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U.S. stranglehold tightens

U.S. domination of Canada’s
economy continues to enmesh
this country in the maw of for-
€ign control, producing instabil-
ity, imbalance and an unhappy
climate for growth.

The Dominion Bureau of Stat-
istics reported last week that
between April and June this year
there had been a net capital in-
flow of $212 million {into the
Country. This was down from the
heavy inflow of $329 million in
the first quarter but was $158
Million above the level for the
Same period in 1962.

By far the heaviest contribution
to the capital influx came from
the sale of $390 million in new
issues of stocks and bonds abroad,
almost all of which were bought
in the USS.

At the same time, there were
unusually large retirements of
foreign-held Canadian securities
which produced an outflow of

‘funds amounting to 0177 million.

Thus, inflow of U.S. capital in-
creases the stranglehold it already
exerts on Canada. The outflow,
or pay-back figure, includes in-
terest and ‘this money can then
not be used to develop Canada.

Socreds split over Quebec

Social Credit’s 24 MPs. split
down the middle last week over
Support for national leader Robert

hompson or deputy leader Real
Caouette of Quebec.

Behind the breakup, ostensibly
Over personalities, a big factor
to Many observers seemed to be
the question of French Canada.
hompson has never shown any-
thing but disdain for the national
Tights of Quebec and has been

~ 4 foremost spokesman in trying

2 Present the question in terms
ot simply. another province.
Caouette, on the other hand,

has sought, demogically, to cash
in on the nationalist sentiment
in Quebec aid the national aspira-
tions of the French-Canadian

people.

Neither has offered any real
solution to the question of French
Canada nor to the problems of
Canadians generally. Thompson
has been of the ultra-right in
Western Canada, while Caouette
has said he supported in inde-
pendent Quebec party aligned
with “right-wing parties includ-
ing separatists.”

Recognition of China urged

Recosnition of the People’s
€public of China by Canada has
un called for in a Labor Day
Peech by Dave Archer, president

Of the Ontario Federation of

bor.

ee at a Hamilton, Ont.
oy Archer said the government
in uld’ stop its hypocritical deal-
eee China, selling it wheat
oo a one hand and refusing to
nize it on the other.
he only sensible thing, he said,

The Canadian government
Should use its influence in the
to prevent any continuance
aa recently increased piratical
ma S by any and all govern-

S against Cuba, the Canada-
Foe Friendship Committee has
Affai In Aa letter to External

Ts Minister Martin.

Ech attacks, said the’ com-
Pee “not only interfere with
im et of the Cuban people to
fit ¥ Op their country as they see
: ut the provocative nature of

ae also seriously under-
‘S prospects for world peace.”

Of th

flthough origin of the attacks
a been masked in secrecy,’’
@ had blamed the U.S. govern-

is to reognize China and keep

‘diplomatic channels open.

Labor [ay parades in many
centres were larger than last year
—for example, in Toronto and
Hamilton. A rally in Windsor was
attended by 3,000 and a large
parade in the Niagara area at-
tracted 30,000 people.

In Winnipeg, some 70 trade
union locals participated in that
city’s first Labor Day parade
since the year 191.

Call to quit raids on Cuba

ment, the committee noted. In
this connection, it continued, it
is a known fact that areas of the
southern U.S. have been set aside
for training of invasion armies
against Cuba and that such areas
also exist in certain Latin Ameri-
can countries where U.S. influ-
ence is strong.

The committee urged mainten-
ance of diplomatic relations with
Cuba to help normalize conditions
in the Carabbean area and thus
contribute to world peace.

A similar letter has been sent
to T. C. Douglas, Terry Nugent,
and several other MP’s, appeal-
ing to them to press for adoption
of the committees suggestions in
Parliament.

‘Boycott S. Africa goods’

a Canadian Anti-apartheid
ie Ittee, a group of Toron-
cerned who have become con-
about the undemocratic

racist policies of the Repub-
f South Africa, has called for
aoe of all goods made in
Africa and sold in Canada.

ie o

of South African
a and says Africans them-
) o

€S support such a boycott.

It lists the following as South
African products: — tinned fruit
under the brand names of Crest,
Gold Reef, Silver Leaf, Ashton,
Donald Cook's, Red Robin, Kon
Tiki and Pinnacle; Outspan fresh
oranges and Bertram’s and Paarl
wine.

It was reported that some super-
markets are mixing South Africana
oranges with those from other
countries so that the former
-might pass unnoticed,

a SS Fe ER Se Said

PT press builder fells

about his t

This summer Bob Cleri-
hue of Nanaimo was
chosen as the outstanding
press worker in B.C., and
along with press workers
from other parts of Can,
ada, he visited the Soviet
Union as the guest of
Pravda. Here he tells of his
impressions.

It is very interesting and very
heartening to see the Soviet
people at the stage in their his-
tory when they are about to sur-
pass the most advanced country
of Capitalism.

I have a habit of looking into
the faces of the people as I pass
them on the street. Over there,
I got up at the crack of dawn
and went out along the streets
of Moscow, Leningrad, and
‘Kiev to observe the people in
their early morning activities;
the truck loads of farmers from
the collective farms coming in
to seti up their stalls, the men
and women going to work, wo-
men and some men and the
many children going down to
the corner stalls to purchase
their milk, eggs and butter for
the day, the women and men
sweeping and hosing the streets

spotless. ;
The strength and determination

and confidence. that I saw in the
faces of those people is, I think,
what impresed me most. Every-
one was going somewhere and
had something to do.

They are building the future
and they know it. Their lot has
become better and better, and
they realize and appreciate it.
It is their system, Socialism, ‘iey
have built, and no one will take
it away from them.

In the shops we visited, at the
Hydro-Electrise site at Kiev, on
the Metros, at construction sites
in the huge printing plants at
Kiev and Moscow, and even in
the small job printing shop in
Kiev that I stumbled upon by
acident, and in their huge sta-
diums where athletes work out
early in the morning, you find
the pride in what they have
Ipuilt and are building.

Pictures of the Cosmonauts are
everywhere along with pictures
of Castro and other heroes of
Socialism, Castro buttons are
very popular in Kiev, Leningrad
and Moscow.

CANADIANS POPULAR

The people are also curious
about how things are in Canada.
I found a magic word while I
was there. I would point at my-
self and tell them ‘‘Canadian’’.
“Qh’’, they would say, and they
would do everything to bridge
the language barrier between us.
They were most helpful then and
very friendly. There was nothing

rip to USS

Bob Clerihue (extreme right) shown at the site of a fwee hydro-

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electric project on the Dnieper river, near Kiev, in Soviet Ukraine.

they wouldn’t do for you.

The importance that the Soviet
people and particularly the spon-
sors of our tour,Pravda, give
to our working class papers in
Canada was brought home to us
by the calibre of the interpreters,
guides, drivers, and accommoda-
tion with which we were pro-

_ vided.

One of the leading people in
the North American department
of Pravda took time out from
a busy schedule to meet us at the
airport and act as our interpreter
for our time in Moscow. He got
us choice seats at the Puppet
Theatre and for other entertain-
ment in the evenings, took us on
an exclusive tour of the Kremlin
and Mausoleum, took us for an
extended drive around Moscow
through the huge new apartment
developments and other points of
interest, and spent a whole day
with us at the Permanent Exhi-
bition.

This was at a time when things
were popping in Moscow with:
the negotiations on the Test Ban
Treaty, and the Pravada staff,
was down to a skelton with people

A special edition of the
Autumn 1963 number of
The Marxist Quarterly
will be entirely devoted to
the theme: ‘‘Crisis of Con-

federation.” si
Editors and manage-
ment of the magazine

stress the unusual nature
of the issue expected off
the press early in October,
dealing with the most crit-
ical domestic problem ever
faced by Canadians since
Confederation.

Major features include
“Mr. Pearson’s Bicultural-
ism” by Leslie Morris, na-

-tional leader of the Com-
munist Party, and a_ his-
torical review — ‘1763 to

Confederation crisis

1963” — by Stanley Ryer-

son, dating the present
crisis from British con-
quest.

Special reports from
French Canada both in
the English and French
languages will cover the
role of labor, constitution-
al aspects, the New Demo-
cratic Party convention in
Quebec and_ educational
reform.

A polemic expose of
Eugene Forsey’s views on
the subject: “What Is A
Nation?” will be a major
contribution.

The MQ is available at
The People’s Co-op Book
Store. '

being away on holidays.

The Pravda interpreter then
secured for us a top Soviet geog-
rapher, an expert on Canada and
especially B.C., to act as our
interpreter for our time in Lenin-
grad and Kiev.

PEOPLE IMPRESSIVE

We were treated to orchestra
seats at the ballet, box seats at
the symphony and at various con-
certs. We were put up at the best
hotels, the Sovietskaya in Mos-
cow, the Europa in Leningrad,
and the new Moscow Hotel in
Kiev. And the six course meals
we had: (I gained 14 pounds in
the two weeks we were there.)

But despite all this good treat-
ment, what impresed me most
was the Soviet people. The child-
ren are a new type of being. IN
all the time I spent there, on
the planes, on the boat trip down
the Dnieper (on a hydrofoil
“Rocket” ferry), in the back
streets, in the stores, I didn’t ©
see or hear one child throw a
tantrum.

The children are polite and
respect their elders. And they
are organized. When we visited
the Young Pioneer camp con-
nected with the Hydro site at
Kiev, a young girl who spoke
English was pushed forward to
act as their spokesman. And
when we left, all the youngsters
chorused: ‘‘Goodbyt, Come back
again.”’ in almost perfect English.

When we visited one of the
Museums in Leningrad, there
were groups of Ukrainian child-
ren there on tour. We gave one
of them a Canadian penny as a
souvenir. That unleashed an ava-
lanche of pins and buttons from
them. Our lapels were weighted
down in no time. And they wanted
our children’s names and ad-
dresses so they oculd correspond.

In the main, when we gave
Soviet children Canadian pennies,
they wouldn’t take ‘them at first
because they have been taught
not to bum money for candy or
such, but when we got across to
them that the pennics were not
for ‘‘moncy”’ but were souvenirs
of our country they would go into
consultation with each other or
with their parents and then would
come forward with their own
souvenirs such as Pioneer caps,
Sputnik and peace buttons, and
all maner of mementos of their
country. And they were all orderly
and well mannered younvesters.

All in all our trip was a very
memorable occasion for all three
of us and if we never get over
to that land of Socialism again,
a little corner of our hearts will
remain there.

September 13, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7