Ieng Sary called for a right-wing front and increased U.S. help to defeat the Kampuchean masses. He admitted that the U.S.-dominated military regime in Thailand and the CIA-controlled Khmer Serei guerrillas are helping Pol Pot’s rightist terror gangs in the Kampuchean civil war.

Kampuchean-government and Vietnamese troops have won victories over rightist forces in recent weeks. The Carter administration is convinced that if the anti-imperialist fighters are not pushed back, the Kriangsak dictatorship in Thailand is doomed. Carter also knows that the Thai army and the Kampuchean rightists don’t have the muscle to impose a proimperialist government in Kampuchea without massive U.S. help.

That’s why Carter probes for openings to increase U.S. military intervention in the conflict.  
 
June 14, 1954
It is nearly 11 months since the Korean War ended and the current economic decline began. The second event followed the first as night follows day. Labor organizations estimate today’s unemployed at well over 3 million. Millions more have been cut back to part-time.

Capitalism, the private profits system, is again proving its inability, short of war, to provide steady employment for the American working people. Only yesterday we were being treated to grandiose theses about the “permanent revolution” in American capitalism which had abolished forever the “old” type of unstable, “free enterprise.”

Now government figures show a rise in manufacturing unemployment for the eleventh straight month. And the worst, admittedly, is yet to come. Immediate measures must be taken to slow up layoffs and keep as many workers as possible on the job. The most effective method of keeping the maximum number of workers employed is through the shorter work week and work day with no reduction in total pay.  
 
 
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