Nixon imperils world peace

abor chiefs hammer
Trudeau on liberties

By NELSON CLARKE
‘ ie — The Canadian
af ngress this week sharp-
uked the Trudeau govern-
he “cool, detached
: with which it has
‘hundreds of thou-
anadian workers and
the hardship of

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submission stated. “Events have
clouded the purity of your in-
tentions . . . your actions were
such as to lend doubt to the
propriety of proclaiming the
War Measures Act and plunging
the country into a state of panic
from which it is only now be-
ginning to emerge. Your govern-
ment spoke of an apprehended
insurrection and of terrorists to

be counted in the thousands.
The people of this country have
been provided with not a tittle

of evidence that this has been

the case.”

Pointing out that the statute
which replaced the WMA —

the Public Order Act — is it-

self open to misgivings, the sub-
mission continues: “We seek
assurance that your govern-
ment will forsake the extraor-
dinary measures which it pro-
fessed to find necessary and re-
store to this country the order-
ly and lawful processes which
every citizen has a right to ex-
pect.”

Trudeau, obviously smarting
under this criticism, tried to
pass the buck to the Quebec and
Montreal governments. Mac-
Donald retorted: “The respon-
sibility was your government's.
You should have found out if
these requests from lower levels
of government were justified.”

Trudeau then accused Quebec
Federation of Labor president
Louis Laberge of being “sympa-
thetic to kidnappers and killers.”
This cheap diversion was the

subject of a face-to-face con-
frontation after the hearing
with Laberge telling the Prime
Minister that it had been his
position that it was the business
of the Quebec government to
negotiate for the lives of Cross
and Laporte — “Our provincial
government should have been
permitted to continue its inten-
tion of negotiation,” he said.

“Trudeau fears any suggestion
of the demand for right to self-
determination for French Can-
ada as the devil fears holy
water.” “That’s all I wanted to
know,” the P.M. exclaimed an-
grily, and turned on his heels
and marched out.

The CLC called for discon-
tinuance by all NATO countries
of aid to the Greek junta, and
for similar action on Portugal.
It called for vigorous protest by
Canada on the failure of the
Spanish courts to “respect uni-
versal standards of justice and
the killing of workers who were
taking part in peaceful demon-
strations.” It demanded move-
ment “towards the complete
cessation of all trade’ with
South Africa.

Unfortunately, it did not deal
with the grave new crisis in In-
dochina resulting from the U.S.-
Saigon invasion of Laos. It did
find room for three paragraphs
on what it called a Soviet “anti-
Semitic campaign.”

But for all the criticisms that
must be made the government
of Canada has been clearly told
that it is in deep trouble with

- 1.7 million unionists on at least

two of the most basic issues
facing our country now—unem-
ployment and civil liberties.

U.S. military are poised
to invade North Vietnam

U.S. President Nixon and the Penta-
gon are furiously accelerating the war
in Indochina into what bears all the
earmarks of plans for an early full-
scale invasion of North Vietnam and
that means—to the brink of a global
conflict. Both the Soviet Union and
People’s China have served serious

that they will not abandon the people
of Indochina to their fate. (See the
statement of the Government’ of the
USSR on this page.)

As the puppet Saigon troops and U.S.
airforce suffered heavy casualties in
Laos, the Pentagon abandoned the pre-
tense that U.S. ground troops are not

warning to the American aggressors participating

Anti-aircraft gunners of the Pathet Lao have inflicted heavy losses
on U.S. aircraft and helicopters in the U.S.-Saigon invasion of their

country.

‘HANDS OFF’ SAYS USSR

MOSCOW (TASS) — “The United States is taking upon
itself a grave responsibility for new complications in the in-
ternational situation,” says a statement of the Soviet govern-
ment published here in connection with the expansion of U.S.
aggression against Laos.

“Such actions cannot but effect Soviet-American relations,
too,” the statement warns.

“The Soviet government resolutely denounces the armed
intervention against Laos as another criminal act by the Unit-
-ed States, undertaken in flagrant violation of generally ac-
cepted standards and principles of international law, contrary
to the commitments assumed by the United States under the,
United Nations Charter.

“The USSR cannot remain indifferent to this new escala-
tion of the American aggression. The Soviet people is pre-
pared to continue giving all necessary help to the fraternal
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), to the patriots of
Indochina defending their legitimate rights, fighting for the
realization of their vital interests and aspirations.”

Washington alleges, says the statement, that American
armed forces are taking a restricted part in the incursion.
“This kind of allegation, designed to mislead world opinion,
will not fool anyone,” the statement continues. “U.S. attempts
to justify the invasion of Laotian territory by referring to con-
siderations of ‘self-defense’ and ‘safeguarding the security’
of the American trogps who earlier invaded another country
bordering: on Laos, look just as untenable and provocative.

“All these attempts, just as the statement by President

. Nixon at a recent press conference, show that the U.S. leader-

ship seeks to condition public opinion to the idea that the

United States can act in Indochina with impunity, that every-
thing will go off all right for the American aggressors.

“This is a dangerous delusion fraught with the most serious
consequences for the United States itself in the first place.”

The statement recalls the complete failure of the senseless
_ U.S. adventure of waging an air war against North Vietnam.

“At present any U.S. plans to attain its goals by stepping up
military provocations against North Vietnam are also doomed
to failure,” the statements adds. “The DRV is a member of
the socialist camp. The USSR: and other socialist states will
give the fraternal Vietnamese people help in repelling the U.S.
aggression.”

The U.S. invasion into Laos, the threats to step up provo-
cations against the DRV, lack of readiness for serious and
constructive discussion at the Vietnam talks in Paris—“All
this topples the repeated statements by U.S. officials about a
desire to work for a peaceful settlement in Indochina.”

in the invasion of that
country and announced that
“small teams” of American com-
bat troops were sent in.

In Hanoi, Premier Pham Van
Dong of North Vietnam met with
Phoumi Phimphatian of the Lao
Patriotic Front, and stated that
the U.S. ‘invasion of Laos
“creates a direct threat to the

security of the Democratic Re-
public of Vietnam and an ex-
tremely dangerous situation in
Southeast Asia and the world.”

“The U.S. has turned the three
countries into a single battle-
front,” he said. “Faced with this
grave situation the peoples of
Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are
fully resolved to strengthen their
solidarity, mutual assistance and

support.”

Laotian Premier Prince Sou-
vanna Phouma has appealed to
the ‘United Nations and the
powers of the Security Council
to secure the withdrawal of for-
eign troops.

The immediate reason for the
stubborn refusal of the U.S. to
withdraw from Southeast Asia—
and to continue to block peace
in the Middle East—is now re-
vealed to be the interests of the
oil trusts in that area. A number
of U.S. congressmen and officials
have urged Senator J. William
Fulbright; chairman of the For-
eign Affairs Committee, to im-
mediately “open hearings regard-
ing the influence exerted by oil
companies and other investors
on U.S. policy . . . and in pro-
longing the war in Indochina.”

Reports of fabulously rich off-
shore oil concessions in that area
have appeared in the Wall Street
Journal and other publications.

Canada’s minister of external
affairs Mitchell Sharp stated
under questioning by Andrew
Brewin of the NDP in the House
of Commons that he-had several
meetings with Secretary of State
W. Rogers and was “wholeheart-
edly in favor” of U.S. policies in
that area.

Brantford unions
ask CLC action

BRANTFORD —Theé initiative
taken by the St. Catharines
Labor council in pressing on
the Canadian Labor Congress
to call an emergency confer-
ence to launch a drive against
unemployment has received
strong backing from the Brant-
ford District Labor Council.

Delegates to Council spoke
angrily of the policies pursued
by both senior governments in
regard to the plight of the
jobless..

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