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VOL. 22, NO. 3

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, | 1962

than six months.

Near half million jobless

Ottawa announced this week that unemployment in mid-December
stood at 413,000, an increase of 64,000 from mid-November.

These figures, which represent 6.4 per cent of the labor force, are
issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and are generally considered
to be below the real figure.

According to the DBS, 74 per cent had been out of work for three
months, 12 per cent for four to six months and 14 per cent for more

The DBS says 46,000 are unemployed on the Pacific Coast, or 7.9
per cent of the labor force, which makes B.C. one of the hardest hit areas.

‘CLASSIFIED’ U.S. "BE

INR CONTRIBUTION TO NIF 80/90-61

LATIN AMERICAN REACTIONS TO DEVELOPMENTS IN AND WITH RESPECT TO CUBA

AMERICAN EMBASSy 7

8 JUN 4964
CARACAS

Above is a photostat of the front sheet of a U.S. secret
file on Latin America and Cuba which is exposed in the

accompanying article on this page. These files and

recent U.S. moves indicate increased activity to line
up hesitant South American governments to adopt a
more aggressive policy towards Cuba at the Meeting
of the Organization of American States which opens
next Tuesday at Punta del Este.

LEGISLATURE OPENS JAN. 25

Power, taxes, jobless
key issues at Victoria

“Three key issues—power,
faxes and unemployment —

_ 8ppear to be the ones around

which the fireworks can de-
velop. at the forthcoming
Session of the B.C. Legisla-
ture”, Nigel - Morgan,. B.C.

der -of the Communist
Party told the Pacific Tribune
this week,

“An unemployed ‘March
on Victoria’, which trade
Unionists: hope will be double

St year’s size, is already be-
ginning to take shape. And
homeowners and f armers
throughout the province are

ee enraged by the additional tax

Joad they expect as a result

of the Sharp rise in land|~

assessments. 4d

“No reasonable person can
dispute the need for modern-
izing and unifying B.C.’s as-
Sessment methods and stand-
ards” Morgan stated. ‘The
Communist Party stands four-

_ Sduare for the principle of|

‘equalization’, but in © com-
pany with the vast majority
of B.C. ratepayers we’re not
prepared to accept a further
shift in an already scandal-
ously unfair tax load onto the
small homeowner.

“With most municipalities
preparing to use Mr. Ben-
nett’s ‘equalization’ as the
pretence for milking the
municipal ratepayer further
—and with public feeling ris-
ing just about as fast as taxes
—it can be expected that the
whole question of the crisis
of provincial-municipal fiscal
relations will get a thorough
airing at this session,” ‘Mor-
gan said. :

“BCs greatest need in
the municipal tax field is
legislation to shift the load to
those best able to pay. Even
existing rates are confisca-
tory as far as the pensioner
and those in the lower. in-
come brackets are concerned.
See KEY ISSUES, pg. 3

SECRET PAPERS EXPOSE
US. PLOT AGA

NST CUBA

Two secret documents of the United States government
‘brought to light by the Latin American Information Agency,

They bolster beliefs that
the U.S.A. will attempt to use
the meeting of the Organiz-
ation of American States in
Punta del Este, Uruguay, on
Jan, 22 to push its policies
of aggression against Cuba.

In large measure they con-
-firm charges by Cuban Prem-
ier Fidel Castro that US.
President Kennedy’s recent
visit to Venezuela and Co-
lombia was to line: up these
countries behind such USS.
policies.

The two documents show
the real aim. of Kennedy’s
much touted Alliance for Pro-
gress scheme — not in the
interests of aiding the econ-

&| omies of the Latin American

countries but to ‘‘provide a
sufficient counterpoise to in-
creasing pressure from the
extreme left.”

Updated by Guatemala’s
admission that it connived
with the U.S. to train. Cuban

counter - revolutionaries, the
documents background the
U.S. government’s growing

concern over the success of
the Cuban revolution and its
determination to try to line
up Latin America behind an-
other possible invasion at-
tempt.
LABELLED ‘SECRET’

Both dated last June, one
of the documents is a plan
for a “technical assistance
program for Venezuela,” writ-
ten by irviug Tragen and Ro-
bert Cox and submitted by
John M. Caten, Jr., to U.S.
ambassador Moscoso in Ven-
ezuela.

' The other is entitled “La-
tin American Reacations to

| Prensa Latina, reveal the U.S. administration as doggedly intent
on undermining and overthrowing the Cuban revolution.

Developments. in and with
Respect to Cuba.” It is stamp-
ed ‘American Embas-
sy, 8 June, 1961, Ca-
racas,”’ and is labelled
“Secret” with the
heading “Classified or
Controlled File.”

This latter
ment states that in-
itially “it was widely
assumed in Latin Am-
erica that the invas-
ion (of Cuba) was
US. - backed and
therefore would suc-
ceed,” but the “fail-
ure of the ifivasion. discour-
aged the anti-Castro sectors
who felt the United States
must do something substan-
tial to regain prestige.”

U.S. DILEMMA

Faced with this dilemma,
the document proceeds. Nic-
aragua, it says, proposed for-
mation of an alliance “‘to deal
forcibly with Cuba.” Bui this
idea was dropped when Ven-
ezuela refused to endorse it.

In. a number of places, the
document notes the strong
opposition by. Mexico and
Brazil to any policy of inter-
vention against Cuba, a posi-
tion shared by Chile, Ecuador
and Bolivia. Colombia and
Panama wanted some kind of
collective OAS action. Else-
where the document bemoans
the fact that Brazil’s attitude
is ‘crucial to hemispheric co-
operation.”

With Brazil opposing inter-
vention, “it is probable,”
wails the document, “that a
number of other nations, in-
cluding Argentina and Chile

days to

erican states.

at the conference.

US to urge Cuba ultimatum;
Brazil to oppose sanctions

It was reported from Washington this week that the
U.S. intends to propose to the coming OAS conference at
Punta del Este that Cuba be given an ultimatum of sixty
“reaffirm” its connections with ze — and
break away. from its present policies. ;

If Cuba fails to comply with this siete the U.S.
proposes a massive aerering of relations by other Am-

Meanwhile, also this week Brazil announced that it
will oppose diplomatic or political sanctions against Cuba

In earlier dispatches, Brazil indicated it plans to sug-
gest that the U.S. accept Cuba as a neighbor in the same
way the USSR accepts capitalist Finland on its borders.
In-short, a policy of peaceful co-existence.

docu-!

would be unwilling to risk
adverse domestic repercus-
sions to accommodate the
United States.” S

The document tries to find
comfort by citing a number
of anti-Castro demonstrations
in Latin America, but is com-
pelled to admit that a major-
ity of OAS members “is not
preparted to intervene activ-
ely even to the extent of
joining in a quarantine of
Cuba.

REAL ‘DANGER’

The document further illu-
minates the real “danger” of
the Cuban revolution:

“Aside from its direct ef-
fect upon U.S. prestige in the
area — which has undoubt-
edly been lowered as a result
of the invasion failure — the
survival of the Castro regime
may have a profound effect
on Latin American political
life within the next few
years.

“It sets the stage for a pol-
itical struggle . . . with the
issue drawn between ‘popu-
lar’ anti-U.S. forces and the
ruling groups allied with the
United States.”

Clearly, as far as the US.
government is concerned,
Castro must go, and quickly.

While the document judic-
iously, in view of its subse-
quent exposure, falls short of
actually calling for another
invasion attempt on Cuba, its
content makes clear what
line the U.S. will be pressing
when the council of foreign
ministers of the OAS meets
this month.

U.S. CYNICISM

To make its sinister over-
tones more palatable, the doc.
ument hopes the “Alliance for
Progress may well provide
the stimulus for more inten-
sive reform programs.”

But the second document
on a technical assistance pro-
gram for. Venezuela shows
the callous cynicism of this
position. This production

-seeks to propose agrarian re-

forms for that country as well
as public works projects for
the urban population, provid-
ing, however, only a partial
work week.

But nowhere does it speak
of a program of developing
Venezuela’s oil industry —in

See PLOT, pg. 6