CIA expose 'n Guyana With this article we are stazrting a series of socio-political commente and news on GUYANA. Five years aga, the US and British governments, the CIA and the AFL-CIO ganged up on the progressive regime of Guyana's Dr. Cheddi Jagan and engineered the election of "social- it" Forbes Burnham . Last December, Prime Minister Burnham got himself fraudulently el- ected with the help ot a US vote registration compony. Shoup Registrotion Systems International, ~ has been involved in suspect vote tabulotî.ý Trinidod, Jomoica, Venezuela and South Vu nom, wos supposed to make sure thatDecember-'s elections were clean. The people who mail or- dentî y bel leve the election wos dlean con be found at places such as the US embassy and the US Information Service. But Robert Corbin, a leader of the Youna Soc- iclist Movement, Youth Brandi of Burnhom's People's NiiaI Congress Party, admitted that there wos fraud in the system by which app- ointed proxies could, for example, vote for whole families. Granada T.-levision, of the Un- ..ited Kingdoni, soid thot although there were only 30,300 overseas registered voters, 36,745 votes were received, 94% of them for Burnham. In an interview, conservative capitalist Peter D'Aguiar of United Force, who helped bring down the Jagan government, said, "Sa for as I am concerned the election was a complete fraud."1 The People's Progressive Party, the country's f irst multi-racial party, authored the movement for independence from Britain. But Burnham - a "Negro" who once flirted with the Communist Party - broke oaoy from the PPP in 1955 ta court US and British favor. Burnham went after the black vote, concentrated in urban centers. The PNC ployed with racism by telling blacks that Indiens were exploiting themn, while the real exploiters were capital istsaond colonialists. The CIA i: active here. The American Institute for Free Labor Development, which receives f unds from thehe Aý_gency for International Develop- ment, theA ICO ad the CIA, has mod- ern air-condtioneoffices, a new director, and a policy of not talking ta journalisti. AIFLD peddles US-style "1trade unionism.",in oa number of Latin American countries, and has a board of directors that includes AFI-CIO pres- ident George Meony and J. Peter Grace of Grace Lines. But that's hard to seli to Guyon- eue workers, who have seen the cost cf living go up 16% over the paît 2 years and who have to puy high sales taxes to support the govern- ment's entry into the Cari6beon Free Trode orec (CARIFIA). More thon 20% of the workers are unemployed. Here in Georgetown; unempoy- ment lu estimated at 33%. BLFC Summer Program The Department of Comrniunty Affaire - of the BLFC has implemented the fol- lowing summer programs. 1) A series of Black History & Political classes- featuring: Series of Films of Afro -American History, Speakers and discussion groupe. 2) A tutoring program- for students who are having probleme relating ta the present educational system. We urge bath Black and White communities ta send us money, donate time or provide equipment for this project. The idea is to keep wages frozen and satisfy for- eign investors - whosend eut profits of froin $50 ta $60 million annually. This is countèred by nearly $60 million in US aid since 1965, design- e d te benefit investors inc.luding Reynolds AIum- inum and ALCOA, which were delighted with an AID-built roand from Georgetown te McKen- zie, site of the bauxite extracting industry. As the British have discreetly withdrawn from thei'r former colony, the Americans and Canad- ions have_ arrived in the Best neo-colonialist fashion. Since Guyana has only 700,000 people and a not porticularly strategic geographic pos- ition, the imperialist power-play con Be ex- plained only by the country's fabulous mineraI weaîtb, which includes: bauxite, manganese, gold, diamonds, nickel, tantalite, graphite, miica, cbromium, tungsten, kyanite, tin, cap- i'r, palladium, mercury, Iead, fluorite, iran, zinc, silver, columbite, kaolin, merumite, and potorite jound only in Guyana) ànd radio- Guyanese Brothers proteat Canadian hypocrity. Students in Guyana picket Canadian High Commis - sioner's office at the time of the Sir George*Williams arrests. active materials, occording ta Frank Pilgrim, Prime Minister Burnham's public relations off ice r. Although Burnham's PNC dlaims ta be "social- i", the porty believes that Guyana's notural resources sbould be exploited by foreigners be- couse, as Pilgrim explained, "We den't have the (neceusary) capital or technicol ukill. " The Guyana Development corporation, whoie direc- tor was trained by AID, teld foreign investors, in o recenàt advertisement, that "We cire here ta ma ke sure that your investments puy yeu biggor d1vidend." By Alfredo Hopkins BURNHAM's A NTI-STR IKE BILL OPPOSED The Trades Disputes Bill published lait month by ie Guyoneu'e government bas caused cm great controversy in the trade union mevement. The TUC bas this week submitled its own draft, which considerobly changes certain basic aspects cf the Bill. Cominenting earlier on the Bill the PPP stated: "The publication lait week of the Trades Dis- putes Bill, 1969 brings ta final ity the Prime Minis- ter's decision announced on Mcy Day 1967 te Intro- duce o low to restrict the right te strike. "During thot perlod there have been vorious pro- nounicementi frein trode union leaders, most of which were to the .ff.ct that they would net al- low the rlgbt te strllçe te be tan"prd wlth and that the y would neyer support any leglslatIon which hod the saine effect as the Industriol Stobil- Izotien Act of Trlrldad. "With the publication of the Biti it is now very clear that the rlght te strike, for which workeru have struggled te attain in many cauntries dur- ing this century, will Be restrîcted. In simple terms the Bill gives the minister the right te refer a trade dispute, wbetber actual or intended, ta an Industrîi Court if anc of the two parties of the dispute report the motter ta him. Thus either the employers or the workers may report a strike. Having referred the strike ta the Court, it then becomes unlawful ta strike, and the penalty for 1nyone engaging in any aspect of the strike is high 6 months imprisanmient or a fine of $500 ta boot. A strike is ouao unlawfui if on agree- ment or an award exists for the motter of which a dispute arises. "At anc time the governiment had hinted that the legislatien would provide voluntary rbit- ration, but il is clear that this prnciple hou been dropped and compulsory arbitration is provided by the Bill. "Under the Trodes Disputes Bill 1969, the worker is homstrung and will have no real means of seeking redress by cal lective action, as exists, but will have te depend on the decision af a court whose members are selec- ted by means which we are ai- reody famil iar - unfortuntely. The Bill, in essence, hou the sa- me effect as the ISA of Trinidad. "Now is the time for the TUC and ail trade unions to make a determined stand ogainst this flagrant violation of trade uni- on rights. Unless this is donc new, the whole trade union mo- vement will suffer a blow from which it could neyer recover". The TUC draft proposes that the- Minuster con only declare a strike illegal if it takes place in an industry declared ta Be "vital or essential" The TUC have further proposed legisîation ta prevent dismissal of an empleyee exce t fo "justifiable reasons and connected wi thecap. acity and conduct of an employee's work"l. Meanwhile in Trinidad, at a Labour Relations and Law Canference sponsored by the Cipriani Labour Colege, participants called.for the scrapping of the I ndustriaî Stabilization Act, siqiilar ta the Trade Disputes Bill now being proposed in Guyana. Practically ail Trinidad trade unions have oppased the Trinio ISA- which is condemned as "ant -strike" legiula- tien. In on advertisem.int by the Guyana Development Corporation to British investers, the Corporation sayu thot"lwe are here te make uure that your in- vestments puy you big dividends. XAsk the other Englishmen Who are here TFeyTlIteil you theres ne better place for your investments thon Guya- na in South America." froin GUYANA INFORMATION Bulletin. (continuedi next issue) MANNIE BROS. FURNITURE SALES NEW a U8EO FURNITURI - ^Lao MOVERS 47 OSSINOTON AVL SUS: su2.035 TORtONTO, ONTARO RIS: 032-10100 Page 3