong

statement of support from the.

Alliance for Labor Action. Gran-
dy Glenn, 25 year old black pre-
sident of the Ford Rouge Frame
plant, Local 600 (United Auto
Workers) denounced the war as
racist and said that “the black
people of America were bitterly
opposed to the war.” :

In Cleveland, too Mayor Carl
Stokes also put the city on rec-
ord behind the moratorium, and
100,000 took part.

There were 100,000 people on
Boston Common, 50,000 in New
Haven, Conn., 30,000. in one
Chicago rally alone, 20,000 in
Philadelphia. But of almost equal
significance were the demonstra-
tions in smaller communities
across the country which have
not hitherto seen such activity—
like the 200 in Casper, Wyoming,
the 700 in Los Alamos, New
Mexico, for example.

Nov. 13, 14 and 15 have been
slated for huge demonstrations
in Washington and San Francis-
co by the New Mobilization
Committee, which is representa-
tive of a broad spectrum of those
organization which have been
actively fighting the war for
sometime.

Now the Moratorium Commit-
tee faces certain questions about
its role in the November events.
Many in the field, their spokes-
men say, favor joining the mas-
sive demonstrations — others
favor ‘local action. At the heart
of the matter is concern for pre-
serving and deepening the broad
base of the movement. The New
Mobilization and the Morato-
rium Committees are working
out ways of acting together.

Peace leaders have told the
Daily World that the unity of the
two-layered movement has never
been more urgent than now.
Efforts to divide it,
arising from the right or left,
must be firmly rebuffed. They
point out that the New Mobiliza-
tion is organizing the same
broad based, tightly disciplined
mass demonstration Nov. 15 as
that organized by the Mora-
torium this week.

The anarchist gimmicks, the
narrow confrontation tactics of
the past have been repudiated.

The basic question, it is empha-.

sized, is how to enrich the par-
ticipation of working men, black
and white, and draw the labor
movement deeper into the Nov.
15 action.

Approaches are being urged to
rank and file groupings in auto
and steel, coal and. transport
with a more explicit treatment of
war related question like taxes,
prices, unemployment and infla-
tion, with top priority to job dis-
crimination and all other forms
of racial discrimination. —

—From the Daily World

whether _

Over 200 Torontonians called
together on a few hours notice
demonstrated in. front of~ the
U.S. Consultate-General on Oct.
15 with slogans of: ‘Solidarity
with U.S. Moratorium”; ‘“With-
draw U.S. Troops Now”; “End
Canadian Complicity”; “Voice of
Women Walks for Peace”;
“Build Nov. 15 — International
Day of Protest.”

A similar demonstration took
place in Ottawa.

In Montreal, 500 McGill stu-
dents handed flowers to police-

men as they marched to the U.S.
Consulate.

Well attended teach-ins were
held at the Universities of
Waterloo and Windsor.

At Erindale Junior college in
the Toronto area, the Students
Administrative Council voted in
favor of closing down classes.

At the University of Toronto,
the Communist Club issued a
leaflet urging the stepping up of
peace demands on the govern-
ment of Canada, including the
recognition of the Provisional

TORY CONFERENCE

Revolutionary Government A
South Vietnam. “cant
“Active workers in the “1
dian peace movement et |
pressing confidence that tori
ample of the U.S. Mora
Day will result in a fu
siderable broadening of tet
ber of Canadians who pal”,
in actions for peace.
looking forward to the
get days on Nov. 13, 4, T
A large demonstration
onto will commence 4 —
Nov. 15 at Queen’s Pat™

Forward in reverse ged |

By WILLIAM BEECHING
The Progressive-Conservative
Party is trying hard to appear
“progressive.” However, appear-

ance should not be confused:

with substance. A meeting of
400-odd Tories at Niagara Falls
gave an “informal mandate for
Tory leader, Robert Stanfield to
direct his party to the left in the
political spectrum . . . Mr. Stan-
field will have general backing in
his search for a more progressive
stance for the party” we are told.

The timing of these meetings
is not accidental. The Trudeau
administration has been com-
pelled to attempt to cope with
growing stresses and strains in
the Canadian economy: inflation,

‘loss of wheat markets, growing

problems of regional disparity,
the continuation of massive
problems of poverty, a growing
crisis in educational and hospital
services, the sharpening struggle
in Quebec for national sovereign-
ty, in short, a gathering storm.

The Trudeau administration
has increasingly turned to reac-
tionary, oppressive policies. Can-
adian working people, faced with
mounting economic problems,
have embarked on strikes and
mass actions against the govern-
ment’s reactionary policies.

In the midst of rapidly heating
politics, the powers-that-be have
decided to dust off the Stanfield
image. Newspapers, months
back, began a process of partial
reincarnation of Robert Stanfield.
As part and parcel of the same
game, the capitalist media sharp-
ly developed a massive attack on
the NDP left with the aim of

driving the NDP further to the -

right, because in this situation a
stronger right wing might prove

to be politically necessary for:

them.

Whatever came out of the
Tory conference in terms of poli-
cy was no progressive alternative
to the policies of the government

“and, in fact, was as vague and

formless as mist. The shadowy

‘outlines of positions were pre-

sented in such a way as to play
on the hopes of the people, with-
out really promising them any-
thing. :

True, the Tori aren’t likely
to tip their hand by making pub-
lic the details of what their pro-
gram will be in the forthcoming
session of the House of Com-
mons, but the framework of a
thoroughly reactionary, pro-mon-
opoly policy is plainly to be seen.

They are against a guaranteed
annual income. The Tory press
tells us that they had an “elo-

quent” discussion on poverty,
and then went into session be-
hind closed doors to discuss
what to do about it. .

The Black plan, which was
rejected, proposed that a family
of 4 be given. a government grant
of $2,030, and would be allowed
to earn an additional $4,000 each
year. Mr. George Hees, in oppo-
sing it, said that this would be
a subsidy to those industries
which pay starvation wages. He
did not propose raising the mini-
mum wage. Mr. Stanfield stated
bluntly that the party would not
be committed to a universal pro-
gram at this time.’ :

The Tories are not against the
U.S. ownership of our natural
resources. Lawyer Benny Good-
man presented a program for the
control of foreign investment
containing proposals to limit for-
eign participation in Canadian
business, such as communica-
tions, newspapers, broadcasting
and finances to 20%; to limit
future foreign investment in_re-
source extractive or heavy indus-
try to 50%. It also contained pro-
posals as to the buying back of
U.S.-owned resource industries.
But this obviously inadequate
program was quickly tabled.

The Tories favor a capital
gains tax, although it is said this
was a contentious proposal. The
conference recommended lower
taxes on high income groups, but
agreed that corporation taxes
should be retained as is. This in
face of the fact that corporations
pay only about 40% of the
federal and provincial taxes.
They are allowed to deduct for
income-tax purposes, operating
expenses, including municipal
real estate taxes, reserves for
doubtful debts, bad debts, and
interest On borrowed money,
depreciation, expenditures on
scientific research, depletion
allowances, charitable donations,
and foreign dividends. Corpora-
tions obviously have enormous
leeway to avoid paying full
taxes, as well as being in a posi-
tion to pass along taxes in terms
of increased prices.

In contrast, 44% of all Cana-
dians paying income tax re-

ceived less than $5,000 a year,

and only 5% of the over 5,000,-
000 Canadians listed, received
more than $10,000 yearly.

As for regional disparity, they

-want equality of access to public

services across Canada, although
it is unclear as to what this
means. It’s one of those kind of
proposals that means all things
to all people.

‘an independent Ca

“attempts to assert ovr

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partisan foreign policy: at? |
the Trudeau policy of Bogs
proposals and no cut in nit!
billion defense spending ot’ |
would open the door # oot
scale solutions to the ae os”
lem, the tackling of houg ae
pitals and schools, am tat cat’
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national goals; that mi)
ces must be used to oper ied
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dence. by indiscriminate, (it a>
tion to the policies, Of.“ " 5, ol?
States”—a’ position” just § conse”)
tradictory as callie a wl
vative” a “progressIv™: a”
On Quebec, Stanfield sal afl
the Tories are oppoS* oot
“special status” Oe a
They call for a parlia rot
committee to study and P
public debate on thé ‘i
tion, although there was it
tion as to what te conn ro
al changes might be. . -epll
The Tories ae all for inc? iH
programs for big busit™ ie!
kind national farm viceF isi! nt
Walter Miller calls “s0® to :

fense stance which W

the rich”, which invol¥? ogg
days, low royalty rate® ©
ernment loans. ited q
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leader Stanfield a§
vidual with ‘combine
tual strength, decency
sion and social conce
haps for the wealthy»
didn’t for the working
““Now,” said thee
“it is possible to 5
ning of the Stanfield &
servatism, It will bé ‘oth
innovation, improvisat!
tivism, and just poss tin
right radicalism, at leas i
terms.” The best that cA act
about this kind of ChA “i?
tion is that it is 20
humor.
It is said that
MPs showed up for
ence. The split in t
ae the Weel
uebec, cannot be * e
fact that the old chieh 5
baker, was in Moscow a Ot
conference, sleeping
at the National
Lenin had once occuP
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north with Soviet °
reflection of the split. or
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Chief will still grab Tey
lines than Mr. Stan
policies dressed in 4 nl