sae a The ongoing reign of terror in El Gohader highlighted here at the massacre which accompanied the funeral last year of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Last minute reports from the area indicate the terror continues un- abated. PHOTO — REYES ZURITA EI Salvador land reform a hoax _ filtrated into these defined areas, leaders exposed and TORONTO — A workers’ delegation representing the Committee for Trade Union Unity of El Salvador is in Canada to present facts and details on the repression -in that country and gain support for the revolutionary struggle underway. Alfonso Martinez, leader of Federation of Trade Unions of Workers in Food, Clothing and Textile Indus- tries and Eugenio Alvarez of the Federation of United Trade Unions told the Tribune their aim here is to ex- pose violations of human rights in their country espe- cially acts aimed against the trade union movement. They cited new laws aimed against unions, strikes and any workers’ demonstrations such as Decree 296 depriv- ing public service employees of the right to organize or strike, Decree 366 under which unions in state institu- tions were disolved, Decree 507 depriving workers from negotiating agreements and Decree 44 permitting the militarization of the workplace. Alvarez explained: ‘‘Decree 44 was passed last Au- gust after the junta was unable to stop the waves of strikes. The new law places public service workers in all areas under direct military law. They are ‘soldiers at the workplace’, governed by martial law. In effect, these workers are under the direct control of the Minister of - Defence. ‘‘But even without Decree 44,’’ Alvarez continued, “the military is in charge everywhere. For example an army major is in charge of security at one television station. He hires private goons, ex-policemen and fotms _ his own vigilante squad.’’ Replying to questions about the junta’s well-pub- licized ‘and reform’ program, both Alvarez and Martinez said it was a myth. ‘‘It’s pure propaganda. All the big estates are intact. ‘* The prime aim of the so-called land reform program - is the pacification of the peasants. It’s a variation of the infamous strategic hamlet campaign used by the U.S. army in Vietnam. *‘As a matter of fact, El Salvador’s ‘land reform’ plan was worked out by the same person who planned the pacification’ program in the Vietnamese countryside, Roy Porsterman.” Martinez said the idea is to concentrate peasants into large defined areas with promises of land. The junta knows that the rural population is active in the resistance and aids the revolutionary forces. Agents are then in- assassinated. ‘* The first civilian-military junta had proposed a land reform program specifying that the maximum land that could be held by an individual would be 150 acres; Martinez continued. ‘‘Of course this was opposed by tht big landowners who own the coffee, sugar and cottol estates. It never happened, how could it?’’, he asked: ‘‘Agrarian reform is the key to resolving the social, political and economic problems of our country. It’s? main demand of the revolutionary forces. It strikes at tht heart of the rufing group.’ Both representatives stressed that the presefll Christian-Democratic civilian president, José Napoled! Duarte, is an instrument of the fascist-military cliqu! which holds real power. ‘There is more than enough evidence to show Duatll is only a front for the Salvadoran ruling class and tht multi-nationals,’’ Martinez charged. ‘‘To defend the! interests they are violently repressing the popull movement with the aim of smashing all resistance. ‘Duarte maintains a state of seige and has suspend de! all constitutional rights. We have martial law, a complet! censorship of all communications. - “Security forces have attacked foreign journalist who show that it is the junta which is responsible for th more than 15,000 killings of defenceless people.”” ‘Alvarez and Martinez described the scope of this @! tack by listing the trade unions leaders kidnapped an assassinated by the junta’s armed forces and para- tary wings. Both men reaffirmed the determination of the popular forces to continue their struggle for social justi@ and are asking for the solidarity of Canadians. They appealled to Canadians to publicly condemn thé military aid being given to the junta by the U.S. which is used against the people. They are asking for public condemnation of U.S. See retary of State Haig’s threat to intervene directly into tht country. And they are asking for public support to bring pressure for the release of jailed union leaders. The Canadian visit comes at a time of growing oppos!” tion to Reagan’s support for the discredited junta. Pres sure is also building on Ottawa to take a clear stand io support of the popular forces and to stop its quiet back ing of the Reagan-Haig line. —= o5 43 ©). = oll wie ne ee ee 5 © Se By FILS DELISLE Tribune Berlin Correspondent BERLIN — Opposition to stationing of mere U.S. rockets in western Europe ‘and to the failure to take up Soviet pres- ident Brezhnev’s proposals on disarma- ment measures and peace negotiations has taken on massive proportions in West Germany. It has in fact become a broad revolt inside the ruling Social Democratic and Free Democrat parties. Among the general public, the extent to which the desire for disarmament and peace has developed was indicated by the more than 25,000 who tured out to greet the meeting of NATO leaders in Bonn with placards and speeches de- nouncing plans to station more nuclear missiles in western Europe while reject- ing Soviet peace proposals. The demonstration, sponsored by peace organizations, the ‘‘Greens”’ (anti-pollution party), Communist Party and others was ad- dressed by prominent West German and foreign personalities. These included the retired Italian general, Nino Pasti, the Bonn theologian, Dr. Walter Kreck, the Finnish member of parliament, Anneli ~ Kivill, the retired West German army colonel, Josef Weber, and a representa- tive from the USA Mobolization for Sur- vival, Terry Provance. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 24, 1981— Page 10 the German ~ They were unanimous that the plan to make West Germany the world’s most thickly sown nuclear missiles’ territory was not a move in the direction of peace but of war, and a one-way ride to self- destruction. Weber declared that ex-president Car- ter’s Directive 59 ‘‘threatend Europe with annihilation’. One of the most significant signs of the new mood in West German social dem- ocratic ranks was the journey ofa delega- ' tion representing the FRG’s large social democratic youth organization, the Young Socialists, to the GDR. Here they signed a formal declaration with the FDJ, the GDR’s socialist youth organization, pledging both sides to work for disarma- ment, for. negotiations to reduce ten- sions, and to prevent the further intro- duction of nuclear missiles in Europe. The FRG’s Young Socialists, in this act, broke through all the restrictions and warnings of the social democratic leader- ship at Bonn. Inside the Social Democratic party it- self, the original revolt of 24 parliamen- tary deputies against the USA’s new nuc- lear missiles planned for NATO coun- tries has taken on proportions unpre- cedented in the postwar years. The demand for the reversal of the decision to accept the new U.S. missiles, and for a positive reaction to the new Soviet proposals on missiles and peace negotiations, extends from the rank- and-file up to sections of the leadership. The right-wing Hamburg news- magazine, Der Spiegel, in its latest issue declares Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has moved to the right on disarmament ahd - Soviet peace proposals. It says that he has clearly ‘‘not understood how deeply anchored is the opposition to new atomic weapons on German soil among his party friends, and it is no longer the left- wingers alone in the SPD who are in a state of ferment’. One of the SPD’s leading national figures, Erhard Eppler, has publicly de- .. clared his strong opposition to the SPD- FDP government’s kowtowing to Washington on the nuclear missiles issue and its failure to respond positively to Soviet proposals. His colleagues in the leadership of the Baden-Wittenberg pro- vincial party leadership have adopted re- solutions supporting Eppler’s position and expressing disapproval of Chancellor Schmidt’s negative stand. This was a most dramatic blow to the SPD and coalition leadership at Bonn. It was followed by similar resolutions adopted by the Munich SPD leadership and by many other SPD bodies too numerous to count or to list. Among th- ese, the Saarland SPD leadership has criticized Bonn’s policy and declared: “‘the stationing of medium-range missiles and Cruise missiles under American con” trol in Europe upsets the balance be: tween the super powers.’ In Cologne, the national vice president of the SPD, H.J. Wischnewski, was not able to stem a revolt among his’ own supporters against the foreigh policies of Chancellor Schmidt. A majof ity of delegates to a Cologne SPD confer’ _ ence demanded that the government re verse its agreement to station the prop” osed missiles on FRG territory. In the ranks of the Free Democrats headed by Foreign Minister Hans- | Dietrich Genscher, a similar revolt haS) developed. The Free Democratic Youth, the party’s youth section, demands an end to the new NATO nuclear missiles’ ; plan and calls for a policy of negotiations: with the USSR. | The dean of the FDP, William Borm, now a venerable 85, led Free Democrat protest against Foreign Ministet Genscher’s endless anti-Sovieteering | with the declaration: ‘‘whoever does not put the Soviet proposals on negotiations | to the test, whoever rejects it without even studying it, draws upon himself the’ suspicion that he does not want t0_ negotiate, but to keep arming at what. ever cost.” wwe st is Ot ~~ =~ crcteoecrm n”2@qo cs 2 Dp Ee