‘Disclosure in Times protested by Canada OTTAWA — Mitchell Sharp UNDECLARED WAR An undeclared war is raging in the United States, says Alex- ander Chakovsky, in Pravda. In addition to the war against the peoples of Vietnam, Cam- bodia and Laos, he says, Amer- ican imperialism is now fighting at home, against its own people. Characteristics of any war, he points out, are the conflict of interests of the belligerents; the large numbers involved; and the use of arms. All these elements were pres- ent in the “battle of Washing- ton.” The only unusual feature is that only one side is armed. So perhaps it would be more accurate to call it a massacre! The source of the Washington demonstration, Chakovsky says, goes back to the early sixties, when the movement for civil rights and against racialism be- gan expanding. ; The capitalist world is full of paradoxes. And one of them is that this new undeclared war has broken out because hun- dreds of thousands of Amer- icans demand that their govern- ment halt the other war, the war in Indochina. Official America, “its face distorted by fear and hatred, rushed at the other America with arms in hand. “And what was this other America. An America of the communists? Of the Black Pan- thers?” No, says Chakovsky: “Many demonstrators were from among those who only yester- day were considered to be part of President Nixon’s ‘silent ma- jority’.” The professional military — soldiers and policemen—gained the upper hand. It is difficult to draw the fron- tier between fascism and these military- police orgies, com- ments Chakovsky — especially when they gradually become an integral part of the country’s way of life. That is taking place today in the USA. And these events are terrible not only by themselves. The USA astounds the world “both by the technical genius of its people and by the diversity of the cult of violence... “When violence is legalised, becomes part and parcel of everyday life, it cannot remain limited in scale. “Violence gives birth to more violence. “Corruption in political life, racism in social life, military brigandage on foreign territory —all this mutilates not only péople’s bodies but also their spirit. “Isn’t it a striking symptom of the spiritual crisis of imper- ialism that the most powerful country of that social system has lost its way in a spiritual blind alley”. . .? “It would be absurd to deny the number of democratic gains won by the people in the his- tory of the United States. “However, those freedoms linked with the rights of man fall, year after year, like dead leaves from America’s tree of democracy... “The anti-war movement in Washington came out under the slogan: ‘If the government won’t stop the war, the people will stop the government!’... “There are battles in which victory is tantamount to defeat. “The ‘victors’ in the Wash- ington battle find themselves in that position. “But the vanquished? Isn’t it their moral victory and uncon- quered spirit which inspires Americans with hopes for a bet- ter future?” Editor—MAURICE RUSH Published weekly ot Ford Bidg., 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 am Three men, Mr. Ford, not two! To make fewer workers produce more for less pay—that’s the man- grinding unrelenting aim of monopoly in its drive for a constantly increasing rate of profit. Or, to put it as the workers see it in action: Unemployment and the threat of unemployment, plus speedup, plus the drive to. force wages down—these are what organized workers have to fight all out to check and, when they’re strong enough, to roll back. ' The United Auto Worker members of Local 200 in the Ford-Windsor plant did just that the other day. A walkout of 48 workers won the — solidarity support of all the workers in that plant for their picket line. Why the walkout? Ford management de- cided to reduce from three to two the number of men in the engine hot-test area. The men are back on the job after their two-day strike. And there are three, not two, work- ers doing the hot-test engine job! Organized workers are going to need every ounce of labor solidarity in the months ahead. As in their great victory against wage controls in ’69 and ’70, so now militant trade actions can lead the fight for policies of full employment, . can stop speedup and gain badly-need- ed wage increases. The bosses aren’t letting up for a second — and they’ve got Trudeau and Benson and company on their side! Uncounted victims of unemployment The full story of what massive un- employment has cost in Canadian lives during the last two years is not yet known. The final harsh facts must wait until the statisticians compile the grisly records. It is tragically easy, however, to esti- mate what has happened to the new- born infants and to the children, for when there are no jobs for their par- ents it is they, the young ones, who suf- fer first and most. A report submitted recently by a joint committee of pediatricians, obste- tricians and gynecologists to the Cana- dian Pediatrics Society gives some of the horrifying picture. The report de- scribed the Canadian death rate among new-born babies as “almost the highest rate of any technologically advanced country.” What the pediatricians etc. did not say, of course, was that advanced tech- nology in capitalist countries is used for the profits of monopoly, not for the good of man, and certainly not in the interests of helpless infants. In socialist countries the contempor- ary revolution in industrial technology, automation, all the marvels of science are turned to one purpose — to serve man, the enrichment of his life as a social being, and—always and above all —to provide an ever more beautiful life for the children. United Nations statistics 0 mortality are revealing. Consider first Canada and th States. Available UN figures $ in 1967 Canada’s infant morta per 1000 live births was 22. Th USA in 1968 was 21.7. The same UN statistics sho fant mortality for 1968 in th Union was 7.7! And that W: years before the 24th Congres Communist Party of the Sovié this spring projected the neW plan that is to raise real wa lower prices throughout the V of Canada’s northern neighb then, we must recall, there is 2) ployment in the Soviet Union! Now, with Benson’s budget dey, to make the rich richer and Wig plan to effectively reduce un@ ment, Canadian workers m0 | more see why Canadian Com a call for a great, democratic am | opoly alliance that will repla® government of monopoly an the road to socialism. Steelworkers want RCMP — out Monopoly is pressing its attd if the bitterly-won rights of Of e workers. Not satisfied with ue courts, of fast-multiplying 2% laws, the bosses are turning ™: more to use of police, of 148 strikebreaking agencies an@ * a attempts to break labor’s fight gg for decent wages and workiNa tions. aul The United Steelworkers L® eat in Sydney, Nova Scotia has uP militantly to the use of the ROM tg ed in by the N.S. government 10? gate a work stoppage. The nounced the RCMP interventO%, ji worker-management dispute 4° stat! step in the direction of a police the Hitler Germany type. Political police, the Sydney workers declare, are not imP f matters of labor-manageme? tions. oa “Trade unions across Canada ; in their own defense by mt 0 responding to Local 1064’s ©4" gi labor movement “to condem tempts to have labor relations © to the 19th century. pa This boss-government-ROME in Nova Scotia is but the M0? 7, of events that show there 1S 4" hardening of reaction in our + not The John Birch Society, art ious of United States . 4 1 groups, has recently maile tors anti-Communist kits to G0C™ jf dentists in Canada. Does the Trudeau _0V*, covetous fondness for U.S. yi ism’s continental energy poli importation of the anti-Co the Birchites? Ft int Canada, it is now reveale olla? famous Pentagon documents, 0% ated in the “anti-Communls? 4, the U.S. war against Vietnam 1, J deau should close Canada ° mails f Birch Society’s use of our d “of peddling still another bran® same anti-Communist poiso® Sa ‘