Paik ge - 12 — the massive Peace Arch rally in For disarmament, peace Toronto’s June 5 parade and rally hearalds the departure June 11 of peace buses headed for New York’s giant demo next day. Others will set out from Montreal. The Canadian Peace Congress petition — Peace Is Everybody’s Business — will be there. Across Canada and indeed across the continent, peace is the password. The growing cry for disarmament in a sane world is being heard at bigger and bigger gatherings. The west sees peace actions on June B.C.; rallies in Alberta centres and in Regina. Seven members of B.C.’s Caravan for Peace, passing through Thunder Bay en route to the U.N., showed slides of their 30,000-strong Vancouver march. All of this and more is needed to convince our own Canadian Govern- ) ment we're serious in demanding a clear and positive disarmament role at \ the United Nations Second Special | te Session on Disarmament. EDITORIAL “...AND FURTHER Moke THESE GUYS ARE FINE FELLOWS SIGNED iy, News item: Solicitor-general Kaplan signs character reference for former campaign workers convicted of armed robbery. ; R. KAPLAN Kaplan police state tactics Solicitor-general Robert Kaplan has not yet ordered the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to destroy their intimidation files of 800,000 Canadian names. The government promised a year ago that they would be destroyed. But the govern- ment promise has not been kept. In the trial of RCMP Inspector Claude Vermette who is accused of stealing a list of 100,000 Parti Québécois members’ names, it More $$ for oil Energy Minister Marc Lalonde’s announcement of tax exemptions, pricing adjustments and an easing of royalties for oil and natural gas companies further accen- _tuates the negative in the National Energy Program. The positive is its aim at increased Cana- dian ownership, with Petro-Canada giving the federal elected representatives an inside look at what the oil industry is doing. But it has always been wrong to cave in to corporation demands that Canadians pay world prices for their own oil. It is wrong that _ consumers are soaked, while oil corporations use leverage to make profits for their share- holders. What is wrong basically is that this vital energy resource is privately owned. Canadianization does not’ aim at changing that. What will give the people of Canada command of their own oil and gas reserves is nationalization of these resources and their — processing. That is what is lacking, and that is what is costing us the extra $2-billion Lalonde is now handing out. Flashbacks 25 years KHRUSCHEV ON TV It is estimated that 10 million U.S. television sets _were tuned into the precedent-setting interview with Soviet premier Khruschev on CBS last week and that hundreds of thousands of Canadians listened care- fully later in the day when CBC-TV repeated the pro- Outstanding in the hour-long interview was Khrus- chev’s insistence that given the desire to disarm and to _ ban H-bomb tests, agreement could be reached be- tween the U.S. and USSR and that the two great pow- ers, by such an agreement, could bring about a reduc- tion in world tensions. He said the USSR would welcome even a small step in that direction. Press reports meanwhile indicate President Eisenhower is still in consultation with NATO over U.S. proposals to be submitted to the UN Disarmament sub-committee now meeting in London. The U.S. president stressed he is having a “new look” at disarmament steps. Tribune, June 10, 1957 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 11, 1982—Page 4 was injected into the trial that, after all, the good deed of stealing the Communist Party membership list was also done. But, since no such list exists, it could not have been stolen. Who, then, is the RCMP leaning on? Trade unionists? Peace activists? People who sup- port liberation movements? Some 800,000 Canadians are not charged, not held, not accused of anything, but their names are fondled by the RCMP brass. Why is Kaplan holding these names? What does he hope to become with their leverage? The McDonald Commission on RCMP wrongdoing exposed last August the illegal activities of the RCMP. The amassment of such a list, Kaplan said then, should not be retained, but for whatever purposes it was retained, and remains to this day as a nazi- style hit list. Kaplan has recently been faced by a dele- gation which challenged him to take action against the Nazis hiding in Canada, but he had no satisfaction for them. What is the solicitor-general’s dedication? He has shown himself, as reported by the daily press, to be a crude sexist. He has had his reputation called into ques- tion because he took the indiscriminate step of writing character references for two rob- bers, because they had been his campaign workers! On May 19, in Hamilton, it was revealed that crucial tapes and transcripts police say would prove Mafia connections in Canada, have been destroyed. It seems it’s easy to de- stroy such evidence as this, but very difficult to get the solicitor-general to give up a choke-hold on innocent Canadians whose names were accumulated by the RCMP. On April 29, Kaplan said that the RCMP 50 years RECORD DEPORTATIONS Record deportations are being speeded up by the Bennett government as is seen in this week’s reports from several centers: Rouyn, Quebec — All those arrested May Day will be deported, some even as soon as this week the Cana- dian Labor Defense League informs us. Halifax, N.S. — The full bench of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia heard arguments presented by CLDL lawyers in the case of eight workers held here under deportation orders. _ Sydney, N.S. — Deportation of 2,000 jobless for- eign-born workers who reside in the province’s coal fields has been recommended at a round table con- ference of municipal leaders in Cape Breton. Hamilton — Board of Control examined a list of 20 persons recommended for deportation. Oshawa — 70 jobless here are to be considered for deportation by Council. ’ The Worker, June 11, 1932 “could not find” even after a “diligent search” the planning documents on police break-ins and bugging operations related to the Moun. ~ ties’ trial in Quebec. No leads were ever — found to the extensive bugging of Com- munist Party headquarters in Toronto, un- covered in 1979, or the arson which reduced ~ the building to rubble in 1980. - The question that arises is quite sharp: Is it the Solicitor-general’s job to fight crime or to assassinate political opposition? : The inability to deal with the Nazis hiding in Canada, but the exuberant intimidation of 800,000 unaccused Canadians is a bench- mark of the Kaplan hold on executive power. That particular power should be shut off at _ once! Profiteer of the week Scotiabank takes the trophy this week. Properly called the Bank of Nova Scotia, it managed in just six months (ended Apr. 30/82) to gather in $130,119,000 in profit after taxes. For the same six months a year earlier it waS $119,859,000. What do they do that gets them that kind of pay? RiBUNE Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN Assistant Editor — DAN KEETON Business and Circulation Manager — PAT O'CONNOR Published weekly at Suite 101 — 1416 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9. Phone 251-1186 Subscription Rate: Canada $14 one year; $8 for six months. All other countries: $15 one year. Second class mail registration number 1560 60 years A SUPER-PATRIOT NEW YORK — Jerome Meyers, flag-waving; radical-hating defender of the constitution and expo- nent of 100% Americanism, former head of the Constitutional League of America, patriot-at-large and anti-Bolshevik in particular, has pleaded guilty to stealing $5,000 belonging to his organization. : His case is one of the saddest of all the he-men who — helped save America from red revolution, thé nationalization of women and compulsory can- nibalism. Throughout the war he exposed his manly chest t0 the Germans, defied the Kaiser and sassed Hinden- berg right out loud. He was chairman of five Liberty loan drives, the Red Cross and Boy Scout campaigns: Butit seems, suffering from shell shock sustained on the New York Front, he went and spent $5,000 on himself of money donated to the Constitution League by John D. Rockefeller. The Worker, June 1, 1922