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|. FLASHBACKS FROM _—
THE COMMUNIST PRESS:

| 25 years ago...

50 years ago...

SMASH THE FRAMEUP
AGAINST TEXTILE
WORKERS

The Mill owners of North
Carolina, in-an attempt to break
the textile workers’ strike in
Gastonia and to drive the Na-
tional Textile Workers’ Union
out of the South, after a long
series of persecution, police
brutality, bayoneting of strikers,
wholesale arrests and mob vio-
lence, have now arrested all the
organizers of the union and
leading strikers on a murder
charge.

The city police of Gastonia on
the direct orders of the mill
owners, attacked the workers’
headquarters and their tent col-
ony, fired shots into tents where
women and children were sleep-
ing and began shooting at strik-
ers and beating them with their
guns. In the confusion Chief of
Police Aderholt was killed and
three city policemen were
wounded.

’ The Tribune The Worker,
: July 5, 1954 | June 29, 1929
Profiteer of the week:

Public ownership and democratic control of
our energy resources could turn a lot of
money back to the people of Canada. Dome
Petroleum Ltd., put away $25,422,000 in after-
tax, after-expense profit in Jan., Feb., and
March alone. Figure it out for the whole year. .
In the same three months of 1978, Dome hada
$20,535,000 profit.

Figures used are from the company’s financial statements.

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COMIMIEINT.

The world’s policeman?

There was a time when United States
was called the “gendarme of the world”.
There was also a time when the U.S.
arrogantly swaggered the globe with its
Marine Corps and other instruments of
repression applying force whenever and
wherever it wanted without fear of
opposition.

Much has changed — not the “nature
of the beast”, but its ability to prowl at
will. There is today a powerful socialist
community with the resources and pol-
icy to counter naked American power.

There are the newly emerging states,
determined to build societies fashioned
after their needs, overcoming, in many
instances, decades of imperialist
plunder.

There are national liberation move-

‘ments, organized, armed and possessing

the skill and resolve to throw off the
chains of colonialism. And they are not
prepared to trade one form of oppres-
sion for another.

These massive currents have altered
todav’s world in an historically short
time.

In 1823 the U.S. proclaimed the
infamous Munro Doctrine, carving out
its empire, daring anyone to object.
“Gunboat diplomacy”, the stomp of
Marine boots and the whine of U.S.
shells announced an end to people’s
strivings for freedom.

For decades the anti-colonialist strug-
gle was ruthlessly crushed. But it con-
tinued to surface. The process acceler-
ated, and everywhere can be seen the
struggles and victories of humanity and
the decline of imperialist empires.

But the “beast” is still dangerous. U.S.
imperialism, the multi-nationals, the

generals and their advisors are trying.

everything to stop this historic process
and roll history backwards.

Last week, the new military comman-
der of the North Atlantic Treaty Or-

ganization spoke of Pentagon plans for
a new gunboat diplomacy. U.S. General
Bernard Rogers outlined plans for a
huge military force whose sole purpose
will be to fight wars in the Middle East
and Third World nations.

It will be “a new unilateral corps”, said
the general. It will be exempt from any
military call to war in Western Europe.
It will comprise 110,000 soldiers plus
Marines. It will possess support ships
and aircraft and will intervene wherever
the flow of oil to the West is threatened.

What dangerous arrogance! What an
incredible assumption of the devine
right of the U.S. dollar!

Who decided to “guarantee” the right
of the United States to other nations’ oil
— or minerals, or coffee or anything
else? Who.agreed the U.S. has unbri-
dled access to Latin America’s wealth
when four Latin American children die
every minute from disease and star-
vation?

- What God-given right does the U.S.
have to Asian rubber, Africa’s gold,
Arabian oil? On what tablet of stone is
this inscribed?

This American general, who also
touts the neutron bomb, is now com-
mander of NATO — which means of
Canadian troops. He speaks for the
plunderers and cops of the world.

- He’s the voice of the trans-nationals,
the spokesmen for colonialism and
backwardness. As they used to say about

Lyndon Johnson: he’s a bully with an

airforce.

But no amount of bullying or |

threatening will stop the march toward
freedom and independence. People
have had enough of the Rogers of this
world.

It is, however, a good time to get
Canada out of the provocative military
NATO straightjacket and set our course
with the majority of the world’s peoples.

A short, sorry record

The new Tory government is quickly
beginning to show its true colors as the
most enthusiastic representatives of
monopoly interests in this country.

Clark, as we remember, stumped the
country in the last elections with a full
bag of promises. He would “get the
economy moving”. He was going to
“tackle inflation and create jobs”.

The Tory leader said he would trim
government spending and modernize
the bureaucracy. There was nothing his
magic wand would be incapable of touch-
ing and making better.

Leaving the Jerusalem embassy fiasco,
aside for the moment where in three
short weeks Clark managed to practically
destroy Canada’s credibility inter-
nationally, and leaving his Ministers’
statements on the phoney “boat people”
issue aside, what has his government
done to date on domestic issues?

The retreat on all the goodies prom-

ised began the day Finance Minister
Crosbie took office and discovered there
was no magic. He began saying Cana-
dians would have to be patient with their
expectations of income tax cuts.

Despite promises the 60,000 civil ser-
vice jobs the Tories said would be elimi-
nated without hardship to those in-
volved, the layoffs and hardships began
at once.

And for their open support for Joe
Clark, the big multi-nationals have
quickly presented their shopping list.
The first major step we now see in the
“fight against inflation” is oil and gas
price hikes with this country being
blackmailed by the oil corporations
whose greed seems almost limitless.

The Clark government is all we feared

it would be: shamelessly in the pocket of

big business, anti-labor and profoundly
anti-people.

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