HAMILTON — The Canadian
Labor Congress has issued a
warning to the labor council here,
concerning the anti-labor ac-
tivities of the U.S. Labor Party,
alias North American Labor Par-
ty, alias NCLC, alias ICLC.

The Hamilton and District
Labor Council reproduced the
letter signed by CLC President
Joe Morris, and is circulating it
among its affiliates. Morris’
communique to the Hamilton
Labor Council followed a letter
from council Secretary Bill Stet-
son Jan. 5, requesting information
on the group from the CLC.

‘There is not one iota of com-
mon ground between the ideals
and philosophy of the labor
movement and the objectives and
tactics of the NCLC,’’ Morris
wrote, and continued, ‘‘I would
definitely recommend against any
co-operation whatever with that
organization.”’

The CLC letter gives a com-
prehensive and detailed history of

the anti-union group, pointing out ©

that “much of its membership (es-
timated at about 1,000 in the U.S.)
is made up of well to do families
from outside organized labor.”’
ene NCEG’s “tactics: of
““scare-mongering, slander, and

It is not unusual for the
capitalist press to present news in
a distorted form. United States
Secretary of State Henry Kis-
singer’s meeting in West Ger-
many last week with John Vors-
ter, Prime Minister of racist South
Africa, is a case in point. Head-
lines suggested United States

_ support for majority black rule in

Africa. Nothing, of course, could
be further from the truth. That
much is clear from the fact that
the ruling class of the U.S. itself
has not yet put an end to racial
segregation more than 100 years
after the Civil War to abolish
slavery, and 200 years after the
anti-colonial revolution.

Most disturbing today, in the
U.S. and Canada, is the lip ser-
vice paid to “‘freedom’’ by trade
union leaders, of the right-wing
hue, who echo the capitalist cry
for freedom to exploit human be-
ings. But when it comes to ra-
cism, they are often silent be-
cause in their reactionary hearts
and minds they believe in racism,
as they believe in capitalist
exploitation.

It is, therefore, in order to con-
gratulate those trade union lead-
ers in U.S. and Canada today, in-
cluding the Canadian Labor Con-
gress, who condemn the system
of apartheid in South Africa.
There racism has been elevated to
Official state policy in the interest
of capitalist monopolies and their
super-exploitation of the Black
people. That is why South Africa
is a huge slave-labor camp.
And that is why today’s neo-
colonialists — including the
Canadian variety — wish to keep
it that way, and are prepared to go
to any length to retain the status
quo.

outright violence’’ are exposed in
the letter which also pointed out
how the organization has _at-
tacked labor leaders, particularly
those of the United Auto Workers
which the letter also notes “‘they
seem to hate more than others.”
Some of the tactics referred to in
this regard include: distributing
leaflets implying that union lead-
ers are homosexuals; carrying out
“bait and switch’? operations
meaning the baiting of union lead-
ers into excessive reactions which
they can then interpret for prop-
aganda purposes; along with the
usual disruptive tactics of scabs,
including busting up union meet-
ings and news conferences called
by unions.

The letter also notes that cur-
rently the UAW is suing the or-
ganization for the use of the word
‘*Solidarity’’, the name of the
union’s publication, in their
periodical. '

It points out also how the
NCLC picketed the 1974 Van-
couver CLC convention, dis-
rupted thé 1974 OFL convention
in Niagara Falls, and disrupted a
recent CLC press conference
dealing with the wage controls
‘‘by shouting and accusing the
‘congress and its affiliates of being

The latest massacres of Black
men, women and children in the
Black ghettos of South Africa
have shocked all civilized people,
at least those in our capitalist so- .
ciety who are still capable of hu-
man feelings and emotions. It is
important that we see the system

‘which brings racism and fascism

in its wake. The United States of
America has its ‘Murder Incor-
porated’. South Africa has its so-
called ‘Citizens Reserve Force’, a
white vigilante group ‘‘which was
allowed to go into Soweto to mur-
der the Blacks’. So the U.N.
Committee Against Apartheid
was told on June 23, 1976 by Mr.
Valderrama of the Philippines, a
member of this 18-nation U.N..
body.

The Blacks of Soweto, the
township, or ghetto of a million
Blacks outside Johannesburg,

‘were demonstrating for justice

and human rights most of us take
for granted. Such rights are pre-
scribed under the statutes of
Apartheid, which provides:

e An African native who lived
there 50 years but who left for
more than two weeks is not en-
titled to return to the country
where he was born. If he does he
can stay no longer than 72 hours.
e A labor officer may, at any
time, cancel the employment of
an African who works in a town,
no matter how long he has been
employed, even though his
employer opposes cancellation.

_e No African has the right to ac-

quire real estate anywhere in
South Africa. The present gov-
ernment has no intention of grant-
ing this right to natives, not even
in lands ‘‘reserved’’ for them.

e Ifa Black person (i.e. Asian, or

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 9, 1976—Page 6

Time to act in
anti-apartheid fight

fascists.”’

Morris went on to show that de-
spite the Marxist veneer behind
which the NCLC hides ‘‘the or-
ganization’s tactics ... are closer
to the extreme right. They are
considered similar to those used
by the John Birch Society of the
mid-1960’s’’.

Noting that “‘nothing they dis-
tribute carriés a union label’, the
letter pointed to other sources

which have come into contact —

with. the organization. From an

American university newspaper:

in Madison, Wisconsin, the letter
quotes: “‘... NCLC, as it seems

-.to exist today has the markings of

a truly indigenous
movement.”’

fascist

From Liberation News Ser-
vice, a radical press agency which
supplies many university and
progressive newspapers in the
U.S. and Canada with informa-
tion; and which has_ studied
NCLC very closely, the letter
quotes: “Until the financial re-
cords of NCLC are made availa-
ble to public scrutiny, we will not
know who the real sponsors are.
In the meantime NCLC is a
dangerous organization which
must be guarded against.”’

a Coloured person or an African)
sits on a bench in a public park
which has been reserved for the
exclusive use of white persons...
he commits a criminal offense
punishable by a fine up to R.600 or
imprisonment for three years or a
whipping of up to ten strokes or
any two of the three possible
punishments.

e No person in charge of a hospi-
tal which has been established af-
ter 1937 may admit an African to it”
(except in the event of an
emergency) without permission
of the Minister of Bantu Ad-
ministration and Development.

e No African, even if he or she is
lawfully residing in a town by
virtue of a permit issued to him or
her has the right to have his/her
spouse and children residing
there.

This means that the cities are
reserved for the white minority.

If you, who read these lines, get
indignant at these inhuman rules
of a racist government, make sure
you do something about it.

Get your trade union involved
in fighting apartheid in Africa and

racism everywhere. Boycott

South African goods. Get others
to do the same. Demand that our
government stop any dealing with
the neo-fascist Vorster regime.
Demand that all resolutions with
respect to South Africa adopted
by the United Nations be re

-spected and enforced. -

_ Make your contribution to the
struggle for human emancipation,
to ban racism, to put and end to
imperialism and war. Imperialism
means fascism and_ war.
Socialism means. peace and
genuine freedom. The future be-
longs to socialism.

LETTER FROM LEBANESE CP |

Syrian action in
Lebanon criticized |

The Central Committee of the

- Communist Party of Canada has

received a statement from Nicolas
Chaoui, secretary-general of the
Lebanese Communist Party, de-
nouncing “the imperialist - plot
against Lebanon and Syria’s inva-
sion of that country. The following
are translated excerpts from the
statement, issued June 16, 1976:

kA*.

Armed Syrian troops have for
many days been invading
Lebanon, spreading fire and
destruction in populous areas of
the cities and in the countryside,

as well as in the camps of Pales-.

tinian refugees. The civilian vic-
tims, women, children, old
people, are counted in the thou:
sands. Many localities and r-
gions, so far spared in battles, are
now invaded and ravaged. The
food blockade, imposed on the
territories and people supporting
the progressive Lebanese forces,
is aimed at starving whole regions
and especially Beirut, the capital.

Nevertheless, the progressive
Lebanese forces and the com-
mand of the Palestinian Revolu-
tion have persistently done every-
thing to inform the Syrian leaders
about the situation in Lebanon
and the reality of the plot under-
taken by reaction and imperialism
against Lebanon and the Pales-
tinian cause.

They have spared no effort to
reach an: agreement with the
Damascus leaders on a common
position to end the Lebanese
crisis, and thus avoid a worsening
of their relations with Syria that
could lead to armed confronta-
tion.

From day to day it has become
more evident that the differences
were not the result of an er-
roneous analysis by the Syrian
leaders, nor of a misconception
about the Lebanese reality ...

.. The Syrians have inter-

vened to support reaction, threat-

ened with total defeat, to use the
language of force and to per-
petrate an outright armed aggres-
sion, after the failure of their
efforts to intimidate. The Syrian
leaders thus stand fully revealed

as the instruments of the imperial
ist plot, of which they have be
come the accomplices, that %
aimed to wipe out, or at least 10)
weaken, the Palestinian resi*

tance and the patriotic and pro) —

gressive Lebanese movemetl

that constitutes the most serious} ~

obstacle to the establishment 0
the ‘‘pax Americana’’ and thé
complete liquidation of the Pales
tinian cause.
The American project in effe¢!
envisages ending the independetl
existence of the Palestinial
movement, thus wiping out all thé
gains of 10 years in the struggle b)|
the Palestinian people and its fr
\sistance organizations and, in tht
_guise of a pretended reconcili#
tion with King Hussein, th
hangman of September, to agall]
place this people under the @
telage of the reactionary Am
leaders who have already bé
‘trayed them many times... .
The situation is grave. What!
happening in Lebanon is but!
stage — maybe the most decisiv)
-— on the road that for nearly

years has led to the capitulatiof)

by. certain Arab regimes in face
the imperialist offensive and tht
undermining of the gains of tht
national liberation movement
the Arab peoples. a

The: plot against Lebanon *
aimed at changing the course °
events in the entire area ... Wi
the same logic as the Sinai agre

ments, it constitutes the preludé
to an American-style pseud0|

solution of the Middle East cris#
that defies the legitimate interes
of the Arab people of Palestine:

We call for your active soll

darity, for your internationalis® |

which has never been denied. Wé
call on you to take all necessatl}
measures to help us to stop tht
Syrian invasion, to end _ thé
battles, the massacres afl
destruction, to end the fe

blockade, to enforce the retreat 0
the occupation troops as well 2}
the cessation of foreign intel
ference in the internal affairs °
Lebanon, in recognition of thé
rights of the Lebanese people
decide their future as they wish:

HAVANA (Prensa Latina) —
‘The loss of prestige due to the
victories of the peoples of Viet-
nam and Angola have led the rul-
ers of the United States to increas-
ingly fear Cuba’s example for La-
tin America,’ wrote French
Communist Party general secret-
ary Georges Marchais in a letter
‘to Fidel Castro recently.

“We share the view,’’ said
Marchais, ‘‘that the aggressions
against the, Cuban fishing crews,
the attack on the Cuban embassy
in Lisbon and statements by Ford
and Kissinger are not merely due
to the U.S. election campaign.

“It was no accident,’’ he add-
ded, ‘‘that after Kissinger’s visit
to six Latin American countries in
February, the reactionary press in
those countries unleashed a vio-
lent anti-Cuban campaign.’” The
letter points out that the reaction-
ary campaign used the false in-

1essage of solidarity

against these countries. It als?
contained threats against thos
states who cooperate with Cub!
to defend against the imperialis!
plunder of their resources.
“It is because of this and tht
great democratic and social
changes of the first socialist cou”
try in America that we Fren¢
Communists maintain strict vif!
lence in the face of the sabr@
rattling speeches of U.S. rulers; |
said Marchais. ‘‘A solid intel
nationalist tie and militant solida!
ity must bind all peoples fightin#
imperialism,’’ he wrote.
“Marchais reiterated to Fidé
Castro that at this time in which
U.S. imperialism is intensi
“its anti-Cuban campaign “Frencl
Communists will unwavering!)
call on the French working cla®
and people to provide the m0
active solidarity in the determin®
defence of socialist Cuba’’.

ventions of Cuban military threa)

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