EDITORIAL

_ PM's attack on peace forces

Prime Minister Trudeau has chosen to
label as hypocrites hundreds of thousands
of Canadians who oppose testing the US.
nuclear Cruise missile in Canada. No mat-
ter that they speak for millions who want a
freeze and multilateral — not unilateral —
cutbacks on nuclear arms, and who de-
mand Canada’s refusal to bow to the U.S.
nuclear blackmail in testing the Cruise in
Canada.

The next step, logical reasoning sug-
gests, is for Ottawa to designate Canada as
a launch site against the USSR. That would
follow from the demonstration by the PM
and some of his cohorts of their hatred for
people who choose socialism as a way of
life.

It is important for Canadians to know
the facts, not Trudeau’s parroting of U.S.
propaganda, but the realities. With the
danger of world nuclear war perilously
close, Canadians owe it to themselves —
whatever the badmouthing by the PM — to
be aware that the Soviet Union, which has
known war horrors on its own territory, has
consistently put forth proposals for arms
reductions, which the USA has distorted
and dismissed. It now has the Prime Minis-
ter of Canada running its errands.

Even the Toronto Star says editorially
that Soviet leader Andropov made “two
serious arms-control offers” in recent days,
and notes that “millions have marched for
peace... . Clearly,” it says, “the time is right
for moderation, not provocation”.

Yet, the prime minister chooses provoca-
uon. Indicative of of how far he has
lurched to the right is the Globe and Mail's
Tory editorial support for his attack on the
peace movement.

Trudeau admits he received numerous
messages from members of the electorate
whom he chooses to berate instead of
represent. (The Globe and Mail said May
11 the tally was 6,570 individual letters and
telegrams from Nov. 1/82 to May 6/83,

20,000 write-in forms, and petitions with
12,000 signatures.)

Does the PM represent the people of
Canada or does he represent the Reagan
regime? His open letter which got pride of
place in the daily press across Canada (and
which some say sounds more like the writ-
ing of a “friendly” neighbor to the south) is
a collection of insult, imuendo and distor-
tion designed to mislead and intimidate the
Canadian people. It’s safe to say there’s a
large body of Canadians who won't lie
down and be doormats.

Trudeau accuses us of wanting the “safe-
ty” of the U.S. umbrella, but being reluc-
tant to lend a hand. The only U.S. um-
brellas in living memory were the USA’s
mushroom cloud’ over 322,000
slaughtered humans in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki; and the missing umbrella of
civilized behavior when U.S. chemical
poisons rained down on Vietnam.

In contrast to the “safety” offered by
Trudeau’s U.S. bosses, he is fond of shout-
ing “totalitarianism” at the USSR — not to
fool the Soviet people, but to put blinkers
on Canadians, as Washington commands.
One might ask, is it the “totalitarian” full
employment, free health and hospital care,
free education, mass housing program, he
dislikes because his and other capitalist
governments have utterly failed the people
on these and other basics? On the other
hand it is just because they enjoy these and
similar achievements that the Soviet people
and government choose life, not nuclear
war.

New Democratic Party leader Ed Broad-
bent says correctly that the PM’s letter

“slanders many decent Canadians”. Com-

munists see it as convincing evidence that
Trudeau has sold out to the Reaganites.

Toall who stand for peace and Canadian
independence it must appear as another
incursion of U.S. military, political and
economic domination, this time shamefully
assisted by the prime minister.

More U.S. destabilization

The U.S. Reagan regime, oriented as it is
on subversion and violence, while it flings
these epithets at other countries, has made
another attempt to destabilize Nicaragua.
This time Reagan has cut off an estimated
$14-million worth of U.S. imports of sugar,
Nicaragua’s number four export crop,
most of which goes to the USA.

Reagan cynically left a trickle of Nicara-
guan sugar entering USA to thwart action
against him by the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade.” Nevertheless,
Nicaragua has filed a formal complaint
with GATT, charging U.S. violation of its
commitments to free trade.

The new act of aggression against the
Nicaraguan government by the USA is
clearly an extension of its armed invasion
by proxy of the Central American country.

Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Rev.
Miguel d’Escoto charged in the U.N. on
May 10, that 4,000 insurgents, armed,
trained and financed by the USA are
gathered at the Honduran border “ready
to launch another invasion.” An earlier in-
vasion under the same sponsorship in-

volved 1,500.
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 20, 1983—Page 4

As an indicator of resistance, the
Evangelical Committee for Aid and
Development (CEPAD), representing
400,000 Nicaraguan Protestants reveals to
churches abroad “the atrocities committed
by counter-revolutionaries attacking our
country ... trained and financed by the
Government of the United States . . . plant-
ing death, panic, and desperation among
our people.” .

Reagan’s attempt to wreck the Nicara-
guan economy and assist his mercenaries in
taking military control is similar to the U.S.
tactical fiasco used against Cuba and
brought only heightened resistance by the
USA’s picked victims, their allies and the

democratic people everywhere.

At this moment, as Reagan uses all the
power of U.S. imperialism to crush the
Nicaraguan revolution, that country needs
the moral and practical support of every
democratic Canadian, and our consistent
actions to expose the brutal efforts of
Washington to bring the hemisphere, part
by part, under its iron heel.

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| 25 years

TRICKY DICK
IN HOT SEAT

One more “good will” tour
by vice-president Nixon and
the U.S. will have to resign
from the western world. He
received the kind of cordial
reception in Latin America
that a bubonic plague carrier
would get if he announced his
intention to visit a con-
valescent home.

To Latin America Nixon
represents everything that is
immoral in the U.S. govern-
ment.

Press photos showing
Nixon screaming at students:
“Don’t you want to hear the
truth?”, leave a bird cage taste
in the mouth when one re-
flects they are shouted by the
possible president of a coun-
try which has substituted Billy
Graham for Jesus Christ and
J. Edgar Hoover for the
Constitution.

Tribune,
May 19, 1958

If the demand for nationalization of financial corporations i
stop them sucking the blood of the economy needs explaining:
one could look at Trilon Financial Corp., which has $5.7-millio”
after tax profit in three months ended Mar: 31/83. In the sa™
period in 1982 it was $3.3-million.

“HYPOCRISY,” INDEEDI!!

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50 years

RCMP ATTACK

SLAVE CAMP _
SASKATOON — Several
policemen were injured and 4}
number of workers beaten UP”
when a detachment of RCME
together with local police 4
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an effort to transport 50 me?
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officer in command, fell fro™
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800 single unemployé

workers and is well known fo
its militancy, having co™
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ful struggles. The stroné
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will and break the united ™
sistance to forced labor.
The Workeh
May 13, 1933