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vent a “Communist” takeover
of Italy; which amounted to a
military seizure of power and
mass arrests of leftists and
their detention in concentra-
tion camps. Gen. de Lorenzo
actually sent tanks rumbling
into Rome in July, 1964, as part
of this plan.

It is obvious that what was
planned for Italy in 1964 was
what actually happened in
neighboring Greece in 1967,
where the fascist military took
over.

The danger of fascism in
Italy—the land where fascism
originated—is very great in the
current crisis. Since a whole
policy of anti-Communism has
broken down, and there is a
massive public demand _ for
change of the whole Italian
political system, the crisis is
far deeper than the ordinary
shuffling of cabinet ministers.
The Wall Street Journal recog-
nized this in its headline on its
July 8 story on Italy: “New Po-
litical Crisis: U.S. Goals Are
Threatened.”

In 1948, the U.S. sent ships
loaded down with arms and
ammunition into every major
Italian port, threatened to cut
off all U.S. aid to war-devas-
tated Italy, and made plans to
arm and use right-wing and
fascist elements to prevent the
Italian Communists from gain-
ing political power by legal,
peaceful means. Palmiero Tog-
liatti was .shot and wounded
by a would-be assassin while
he was delivering a campaign
speech. .

The prospect of really
sweeping changes in Italian
political life appeals to mil-
lions of Italy’s workers, pea-
sants and students, but not to
the rightist and fascist groups
that U.S. policy has kept in
Italy for the last 20 years. These
groups, and the Americans

.who are using them, are still

capable of the same things
they were 20 years ago in Italy,
and only two years ago in
Greece.

Daily World

Safe journey, moon men

Between this and our next issue, all
going well, man will have landed on the
Moon, and even prior to that the Soviet
Union bids to add another chapter to
its space pioneering exploits.

We hail such glorious exploits. Ours
is not the philosophy which sneers at
such magnificent feats in the name of
the many unsolved problems on earth.
We think man should walk always with
his head in the clouds and his feet on
the ground.

The fact that it is an American man
who is likely to set first foot on the
moon we do not regard as an achieve-
ment for U.S. imperialism. It is a vic-
tory for science which in today’s condi-
tions is universal.

Science, all science belongs to man
and the future belongs to socialism. It
is the very fact that world science and
technology is over-ripe for socialism
which makes it possible for it to reach
for the moon.

While U.S. real-estate sharks are
mentally carving up the moon into
household plots, travel agencies eyeing
its vacation potentials and metallur-
gical combines estimating the dollar
value of its formations, the world’s
people see in it the limitless possibil-
ities offered to man if the full creative

might of science is. harnessed for their :

benefits.

During the First World War a song
was written which began: “How’re you
going to keep them. down on the farm,
now that they’ve seen Paris?” The
songwriters may well feel challenged
to write a parody to it after man sets
foot on the moon.

How can you convince the poor they
should remain poor? How can you con-
vince a worker that his security should
depend on the whim and profit of a
factory owner? How can you convince

women that their place is in the kitch- -

en? How can you convince young

people that history is the dead. tripe

they still serve up in schools? How can
you convince farmers that they should
not produce wheat while millions

starve?

Safe moon journey men from earth, ©

the admiration and aspiration of man-
kind ride with you. :

Building workers need
henefit of organization

While the Ontario Federation of

Labor is cooly shelling out $100,000 for :
a public relations campaign to dress.

up” the image of the trade union move-
ment in Ontario, a bitter inter-union
struggle in the concrete forming indus-
try in Toronto is landing a million
dollar’s worth of adverse publicity on
their doorstep.

It is doubtful whether many people
ean sort out the subtle differences be-
tween Bruno Zanini and Gerry Gal-
lagher, or which side Mr. Steffanini is
on and who Gus Simone is in the total
picture.

Rather, we are very much affraid,

the picture conjured up by the gener-
ous treatment of the struggle in the
daily papers, is that of two rival organ-
izations slugging it out for the patron-
age of 2,000 workers.

This is not the case. Bruno Zanini is
reported to have cut a back door deal
with the contractors covering the
workers in the concrete forming in-
dustry. He has taken complete advant-
age of the special problems of Italian
immigrant workers, waving Canadian
flags in their faces to split them from
the main body of workers in the build-
ing trades industry.

Behind the whole mess, however, lies
the dogged refusal of the building
trades unions to take up the challenge
of organization of the apartment and
housing construction industry in this
city.
If there is any lesson to be drawn
from the present mess in the Forming-
Trades-Council of the building trades
industry, it is that men, money and
maximum effort must be. channeled
into the full organization of the apart-
ment and housing industry in this city.

The workers, mostly immigrant,
working these trades deserve the bene-
fits and protection of bona-fide unions
and the unions themselves can only
guard against unscrupulous opportun-
ists by organizing these unorganized
workers.

Perhaps, as a beginning, the Italian
workers might take their efforts more
seriously if their staffs were more re-
presentative of the people on the other
end of the tools. den :

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Dr. Spock wins for
| all peace fighters

The reversal by the U.S. federal ‘ap-
peals court of the conviction of Dr.
Benjamin Spock for opposing the draft
and the Vietnam war is a big victory
for democracy and the peace move-
ment. Dr. Spock’s freedom affirms the
constitutional right of Americans to
oppose the draft and the war in Viet-
nam.

Reaction in the U.S. has always re-
sorted to jails and assassination as a
method of silencing its most dangerous
eritics and opponents. The racists and
the war hawks hoped to do the same
in the case of Dr. Spock. By silencing
the courageous Spock, they wanted to
intimidate into silence the growing
protest movement against the war.
What they failed to take into account
is the popular will of the majority of
the American people who supported
Spock and his fight against the war in
Vietnam.

Upon hearing the verdict Dr. Spock
immediately urged peace fighters to
write to Nixon demanding an end to
U.S. aggression in Vietnam. He also
called for the release of Yale chaplain
William Sloane Coffin, Jr., and author
Mitchell Goodman. The fight must go
on for the freedom of all the hundreds
of peace fighters still in jail as part of
the bigger fight to end the war in Viet-
nam and for the defeat of American
imperialism at home and abroad.'

| PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 18, 1969—Page 3