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What happened at the UN2

The United Nations Special Session gn
Disarmament — perhaps the most im-
portant. meeting for the future of man-
kind ever held — wound up with a
document produced by 148 countries,
which goes all but ignored by the capital-
ist media.

Besides laying out areas of disarma-
ment to be tackled and presenting a pro-
gram of action, the document states the
“ultimate objective” to be “general and
complete disarmament under effective
international control,” and gives “high-
est priority” to “nuclear disarmament
and the prevention of nuclear war.”

Emphasizing the need for ‘ways to
prohibit “the development, production
and use of other weapons of mass de-
struction,” the UN document declares
the need for a world disarmament con-

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$75-million
The Ford Motor Co. is demanding a
pay-off of $75-million from Canadian
taxpayers (through their governments)
to coax it to establish a new motor-

building plant in Canada.
Both the federal Liberals and the On-
tario Tories — the plant would locate in

‘Ontario rather than ‘Ohio, if Ford suc-

ceeds in its blackmail — are readly to
shell out. The squabble of these two cap-
italist governments is only over what por-
tion of the $75-million each will donate
to Ford out of the public treasury.

At the same time they are using the

_ circumstances to play off Canadian
workers against those in the USA, count-

ing on workers and their unions being
split and fighting among themselves in-
stead of fighting their mutual enemy —
the monopolies. The labor movement
knows the answer to such attempts.
While the Ontario Tories may dream
of getting off the unemployment hook to

ference with representation far broader
than simply government representation,
and at the earliest possible date.

The fact that no magic formula for
disarmament has been produced does
not diminish the importance of the ses-
sion and its final document. What it does
indicate is that there is more than ever a
necessity for hard battling by ordinary
people, pressuring their elected repre-
sentatives, taking part in disarmament
actions and demanding curbs on the
arms profiteers.

Even those who have had no part till
now in the struggle for disarmament,
can play a direct part in making known
the UN disarmament session, by telling
their newspapers, radio and television
stations they want full coverage of this
document so vital to our future.

in blackmail

the extent of 2,600 jobs if the province
gets this plant, along. with peripheral
_benefits and (not too heavy) taxation, Ot-
tawa should at least have the courage to
defend Canadian sovereignty and its
stake in the Canada-U.S. Auto Pact. The
billions in profits taken from Canadians
over the years, the surplus value
squeezed out of every worker on the
Ford line, have long ago paid Ford for
any advantage it brings to.Ganada.

But monopoly corporations being
what they are, and the governments de-
dicated to them being what they are, the
working people are left to fight for their
own rights, for jobs, yes, for working-
class unity first of all, for controls on the
insatiable greed for profit of corpora-
tions like Ford, and in the long run, with
significant numbers of workers in parli-
ament, for nationalization of major in-
dustries which have the power to en-
hance or cripple our society.

USA’s new Mideast play

‘The most recent play in United States
imperialism’s dirty game in the Middle
East was made in vice-president Mon-
dale’s efforts to arrange a trilateral meet-
ing in London later this month between

‘the USA’s Vance, Israel’s Dayan and
_Egypt’s Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel.

This exclusive tete-a-tete would by-
pass the Geneval Middle East talks, at
which, significantly, the Soviet Union is
co-chairman. It would disregard the rest
of the Arab world, although the Saudis
for one are being paid off with 60 F-15
fighter planes. (Nothing’s too good for a
reactionary regime, particularly when it
borders South Yemen.)

Perhaps the most disgusting aspect is
the proposed disregard of the Palesti-
nians and their legitimate representative
organization, the Palestine Liberation
Organization.

The Palestinians are the victims of Is-
raeli aggression, expansion and racism,
an aggression armed by one U.S. regime
after another. Any “peace” meeting on
the Middle East at whcih the PLO does
not sit is illegitimate and an obvious
attmept to strengthen U.S. influence in
the area, and the influence of its chosen

clients, at any cost in lives and suffering.
In the same package which gave the
Saudis fighter aircraft, Sadat got a bribe

of 50 F-5E planes, but of course the favo- .

rite child, Israel got 75 F-16s and 15
-F-15s. All at horrendous expense to the
’ U.S. and Canadian taxpayers (don’t
think that prices on our undue torrent
imports from USA aren’t inflated by
such taxes).

The new U.S. meddling in the Middle
East can mean only misery for the people
of the Middle East: the Palestinians de-
nied the right to their own land which
was stolen from the by Zionist armed
might, the Arab peoples struggling for
democratic reforms and socialism, and
the Israeli working people who are op-
pressed beyond belief by the growing
burden of militarism and aggression.

The end result of U.S. bolstering of
Sadat and Begin is prolonged misery for
the workers‘and peasants, tor the re-
fugees, and for the victims of Israel’s ra-
cist terrorism. Genuine Middle East
_peace talks are called for, with all parties

present, and based on UN resolutions
calling for withdrawal of Israeli military
might from Arab lands.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—July 14, 1978—Page3

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