‘Alcan line sellout of Canada’-Kashtan “The Alcan pipeline will not Solve Canada’s energy problems. There is simply no valid reason to build the Alaska Pipeline now, when its main Purpose is to establish a _ Corridor to the U.S. — a kind of Panama Canal — which will in large measure become USS. territory and not serve either Canada’s interests of needs. “For the federal government to proceed with the building of the pipeline now is to be party to the sellout of Canada’s real interests and those of the native peoples,”’ said William _ Kashtan, Canadian Communist | Party leader, at a rally in Vancouver’s Con-Lab Hall Wednesday night, as he kicked Vol. 39, No. 34 Friday, September 2, 1977 ie # off a campaign by his party on the theme, ‘‘No Pipeline Now.”’ Kashtan told the rally that the most important feature of the pipeline is that it will tie the resources of the north to the U.S. industrial, military and imperialist aims of the U.S. at the expense of the independent development of Canada and the north. “The Communist Party is not against the development of the north, but it should be un- dertaken in Canada’s interests and. the interests of the native peoples, not in the interests of U.S. imperialism and the nultinational corporations.’’ Kashtan said that a northern pipeline should be undertaken under conditions that fit in with an overall plan for all-sided economic development of Canada. ‘‘The proposed pipeline undercuts that possibility and dangerously jeopardizes the future of what has been called Canada’s last frontier. The danger in the Alcan pipeline is that it may lead to the north becoming Canada’s lost fron- tier.” “Canada may needa pipeline, or a number of pipelines, in the north as part of an overall plan of northern development,”’ said Kashtan, ‘‘but these should be undertaken when they are in the interests of the Canadian people, not in the interests of U.S. imperialism.”’ Pointing out that prime See RALLY, pg. 8 BILL KASHTAN —Sean Griffin photo The oil spill in the Fraser River this week — seen as only “a thimbleful’’ compared to a major tanker spill = Underscored the message carried in the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union Women’s Auxiliary in their float. The float, with a artist Fraser Wilson’s scene of an oil tanker spill, appeared in the PNE parade farlier this month. Canada-U.S. supertanker treaty —Richard Morgan photo Suspension of talks urged The United Fishermen and €d Workers Union has called on ' € federal government to suspend °p level negotiations with the U.S. 80vernment on a treaty regarding Supertanker traffic in the Straits of Yan de Fuca until after the West ast Oil Ports Inquiry recom- Mends whether there should be any tanker traffic at all. ‘To continue the Canada — US. Juan de Fuca_ supertanker negotiations is to effectively scuttle the fledgling West Coast Oil Ports Inguiry even before it commences its hearings on Sep- tember 26,’ the UFAWU said in a statement this week. ‘Need full employment policies’ says B.C. Fed “As long as the economy is directed toward the creation of corporate Profit instead of serving the social and individual needs of Canadian Workers, our country will wander along from economic crisis to €conomic crisis.” That was the Labor Day message for working people in British lumbia voiced by B.C. Federation of Labor president George Johnston who laid the blame for the current unemployment crisis at € door of the Liberal government. : “What Canada needs now more than ever,’ Johnston declared, is a 80vernment committed to a program of full employment. Wage Controls should be abandoned immmediately. Pensions should be Substantially increased and the income tax system should be °verhauled to put more purchasing power in the hands of the lower 8nd middle income groups. These measures would stimulate the €conomy and help create desperately needed jobs.”’ Inreply toa question put by NDP MP Tommy Douglas, external affairs minister Don Jamieson told parliament July 22 _ that “Negotiations with the U.S. have moved along quite well and a vast number of issues leading to an agreement have been settled.” “The fact that these negotiations are still in progress demonstrates either chaos within the federal cabinet, or worse, an intentional usurpation of authority vested in the West Coast Oil Ports Inquiry,” the UFAWU charged. The union has advised Oil Ports commissioner Andrew Thompson of the ‘‘intrusion into his authority’ and has written the federal cabinet and all B.C. MP’s to intervene and suspend the negotiations. “The UFAWU believes the Inquiry must become a thorough, unhurried scientific investigation to determine the Canadian in- terest,” the union said in a statement, “Only after such an inquiry is completed should Canada enter into negotiations with the very well informed and aggressive U.S. negotiators.” Thereis real evidence to suggest that agents of the Chilean junta’s hated secret police (DINA) are operating in Canada and have been responsible for threats against “Chilean exiles, the Toronto Chilean Association charged last week. ~ Gabriel Parata, executive director of Popular Unity in Canada and an executive member of the Toronto Chilean Association told a press conference in Toronto that Chilean exiles have been the targets of threatening letters and anonymous telephone calls while in Edmonton and Calgary cars owned by leaders of the ~Chilean association have been attacked. Parata charged that the harassment was part of a con- certed effort against Chilean exiles and pointed out that Victor Barahona, an official in the Chilean Air Force had been seen in Calgary. He said that Barahona is working for the Direcion de In- teligencia Nacional (DINA), Pinochet’s secret police force which has operations throughout the Western Hemisphere. “We think Barahona had an official mission in Canada _ to organize a network of agents in this country,’’ Parata told the press conference. Already, at least three Chileans in Calgary have been threatened by Barahona, and warned that if. they took part in activities op- position to the junta their families in Chile would suffer, Parata said. Elsewhere in the country, Chilean associations reported similar harassment, particularly in Winnipeg where exiles charged that they had been forced into a car and interrogated. “All the victims have relatives in Chile who have been arrested and have since disappeared,”’ Parata declared. The Chilean junta through its agents in DINA has carried out worldwide operations against opponents of the junta and a number of Chilean anti-fascists have been murdered by DINA operatives including Orlando Letelier, former minister of defence in the government of Salvador Allende. GABRIEL PARATA DERA slams vagrancy law The proposal by Vsncouver mayor Jack Volrich and the convention of Canadian Police Chiefs to bring back vagrancy laws is adangerous proposal that will be used against the poor under the guise of combatting prostitution, Bruch Eriksen warned this week. The demand to resurrect the vagancy laws was raised first by Vancouver mayor Volrich as the only way to deal with juvenile prostitution in the city. Last week the police chief’s convention in Victoria backed up the demand to bring back the “poor laws,”’’ presumably for a crack down on the sex business in the downtown cores of all Canadian cities. But Downtown Eastside Residents Association’s Bruce Eriksen says that muncipalities already have effective laws to deal with prostitution, and the return of a vagrancy law would amount to “criminalizing unemployment. “First the UIC cuts off 50,000 people, then Vander Zalm refuses assistance to people waiting for UIC, and now they want to make it acrime to have no visible means of support,” he said, ‘‘They are gearing up to deal with massive unemployment that they expect will last for a long time.”’