NEO-FASCIST PLOT AGAINST ALLENDE

SANTIAGO — Popular Unity government officials have charged
there is a plot afoot to topple Chile’s 30-month-old popular unity
coalition government of President Salvador Allende. The charges
follow raids on hideouts of the neo-fascist Fatherland and Freedom
movement in which large quantities of arms and ammunitions were
seized.

More than 50 people were arrested during the raids in several
cities after the government received repeated intelligence reports,
according to interior ministry under-secretary Daniel Vergara. He
said the arrested members of the right wing extremist movement
were charged with possession of arms, which he described as ‘“‘il-
legal and criminal conduct aimed at toppling the government
through a coup d’etat and then unleashing a civil war.”

’72 EXEC SALARIES EXCEEDED PHASE II GUIDELINES
NEW YORK (LNS) — According to recent Business Week statis-
tics, top executives’ salaries for exceeded Phase II guidelines in
1972.-One of the biggest increases went to James F. Towey of Olin
Corp., whose 1972 pay was $321,718 — an increase of 212.3 percent
over 1971. Similarly, Henry Ford II’s salary for 1972 was $887,672
— a 27.4 percent increase over 1971. The Phase II ceiling was set
at 5.5 percent. ‘
Corporate spokesman justify these increases by saying that as
long as the average for the employee’s classification does not ex-
ceed the Federal guidelines, individual increases can exceed the
ceiling. According to that rationale, some executive must have a
pretty big cut in salary.

MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL PROFITS HUGE
WASHINGTON—Some 131 firms raked in profits on net worth

ranging as high as 1,902.7% even after they refunded large sums.

to the government, Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.) charged in
the Senate. He said that the firms which made the largest profits
were engaged mainly in production of bombs, fuses, ammunition
and miscellaneous ordinance for the war in Vietnam. The National
Union Electric Corp., which was directed by the Defense Depart-
ment’s Renegotiation Board to pay back $8.9 million to the govern-
ment on its defense contracts in 1967, 1968 and 1969, still took in
profits of 74, 72 and 91% on net worth in those years. .

The largest profit was taken in by Eisen Brothers, Inc., a manu-
facturer of ammunition components. It got 1,902.7% profits on its
net worth. Return on net worth gives a truer picture of the rate of
profit than measurement of profits as a percentage of annual sales,
which results in a smaller figure. ‘

Some 94 companies had profit-on-net-worth rates of over 50%;
22, more than 200%; and four, more than 500%. Only four firms on
the list took in less than 25% profits. Proxmire noted that ‘Federal
statistics show that average profits on stockholders’ equity for all
manufacturing firms ranges from 18 to 20% annually.”

CPSU-LAO PATRIOTIC FRONT MEET HELD

MOSCOW—“The Soviet Union, as it was in war, now in the days
of peace will be on the side of the Laotian people in their just
struggle to realize their national interests,” it was stated at a
meeting in Moscow between delegations of the Laos Patriotic Front
and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. _

A Tass news agency report said “On behalf of the Central Com-
mittee of the LPF and the people of Laos, the LPF delegation ex-
pressed deep gratitude to the CPSU Central Committee, the govern-
ment of the USSR, and the Soviet people for their all-round and
effective support to the just struggle of the Laotian patriots for na-
tional independence, against the American imperialists.” In a joint
communique, the LDF and CPSU urged the immediate termination
of U.S. bombings of Cambodia and for allowing the Cambodian
people the right to decide their own affairs.

“I’m sorry—I don’t recognize any of them... !”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1973—PAGE 8

Asian security treaty
to isolate imperialists

MOSCOW — That the Soviet
idea of a collective security
system in Asia is in accord with
the vital needs of the people of
Asia, and of the whole world, is
shown in the growing under-
standing and support of the idea
in Asian political and public
circles.

-In a recent article in Pravda,
Victor Mayevsky, a journalist
specializing in international af-
fairs, reiterates the Soviet view:

It is common knowledge that
the idea of collective security
rests on the renunciation of the
use of force in relations among
states, on respect for the sover-
eignty and inviolability of bord-
ers, non-interference in internal
affairs, an extensive develop-
ment of economic and other co-
operation on the basis of full
equality and mutual benefit.

The creation of a system of
collective security in Asia would
reject the practice of military-
political blocs, exclude the hege-
mony of some or other states
and call for efforts . . . in the
interests of the common cause.

Pro-Imperialist

But as support for this idea is
growing, those who, for the sake
of their mercenary aims are in-
terested in causing divisions
among the Asian countries’ and
deepening the contradictions and
enmity among them, are getting
more and more uneasy. All kinds
of pro-imperialist elements, and
the press linked up with colonial

and monopoly circles, are step-..

ping up their activities.
It is impossible to come out

openly against the idea of en-
suring security in Asia, there-
fore some people hasten to pro-
duce false, slanderous ‘argu-
ments” to cast aspersions on the
Soviet Union’s peace policy.

The Hsinhua Agency of China
has also assumed an unseemly
role. Having grubbed up a lot of
quotafions from certain papers
which have long since been
known for their anti-Soviet, anti-
communist articles, the Peking
agency tries to soil the idea of
collective security in Asia and
to present it as the USSR’s at-
tempt to “encircle” and “isolate”
China.

The groundlessness and irres-
ponsibility of this sort of alleg-
ation are well known. Nobody
can deny the right of the PRC
to be a full-fledged participant
of a collective security system
in Asia. What does “encircle-
ment” of China have to do with
it? Besides, the Hsinhua Agency,
if memory did not fail its chiefs,
could recall that at one time the
PRC government itself had been
repeatedly making proposals on
concluding a peace pact among
the countries of Asia and the
Pacific and came out together
with the Soviet Union, in favor
of the need of replacing closed
military groupings with a “sys-
tem of collective peace and col-
lective security.”

Supporting and encouraging
today the anti-Soviet conconc-
tions, the Chinese agency plays
into the hands of the opponents
of peace and security in Asia.
Such a stand speaks for itself.

CBC presents Neruda

On Thursday, June 7, the CBC-
FM network will present on its
Encore series, The Lives of the
Poet Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet
and winner of the 1971 Nobel
Prize for Literature.

This will be part two of the
program; part one, beginning at
8 p.m. will consist of the Van-

couver String Orchestra in

works by Vaughan Williams and
Igor Stravinsky.

The Neruda works are trans-
lated by Prof. Keith Ellis of the
Hispanic Studies Dept., Univer-
sity of Toronto, and Lina Ladron
de Guevara who also compiled
his works for the program.

The program. is based on
Poems of Love and One Ode’ of
Desperation, (which Neruda
published at 19), and The
Heights of Machu Picchu, which

THEATRE

REVIEW

If it was the intention of An-
drew Angus Dalrymple to hold
up a mirror to the conflict in
Northern Ireland, then his play,
Quiet Day in Belfast, gives us
the kind of odd reflections that
both amuse and disturb us in
trick looking-glasses. What we
see may be superficially factual
but essentially unreal.

The script is well-construc-
ted and alive with people com-
ing and going, arguing, joking

‘and clashing. There is an abund-

ance of boisterous action, of
comedy and drama.

The story is about a betting
shop owned by a Jewish refugee
from fascism. We meet various
characters, including an ancient
hag, a couple of BBC TV men,
a visitor from America, a police
sergeant, a terrorist, even a rac-
ing dog. There is a parade, a

tells of his journey to the mys-
terious ancient Incan city, high
up in the Peruvian Andes.

Neruda’s works have been
widely translated, and his poetry
has universal value,” reads the
CBC’s program notes, “but he
remains fundamentally a Chilean
poet, who was exiled for his
political activities, and then re-
turned to be acknowledged by
his countrymen and the world.”

Taking part are: Jeff Cohen,
Michael Polley and Sydney
Brown as Neruda One, Two and
Three respectively; Nonnie Grif-
fin as Woman One; Vivien Reis,
Woman Two; Jon Granik and
Gillie Fenwick as Man One and
Two; and Renata Palestina as
the girl. Authentic Chilean mu-
sic is heard throughout. Direct-
ed by Jean Bartels.

WFTU protes

French atom#es'||

‘The World Federation of
Trade Unions has_ issu
‘protest against the decisi0t) |
of the French government | |
carry on with its nucle
tests in the Pacific. The deck
sion of the French govel™
ment violates the Nucleat
Test Ban Treaty signed !
more than 100 countries:
_ The peoples and gové ik
ments of the countries ™?
affected by these tests, i
pecially Australia, New Ze
and and Chile, have em iar
tically demanded the olf
mediate cancellation of th ool
tests. In Australia the wae

have refused to handle F
from French ships. ces
The trade unions and oth
organizations in France, -
cluding the CGT, have the
pressed the opposition, of sts
French workers to the
They have denounced
policy of building up # hel}
clear striking force by tne| |
French government. ‘enti

colossal wastage of S¢
and technological |

The WFTU has als? "|
pealed to workers and de
unions of all countries ® 4)
mand the immediate a lest

solidarity with the wo
and trade unions in the ©
tries of the Pacific Zon®

Unions campaigt
for Vietnam a

CANBERRA — A numbet i |
trade union organizations,
Australia have taken. onsill
initiatives. recently to int i
the campaign of solidarity just
the Vietnamese people. ist i
has been launched to 85°" gy
the rehabilitation of th fogt
devastated land. Plans are {0
for the chartering of 4 ne
transport material requir
eis

in
The unions, numbering 4
clude organizations © | i
workers, railway workets ‘| and
ing workers, miners, posta and
telegraph workers, seni as!
waterside workers as W°"
actors ‘and announcers: igs
Meanwhile, these 14 fo; 1
have addressed a joint let" ig
trade union organizalO™™ ipl
other countries proposiné | yes
action especially on the i”
tion of campaigning for) pf
mediate release of polit?
soners held by Saigon.

Blarney in the betting shop

bombing, two deaths, wild
struggles.

Because this play has little
real substance or depth it leans
very heavily on stock Irish situ-
ations and stock Irish charac-
ters. We suspect that the au-
thor is offering ‘‘a curse on both
your houses” and equating the
two sides for violence and bru-
tality. :

With few exceptions the
characters are venal types, giv-
ing each other the blarney.
Money is their thing; the civil
strife. merely interrupts the
avarice. After the tragic killings
it is business as usual again.
One leaves the theatre in a haze
of cynicism.

Tarragon Theatre of Toronto
has assembled an _ impressive
company ffor the _ production.
Kenneth Wickes (lavatory at-

{0
tendant) overstates his. ily cot
say the least, but espe! ° m
vincing and sympathe0® cogs
traits are developed DY age!
McCann as the shop ™ ygigh
Mel Tuck as _ jis helper, and
Erian Mina as the ow? rede!
Richard Donat as the op pas
Tiina Lipp’s gambling ae cont”
the authentic air of grub y
mercialism. Kel
The show, staged Dye as
Turnbull must, after all, Pa BY

s roles

; her.
sessed in the light oe Wr
happening in Ireland tO’ 4 0

stead we are offered # oc!
ersatz -O'Casey. Bub aagE
never saw the struggle thal
a religious thing — jook
against. Protestant. rs oc!
deeper and revealed th® hi

and economic pressure a
the country’s onde in gto"

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