EDITGRIAL Menace to democracy Whenever a capitalist government be- _ gins acquiring the trappings of a police state, the people who suffer at its hands are the working people, and all those who stand firm for civil and human rights, those who oppose preparations for war, and who resist the ruthless squeeze of the mono- polies and their governments. The Canadian Security Intelligence Ser- vice, which the Trudeau government and its Solicitor-General Robert Kaplan want to inflict on Canadians stirs many recollec- tions of arbitrary, lawless and inhuman acts in the name of “national security”. - One can remember back to the unjust and intimidating pouncing upon innocent people in 1970 under the War Measures _ Act, by which the Trudeau government arbitrarily imprisoned people it didn’t like. It’s not easy to justify the War Measures Act, even for a government which cares little for citizens’ protests. But a “security intelligence service” is more easily dis- guised. One can go back several more years to the era of the infamous Senator Joseph McCarthy in the USA, when labor and the progressive movement, and anyone who rejected McCarthy’s modern inquisition, was dragged through hearings, framed, defamed, often ruined and imprisoned in the wake of this outrageous, reactionary cry of “national security”. In the present day, one finds the fascist regime of Pinochet, the butcher of Chile — ~US.paid and U-S.-maintained — whose “laws” are called to mind by the Kaplan provision for five years’ imprisonment for anyone who publicly uncovers one of the Kaplan Corps’ operatives. Kaplan has paraded the pretense that “legitimate” activities would not be haras- sed or undermined, yet when asked point blank the question, would the Communist Party —a legal political party — be a target, he refused to answer. One doesn’t have to search far for the real answer. And then, who is next? Is it the trade unions’ turn? Is it the New Democrats, the churches, all of whom have spoken out against the way the system is misusing its citizens? On past performance is there any reason to believe Kaplan and the government? Is there any reason to think for an instant that the labor movement, and the democratic and peace movements will not be a key target? The closer Canada is tied to Reagan policies the greater the danger. The statements of the NDP and civil liberties bodies are welcome; and democra- tic opinion needs to respond strongly and denounce this attempt to put Canadians in police state shackles. What Kaplan and his plotters have done is to make legal all the dirty tricks, the crimes, the sleazy acts of the RCMP, so that the Kaplan Corps can do the same things — legally. - ‘The instigators of such legislation are the ones who are committing a crime, just as the nuclear maniacs are commiting a crime against people. It’s time for mass democratic opinion to slap down this draconian measure, as mas- ses of Canadians are slapping down the sell-out agreement to test the U.S. nuclear Cruise missile in Canada. All out to win jobs battle The mass unemployment which has be- come a part of Canada’s political system is not being fought against or solved in any _ serious way by the governments of big bus- iness — federal or provincial. This is all the more reason why workers — unemployed and employed, united — must not fail to make their own impact on elected representatives. The mighty May 28 marches in various. parts of Canada serve that purpose well. And the fight must be carried forward from these. The monopoly rulers of Canada and their Liberal, Tory and Socred govern- ‘ments, are in fact, administering the capitalist system which is in deep crisis and in deep trouble. The entire capitalist world is busy looking for ways to make the work- ing class pay for the recession which is the system’s fault, not the fault of workers. It is for that reason — because there is no Factories hit In a recent editorial, Labor's high tech battle, part of a sentence dealing with jobs in manufacturing was omitted, thus chang- ing the emphasis of the sentence. The paragraph should have read: “In an al- leged secret government study leaked by the Globe and Mail, it is estimated that be- tween one-quarter and one-half of all jobs in manufacturing, and one-quarter of all jobs in business and financial services will be eliminated over this decade by tech- nological and structural change.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 3, 1983—Page 4 assurance that capitalism is ever going to come out of its crisis on a permanent basis — that workers have to look ahead and, in their own interests, see that there has to be fundamental change in the politics and policies of Canada before full employment and rising living standards can be assured. Lately, politicians from Canada and the USA have been flying trial balloons, with the help of the big business media, about jobs through military escalation. This is a hoax because military production provides far fewer jobs per dollar invested than does peacetime production. But it is a handy further attempt to integrate workers into the pro-Reagan policies to which Canada is being tied. A mass army of unemployed is useful to the system as long as it is docile toward governments and remains disunited. But the workers united — employed and un- employed — pressing their demands on Ottawa and the provinces can force policy changes to stop the criminal flow of tax dollars to corporations which impoverishes the working people. . It is a fight to win that kind of change; and a fight in which the working people discover that together they can change governments, and replace that gang of monopoly servants i representatives of the working people. The fight for jobs, the fight for new licies and new governments, combined with the fight for disarmament to release billions of dollars for useful, productive work, are fights in which the unemployed, battling for jobs are a crucial element. with genuine THE ECONOMY WOULD GET MOVING IF ONLY THE CONSUMERS WOULD START BUYING. = ; Flashbacks 25 years 50 years | STEPS TO SAVE PEACE A 25-year non-aggression pact between the Warsaw and NATO pact countries was proposed last week by the socialist states comprising the Warsaw defence alliance. At the same time the USSR an- nounced the withdrawal of its remaining troops from Romania. The same week, the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, in a letter to the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons urged Ottawa to act for the pre- vention of the arming of West. Germany with atomic weapons. “As a country with wide international ties, Canada can play a consider- able role in stopping such a threat to peace,” the letter says. Tribune, June 2, 1958 Gas heating bills high? It’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow some Take Union Gas Ltd., of Chatham, 0 good to some profiteer. ‘arrest of Derry and the attack Profiteer of the week BANNING THEYCL Joe Derry, arrested at an anti-war meeting April 4, Wa5 charged with being a mem of an illegal organization, © wit — the Young Commun!® League of Canada. Jon = Every indication shows that Section 98 of the Crimina@ Code is now to be used to de- clare the YCL as illegal. THE on the YCL isa signal that the government will now imple ment the Criminal Cod€~ against young workers a) ~ students who are carrying 0?” a struggle for the right to liv, to organize against wage cul and cuts in relief grants and for education. — The defence of Joe Derr) now becomes a struggle fo the legality of the YCL. | The Workes — May 27, 1939 e ib After-tax profit for the year ended Mar. 31 was $34,804,000. pile that on top of $33,744,000 for the previous year and you see thd things aren’t all that bad.