TORONTO — The Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada last week issued a sharply worded statement calling for changes in legislation controlling foreign- owned companies in Canada, particularly in the light of the U.S. blocking of Canadian sales to Cuba.

The statement read, in part:

“The Communist Party of Canada has long proposed legis- lation be adopted which spells out clearly that branch offices of foreign - owned companies in Canada must abide by Canadian law and conform with Canada’s trade policies. Such legislation must have teeth in it by includ- ing the proviso that where com- panies fail to comply with

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said, “We're going to have to be much more perceptive shoppers. We have to cut down on much of our food buying and buy only the cheapest protein sources.” Careful shopping does nothing to stop the overall trend toward inflated prices. Only a united on- slaught against the profiteers who insist upon a high profit for

Czechoslovakia

PRAGUE (Pragopress) — Cze- choslovak farming is turning more to co-ops and state farms as the way to meet food needs with modern. equipment.

On July 1974 there were 3,625 agricultural cooperatives and 280 state farms in Czecho- slovakia. Their average area in- creased over 1973, from 987 hec- tares to 1,138 hectares (Co-ops) and from 4,702 hectares to 4,978 hectares (state farms).

Integrated agricultural enter- prises rose from 230 in 1973 to 334 in 1974. Of these , 69 special- ize on animal production, 122 on construction projects, 36 on the production and drying of fodder, 23 on agrochemical services. Other enterprises produce build- ing materials, housing construc- tion, specialized animal breeding and so on.

Canadian law they will be taken over and operated as Crown Corporations.

“The brave words of Mr. Gil- lespie must now be matched by

legislative measures to end commercial colonialism”. The Government has been diddling on this matter for a long time. This must stop.

“As soon as Parliament re- convenes legislation should be introduced by the Government to put an end to U.S. interfer- ence in Canadian affairs. This would correspond with the all Canadian interest.

“Patriotic Canadians must in- Sist that Parliament and Govern- ment stand up in defence of Canadian sovereignty and inde- pendence.”

Urge CLC fight inflation

what is consumed will bring the prices down.

Jt is both noteworthy and commendable that the Winnipeg Labor Council places a high em- phasis on the need for a full employment program. If the CLC listens to the demands from Win- nipeg and other councils, then it could take a lead from the statement of the Central Execu- tive Committee of the Commu- nist Party of Canada which as part of its program for full em- ployment called for:

e A vast housing program of 30,000 housing units annually. Housing should be considered a public utility, land banks creat- ed to take housing out of the hands of the developers and spe- culators. Interest on mortgages should be set at 5%. All taxes on building materials should be eliminated. g

e Natural resources should be processed in Canada with indus- tries built at the source of these resources including energy, thereby creating thousands of additional jobs for a growng labor force. Energy and natural resources should be _ publicly owned in all provinces and de- veloped in such a way to to bene- fit the Canadian people and strengthen Canadian independ- ence.

George Jackson

dies at 85

George Jackson, well known trade unionist and veteran Com- munist died suddenly on Jan. 7, just short of his 86th birthday, during a stay in Ottawa. ©

The Communist Party has an- nounced that a memorial meet-

ing in memory of comrade George Jackson will be held at the Ukrainian Hall, 3G0 Bathurst Street, Toronto, at 8 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 13. In lieu of flow- ers donations should be sent to the George Jackson Memorial Fund, c/o 24 Cecil Street, Toron- to.

Tim Buck Material

We want to tell the readers of the Tribune that we have had an interesting response to our appeal for material written by and pertaining: to Tim Buck.

_Last week we received two letters from a comrade now living in the German Demo- cratic Republic. They had been sent to him by Tim in 1958. Reading the Tribune he was anxious to help us com- pile as representative a col- lection as possible. 3

We have received photo- graphs and even a receipt dated 1949 for the electoral district of Trinity as deposit for Tim Buck, Candidate.

A special thanks to all of you who have responded — we urge you to keep looking) — it will take many months to complete this work.

Library Committee, 24 Cecil St., Toronto

— The Ontarion

“It says here the full impact won't be felt till next month.”

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Wide protests

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is an eminent scientist and writer, Internationalist Duty

An indefatigable fighter for strengthening militant interna- tional solidarity, a convinced and staunch _ internationalist, Arismendi stressed on many oc- casions in his speeches that soli- darity is above all an internatio- nalist duty which is of enormous importance for the people’s liberation movement.

Thanks to a powerful wave of international solidarity, the reac- tionaries recently were forced to release General Seregni. Now another big victory has been won — Rodney Arismendi has been rescued from the hands of his jailers.

However, not all fighters for democracy have been released in Uruguay. Thousands of revolu- tionaries are also languishing in jails in Chile, Paraguay, Haiti, Nicaragua and other Latin Ame- rican countries, and among them is the leader of Chilean com-

munists, Luis Corvalan, and many outstanding leaders of Popular Unity. Recently, the

leader of Guatemalan commun- ists, Humberto Alvarado, fell victim of a brutal murder.

The peoples of the world yoice their angry protest against the heinous crimes of reaction.

By OLGA TROFIMOVA APN Commentator

The Canadian government has announced it was firm in its intention to maintain mutually- beneficial business ties with Cuba. This statement was made in connection with efforts to meet its contract by a Canadian firm for the delivery of a ship- ment of office equipment to Cu- ba, in defiance of Washington's opposition.

This points on the one hand, to Canada’s disinclination to sub- mit to outside dictate and, on the other to Cuba’s growing prestige in the Western hemi- sphere where it is today becom- ing an equal trading partner with many capitalist states.

Canadian companies have al- ready made many business deals with Cuban representatives, for example the recent big contract with one of Montreal's firms that sells railway locomotives. Gen- eral Motors, Ford and Chrysler in the Argentine have begun de- livering trucks, buses, passenger cars and agricultural machinery to Cuba. An increasing number of foreign branches of American companies are beginning to do business with Cuba.

Voices are today being heard in some U.S. circles that the anti- Cuban course holds no promise. The 16-year path traversed by the Cuban Revolution has helped the Washington Post see the light. The paper had to admit that the U.S. blockade policy had failed. The little island state, as

noted in the report of the U.S.

Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee, has become a “socialist example” in the Western hemi- sphere.

A number of American con- gressmen have spoken out for the need to normalize relations between Washington and. Ha- vana. The question of lifting diplomatic and economic sanc- tions against Cuba was blocked, as is known, at the November session of OAS member-coun- tries. But, according to many Latin American states, the pol- icy of isolating Cuba is a rem- nant of the cold war. Eight OAS member-countries have already unilaterally breached the ring of diplomatic isolation. Venezuela has now joined them, and Co- lombia and Costa Rica are delib- erating the matter.

Neither economic blockade and armed provocations, nor the sub-

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