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FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1971

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By DON STEWART

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Glass © aiding the Dominion

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Dlant hemPany s Chappel Street

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herding for bosses

throwing them to the ground.
Bight hundred Hamilton
workers in the Dominion Glass
plant here have been on strike
since June 17. Two other
Dominion Glass factories, at
Bramalea and Montreal, are also

on strike.

Local 203 President Don
Gibson said the company would
like, with the aid of the police, to
provoke violence on the picket
line in order to obtain an

injunction restricting the
number of pickets at each of the
gates.

The Dominion Glass Company
in Hamilton is notorious for its
anti-union attitude. It has long

been known for its sweat shop

conditions and low wages.

Top wage for female workers
is $2.52 an hour, with $2.90 the
average wage for the men. Even
if the workers win their full
wage demand, it would only
bring the male rate up to $3.65
and $3.20 for the women
workers, in a two-year

agreement. The striking glass
workers are also fighting for a
fully-paid pension plan, and

complete coverage under their
health and welfare plan.

Stating that the morale of the
membership is good, and that
attempts by the press 1n
Hamilton to paint a picture of
disunity between leadership and
membership were musrep-
resentations, the Local 203
president said that, although
there are differences of opinion
at times, ““we nevertheless are
united and determined to win

this struggle.”

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Vol. 32, No. 29

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By TOM McEWEN

U.S. President Nixon’s
“stunning surprise’ announce-
ment on his visit to the Peoples
Republic of China next year,
possibly in May of ’72 — a trip
described in Establishment
news media as a ‘“‘journey for
peace’’, opens. up a large
‘‘Pandora’s Box’’ of well-
founded suspicions? -

The major question on the lips
of millions since Nixon made
known his “‘journey for peace”’
to China is, — will the Nixon visit
advance the cause of peace, or
greatly escalate the danger of
world conflict? From all past
performances, now confirmed
by publication of the Pentagon
war conspiricies, this mission
will be primarily that of
fomenting hostility, violence and
war, under the guise of seeking
“‘peace”’.

The normalization of relations
between the U.S. and People’s
China is, of course, an event to
be highly welcomed. That
however is marred by the fact
that U.S. bombing and killing in
Vietnam and other areas of Indo-
china still continue unabated, as
does Nixon’s rejection of any
and every proposal for peace by
representatives of the Vietna-
mese people in Paris and
elsewhere — even the growing
demands for peace by the U.S.
people themselves. This in
addition to world-wide peace
demands, that the U.S. get out of
Vietnam NOW, and call a halt to

its murderous aggression
without further delay or
procrastination.

Hitherto U.S. long-range

foreign policy in Indochina and
Asia generally, has been to
secure, via puppet govern-
ments, coupled with aggression
against the Asian peoples, to
secure bases of operation,
primarily against the Republic
of-China— ‘‘the enemy’’. Thus in
that context alone, Nixon’s
“stunning” switch is highly
suspect?

Then there is the issue of
Taiwan (Formosa) and its U.S.
puppet Chiang Kia-shek, set up,
financed and maintained by U.S.
dollars and arms, specifically
for the ‘‘invasion’’ (and
recapture) of the Chinese main-
land! Within the context of its
switch in policy (if switch there
be?), Chiang is slated for the
garbage dump, and the island of
Formosa itself a dumping
ground for nuclear weapons,
poison gasses, bacteriological
weapons, etc., presently stored
on the Japanese -Island of

Okinawa, and which, the U.S.
.must now move to a new locale.
Who were these stockpiles of
deadly weapons aimed against,
if not the People’s Republic of
China— “‘the enemy’’?

The major question on the lips
of millions since Nixon made
known his ‘‘journey for peace”’
to China is— will the Nixon visit
advance the cause of peace, or
greatly escalate the danger of
world conflict? From all past
performances, now confirmed
by publication of the Pentagon
war conspiracies, this mission
will be primarily that of
fomenting hostility, violence and
war, under the guise of seeking
“Deace”’.

There is also and not the least
important, the well-founded
suspicion that in Nixon’s
“journey for peace’ to China,
U.S. imperialism hopes to secure
a war “‘ally’’ against the Soviet
Union — a diabolical hope long
nursed by U.S. imperialism and
revealed by  ex-president
Truman at the beginning of
World War II; viz, that they
strive to steer Hitler against the
Soviet Union, have these two
powers ‘‘tear each other’s guts
out, than we (the U.S. Britain
and France, Ed.) step in and
clean up on the remains.”’
History shattered that ‘‘hope’’,
and left world imperialism
reliant upon the Soviet Union for
final victory over German
fascism.

Then there is the burning need
of U.S. imperialism for a ‘‘face
saver’’ to cover up the debacle it
has suffered in Vietnam, Laos
and Cambodia. Probably Nixon
hoped that that too may be found
in his ‘‘journey for peace’’. But
already the Vietnamese have
made it known world-wide, that
any “‘deals’’ Nixon may make in
Peking won’t apply to the Viet-
namese or halt their heroic
struggle for independence and
the right to run their own affairs.

Lastly, but by no means least,
is Nixon’s fate in next year’s
presidential elections. As a
pilgrim ‘‘journeying for peace”’
his chances would be greatly
enhanced, but his ‘credibility
gap’’, is much too wide, wider
even since the publication of the
Pentagon papers, and too odious
to forget — even at the ballot
box. And the people of China
have a long acquaintance with
foreign liars who come bearing
“‘gifts’’ of a spurious “‘peace’’.

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