W. Berlin turned imio armed camp Use of West Berlin by the West as an armed NATO bridgehead within the territory of the GDR is the reat source of “crisis” in that city. Map below shows loca- tion of Western military and intelligence placements in West Berlin. 1-5: Barracks for French troops, 6: Barracks for British troops, 7-9: Barracks for U.S. Army and Air Force, 10: U.S. Headquarters, 11: U.S. Document Centre, 12-18; Armored tank tracks, 19-25: Manoeuvre grounds for infantry, artillery, munitions depots, 29: U.S. Air Force base, Tempelhof, 30: British military airport, Gatow, 31: French military airport, Tegel, 32: Nuclear arms depot (planned), 33-35: U.S. Secret Service centres, 36: Central office of the British Secret Ser- vice. 37: Central office of the French Secret Service, 38: ‘NTS. Emigrants’ diversive activities organization, 39-44: Centres of the most important West German and West Berlin Secret Service or espionage organizations and spy recruiting centres, 45-46: Bases from which propaganda balloons are sent up, 47; RIAS, U.S. radio station, 48-52: Main centres of production of war materials. 48: Telefunken AG, 49 Berliner Maschinenbau AG, 50: the Jackenkroll Company. 51: Branch of Telefunken AG, 52: Askania Works). DUTCH RENEGED ON PACT President Sukarno of Indo- nesia: has made it clear that his country will use force if necessary to restore the Dutch colony of West Irian (West New Guinea) to Indonesia. On what grounds does Indon- esia justify such action? West Irian, with a popula- tion of 700,000 and an area of 160,000 square miles, con- sists of the western half of the large island of New Guinea, just north of Austra- lia. The eastern half of the is- land, divided into Papua and New Guinea Territory, is ad- ministered by Australia. Indonesia itself, a densely populated — it has 90 million people — series. of islands lying between Australia and southeast Asia, won its free- dom from Dutch colonial rule in 1945. Four years later the young Republic and The Nether- lands signed an agreement whereby the Dutch agreed to hand over West Irian. How- ever, this agreement has nev- er been lived up to and The Netherlands has maintained its armed occupation of an Indonesian territory. Like colonialists everywhere, the Dutch are hanging on as long as they can while plotting to regain control of their lost holdings. te * as West Irian is rich in na- tural wealth — oil, gold, cop- per, chromium, nickel, iron, cobalt and uranium — and so is a source of huge profits for Dutch interests. Lately Ford workers gain increases in east after militant stand A new three-year contract with Ford of Canada was ratified recently by union membership meetings in Oakville, Windsor and Toronto. Settlement was reached be- tween Ford and the United Auto Workers’ union six hours after a strike deadline of Jan. 12 and picket lines were maintained throughout the following weekend pend- ing ratification meetings. Workers at Ford’s Oakville plant struck two days before the Jan. 12 deadline and their militancy is credited with having played a big role in forcing Ford management to ’ sign the new pact. The new agreement paral- lels closely the contract sign- ed earlier by the UAW with General Motors of Canada. It provides for higher pensions, improvements in supplemen- tary unemployment benefits and company-paid insurance plans, as well as annual wage increases of six cents an hour or 2% percent, whichever is greater. EXCEEDS GM However, the Ford settle- ment exceeded the GM agree- ment in a few areas. Among these were adjustments of five and 10 cents an hour for approximately 300 skilled tradesmen and special supple- mentary unemployment al- lowances for workers on long layoffs who exhaust their un- employment Insurance. Life insurance was increas- ed as was the maximum weekly sickness and accident benefits from $40 to $55 — an area where Ford had been behind GM. As at GM, Ford will pay one-half the cost of medical and hospital benefits for pen- sioners. A one-cent-an-hour cost-of-living: increase that would have become effective Jan. 15, 1962, is diverted to pay for the company’s share of medical care costs for pen- sioners. Ford continues to pay the full costs of the plan for em- ployees, whereas GM only ad- ‘opted this principle in its lat- est agreement. One Oakville worker said that while the union leader- ship had hailed the Ford con- tract as the best ever, it was basically a monetary settle- ment and did nothing on the burning questions of speed-up or working conditions. He also commented on. po- lice violence that erupted on the first morning of the strike at the Oakville plant. ; The Oakville-Trafalgar po- lice, he said, had used rough- ing-up tactics on the picket- ers, resulting in one striker being confined in hospital for two days. Although police disclaim responsibility for the man’s injuries, witnesses claim he was hit on the head by a police billy. One police- man was said to have threat- ened to use his gun. - CHRYSLER NEXT With contracts signed at GM and Ford, UAW bargain- ing will now be concentrated on the Chrysler Corp. of Can- ada. A conciliation board is scheduled for Jan. 24 and Chrysler workers have §al- ready voted for strike action if necessary by an overwhel- ming majority. | A report from Windsor in- dicates no progress has been made so far with Chrysler in negotiations. It also adds that Chrysler’s Chatham plant has reduced its work force from 450 to 89 and investigation has re- vealed that Chrysler may en- ‘Indonesia's claim to West rian is fully justitied big American corporations have also been moving: in. They now control oil and ur- anium extraction and also ship nickel, cobalt and iron to the U.S. The giant U.S. Steel Cor- poration is reportedly plan- ning to invest $180 million in mineral production in the area. Since forced labor is used in the mines, production costs are low and profits: cor- respondingly high. The Dutch have been using West Irian as a base for sub- version, sabotage and armed military bases in the country of their ground, naval and air raids against Indonesia. In recent months they have un- dertaken a big build-up of forces in West Irian for what the Indonesians believe will be an all-out attack on their republic. The U.S. also has and is giving full military support to the Dutch. What about the people of West Irian? To most of the. population, schools, doctors and hospitals are unknown. After centuries of Dutch rule there are said to be only 57 physicians in this huge territory, almost one half the size of B.C, Thousands die from under- nourishment and hua ger. There is even a special law forbidding the rural popula: tality is 30-40 percent. Civil and political liberties 4T WAS TOO LATE’ Pastor Niemoller, fam- ous German Lutheran clergyman, said after his release from Nazi concen- tration camp at the war's end: 5 “Tt saw the Communist Party banned but did nothing. I saw the trade unions smashed and did nothing. I saw the Jews persecuted and did noth- ing. But when my church was attacked I spoke up, but then it was too late.” under UN trusteeship. T -proposal has the support - tion to buy rice? Child mor-} for the population are no existent. The forced labor f native people must under in the mines and on the pla tations. makes them lit better than slaves. : The people of West Iria led by the banned Irianian- donesian Independence Par have consistently fought {0 . their freedom by every means. Strikes and sabota are frequent, while partis detachments wage gueri warfare: % ‘* * Faced with the firm det mination of Indonesia to 1 erate West Irian, the Dutel are resorting to various ruses to retain their hold. They are changing. t name of West Irian to We Papua, setting it up as a sé arate state with its own fl and national anthem and placing the Indonesian 1 guage with Dutch. They hav& also gone through the far of setting up a ‘local gove ment,” the New Guinea Cou cil, assuring their control appointing 26 of its 28 me bers. In the UN they have prop ed that West Irian should b& internationalized or plac the US which sees itself co! trolling West: Irian throu the UN just as it today det mines UN policy in the Co £0. od The Indonesian parliame on October 13 answered the US and Dutch proposals with this unanimous resolution: _ “Dutch colonialism in West Irian is a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the R@ — public of Indonesia. “We reject the proposal of the Dutch colonial regime We reject any form of intel nationalisation of West It ian, for it diminishes and violates the integrity of the - territory of the Republe of In’ donesia and will not briné about a solution, but indeed will become a source of big ger tension in this part the world.” . : ° THE FISHERMAN — “7 act a one-week shut-down of |} plants two and three ee a |e mass layoff. Down comes | hated symb of the past To get rid of the vestiges of French scionialism, th? people of Mali pulled down 4 bronze statue of Borgnis Des bordes, which stood in the centre of Bamako, the capi tal of the new-born Africa? republic. ’ Borgnis Desbordes (1839 1900) was among the first | group of French colonial army officers’ who invodt Mali in 1883. Photo on the left shows | the bronze statue as it fe from its base. The event w@” | greeted by the people of M as ending a hated lanes: of * a hated ‘era. January 26, 1962—PACIFIC_TRIBUNE—Page.