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armies and several of the Saigon generals are said to be the larg- est. exporters of opium and heroin. And here is what Irwin Silber writes for the Guardian: “The drug traffic in Southeast Asia is big business. It’s organ- ized. It is run by people in the highest echelons of the puppet governments of South Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. And the U.S. military machine itself is, at least, an active accomplice in the entire operation.”

On July 7, 1971, Represen- tative Robert H. Steele, a for- mer agent for the CIA, named Major General Ngo Dzu of the South Vietnamese Army, aS “one of the chief traffickers In heroin in Southeast Asia.” The Congressman from Connecticut also pointed out that large quantities of the drug were os ing transported “round Sout Vietnam in military aircraft and vehicles.” Steele also stated that General Duane Rathikone, chief of the Laotian general staff, was “reportedly involved in the he- roin traffic.”

With allies like these two pushers, why do Nixon & Co. beat around the bush? Why pay the Turks over 5 million bucks to quit raising poppies when acres of the plants are cultiv- ated right in the area where gun boys are acquiring the habit? The only way to solve we problem is the speedy re of our troops from Southeas Asia; keeping them there only compounds the tragedy.

—Edward Drew Gourley U.S. Farm News

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New threat to people’s democratic, civil rights

The Citizens’ Commission of Inquiry into the War Measures Act that begins its public hearings in Montreal next month-might do well to consider extend- ing its commissioners’ terms of refer- ence to include an investigation into the Trudeau government’s secret prepara- tions of what it calls a “security re- search group.” ie

This proposed CIA-like civilian secur- ity agency is the counterpart of repres- sive legislation such as the War Meas- ures Act, used last October in Quebec in an attempt to crush all dissent.

A Canadian civilian spy agency would go hand in hand with use of the army against the people — to maintain civil order, as the federal government puts

it.

But neither a security research group nor the armed forces can, nor are they intended to, cope with the prob- lems created by monopoly. Theirs is no “design for living.” The Trudeau gov- ernment, acting for monopoly, plans to use them in smashing blows against the rising united protests of organized workers and farmers, of all working people against monopoly’s attacks on their jobs and living standards. _

Trudeau has reversed the position he took when in 1969 he rejected the Royal Commission on Security proposal for a civilian internal security agency. “I think of the Central Intelligence Agen- cy in the United States,” he said then, “snd I wouldn’t want its principles ap-

plied around here.” (The only thing ir-

reversible about the Prime Minister is that he can be counted on to reverse every stand he ever took as a self-pro- nounced civil libertarian.)

With a civilian security agency now looming hideously as a threat to all its democratic. rights, organized labor in Canada can’t keep quiet. In the House of Commons, New Democratic Party members must demand the government fully reveal what purposes have moti- vated its creation of the sinister secur-

ity research group.

The Berlin accord— fulcrum for peace

n last week, a quarter century ake the end of the second World War, the ambassadors of the Soviet Union, the USA, Britain and France signed the agreement on Berlin a long step was taken to remove a source of friction in the heart of Europe. “An important milestone in the political life of Europe and in international relations as a whole,” was the way the Soviet envoy characterized the historic accord.

No one’s ox was gored — there was

no ripoff. It was a true pact, a common -

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everyone

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miles inside theGerman Demo- of ee Ronn does not belong to West Germany is the accord’s salient prin- cipled feature. The four-power agree- ment will result in improved transit communications between West Berlin and both the Federal Republic of Ger-

many and the GDR.

The significance of the accord, how- ever, far transcends the framework of Berlin. With ensuing possibilities for detente in Europe, the way is opened for ratification by West Germany of the non-aggression treaties its government concluded with the Soviet Union and Poland. Now both a European security conference, to include the USA and Canada, and troop reductions in Europe move up on history’s agenda.

What about our country in all this?

For Canadians, the four-power Berlin agreement’s objective strengthening of the forces of peace means we must press ahead the struggle for an inde- pendent foreign policy. The accord boosts the need for Canada to break the U.S. military grip, to get out of NATO and NORAD.

It means Canada should now recog- nize the German Democratic Republic.

For the first time in any four-power document, the Berlin agreement official- ly speaks of the GDR and ensures re- spect for its sovereign rights and inter- ests. No longer must cold war hang- overs block normal diplomatic relations between Canada and the GDR.

Insult to labor

The Kimberly-Clark float in the To- ronto Labor Day parade was a gross insult to all organized workers.

The Labor Council of Metropolitan Toronto, under whose direction the pa- rade of 14,000 workers was organized, and the members of International Che- mical- Workers Union Local 813, whose name appeared on the “Paper Fash- ions” float advertising this notorious U.S.-owned_ strikebreaking company, owe an explanation. They must fix re- sponsibility for this outrage and de- nounce those who perpetrated it.

Two weeks ago 1,500 Peninsula trade

‘unionists united ranks in a great de-

monstration of solidarity with the 200 members of Local 289, International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Workers on strike in St. Cathar- ines since July 6 and battling profes- sional strikebreakers,.hired by the giant American paper company, as well as squads of Niagara Regional Police.

What do the Steelworkers, the United Auto members, Boilermakers, CUPE members who joined in that demonstra- tion with the United Electrical Work- ers, Teamsters and other unionists think of marching in a Labor Day pa- rade that advertises a scab company trying to smash a brother union?

The Toronto Labor Day parade was intended to mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment in 1871 of the Toronto Trades Assembly, precursor of the present Labor Council. The Kimber- ly-Clark float stained the commemora- tion.

In bright contrast the Ironworkers Local 721 float proclaimed “Jobs Now —Put Canada to Work,” a CUPE pa- rade entry called for “Support for all striking workers,” and Millwrights Local 2309 float warned “We must stop suppressive legislation and wage freeze.”

These floats, and not the Kimberly- Clark desecration, were worthy of To- ronto organized labor, of its past his- tory and of the militant unity in action it needs now. .

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