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West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune: .

The dignity of Man?

to decency with publicity-seek-
ing ‘‘benevolence.”

On July 5, in true, hysterical
TV fashion, the FBI came out
Shooting, saved Pacific South-
west Airlines some expense,
killed two hijackers and one
retired, Canadian railway con-
ductor on his way, with his
wife, to live out his days in the
gentler climate.

With no thought of defending
hijacking, one is yet faced with
the question of whether the wild
west tactics of U.S. govern-
ment gunslingers should be al-
lowed to endanger the lives of a
planeful of passengers to save
the expenditure on gasoline and
wear-and-tear on the aircraft
that an unscheduled flight might
impose.

The hijackers are reported to
have demanded to go to Siberia.
Perhaps the decades of propa-
ganda made anything seem
better than that to the one-
track FBI.

The Canadian who was shot
dead by the American law of-
ficers, was travelling with his
wife to their retirement home.
They had sold everything, ready
to enjoy that long - sought
leisure. Do not these simple
aspirations count for something
in the North American scheme
of things?

Evidently, when stacked up
against a danger of dollar-loss
by a well-heeled U.S. airline,
human life takes second place.

Is it any wonder that people
in their multitudes are actively
seeking alternatives to a way
of: life which gives evidence
daily of the contempt it has for
the human persons? (J.L.)

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tion number 156:

Police to make laws?

The unanimity rule in jury trials has

been abandoned already in Britain and
the U.S. in favor of simple majority
verdicts. Canada is reportedly moving
in a similar direction. Democratic
rights are undermined on a series of
fronts.
- We cannot forget the assaults on
democracy in the Quebec crisis and the
military occupation there in October
1970, under the War Measures Act.

And now we have a new crisis in
Quebec—one of unlimited and unilater-
al police power such as was threatened
but abandoned in Ontario in 1964, be-.
cause of a massive public outcry.

What we face in Quebec is the danger
of a police state. Quebec Justice Min-

ister Jerome Choquette last week intro- -

duced legislation to broaden police
search-and-seizure powers.

The legislation, ostensibly aimed. at
organized crime, is in reality directed
against civil liberties. Under the “tem-
porary” War Measures Act about 2,000
houses were searched and 400 arrests
made. Permanent legislation will un-
doubtedly do “better.”

“Many innocent people had their
homes raided, their property seized,”
under WMA provisions, an opposition
member Mr. Brown told Choquette, “on
no better grounds than somebody had
said: ‘I think that person may be con-
nected with that. matter’.”

The new law invites police to hear
evidence on their own terms “in cam-
era” (ie., safe from public eyes and
ears) and worse, where they choose, to
“order a private hearing of a witness
and exclude every other person from
the place of hearing,” thus abolishing
protection of the witness.

This try at implanting gestapo
methods must be fought back by a so id
front of citizens refusing police-state
rule.

The Toronto Globe & Mail notes un-
easily that the new law (passed unani-
mously after a six-hour debate) “gives
the police commission carte blanche to
operate the way it wants.” It aims, with
certainty, at bludgeoning, in the first
place, the working class—trade unions,
the progressive in politics, whoever de-
fends people’s rights. It gives notice of
no peaceful co-existence of classes, but
the sharpest of class warfare.

Barriers in Korea

Three years of bloody fighting, one
million dead, billions of dollars in pro-
perty damage, and human suffering
impossible to price—that was the tally
in Korea from 1950 to 1953 as the re-
sult of United States imperialist ag-
gression.

It is strikingly similar to what is go-
ing on today in Vietnam except that in
Korea the U.S. managed to cover its
naked aggression by the United Na-
tions flag.

“Tt is still unclear what has made this
year the time for the beginning of a
settlement .. .” the Toronto Globe and
Mail editorialized on July 5, concern-
ing Korean negotiations.

Is it really a “mystery wrapped in an

enigma,” as Winston, Churchill once

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described Soviet foreign policy? It de-
pends upon which class viewpoint one
adopts in viewing world developments.

It is a fact that today imperialism
has lost the battle to stem the tide of
national liberation and socialism. The
balance of world forces has changed.
U.S. imperialism has lost its bloody war
adventure in Vietnam and searches
rabidly for a way out. It is fast loosing
its hegemony in the capitalist sector of
the world. .

While UN Secretary-General Kurt
Waldheim has rightly welcomed the
agreement between North and South
Korea to undertake a process of re-
unification. of their divided country, it
is imperative, for the speeding up of
this process, that the USA immediately
withdraw its 43,000 troops now in
South Korea, still cynically flying the
United Nations flag. On this farce there
is sharp opposition in the UN itself.

It is also imperative that the U.S,
and South Korea, one of its partners in
an aggressors’ alliance, get out of Viet-
nam, That would remove barriers to
both Korean and Vietnamese re-unifi-

-eation.

The United Nations is obligated to

deny the U.S. further use of the UN:

name in South Korea. At the same time
it can become a truly universal body by
admitting to membership the whole of
Korea, as well as the two German states
(FRG and GDR), and North and South
Vietnam.

Questions David Lewis

National NDP Leader David . Lewis
shocked many during Parliament’s debate
on legislation to Quebec’s longshoremen
back to work. Bruce Magnuson, labor sec-
retary of the Communist Party, wired
Lewis asking clarification:

“Press reports have it that your amend-
ment to the Emergency Bill on Quebec
Longshoremen wished to restrict jurisdic-
tion of the arbitrator to modify job secur-
ity conditions for this year only. If cor-
rect,” the telegram says, “this would tie
the hands of the union and give employ-
ers unilateral powers over job assignments
for the last two years of contract.

“The whole problem arose because com-
pletely unacceptable job assignment pro-
visions were mistakenly agreed to by the
union as part of a package including gen-
erous pensions and income security provi-
sions most of the cost of which were
; charged to the workers without their re-

alizing the full significance of a rather com-
plicated deal. :

“The strike and the lockout which re-

sulted when the workers realized they had
been hoodwinked cannot be blamed on the
workers involved but must be laid at the
door of the federal labor department and
the employers involved. The impasse that
resulted could have been broken by the
federal government and the employers mo-
difying their position on job security which
appears to be what the government is now
trying to do via arbitration provisions em-
bodied in the Bill forcing workers back on
their jobs.
“In the circumstances it now appears as
if your position takes the Trudeau admi-
nistration off the hook and places the re-
sponsibility for the present strike equally
on the union and the employers when the
real issue was one of exposing the govern-
ment-employer connivance against the
workers to force big lay-offs and rational-
ization in the shipping industry at the
workers’ expense. Some clarification con-
cerning your position on this Bill and the
reasons for same would be much appre-
ciated,” the wire concludes.

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