EDITGRIAL

Pressure on Ottawa for jobs"

The federal government is under extreme
pressure to shift its strategy and face up to the
more than 1.5 million unemployed workers
in Canada.

So great is the pressure — and the labor
movement should make it unbearable — that
Finance Minister MacEachen, thinking him-
self out of earshot in far-away Paris raised the
alarm at the Organization for Economic Co-
operation and Development. He worried

openly about “pressures for protectionism
bred of rising unemployment.” The thrust of
his remarks seemed to be that unemployment
could not wait until inflation and interest rates
had been conquered. :

Prime Minister Trudeau corrected him in
Commons next day, exposing the deep policy
mess the Liberal government is wallowing in.

Falklands war

Britain's so-called “two-track” policy in the
Falklands/Malvinas crisis — negotiations by
waging war — clearly shows its main aim
which is to crush the decolonization process
under way everywhere.

In this, the role of the United States (and
Canada) in siding with the British military
operation shows the true colors of American
and Canadian policy towards decolonization.

All the high-sounding phrases and jingo-
ism behind the British case is designed to hide
the fact that Britain has for 17 years stalled on
negotiations to implement UN_ resolution
1514 of 1960 and resolution 2065 of 1965
calling for decolonization of the islands.

Oil deposits and military considerations
are behind the British/U.S. moves and the
unwillingness to settle the issue based on the
UN decisions.

Ottawa should stop supporting discredited

policies and bolstering the remnants of

colonialism. It should demand a return to
peaceful and (this time) meaningful negotia-
tions through the United Nations to resolve
the issue based on Argentine sovereignty
over the Falklands/Malvinas. -
Washington’s role in the process bears spe-
cial note. Beginning as the “honest broker”,
the U.S. quickly saw the opportunities pre-
Sent to further expand its influence in the
strategic South Atlantic. It’s open siding now,
including military and intelligence assistance,
with Britain has put it openly and squarely
against the just cause of decolonization.

Flashbacks

SANITY OR SUICIDE?

Noted British scientist Bertrand Russell had this to
say about British A-bomb tests scheduled for the
Christmas Islands: :

“I do not believe that our liberty and way of life
depends on the ability of the West to slaughter
millions of Russians in two or three days. I do not
believe that so long as we rely on this kind of ability
we can avoid a fundamental moral corrupuon....

“I should rejoice if Britain were to abandon not

only the projected tests but the manufacture of

A-bombs. Even from the point of view of security, I
should regard this as the wisest choice.

“But my deepest ground for desiring this course is
that I do not wish to be an accomplice in a vast
atrocity which threatens the world with overwhelm-
ing disaster. . . .”

Tribune,
: May 20, 1957

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 21, 1982—Page 4

For workers, whatever the upper crust may
choose as its priorities, unemployment is the
most debilitating disease spread by the
capitalist system. The government must be

compelled to make the shift, to adopt policies

to put Canada back to work. It is time it began
defending Canadians against the exportation
of the U.S. crisis, its high interest rates, and
Ottawa’s concurrence with this.

Canadian auto workers, rejecting con-
cessions to the auto giants, public service

workers fighting concerted government ef- -

forts to victimize them, other unions like Steel
and Electrical standing up to the assault on
living standards — are setting the pattern
needed to defend and extend workers’ gains.

Policies put forward by the Communist
Party to ensure full employment in an in-
dependent economy, policies calling for the
focussing of New Democrats, Communists
and the whole labor movement on the same
targets, can force the government to quit
shoving the burden of its crisis onto the work-
ing people. The same forces can do much to
replace an anu-labor government with one
that represents labor.

SYMBOL OF THE UNITED NATION'S SECOND
SPECIAL SESSION ON DISARMAMENT 1982

THE U.S. SYMBOL

URS-5S-82-mc

Should call off witch-hunt

For having the courage — and the decency
— to speak up about an iniquitous con-
sutution, cooked up by top capitalist politi-
cians for their own ends, B.C Supreme Court
Justice Thomas Berger has been made the
subject of a judicial inquiry.

Berger, who won the enmity of sections of

big business when he found in favor of Native.
people's claims and ecological concerns ashe...
headed a lengthy Royal Commission inquirty

into the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, and had it
postponed, now faces the possibility of being
removed from the bench.

The judge wrote an article for the Globe
and Mail, criticizing the lack of human rights
and freedoms provided for in the con-
sttutional deal.

The prime minister complains that Berger
“attacks us in a hostile ‘national’ political
newspaper, as hardly. befits. a judge.”

‘Evidently it befits a political. hodge-podge
of hypocritical leaders to ram through a con-
stitution full of holes where human rights
guarantees should be. But how does it befit a
so-ealled democratic society to conduct a
McCarthyite witch-hunt against a critic of the
government?

7,000 DEPORTATIONS

OTTAWA — The operation of Premier Bennett's
vicious deportation policy has brought about a great
increase in deportations during the past year. ~

During fiscal year 1931-32 no less than 7,024
workers were deported according to information
tabled in the House of Commons by the Minister of
Immigration.

4,507 were deported because they became un-.

employed arid destitute and therefore came under
the category of “public charges”. 4,248 were British
workers and were deported to countries in the British
empire.

Many were deported because they held political
views of which the Bennett government does not
approve. A large number because they were active in
the unemployed struggle. Many are given “hearings”
in secret, held without counsel and spirited away by
RCMP during the night to the Halifax immigration
shed. gene: :

The Worke r,

* - May-14, 1932 ~.

This dangerous precedent cannot be toler-
ated. If such a witch-hunt were to succeed
against Justice Berger, where would be the
protection for any citizen?

When it comes to profits, who deserves recognition
more than Ma Bell. If you want to know where they come
from just look at your soaring telephone bill. Thus, in the
first three months of 1982, Bell Canada had an after-tax
profit of $159,500,000. That’s better than the same time
last year when they grabbed $117,800,000.

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‘KILL 300,000’

CHICAGO — “If 300,000 communists who are
engineering things in Russia could be’killed off by
outside nations, the bootless, gunless, hungry Red
Army could be routed. But the communists must not
be imprisoned or exiled, they must be killed.” ;

This is the belief of Alexander Maximov, professor
of anatomy at the Imperial Military Academy at —
Petrograd since 1903 and ranking as a general in the —
former Czarist army. “But”, continues the professor, |
who is now to teach biology at the University of
Chicago, “the French and British governments can-

not get their workers to march against the Russian
workers,”

The professor has just arrived from Petrograd. He
left because the communists would not pay him the
salary he had formerly received and would not honor
his stocks and bonds certificates issued under the
former regime. aru

The Worker, »
~ =~ “May 15, 1922 >