PORT-AU-PRINCE — The
appointment of a new cabinet by
Jean Claude Duvalier, lifetime
President of Haiti and political

heir of dictator Francois

Valier, is another farce and in
NO way a liberalization of the dic-
latorship. Such is the opinion of
Several Haitian exiles who add
that a supposed liberationization

1s impossible within the
famework of the Duvalier
Tegime.
The election of a reactionary
and corrupt cabinet is in keeping
With the deterioration of the Hai-
tan economic situation and with
the policy of continuing to sell the
Country out to foreign interests,

aitian commentators point. out. .

aiti has a per capita income of
80. a year and a gross national
Product of $150. per inhabitant.

Inflation has cut workers wages
by 30% in the last year and the
Minimunrsalary of 6 gourdes (one
80urde is equal to 0.20 cents of a
dollar) is violated even by the
80Vernment. More than $13-mil-
lion (about 15% of the develop-
Ment budget) will be earmarked
Or the construction of a tele-
Phone network benefitting one
housand persons in Port-Au-

Nce.

Agriculture, which makes up

© of the gross national product
and employs 80% of the popula-
tion, will receive scarcely 7.6% of
the development budget; plans
Or the future rest on international
assistance from countries such as

anada, Israel, Taiwan, the Fed-
€tal Republic of Germany and the

Nited States, which have facili-
tated several million dollars in five
years.

Education has virtually been
turned over to foreign interests
and its development depends on
the “aid” of foreign religious or-
8anizations and of countries such
4s Canada and France.

In regards to the political and

b There has been swift rejection
ae a number of British trade
Nions of the recent wage control
’greement between the Labor
80Vernment and Trade Union
Ongress executive council. The
€al limits wage increases for
Ntish workers to a maximum £4
“Week for the highest paid.
he Lancashire miners’ union,
4Section of the engineering union,
the CPSA, (Britain’s largest civil
Service union), the Glasgow
‘Tades Council and the Associa-
ton of Scientific, Technical and
anagerial Staffs (ASTMS) have
rejected the controls.
he rejections of the policy
pean a strong opposition could be
as by the time of the Trades
nion Congress (TUC) special
Conference June 16, at which
‘hion delegates will vote on the
4ge controls plan.

Delegates from the ASTMS,
ich represents more than
,000 workers, have instructed

their representatives to the June
Meeting to vote against the

Wage deal.
€ association, in its resolu-

social situation in Haiti, every-
thing indicates that the Duvalier
regime continues to jail patriots
and all who protest against the
state of poverty in which they are
living.

Meanwhile, many peasants
continue to expose themselves to
repression by the Tontons
Macoutes by denouncing the

abuses committed against them

and the disappearance of those
who protest.

The Haiti of Jean Claude is the
same as the Haiti of Francois
Duvalier, the possible difference
being the anti-Duvalier unity aris-
ing at home and outside several
Haitians living abroad affirm.

— PRENSA LATINA

Haiti’s illiteracy rate is 86% and
only one third of a million school-
age children attend classes.

Peron charged
on fund mishandling

BUENOS AIRES—Former '

Argentine president Isabel Peron
has been indicted on charges of
mishandling public funds. She
was charged along with three
other people prominent in her re-
gime, which was ousted by a
military coup earlier this year.

The indictments were issued in
Argentina by a federal judge in
charge of investigating alleged ir-
regularities in the Crusade of Sol-
idarity, a charity organization
which Peron headed. It is alleged
that she used charity funds for
personal expenditures.

Also indicted were former wel-
fare minister, Jose Lopez Rega,
his daughter, Norma Lastiri and
her husband, former con-
gressman Raul Lastiri. Rega is
now living in Spain, after slipping
out of Argentina when the crisis in
Peron’s administration was
heightening.

tion condemning the deal, ex-
pressed “‘its concern that the
latest discussions on economic
policy still have not come to grips
with the unacceptable level of
unemployment.”

It called for fundamental
changes in economic policy con-
cerning imports and trade, manu-
facturing growth and redistribu-
tion of income, wealth and
economic power.

The general secretary of the
TASS section of engineering
union said the agreement provid-
ed ‘‘an unfortunate anniversary of
the general strike”’ (nation-wide
strike led by miners in Britain in
1926), and would mean ‘‘an even
greater reduction in the living of
working people.” :

The Lancashire miners’ deci-
sion took place at their annual
conference. A statement by their
national executive supporting the
government’s pay strategy was

defeated.
A unanimous condemnation of

the wage deal took place at a
meeting of the Glasgow Trades

Council.

‘ Pc MR TD

‘It’s time to fight back!’
say Ontario hospital workers

TORONTO — A province-
wide strike in Ontario’s hospitals
seemed inevitable May 14, as
conciliation talks between the
Health-Care Workers Co-
ordinating Committee of the
Canadian Union of Public
Employees and the central
negotiating committee of Ontario
Hospitals broke down.

The conciliation efforts which
began at 10 a.m. May 14 were all
over by 12:15 as representatives
for the hospitals told the union
negotiators that they weren’t pre-
pared to move from their $60 a
month take-it-or leave it offer.
The union is asking for a $170 a
month increase. This figure will
allow the hospital workers to
keep up the same wage differen-
tial presently existing with regis-
tered nurses in the province’s
hospitals.

Hiding behind the AIB, cut-
backs, and the Hospital Arbitra-
tion Dispute Act, the hospitals are

“also refusing to move on the

LABOR

SCENE

By BRUCE MAGNUSON

union’s demands for standardized
sick leave in all locals, a job sec-
urity package, including a clause
prohibiting contracting out .of
work or demotions and lay offs
prompted by technological
change, and improved vacations.

The union sees the hospital’s
sluggishness in negotiations as a
tactic to destroy the hard fought-
for province-wide negotiations.

In aunion bulletin sent out to all
the locals calling for hospital
workers all across Ontario to en-
dorse the bargaining committee’s
call for a strike June 17, the com-
mittee says: ‘‘We fought long and
hard to reach the day when all
hospital workers could negotiate
at one bargaining table. Hospital
management and the provincial
government would like nothing
better than to see us give up the
fight.

‘‘Hospital workers are not go-
ing to be the scapegoats for gov-
ernment inefficiency,’’ the Union
said. “‘It is time to fight back.”

keep
presently existing with the
province's registered nurses.

‘

Ontario hospital workers wantto
the same _ differential

A behavior code
for multinationals

The international community

has finally come around to the im-

' portant task of drafting a code of
behavior for multi-national com-
panies. The Second Session of
the Committee on Multi-national
Companies operating within the
UN system took place in Lima,
Peru, from March 1 to 12.

The operations of these multi-
national corporations has become
amain concern of large social stra-
ta and, consequently, of national
governments within the capitalist

| sector of the world. This is so be-
cause these giant monopolies
bear the decisive responsibility
for continuation of the economic
crisis, evidenced by growing un-
employment and inflation. They
are also responsible for under-
development and for the growing
gap between the rich and poor na-
tions.

Moreover, recent exposures of
scandalous corruption practised
by big companies like the Loc-
kheed Corporation of the U.S.
has caused universal anger and
revulsion.

As a direct result of this, and
despite a whole range of ques-
tions relating to multi-nationals
on the agenda at Lima, discussion
centred from the outset on draft-
ing an international code of be-
havior for multi-nationals, on the
extent to which priority should be
given to this in the Committee’s
program, and on the procedure
for carrying it out.

Control of Multi-nationals

The debate on these points un-
folded between the representa-
tives of socialist countries, those of
developing countries and the trade
unions, on the one hand, and the

representatives of imperialist gov- .

ernments and multi-national com-
panies, on the other. The former
declare for giving priority to the
elaboration of an international in-

strument putting the multi-
nationals under real control,
while the latter propose other
priorities.

In this first ‘‘round’’, the
spokesmen of multi-national
companies were unable to hold
their ground. Indeed the work
program adopted establishes that
the task of formulating a code of
behavior should receive “‘the
highest priority’’. This also im-
plies a time limit for compiling the
code that does not go beyond the
Fourth Session of the Committee,
that is, the year 1977.

This first favorable result was
achieved due in important mea-
sure to the trade unions’ contribu-
tion.

- The World Federation of Trade
Unions’ delegation, composed of
A. Masetti of the Economic and
Social Department, C. De Angeli,
WFTU permanent representative
at the International Labor Office,
E. De Maio, representative at the
United Nations, and J. Castillo,
secretary of the CGT of Pern,
presented an important statement
of the WFTU to the Committee.

The statement offers a com-
plete pattern for an international
instrument of control over multi-
national companies, seen as the
pivot of a new world economic
order geared to universal
economic and social develop-
ment. This content of the WFTU
document is in keeping with the
most Vital interests of the workers
and people of every country,
whose support is needed both to
impose a real instrument of con-
trol over multi-nationals and en-
sure that it is respected.

Closer Cooperation

Through this document, pub-
lished in the journal World Trade
Union Movement (No. 4, 1976),
as well as through the active par-
ticipation of its delegation in the

Committee’s work, the WFTU
helped the Committee to form a
more adequate idea of the indis-
pensable knowledge and exper-
ience it can obtain for the purpose
of closer cooperation with the
WFTU and the _ international
(world) trade union movement as
a whole.

The WFTU at its 8th World
Trade Union Congress approved
a Charter of Trade Unions Rights
and Workers’ Economic and So-
cial Demands, including:

e each country to exercise na-
tional sovereignty over its natural
resources; the underdeveloped
countries to have the sovereign
right to see it that foreign capital is
used according to the require-
ments of national development,
and nationalize the enterprises
owned by foreign capital;

e democratic control with the
participation of the trade unions,
making it possible to have a say in
the policy of the big multi-national
companies and in control over the
movement of capital;

e ending all discrimination on
account of differences in social .
and economic system, so that in-
ternational cooperation may fulfill
its mission;

ea reform of the international
monetary system to end the
domination of international finan-
cial groups and prevent profiteer-
ing by multi-national companies;

e guaranteeing and extending
trade union and democratic free-
doms and rights.

Indeed a program worth
fighting for and a program requir-
ing the earliest possible achieve-
ment of world trade union unity in
the struggle against imperialism
and for the extension of peoples’
liberation, development, exten-
sion of democracy, national inde-
pendence and peace.

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