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IAN SMITH ASKS FOR ISRAELI MILITARY HELP
LONDON—Ian Smith, the so-called “Premier” of the illegal racist
regime in Rhodesia, has asked Israel for military aid in training the
white population to handle firearms and conduct counter-insurgency
operations, the London Daily Mail reported on Monday. According
to the newspaper, the Smith regime has already set up special re-
serve “women’s brigades.”

WORKER RESISTANCE MOUNTS IN ARGENTINA

BUENOS AIRES—Strikes against military rule and the sharp rise
in prices spread across Argentina on Thursday as the military gov-
ernment of Gen. Alejandro Lanusse took drastic action against the
five million-member General Confederation of Labor (CGT) to try to
put down the workers’ resistance. The Lanusse government an-
nounced it was seizing all the funds of the CGT. Martial law and
“shoot-to-kill” rule has already been imposed on several of Argen-
tina’s industrial cities, including Mendoza, San Juan, and Tucuman.
The army has arrested more than 500 people in Mendoza following
Monday’s clash between workers and troops in which two workers
were killed. More than 6,500 workers at the Renault auto plant in
Cordova have gone on strike in support of the Mendoza workers and
are expected to be bolstered in this action by FIAT plant workers. A

_mass hunger march is scheduled for April 14 in Cordova.

SOVIET ART EXHIBITION BOMBED IN HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD—An anonymous telephone caller told United Press
International: “Now you listen carefully. I just bombed the art
museum at Barndall Park. Never again! Never again!” That is the
slogan used by the fascistic Jewish Defense League, which had
picketed the exhibition. Police blocked traffic on nearby streets and
roped off the area. There were no reports of injuries from the blast.
On exhibit were examples of Soviet art and crafts.

UN HEAD DENOUNCES U.S. CHROME IMPORTS :

UNITED NATIONS — United Nations Secretary-General Kurt
Waldheim denounced the United States government for its decision
to permit importation of chrome ore from Rhodesia in defiance of
UN economic sanctions against the illegal racist regime.

In a message to the UN’s Committee on Sanctions Against Rho-
desia, Waldheim said that the U.S. had ignored the UN Security
Council’s resolutions imposing sanctions on the regime of “Premier”
Ian Smith, and that the UN would be compelled to take steps to
make sure that such violations could not occur in the future.

SHARP IMPROVEMENT IN SOVIET CHILDREN’S HEALTH

LENINGRAD—A sharp improvement in Soviet children’s health in
recent years was noted yesterday in Leningrad at the opening ses-
sion of a conference of Soviet pediatricians. Professor Nina Nisevich
of the Soviet Public Health Ministry reported that since the 1950’s
cases of polio in the USSR have been almost unknown,

By ALAIN PATRIE

MONTREAL — Their militant ranks united
and inspired by the Common Front of Que-
bec's three trade union centres, 210,000 pub-
lic workers on Tuesday morning began a
general strike of indefinite duration against
the anti-labor policies of the Bourassa gov-
ernment.

Continuing attempts to un-
seat President Makarios of Cyp-
rus and turn the island into a
U.S. war base in the Mediter-
ranean make the following let-
ter received by the Communist
Party of Canada from the Prog-
ressive Party of Working People
(AKEL) of Cyprus of special
importance:. ;

Foreign interferences in Cyp-
rus have reached their climax
with the ultimatum of the Greek
military government of Febru-
ary 11 and the subsequent direct
attacks against President Maka-
rios and the sovereignty of the
Cyprus Republic. In fact, the
ultimatum of the Athens regime
demanded the disarmament of
the Cyprus state in face of the
illegal armed groups, the forma-
tion of a new government with
the participation of those that
wanted its dissolution and the
isolation of the left wing forces
from political life. The Athens
regime demanded at the same
time that as regards the policy
for the solution of the Cyprus
problem all decisions should be
taken in Athens, which should
be recognized as the centre
whilst. Nicosia should limit its
role to that of a ‘branch’.

“It should be stressed as well
that there have already been
authoritative reports that plans
for the violent overthrow of the
Cyprus government by Greek
military circles had been can-
celled at the last moment be-
cause of effective international
protests and the firm resistance
of the Cyprus people. In this
respect special mention was
made to the decisive stand of
the Soviet Union in defense of
the Cyprus Republic as well as
to that of other socialist coun-
tries. The danger, however, for
the very existence of Cyprus

Answering Quebec government threats,
the leaders of the Common Front have "cate-
_gorically recommended" to their members
not to submit to court injunctions the govern-
ment has obtained against the strikers.
Should the government attempt to enforce
the court injunctions, Laberge declared that
“everyone takes to the streets and they'll

have to arrest all of us."

Announcement of this most massive strug-
gle of organized workers in Canada's history
was made jointly two weeks to the day after
March 28 one-day general strike of Quebec
public workers, by Louis Laberge, president
of the Quebec Federation of Labor (CLC):
Marcel Pepin, the Confederation of National
Trade Unions president; and Yvon Charbon-
neau, president of the Quebec Teachers Cor-
poration. ;

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1972—PAGE 8

Five trade unionists from Quebec attended the 15th congress of Soviet

The striking workers through their leaders
have undertaken to maintain essential ser-
vices as they shut down all Quebec govern-
ment services, hospitals, most schools, Que-
bec-Hydro and liquor outlets.

The general strike was preceded by four
days of visits by the leaders of the three
trade union centres to their members in 10
Quebec cities. Full endorsation was voted in.
mass meetings for this historic confrontation

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still stands as pressure from
foreign imperialist centers is
escalated and so long as buried
church regulations, whose valid-
ity is very much disputed, have
been drawn out in order to press
Makarios to step down from the
presidency.

“The Plenum of the Central
Committee of AKEL that took
place on Feb. 14, connected the
crisis that has been provoked at
this moment in Cyprus directly
with the general plot of NATO
and American imperialism
against the republic with the
aim of subjugating the island
by means of partitioning it and
turning it into a base for their
military adventures in the area.

“The CC of AKEL stands at
this crucial moment most deci-
sively behind President Maka-
rios and his patriotic policy of a
peaceful solution of the Cyprus

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the unions when Quebec Civil Servic€ if
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government in the talks with the umMl@ gq
began a year ago. Earlier, the gor
had ignored the unions' offer to redvi al
wage increase demand from 8.3 P©& i
7 percent per year in a three-year © ,,

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mon Front, the 7,000 members of f te04 ’
cial Association of Protestant al
(PAPT) have voted to join the gene”
on Wednesday morning, April 12.

Joining the common struggle. PA
ers have declared that "any scabs
thrown out of our Association."

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