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~ Israeli leaders
sabotage peace

Israel’s leaders are using an
age-old trick to stall discussions
on peace in the Middle East.
Claiming that the UAR has put
missiles into the Suez Canal
zone since the cease fire, the
government of Israel has used
this as an excuse to heavily re-
arm itself. ,

The fact is that anti-aircraft
missiles are defensive, whereas
Phantom jet fighters from the
United States are offensive,
which is why Moshe Dayan
boasts of the increase of the of-
fensive power of the Israeli arm-
ed forces.

Israel’s security is no more at
risk because of these alleged
changes along the Suez, than it’
was prior to the cease fire. Israel
has dragged its feet from the out-
set. It took more than two weeks
to appoint its representative to
negotiate. All along it has under-
taken a huge propaganda effort
to justify all of its expansionist
efforts in the past and now.

There are, however, positive
results from the peaceful initia-
tives of the United Arab Repub-
lic, which are aimed at achieving
a political settlement of the Mid-
dle East crisis. The UAR has
taken all the practical steps to-
wards a settlement in the Middle
East, as well as the active pro-
motion of the ceasefire. As a re-
sult the whole idea of peace
through negotiations in the Mid-
dle East is gripping new forces,
and is blazing a trail of its own
—one that has seriously divided
the Israel Cabinet.

U.S. State Department reac-
tion is typically predictable. It
couldn’t bring itself to vote for a
resolution demanding an Israeli
withdrawal from Lebanon,
claiming insufficient evidence.
But it provides Phantom jets be-
cause of its ‘‘certain” knowledge
of violations by Egypt.

The U.S. Senate, on these
grounds, agreed to back the
Nixon administration for the un-
restricted sale of military equip-
ment to Israel. Earlier, U.S. State

- Department spokesmen had said
publicly that the U.S. “had con-

clusive evidence” to back Israeli
assertions of cease fire viola-
tions.

Robert’ McCloskey, the State
Department spokesman said on
August 19 that the.U.S. had no
aerial reconnaissance craft in the
area when the Israelis claim the
violations occurred. McCloskey
said that the Israeli evidence was
not based on photographs, either.

Disguised as a so-called threat
of attack on Israel, the imperial-
ist-minded Israeli ruling class is
determined to hang onto the ter-
ritories it conquered. On the
other hand, President Nasser,
and those associated with him,
took the initiative in accepting
the ceasefire proposals. Nasser
has stated, on a number of occa-

-sions, that ‘the UAR fully sup-

ports the UN Security Council
resolution of 1967, which recog-

-nizes the existence of Israel and

its rights, but also demands that
Israel withdraw from conquered
territories.

Israeli Premier, Golda Meir
has threatened the entire peace
negotiations, by threatening to
destroy UAR anti-aircraft mis-
siles on the Suez front.

The Communist Party of Israel
has taken the stand that the pro-
posals for negotiations will bene-
fit the people of Israel. The CP
of I is of the opinion that there
are changes taking place within
Israel, based on the failure of
American imperialism to alter
the course of progress of the
Arab national liberation move-
ment; efforts by the United
States and its allies to change

the governments in the UAR and
Syria have failed, and those
governments have become more
stable than before, and intern-
ally in Israel significant changes
have taken place.

When the Israeli government
released the information about
negotiations publicly, “young
men and women and soldiers
danced in the streets of Tel
Aviv.

UIC Brief

“The White Paper is a pro-
posal to abdicate governmental
responsibility for financial sup-
port of a national unemploy-
ment insurance program.”

This is how the Central Exec-
utive Committee of the Com-
munist Party of Canada sees
the federal government’s White
Paper on “Unemployment In-
surance in the 70's”.

In its August 28 Brief to the
House of Common’s Standing
Committee on Labor, Manpow-
er and Immigration, the Party’s
that unemployment’ insurance
must eventually become _ non-
contributory for workers, pro-
poses now that they ‘should
only be called upon to contri-
bute’ a maximum of 20% of
costs, with employers bearing
40%, and the government 40%
plus the cost of administra-
tion.”

The White Paper indicates
that unemployment insurance
should be based entirely on the
principle of private insurance,
as a_ self-financing operation.
But, the Brief points out, the
proposal in fact is that the con-
tributions of workers and em-
ployers cover all costs. Only
when the. national unemploy-
ment rate exceeds four percent
will the government make sup-

plementary contributions.

This, clearly, would be done
to relieve the employers of pay-
ing the extra costs needed to
maintain the unemployment in-
surance fund when the work-
ers’ contributions can no long-
er keep up with the unbearable
load of. more than four percent
unemployment across the coun-
try. ;

The Brief defines the respon-
sibility for unemployment of
monopoly business interests —
especially of US imperialist in-
terests—and of the federal gov-
ernment’s “deliberate policy of
depressing living standards.” It
declares that “unemployed
workers ought not to be penal-
ized and forced to accept a low-
er standard of living because

Ottawa ducks out

of circumstances beyond their
control.”

The White Paper is sharply
denounced for its hypocrisy in
speaking of a new, re-oriented
unemployment insurance pro-
gram geared to train and direct
workers to jobs, when ‘“‘those
jobs are not there now, and will
not be there in the future un-
less government economic and
social policies are completely
reversed.”

The government’s proposal of
an “extremely complicated and
circumscribed” five-phase plan
for use in determining eligibil-
ity for unemployment benefits
is described as “the main gim-
mick” of the whole White Pa-
per ...” a worker will need a
lawyer to establish his rights.”

The Brief of the Central Exec-
utive of the CPC states these.
conclusions in its summary:

e@ We agree with the univer-
sal approach and inclusion of
all persons working for wages
and salaries by means of ex-
tending the scope of the Unem-
ployment Insurance Act.

e ‘We cannot agree with the
way the government is relin-
quishing its responsibilities with
respect to cost, nor the way in
which it is proposed to tie the
Unemployment Insurance Act to
other government agencies or
some vague reference to a
“broader social security system”
whose provisions are not yet
clearly spelled out.

e We contend that it is the
responsibility of the govern-
ment to see that jobs are made
available to all able.and willing
to work. Failing this, such un-
employed workers are. entitled
to adequate maintenance until
they can be provided with a job,
and this without being given a
run-around or a bad time by red
tape and bureaucratic officials.

e Unemployment Insurance
benefits should be based on 80

_per cent of a person’s weekly

wage or salary obtaining at the
last place of employment. No
conditions or red tape of any
kind is needed to establish this

except a recording of the f
related to a person’s emp

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‘ment, earning and present
cumstances, which are ca

varifiable.

e Such payments should ‘
from the first day of unemP”
ment — there should be 0?
between the regular pay
and the worker’s receipt ja)
employment Insurance Bene’)
— and payments should *
tinue for the entire per!
voluntary unemployment. :

e The Act should include 7)
right of an unemploye
to an allowable income yi
together with unemploymet
surance payment should %
that of a worker’s wage % 4
ary at the last place °
ployment. ‘

e Benefits should be rev®
at certain intervals during
year — perhaps quarterly |
and increased as living °
rise. ;
@ All young people ©”
out of schools or colles® ,
having reached the working %;
and who have. been una!
find work should be covely —
the Act and receive bene?” 4)

e The worker should ™ 1)
charged more than 20 fi 4
cost, while employers shoU™
charged 40 per cent,
government 40 per cent
cost of administration.

e Unemployment Inst :
benefits should not be cond
al upon acceptance of Z| 5
which does not correspon?)
the qualifications of the Ae
concerned; nor should
ents be referred to empl...
whose regular employee> —
on strike.

e We welcome the ploFig
that there be no discrimin®
in terms of benefits payabl |e
those who become une
as a result of illness OF
nancy. envi
e There must be no disd He
fications from benefits undel
Act as a result of unemP
ment due to a work stoPl (i
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the respect for a picket Hi"

Chile on road to socialism

“Congratulations to the Chile
Communist Party and all pro-
gressive forces in Chile on the
result of the election, which
your sound policy of unity made
possible. The election of Allende
is not only a defeat for reaction
in your country, but also for
U.S. imperialism. Rest assured
of our solidarity and support,”
said William Kashtan for the
executive of the Communist
Party of Canada in a congratu-
latory telegram to Luis Corvalan,
general secretary of the Com-
munist Party of Chile, on the
election of President Allende.

In a people’s victory, Presiden-
tial candidate of the Left in
Chile, Senator Salvador Allende
has been elected. He represents
the Front of Popular Unity, con-
sisting of a number of different
political parties.

It included the Communist
Party of Chile, the biggest of all
the parties on the Left, the So-
cialist Party, the Radical Party,
the Social Democratic Party,
MAPU and API (two smaller
Left movements).

This is the first time.in Chile’s
history that so many parties of

logies ‘have come together to
form a single front. They met
earlier in this year to select can-
didates for the elections, and
held a large number. of meet-
ings to work out a united front
program:

The program is fundamentally
a socialist one, aiming at na-
tionalizing the natural resources,
the most important of which is
copper, at present in the hands
of the American imperialists; to
nationalize. the big monopoly
banks and to transfer the land
to the peasants, taking it out of
the hands of the big farm-owners
(latifundistas).

Unlike almost all Latin Ameri-
can countries, where military
dictatorships are the rule, Chile
has a long history of electoral
struggle. As long ago as 1938 the
people elected a left-wing presi-
dent and government which, al-
though it lasted for only three
years, managed to introduce

some progressive changes.
Allende’s election could his-
torically mark the beginnings of
a new era for Chile and for Latin
America. It is possible that Chile
could become the second Latin

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ism, following after valiant
Cuba.

That forces in the U.S. State
Department think likewise is the
fact that the capitalist press has
reported the cancellation of a
large number of visas for armed
forces personnel who have ap-
plied to visit Chile.

In a speech ‘prior to the elec-
tions, Fidel Castro charged that
reaction was trying to inject
Cuba into the elections. “We
want to stay out of the election
campaign, we don’t want to be
used in Chilean domestic poli-
tics,” he said

This is Allende’s third try for
election. In previous elections,
however, there was not such a
broad people’s front united be-
hind a common program. The
tremendous increase in popular
support for Allende and the
ideas of socialism which he rep-
resents, is partly due to the
widespread disillusionment with
the Christian Democratic gov-
ernment, whose presidential can-
didate went down to defeat.

Political observers claim that
the advances being made by
Cuba have inspired the thinking
of many of the Chilean electors,

who see the possibility of mak-
ing sweeping gains in such a
front. There has been an upsurge
in the desire for revolutionary
socialist change in the thinking
of Chileans.

Castro went on to point out
that while the Cuban revolution
did have an influence on the
thinking of people in Latin
America, he rejected the “dirty
and repugnant” use made of this
fact. “Right now,” said ‘Fidel
Castro, ‘‘in the conditions pres-

ent in Chile, I think it is possible .

to arrive at socialism through
elections.”

Fidel said that the Chilean
situation cannot be compared
with that of any other Latin
American country. The possibil-
ity existing in Chile is not the
same for the revolution in most
of the Latin American countries,
he said. “Armed struggle is no
dogma,” he asserted, adding “I
don’t think any other country
has conditions like those of Chile
right now.”

Castro is of the opinion that
because of the internal and in-
ternational relationship of forces,
it will prove more difficult for
U.S. imperialism to intervene di-
rectly as it did in Cuba. He
pointed out that the presence of
a government like that of neigh-
boring Peru, where the military
“are developing a revolutionary

process, with its own character-.

istics, different from those of

Cuba,” is important fof
Chilean process. watt»

He predicted that armed ij”
vention by Washington wae
precipitate a “continental © ¢
lution.”

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