¥ SBEr., 4 * RSE SANAD IAN TRIBL . U.S. BUILDING BASE IN HAITI st A YORK—The United States is quietly building the Haitian 4lorship into a military bastion of U.S. imperialism. Sia New York Post reported earlier this year that, counter to ett Kennedy’s arms embargo of the 1960's, licenses were be- (he, wed for arms sales to Haiti through a Miami-based concern } Totrade) closely tied to the regime of Haiti’s dictator, President om ude Duvalier. “¢ is | Mae. COMpany, which shares offices with Air Haiti (owne ; hae’ Defence Minister Luckner Cambronne), also provides the 6} ity tan anti-guerrilla forces (the repressive “Jeopards”) with Amer- i} ong eVisors: fy ct “iti keeps alive the myth that it fears attack from Cuba—a J di f ss $b ee ee ee Oa nient i t a chosen time. Last month a Us. pretext for aggression a Se aaitad . ty sys 2 sae - Army Col. Paul M: Ireland, visited Haiti for an unannounc noes os than mati i ts it is a good example of the Ung,; vation now emerging suggests 1 : : Weatenity of views of the military and the monopolies. ous i; Meighne which accounts for one quarter of sugar production in he te boring Dominican Republic, and is taking over banking a ; ee . * eas | wT estate there, is beginning to set up business in Haiti. iE usted forces mission representing various services, DE FOR BANGLADESH ENTRY | has LHI—The World Council of Peace has adopted a decision rule i Nisgi ®en blackballed by China, to launch a world campaign for a | ea to the UN of Bangladesh, for normalization of see , Sees the countries of the Hindustan peninsula, and for peace Hs Ren y in Asia, it was announced Aug. 29 by Romesh Chandra, ir eral Secretary. ; India Normalization of relations among Pakistan, Ba Cha r I make it possible to achieve a lasting peace In @ emphasized. Bangladesh and South Asia, NE JDL TERRORISTS INDICTED leg RE XORK — Two members of the fascistic Jewish Defense i Saas F k on charges 0 we last week on feong ere indicted by a federal grand jury the purchase art Cohen, is JDLers with Jan. 26. In the ite Sther person indicted is David Sommer, a former high school have be Who now lives in Israel. Cohen and Sommer are alleged fe Sught rifles under phony names. The rifles were sent to the °rm-trooper training camp in upstate New York in 1970. IDL te | ‘ § Pacific Tribune West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune: PUblish Editor — MAURICE RUSH e oc Weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings mia : Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Subse: Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST prcrr : ete Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months: South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year “gs Viens 2 Edetorial Comment... Nixon’s ‘peace’ hoax and Canadian election President Nixon is not winding down the war in Vietnam. He is “winding up” the war. The U.S. Air Force has dropped over 6,200,000 tons of bombs on Indochina, more than three times the amount of bombs it exploded in all of World War II. The bombing of the’ dikes is not an “error,” it is deliberate and it is continuing. The hoax about the withdrawal of U.S. troops is an election gimmick. “The trap is set for the most criminal hoax of the century with the detona- tors set to go off on November 7,” US. Communist leader Gus Hall warns. “The goals of the hoax are the re- election of Nixon and his desire to re- escalate the criminal land war in Indo- china after November 7.” “Nixon’s latest platitudes of peace are a conspiracy. Nixon refuses to set a date for total withdrawal because he has set a date for re-escalation of the land-based forces instead. Nixon re- fuses to let go of the puppet butcher Thieu because he needs Thieu for the re-escalation of a military offensive.” The U.S. presidential election is on November 7, the Canadian federal elec- tions of its representatives on the Inter- national Control Commission and its sale of arms to the U.S. for that war. With re-escalation not only Canada but the whole world may well be involved ina nuclear holocaust. Can we let candidates for Canada’s Parliament off the hook? Can we let Mr. Trudeau continue to shrug his shoulders and murmur that what we say would make no difference anyway? Can we let the Tories round up all the Cold War artists to try to turn the clock of history back to the Dark Ages? _ No, here is the real test of Canada’s integrity, the real concern for our se- curity. They will have to speak now, not after October 30 or November 7. ae theyll have to speak straight and clear! Labor's image It was sickening to hear government representatives at Labor Day affairs lecture trade unionists on good be- havior and even more to have some labor officials apologizing and saying we must wash labor’s dirty face .. . create another and more lovable (for whom?) image. . Labor didn’t throw those hundreds of thousands of Canadians into the job- less ranks. Labor doesn’t close plants or tion will be held only a week previous, on October 30. Is Nixon’s war and its planned esca- lation the affair only of the American people? Canada has been criminally involved in the war all along by the ac- move them to small wage areas. Labor doesn’t sell Canada to the U.S. mono- polies. _ Whose face is dirty? It’s not that of the working class, but of the big shots and their pipsqueak yes-men. Acme: corrupt corporate image By RICHARD ORLANDINI The strikers of Canadian Acme Screw and Gear will be drawing their strike pay this week. Like most Canadian work- ers they would rather be on the inside of the plant working than picketing at the plant gate. But the company has forc- ~ ed them onto the picket lines and the strikers are now fight- ing for their jobs. A little more than a year-and- a-half ago the company scream- ed that increasing wage rates were making them uncompeti- tive. And in order to remain at all competitive the company claimed it needed an 18 month wage freeze or it would close down. The workers reluctantly granted the freeze and , during the 18 months the parent com- pany, Levy Industries released its annual report showing huge profits. At the end of the 18 month freeze, the company cried bank- ruptcy again and again demand- ed still another wage freeze. This time the workers, display- ing courage and a willingness to fight for their jobs, struck the lant. ! It took courage to do so be- cause many of the workers in the plant had been working there for more than 30 years and were - approaching retirement and looking forward to their pen- sions. Now that the plant is struck the company is using all of the anti-working class clauses available to it in the Ontario Labor Relations Act to force the workers back on the job with another wage freeze. The com- pany claims it will close if the strike continues, and if it closes then the workers will, accord- ing to the Labor Relations Act, lose all of their: severance pay and their pension benefits be- cause the plant will have closed while struck. “We are not looking for charity, we just want what is coming to us. Our base pay is $1.98 an hour and that is not enough to support a family on. If we wanted to take home more © we had to work the speed up for the bonuses. And now they’re taking away our severance pay and our pension benefits. I don’t want to give you the ‘we gave the best years of our lives’ rou- tine but we worked hard for those benefits and they should belong to us.” one of the strik- ing workers told the Tribune. Joining in the discussion, an- other picketer said, ‘There are several things that must be done to stop companies from doing this to us and others working in plants. Up at Dehavilland the workers have been threatened with the same thing. First, we have to get rid of the Trudeau government because he’s never done anything for us. And re- placing his government with the Progressive Conservatives would make things worse than they al- ready are. Then the Labor Act has to be changed to prevent the use of those clauses which work against us. And those things are going to happen when the little guys like myself get together to do something about it. And or- ganized labor is going to have to do its share.” Another worker said, “Look at what the company is holding over our heads. There are about 400 workers in this plant that have $3,000 each coming in severance pay and another 200 who have about $1,500 coming. Now, I don’t know how much that comes to but it’s an awful lot of money that should belong to us. And what are we going to do if the company does close down. Many of us are too old to really hope to-find new jobs SO we are going to have to fight for these. Companies just can’t be allowed to threaten us with a closedown whenever we demand more pay.” There’s the real question of “Canadian integrity,” Mr. Trp- deau. There’s the real “job for Cana- dians,” Mr. Stanfield. A government or party that does not act on such an issue js unfit to hold office or deserve the confidence of the Canadian working class. : We must elect MP’s, includ- ing workers, who will honest} respond. to the problems that the working class faces, and increas- ingly one of those problems is the use of reactionary labor leg- islation to blackmail workers into compliance with the boss dictates. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8; 1972—PAGE 3 nanan