EDITORIAL Reagan offers are false _ US. President Reagan, who can’t make up his mind whether or not he supports the United Nations’ presence in his country, _ tried to mislead that body’s General As- sembly on Sept. 26. This was the violin section of the Reagon- ite orchestration of calumny and hysteria against the Soviet Union. _ While previously demanding destruc- tion of all Soviet SS-20 missiles — in Euro- Pe and Asian USSR — in exchange for .S. reconsideration of its deployment of some of its 572 Pershing II and Cruise mis- siles in western Europe, Reagan now had a compromise. The USSR could leave its 108 missiles in Asia. The USA would also discuss missile-carry- _ ing bombers and other limitations on the Cruise and the six-minutes-to-Moscow Pershing II (which could trigger firing of _ Soviet missiles if there were so much as a warning of a U.S. first strike. And first strike is the U.S. strategy). But as a U.S. peace spokeswoman said, Reagan is not dealing with the British and French nuclear forces which are part of the alliance threatening the Soviet Union. “The Pershing and Cruise deployment is a unilateral escalation of the arms race by the U.S., whereas the Soviet SS-20s are a modernization of the SS-4 and SS-5 _ missiles” she pointed out. _ What is more, U.S. Pershing and Cruise ~ missiles in western Europe would target _ Soviet cities, whereas the Soviet SS-20 can- “not reach the USA, and the USSR has no such countervailing missile force near U.S. territory. Reagan’s cold war policies and his hare- brained sanctions have never done any- thing good for Canada. They have on the other hand been harmful. They’ve dis- torted our policies, our international relationships and aggravated the foreign- trade-equals-jobs factor in Canada’s mass unemployment and recession. The pretext is a battle for human rights, morals, freedom and the good life. In that case, what sanctions and international campaigns have the Reaganites and their Canadian hangers-on conducted against the fascist, militarist and apartheid regimes with whom they have such cozy relations? Where are the human rights in Chile? Where are the morals in the regime of the Philippines’ Marcos? Where is the freedom in South Africa? Where is the good life in Guatemala? The concern of the Reaganites, their soul brothers the Canadian Tories, or their opportunist backers among Liberals and New Democrats, is not for people’s rights, which start with the right to live in a world free of nuclear war. Their sole concern 1s the preservation of imperialism in com- mand of the whole world. That brings nothing of worth to the Canadian people. The labor, peace and democratic movements in Canada and internationally must know that time is short to stop the warmakers. Compelling pressure is needed to enforce a nuclear weapons freeze, and that extends to ban- ning Cruise testing'in Canada. People'can- not remain quiet and acquiesce in the face of nuclear catastrophe. Reagan’s words, at the UN or anywhere else, are a smokescreen for a rush to world military domination which can only end in tragedy for humanity. Job creation a priority If evidence of mass unemployment were the medicine that created.jobs, everyone who wanted to would be working. Reports, findings and predictions of higher unem- ployment rates to come, appear week after _ week, but they tell us quite a lot of what we know. One of the facts they shed light on is youth’s unequal burden in our mass - unemployment system. On Sept. 23 two reports hit the public. _ One was called Learning a Living in Cana- da, and was compiled by a task force ap- pointed by the federal government. The _ other, out of London,. England, from the _ Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, dealt with the “recovery”. Between them they see economic signs of continuing mass unemployment, hitting at _ young people hardest. “There are clear signs that the long- awaited recovery is now underway,” states OECD. “But it does not seem likely to make roads into unemployment for some time, and when it does a sizeable unemployment problem will remain.” Focussing on Canada, it predicts youth unemployment rising from 18.7 per cent (1982) to 22 per cent this year, and with that optimism which always abides with “next year or the year after,” sees only 21 _ percent young and jobless 12 months from now. : = PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 5, 1983—Page 4 The Learning a Living task force makes a pitch — as have many other bodies — for education and training to cope with chang- ing technologies. It finds that, in reality, education and training in our system get less attention in recession periods, and would like that situation reversed. The idea is to introduce a system of worker leave- taking, while the worker's pay continues, to improve skills or adapt to changes in the work place. A similar proposal is found in the recently-published Communist Party of Canada emergency program for full employment which the CPC is urging parliament to adopt. Besides demanding training or retrain- ing for youth, and a massive investment program for public works, housing and other job creating programs, the Com- munist proposals point to some basic needs to deal with the capitalist system’s crisis. Nationalization, under democratic control, of all-multi-nationals, banks and other financial institutions would ensure some public control over the economy, while transferring money from the huge arms budget would provide the means of launching job creation. The labor movement'and the democratic forces in Canada ‘can be the motor for compelling such measures. “UATE TOTELL YOU THIS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A GREAT ECONOMIC | RECOVERY, BUT YOU'RE FIRED. Flashbacks TORIES INVITE U.S. MISSILES © In a statement headed, No Yankee Missiles for Canada! the Labor-Progressive Party charges that, “without con- sulting parliament the Tory cabinet has put this country completely at the mercy of the U.S. nuclear war maniacs.” It has done so “via the U.S. Ar- my’s Bomarc guided missile. This country’s U.S.- dominated “defence policy” is nothing but a means of per- mitting the U.S. War Department to use Canada as a launching pad for a nuclear war. The statement also calls for keeping the Avro aircraft plant operating with civilian work following scrapping the Avro Arrow military plane. Tribune, October 6, 1958 25 years 50 years DIMITROV HITS NAZI FRAME-UP LEIPZIG — Court efforts to connect four communists charged with burning the- Reichstag with the imbecile Van Der Lubbe who con- fessed to the act have failed. The communists have turned thé court into a forum for the exposure of fascism. George Dimitrov, leader of the Bul- | garian Communist Party, and — _one of those charged, cross- examined Judge Vogt who furnished most of the “evi- | -dence” for the shaky case. | Vogt’s testimony, instead of | bolstering the Nazi case, ré- | sulted in damaging blows to — the prosécution. He left the stand completely flustered. The Worker, - October 7, 1933 Profiteer of the week Trizec Corp., Calgary is a real estate holding and managing : company. Holding and managing real estate is quite profitable; amounting to $27,655,000 after taxes in the nine months ende?@ - July 31/83. The same period a year earlier netted Trizec $25,724,000. 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