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Ontario labor calls for total
isolation of Chile’s junta

TORONTO — At its recent
annual convention, the Onatrio
Federation of Labor called on the
Canadian government to sever all
commercial and financial ties with

the fascist dictatorship in Chile

until trade union rights and demo-
cracy are restored.

In a wire to Prime Minister
Trudeau, the OFL urged him “‘to

take a stronger position in opposi-

tion to the junta at the United Na-

tions (UN) and International

Labor Organization (ILO). .
The OFL also sent wires to the
UN and the ILO urging those
bodies to step up their pressue on
General Pinochet to release the
2,500 missing persons in Chile,
and to press for the democratic
and trade union right of the people
to be restored. OFL affiliates

- were urged to take similar ac-

tions.

The Ontario labor movement’s
act of solidarity with labor in fas-
cist Chile was timely, since a
couple of weeks prior to the OFL
convention, Pinochet had dissol-
ved Chile’s trade unions. On Oct.
27, the junta dissolved every
union in Chile, immediately mak-
ing outlaws of any union leaders

_ who don’t comply with the fascist

edict. :

Less than 70 hours later, the
junta called for new “elections”
which allowed the election of only
three people as leaders of a union.
Anyone who had held popular
office for the last 10 years, was
automatically barred from nomi-
nation or election.

The Central Union of Workers

. of Chile (CUT), in the Exterior,

notes that this latest act by the
fascist junta indicates the fascists
want to outlaw the democratic
forces in Chile completely. The
so-called new constitution plan-
ned by the junta, CUT says, “‘al-
lows a voice only to those ele-
ments which have money and

prestige, like the landholders, the
bankers: the army generals etc.
... this priviledged group (has) to-
tally destroyed what people have
done for themselves in working
towards better living standards
and peace of mind, for improve-
ment of working conditions, their
housing their health, their human
rights.”

Currently there are about
10,000 workers at the
Chuqucimata Mine in Northern
Chile who have been living under
a state of siege imposed by the
fascist junta, ever since Sept. 17

-when they dared to present

Pinochet with a petition demand-
ing better wages and working
conditions.

Some 100 miners, are still in
exile as a result of the protest

On Dec. 24, 1976, following a
protracted international cam-
paign, Luis Corvalan, general
secretary of the Communist
Party of Chile, was released
from the concentration camps
and jails of the junta. In the two
years since winning freedom,
Corvalan has actively worked
for the restoration of democ-
racy in his country speaking at
hundreds of rallies and meet-
ings in many lands as part of
the growing movement to iso-
late the fascist regime.

completely isolated from their
families.

With one stroke of the pen,
Oct. 20, the junta dissolved:
Chile’s seven largest trade union
federations. At about 3:00 a.m.,
the junta raided the offices of
these unions seizing all their pap-
ers, and arresting a number of
leaders in the early hours of the
morning in their homes.

Decree 2347 was issued by the
fascists forbidding any person
from defending or admitting sol-
idarity with the outlawed federa-
tions: = :

This brought to a total of three,
the number of junta decrees limit-
ing the rights of trade unions. De-
cree 2346, another fascist law,
deprives workers of their only
legal means of expression or

claiming their right to a decent |

standard of living and working
conditions.

With some 40 years of class _

struggle and leadership behind
them the seven outlawed labor
federations are: the Confedera-
tion of Agricultural workers; the

National -Federation of Metallur- .

gical Unions; the National Textile
and Clothing Federation; the Na-
tional Federation of Industrial
Mining; the National Federation
of Construction; the National
Peasant and Native Confedera-
tion; and the Industrial Federa-
tion of Builders and Woodwor-
kers.

CUT calls on all labor organiza-

- tions and trade unionists in Cana-

da, to send telegrams to the ILO
and the UN Human Rights Com-
mission appealing for the safety
and lives of all the labor leaders in
the junta’s hands and the CNI
gestapo of Pinochet. CUT also
wants the Canadian Government
to reaffirm its condemnation of
the military junta before the 33rd
General Assembly of the United
Nations.

‘Ethiopia’s leader condemns
hina as imperialism’s ally

By FILS DELISLE
Tribune Berlin Correspondent
BERLIN — One of the newest

leaders in democratic Africa and

the international working class
movement has. described ‘‘the
Peking leadership’’ as an aggres-
sive ally of imperialism, a col-
laborator of racist governments in
the South of Africa, and a suppor-
ter of counter-revolution.
-Mengistu Haile Mariam,
chairman of the Provisional Milit-
ary Administrative Council of
Ethiopia and of its Council of
Ministers, warned here last week
that the current Chinese leaders
are backing reaction and fascist
dictatorships from Asia to Latin
America. They are also, he de-
Icared, following a long-prepared
plan of ‘‘expanisonist and
hegemonistic aspirationsin Asia”.
The Ethiopian leader’s esti-
mate of the aims and direction of
Peking policy follow revelations
by Vietnamese sources indicating
that during the Vietnamese war
against the. U.S. invaders and
their Saigon puppets, Peking
served demands on Hanoi which,

“ ifaccepted, would have had a dis-

-astrous effect. Peking, for exam-
ple, at one point demanded that
the Vietnamese, in the midst of

war, carry out a Maoist “cultural
revolution’, Peking style. Hanoi
rejected this demand as politically
preposterous,and militarily self-
defeating.

A similar estimate of Peking
policy has been made by Albania,
long looked upon as the sole out-
post of Peking in Europe. The Al-
banians have now vigorously de-
nounced the Peking leaders for
trying to force wrong policies on
Albania, for lining up with Ameri-
can imperialism and taking the
road of counter-revolution.

-The most recent Albanian
critique of Peking policy declared
that the Chinese leaders were
propagating the myth that the
USSR was fomenting a Third
World War as camouflage for Pek-
ing’s own hegemonistic-goals.

Mengistu Haile Mariam, here
on a state visit, made the point
that the USSR, the GDR and
other socialist countries were
supporting Ethiopia, which has
taken the socialist road, while

- Peking was supporting counter-
revolutionary Ethiopian elements
trying to block socialism there.

He declared: ‘‘We vigorously -

condemn the reactionary role of

the Peking leadership, as well as’
its collaboration with imperialism-

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—DECEMBER 20, 1978—Page6 .

and reaction in Africa, Asia and
Latin America. In alliance with
the racist regimes in the south of
Africa, the Chinese leadership is
making attempts to split the ranks

‘ of the liberation movements and
to destabilize progressive African
governments.

“In Latin America, it openly
supports the dictatorships of
Pinochet and Somoza. In order to
advance their own long-prepared
expansionist and hegemonistic
aspirations in Asia, the Chinese
leaders are creating confrontation
with the heroic Vietnamese
people. With its threats to the re-
volution and the territorial integ-
rity of Vietnam, the Chinese lead-
ership has created a dangerous
situation of conflict.

_ “It stand in general for a shar-
pening of international tensions

and does everything it can to un-

dermine relaxation of tensions
and disarmament. Ethiopia
wholeheartedly. supports the
‘struggle of the heroic Vietnamese
people in defence of their revolu-
tion, their independence and their
territorial integrity.”’-

The Ethiopian leader signed
‘agreements .with the GDR to
deepen and extend their relations
in all fields. eee

‘Chilean copper mine

: In recent weeks the fasc
dissolved all major unions, including the Miners’ unions under
the guise of “elections” which excluded all former leaders.

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ist junta has

— [srael-South Africa
strong economic ties

In recent years apartheid and
Zionism have ever more fre-
quently been mentioned in the re-

solution of the United Nations, .

Organization of African Unity,
and other international organiza-
tions. Nationalism brought to its
extreme form and racism elevated
to the rank of state policy, utter
neglect of the standards of inter-
national law — these are the
characteristics of both that arouse
the wrath of world public opinion.
These features underlie the
economic alliance of the two.

“South Africa has always re-
mained staunch and constant in
its approach to Israel,”’ said Izhak
Unna, Israeli ambassador to
South Africa. ‘‘Tel Aviv will
therefore fulfill the obligations it
has to South Africa.”

_ A financial basis for these ag-
reements was prepared earlier. In
1974 Israel became the only state
not affected by the South-African
laws prohibiting the export of cap-
ital to other countries. Unof-
ficially, also eased were strict re-
strictions .on remittance to Israel
of donations from the Jewish
community in South Africa. In its
turn, South Africa began actively
expanding through Israel its~ex-
-ports to West-European coun-
tries and the USA. For this pur-

pose use is being made of Israel’s.

association withthe EEC and its
customs union with the United
States freeing over 2,800 Israeli

_ der.

entirely new type built at Israel

commodities from custom
duties. Sx

Israel.and South Africa are co
tinuing to. hold regular milita
consultations and exchang
experience in conventional an
anti-guerrilla. warfare. Israeli €
gineers are directing the constr
tion along the South African bor-
der of the so-called ‘South:
African wall’’, a border system
electronic sensors — ‘‘catchers —
—the same as in the Jordan valle
and_.on the Israeli-Lebanese bo’

Israel has delivered to Sou!
Africa three missile-launchi
motor boats with a displaceme
of 420 tons. Three other su
boats are under construction
license in South Africa itse
These boats are equipped with
raeli Gabriel missiles, but Soul!
Africa manufactures its own
siles for them as well.
South-Africans are awaitin,
moreover, the delivery
missile-launching vessels of

shipyards. They will hav@
helicopter pads. 7
Israeli engineers are helpini
South Africa to modernize its al!
force. The aircraft are being pro”
vided with new electronic equi]
ment and arms: air-to-air and all”
to-surface missiles. South
African helicopters are being
equipped to strike at groyn
targets and are also supplied with
light guns, machine’ guns and d
vices for night combat. -

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