ETHIOPIA EXPELLS FRG AMBASSADOR

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia has expelled the West German ambas-
sador Jan. 22 following the signing of a $12-million West German aid,
deal to Somalia. The Ethiopian news agency also was highly critical of
U.S:, French, British, West German and Italian interference in the
dispute between Ethiopia and Somalia on the side of the Somalians and
urged the five powers to demand Somalia withdraw: from occupied
Ethiopian lands ‘‘which is the only condition for peace and security in
the Horn of Africa’,

NEW WAVE OF ARRESTS IN CHILE

SANTIAGO — The entire top leadership of the Christian Dem-
Ocratic Party (PCD) has been arrested by the junta over the past two

weeks. the PCD leaders have since been banished to remote villages,
Near the Chilean-Bolivian border and are under police watch. The

arrests are related to the PCD’s opposition to the phoney Pinochet
‘referendum’ Jan. 4 in which they urged their supporters to vote
“no.

YOUNG CUBAN EXILES RETURN

HAVANA — A brigade of Cuban-born young people from the U.S.

is in socialist Cuba doing volunteer construction work. There are 55

young people in the ‘“‘Antonio Maceo Brigade,” who were born in

Cuba but were taken to the U.S. by their parents after the 1959 Cuban

pe ebon: The brigade members have been warmly welcomed all over
uba.

U.S. BARS VIETNAMESE FROM PEACE MEET

WASHINGTON — Members of the Vietnamese delegation to the
United Nations were denied permission to attend a ‘‘Dialogue for
Detente and Disarmament” conference held here Jan. 25-27. The
Meeting was sponsored by a coalition of labor, peace and political
groups. A Vietnamese representative told the press no reason was
given by'the State Department for the denial.

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__ WASHINGTON — Thousands demonstrate outside the White House
for the immediate release of the Wilmington Ten.

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COMIMUEINT

Protect privacy of mails

The Trudeau government’s attempt
to end privacy of the mails in Canada
should rouse fierce opposition. There’s
no reason why working people should
put up with further police interference
in their trade unions, political parties,
fraternal organizations, or their indi-
vidual private mail. We should make no
mistake, the anti-labor record of big bus-
iness and its government, .and its state
police, marks labor as its enemy. Work-
ers will be the prime victims of Trudeau’s
authoritarian course.

Trudeau announced the new legaliz-
ing of criminal acts on Jan. 26. If the
solicitor-general had not been forced to
resign because of admitted forgery, the
bill might already have been before
parliament.

Illegal mail spying by the Royal Cana-
dian Mounted Police over a 40-year
period has become too cumbersome for
a government fearing for its very exis-

_ tence, for a system deep in a crisis it can’t

solve. Now, the police will be empowered
to snoop into anybody’s mail at any time. .
This is typical of the alarming moves to
the right by the Trudeau government,
moves which have as their goal the
further extortion from the working
people of the costs of the system’s crisis.

All down the line workers are footing
more of the bill for capitalism’s concen-
tration of wealth and power in a few
hands. Mass unemployment, soaring in-
flation, ruinous rents, stagnating pro-
duction, cutbacks in numerous social
benefits are all part of the class battle.
The “Anti-Inflation Board’s” attack on
collective bargaining is a prime example.
Mail tampering is a convenient way for
the RCMP to step up its role in under-
mining labor’s fightback by splitting and
sabotage of the trade union movement.

It’s time to tell the government in a
loud, clear, united voice: stop the at-
tempts to intimidate and harass workers!
Kill this police-state law, keep the
RCMP’s paws out of our mail!

Combat push to the right!

The federal government is moving in
a steady course toward the right of the
political spectrum. What that means for
the working class is more assaults on
living standards, civil rights, and on the
trade union movement. :

Means of coercion and intimidation
are being beefed up while living stan-
dards are undercut. We see the evi-
dence every day. — ue

Liberal government attempts to en-
tangle the labor movement in its tripar-
tite snare have been renewed lately, and
leaders of the Canadian Labor Congress
are to meet with the Cabinet at any
moment. This is good reason for work-
ers to go on the alert.

Government direction is undeniable.
Mass unemployment and soaring infla-

-tion, profits sky-high, are more than a

blow at working-class standards. They
can be used to weaken working-class
clout, strengthen the hand of the corpo-
rations — and to force workers to pay
the cost of the system’s deep crisis.

To cover .up’ systematic efforts to
degrade and cheat jobless workers at the
Unemployment Insurance Commission,
Trudeau is blowing $1-million in tax
money on advertising accusing us of
cheating the UIC. A corruption-ridden

-government is in a fine position to

preach to people who work for a living
— when they find jobs! It’s a, crude
excuse to deny workers benefits, try to
frighten them off, and force compliance
with anti-labor policies.

What’s more the ads lie. A survey
shows fewer than three in 100 break the
“complicated unemployment rules,”
and fewer.than three in 1,000 can be
charged with an offence.

The same clique refuses to cut taxes

- on low-incomes, but squanders $3.5-

billion a year on armaments, money
which could create useful production
for Canada and her people.

Some of those arms are for use
against workers who strike or de-
monstrate when they are squeezed

beyond endurance! Special units are
being trained for “civilian control”.

Government moves to right-wing
methods include whitewashing the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who
have spied on and tried to undermine
the labor movement for decades. Now
they are to have legal rights to steal mail
and use it to the capitalist system’s
advantage.

Tory rednecks joining the Liberal
Party say it is more amenable to right
wingers. The Liverals are better “enfor-
cers” in fact, because they hold power.
The Tories in power federally would
wipe out labor’s gains at something of a
record rate, much as the Liberals are
trying to do.

These two parties, bankers, directors
of corporate monopolies, the big busi-
ness media, the military are in full cry:
Keep wages down! Slash social expendi-
tures! Hamstring the unions! More
productivity! Tighten your belts!

About productivity, a recent Confer-
ence Board of Canada study shows
output per man hour rising faster here
than in USA. Productivity is already
higher in wood, about the same in auto,
and almost the same in metal products.
In all durable goods, Canadian produc-
tivity rated 94% to 98% of that in USA.

But the ruling class goes on using the
media, the courts, police and legislation
to buttress its assaults on workers’ living
standards and on expectations of a
productive life.

Recently, 22 senior corporate execu-
tives emerged from a tete-a-tete with
Trudeau and Co., backing government
fiscal and monetary policies, and oppos-
ing income tax cuts for workers.

On this background labor leaders are
called to a private talk with the Trudeau
team. It is hardly surprising then if
workers see the urgent need for the
whole labor movement to fight back
harder than it has done in any recent
period, and to strengthen their own
leadership in battling to protect the
rights of working people.

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