By SEAN GRIFFIN _ Only a few months after that day m the middle of September, 1973 When the Allende government was Crushed, Abe Feinglass began “What was ultimately to become a Commission of inquiry into the Status of human rights in Chile With an investigation into the death of the son of a brother unionist, Tank Teruggi Jr., one of three €rican citizens who had been detained by the fascist junta when It seized power. On October 3 the U.S. State Department notified Teruggi of his Son’s death. Five months went by, fach of them filled with telephone Calls and letters, but the depart- Ment offered no information as to the events surrounding the death of the young American who had been Studying in Allende’s Chile. In Chile itself, when Teruggi Sr. arrived there as a member of the Commission of inquiry, the silence Was broken. Although still disclaiming any knowledge of the Young Teruggi’s plight after his arrest, the ‘U.S. consul-general ‘Slated that he had been shot by a Stiper and added that ‘che must ave been out after curfew.” But when Teruggi’s body was found, it had 17 bullet holes across the chest. Like thousands of Chileans, Caught in Pinochet’s reign of lerror, he had been machine- pred to death. And also like Ousands of Chileans, as_ the Netherlands embassy later con- ‘tmed, only after days of torture M the national stadium in San- ~ tiago. : toa etat is the fate of all Chile Oday,” Feinglass told his audience ta rally in the Unitarian Church NM Vancouver last Sunday. ‘‘Chile Sone huge concentration camp.” '. Marking the second anniversary Of the fascist coup in Chile, Sun- aes rally was organized by the anadians for Democracy in Chile ‘conjunction with the Vancouver and District Labor Council and the ancouver Chilean Association. €inglass, international vice- President of the Amalgamated : fatcutters and chairman of: the nanmission of inquiry into human pes in.Chile which left Chicago ebruary, 1974, was the featured _ Speaker along with Gilberto Yanadel, a CUT representative ae in exile in Norway. . We saw the doors of CUT — the ub en the fascist junta seized Chile on as Victims of its reign of terror was Central Chilean Labor Federation — padlocked. Trade unionists told us of the reign of terror and the mass hunger that followed the dismissal of 150,000 workers,”’ Feinglass said. “We finally gained access to a prison — we were forbidden to see Dawson Island — and were met there by a colonel and six soldiers. All of them carried machine guns made in the U.S. Two hundred and eighty-three political prisoners were held there, many of them incommunicado. Most of them never saw the sun.”’ Only after he was able to get the colonel away for a brief moment, Feinglass noted, were the other members. of the inquiry com- mission able to catch a glimpse of the terror that is always present behind the fascist mask of legality. The colonel’s attention away, the prisoners lifted up their shirts. Their: bodies were riddled with knife wounds and burns. ‘Even the stevedores union which had been hostile to the Allende regime, suffered at the hands_of the junta. The union had hoped by its position to maintain its privileges under the fascist regime but when it confronted the regime with its” demands, the response was the same. Four executive board members of the union were taken and summarily shot. The commission’s efforts to gain entry to Chile initially were also clear indication of the complicity of the U.S. in-the fascist general’s coup, Feinglass pointed out. After: writing to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger outlining the purpose of the commission, Feinglass received a reply. With characteristic hypocrisy, Kissinger wrote: ‘“‘The position of America on human rights is quite clear around the world; we don’t interfere with the internal affairs of other countries.” “After it was .shown that $11,000,000 had been provided to try and subvert the Allende govern- ‘ment, after the CIA attempted to buy off the Chilean Congress, Kissinger has the gall to say ‘we don’t interfere....’’” Feinglass declared. “It was American guns — and perhaps Canadian guns — that were turned on the Chilean people,” he said. Feinglass noted that there were : ARITY WITH ee September 11, 1973, among the folksinger and composer Victor fa who died, along with thousands of other Chilean patriots, in the _ regime in Chile FEINGLASS CALLS FOR CHILE SOLIDARITY 'We cannot remain | Abe Feinglass holds up a Chilean escudo which has shrunk to only one-tenth of ‘its value a year ago as inflation has swept fascist Chile. Feinglass spoke last Sunday at a rally in Vancouver marking the second anniversary of the September 11 coup. (See story). still many people who did not recognize the tragedy of Chile* but added that the very fact of the audiences who had come to hear. him and others indicated that “there is hope, that people care. “We must say to the U.S. and Canadian governments: “Not one gun for Chile,’ ” he declared. “And we have to follow the lead of the Australian workers who refused to_ load ships bound for chile. “Tf we remain silent, we ensure our complicity with the terrible yr The need for solidarity actions around the world was also em- phasized by CUT representative Gilberto Oyanadel who called for an international boycott of goods to and from Chile. “The more we isolate the fascist junta, the sooner it will fall,” he stated: He also pointed to the growing strength of the resistance movement in Chile which is organizing in the face of barbaric repression. ° In July, construction workers rallied together to voice their opposition to the new labor code drafted by the junta to further enslave Chilean labor. In defiance of the authorities, the workers wound up their meeting with the singing of their labor federation hymn written by martyred Chilean ee national stadium in Santiago. Last Sunday, Cormoran, a song group folk singer Victor Jara. In the same month, wives and children of striking coal miners barred the way to police ‘and soldiers and prevented what would have been a massacre of the strikers. \ “Throughout the country, there are numerous resistance movements — even traitorous leaders are beginning to make statements against the junta,” Oyanadel noted. ‘“‘Nevertheless,’’ he stressed, “Hersecution is rampant. Even now, 14 leaders of the copper miners are being tortured. The life of Luis Corvalan, general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile, is in danger. And with more than three million Chileans having no access to food, the junta is proceeding with its sinister campaign of hunger against the people.” He called ‘for world support for the food shipment being organized by the International Labor Organization of the UN which will leave for France for Chile later this year. + Coupled with the international campaign for a boycott, the food ship project is a major part of the work of CUT abroad. ‘‘Our people are dying of hunger while the fascists export food,’’ Oyanadel stated. ANTI-FASCIS organized by the Vancouver Chilean Association, paid homage to Jara : ; PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 12, 1975—Page 3 and to other Chilean singers. More than $2,800 was raised at Sunday’s meeting, the proceeds of which will go toward the food ship project. Of that amount, ap- ~ proximately half was cash with the rest in pledges. All those who pledged donations are asked to send them to Canadians for Democracy in Chile. P.O. Box 65664, Station F, Vancouver. Several organizations were also represented on the platform at Sunday’s rally including Harold Steves, NDP MLA for Richmond; Ron Johnson, research director of the B.C. Federation of Labor; Jack Lawrence, secretary of the Van- couver and District Labor Council; Nigel Morgan, secretary of the Communist Party; and Elspeth . Gardiner, president of Canadians for Democracy in Chile. Van- couver Labor Council president Syd Thompson chaired the meeting. Two resolutions were also adopted, with the first calling on the federal government to cease all financial aid to the junta, to allow entry into Canada of more refugees and to. press the UN for greater safeguards in Chile of human rights. The second, addressed to the Chilean embassy and to Pinochet, — reaffirmed opposition to the junta: and its open violations of human rights and pledged its efforts to give moral and material support to the resistance movement within Chile. New appeals for Corvalan The life of Luis Corvalan, general secretary of the Com- munist Party of Chile, remains in grave danger. World-wide pressure forced the fascist junta to allow him a serious operation he so badly needed, but immediately. following the operation he was interned once again, this time in the concentration camp at Ritoque. He is subject to the worst possible conditions and is being denied the medical attention necessary to recuperate. The junta’s actions are tan- tamount to a death sentence for Corvalan, and stepped up world- wide activity to ensure his wellbeing and release is more urgently needed now than ever..