: _ TORONTO DAILY STAR, Sat, June 3, 1971 Tt fs Canada’s gas and germ warfare centre at Suffield, Alberta. Sate aN Ug, Alberta proving ground | for gas used in Viet Nam SUFFIELD, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND COME UNTO ME... Calley trial Seen in perspective An appeal to “‘see the Calley matter in perspective” has been sent to UAW local union leaders - by UAW President Leonard Woodcock and Secretary Treas- urer Emil Mazey. A joint letter ‘by the two officers declared that this “American tragedy” is the end product of the Vietnam war and underscores the need to end that war. ' The full text of their letter: “The horror of Vietnam, which ‘has brought death and disablement to a multitude of human beings, has brought a conviction of murder to Lt. Wil- liam Calley. “We are profoundly disturbed by the American tragedy repre- sented by the trial of Lieutenant Calley. We hope the leadership | of our union will, in this terrible , time, see the Calley matter in A> * PACIFIC FRIBUN perspective. “The raw tragedy of the hor- rible war in Vietnam has produc- ed the horror at My Lai. In that sense, we are all guilty. When hamlets and villages were des- troyed—in both North and South Vietnam—by explosives or by the searing fires of napalm, we all should have known the re- sulting human calamity. We have become too used to brutal- ity. “So, with respect not only to My Lai, but also with respect to bombings and free-fire zones, all of those involved in the war, na- tions and their people, have some degree of guilt in this car- nage and human misery of this terrible war.. Lieutenant Calley, however, was found by a jury of Vietnam veterans to be individ- ually guilty. Lieutenant Calley is not a scapegoat—a guiltless one who is made to bear the blame for others. Calley was convicted of the premeditated murder of 22 South Vietnamese civilians, some of whom were so feeble and old they were barely able to walk and others who were so young they had not yet learned to walk. At the trial it was shown that some soldiers under Calley’s command did re- fuse to shoot the unarmed civil- ians and a helicopter pilot tried to stop the carnage. ~ “On the other hand, those who have served with the military know how difficult it is for a soldier to disobey an order. _ Moreover, the often corrosive effects of combat and fear on human character must be recog- nized and deplored. “The President should avoid any further damage to the American system of military justice as when he announces his personal intervention amid the clamor for Calley’s release before the appeals procedure had even begun... “The Calley verdict, returned by a jury of Vie‘nam veterans, must be allowed to stand. The sentence, however, should be reviewed by the military justice system in light of Calley’s actual and potential rehabilitation, but even more in the light of the sentences imposed on the many other soldiers now imprisoned for murders in Vietnam. “The verdict of the American people, however, must be to end this hopeless struggle. Let us stop the war which leads to Cal- ley murders and Calley trials, which puts American boys in places where they ought not to be, doing things they ought not to have to do. “For all thoughtful Americans the cry must be, let there be no more bombings, no more Cal- leys—get out of Vietnam now!” Tribun West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune Editor —MAURICE RUSH Published weekly ot Ford Bidg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Canado, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year & epee ce bevrtte3 © ~ AG number 15. A man for certain seasons Are Canadians never again to hear the voice of John Diefenbaker inton- ing maledictions? Has the former Tory prime minister been struck dumb? When the Canada-Soviet agreement for friendly co-operation in areas of mutual interest and for mutual benefit was announced, his voice was loud enough. He invoked all the furies on the heads of those in Canada who said that, while the Protocol on Consulta- tions was not aimed against any coun- _ try, it would serve to offset United States pressures — economic, cultural and military — on our country. But where was Diefenbaker’s voice heard when President Nixon on June 4 told Canada to sign U.S. imperialism’s continental energy deal... and to get cracking about it? Just one week earlier Diefenbaker had ripped into Mr. Trudeau in the House of Commons for suggesting that Canadian-Soviet mutually advantage- ous exchanges could provide a balance to reduce one-sided reliance on the United States. The ex-prime minister stands con- demned, as does all reaction, by his silence in the face of Nixon’s bullying demand that Canada give the power- hungry U.S. aad access to our vast energy resources. Of course, Mr. Nixon didn’t put it quite like that. His talk was of an energy “agree- ment” — for a vast “pooling” of oil, gas, hydro, uranium and coal reserves. He omitted, however, to say that these things are in short supply across the border to the south, and that Canada has plenty of them. Some “pooling”! Why, a man could drown in that kind of pool! The Canadian-Soviet agreement is of a different kind — for trade, for scien- tific and cultural exchanges, for con- sultations for peace — an agreement between equals, based in friendship and mutual respect. That agreement was implemented, on - the same day Nixon made his conti- nental energy threat, with the signing of a contract for sale to the Soviet Union of 180 million bushels of Cana- dian wheat. Will the fact that most of it will come from Saskatchewan restore Diefen- baker’s voice? Brave union men Action to get action. That’s what im- pelled the fourteen brave Canso trawler fishermen to board the Acadia Fish- erles Ltd. trawler Acadia Gull early last Saturday morning. The RCMP, always quick to jump workers, arrested them. Members of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, they and their brothers in the union, and their wives and children, and whole commu- nities of honest working people who knew in their hearts the fishermen’s fight was their own, have fought a long heroic struggle for all Canadian trade unionists. The UFAWU Canso fishermen’s cause is that of all workers —the right,to have the union of their own choosing bargain for'them. +! Oe ye Tae ee ee eee ee - or the labor movement. Its P rae mo : Serres (AL) 15564 10 GHG eI. ih ys! BsegeqgaeSewrnitre)> # “tO. ops f9 months for a certification decis! the Nova Scotia Labor Board: ing the Acadia Gull was the trying to get that decision. The Board has since asked te dian Food and Allied Workers to prove it represents the traW. How can it? Nova Scotians, and many, fj unionists in. the rest of Cana a them, know how the CFAW a “voluntary” agreement with #7) Fisheries Ltd. As an executive ie i) of the N.S. Federation of Lay openly charged, that deal was up in a hotel room. i) The Canadian Labor Con, ren have denounced the CFAW®- of union. raiding. Instead, it SUPP it: i= Trade unionists who desplsé a i that split workers can ra ne aid of the Canso trawler she ih supporting their right to have ‘ fo they want and are so herol¢é be | ing for — the United Fisher™ Allied Workers Union. ‘Action Monopoly | Hy Strip the demagogy from fy Canada and what you're left ¥ gif demand for wage controls, 4 “ay f) trade unionism, full suppol’ ij} vate enterprise and a challenb* parliamentary system. ot) Paul Hellyer’s resignation wi if ago from the Liberal caucus 4 net) and his simultaneous announ@ (i a group of “average citizen) i) pendently wealthy like hims¢ rth | called Action Canada is a SU qi flection of the growing crisis it, ‘ NY dian politics that has recemg Kierans resign from 7 Givens quit Liberal federal tole ) provincial politics, and Caot oa is) ing about the country 1m at "| V resurrect Social Credit a5 27” ada-party. os) Hellyer’s Action Canada Jott group won’t mislead organiZ rede At iH work for full employment a ice ' prices through wage an trols,” is absolutely contrary sition of organized labor wit for policies of full employm®” | wage controls of any sort. w Doh The right wing in the Be ih cratic Party, by its continu? cod for selective wage and pre fem opens the door for people we pe whose real aim is to raise on™ of big business, while pre™ 4 { ii 4 protect the “little man.” ip How does the NDP exp cott ? gt af This NDP Toronto aldete gd: ” seated “at the right hand “ne when he announced Scott 26” 1) founders of Action Canad@® or tl It’s not enough for the “ pulye ment, for all those seeking, nal ¢ anti-monopoly alliance 11 ND ie Stephen Lewis, Ontarl0, t says: “I’m amazed at Rel@, part in this surprises mé- acti” Vm Is Reid Scott’s activity g ada his way of implementlMe, oe |, right. wing’s support fof) wage controls?