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

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