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(Editorial in Local 444 News)
The situation in the United
States, brought to the simmer-
ing point by the savage invasion
of Cambodia boiled over when
four students were gunned

down at Kent State University. 7

Further coals were heaped on
the fires of discontent by the
rabid fulminations of Nixon and
Agnew and the cold blooded
statement on the shootings by
the U.S. president which, re-
duced to one sentence could
read: “I’m sorry about that —
but you asked for it.”

A tragic aspect of the whole
affair is that all too many other-
wise fair minded folk hold ra-
ther similar opinions on the
activities of today’s youngsters.
They see them as rambunctious
kids bent on smashing windows
and destroying property; getting
their kicks out of defying law
and order.

It is an unpalatable but un-
deniable fact that a substantial
segment of. working people, in-
cluding unfortunately, _ trade
unionists, hold little sympathy
for student protests. It is sig-
nificant that the only pro-Nixon
demonstration in recent days
was a rampage by construction
workers in New York who laid
siege to City Hall, demanded
Mayor Lindsay’s blood and com-
pelled the running up of the
flag, then flving at half mast
atop the building.

The resentment felt. by so
many at the anti-war defiance of
the younger generation is not
only a measure of the communi-
cation gap--it is also a startling
indication of the moral chasm
prevailing.

THEY HAVE
A HIGHER MORALITY

Today’s is an educated, so-
phisticated youth who are not
so easily fooled as were their
parents by the pious mouthings
of politicians. They don’t accept
the rationale of leaders who
sanctify the mass murder of
thousands of peasant men, wo-
men and children’ by shell,
bomb and napalm under the
guise of “peace and freedom.”

Neither do they accept that
the brutal pillage of a small
backward nation 10,000 miles

Unconquerable Vietnam

In 111 B.C. Vietnam (called
Au Lac at that time) was an-
nexed by the feudal emperor of
the Eastern Han dynasty.

There lived in Me Linh, Phong
Chau district (now Vinh Phu
province), a woman named
Trung Trac, famed for her valor
and military leadership.

Early in 40 A.D. Trung Trac,
together with her younger sister
Trung Nhi, led the people. of
Au Lac to rise up. Under their
command, the insurgent army
routed the occupationists, liber-
ated 65 citadels and regained
complete independence.

Trung Trac was later unani-
mously honoured Queen of Au
Lac by the local administrators
and the generals of the insur-
gent army. She made Me Linh
capital of the Kingdom.

The Trung Sisters were the
first Vietnamese to have victo-
riously led an uprising against
foreign invaders, ushering in the
glorious centuries-old history of

the name of patriotism.

This rising generation has a
new, higher morality. They are
in the process of developing a
code of ideals that gives hope
for the future, a future in which
ultimately the concept of war
between civilized peoples will
be unthinkable.

WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND
THEIR AIMS

To achieve that most desir-
able goal the warmakers, those
bloodthirsty elements who rel-
ish it and those who profit from
it, must be stopped in their
tracks, defied and exposed. In
this the: most enlightened of
our youth are giving the lead.
Their efforts deserve our care-
ful consideration: We should at-
tempt to understand their aims
and not be turned off because a
small minority, inevitable in any
mass movement, may indulge in
tactics that hinder rather than
help.

There can be no doubt that
when the labor movement ac-
tively joins these anti-war forces
this will constitute a giant step
towards peace in Asia and for
peace generally.

The Vietnam war, the aggres- ...
heard the report of Y. M. Tyaz-

sion in Cambodia and the wan-
ton slaying of the Kent students
has sown seeds which are ger-

minating more than the Nixon

gang bargained for—a powerful,

~ militant, broadly based peace

organization which can ‘have
every warmonger shaking in his
jackboots.

resistance of the Vietnamese
people against foreign aggres-

“sion in the past nearly 2,000

years.

Developing that tradition,
under the leadership of Ngo
Quyen (10th century), Ly Thu-
ong Kiet (llth century), Tran
Quoc Tuan (13th century), Le
Loi (15th century), Nguyen Hue
(18th century), the Vietnamese
people had recorded brilliant
achievements in their valiant
fights for independence and
freedom. In the past 40 years,
since the founding of the Party
of the Vietnam working class by
President Ho Chi Minh (Febru-
ary 3, 1930) that tradition has
been developed to a high level:
the Vietnamese armed forces
and people defeated the French
colonialist invaders and _ has
been defeating the U.S. im-
perialist aggressors to wrest
back complete independence and
freedom for their country.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1970—Page 8

By ELIZABETH HILL

Representatives of the Young
Communist League of Canada,
along with those of youth or-
ganizations from 84 other coun-
tries, had the opportunity to
meet with leaders and members
of the Young Communist
League of the U.S.S.R. (Komso-
mol). Our delegation, consisting
of Diane Meunier and me at-
tended the 16th All-Union Con-
gress of the Komsomol held in
Moscow May 26-30.

The Komsomols of today dif-
fer from their parents in that
they have grown up since the
war in a period of rapid scien-
tific and technological progress.
Their education level is much
higher than the generation be-
fore it. But the Komsomol mem-
bers are the same -as those of
preceding generations in their
ideological conviction and loy-
alty to the ideas of Lenin.

In a brief address to the dele-
gates, L. I. Brezhnev, General
Secretary of the CPSU Central
Committee, expressed the par-
ty’s confidence in the youth:

“You are destined to defend
what your fathers had won to
implement the grandiose plans
of communist construction. It is
an honorable, responsible and
inspiring task. And believe me,
the time will come when your
children and grandchildren will
envy the deeds and accomplish-
ments of the young people~ of
the 70’s.”

- Communist Upbringing

The 25 million member Kom-
somol is the leader and or-
ganizer of all Soviet youth.
Its first task is the active
participation in implementing
Lenin’s ideas of the building of
communism. 4,695 delegates
from all the republics, territor-
ies. and regions of the U.S.S.R.

helnikov, first secretary of the
YCL central committee. He
summarized the achievements
of the Komsomol in the four
years since the last congress
and outlined the tasks that it
faces for the future.

Tyazhelnikov stressed the im-
portance of the Komsomol’s
work in the communist upbring-
ing of the youth on the basis of
Leninism.

“Our society makes ever
greater political demands on the
students of the higher educa-
tional establishments and spe-
cialized secondary schools who
are about to become organizers
of production, researchers, and
workers in culture. They must
have a perfect command of the
Marxist-Leninist science.”

With Conviction

In visits to the Moscow City
Committee, the Nuclear Physics
Institute and to factories and
plants, I could see the truth of
people are facing the task of
this in practical life. The young
communist construction with
ideological conviction, educa-
tion, discipline, organization and
enthusiasm.

A young girl delegate called
upon the young women to be-
come tractor drivers. “It’s a
challenge for the girls to be-
come experts with a tractor, not
an easy task, but it’s easier than
digging with a shovel!” The con-
gress chuckled as she appealed
for more stylish work clothes

Thirteen-year-old survivor of Vietnam war at the Congress:

for the girls who drive the trac-
tors which they keep polished
and shining as a new car.

Almost every delegate spoke
of the need to increase produc-
tion, to make it more efficient,
to prevent waste. In his main
report, Tyazhelnikov spoke of
the awareness of the youth-that
sceintific and technological pro-
gress is the principle and deci-
sive field of battle between so-
cialism and capitalism. It re-
minded me of the hundreds of
thousands of youth in Canada
who suffer from speedup, dan-
gerous and unhealthy conditions
of work and from unemploy-
ment due to capitalist imple-
mentation of new technology
solely for increased profits.

Record Progress

In sharp contrast, the dele-
gates here representing workers
from industry, services, agricul-
ture representing scientists, ar-
tists and students, spoke of the
advances that had been made
and were looking for the ways
to improve their material, cul-
tural, and educational life even
more.

The Congress was marked by
the outstanding achievements of
its delegates in sport, art,
science, literature, dancing, etc.
The Komsomol is successful in
making youth conscious of their
responsibility to society and to
approach creative work from
class. positions. The youth in the
Soviet union are truly showing
their worth in socially useful
deeds and are part of an -un-
breakable unity of all genera-
tions of Soviet peonle in their
common effort to build commu-
nism. é

Young peonle from every part
of the world addressed the con-
gress with greetings from the
progressive and _ revolutionary

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