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Communists, trade unionists, members of the NDP and other progres- sive Canadians have long maintained that the RCMP is a political police force which enjoys far too much leeway in conducting tts “business.” Now, the PT has learned that Nigel Morgan, provincia’ leader of the Commu- nist Party, has written a letter to Lucien Cardin, Justice Minister, demand: ing action to stop the Mounties’ Gestapo-like intimidation and harassment. The full text of Morgan’s letter follows.

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During the month of December last, while I was on a speaking tour of the southern interior of British Columbia, addressing public meetings in regard to my party’s program for the forth- coming session of Parliament, I noticed ( as did a number of personal friends I visited) that I was being followed by two sus- picious-looking men in a Valiant sedan,

Twice in the last five years, vials of acid have been hurled on my car, The tires, radiator, and fuel tank have been tampered with numerous times, creating 4 potential hazard on the highways,

Therefore I was anxious to ascertain the identity of the two men who were so obviously following me. On several oc-

easions, while I was in towns where I could confront them in the presence of other citizens, I endeavoured to do so and ask them to identify themselves,

NIGEL MORGAN

On each occasion _they at- tempted to hide their faces, and sped away.

I have checked the license ownership with the office of the Superintendent of Motor Ve- hicles, and now have a certifi- cate showing the owner of B,C. License No, 408-701 to be “Gov- ernment of Canada, Royal Can- adian Mounted Police, Cran- brook, British Columbia.”

This car followed me for sev- eral days, travelling several hundred miles of highway and side roads between Creston and Fernie, B.C, and return,

I have snapshots, and some 28 witnesses to this fact; and that a similar vehicle (B.C. License No, 544-151) did likewise in the Kamloops arec,

Since my meetings are publicly advertised, open to anyone who wishes to come, and since com- plaints registered with the police concerning damage to my Car, bullets and other projectiles fired through my home windows, have been met with only very cursory and brief interviews with no fur- ther results, I can only conclude that the above action is only in- timidation and harassment,

If it continues I intend to take further steps to deal with the matter, Iaskthat youaccomplish this by proper directive from your Department to the particu- lar branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police concerned,

4 _ Yours truly, « Nigel Morgan,

With this edition, the Pacific Tribune is cutting back to a regular eight-page paper, This unwanted, most distasteful step has been forced upon us by losses sustained in our circu- lation last year,

We ended 1965 with several ‘hundred less subscribers than we had when we entered it. This resulted in a sharp operating deficit which, if duplicated this year, would endanger the very life of the paper,

Rather than risk continued publication, the press commit- tee and PT management have relu tantly decided to cut down on printing costs and take what- ever steps are necessary to | strengthen our position, —

Our income from the Annual | Press Drive, miscellaneous donations and bequests, and

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from ‘advertising is fairly con- sistent but tends to fall wizhin certain fixed limits.

It should be noted, in pass- ing, that every cent of our Press Drive will have to be realized this year in order that we may begin to whittle down our accumulated deficit and start laying the base for re- suming a larger paper at the first opportunity.

There is one area, however, that presents a practically un- limited margin for increased revenue, This is in the realm of subscriptions and bundle sales,

When we begin to advance in this vital area—and we are confident we shall—then we will once again be in a position to swing over to a larger paper and provide our readers with fuller coverage,

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Anti-imperialist parley is successful, says Fidel

By L. C. and F. W. PARK “It was a success,” declared Fidel Castro, closing the First Afro- Asian-Latin American Solidarity Conference in a two- hour speech at the Chaplin Theatre in Havana,

“It was a success in spite of prophecies by, the imperialists that it would fail, due to the prob- lems of the international com- munist movement,

“But what* the imperialists least expected to happen has happened,” he said, “A Three Continent organization has been set up; the conference decisions represent the hopes of the peoples fighting for liberation; a commit- tee to aid the movements of liberation has been established; the Conference is a success,”

“And what pains them even more,” said Fidel, “is that Cuba has been named as temporary headquarters of the new soli- darity organization until the next Three Continent Conference is

held,”

The 5,000-word General Dec- laration of the Conference em- phasizes the inalienable right 0} every nation to total political independence, and to use any means of struggle necessary to win that right, including armed struggle,

On this point conference speak= ers and documents were very clear. The peoples have the right to oppose imperialist violence with revolutionary violence in order to protect national sover-

-eignty and independence.

And when all constitutional roads to a better life are closed by repression, then equally the people have the right to meet violence with violence,

This was a conference of the third world, of representatives of peoples organizations from 82 countries, the third world of un- derdeveloped and mass poverty; yet a world that politically and geographically includes the So- viet Union and the other social- ist countries of Asia, those turn- ing to socialism in Africa, anc revolutionary Cuba now building socialism,

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- special messages,

It was a conference of people concerned with the need for unity in action on the points that in- terest nations in struggle against imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism.

And in this struggle, as speak- er after speaker emphasized, it is U.S. imperialism that plays the main role and is the common enemy.

The conference showed, and this was a point stressed by Fidel Castro, that independent of their strength or resources or size, nations have a voice and an opinion, have their own indepen- dent criteria, their own points of view.

It was a conference that reached out to the working-class and progressive movements in the capitalist world, both in the General Declaration and in two one to the working class and peoples move- ments of Europe and North America, another to the people of the United States,

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The message to the people of the United States greets the struggle in America against the Vietnam war, denounces the crimes of U.S, racists, and hails the growing convergence of the movements for peace and for civil rights.

The message to the working class and peoples movements of the capitalist world appeals for increased solidarity in the com=- mon struggle against a common enemy. “The new world for which we fight today,” says the mes- sage, “opens great perspectives to all mankind and we all have a place of honor in the fight to achieve it.”

Conference documents include the General Declaration and re- ports from political, economic and cultural commissions, as well as‘a series of special reso- lutions on pressing problems

_starting, of course, with Vietnam.

Organizational problems and their solution kept the conference in session two days past the scheduled closing time.

FIDEL CASTRO February 11, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2

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