CANADA HAS RESPONSIBILITY U.S. wages cruel war against the people of South Vietnam By BEN SWANKEY Many Canadians do not real- ise that Canada must bear some responsibility for the bloody and devastating war now being waged in South Vietnam, By the 1954 Geneva Agree- ments which ‘‘ended’’ the war in Indo-China, Canada became a member of the three power International Control Commis- sion, Its duties include investi- gating and reporting on any violations of the peace and neu- trality of South Vietnam, People’s Liberation Army, It controls the countryside and the jungles, It is armed with home made weapons and with U.S. arms captured from govern- ment forces, U.S. news agencies always re- fer to the People’s Liberation Army as Viet Cong. No such thing as Viet Cong exists in South Vietnam, This is a fictit- ious propaganda . tag pinned on the People’s Liberation Army. Viet Cong is an abbreviation for Vietnamese Communists and the U.S, would like to spread The war in this unhappy coun- the false impression that all who oppose its intervention in South Vietnam are Communists, One of the ‘most sinister forces in South Vietnam is the US, Central Intelligence Agency. It makes and breaks governments ,according to U.S, dictates and is directly responsible for many _of the inhuman policies practised by successive dictatorial govern- ments. This war is as cruel as any that has ever been waged, Because of mass opposition by the people in the country- try is not only a civli war. It has become a war of interven- tion by a foreign power, the United States, and a war of ex- termination against the 14 mil- lion Vietnamese. On the one hand there is the press gang army of the US. directed government of South Vietnam which includes 220,000 regulars and 150,000 militiamen, It is supported by 15,500 US. combat troops armed with the most modern tanks and guns, The U,S. is spending $1; mil- lion a day in Vietnam support, These armed forces are in con- trol only of the cities and im- mediate surrounding areas. On the other hand there is the National Liberation Front, a federation of all forces op- posing foreign intervention and to be trampled on.” tyranny, with a 40,000 strong By JOHN GRITTEN Little notice has been taken of the astonishing claim by ex- President of the U.S. Harry S. Truman that he warned the Jap- anese before ordering the air force to drop the atom bomb. He chose his 80th birthday last week to make this revela- U.S. State Department: ‘‘We won't allow your independence —Vadillo in El Dia, Mexico tion about one of the most mom- entous and dire events in world history 19 years ago. So we have some justification in doubting the reliability of the Truman memory. Claiming that his decision had saved 500,000 Japanese and Am- erican lives, Harry S. was re- Did Pres. Truman warn ported as having said: ‘‘I sent word to the Japanese that we had the most powerful explosive in the world and in reply got the nastiest, meanest telegram I ever saw.” Since memories of others be- side Mr, Truman are short, perhaps it may be useful, once again to put the record straight U.S. LABOR SECRETARY SAYS: (Following are excerpts from a recent speech by U.S. Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, at the University of Michigan). A few miles from this hall, 10 employees man a machine that makes automobile motor blocks 400 men worked on 10 years ago, Fourteen operators attend the glass-blowing ma- chines that make 90 percent of all the glass light bulbs produced in this country. Two workers now turn out 1,000 - radios. a day—the product of 200 workers a few years ago. Between now and this time tomorrow, 4,400 people will have stepped aside from their jobs, or moved on to others, because machines will be doing what they are doing today. Yet any philosophy or policy about automation must neces- sarily start from clear recog- nition that unrestrained tech- nological advance is not only inexorable, but essential to the maintenance and elevation of the standard of living. It is equally clear that the prevalent myths about auto- mation are narcotics dulling the national sensitivity to the necessity of averting men’s mastery over machines, The myth that automationis only a new stage in an old process is akin to the thinking that splitting the atom repre- sented only a evolutionary de- velopment in the dynamics of war— a projection of the first use of the cross-bow. The most dangerous mythis that. machines produce as many jobs for men as they destroy and therefore repre- ‘4400 JOBS LOST PER DAY TO MACHINES’ sent. no threat to workers, The machines now have, in general, a high school educa- tion—in the sense that they can do most jobs that a high school education qualifies people to do, So machines will get the unskilled jobs, be- cause they work for less than living wages. Machines are, in the most real sense, respons- | ible for putting uneducatec people out of work. The answers are not tc smash the machines, They are to recognize that the individ- ual versus the machine is as unfair a match today as the individual versus the corpora- tion was in the last century, and that advancing technology requires the exercise of col- lective — public and private —responsibility for its effects and collective measures to carry out this responsibility, ; Page Two Features — side, U.S, ;planes have burned hundreds of villages to the ground with napalm bombs, Inhabitants who escaped death by burning were lucky. that the People’s Liberalt to 8 U.S. planes have sprayed huge eee eats : 3 areas with deadly spray that : e destroys crops, orchards, trees, all vegetation, To human beings who were sprayed, it brought, according to the Trade Union Federation of Vietnam, ‘‘vomiting, hemor- rhage, blindness, partial paraly- sis and unconsciousness,”’ For cattle, buffalo, and other domestic animals, the spray ‘prought death, a Apparently Asians are. again being used by U.S. military forc- es as human guinea pigs for ex- periments with new death dealing weapons, Whole settlements have been forced out at gun point, the vil- lages burned, and the peasants ‘tyesettled’’ in ‘‘strategic ham- lets’? that are veritable concen- tration camps, Civilians have been the main victims in this savage war of repression against the people of South Vietnam, ‘*Between 1954 and today,” it was reported in the October 1963 issue of Trade Union Press, ‘¢more than 156,000 persons have been killed, 672,000 disabled as a result of torture and 370,00C including thousands of children detained in more than 1,00C prisons,’’ on the events leading up to the dropping of the Hiroshima A- bomb, According to that other octo- genarian, Sir Winston Churchill, the only message that was sent to Japan was the joint ultimatum from the Governments of the U\S., China and Britain calling on the Japanese Government for the unconditional surrender of all the Japanese armed forces, I quote from the text of the message: Japan is complete and utter des- truction.’’ Nothing about ‘‘the most powerful explosive in the world,’’ please note, There were also dropped over 21 Japanese cities 1,500,000 leaflets warning that they would be subjected to ‘‘intensive air bombardment.’’ But, again, no warning to the people of Hiroshima or Naga- saki that they were about to be ~ plasted, burned, suffocated, or slowly poisoned over the years, by the most destructive weapon hitherto invented, It was these cold warmongers, Truman and Churchill, before even the hot war against fascism ‘May 29, are being raised against a © tinuation of a war that the © c ae. Vietnam,’’ Senator Mike Man field, Senate Democratic majo! ity leader, said recently, stop this awful waste of Am! can money.”’ Hiroshima? “The alternative for Voices in the United state con annot possibly win. “It’s time we got out of Sou! 6h an eri- Ameri blood and This feeling was echoed Alaska Senator Ernest Gr! ing, “It’s high time,’’ he ° “that the American people | mand that this slaughter st Sentiment is overwhel for this course of action . ° U.S, troops operate in south Vietnam in violation of th Geneva Agreements which spec ifically forbid the interventi®? of foreign troops, a We owe it to our own rep tation and to the people of sout Vietnam to: join with them the demand that U.S. troops out of their country and- ; they be allowed to follow 2 P° fi icy of peace and neutrality ae to establish ademocratic g0Ve™ ment of their own choice. —The Fisherma? get was ended, who ‘resolved at a costs to refuse to divulge any PY ticulars’? (Churchill’s wot the A-bomb to the Soviet Ua their ‘magnificent allyin tev against Hitler” (Churchill 4! Not only did Truman not 8 a warning to the people of HiP shima, but it has long since © recognised that the A-bomb never have been dropped a and, in fact, was droppe purely cold war, power- politl® anti-Socialist reasons. The Soviet Union had give? solemn undertaking at the dam conference to enter thé against Japan three months the unconditional surren er Nazi Germany, namely, A¥ 1945, and before she knew imminent creation of thé bomb, of! The Report on the pacific ; prepared by the USS. strat Bombing Survey came conclusion; ‘‘It seems cleat even without the atomic attacks, air supremacy ovel an could have exerted suf pressure to bring uncondit surrender and obviate the for invasion,”’ Finally, Major-General F Chenault, wartime U.S. Al e ; Commander in China, comm at the time that Russia ® into the Japanese wat © decisive factor in spe© end and would have bee? 5° no atom bombs h@ dropped, : 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE