EDITORIAL Quarantine Begin government The brutal massacre in Lebanon calls for immediate sanctions against the barbarian government of Israel. It calls for an inter- _ National inquiry into Zionism’s crimes. _ _ The Nuremberg war crimes trials dealt with the earlier mass murderers of the Third Reich. The miserable child-killers who rule _ Israel deserve the same. Yet even now the well-practised Zionist propaganda network is pumping out con- fusion and distortion to absolve the real crim- — inals. First they knew nothing about the systematic annihilation of babies, children, mothers, grandmothers, boys and old men in the Shatila and Sabra camps. But the truth is oozing out like the blood of the victims. Israel planned, co-ordinated, assisted and (by tomorrow we'll discover) participated in the fiendish acts in the two refugee camps. They were able to do so not simply because of their alliance with the Lebanese fascist phalange (Christians), but because of the bil- lions of dollars worth of arms, assistance, the co-ordination of policies and the approval of aggression provided by the United States Government. Despite Reagan’s Hollywood speeches, the flow of support for Israeli crimes has never faltered. Canadians are concerned over Zionist ter- ror in the Middle East; but they should be concerned directly with what the Canadian Government is doing or failing to do about it. Does anyone think that the war criminals, Begin, Sharon, Eitan and others will stop be- cause of gentle criticism? ~Freedom to lie? When the Kent Commission on_ the monopolization of Canadian newspapers made recommendations for a trace of democracy in newspaper publishing and edit- ing, there came a mighty outcry from the press barons. Giving the public some rights to factual information would interfere with the monopoly media’s freedom. For example: On August 17 the Globe and Mail carried a Reuter, New York report ac- cusing the Soviet Union of plotting to assas- sinate Pope John Paul II. One might expect that when its report was.proven to be pure CIA fabrication, the Globe might admit its error. Interested persons have searched in vain for any such admission. Yet, another paper, on Sept. 17, reported a Vatican denial of any Soviet involvement with the attempt on the Pope’s life (May 1981). Flashbacks 25 years ARTISTS SPEAK OUT Famed trumpeter Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong blew a jericho-note last week that jarred white supremacists everywhere. He said he planned to cancel a govern- ment-sponsored trip to the USSR because, “the way they are treating my people in the South, the govern- ment can go to hell.” He said President Eisenhower had “no guts”. Last year an Armstrong concert was dynamited in Tennes- see. Singer Eartha Kitt also joined Armstrong in con- demning government hesitation on school integra- ton. * * * Actor Charlie Chaplin said he will never return to the U.S. and was smiling and relaxed at a press con- ference in New York. “I can do without their money,” he said of the U.S. film industry. “I don’t want to live in a place where my friends may have to inform on eS Tribune, September 30, 1957 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 1, 1982—Page 4 Canada should withdraw its ambassador at once. It should urge the United Nations to invoke a boycott of military and other strategic goods to Israel. It should declare unequivocally its support for a Palestinian independent state, and begin by recognizing the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole legitimate representative of the Palesti- nian Arab people. The Zionist rulers of Israel are methodi- cally carrying out a plan of expansion and extermination. Whatever hypocrisy they grind out to placate the world, they move ahead relentlessly with that expansion and _ extermination. Shatila and Sabra are further examples of Israeli-state terrorism. As for solving the Middle East crisis, cent- ral to it must be a political settlement with PLO participation which meets Palestinian demands. In the case of the outlaw govern- ment of Begin, Canada should press for a quarantine, for measures to stop its further crimes and to tear its hand away from the fuse of world war. Oust strait-jacket policies The shuffling of the federal cabinet — a mini-shuffle with more promised before par- liament resumes on Oct. 27 — is, at best, cosmetic, at worst, deceitful. It serves the purposes of putting a new face on some ministries to please big business interests, and of letting weary ministers off the hook for their part in making workers scapegoats for capitalism’s crisis. But the policies — the same disreputable, anti-labor and anti-democratic policies re- main in place. The government hopes to ride out the winter by scene-shifting with no ac- tion to create jobs or defend living standards. Layoffs will continue, plants will close, thousands of unemployed will exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits, and countless families will be forced to subsist on a welfare pittance. Neither unemployment nor inflation is being tackled by Ottawa. Only unbearable pressure by the labor movement, a daily campaign of harassment if need be, can move the government of the all-powerful monopolies and transnationals to end their attempts to strait-jacket the un- ions with a ban on bargaining and strikes. The iniquitous 6 and 5 and its counterparts enacted by Tory, Socred and Parti Quebecois provincial regimes stands like an executioner 50 years THE ‘BIG PUSH’ Zero hour for the “big push” for non-contributory unemployment insurance is October First. On this day will commence a concentrated drive, lasting tll October 10, to popularize the free unemployment insurance bill on the widest scale, sec- ure mass endorsation in the trade unions and by collec- tion of thousands of signatures. ; In this drive every militant worker must be activized and play his or her role. Unemployed Council should be prepared to go over the top when the day arrives. On October 15, National Unemployment Insurance Day, will take place a nationa-wide demonstration of unemployed workers against the present hunger and want that afflicts them. Mass pressure is the only thing that will force the capitalist class to heed workers’ de- mands and October 15 must be an example of mass pressure. The Worker, September 24, 1932 over the working people. They can only de- fend themselves by utilizing every opportun- ity to fight back to dislodge and defeat its perpetrators. Profiteer of the week owns numerous breweries, Beaver Lumber, Willson Office Specialties, and is into furniture and school supplies, chemicals and cartage. After-tax profit for three months ended June 30 was $19,567,000, up from $16.3-million in the same period a year earlier. The Molson Companies Ltd., _ (UIC) scheme.” All others agreed that workers should 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. VSL 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 GOD HELPS THOSE... Unemployment this year is chasing the Canadian capitalist class more closely and the National Council on Unemployment which met in Ottawa in true ostrich fashion hid its head in the sand of blind optimism. Delegates representing federal and_ provincial governments across the country must have read the headlines in the media: “Cheer up, Times are Now!” and “There’s Work for Those Who Want it”. Ontario premier Drury told the meeting, “The sys tem of handing out doles is an opiate not a cure”. His Minister of Labor, Mr. Murdock, said, “God helps those who help themselves. I admit that in some parts there may be serious conditions, but not serious enough to warrant the adoption of a nation-wide look after themselves and opposed any government help. The Worker; October, 1922.