Friday, June 17, 1983 Newsstand ORE RABED 48 price res 40c Vol. 46, No. 24 .S. test request spurring new action against the cruise A protest Saturday by some 80 local Chilean exiles and supporters proved a fit- ting prelude to a massive trade union organized demonstration Tuesday in which hundreds of thousands in Chile took to the streets to protest 10 years of fascist rule by president Augusto Pinochet. The Vancouver demonstration, spon- fice with the People of Chile, began on the steps of city hall. Rain forced cancellation of the march to the CBC building downtown, but participants took the bus or drove cars to the site for a one-hour demonstration. The action was the second held by the September to support and draw attention _ tothe growing resistance to Chile’s military junta within the country. magnitude of Tuesday’s action, during which several hundred thousand Chileans kept their children home from school, boycotted stores and staged massive demonstrations, were unthinkable in the country a few short years ago. The Pinochet regime, which murdered former president Salvador Allende in a bloody coup in 1973, slaughtered thousands dur- ing and in the years following the coup. Trade unionists and political activists have been ruthlessly exterminated, and thousands of names fill the lists of those “‘disappeared’’ by the military junta. Opposition to the junta has spread to in- clude even members of Chile’s middle and and the regime has not been able to supress violence as before. But the abduction of the ‘president of the Copper Workers Con- federation, Rodolfo Séguel, who helped Organize Tuesday’s demonstration, the killing of two people in Santiago by police, and the arrest of hundreds of others has shown that opposition to Pinochet’s crumbling regime is still dangerous. Frank Kennedy, president of the Van- couver and District Labor Council and Tegional secretary-treasurer of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, told the Van- couver demonstration that the ILWU hasa Policy against handling any military related 800ds bound for Chile. sored by the broadly-based Solidarity Of- § Demonstrations of the nature and © coalition, and several more are planned for § ; the 11th day of each month until ; some sections of the former ruling class, 7 demonstrations with the same degree of ; “We haven’t had achance to useit yet,” said Kennedy, “‘but if the Canadian government ever decide to sell guns or other similar material to Chile, we'll use ~ it. ” Solidarity with Chile spokesman Suzanne Martinez attacked the Chilean constitution, imposd by Pinochet in 1980, as one that ‘‘allows the violation of human. ‘rights,”” by permitting the violent repres- sion of anti-government demonstrations. The constitution also destroyed Chile’s education system, considered a ‘‘model’’ Young demonstrator was one of 80 protesting the Chilean junta’s crimes Saturday. for Latin America, and wiped out medicare and other social services for most Chileans, she said. Pinochet has told political leaders who backed ‘the demonstration that ‘‘we are soon going to send you back to your caves so that this problem can end. “The protest is a Communist method of pressure because it keeps growing and growing until it reaches a violent stage, and this is what we are going to prevent,”’ said the man whose regime: has murdered thousands since he took power with the aid of CIA. Cominco strikers in anti-concessions fight —page 12 The U.S. government’s formal request Monday that the Canadian government allow the testing of U.S. cruise missiles over the Yukon, B.C. and Alberta has given new impetus to demonstrations in Canada and around the world. Despite a decision Friday by the 16 member countries of NATO giving the go- ahead for deployment of 572 U.S.-made cruise and Pershing Il medium-range missiles in Europe in December, it is clear that those governments do so in the face of ; mass opposition from the people they claim to represent. In Spain, a recent NATO member whose social democratic government plans a referendum on NATO membership, 100,000 people marched for peace through the capital city of Madrid Sunday. Canada was the scene of continuing peace actions beginning last weekend when 25,000 gathered for a huge peace rally outside the Manitoba legislature in Winnipeg. In Van- couver, 600 members of the Unitarian church staged a noon-hour demonstration at Robson Square against Pershing II and cruise missiles Monday. Tuesday saw another demonstration in Robson Square by individuals opposed to the cruise testing, and also marked the first monthly ‘‘pause for peace”’ in which citizens of at least 25 B.C. communities reportedly took part. A mass “‘phone-in’’ to Ottawa and a peace fast and vigil outside the legislature in Victoria are some of the actions planned by Vancouver Island peace activists next week. In Vancouver, the 130-group member End the Arms Race coalition has solidified plans for part two of the Refuse the Cruise campaign during the next five months. Reacting agrily to the U.S. government’s formal request for cruise testing, EAR presi- dent Frank Kennedy Tuesday said the um- brella organization’s volunteers would be ‘‘intensifying”’ the campaign in light of prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s indications that the federal government will give the green light for the testing. “Canadians have constantly expressed their opposition to the cruise and to the nuclear arms race. Yet, in spite of the huge demonstrations, the thousands of letters, the unequivocal results of polls and referenda, the federal government insists that it will go ahead and gives the appearance that the re- quest will be accepted,”’ he said. “End the Arms Race is aie for a flat refusal. If that’s not possible, then there must be a full parliamentary debate and a free vote of the MPs,”’ he said. ‘*We’re urging all members of parliament See DEMONSTRATION page 12 LRG SEES