MARCH ON WASHINGTON NOV. 27

Stop Viet bloodshed, profs urge LB)

A giant march on Washington for peace in Vietnam has been set for Saturday, November 27, and will follow a convention of committees to end the Vietnam war which will meet in the U.S. capitol November.25-28. Meanwhile, more than 644 professors and staff members from 49 universities; colleges and institutes called on President John- son to “Stop the Bloodshed in Vietnam.”

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Compensation boost long overdue, but more needed

“"TIncreases in Workmen’s Compensation Board allowances for disabled workmen, widows and dependent children, and in- creased funeral allowances, are as welcome as they are over- due,’”” Nigel Morgan, Provincial Leader of the Communist Party stated this week.

“Raising of the maximum earnings for determination of compensation payments to $550. per month (the highest in Can- ada) and provision for an annual review and revision in accordance with. the consumer price index represents an important ad-

~ vance,”?

“Credit for the additional ‘twenty million dollars W.C.B, recipients will get this year should go to the labor movement of this province—particularly the trade unions, the N.D.P, MLAs,

and others like the Communist Party, which pressed for impli- mentation of the Tysoe Commis- sion fiscal recommendations without waiting for the next ses- sion of the Legislature when the full report is expected,’’ Morgan stated,

‘*Action on a number of other questions examined by the Tysoe: Commission in the four-year long hearings such as the princi- ple of ‘payment for loss of func- tion, instead of loss of income’; silicosis and industrial deafness, and compression sickness; as well as more adequate provisions for workmen’s appeals, are an- xiously awaited,’’ he said.

‘*Compensation Act changes will likely emerge as one of the major questions atnext Janu- ary’s Legislative session, Morgan said.

In an advertisement in the N.Y. Times they also took note of the harassment that has been unleashed by the Administration against critics of its war policy. The signers of the advertisement vowed they would continue their protest and would seek to win support for their position from colleagues and students,

Their statement said that ‘‘the war in Vietnam is continuing with ever-increasing human suffering, mounting destruction and diminishing hope for a just and speedy resolution,”’

**A year ago the war in South }’

Vietnam was a civil war, even though opposing factions were

instigated, supported and sup- |

plied from the outside, by both the U.S, and North Vietnam, To- day the struggle has become Overwhelmingly a war conducted by American armed forces against a communist-led revolu=- tionary movement,

“The people of Vietnam of all political beliefs have been the unwilling and helpless victims of bombs and fire, The Ameri- can people themselves are under=

going a brutalizing and degrad- |

ing experience. They are coming to view without concern the in- human suffering being inflicted in their name against a defense- less population.

“Mr. President, now is the time to put an end to the kill- ing,’’ says the appeal, It charges that American intervention ‘‘is now much greater than the inter- vention from the North,’’ and

Ae ok OMAN CHUN ea

To the President of the United States

STOP THE. BLOODSHED IN VIETNAM

The above ad which occupied almost a full page in last Sunday's N.Y. Times was signed by more than 644 leading educationalists in the U.S.

~ Brazilian dictatorship ‘made in

‘The dissolution recently of all political parties in Brazil by Gen, Humberto Castelo Branco is a confession of failure by Wash- ington in its efforts to destroy the resistance of the Brazilian people to the efforts of U.S, imperialism to impose a puppet military dictatorship on that vast and rich country,

The Pentagon, the Central In- telligence Agency andimperialist agents who now dominate the State Department have decided to rule Brazil with the naked force of a military dictatorship,

Castelo. Branco’s military junta, which had been installed by Washington in a brutal putsch, had demonstrated its ineffectu- ality, despite the pouring-in of hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S, taxpayers’ money and the imposition of all kinds of restrictions upon the Brazilian

- people’s democratic rights,

The final straw was the recent elections, Castelo Branca and his Washington guides had obviously underestimated the opposition of the Brazilian people, or they would not have called for the elections. :

The provincial elections prov- ed a-complete rout for the puppet military junta, That the Brazilian people were determined to show their disapproval of all rightist forces was demonstrated in the

' smashing defeat. of Gov, Carlos Lacerda and his cohorts, rivals of Castelo Branca for the favor of U.S. imperialism,

Unable to vote for any other democratic parties, the Brazilian people threw their votes to the Social Democratic party of form- er President Kubitchek, who had been shorn of. his political rights for a period extending for the next ten years,

Washington moved hastily to

.. the next stage of its operations in Latin America, the imposition of-

outright brutal dictatorship,

This stage had already been mapped at a conference in Rio de Janeiro last August of a num- ber of Latin American generals, which was presided over by As- sistant Secretary ofState Thomas Mann,

It has become clear that Brazil is to be the center of all of Washington’s operations to de- stroy democracy in all the Latin American countries, Ever since the Pentagon installed Castelo Branco as puppet military dis- tator, Washington has been build- ing up Brazil for this subversive operation,

Recently, Emilio Masquero, head of the Catholic Confederation of Latin American Christian Trade Unions, revealed that U.S. monopolies are investing huge sums in Brazil in the building of heavy armaments and military equipment plants, ‘‘Brazil is be= ing turned into a U.S, arsenal,’’ Masquero declared,

That Washington is preparing for its operation to take over in

the rest of Latin America is disclosed in reports coming in from many countries in the south- ern half of the Western Hemis- phere,

Luis Hernandez Parker, anoted

Chilean newspaperman, explain-'

ed; ‘‘When necessary, these of- ficers will be able to take such delicate posts as the ministry of finance, ministry of economics and ministry of foreign affairs,”’

Obviously, Washington believes this is ‘*necessary’’ now. The Johnson administration has been unable to weld an anti-Commu= nist front among the governments

of Latin America, f

' Washington is alarmed that

this parley may get completely:

out of hand. There certainly was nothing encouraging for U.S, im-= perialism in a _ statement of Chilean President Eduardo Frei to U.S, Ambassador Averell Har= riman four months ago, As re« ported by Hernandez Parker, in the Chilean magazine, Ersilla, Frei, a Catholic who heads the Christian Democratic party, told Harriman:

“For you communism is a red menace, However, the commu- nism we know in Chile is some= thing quite different, In general features, it is a social and politi- cal phenomenon, It is a Party getting the support of the masses, Apart from existing on the ter- ritory of Chile it is also a party of our people, And the things tak-

ing place in Chile hold good for

the whole of Latin America, ..

“Communists

‘This kind of communism: can never be vanquished by means of repressions, police and military measures, aS your government proposes, When the ‘so-called law on the defense of democracy, which you want to spread to the whole continent, was in force in Chile, we fought against this law and were quite right in doing so, because after these 11 years, the Communist Party of Chile gained even greater strength...

‘*It seems to me that the Ameri- cans fail to understand why the strengthen their positions in the less developed

says that ‘‘the only victory to which this massive military ac- ~ tion may lead is a conquest of a decimated South Vietnam by the United States. Surely the American people do not seek such a victory,

‘We ask you to stop the blood= shed now. We ask you to order an immediate halt to the des- truction of villages and to the burning of people’s food lest it fall into enemy hands, Stop the bombing raids and the waging of offensive military operations.

“Let us. give the people of Vietnam the chance to work out their own peace, as promised by the Geneva Pact of 1954, regard-, less of what form of government they. may choose, The actions of the world should undertake

-) to guarantee such a peace, eee

“Mr. President, we cannot support your Vietnam policy, The current threats to investigate protests by students or other critics will not deter us from speaking out against a wrong and immoral policy. d

‘We shall oppose your pres- ent policy in Vietnam openly and vigorously, Only thus can we do our part in trying to bring about peace and to protect the moral integrity of our nation,’’ concludes the ad,

U.S.A.’

countries, They strengthen them

‘because they are working for

some profound changes in the © social structure, . .’’

It is because of this attitude of — Latin American governmental leaders and, more importantly, © because of the rising struggles of the peoples for freedom from exploitation by U.S, imperialism and for the right to determine their own destinies that Washing- ton is now resorting to out-right dictatorship as the- means of control, The dissolution of parties in Brazil is the first step,

SUDBURY WORKERS HAIL VICTORY. Photo shows Mine Mill members cheering the announcement on Oct. 28 that the Ontario Labor Relations Board had or- dered a vote. On Nov. 5 the OLRB rejected Steel's application for a certification vote at Falconbridge on the grounds that less than 45% of the employees were members of Steel. The OLRB on Wed., Nov. 3, awarded Mine Mill top place 0" the ballot in the forthcoming vote which is expected in two to three weeks.

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