Release Jordanian Union leaders Appeals have been sent to Workers around the world on be- half of three Arab trade unionists Imprisoned in Jordan. Trade unions and individual Workers are asked to send letters and cables to King Hussein in Mman, Jordan, for. immediate _4N unconditional release of the | three, who were arrested last ebruary, They are Musa Quader, presi- dent of the Textile Trade Union Of Jordan, and Fathalla El Um- Tani, its secretary-general. The _ third is Ahmed Djradat, a teacher and member of the Preparatory Committee for the Union of €achers of Jordan. Musa ader was a founder of Jordan’s € union movement. Their arrests followed struggles of the workers and the prepara- tion of further struggles. The tex- tile workers’ union has been a target of police persecution for a long time. Following recent milit- ant activity in which the workers won improved conditions, the main employer, Al-Muasher, who i is closely connected with foreign Capital, instigated police repris- S. The arrest and imprisonment _ Of Musa Quader and Fathalla El Mrani is seen as an act of ven- Seance against the union. Ahmed Djradat’s role in work- ing to organize Jordan’s teachers Is held to be the cause of his per- ‘Secution. The teachers are among the most exploited of Jordan’s Working people, especially in _ View of the high rate of inflation. _ Their average monthly salary is 40 to 50 Jordanian dinars, while the simplest two-room flat rents’ - for more than 20 dinars a month. AHMED DJRADAT MUSA QUADER FATHALLA EL._UMRANI CP demands end to attack on fishermen The following resolution was passed by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada. It is titled ‘‘Halt the Combines Act Attack.’’ The Federal Combines Branch of the Government of Canada has launched a secret, “‘star cham- ber’’ investigation into the affairs of the United Fishermen’s and Allied workers Union and the Native Brotherhood of B.C. on the West Coast. : The Combines Act was in- tended to prevent monopoly con- trol and protect the public in- terest, and is now being used to dismember the Fishermen’s Union; deny members of the union their right to bargain collec- tively and to strike if necessary. The Federal Branch has used the most arbitrary and outrageous seizures of newspaper reporters’ notes, CTV and CBC TV tapes in violations of basic civil and democratic rights. Therefore this meeting of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of Canada protests the actions of the Combines Branch in its unjustified attack on the fishermen’s union, the unpre- cedented seizure of newspaper notes and TV tapes, and call on Consumers Affairs Minister Douglas Albott and the Federal Government to call-off the secret proceedings and insist instead that the Combines Investigation Act be used to protect the Cana- dian people against outrageous profiteering by the giant food combines. New Sino-Soviet relations would be a major step to ensure peace By KONRAD SMIRNOV APN Political Observer MOSCOW — The character of _Telations between the Soviet | Union and China, the countries in which a quarter of the world’s People live, cannot but have an _ Impact on mankind. Positive Changes in these relations, there- fore, would have an immediate ef- fect on international ties, provide a fresh impetus to detente and’ help build an atmosphere of Mutual understanding by remov- - ing another area of tension. This is why false rumors and PSeudo-scientific forecasts which Create mistrust should be €xamined. It is not coincidence at statements by certain West- €m observers about. Soviet- Chinese relations attempt to sell the idea of ‘‘Soviet aggressive- _ Ness” and “‘plans to invade Chi- ha”, etc. They try to have public pinion believe that tensions be- ‘Ween the two countries are a Permanent.component in interna- Uonal life although there are no Objective reasons for claiming so. Tensions between the Soviet nion and China are a phenome- Non which emerged artificially, and not through the USSR’s fault at that. They can be removed at a Moment’s notice provided there 18 goodwill shown on both sides. Problems between the United States and China, however, will Persist for a long time and cannot removed without a revision of the foreign policy persued by both nations. Indeed, it is impossible to bury the memory of president Tru- man’s order to the U.S. navy to occupy a portion of Chinese ter- ritory. In the West they keep si- lent about this. Nor is it possible to forget the USSR demanded an immediate halt to armed interven- tion against China. ‘ It is common knowledge th USSR welcomed the constructive dialogue between China and the . USA, in particular the talks in Warsaw. Moscow believed that such talks in which both sides sought a peaceful solution to their inter-state problems was a posi- tive development not only for them but for the states of Asia and the Pacific basin, indeed for the whole world. The support China received from the USSR for the restoration of its rightful place in the United Nations and other actions of Soviet diplomacy which helped the young state establish interna- tional ties is further testimony to the principled and consistent pos- ition of the Soviet Union regard- ing China. The USSR has never regarded, nor does it regard China as its enemy number one, two, or any other number. The gist of Soviet policy to- ward China and all other coun- tries was summed up by Leonid Brezhnev — ‘‘Our country will never take the road of aggression- or raise a sword to fight other na- tions :..”’ This clearly should dispell notions that Moscow has designs against China and is a re- buff to those who regard a new world war as inevitable — a war which they claim will break out between the Soviet Union and China. The elimination of tension be- tween the Soviet Union and China and the development of normal relations between these ‘two countries and other states would be a major step to ensure disarmament and the working out of measures to guarantee the sec- urity of all states, particularly th- ose in Asia. It would also stimu- late economic activity of states, removing the fetters of exorbitant military ‘spending. Better condi- tions would be created for trade, the common effort of nations to guard the environment and for scientific, cultural and technolog- ical exchange would open up ex- ‘tensive opportunities for man- kind’s progress. : What is needed is for states and groups of states to arrange nor- ‘mal, mutually advantageous and equal relations with one another. An indisputable conclusion is: political maneuvering based on tHe use of force must be replaced by peaceful coexistence which is not a tactical respite but the means of building a new world. All peoples, including those living in the United States, China and the Soviet Union should work for . the success of this cause. RADIO LIBERTY A HAVEN FOR NAZIS" NEW YORK — Once again the spotlight is on the use of nazi collaborators by Radio Liberty, an arm of the federally-funded Voice of America. The case this time concerns charges brought against Vilis Hazners, who writes scripts for Radio Liberty. Hazners has been employed by Radio Liberty as a script writer on the ‘‘struggle for human rights.”’ His ‘‘training’’ consists of his role as a former major in a military outfit composed of Latvian traitors set up by Hitler forces during World War II. In a 10-count deportation charge introduced at his hearing last week in Albany, N.Y., Hazners was accused of having murdered hundreds of Jews. He fied to Germany with the nazis when they were forced to retreat by the Red Army and Latvian patriots who liberated Latvia from fascist enslavement. . He has been kept on Radio Liberty’s payroll despite the charges and the deportation hearing. : Radio Liberty is part of the network set up by the CIA in the 1950s to beam propaganda into the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. Radio Liberty broadcasts solely to the Soviet Union and has re- peatedly been exposed as a nest in which nazi collaborators have found a home. : CHILD CARE PROGRAM EXPANDING IN VIETNAM HANOI — Kindergartens and day care centres are being developed all over the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, according to reports from the Vietnam News Agency (VNA). The structure of these pre-school institutions is best developed in the north, but great efforts are being made today to bring the south up to the same level, VNA said. In the north, there are 35,000 kindergartens; as well as day care centres for more than 650,000 children. VNA said most of the pre-school institu- tions exist in rural areas and help to solve the problem of bringing rural women into modern social and economic life. PORTUGAL LABOR CONGRESS PROMOTES UNITY LISBON — Working-class unity received an important boost at the Congress of Portuguese trade unions held here Jan. 27-30. The meeting was a rebuff to efforts to split the labor movement, participants em- phasized. The congress proved to be the most representative trade union gathering in Portuguese history.- About 85 percent of all organized workers were represented, by delegations from 270 unions with a total membership of 1.7 million. Among them were delegations from 86 unions which had been affiliated with Intersindical in the past but joined the new General Confederation of Portuguese Workers, the Intersindical National (GGTP-IN). ‘PROJECT CAMELOT’ SURFACES AGAIN AFTER 13 YEARS HAMBURG — The West German magazine Der Spiegel last week wrote that the Pentagon has a secret contingency plan code-named _‘*Project Camelot”’ which calls for an American blockade of Quebec by land and sea should Quebec separate. Der Speigel claims the plan exists because Canadian and U.S. top military officials fear Quebec could become another Cuba. The article was reprinted by the U.S. magazine ‘‘ Atlas World Press Review’”’ and says that the Pentagon has maintained a thick file labeled ‘Project Camelot’’. The document sees Canada as a danger spot on a par with Africa and Latin America. ‘Project Camelot’? was exposed in a front page Tribune story on March 7, 1966 (see photo). The Tribune charged that the then Lesage government tried to cover up the project, but photo copies of the document dated Dec. 4, 1964 were in the hands of the Tribune and extensive quotes from it reprinted. The Project, actually covered ‘‘counter-insurgency plans” in some 20 countries and the Quebec section had its own code-name: ‘‘Project Revolt’’. The exposure re- ceived wide publicity in 1966 especially in the Chilean Communist daily, El Siglo. ‘‘Camelot’’ was undertaken as one of a number of ‘‘plans of socio-psychological investigations in Washington to study the degree of aggressiveness and dissatisfaction of a number of peoples of Latin America, a similar plan having been worked out for the ’ Canadian population of French origin ...”” Trtohunme CANADIAN A RE TS RN eS | ‘Operation Camelot’ Expose Pentagon probe of Quebec nationalists . xv Why project was axed +z Uproar in Latin-America +z Lesage & Wagner cover up ‘Re: $.x millian @ollars for “social science ber, research” Unheard of" But for expion- ne bie PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 4, 1977—Page 5