The Chilean rightwing is kill- ing one million workers through hunger in order to consolidate the military dictatorship, said French priest Michel -Donabin who lived in Chile from June 1970 to October of the present year. He worked as a priest in , the Vialeta Parra settlement in Santiago, “where more than 30,000 Chileans live today in desperate straits”. : “While military repression, which after October became even more savage, has killed thousands of people and will kill even more, I believe that econo- mic repression of the people is even more sinister’, he said. “They are carrying out a geno- cidal policy aimed at physically eliminating a million Chileans. “Hunger is king in the work- ers’ districts where the residents eat only bread and drink-one cup of tea a day. The children do not know what milk, eggs or meat look like”, the priest de- clared. For Donabin, the killing of the population by hunger is a premediated decision being- applied through the minimum wages which are being reduced daily, thanks to inflation, be- cause while wages remain the same, prices of basic food items have ‘increased incredibly. “A worker’s wage is not enough to maintain a family of four. In October, the increase of food prices was higher than ever’, he charged. Genocidal policy in Chile 4 » eicome The French priest said that in spite of their desperate situation, the Chilean workers have a high combative spirit and are resist- ing the military junta in many ways. “I never saw so many pamphlets and small mimeo- graphed newspapers as I did in the first half of October”, he said. “The people know what risks they are taking”, he em- phasized, “but they are willing to risk all. At least three differ- ent copies of a newspaper called Liberation reached my hands just before I left’’. Donabin said that rightwing civilian groups operate at night in Chile, assassinating people with complete impunity. He also revealed that the fascist group called ‘Fatherland and Freedom” has threatened to carry out mass executions in the workers’ dis- tricts if the military junta at- tempts to soften its repressive line. Donabin said that the re- gime is carrying out an “educa- tional cleaning up” of the north- ern zone of Santiago. Six teach- ers were arrested in the Sara Guapardo community, among them, two women, and only one has returned. Armed actions of resistance have begun in‘Chile, said the priest, in spite of the repression. After the death of the secretary- general of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), Miguel Enriquez, an armed commando unit wiped out an entire civilian police station (investigatioris center) located in the southern part of Santiago. In the La Reina community, he said, several mili- tary men were killed. (Prensa Latina) LABOR SCENE The handwriting ” BY BRUCE MAGNUSON wt Speaking recently at the World Food Conference in Rome, Italy, the U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that we have come to the end of the era of rising expectations. “Now,” he said,- “there are fundamental questions about our capacity to meet even our most basic needs.” Surely, this is a plain admis- sion of the fact that our social and economic system of state monopoly capitalism has out- lived its usefulness and can no longer meet the needs of con- temporary society. The economic prospects for Canada, as stated in the llth - annual review of the Economic Council of Canada, seem to cor- roborate this. The Council has nothing but gloom for consum- er expenditures, business invest- ment, employment, exports, im- ports, real disposable per capita income and productivity in man- ufacturing in the 1973-77 period. A sluggish performance for Can- adian exports is predicted for 1975 because the economies of foreign countries that buy from Canada have been hard hit by such things as soaring oil prices. Puzzled by Unemployment? This does not prevent the Eco- nomic Council from proposing that the domestic price of crude oil, produced in Canada from Canadian resources by the mul- ti-national oil monopolies, should be raised to international levels. This could double the cost of gasoline and other by- products to Canadian consum- ers, with the huge increase in profits going to the oil mono- polies, mostly U.S.-based. Can anyone think of anything is on the wall more inflationary, unpatriotic, unjust and plain criminal? The Economic Council of Can- ada is going to study the com- position of unemployment in Canada. growth of unemployment along- side the growth of the labor force, as if this was a statistical matter, pure and simple. Per- haps it suspects some hanky- panky on the part of some ‘workers entering the labor force for a short time and then col-. lecting unemployment _insur- ance? Or, as the Toronto Globe and Mail editor put it, the un- employment insurance plan “pays when the individual has no intention, or even the possi- bility, of becoming a permanent member of the work force .. . while the real labor force sup- ports them.” Ruling-Class Parasites But if the unfortunates among its own kind were the only peo- ple the real labor force had to support, the problem would be both manageable and soluble. Unfortunately the heaviest bur- den the real labor force has to . Carry, is the ruling class that exploits them and refuses to get off their backs. It is these monopoly profiteers that have managed things in such a way that we are now fac- ing mass layoffs, unemployment and starvation, while more and more funds are being squander- ed on such things as armaments to keep the world safe for mono- poly capitalism. But even their-days are num- bered. The hand-writing is on the wall as more and more peo- ple begin to realize. The alter- native is there for everyone to see. The socialist sector of the world experienced a doubling of PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1974—Page 8 It is puzzled by the - its productive capacity in the past decade, and does not have either inflation or unemploy- ment. Last year the Soviet Union experienced a growth of 8.2% in its national income and a 6.6% increase in productivity. Extra-Parliamentary Action What we need in Canada is the same kind of action. as Dan- ish workers undertook on No- vember 27, when 75,000 march- ed on Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen and demanded the resignation of the premier. The , Danish demonstration against government ineptitude in combating monopoly profit- eering and rising unemployment -had the support of the Social Democrats, the Socialist Peo- ‘ple’s Party and the Communist Party. This is precisely the kind of action needed here in Canada. Resolutions are fine, and we need more of them. Strikes for limited economic objectives to defend workers’ living standards and conditions of work are spreading, and no amount of mo- nopoly-inspired propaganda in the news media directed against labor is going to stop or reverse that process, We need mass political action of an extra-parliamentary nature that will focus public attention on the real problems of mono- poly exploitation and putting forward a program to combat this. The trade union movement ought to be in. the forefront of such anti-monopoly campaign- ing. It would be useful to know what Stand the labor represen- tatives on the Economic Coun- cil of Canada took on the latest annual review of the au st body, = “STEEL LABOR’ EDITOR CALLS FOR DETENTE PITTSBURGH’ — Raymond Pasnick, editor of “Steel Labor,” official newspaper of the United Steelworkers of America, hailed the development of detente be- tween the U.S. and the USSR in an interview with the Soviet news agency TASS. “Any step to liquidate barriers on the road to developing rela- tions between our countries is extremely useful,” said Pasnick, referring to the coming meeting at Vladivostok between Presi- dent Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. : “The overwhelming majority of workers want this meeting to pass successfully,” he told Tass correspondent Alexei Voronin. Pasnick said that trade with the USSR provides jobs for American working people. Many trade union leaders of the U.S. are interested in estab- lishing direct contact with Sov- iet union leaders, he said. He advocated more exchange visits to get to know each other better. GM TO LAY-OFF 2,000 IN CANADA OSHAWA—Almost 2,000 em- ployees of General Motors of Canada Ltd. — more than half of them in. Oshawa — will be laid off indefinitely by the end of January, the company an- nounced last week. Between 60 and 75% of .the Oshawa employees will not be eligible to receive supplemental unemployment benefits, say of- ficials of Local 222, United Auto Workers. The layoff of the 1,130 work- ers here will take place gradual- ly before Jan. 13, when the line producing regular-size Chevro- lets and Pontiacs will be reduced to 40 cars an hour from 48. At the same time, the rate of production of intermediate-size cars such as Chevelles, Monte ~ Carlos and Le Mans will be re- duced to 32 cars an hour from 37. WINDSOR-—Striking high school teachers continue to pi Some component plant oper tions and employees effected by the schedule @' ments in the Oshawa and United States plants, the com pany says. STRIKE AVERTED AT SAUNDERS AIRCRAFT _ GIMLI, Man, — About employees of Saunders Corporation Ltd. at Gimli hav accepted a company contract @ fer, ending the possibility % strike. Last week’s vote was 80% N favor of the offer, said Alf J ra ston, international repre tive for the United Auto wo}, ers. 81.7% controlled by the Ma teba Development Corporation The two-year agreement cludes a wage increase of $} an hour and a cost of living ot crease ranging from one cef! 10 cents an hour. af Mr. Johnston said the cone a -living formula will come effect Jan. 8, 1975. ; Other benefits in the new tract include increased és shift premiums and meal a ance, and improvements in 4 vacation and groyp ins plans.: RECORD IN MAN-DAYS LOST _ OTTAWA — The amount time lost due to srikes and. outs in the first nine months 1974 has already exceeded, previous record total for a wit t year set in 1972, federal lal department statistics show. Time lost in the first ™y months of 1974 totalled 8-1 7) lion man-days, compared Ye of: million man-days in. all of. ihe The labor department sal tte record figure was partly “Kes putable to an increase in, st occurring before contracts & that resulted because of C0 living increases. stor “" cket eo cational buildings in the city. There are no legal provision’ 7) teachers to strike and the Windsor strike is seen as a challen Bill 275. djust- _ An earlier offer had been | jected Nov. 7. The company at buc \ ithe Wal