The reactionaries arrayed against.
socialism are like flesh-eating fish
around a live body in their thirst for Po-
land’s blood. Even junior league right-
ists, the Flora MacDonalds, are in full
cry.

Endless “warnings”, “threats”, and
“directives” from U.S. offices dedicated
to militarism, sabotage and imperialist
propaganda are echoed in Canada by
their media arm.

It is evident that the most reactionary,
union-hating enemies of workers here,
show deep concern, not for Polish work-
_ ers’ rights, but for the anti-socialist ele-
ments in the Solidarity organization.

Paralleling, reaction’s role, in Sep-
tember 1980, AFL/CIO president Lane
Kirkland announced a “Polish Workers
Aid Fund.” The fund, he said, is “en-
tirely consistent . . . with . . . financial aid

and support for the rebuilding of the
German trade union movement” im- -

mediately after World War II. That pro-
gram was directed by Central Intelli-
gence Agency labor operative, Irving
Brown, who set up competing unions, to
~ weaken opposition to incoming U.S.
corporate investors. ae Sas
Says John Kelly, author of, The CIA in
America, “Brown undoubtedly will be

EDITORIAL

Need sane view on Poland |g.

involved with the Polish fund since he is

now the AFL/CIO representative for>

Europe.”

Switch to Ottawa and we have Tory
former external affairs minister Flora
MacDonald calling for precipitate action
by Canada against the Soviet Union —
for what she thinks it might do! Canada
should organize NATO trade and dip-
lomatic sanctions against the USSR, and
do it now — before the Warsaw Treaty
countries make any move!

While the West’s propaganda mulls
scream against the Warsaw Treaty and
the Soviet Union their purpose is to
cover their own dirty work of trying to
pull Poland out of the socialist commu-
nity. The Toronto Tory Globe and Mail
heaps calumny on distortion in the same
cause. Since the Polish Government has
greeted Brezhnev’s farsighted assess-
ment of the complex Polish situation, no
doubt is left about the aims of these
Canadian provocateurs. )

The Canadian Government will follow
Flora’s advice at its peril. It should weigh
its words and deeds. This country should
refuse to be part of imperialist interven-

‘tion in Poland. Ottawa needs to display

more sanity than Tory MacDonald or
those who pull her strings in
Washington.

End double-talk on junta

The U.S.-backed regime in EI Sal-
vador has gone on another murder ram-
“page and slaughtered 30 civilians in one
night. This new massacre compels
Canada’s government to declare itself —
in word and deed. To maintain Canada’s
self-respect, to rise to contemporary
norms of international behavior, Ottawa
must sever all connections with the mili-
tary junta, and with the U.S. policies on
which its bloody power rests.

Deal on debate

After more than six months of parlia-
mentary arguing over the Liberal
government's commitment to bringing
the British North America Act to Canada
for use as the basis of a constitution, the
three parties in Commons have achieved
compromise.

It must be said that not one of those

parties, unlike the Communist Party of -

Canada, .opted for a made-in-Canada
constitution, drawn up by Canadians
from myriad walks of life, embodying
fundamental guarantees the BNA Act
has never had.

That aside, the Liberal-Con-
servative-New Democrat deal provides
for a Commons vote on the amendments
only. Then the package goes out of the
hands of the elected representatives to
the Supreme Court, where a handful of
establishment figures will approve or
veto the country’s “constitutional” pack-
age. Then, after a two-day parlia-
mentary debate and vote, it goes to the
British Parliament for approval.

What a strange way to run a so-called
independent, so-called democratic coun-
try. The only answer is that state-
monopoly capitalism does not rate self-
determination,.patriotism or democracy
high on its scale of values. .
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 17, 1981—Page 4

In Mexico on April 7, 1980, Canada’s

external affairs minister, Mark. Mac-.

Guigan pontificated thus: “We will
choose our countries from those we re-
spect violation and_ particularly
flagrant violation of individual rights
cannot leave us indifferent.”

What fradulence! How much more
indifferent could Ottawa be? Not only

does it refuse to condemn the USA for

supplying the guns to commit the at-
rocities, and the Green Beret thugs to
show the way, it is guilty of surrepti-

tiously financing that brutal regime.’

Publicity, the big-business Liberals
have “put on hold” more than $10-mil-
lion in direct aid to El Salvador’s U.S.
puppets. But, in fact, and the pious
MacGuigan knows this too, Canada’s vot-

ing members on the boards of the Inter- -

national Monetary Fund, the _ Inter-
American Bank, and the World Bank,
are still voting millions of Canadian dol-
lars in indirect assistance to the Salvado-
rian gangsters. As for direct aid, which
may quietly begin again at any time,
Canada slipped El Salvador $3-million
last year alone. a a

Is MacGuigan’s “respect”, then, bes-
towed on these gunslingers who drag
people out of their homes, riddle them
with bullets, and burn their dwellings?

For one so big on human rights isn’t
this minister of flexible principle both a
disgrace to Canada, and a back-stabber
to the Salvadorians? He should be fired
for deceiving the public.

It’s time Canada ceased being an ac-
complice in this crime instigated by

_ Washington; it’s time Ottawa opposed

the U.S. rush toward genocide in Latin

_ America, reminiscent of its crimes in

Vietnam.

down here.” -

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the all-Canadian gas pipeline among the workers and poot
project from American hands is farmers. On the international
reaching fever pitch across the. plane, imperialist countries aré
nation following the Transport preparing again to plunge the
Board’s decision to give its world into the red welter of wat:
fourth extension to the Texas The whole imperialist world
corporation now in control. united in preparing an attack of
the Soviet Union in order to

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MP, told a meeting April 2 that socialism. :
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Canadian taxpayers are being
asked to subsidize the project for such that only the mass struggle
the U.S. firm and guarantee it of the workers can render any
against loss, but would not share » effective aid to the hundreds 0
in any of the profits made. Thus thousands of destitute: toiler$
Canadians are to be “economic and their families. The slogan’
vassals”, he charged. He said if for May Day are obvious: They
private Canadian interest did are: “Against Capitalist Starva
not wish to undertake the pro- tion’ — for Non-Contributory
ject then the five provinces con- Unemployment Insurance an@
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