Peace Assembly for united action

they NELSON CLARKE tt the we Outstanding feature Peace Ssembly of the World May Ouncil held in Budapest, iins 6 was its success in ha op cbether diverse forces Aitusly whom had not pre- is Worn icipated in work of Dele tld organization. Biting woes. from the United Abarthes Special Committee on tio i id, and on Decoloniza- iby, tttibuted constructively ISCussion, Same time, the As- : Thed with satisfaction ‘Ben off: PC has now been : cial status in UNESCO. lis of 52S @ large participa- ‘thding Btoups from Africa, in- Dreaniy representatives of the Ren of African Unity. the ously pressed upon Memped oy the necessity of the 5 P world-wide activity Milonic, se2!° against the racist the rege arcelino Dos Santos, anigheeted leader of the Mo- © liberation movement ‘eal ¢ ) made an eloquent | *Sembiion more time at future lem of €s to consider the prob- Tica, and for increased

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representation of African move- ments on the Secretariat of the World Peace Council.

In a previous report, this writ- er has mentioned the work of the representative delegation from the United States. A note- worthy contribution was _made in the second plenary session by Professor Sidney Peck, spokes- man for the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice who des- cribed how the memorable Spring Offensive in the United States was forged into a great coordinated action between groups which favored emphasis only on the single issue of Viet- nam, and those which stressed the needs to link the war with the issues of racism and poverty at home; between groups which favored single massive demon- strations, and those which favor- ed many smaller actions em- ploying non-violent civil disobe- dience.

The Canadian delegation re- flected within itself the new di- versity of the peace movement. Together with Dr. James G. Endicott, and Misha Korol of the

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8 Fe WILLIAM BEECHING

Gy tesserae At the centre of “NE heag -©Wan election stands jel all Or people’s unity to tts : 1, pressive labor legis- Y Sehts gh 2cing it with a Bill of ‘ ee and for new : apn. velop the prov- tect altura, frdusteiel and I op 'tchewar® potential, the the'™unist p, Committee of the e June 9 arty declared when thee | 3 election was an-

the

pbsalg MPaign of the Thatcher 4 ieg ae follow. the twin hn Ways tax and resources ing they -° big business, tip Wage ‘ty to preserve a 1 8 mon Climate attractive to putatcy Poly capital,

es will concentrate on bor ee the election on an as mem. His. govern- ation ™Mposed compulsory 0 ino all labor, and pro- uce labor courts.

4a y and Social Credit.

Ving} big business.

( a Berm Constituencies have "Main yrandered to confine

vote into a few

Broad, people’s unity

more concentrated _ electoral areas. So badly are they gerry- mandered that the Liberals themselves joke about it. Thatch- er’s recent attacks on what he calls “special privileges” for Quebec, and his support for the War Measures Act, g0 hand-in- glove with his proposals to curb labor. He hopes to win the farm vote as well with his anti-labor stance.

NDP provincial leader Allan Blakeney, in a press release said, “The fundamental issue of the election will be agriculture, how- ever unclear it may seem at first blush . . . It will also be clear to the farmers that if they vote Liberal it will be interpreted by Ottawa as support for the Libe- ral farm policy . . . but if they vote New Democratic in a mas- sive way, it will be clear to the federal Liberals they are on the wrong track, and will reassess their agricultural policies.”

The Communist Party will actively campaign in the elec- tions behind a program appeal- ing for unity to defeat Thatcher. The broad outlines of its cam- paign will be that this election takes place during a maturing

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New era opening for

Canada- Soviet relations

EDITORIAL

Canadians welcome the climate of confidence embodied in the protocol and communique of Canada and the USSR. They reject the dangerous at- tempts of reactionaries to perpetuate

the cold war.

This paper has fought and will con- tinue to fight unceasingly against the disastrous economic policies of mono- poly and of the federal government that have resulted in mass unemploy-

ment in our country.

At the same time, we endorse Prime Minister Trudeau’s statement last Fri- day in the House of Commons when, in answer to Tory attacks on the Pro- tocol on Consultations between Canada and the Soviet Union, he declared that only “a climate of confidence, a climate in which men of differing social and economic systems trust one another, can achieve a satisfactory, just and con-

tinuing peace.”

The Canadian Tribune, in full sup-

port of the position of the Communist Party of Canada and of the overwhelm- ing number of Communist. and Work- ers parties in the world, has firmly stood for the policy of peaceful coexist-

ence between states with different so-

cial and economic systems as the essen- tial basis for peace and social advance.

The recent agreements between Can- ada and the Soviet Union are rooted in this correct policy. They serve to ad-

vance in friendly cooperation the mu-

nique.

CPSU General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Prime Minister Trudeau in May 19 Kremlin meeting.

Trudeau USSR visit

an unqualified success —

By BERT WHYTE Special to the Tribune

MOSCOW — What benefits will Canada derive from Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Tru- deau’s recent visit to the Soviet Union? It was not his first look at the land of socialism — he participated in an economic con- ference in Moscow 19 years ago, and paid a second visit in 1961.

But this time there was a dif- ference. As the leader of our country he came on an official visit to discuss questions of political relationships, cultural and scientific | relationships, trade relationships. It was a serious mission, one which could help determine the future

course of Canada in interna-

tional affairs. : The measure of its success

can be registered in the cries of anguish emanating from Wash- ington. Nixon’s war hawks find particularly unpalatable Section 2 of the Soviet-Canadian Proto- col on Consultations which states that in the event of a situation arising which in the opinion of the two governments endangers the maintenance of peace or involves a breach of the peace “the two governments will make contact without de- lay in order to exchange views on what might be done to im- prove the situation.”

Despite the fact that the Protocol on Consultations says clearly that such consultations are not aimed against any third country, “Big Brother’ in Wash- ington is uneasy.

“Will you be taking any spe-

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tual interests of the peoples of both countries, for their mutual benefit. Reactionary circles, however, have lost no time in spewing their hatred on these historic agreements. Sections of the press, and spokesmen of the federal Progressive Conservative Party are A Sia to undermine the spirit of friendship in the protocol and commu-

Ever the opportunist politician, John Diefebaker for reasons of his own has

chosen to forget the role of the U.S. State Department in bring- ing about the fall of his own government. He chooses to for- get the split in his own former Tory cabinet over the U.S. de- mand to- install nuclear-armed Bomarc missile bases on Cana- da’s soil. Instead, he poses as one who is “shocked” by Mr. Trudeau’s intimation that Can-

ada feels economic, cultural and

military pressures from the United States.

Former Defense Minister Doug- las Harkness—notorious for his abject subservience to the Pen- tagon when he was in Diefen- baker’s cabinet — tottered out of the past to mumble about the Soviet Union as “the only real threat to Canadian security,” etc.,. etc.

The present Defense Minister Donald MacDonald disposed of him by saying that Harkness “gave us a first-class flashback to the vintage 1950 cold war days.”

To all the “cold warriors” of the Tory party who rose in the House of Commons trying to pillory the Soviet-Canadian Pro- tocol on Consultations, the New Democratic Party house leader gave a reply that we heartily welcome. Mr. Stanley Knowles maintained the Conservatives’ attack “boils. down to a com- plaint against the government for the steps the Prime Minister has taken to try to establish friendly relations with the Soviet Union. Please do not indulge in redbaiting, and please do not complain about building bridges of friendship.”

Reactionary preachers. in Canada of the cold war echo as always the U.S. State Depart- ment, which wants at all costs to prevent friendship and un- derstanding between the ples of Canada and the Soviet Union,

’ The common sense. of the Canadian people will not per-

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