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armies and several of the Saigon
generals are said to be the larg-
est. exporters of opium and
heroin. And here is what Irwin
Silber writes for the Guardian:
“The drug traffic in Southeast
Asia is big business. It’s organ-
ized. It is run by people in the
highest echelons of the puppet
governments of South Vietnam,
Laos and Thailand. And the
U.S. military machine itself is,
at least, an active accomplice in
the entire operation.”

On July 7, 1971, Represen-
tative Robert H. Steele, a for-
mer agent for the CIA, named
Major General Ngo Dzu of the
South Vietnamese Army, aS
“one of the chief traffickers In
heroin in Southeast Asia.” The
Congressman from Connecticut
also pointed out that large
quantities of the drug were os
ing transported “round Sout
Vietnam in military aircraft and
vehicles.” Steele also stated that
General Duane Rathikone, chief
of the Laotian general staff, was
“reportedly involved in the he-
roin traffic.”

With allies like these two
pushers, why do Nixon & Co.
beat around the bush? Why pay
the Turks over 5 million bucks
to quit raising poppies when
acres of the plants are cultiv-
ated right in the area where gun
boys are acquiring the habit?
The only way to solve we
problem is the speedy re
of our troops from Southeas
Asia; keeping them there only
compounds the tragedy.

—Edward Drew Gourley
U.S. Farm News

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New threat to people’s
democratic, civil rights

The Citizens’ Commission of Inquiry
into the War Measures Act that begins
its public hearings in Montreal next
month-might do well to consider extend-
ing its commissioners’ terms of refer-
ence to include an investigation into the
Trudeau government’s secret prepara-
tions of what it calls a “security re-
search group.” ie

This proposed CIA-like civilian secur-
ity agency is the counterpart of repres-
sive legislation such as the War Meas-
ures Act, used last October in Quebec
in an attempt to crush all dissent.

A Canadian civilian spy agency would
go hand in hand with use of the army
against the people — to maintain civil
order, as the federal government puts

it.

But neither a security research group
nor the armed forces can, nor are
they intended to, cope with the prob-
lems created by monopoly. Theirs is no
“design for living.” The Trudeau gov-
ernment, acting for monopoly, plans to
use them in smashing blows against the
rising united protests of organized
workers and farmers, of all working
people against monopoly’s attacks on
their jobs and living standards. _

Trudeau has reversed the position he
took when in 1969 he rejected the Royal
Commission on Security proposal for a
civilian internal security agency. “I
think of the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy in the United States,” he said then,
“snd I wouldn’t want its principles ap-

plied around here.” (The only thing ir-

reversible about the Prime Minister is
that he can be counted on to reverse
every stand he ever took as a self-pro-
nounced civil libertarian.)

With a civilian security agency now
looming hideously as a threat to all its
democratic. rights, organized labor in
Canada can’t keep quiet. In the House
of Commons, New Democratic Party
members must demand the government
fully reveal what purposes have moti-
vated its creation of the sinister secur-

ity research group.

The Berlin accord—
fulcrum for peace

n last week, a quarter century
ake the end of the second World War,
the ambassadors of the Soviet Union,
the USA, Britain and France signed
the agreement on Berlin a long step was
taken to remove a source of friction in
the heart of Europe. “An important
milestone in the political life of Europe
and in international relations as a
whole,” was the way the Soviet envoy
characterized the historic accord.

No one’s ox was gored — there was

no ripoff. It was a true pact, a common -

h mutual benefits that satisfy

t
pet but the revanchist “cold war-

everyone

4 ”?
Recognition that West Berlin, situat-

miles inside theGerman Demo-
of ee Ronn does not belong to West
Germany is the accord’s salient prin-
cipled feature. The four-power agree-
ment will result in improved transit
communications between West Berlin
and both the Federal Republic of Ger-

many and the GDR.

The significance of the accord, how-
ever, far transcends the framework of
Berlin. With ensuing possibilities for
detente in Europe, the way is opened
for ratification by West Germany of the
non-aggression treaties its government
concluded with the Soviet Union and
Poland. Now both a European security
conference, to include the USA and
Canada, and troop reductions in Europe
move up on history’s agenda.

What about our country in all this?

For Canadians, the four-power Berlin
agreement’s objective strengthening of
the forces of peace means we must
press ahead the struggle for an inde-
pendent foreign policy. The accord
boosts the need for Canada to break the
U.S. military grip, to get out of NATO
and NORAD.

It means Canada should now recog-
nize the German Democratic Republic.

For the first time in any four-power
document, the Berlin agreement official-
ly speaks of the GDR and ensures re-
spect for its sovereign rights and inter-
ests. No longer must cold war hang-
overs block normal diplomatic relations
between Canada and the GDR.

Insult to labor

The Kimberly-Clark float in the To-
ronto Labor Day parade was a gross
insult to all organized workers.

The Labor Council of Metropolitan
Toronto, under whose direction the pa-
rade of 14,000 workers was organized,
and the members of International Che-
mical- Workers Union Local 813, whose
name appeared on the “Paper Fash-
ions” float advertising this notorious
U.S.-owned_ strikebreaking company,
owe an explanation. They must fix re-
sponsibility for this outrage and de-
nounce those who perpetrated it.

Two weeks ago 1,500 Peninsula trade

‘unionists united ranks in a great de-

monstration of solidarity with the 200
members of Local 289, International
Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and
Paper Workers on strike in St. Cathar-
ines since July 6 and battling profes-
sional strikebreakers,.hired by the giant
American paper company, as well as
squads of Niagara Regional Police.

What do the Steelworkers, the United
Auto members, Boilermakers, CUPE
members who joined in that demonstra-
tion with the United Electrical Work-
ers, Teamsters and other unionists
think of marching in a Labor Day pa-
rade that advertises a scab company
trying to smash a brother union?

The Toronto Labor Day parade was
intended to mark the 100th anniversary
of the establishment in 1871 of the
Toronto Trades Assembly, precursor of
the present Labor Council. The Kimber-
ly-Clark float stained the commemora-
tion.

In bright contrast the Ironworkers
Local 721 float proclaimed “Jobs Now
—Put Canada to Work,” a CUPE pa-
rade entry called for “Support for all
striking workers,” and Millwrights
Local 2309 float warned “We must stop
suppressive legislation and wage
freeze.”

These floats, and not the Kimberly-
Clark desecration, were worthy of To-
ronto organized labor, of its past his-
tory and of the militant unity in action
it needs now. .

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1971—PAGE 3