000 people massacred

& aut YORK—At least 80,000
colby Omen and children were
“the Can. slaughtered by
| Weeks ean junta in the first
‘ae aftér it took power Sept.
oe peed a delegation of
ce here Jan. age os

th e delegation, representing
: Moers International De-
j Bone Federation, which has
: visited ative Status at the UN,
Brae hile Jan, 9-15. Although
the oes In their travel through
B four eeulty, nevertheless, the
Bets Omen making up the dele-
Chile er able to meet with
SS awyers, politicians, cul-
bists qeaihers and trade union-
“gether ut whom. they pieced to-
aay Story of bloody repres-

Blood: 5
declares” Tepression continues,

TS. Margot Mrozin-
of Weat Berlin, spokeswoman
Bhs a delegation. The arrests,
‘soldiers ae no longer made by
Up ae ut by Security agents.
Chite 1% of all the families in
rectly 2 : wine have been di-
Seon killing. © St tor
* ne are, she said, ftom ‘15,-

Vari mvV0 still imprisoned in
"tous island concentration

| FREE Luis CORVALANI

5 ComMUist Party of Chile
f Chit ed a Calt to the people
le for a launch a mass strug-
lence, Tp, Teedom and /indepen-
tion 3. © Call analyzes the situ-

Chile sj
OUD of nce the bloody
rete Sept. 11 and deals con-

ret i 5
y. Petine issues on
. e i- i
le " that ieee
Include the defence of
aa Of the Chilean peo-
diana ie Ole, the struggle for
ae eight to decent liv-

= Orking Possibilities,
Organize people’s

; the dictatorship,
S strug sce leadership in the

Tu; ie for :
n of democracy. the restora-

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8 oreanizati
builgn tional Organs and the
's hare Others of the peo-

on temporarily put out

' u ttees for Human Rights

e.
me the first demands that
Tought forth in the
tion OeClares, is that
aaa internal war-

Pointed out that |
© Of “inte at under

ernal warfare”
tea ding ever more
mo .camps, imprison-
3 ing ne Political leaders and
) Tepressive laws
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truggle, the fight to.

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_ And the repression continues

DIRECT FROM CUBA/LN§

. Camps: and out-of-the-way jails.
In. Chacabuco alone, she said,
the delegation was able to estab-
lish that 900 prisoners were in
jail, of them 200 were doctors,
25 professors of Catholic Uni-
versity, and 13 teenagers.

Ninety-six women were held
in the National Stadium in San-
tiago’ in the first days of the
counter - revolution and then
taken to Women’s Prison where
no word was heard from them
until Jan. 3.

No Lawyers

_ Even now, prisoners are still
not permited visitors, Mrs. Mro-
zinsky said, not. even lawyers;
they ‘still have no right to self-
defense, and they still- face pro-
secution under martial law. The
delegation was refused permis-
sion to visit prisoners in that
jail.

: Over: 150,000 workers have
been laid off their jobs for politi-

cal and economic reasons. Over.
600 doctors have ben fired, im-

A mass movement for fr

prisoned or murdered.

Ten thousand families are liv-
ing in acute misery, from the
loss of breadwinners. through
murder, jailing or dismissal from
jobs, the delegation reported.

Even opponents. of the Al-
lende government, Mrs. Mro-
zinski said, have increasingly
denounced the brutality of the
junta and are resisting its cruel-
ty.

Prices in Chile have risen
1,000% since the: coup, while
wages have gone up only 200
to 300%. -

Most needed now, Mrs. Mro-
zinski declared, is for interna-
tional public opinion to be
aroused to the slaughter going

. on in Chile,

-The committee members, be-
sides Mrs. Mrozinski, included
Mrs. Erlinda Botto, president of
the Women’s Union of Argen-
tina; Mrs. Marta Curone, Argen-
tine Peace Council, and Mrs.
Mercedes Alvarez of Spain.

Altamirano

compliments

Soviet stand on Chile

“International solidarity is of

utmost importance to the people -

of Chile in their struggle against
the fascist junta,” said Carlos
Altamirano, general secretary of
the Socialist Party of Chile at a
Moscow press conference.

In a reply to a question from
the Trud (the Soviet trade union
newspaper) correspondent as to
the role of the socialist countries
in the world solidarity move-
ment, -Altamirano said: “We
note with special gratitude the
position of the socialist coun-
tries, of the Soviet Union, which
took a firm and clear stand in
support of the legitimate gov-
ernment of Chile.

“The Soviet Government has
not only vigorously supported
the broad campaign of solidarity
with the Chilean people, but has
urged the United Nations to

take effective measures against
the fascist junta.”

In answer to the question of
the paper’s correspondent con-
cerning the fate of Luis Emilio
Corvalan, general secretary of
the Communist Party of Chile,
who is imprisoned in a concent-
ration camp on Dawson Island,
Carlos Altamirano replied:

“As is known, Dawson Island
is situated in the southernmost
part of the country, in the im-
mediate proximity of Antarctica.
Its climatic conditions are ex-
tremely rigorous. By imprison-
ing Luis Corvalan there, the
junta has actually sentenced
him to slow death. That is why
we are fighting for the liquida-

tion of the concentration camp
on Dawson Island, for the liber-
ation of all its prisoners, among
whom are two vice-presidents of
the Republic — Clodomiro Al-
meyda and Jose Toha, outstand-
ing leaders of the Popular Unity
front. We consider, therefore,
that the struggle for the release
of Luis Corvalan .is the struggle
for his life.” :

The general secretary ot the

Socialist Party of Chile stated »

that all facts of crimes commit-
ted by the fascist junta in Chile,
would be submitted to an inter-
national commission which is
being set up in Helsinki.

To another question. from the
Izvestia correspondent concern-
ing the coming visit of L. I.
Brezhnev, general secretary of
the CPSU Central Committee, to
Cuba, Altamirano said that “this
visit will be an event: of tremen-
dous importance for the entire
Latin American continent. The
Soviet Union has again demon-
strated its internationalist policy
which is aimed at the attain-
ment of, peace among nations
and support of national libera-
tion movements on all contin-
ents. The Latin American peo-
ples,” Altamirano noted, . “will
follow the visit of L. I. Brezhnev
to Cuba with great interest.”

Speaking .of the position of
the PRC government in relation
to Chile, Altamirano’ stressed
that “the PRC leaders, who in
words support the national-liber-
ation movement in Africa, Asia
and Latin America, were desert-
ing the front of struggle when-
ever they had to objectively
prove their loyalty to these lofty
principles — not just in word,

‘Communist Party of Chile declaration

free Luis Corvalan, imprisoned
general secretary of the Chilean
Communist Party, and to free
all political prisoners is key, the
document states. :

It calls for the establishment
of broad-based Defence Commit-
tees, for Human Rights, to be
established within the country
to fight around specific demands,
which include: Stop all political
repression; freedom for all
political prisoners; legal and

- public trials for all democrats.

“We must fight for the right
of all democratically oriented
parties and -organizations of the
people to function and carry out
their activities,” says the CP do-
cument, “Freedom of press and
freedom of speech must be. re-
obtained through this struggle, |

Armed Forces

In analyzing the position of
the CP in regard to the a:med
forces, the document points out *
that those responsible for the
coup enlisted the armed forces
and police for their action. _

In spite of this, the CP says:
“we do not consider the social
Struggle in- our country as one
between the civilian population
and the military.

“They (the generals and of-
ficers of the military who en-
gaged in the coup) have made

themselves. traitors to the peo-
ple, because they have broken
‘with the best traditions of Chile
and have turned the armed for-
ces into the murderers and exe-
cutioners of their own ‘people.

“Many soldiers and also offi-
cers who remained faithful to
their democratic ideals have.
been hunted down by the junta,
imprisoned and even shot to
death.

“The democratic ideals of
many soldiers, although tempor-
arily broken, are, however, not
dead. 2

“The people’s movement must
show to the soldiers and officers
the democratic and progressive
ideals of the country’s majority.”
: Anti-Fascist Front

The main ideological thrust of
the CP’s statement is on the
broad péople’s united front
against the dictatorship and the
correct leadership of this mass
struggle.

The CP singles out a mistake
of the past that must not recur.
It states that of the causes that
led to the defeat of the people,
the main cause was without a
doubt the fact that the enemies
of the Chilean people were able
to isolate the working class and

.the other revolutionary sectors

in the short time preceding the
coup.

“This created a dangerous con-
stellation of forces,” the state-
ment adds, and it stresses that in
the struggle against the fascists,
this situation can and must be
changed. : ;

Correct Leadership

On the subject of*correct lead-
ership of the mass struggle, the
CP document states:

“The success of the working
class in its struggle to become
the centre point of the unity of
the whole people, in its struggle
against the dictatorship, is de-
pendent on the use of principled
policies, that are in a position
to avoid collaboration and at the
same time to avoid all forms of
extremism.

“This success will be reached
above all through the further
development of the unity of So-
cialists and Communists, the po-
pular unity, and the unity of all
democratic forces to a higher

‘level.

Against Terrorism

The-CP warns against all
forms of individual terror and
petty-bourgeois approaches to
struggle. oa

“These basic principles,” it
Ceclares, “that will guarantee
the success of the revolution
make clear that the path of in-
dividual terror acts or putsches”

‘

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1974 PAGE7-

eedom

must be avoided. The reaction-
aries are hoping that the people
will allow themselves to be mis-_
guided into actions of. this kind.

“In doing that, the reaction-
aries would have a justification
for its politics of terror, which
.is the only basis for their pow-
ery

“To be a real revolutionary,” it
declares, “means coming from
the starting point of _the real
struggle of the masses, being
ready to meet changing political
situations without trying to
force upon the movement a
schematic approach to struggle;
above all, without dividing the
revolutionaries from the conc-
rete, everyday, patient work
among the thousands and thous-
ands of working people, plain
citizens, women and youth. This

-is the key to success of every

struggle.”

In its closing remarks, the
Communist Party of Chile ex-
presses its firm determination to
make the party function on all
levels. This, the CP says, is the
decisive prerequisite for the res--
toration of democracy, the or-
ganinzation and leadership of
this struggle. : :
- It also pronounces its firm de-
dication to rebuilding the party
organization “ih every district,
shop, community, school, farm
and everywhere where there are
Communists.”