lanada wants no more complicity: Canadian government must now call for an end to Benson budget for if Y ST The sen budget is not ‘i the cning unemploy- MN Stimujay, “TSment that it dletay ate employment is Hitta, 2 fallacious,” William ty Snmunist Secretary of e a Party of Canada Me 21 staan Tribune. In a Party wement the Commu- ‘ €ader said: Son budget is not a udget, nor is it ‘ Overcome unem- ECanagy Serious way. Minar People awaited the 8 some relationship an Proposals and : d hite Paper. This by rosai° 2t all. The Car- HHlhag? Rave and the White The ; aon thrown over- Hi X8 to 1de€a of taxation ac- batt Cente rity to pay is not ils, “© Of the present pro- Wy ; Most important is be fag CmMent has retreat- 8s pene Pressures of ae the mining and ud Tests and given with “ies they can be - it's not incidental bankers and big een express full Ista: €nson budget. the ident in this budget J 80vernment’ is pur- B ih, | MARK SYDNEY i . a the 8uys : Ay eMse} Say it on the Wh Myc, “eS: there’s not fh hide that you can add. Live Ming fit other union ity Steaj, “OWN here to help a that.” Sreat. It makes us she they ¢ Sttonger.” Yon Sever have to be. For the Keg “D Week: rf ther S, over 280 ig Nets Of UA My [0 out W' local 252, Der he cees, a demand Cur increase over ame three year are wey discussing it Hh th “ment ealning table, but Mets, ™antime wen Sieht. iHeldey 8 to me, the company h e y Annin the workers in. q kena D ne Security Ser- S ang qcSsional strike- Cabs incorporat- Profits, not jobs suing a “trickle down” theory— that is, that what is good for big business will be good for the people, and that if big busi- ness gets the profits it will give the working people some of the crumbs. While seeming to give with one hand, Mr. Benson and the government take with the other. Unemployment insurance pay- ments will now be taxable. This contrasts quite sharply with the hundreds of millions being given away to the rich corporations in the form of various tax conces- sions. Secondly, working people will now have to pay taxes on amounts contributed for public medical care plans. What may result is that the worker will end up paying more taxes, not less. This is part of Benson’s gimmickry and sleight of hand. The argument that this budget will stimulate employ- ment is completely fallacious. The only thing that will be ope- rative this year will be the re- moval of the 3% surtax. How this is to create employment only the Minister of Finance can Say. In reality, and this is noted by some economists, the govern- @ Continued on page 8 UAW picketers buck "ps, strikebreakers ed), A&P Parts has managed to hire about 100 high school kids for work on three shifts. Jobs at A&P are advertised in the pa- pers. : The story’s like this. When a kid comes up looking for a scab job in response to the ad, the company tells him “Go to An- nings,” and gives him a card with an address on it. Later on the kid comes back driven in a company car through the picket line. He wouldn’t make it on foot. The kid gets two dollars an hour from A&P. Annings gets 5 per scab. y It's the company, not these young high school students that the workers are angry with. They've had young people working beside them every summer. The company usually hires about 80 or so university students for summer work, One striker said, ‘“‘. . . the Waterloo @ Continued on page 8 -U.S. war in Indochina! By MEL DOIG Canada has acted as accomplice of U.S. imperialism in its monstrous war against the people of Vietnam. It did so when the former Liberal government of Lester Pearson, collab- orating with the State Department and the Pentagon, authorized the Canadian — representative on the International Control Commission to act for the United States by conveying to the gov- ernment of North Vietnam the US. threats of massive aerial bombings. This was revealed in the Pentagon study documents published last’ week by the New York Times. The collaboration of the Pearson government violated the trust placed in Canada as a neutral on the Inter- national Control Commission. The present Minister of External Affairs Mitchell Sharp has had to admit in the House of Commons that in a meeting early in 1964. Lester Pearson, whose Nobel Peace Prize is now a mockery, and the former External Af- fairs Minister Pau! Martin secretly agreed with the then U.S. Secretary of - State Dean Rusk that Canada would undertake to transmit the U.S. threats - — “messages” as Sharp evasively calls them. As a result, when Canada sent its ICC representative, J. Blair Seaborn, on his trips to Hanoi in 1964, it was not to uphold: our country’s sacred peace trust on that commission but to act as agent of the U.S. government in ‘its fraudulent deceptions to mask the planned escalation of its war of aggres- sion in Vietnam. It is cynically useless for Mr. Sharp — who in 1964 was a member of the Pearson cabinet — to plead that Can- ada was not fully informed, as the U.S. Vietnam war allies like Australia and New Zealand were, about the details now revealed of Lyndon Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin deception, of the whole story of his deliberate lying to the American people. The Communist Party of Canada and the Canadian Tribune warned the Can- adian people for years that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a fraud, a United States “excuse” to extend the war. The Hanoi government denounced the de- ception and warned the world of U.S. imperialism’s plans to escalate the war. Mr. Sharp’s efforts to whitewash Seaborn as nothing but a kind of courier carrying sealed diplomatic pouches won’t do. The truth is that Canada’s atrocious- ly debasing complicity, before and after the U.S. elaborately staged the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, was fully consonant with the longtime role of Canadian imperialism as full partner with the whole cold-war policy of U.S. imperialism. When the U.S. rulers cried “save Saigon democracy,” the Canadian govy- ernment joined in the hellish chorus. When the U.S. murderers in the Penta- gon tried to justify their criminal war against Vietnam, the Canadian govern- ment assured them annual. shipments of over $300 millions of arms “to stop communist aggression.” Now that the Pentagon study docu- ments have uncovered the stark truth for all to see, even for the reluctant eyes of Canada’s rulers, will the present Canadian govern- _ THE FIRST ‘FIX’! ment have the courage to say “No more!’’? In the USA President Nixon pleads he “inherited” Johnson’s betrayal of the American peo- ple and of peace. No one be- lieves him. The world reca the time when as Vice-Presi- tactical nuclear weapons to aid the French in Vietnam. It knows him as the-U.S. president with- out credibility. ' Canadians will not forget Trudeau’s sanction of arms sales to the U.S. for use in Viet- nam should he attempt to plead his inheritance of Canadian complicity in that war as ex- cuse for continuing this mur- derous merchandising. Instead, the Trudeau govern- ment has the immediate respon- sibility to expiate Canada’s col- laboration in the deceptions, the lies and the threats of U.S. im- perialism. The Canadian government ought now to dissociate itself, in the name of the Canadian people, from the U.S. war in Indochina. It should call at once on the United States to with- draw all its troops from Indo- china —this year. It should @ Continued on page 8 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1971—PAGE 5 dent, Nixon called for use of