—_________ EDITORIAL

Make Ottawa create jobs

There is evident desperation among
capitalist politicians in Canada not to let
the revolution of change, which is sweep-
ing the earth, touch their ossifying politi-
oe and economic system. The federal
Liberals, for example, must serve the sys-
tem to which they owe their existence —
state monopoly a — while keep-
ing up a facade of serving the people of
Canada. It is difficult to do both as the
system writhes in crisis. They are left
doing only the former — serving the
monopolies — and failing miserably
either to serve Canada’s people, or even
to keep up a facade of doing so.

The mass suffering of unemployment,
brought on by deliberate monopoly
vernment policies, is reason enough in
itself for flushing the system down his-
tory’s drain. And, they carry out their
policy with contempt and insult for the

working people.

Consider the emergency need for
genuine job creation programs in the
face of mass unemployment deliberately
created by government policy. The
Communist Party spelled out at its recent
25th Convention the ways in which jobs
can be created. Communist Party pro-
grams and policies have long carried
such solutions, which are methodically
blacked out by the big business media.
The Communist Party is calling for a
$10-billion investment program aimed
directly at job creation. This is not a call
for more hand-outs to corporations, but
for the use of Canada’s resources to
create secondary industry, major expan-
sion in housing, transportation, and in
other specified sectors. At the same time
Unemployment Insurance should be
guaranteed at 90% of wages for the full
period of unemployment. The govern-
ment and its monopoly masters created
unemployment; the workers did not.

So-called Economic Development
Minister Olson revealled Feb. 12 thatjust
the opposite is the government's scheme.
The government, desperate to preserve
monopoly profits and to paint a picture
of a system that is working, has reverted

(if it ever really strayed) to the resource
motto: Dig it 4p, pump it up, and ship it
out for the fastest dollar. Olson admits
that is now the priority. De-industrializa-
tion is the direction.

One of the reasons Olson gives, if one
can imagine such a statement, is that “we
don’t have the people’! One-and-a-half
million unemployed and we don’t have
the people. What we haven't got is a
government with the will and the loyalty
to Canada to train people or create jobs.

Another minister (employment), Ax-
worthy talks of dipping into the Un-
employment Insurance fund for $100-
million to use for job creation, while the
prime minister calls for wage controls —
an abuse of the working people which
would deepen the recession. __

Axworthy’s plan is not only peanuts, it
is highly questionable. While the mil-
lion-and-a-half jobless who still hold out
any hope of finding work are harassed
and threatened with being cut off Un-
employment Insurance unless they
chase around for job interviews for
non-existent jobs, this over-paid poli-
tician want to siphon off monies which
should be available to them.

There is a place to find the money for

jobs creation: cut the criminal arms

budget by 50%. It soared to $7-billion for
1981-82 and will jump by 22% next year
to $8.1-billion. All that out of our pockets
to pay for U.S. imperialism’s grandiose
plan to “manage” the world. .

The government is pushing its luck.
The demonstration on November 21
when 100,000 Canadians marched on
Parliament Hill, had a message for that
government, which it chooses not to
heed.

That can only increase the militancy of
actions now planned by the Canadian
Labor Congress and provincial labor
federations, because tens of thousands
of workers are tired of being the nice
guys who lose, while the monopoly fat
cats get fatter. The labor government
needs to speak and act as one and jolt this
government out of its complacency.

The Pope wants to know if any of us is Polish.

Flashbacks

25 years ago...

LIBERALS STRADDLE
NUCLEAR FENCE

External , Affairs Minister
L.B. Pearson told the United
Nations that mankind must
bring under control the terrible
menace of nuclear weapons or
“life on this planet will indeed
soon become — in the words of
the English philosopher, ‘nasty,
brutish and short’.”

No one certainly will disagree
with Mr. Pearson’s words, but
unfortunately that’s all they are,

just words. This man who main-

tains that Canada cannot pur-
sue an independent foreign pol-
icy, seems to stand in almighty
awe of Washington, for he has
not backed up his fine words
with deeds, such as_ backing
Sweden’s motion for a two-year
moratorium on H-bomb tests.

The Canadian Government is
a party now to the U.S. move to
provide all NATO countries —
including West Germany —
with the latest atomic weapons.
Prime Minister St. Laurent re-
plies to the CCF that the
H-bomb is necessary as a “de-
terrent to aggression”.

Tribune,
February 25, 1957

‘midnight boat for Victoria. Th

-care and clothing, no forced

50 years ago...

HUNGER MARCHERS -
‘WANT JOBLESS AID

Unemployed worke’
marched in three cities thi
week demanding assistance
the jobless. In Vancouve
12,000 marched and persuad
city council to issue 1,500 m
and bed tickets for marché
from outside points. —

Hundreds of workers cra
med the pier as 43 delegate
from Vancouver organization
and inland points left on th

docks echoed with lusty chee
and singing of the Red Flag 4"
the workers’ emblem was_
hoisted aboard. ge

In Sudbury, 1,200 marched
to City Hall and presented a list
of demands including: Mor
unemployment relief (extensio”
of public works at trade unio!
rates), no evictions, free medica”

labor as a condition for reli€h
better food at soup kitchens!
In Winnipeg 3,000 workel”
gathered in sub-zero weather © |
protest the cutting off relief
300 workers who refused
work for $6.25 a month. | C
The Workeh

February 27, 1932

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Embassy papers link Bani-Sadr to CIA |

By TOM FOLEY

Iran has published 13 volumes of
documents seized inside the U.S. Em-
bassy in Tehran. The documents pro-
vide grounds for believing that the CIA
recruited former President Abolhassan
Bani-Sadr. They give secret CIA
estimates of the Shah’s regime.
‘ These papers also show that Israeli
intelligence spied on the U.S. and on

31 has been running a series of articles
based on the document materials. The
Iranian books are not being allowed
into the U.S., thus preventing the
people of the U.S. from seeing them.
William Worthy and his free-lance
TV crew, working for CBS, went to
Iran in November and bought sets of-
the books in the course of their work.
But on their return, U.S. Customs and

Worthy and his fellow journalists have
filed a suit. against Customs and the

in Wachingion Bor. since Sseiass-

FBI agents in Boston seized the books. _

FBI, charging that their Constitutional
rights have been violated. The Ameri-

can Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is

representing Worthy in the suit.
Another set of 12 volumes of the
documents was sent separately and was
made available to the Washington Post,
which got the 13th volume from an Ira-
nian source in the U.S. The Post series,
as published thus far, makes it very
clear why the U.S. government does
not want U.S. citizens to learn what it is
Pewperon and soe rest of the Middle
t. :

The CIA agent who contacted

- ‘Bani-Sadr was Vernon A. Cassein, said

by the Post to be now retired from the
CIA. He posed as a U.S. businessman
working fora CIA front firm called
Carver Associates of Philadelphia.

Cassein had first met Bani-Sadr in
Paris in January, 1979, the month in
which the Shah fied Iran. The descrip-
tion of Bani-Sadr in this and later CIA
estimates is that of an ‘‘ambitious”’ and

“‘scheming’’ individual.

U.S. journalist Worthy on his recent
trip to Iran interviewed Bani-Sadr’s
secretary, now in prison. She told
Worthy ‘“‘that Bani-Sadr had received
$1,000 from a U.S. firm,”’ according to
the Post. ;

According to the reports published
last year in the Daily World, CIA agent
named ‘‘Kassein’’ or ‘‘Rutherford-
Kassein’’ had offered Bani-Sadr $1,000
a month as a ‘‘consulting fee.’’ Study of
the documentary excerpts published by
the Post makes it almost certain that
Bani-Sadr accepted and thus was put
on the CIA payroll.

The Iranian militants who seized the
U.S. Embassy on November 4, 1979,
did not at first have all the documents
they needed to prove their case against
Bani-Sadr. Some of the documents had
been shredded in a special machine by
Tehran Embassy CIA station chief Wil-
liam Ahern. The strips, one-sixteenth
of an inch wide, were painstakingly col-
lated by the militants. The Ayatollah

Ruhollah Khomeini was informed of |
the contents by the militants when this |"
work was completed. |
Khomeini began to denounce Bani- |
Sadr, who went underground in June of |
last year, joining forces with Mas’ud |
Rajavi, leader of the Mujahidin (Holy |
Warriors) group. Bani-Sadr was then |
impeached by the Iranian Majles
(parliament), but he and Rahavi ‘‘de- |
clared war’’ against the Iranian —
government. Rajavi has now been ap- —
pointed ‘‘premier’’ in Bani-Sadr’s
government-in-exile. ‘ee
The documents only cover the
period up to the time of seizure of the |
U.S. Embassy, But they do help to |
shed light on a later event, the April —
24-25, 1980, U.S. raid on Iran by troops
in planes and helicopters. :
Although the U.S. later stated the -
purpose of the armed incursion was to
rescue the U.S. hostages held in
Tehran, many progressive Iranians
others charged that the real purpose —
was to capture or kill Khomeini.

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