EGYPT-ISRAEL MAY SIGN PACT —DAYAN BONN — During his visit to West Germany, Israeli Foreign Minister - Moshe Dayan told a news conference that Israel would readily sign a Separate ‘‘peace”’ pact with Egypt, without reference to the Geneva talks. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s visit to occupied Jerusalem and his subsequent invitation to all concerned parties to meet in Cairo, has so far attracted only Israel and the USA. SIX AT TRIPOLI SUMMIT MEETING ~ BAGHDAD — Iraq announced formally on the eve of the meeting of Arab states in Tripoli,. Libya, that it would have a delegation there, Dec. 1. Others taking part are: Syria, Libya, Algeria, South Yemen and the Palestine Liberation Organization, ; VORSTER’S ‘ELECTION’ CIRCUS : . JOHANNESBURG — The apartheid prime minister of South Afri- ca, John Vorster, staged a circus for white voters on Nov. 30. The “election’’, was limited to participation of some 2.2-million white Voters, but excluded the vast majority, the 18.6-million black popula- tion. During the ‘‘voting’’ 28 black journalists were arrested in a peaceful demonstration. With 75% of the “‘vote”’ counted the Vorster National Party had taken 107 of the 165 parliamentary seats in competi- - tion with other white-only parties. PORTUGUESE COMMUNISTS DOUBT SOARES ABILITY LISBON — Portugal’s Communist Party leader, Alvaro Cunhal has Stated that the Communists do not consider the minority Socialist Party _ government of Mario Soares capable of finding a solution on its own to the country’s crippling economic crisis, and called for a new govern- ment with new policies. According to reports, Cunhal agreed to Com- munist cooperation in seeking a solution to the economic problems, but did not agree with cutbacks on the goals of the Gross National Product to conserve gold reserves. MASSACRE DELAYS TALKS : SALISBURY — The racist government of Ian Smith, which has been smoothing the way to discussions with what Smith calls Black Moderates — Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole — have been snagged on the Rhodesian army’s massacre of women and Children refugees from Smith’s racism who had crossed into Mozam- bique. Even the ‘‘moderates’’ cannot ignore the mourning period in their eagerness to join Smith’s new one-man-one-vote charade. UN CONDEMNS ISRAELI VIOLATION OF CEASEFIRE UNITED NATIONS — UN,obseryers in the Middle East report that the potentially explosive situation there is the result of Israel Military provocations against southern Lebanon. Starting on November 5, Israeli troops repeatedly violated the ceasefire agreement _ and opened fire on Lebdnon. Several artillery shells exploded near UN observation posts at the Lebanese village of Nakura on that day. Since ovember, Israeli planes have carried out at least 11 raidson Lebanon. U.S. AMBASSADOR TO IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF CHILE SANTIAGO — The new U.S. Ambassador to Chile, George Land- au, arrived in Santiago last week and pledged to work hard to improve U.S.-fascist Chile relations. Landau was formerly Ambassador to uay, one of the worst dictatorships in the Latin America. At Santiago airport, Landau said he would work hard to give ‘U.S. people a better understanding of Chile, that is, the fascist military junta. PROBE TIES TO SHAH nee - WASHINGTON —A U.S. Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee is investigating how demonstrations for and against the Shah of Iran in ashington two weeks ago’ were financed. The sub-committee, headed by George McGovern (D-SD), is also looking into activities of the Iranian secret police in the U.S. and any role it may have played in the demonstrations. The Senate probe will parallel a Justice Depart- Ment review of charges that a number of pro-Shah demonstrators Teceived free travel, meals, lodging and $100 in spending money. * BR, Be * : oe : ; ; id SYDNEY, Australia — Parents from inner-Sydney pre-schools an kindergartens took their protests against cutbacks to the streets last Week. While parents and tots marched across Ree en cae iraine Sad children collected signatures for motorists held up at the | \ \. EDITORIAL COMMENT Class collaboration — no! Industrial. democracy, tripartism, worker-participation in management — these are the modern catch-phrases of state-monopoly capitalism, the system by which a few hundred monopoly corpo- rations and multi-nationals run the country and government. Lately, every effort is being made to stuff “industrial democracy” like a rotten piece of meat down the throats of the working people. Glowing fantasies about workers’ paradises in western Europe . are being fed to us through the big busi- ness media becé:use — so-called “indust- rial democracy” s seen as a life buoy fora crisis-ridden sys:em, a means of “manag- ing” the-workers. Class-conscious workers, who have been through the mill, who know the nature of the ruling system, who know that it never gives anything except as bait, have never trusted tripartism or its variants. A few battle-wise trade union leaders have been outspoken too. And recently, some of the early supporters of this deal to deliver labor to the combined mercies of big business and big business government, have felt the pressure of workers who are justly suspicious. Auto workers’ leader Dennis McDer- mott, says that on the basis of experience, he no longer supports the “charade” of labor discussions with the federal gov- ernment and business brass. It was he who acknowledged the Canadian Labor Congress, sponsor of tripartism, must take account of the fact that this deal (some say sell-out) has been rejected by some provincial labor federations and by Canada’s largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees. There is still a lot of confusion fostered among workers and their unions, by spokesmen who pretend that labor can go into partnership with an anti-labor government and an anti-labor social and economic system. Confu- sion and a division of labor’s strength is further endangered by those who delib- erately, or through unwillingness to ‘learn, confuse the genuine need for more control by workers over matters which affect their lives, with class collaboration. Tripartism, by whatever name, undermines independent and united labor political action against wage con- trols and unemployment. The real means by which workers can have a say on all questions concerning them, can participate in deciding ques- tions of technological change, of the moving and closing of plants, layoffs, health and Safety, is through stronger trade union action and incorruptible unity. Collective bargaining rights which have been crippled by the Anti-Inflation Board and are threatened by continuous attacks on public service unions need to be won back and made a bulwark against the further assaults big business has at the ready should its tripartite hoax fail. — Working people can take satisfaction from the awakening of certain labor leaders to the danger of being sucked into such a fraud. United labor action is the fitting battle cry in the struggle for jobs, and for working people’s say in their own future. - Junta extends its crimes Only short weeks ago, three women, citizens of Chile, were in Canada giving’ evidence before the Canadian Inquiry into Human Rights in Chile. Their con- cern was justified. Each has lost a hus- ~ band to the Chilean secret police, and one woman’s son and- pregnant daughter-in-law also disappeared. They were demanding to know the where- abouts of those who had disappeared. The later returned to Chile and were -refused entry, although they were citi- zens, and although their children awaited them there. They were flown to _ Argentina where, reports tell us, the U.S. Ambassador saw them onto a plane which took them, to New York. With the aid of supporters of Chilean democracy they are now fighting to be reunited with their children. The brutal Pinochet junta maintains power on the corpses of its oppositionk on the crimes of its secret police, on il- legal imprisonment and torture of its thousands of victims. It maintains power as well because of the generous help it receives from world capitalism, led by the USA and including Canadian corpo- rate investment approved by the Trudeau government. ‘Not this page nor this issue of the , paper is large enough to list the inhuman crimes of the fascists of Chile. The has- tening of the death of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and indignities to his belongings, and the mutilation and murder of singer-musician Victor Jara are symbolic of the multitude # at- rocities committed by U.S.-installed, and U.S.-backed Pinochet. ‘Think instead of three of our friends and neighbors, three women with hus- bands and children — whose husbands have been kidnapped by the police, and whose children are separated from them by government edict. To what degree should that arouse us, anger us, enrage us? At very least to the degree that we protest vigorously to Pinochet’s “embassy” at 56 Sparks St., Ottawa, and to Trudeau who does not wish to condemn fascism, but instead wants more police-state powers in Cana- da: Such inhumanity cannot be permit- ted — anywhere. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—DECEMBER 9, 1977—Page 3 peeing eth e: