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“The Canadian government has yet to condemn the U.S.
aggression against Vietnam. It remained silent when the ag-
8ression was launched against Cambodia. This silence, bought
With the blood-money of Canada’s complicity, must now be

“All over the world people are demanding of their govern-
ments that this latest criminal action of the rulers of the U.S.
to extend their dirty war in Southeast Asia be condemned in the
strongest possible terms. For our part, the Communist Party
WUT

Ask Ontario labor meet
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On. of _Labor and the

Canadian Labor Congress to
alert all their affiliates to the
clear and present danger of an
all-out wage freeze campaign
by organized management in
Canada so that this damnable
program, exploiting as it does
the contrived unemployment in
this country, may be stopped in
its tracks.”

Asked for his reactions to the
UAW call for an emergency
OFL convention, David Archer,
president of the OFL told the

Pe ess

Canadian Tribune, “I' share” thé
concern of the UAW. The manu-
facturers are undobutedly tak-
ing advantage of the unemploy-
ment situation. The Trudeau
government created the massive
unemployment of today pre-
cisely so that manufacturers
could use it to drive down
wages.”

On Jan. 28, two days before
the Canadian UAW Council be-
gan its weekend meeting, 600
United Rubber Worker mem-
bers, production and office em-
ployees at the Whitby tire plant
of Dunlop, Canada Ltd. voted
to accept a one-year wage
freeze. A few days earlier, 870
members of UAW Local 984 at
Canadian Acme, Screw and
Gear Ltd. in Weston accepted
an 18-months wage freeze, as
the alternative to the company’s
threatened permanent closure of
that plant.

These and similar develop-
ments were noted by Gordon
Lambert, head of the UAW-GM
negotiating committee.

“We felt the fight against
such things as have happened
at Canadian Acme and in the
looming plant closure at Eaton
Automotive in London, as well
as in other places outside the
UAW like Dunlop, is a very’
urgent matter,’ he said. ‘‘Al-
though the UAW itself can put
up a fight and help to lead the
way, this situation has to be
taken on by the entire organ-
ized labor movement.”

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HALT NIXON'S ESCALATION OF WAR!

“The criminal invasion of Laos by U.S. and South Viet-
pees troops is another glaring example of President Nixon’s
> ameless duplicity,” the Central Executive of the Communist

arty declared on Tuesday. “Hand in hand with his so-called
pithdrawal of American troops from Vietnam he sent U.S.
Toops into Cambodia, now followed by full-scale invasion of

has today wired Prime Minister Trudeau demanding that the
Canadian government immediately condemn this U.S. action.
We have demanded also that the Canadian government take
immediate steps to place this matter before the United Nations
Security Council.

“It must be crystal clear to everybody now that Nixon has
no intention of a U.S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia. His
main concern is to trick the American people and people every-
where in the western world as to the real intentions of U.S.
imperialism in this sector of Asia. The U.S. imperialists are
hell-bent on turning all of Southeast Asia into a slaughterhouse
in the vain hope of subjecting the peoples of Vietnam, Cam-
bodia and Laos as vassals of U.S. monopolists, to reap super-

profits from forced cheap labor and the riches of their countries.
This must not be allowed to happen.”

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‘We were trained for it’
GI's relate war crimes

By WILLIAM ALLAN

DETROIT — Former U.S. pri-
soners of war in Vietnam held
the spotlight the second day of
war crimes hearings being con-
ducted here as part of a Winter
Soldier investigation by former
U.S. GI’s. Sunday’s testimony by
more than a score of GI’s, most-
ly marines, told a_ horrifying
story of genocide practiced in
Vietnam. Many of the 1,000
listeners sat in shocked silence.
Some openly wept, others in
anger left the hearing to make
way for hundreds waiting in
line for their turn to get in.

George Smith, special servic-
es member and a prisoner of
war for two years, 1965-67, said
the whole time he was a POW
hé never was mistreated, “Even
though: I was an arrogant pri-
soner. Brainwashed before I
went over, in Fort Bragg where
officers told us, ‘the Vietnamese
are nothing, less than human,
it’s not much of a war, but it’s
the best we have, and you'll
have to make the best of it’.”

Stephen Noetzel, who was in
special services, psychological
warfare, testified he was at an
air field in Can Tho, hitching a
ride to Saigon. Five helicopters
consisting of two HU 121’s and
three gunships arrived to trans-
port 16 Vietcong prisoners to
Tan Son Nhut in Saigon. He re-
ceived permission to ride to
Saigon in one of the gunships.
Eight of the prisoners were
placed in each of the HU 121’s
with their hands tied behind
their backs and each eight pri-
soners were tethered together.
The VC prisoners were being
guarded by 16 ARVN soldiers
and accompanied by two Ame-
rican soldiers. The prisoners
were being transferred to Saigon
for rehabilitation, after months
of interrogation.

He testified that when they
reached Saigon only three pri-

soners were on one helicopter
and only one'on the other. Noe-
tzel said he was so shocked he
asked a U.S. officer what had
happened, and he said the pri-
soners tried to “escape” during
the flight. One of the American
crewmen took him to the door
of the holicopter and showed
him the door. “There were

pieces of flesh on the inside of
the door frame near the floor.
On the floor itself, I saw wet
blood and a door gunner told
me that the flesh was from the
hands of a prisoner who was
trying to ‘hold on’ as he was
being pushed out. I did not ask
him how the man had gotten
his hands untied because he
acted embarrassed and uneasy.”
Noetzel said such cases as he
saw around were not “isolated
cases of individual criminal
acts, committed by a few sick
and battle fatigued GI’s, but ra-
ther they were war crimes and
atrocities which were a com-
mon occurence in Vietnam, and
that they were a result of a bru-
tal de facto command policy
which encouraged the use of

such for military advantage.”
Noetzel said, however, the
real criminals were General
Westmoreland and Abrams and
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Crisis is deepening

Workers must fight back

By WILLIAM KASHTAN

The latest report that over
three-quarters of a million work-
ers are on unemployment insur-
ance indicates the depth of the
crisis Canada is in. This startling
figure was admitted by Acting
Prime Minister Sharp in the
House of Commons debate. It
does not give the entire picture
because not all the jobless are
on unemployment insurance.

In light of this, it is nothing
short of criminal for the govern-
ment to continue pretending it is
coping with the problem of un-
employment when in fact it is
doing very little about it.

The recent Benson budget was

merely a pebble on the beach and
not a serious attack on rising
unemployment. In fact, its main
purpose was to create an impres-
sion the government is doing
something about the problem
while it plays for time in the
hope that by spring unemploy-
ment will have declined.

What grounds are there for
such optimism on the part of the
government? Very little. The
fact that prices dropped tempor-
arily does not mean at all that
inflation has been licked, as Tru-
deau pretends. The latest figure
on unemployment indicates the
temporary drop in prices was
bought at the cost of close to one
million jobs of Canadians. Mono-
poly is using the situation to its
own advantage by placing the
burden of the crisis on the backs
of working people.

The latest evidence of that is
the wage freeze at Canadian
Acme and Dunlop. It is unfortun-
ate, indeed, that -hese workers
went along with the companies’
proposals for wage freezes under
the illusion this would save them
their jobs. The workers at Dun-
lop, in fact, have agreed to help
the competitive position of the
company.

Where will this lead?

This was done in the thirties,
with tragic consequences for the
working class. It means self-im-

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