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How fair is unfair?..

The June 15 issue of Contrast,
&@ paper serving the Black com-
munity in Canada, carried the
following editorial: -

The historic trial of Angela
Davis on charges of conspiracy,
kidnapping and murder in con-
nection with a courthouse shoot-
out in Marin County in August
1970, has come to an end.

Now is the time for us, there-
fore, to look at the question of
justice in America as it relates
to people who dare to speak out
against the system, as it affects
Blacks and any other non jelly-
fish type person.

The apologists for the legal
and judicial, system in United
States are shouting that “even
a Black communist in the Unit-
ed States is getting a fair trial.”

We say no. We say what An-
gela said: “A fair trial would
have been no trial at all.”

A fair system would not have
gone to the expense of spend-
ing $5 million to prove the guilt
of an innocent woman on the
pretention of having flimsy and
in most cases, strangely fabri-
cated circumstantial “evidence.”
It is clear to us that having ex-
pended these large sums, Presi-
»dent Richard. Nixon and his as-
sociates like Governor Reagan
in California are guilty of mas-
ter-minding a plot to make an
example of Angela Davis.

But truth has won out.

For every Nixon in the United
States that cried for Angela’s
blood there were tens of thou-
sands of people in France, in
Tanzania and in Australia who
Said “NO.”

The verdict of “not guilty” on
all three charges was the ver-
dict of the peoples of the world.
It was a decision that seven

white men and five white wo-
men in conservative, racist San
Jose found inevitable.

Now Angela joins Bobby
Seale, Huey Newton, Ericka
Huggins and others who have
been processed through the bit-
terness of American justice and
who live to fight.

But there are countless others
who have not lived to tell the
tale, and still others who are
living, but who may not be
spared to re-count their exper-
iences.

It may have suited the pur-
poses of the American interna-
tional image to shout that “even
Angela Davis gets a fair trial,”
in the glare of world press
coverage.

The victory has nothing to do
with American justice. It has to
do with international solidarity.
It has to do with truth winning
out in the end. It has to do with
the destruction of an evil racist
system in the United States.

Editor — MAURICE RUSH
Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St.,
Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288.
Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST
Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months.
North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year.
All other countries, $7.00 one year

have ruled Canada for over

Unemployment stays

Canada’s jobless remain at ,6.2 per-
cent of the total work force. Even with
some millions poured into the Local
Initiatives Program and. many “more
millions into the pockets of the U.S.
and Canadian corporations, there is no
decline in the percentage of Canadians
without work.

What is especially tragic is that close
to half the persons on the jobless rolls
are young people.

The LIP program is not.a program
to build the economy and provide stable
employment. It is a subsidy for a hun-
dred thousand or so persons, mainly of
middle class background, to carry out
some “one shot” project or service,
which may or may not be of some value.

“Priming the pump” by subsidizing
monopolies with the fake argument that
this will give them an incentive to ex-

pand and provide jobs is either a pipe- -

dream or deception to loot the treasury
and resources. The favors are grate-
fully received and pocketed, at the most
the money is invested into putting in
new technology and laying off more
workers.

The government has no plan to solve
this problem. Neither have- the Con-
servatives.

Mass unemployment has become a
part of the system. Productivity in-
creases, the output rises, but unemploy-
ment stays. It can only be done away

‘with by radical measures. By placing

the resources in the hands of the peo-
ple, taking control of the economy, plan-
ning new enterprises on this founda-
tion, cutting down the work week and
raising the purchasing power of the
people.

There’s no other way.

We have “some months before the
federal election. This delay is due to
the nervousness and bankruptcy of the
political parties of Big Business who
a century.
Let’s use these precious weeks to spread
the word and prepare to elect MP’s who
will really act to lead us out of this
mess,

Cold war fortress

The federal immigration and citizen-
ship department—its personnel, and its
rules and the way they are applied —
1s under scrutiny these days. Bryce
Mackasey, who is now in charge, speaks
of “liberal” regulations and “reaction-
ary” officials, Some changes are indi-
cated, such as speeding up the hand-
ling of applications and perhaps grant-
ing permission to work here while

‘Waiting for a hearing for visitors who

want to stay. Who knows, maybe even
the right for an applicant to know why
his application has been turned down
and a chance to argue the case will be
conceded. Perhaps...

Mr. Mackasey is right when he says
that some officials in his department are
reactionary. But he is wrong when he
claims that the rules are “small |”
liberal.

First of all, this branch of the state
establishment is completely arbitrary.
Decisions are made on cases of im-

migration- and: citizenship by- officials. -

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Injunction frees Kitchener plant
to move out goods during strike

at their own discretion. They il
have to state their reasons even !
government, even to Mr. Mackase)”
self. He may be king of the depatil!
but he’s only a dummy king. |
Secondly, Mr. Mackasey himsel
fesses that some of his officl
“reactionary,” that they “hale,
migrants.” What does that meal:
they are chauvinists, disdainful di yi
lesser breeds” the way Hitler’s
men” were?
And last, but certainly not leash
department is riddled with repre
tives of the cold war gang. The?)
may sound vaguely liberal, but they, ‘
interpreted and applied by dyed
wool reactionaries. _ ee
Why otherwise would er
workers who have labored here iy
cades, and have a clean and hon
record, be denied citizenship simp!
cause they belong to the Comill
Party or read a workers’ paper OF
ticipate in progressive activitie® J
though all these are legal in oul” |
trv? ‘
Why were fascists of all strip
comed with open arms to Canae4
anti-fascists were screened out: ‘f
are delegates from socialist Ora
barred from attending conven’
progressive organizations, W. vat
Meir Kahanes and terrorists of q
stripes come and go as they ple#,,
Why do “refugees” from tot
lands have the gates wide ope?
no matter how spurious thee
cal” credentials and how dir ab
hands, while real national }t
fighters are deported?
Why are individuals char ai
war crimes not extradited to sta™ |

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for their dastardly deeds? : ‘
On the record, the officials ie yo

these matters would seem to th 4
those who fought on the 9 mst)
during the war or want to thie
try in the future what Hitler ®

Transferring a couple of ° theft
other duties and prettying UF ee
won’t change that stinking ~~
Mackasey. i pot!

A real clean-up from top © —
is wanted.

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an hour increase for
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