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Editor—TOM McEWEN

A system of compulsory so-
cial insurance covers all the
people who work—cooperative
farmers, members of producer
cooperatives, and most of the
people in private professions
and trades. All the expenses of
social insurance are paid by
the state, the industrial enter-
prises and the cooperative
farms.

One of the most typical fea-
tures of social insurance in this
country is the high rate of the
sums paid out. Thus, for in-
stance, old age. pensions are
from 55 percent to 80 percent
of the salary received when
working, compensation for
temporary disability (illness,
care of sick members of the
family, and quarantine) from
60 percent to’ 90 percent, com-
pensation for accident — 90
percent and for expectant mo-
thers and childbirth—100 per-
percent.

Pensions and compensation
are. not subject to deductions
and taxes, medical service is
free and the fees for vacations

at trade-union and department |

holiday homes cost very little

(nearly 600,000 people spent:

their holidays in them last
year, as compared with 7,000
in 1944). The working people
themselves exercise control
over social insurance through
the trade unions of which they
are members.

Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH

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He was a Communist

Ho Chi Minh dedicated his life to the
cause of liberating his people. In the
process, he was a consistent interna-
tionalist, recognizing the fundamental
truth that the emancipation of the Viet-
namese was inextricably a part of the
struggle for socialism and indepen-
dence everywhere in the world.

Many of his enemies are expressing
their admiration and respect for him.
Many western liberals are lauding his
contribution to the advancement of
mankind.

But many spokesmen for the capital-
ist west are using the occasion of Ho
Chi Minh’s death to extend their vicious
campaign of lies and deceit designed
to try to justify U.S. imperialist aggres-
sion against Vietnam. These twisters of
the truth distort the facts to try to
justify their massive, inhuman bomb-
ings, tortures and use of poisonous sub-
stances in the drive for profits. They
try to ‘hide from the American people
Washington’s responsibility for the sav-
age and inhuman acts perpetrated
against the Vietnamese.

Ho Chi Minh is a hero to the count-
less millions in the world-wide move-
ment struggling for peace, progress

and socialism. One of those rare indivi- |

duals, called upon by history, he repre-
sented the new Marxist morality, deep-
ly human and life giving.

In the face of the awful agony visited
on him and his people by the capitalist
west, he combined in himself, ersonal
heroism, with an understanding of
what had to be done.

Ho Chi Minh was one of the fore-
runners of the new-man who will
“change the earth, change mankind,
and lift us forever out of that iron grip
of those ancient and modern gods, who
continuously want to destroy us.”

Comrade Ho Chi Minh, we salute

you.

No invasion of privacy —

—The Minister of Justice, John Turner,
has declared that the government will
enact legislation to prohibit wire tap-
ping, except when ‘national security”
or “criminal” activity is affected.

This is presented as a further “liber-
alizing” of the law under the Trudeau
administration.

The reasons for the government’s
decision is that business has been spy-

ing on businessmen, left and right.

Therefore business needs protection
from itself, and the big business gov-
ernment in Ottawa acts to protect the

over-all interests of the business com-.

munity. Secondly, and not to be over-
looked, is the fact that there has been
widespread pressure from many sour-
ces for an end to wiretapping.

Everyone in Canada who is active in
a trade or farm union, in a peace orga-
nization, or in» a progressive people’s
organization, is only too well aware
that the telephones are bugged, and
that there is often police surveillance.
One presumes that this is the area that
will be excepted by justice minister

. - PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER

Turner, in the so-called interests of
“national security.” This is the /stuff
that makes up the police state.

The activities of the people’s organi-
zations for economic advance, democ-
racy, peace, independence and social-
ism, are in the national interest. The
activities of the Trudeau administra-
tion are a betrayal of the fundamental
interests and needs of Canadians.

We believe there should be wide-
spread protests demanding an end to
this invasion of privacy, by outlawing
all widetapping and disallowing the ad-
missability of wiretap evidence in Can-
ada’s courts of law.

Without fear

On the woman’s page of a prominent
Canadian newspaper recently there ap-
peared an article entitled “Criminals
give women safety hints.” It reads like
an instruction in guerrilla warfare. The
advice given is that they must have
available, if attacked, a rolled up news-
paper or magazine, nail file, comb, heel
of a shoe, a set of keys.

The venerable judge, who gives the
advice, is against women carrying a
gun or knife. In addition, women are to
avoid going out in the late evening,
whenever it is dark. They shouldn’t go
where they want to, but should stick to
well-lighted streets, noting where busi-

nesses are open, just in case. And so on -

it goes.
This is not in the jungles of Vietnam,

“where a savage war is being waged
against the Vietnamese, but is on the

streets of the cities of both the United
States and Canada.

What a sad and sorry commentary
on our capitalist society. Every woman,
man or child of any color, should
without entertaining the slightest

doubt about it, be able to walk the
‘streets of their native land without fear.

When people walk the streets in fear
lest they be attacked, they lose human
dignity.

In its dying days capitalism, rather
than being able to protect its citizens,
gives them instruction in self defense
against the brutality and degeneration
that capitalism, itself, creates.

Whitehall’s man

Kuznetsov’s readiness to join capital-

ism’s anti-Communist machine pro- .

vides the answer as to why he defected.
As a Soviet citizen it was possible for
him to have made a contribution to
improve life there.

The new man, nurtured from within
socialist society, is unselsh and devoted
to the interests of his fellow-man. Mr.
Kuznetsov is an exception. It is difficult
to imagine a more terrible abnormality.

Perhaps the most graphic example
of the kind of man he must be is that
his first act.on leaving his motherland
was to turn to that old profession which
makes sex a commodity. His actions
have reduced him to the same category,
although his earnings will be somewhat
higher.

12,.1969—PAGE 3 .

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