troops Bring all the home! The Communist Party of Can- ada has issued the following statement outlining its position on the recent cut in Canada’s NATO forces, and other defense questions. — The statement reads as fol- lows: The announced intention of the government to cut Canada’s NATO forces by 5,000 men by 1972 and to withdraw from a nuclear role in Europe is a wel- come but inadequate step. It marks a victory for that grow- ing force of Canadian public opinion which has long pressed for Canada’s complete and un- conditional withdrawal from the aggressive North Atlantic mili- tary bloc. However the partial with- drawal from NATO is so con- trived, in characteristic Trudeau fashion, to give the appearance of change while changing noth- ing of substance. For Canada still remains a NATO power. There is to be no cut in the overall military budget. Rather there is to be a shift in emphasis towards continentalism in mili- tary commitment and arma- ments, using the cut in NATO forces as a blind to help cover the shift. The. government intends to strengthen Canada’s participa- tion in NORAD. On April 3 the Prime Minister said that Cana- dian armed forces would per- form military tasks “within Canada which are essential to North American defense per- formed by Canadian forces.” This can only be understood as meaning that the government is moving towards fuller integra- tion with the aggressive U.S. military-industrial complex. Today Canada’s Bomarc mis- siles are armed with U.S. nu- clear warheads. Tomorrow Can- adian war planes could be flying in Canada’s skies armed with U.S. nuclear warheads. And our tanks may be so armed as well. And in exchange for -increased military commitments to contin- ental defense, U.S. controlled corporations operating in Can- orders for planes, tanks, arms and other military material. Crucial to imperialist expan- sionist aims is oil. And Canadian oil has long been a vital ingre- dient in the imperialist plans of the North American continental- ists, headquarters U.S.A. The Canadian government’s commit- ment to North American contin- entalism is the only possible ex- planation for its support of and assistance to the voyage of the Manhattan. The signs are out that the Canadian government is considering sharing Canada’s sovereignty over its Arctic lands and water with the U.S. govern- ment in the name of continental defense. Canada’s continued existence as a sovereign state is in serious jeopardy as long as we continue to remain in the imperialist mili- tary alliance known as - the North American Defense Sys- tem. Both NATO and NORAD, far from being deterrents, are in- citements to war and the costly arms race. Together they are costing Canadians about a bil- lion and a half dollars a year. Money that is desperately need- ed to relieve the misery of the poor and advance the social conditions of all working Cana- dians. The Communist Party, members of the New Democratic Party, the peace movement, trade unions and farm, student and women’s organizations are all demanding, and have long demanded, that Canada with- draw from both NATO and NORAD. It is high time that the government heeded this united demand of the people’s organi- zations. The Communist Party urges all democratic Canadians, in the vital interests of world peace and Canadian sovereignty to step up their efforts, both as_in- dividuals and through their or- ganizations, to bring all Cana- dian troops home from Europe, for complete and unconditional withdrawal of Canada from NATO and NORAD, for a gov- ernment declaration that Canada is a nuclear-free zone including all our Arctic territory and waters, and for a 50 percent cut in our defense budget. Rightist students organize There is a new “underground” on the U.S. campuses this fall. It is in the process of setting up ‘“Pro-Christian, Anti-Com- munist Youth Action groups.” This is the boast of Glendale’s W. Steuart McBirnie, veteran ultra rightist propagandist whose “Voice of Americanism” is sponsoring the campus project. Its acronym is-SAVE and that, McBirnie tells his supporters, stands for “Students Against Violence in Education.” In what has all of the ear- marks of a typical right wing pitch for funds, with its attend- ant scare technique, the right wing broadcaster boasts that “these brave and dedicated young men are currently going from campus to campus... enlisting other young people.” And what are these “outside agitators” doing on the cam- puses? In the name of opposing “violence in education” they are “rallying and training these young people to actively con- front the left wing militant riot- ers and demonstrators.” One of the campus organizers is identified as ‘formerly a Black Panther” who now “goes into areas where others dare not go.’ If McBirnie can be believed government agencies are involv- ed in this rightist project all the way to their eyeballs. “There is much I cannot tell you lest the work of our young people be endangered by publi- city,” said McBirnie in his typi- cal scare ’em to death style. “I can tell you that these young men are working very closely with law enforcement and anti- subversive agencies of our Gov- ernment!” “Recently in my office at the Training Center,” he said, “we had a most important planning conference with many of these Government people and our SAVE leader. The meeting was in secret, of course. As a result we are going into the campus situation with all force and “of- ficial blessing.” _ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 3, 1969—Page 10 mee G207. °° C2647") epere Nels .o ISEOU OO ~ PACH JTIAS Role of By DR. ROLF BERGER Deputy Chairman of the Na- tional Executive of the Confed- eration of Free German Trade Unions. On October 7, the people of the German Democratic Repub- lic will mark the 20th anniver- sary of the G.D.R; the first socialist German state. The working class, linked in friend- ship with the rest of the working people, has shown over the last 20 years that it is capable of both gaining state power and exercising it successfully and for the benefit of all people who want peace. The G.D.R. has be- come an important factor in ensuring peace in Europe. The Confederation of Free German Trade Unions (FDGB), have had a major share in that rise. The FDGB is the organiza- tion of the GDR’s ruling work- ing class, which is successfully building socialism in close alli- ance with the cooperative farm- ers, the intelligentsia and other working people of the state. Its most important purpose is to represent the material, social and cultural interests of workers, office workers and intelligentsia. The G.D.R. trade unions there- fore, in a new way, consider it their foremost duty to strength- en the workers’ and farmers’ state and help millions of work- ers and intelligentsia to improve their skills in helping run their socialist state, plan how they will live in the near and distant future, and make their lives hap- pier and fuller. That the trade unions enjoy respect is convincingly shown by the G.D.R.’s socialist consti- tution and the way it is put into practice. This constitution is the first in German history to lay down the positions of the trade unions in society and the rights they have. Its Articles 44 and 45 grant the trade unions a major say in all matters of government, economy, living and working conditions, the socialist legal system and cultural affairs. The constitution is still ano- ther proof that trade unions and socialist governments have one and the same aim. The FDGB, like our government, sees. it as its supreme target to safeguard fundamental democratic rights, make the socialist system more and more perfect and see to it that the material and spiritual requirements of the people are increasingly satisfied. The trade unions were. able to meet the all-important tradi- By WILLIAM ALLAN Henry Ford II had his press confab in the “glass house”, far away from the smoke, grime, and heat of the giant Rouge plant, when he fired “Bunkie” Knudsen as president of the company. Reporters were re- galed with cute little sand- wiches, coffee, small dainty cakes and not a drop of the stuff that cheers. Henry the II, made his en- trance, flanked by lieutenants, chief of whom is Lee A. Iacocoa, head of the young Turks that came from General Motors a de- cade ago to Ford. Iacocca could not conceal his mirth when a newsmen asked him how he-felt about becoming No. 2 man in Berlin, G.D.R.’s new Berlin Alexander Square shows the " - partment store in the foreground and the’ hotel ‘Stadt Berlin tional demands of the German Labor and Trade Union Move- ment mainly because of co-de- termination.and democratic plan- ning; and because control by society and the concept of public ownership serve to ensure the leading position of the working class in society. The development of the G.D.R. proves that a people can only have social security, maintain peace and enjoy genuine democ- racy if it is in full control of state power. Thus it was possi- ble to implement the principle “What the people create should be the people’s property,” set up a remarkable system of edu- cation, ensure social security as a basis of society and lay down in the constitution and put into practice far-reaching trade union rights. ; The development of the G.D.R.° proves that the. socialization of the means of production is the all-important economic prerequi- site for social security and a major say of the trade unions in all public affairs. It is mainly in the everyday activities of our factories and enterprises that the interests of the individual, the collective and the society are brought into line. This and socialist ownership makes the working people di- the company now that Knudsen had been fired. Asked if he felt sad, amidst reporters laughter, Iacocca, always the mouthy one replied, “I’ve never said ‘no comment’ to the press, but I'll say ‘no comment’ to that ques- tion.” Before Knudsen was hired Iacocca was considered the Crown Prince to King Henry | ee When Knudsen, the speedup man from General Motors came to Ford, being ‘‘convinced.on the way with 16,497 shares of Ford stock and $200,000 a year for each year of a 5 year contract, including bonuses, Iacocca it was reported was ready to quit, feeling he had been double- crossed, G.D.R. unions -class they represent. future cars. ew ot efi rectly interested in achiev the greatest possible eft af of the enterprise they WO 4 for the more rationally 9 i fectively the affairs of aM © isis prise are run the more ij enterprise will help satisfy * iy and personal needs. That a oft the trade unions consider "1g of the major duties to in” socialist national property: iy this way they consolidal? ig basis underlying their rights. ' (f Finally, the developme? the G.D.R. proves that $008 i offers the trade unions 5° in the future. Taking part " af the anti-fascist, democratl’ the socialist revolutions: have changed the nature In drawing on all t ages and driving forces ° 9 new social system to attel ict its material and technol0 deo basis still more in the thi. je) ade of the socialist state ° German nation, the trade will contribute toward ¢ tory of socialism in the § wa against imperialism and sell i a socialist way of life. >) apr ourselves new, still moré cha” tious targets’ in sciences * is | logy, economy and socia “ditt | and culture we go on De socialism. { tl But, the real reas0” cod “bunkie” Knudsen came 3 si from GM, was he was F ond, one of the biggest “effic experts in the business ‘ Ford needs that, to cut ra well as to know GM P# wm Ph =. ec? In 18 months they sav he “bunkie” dry and he a boot. But before you staf F ing for him, just remem ne has $600,000 in unempleY., 1) compensation checks com him in the next three z Also he has 16,497 Ford a besides the 42,507 shatov" General Motors stock. Tg 0 around $52 a share. He starving on his way to th this week.