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cause we try always to show our goodwill by many times ad- vancing proposals so that the United States, as the biggest imperialist power, can withdraw. without losing face. We have shown the world we want a peaceful solution—but always peace. with freedom and inde- pendence, not otherwise.

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ministration is seeking all means to block the Paris talks and the Seven Point peace pro- posal, Van Ba declared, “The United States today is manoeu- vring to mislead the people of the world.” - While it is true, he continued, that the U.S. has withdrawn about 200,000 of its troops, they are either GIs who have finished their service of 18 months, or wounded, or staff office work- ers—“the main combat troops still remain.”

The U.S. bombing of South Vietnam, which intensified after Nixon took office, continues un- abatingly. Every month United States planes drop bombs on South Vietnam that average the equivalent of 12 of the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima. Van Ba cited other facts of death like this one—all straight from U.S. Pentagon official figures: Over 120 million pounds of toxic chemicals and poisons have been sprayed on South Vietnam, six pounds -per person; 470,000 people have been pole soned and more than 1,300,000 hectares (about 3% million acres) of rice fields and gardens destroyed.

“The war continues,” stated Van Ba, “and U.S. casualties are at the same rate as pefore their troop withdrawals start- ed.” He spoke of the great sig- nificance of the Highway 9 vic- where the United States has to agree to withdraw all its own forces and those of its allies and puppets from South Viet-

m. ee Bither Nixon has to De tiate peacefully, on the basis 0 the peace proposals we have made, or we will answer the cannon of U.S. imperialism with our cannon. In all this,” he con- cluded, “we always distinguish ‘between the American people, who want peace, and _ their Sete of the delegation, Mr. Van Ba expressed thanks for the sympathy shown a Canadians for, the struggle fe)

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ixon's attack!

Must extricate ourselves from U.S. grip, says C.P.

Sunday evening U.S. President Rich- ard Nixon broadcast another of his surprises — a 10 percent surcharge on imports to the United States, a 90-day (to start with) wage and price freeze, and floating of the U.S. dollar,:a dec- laration of economic war against com- petitors abroad and living standards at home. Canada is immediately affect- ed due to the “continentalist” policies of our governments since the war, with a big rise in unemployment and “fol- low suit” attacks on wages and labor rights in the offing. _

The Central Executive of the Com- munist Party of Canada issued the following statement to the Canadian people in this crisis:

If President Nixon really wants to

“break the back of inflation” the first steps he should take are the withdrawal of U.S. troops and material from Indo- china, the withdrawal of U.S. military bases from other countries, a sharp re- duction in military expenditures, and an end to aggression. Here is the im- mediate source of inflation, of the financial and currency crisis and the international balance of payments de- ficites : The 10% surcharge on imports, the release of the U.S. dollar from the gold standard, the imposition of a wage and price freeze, will not curb inflation. Their aim is two-fold: to overcome the growing economic and financial crisis mm the USA by passing it on to other countries in the form of a trade war; and to load iton the backs of the Ame- rican working people through a wage freeze and other means. |

The Nixon measures point up the fact that the United States dollar has been devalued, that the Bretton Woods agreement which was to have estab- lished a stable relationship between various currencies has collapsed, and that U.S. imperialism through the 10% surcharge on imports has. undertaken protectionist measures against its trad- ing partners. As Mr. Robert MacIntosh of the Bank of Nova Scotia aptly put

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it, the U.S. “is holding a gun to the head of the rest of the world.”

It would be extremely harmful to minimize the dangerous character of Nixon’s measures and their grave con- sequences for Canada. They are being used to compel changes in Canadian economic policies, in the auto agree- ment,in energy policy. These policies will increase unemployment in Canada. The drive to impose a wage freeze on Canadian workers will now be stepped up, using Nixon’s decision as a “model” to be followed.

The growing economic and financial crisis of U.S. imperialism will not be solved by the Nixon measures. They will aggravate the international situa- tion and harm the working people of the USA.

The U.S. crisis, which reflects the growing instability and crisis of the whole capitalist system, can in part be alleviated by a genuine policy of peaceful coexistence and by policies of economic cooperation with all countries, in the first place with the socialist coun- tries.

The measures taken by the Nixon ad- ministration emphasize anew that Can- ada must extricate itself from U.S. control and domination, and pursue a course leading to genuine Canadian in- dependence.

We welcome. Canadian Labor Con- gress president Donald MacDonald’s statement that Canadian organized workers oppose any attempt by the Trudeau government to follow Nixon’s example by imposing wage controls in our country.

The Canadian people should now de- mand that the government undertake immediate steps to protect Canada from the effects of Nixon’s latest poli- cies. The working class and above all the organized labor movement have a special responsibility to fight for those national economic and social policies that can prevent Nixon’s program from being placed on the backs of Canadian working people.

“It does frighten one.dt is the special file on dissenters.”

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