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KASHTAN URGES DOUGLAS:

Oppose ‘substitute act

T. C. Douglas, Leader, New Democratic Party, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario

Dear Mr. Douglas:

May I take this opportunity of congratulating you and the sixteen NDP Members of Parliament who have so ably and consistently attacked the War Measures Act and voted against it despite the frantic efforts of the Government to create non-partisan unity on the

question.

_ There is no doubt that your consistent stand on this vital issue Mand out of Parliament has played and will contiiue to play a Significant role in rallying public opposition to the Act.

In saying this we also wish to express concern with respect to the stand your group is taking on the substitute legislation. I say this on the basis of press reports which suggest your group will Not object to alternative legislation. As with respect to the War Measures, so in this case, the Government wants to establish non

Partisan unity in the House.

_ However, from what we read in the press the substitute legisla- tion will essentially be no different to the War Measures Act and Its edge will be directed against those advocating democratic re- form and meaningful social change. To be party to such legislation Would do harm to the cause of democracy.

We can already see how under the War Measures Act, an at- MOsphere is being created for repressive action, for witch hunts and for shifting politics to the right in Canada. The same will be

done with the substitute legislation.

With this in mind we ask that you and your group oppose the Substitute legislation as you have opposed the War Measures Act.

€ temporary panic and hysteria created by the events in Quebec and in turr! stimulated by the Government, is not long lasting. The Main problem is to get at the economic and social roots of the crisis M Quebec and other parts of the country and this will not be done €ither with the War Measures Act or substitute legislation.

Sincerely yours,

William Kashtan,

National Leader, Communist Party of Canada

No anti-labor laws

say Ontario unions

By MEL DOIG

_ NIAGARA FALLS — As orig- Mally planned, the 947 delegates to the 14th annual convention of the OFL, meeting here Nov. 2, 3 and 4, weré to have dealt with the War Measures Act on the Second morning of their deliber- ations. Events have decided them instead to consider the new Public Order Temporary Meas- ures Act on the last morning of their convention.

The delegates, representing More than 600,000 organized On- tario workers voted unanimously for complete OFL support of the

hited Automobile Workers and for urging ‘‘all OFL affiliates to Slve both moral and generous financial support to the GM Strikes to assure them victory.”

The OFL itself will circulate an appeal for financial aid for the GM strikers. OFL president David Archer declared, “Thé

€neral Motors strike is a strug- 8le for our existence as a labor Movement.”

In the sickness-enforced ab- S€nce of Canadian director of the UAW, Denis McDermott, assist- ant Canadian director Herb Kel- ly spoke powerfully to the con- Vention about what’s at stake in the GM strike. Referring to the fact that UAW strike benefits Will stop at the end of this Month, he said: ‘We have a re- Source greater than dollars. For Our strength in this just strike— like that of all unions—derives

Tom our people.”

‘Demanding that the OFL un- €rtake to organize a ‘“‘tremen- Cus demonstration” by indus- trial and building trades workers opposition to Bill 167 when it

comes again before the Ontario Legislature, the delegates voted unanimous approval of a substi- tue resolution on the proposed anti-labor legislation. They wel- comed the resolution’s demand that the basic rights of organiz- ed labor be stipulated in the La- bor Act amendments, and that the anti-labor clauses in them be struck out.

Distribution was made to all delegates on the convention’s first day of a statement by gen- eral secretary of the Communist Party, William Kashtan, denoun- cing the War Measures Act and all repressive legislation, as well as a key article on labor’s fight- back by Bruce Magnusson, labor secretary of the Communist Par- ty.

Similar positions were distri- buted also by the Niagara Pen-. insula Civil Rights Committee and the Ontario Reform Caucus.

In an address on the new leg- islation proposed to replace the WMA, released to the delegates in advance, the executive vice president of the CLC, Joseph Morris, declares that the new

’ legisiation ‘is not perfect by any

means,” and said that “presum- ably the failure of Canada as a whole to realize the facts of life as far as Quebec is concerned is a fundamental cause of this crisis.”

In opening the convention, OFL president David Archer de- clared, “In the coming year it is my fervid wish, which I believe is capable of fulfilment, that every major section of the union movement will be united and

that teamsters, UE, and the fish-

ermen will, in some form or an- other, be back in the CLC,

New stage in Chile

Unity paved way for win

By IRINA ZORINA, M.Sc.

Chile is attracting the atten- tion of the whole world today. For the first time ever in the history .of Latin America, a socialist won the presidency in the course of democratic elec- tions. He was Salvador Allende, candidate of the Unidad Popular

_(United People’s) bloc of Chile,

who proposed a program of pro- found social reforms. The Na- tional Congress at a joint meet- ing of both houses on Oct. 24 was confirmed as President of the Republic of Chile.

Over one-third of the elector- ate (36.3%) voted for the pro- gram of the Left bloc. Another 28% supported the program of reforms proposed by R. Tomic, a Christian Democrat, which is similar to the first one, although it is much more moderate. There- fore, the majority of the popula- tion (65%) has come out for strengthening national, economic and political independence, and for social reforms.

The road towards this victory was long and difficult.

In the experience of Chile we have an example of the revolu- tionary-democratic forces and the organized working class uti- lizing the opportunities offered

by the electoral system, and the

successful implementation of the policy of a united front of all the nation’s progressive forces.

At the September elections the democratic, anti-imperialist for- ces of the country created the broadest bloc seen in the last 30 years, the Unidad Popular, which incorporates many political par- ties — Socialists, Communists, Radicals and the movement of Unified Popular Action, which unites’ left democratic Chris- Popular Action, as well as the left wing of the Democratic Party.

The electoral platform of this coalition and the main program of the Unidad Popular govern- ment envisaged the introduction of profound democratic changes in the country, which correspond to Chile’s national interests. That determined the militant na- ture of the campaign of the Left forces in 1970.

The victory of the Left forces at the presidential elections con- firmed the correctness of the

BONN (ADN)—The central la- bor exchange of the West Ger- man Federal Labor Board acts as a labor recruiting office for South Africa. Extensive propa- ganda is designed to recruit skilled workers and technicians in different trades for ‘“long- term engagement” in the—as the labor exchange puts it—‘‘ex- panding South African indus- try.” The Board offers interested persons official South African immigration propaganda.

South Africa has always been the favorite partner of West German investors, particularly in uranium prospecting. The West German big business paper Han- delsblatt iy July figured West German infestments at 1.4 bil- lion marks.

_ Some 300 West German firms have set up branches in the ra- cialist state, among them the Kloeckner trust which has cre-

cratic coalition was announced.

tactics involving the constant strengthening of the unity of democratic, anti-imperialist for- ces, the development of the mass movement .and the comprehen- sive use of democratic legality by revolutionary parties, not only to defend the rights of working people, but also as an instrument of political emanci- pation.

Chilean reaction, enraged at its defeat and enjoying the sup- port of U.S. monopolies, is pre- pared to resort to the most ex- treme measures, for the lawful victory of the people’s coalition cuts the ground from under its feet. In these conditions those who defend the interests of big capital and latifundism are pre- pared to use violence and stage a coup d’etat.

Reaction launched an active

ated for itself a nuclear basis in South Africa.

West German exports to South Africa last year rose by 15% — 1.6 billion marks over 1968. Over 35 percent of West Germany’s exports to Africa were concluded with the Pretoria regime. Also in imports from Africa, Pretoria is the largest partner of West Germany. South Africa has become one of the biggest suppliers of strategic raw materials, in particular of uranium.

In March West German banks granted the official South Afri-

can Electricity Supply Commis- .

sion (ESCOM) of Johannesburg, a one hundred million mark credit. With this sum ESCOM which is engaged in the produc- tion of nuclear material, has re- ceived credits to the tune of about 325 million marks from its West German patrons.

The negotiations between the

campaign immediately after the elections, provoking disorder in the capital and other cities, sow- ing panic among the small and middle..propertied classes. The landowners, industrialists and foreign monopolies moving their deposits from Chilean banks, aimed at creating financial havoc and throwing the population into panic, and thus paving the way to a coup d’etat. The assassina- tion of Schneider, the command- er-in-chief of the armed forces of Chile, the preparations to as- sassinate Allende, and terror and provocation by reaction should be seen in this context only. The election of Salvador Al- lende as president of Chile is a major victory for the democra- tic forces of the country, which uphold the independent and pro- gressive road of development.

Federation of West German In- dustry and the South African In- dustrial Development Corpora- tion were also designed to con- solidate the South African racist regime as a bastion against the young emergent states. :

They agreed on the establish- ment of secretariats of the em- ployers organizations which are to intensify the economic, politi- cal and military cooperation. In this connection special attention should be attached to the neo- colonialist Cabora Bassa project in Mozambique, ‘built under the participation of five West Ger- man trusts.

Also the racist regime in Rho- desia receives assistance from Bonn. According to an Official United Nations document, West German exports to Rhodesia in the first six months of 1968 amounted to $7.3 million, and imports from Rhodesia as much as $9.4 million.

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