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“QMtOMPZCANADIAN “TRIBUNE

_ FLASHBACKS FROM
HE COMMUNIST PRESS»

%0 years ago...

SINCLAIR WINS
Log FIRST ROUND
‘ ANGELES — In dismiss-

25 years ago...

RAILROAD PAY LESS
THAN PRICE JUMP
At Tribune press time the Do-

My

cain naBeS against Upton Sin- minion cabinet was still in ses-
Ndge ae three others, Police sion to avert a railway strike.
th nickson has awarded Admitting their “conservatism”
civ] iib Tound of the Los Angeles of past years is home to roost in

Charges aie fight to Sinclair. The the form of lower-than-average
and. e Ismissed were vagrancy — pay rates for most of 128,000 rail-
Peace Nspiracy to disturb the roaders, union officials seem like-
Sincla; ly to accept a wage raise con-
ang air, Hopkins, Hardyman siderably below the 35 cents an
When Paprough were arrested hour asked last November.
f : €y attempted to read the The King government, fearful
fe aie amendment on the of the rising militancy of labor
lot Wi Constitution on a private against low pay and high living
er, « 3 the consent of the own- costs, and threatened with a rail
Stitution t pull any of. that con- strike which would tie up the
lice War Stuff”, the chief of po- economy, desperately seeks a
The pes them. “formula” for settlement. Conser-
Whe ; ree speech fight began vative union officers, despite their
Teds . Police arrested hund- strike call, are cooperating to
rs at Se sing waterfront work- avert strike action.
Angeles an Pedro, the port of Los Pressure of rank and file rail-
»A number were tortured _roaders, séen in their leaders’ ad-

este : : : Saat
tion, oo Cells in the police sta- mission of timidity, does not

“din a €rs were so badly treat- appear strong enough to get an
Ne oF pnporary stockade that increase which would cover the.
has Sinn, = died. The stockade rise in living costs. And _ observ-

tigation © been abandoned. Inves- ers emphasize that the Brother-

Mande d of police brutality is de- hoods are not members of the
: labor congresses.

Tribune, July 17, 1948

Worth quoting:

| WwW
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Many a you: | have just begun! | know that ! will be silenced for
pol ts. | know that there will be a conspiracy to sink me into
Teg, | DUt my voice will not be stifled; strength gathers in my

On
t ey,
80h When | feel most alone, and the ardor of my own heart

Staj _ E
ond tp Gin my voice, no matter how callous cowards may isolate

iscourage me.”
—Fidel Castro before Batista’s court, Oct. 16, 1953

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ood industry Price increase of up to 2% predicted Ede Comment. “2

Energy plan, not more sell-outs

Applications coming before the Ca-
nadian National Energy Board for per-
mission to export a derivative of nat-
ural gas, ethane, to the United States
and also to build two pipelines from
Alberta via the USA to Eastern Can-
ada, one for ethane and the other for
its derivitive, ethylene, have far-reach-
ing consequences for Canadians.

Both ethane and ethylene, important
job-creating products of our natural
gas, must be kept under strict Cana-
dian control. It is estimated that for
each job in the base industry, 15 other
jobs will be created in the manufacture
of such items as film, cleaning chemic-
als, flooring, styrofoam, paint, anti-
freeze, detergents etc.—much of which
is presently imported from abroad.

The applications to build the two
pipelines via, the United States have
that old familiar rirxg — more exports
and loss of control of a key resource to
U.S. industry. It smacks of another sell-
out, which is exactly opposite of what
this country needs.

The Liberal government is a long
way from developing a definitive Cana-
dian energy policy. Two weeks ago, the
federal Cabinet ordered Energy Minis-

ter Macdonald to water down his pro-
posals, cutting any reference to gov-
ernment ownership and income from
energy. They want “a more neutral
stance,” which is a good sign that more
sell-out plans are in the wind.

Coming as that did on the eve of the
Energy Board hearings and knowing
that applications for pipelines via, the
United States were pending, the Tru-
deau government’s “neutral stance”
appears heading for more losses of
Canadian control. The public mood is
swinging quickly in favor of this coun-
try benefitting from and controlling
our own natural resources. Even the
Liberal Party’s western conference in
Vancouver last weekend voted in favor
of Canadian ownership and control of
land, resources and corporations.

No commitment must be ugdertaken
by Ottawa on the gas pipeline applica-
tions until a full-scale public debate
takes place. Long-term projects such
as gas pipelines, which form an integ-
ral part of an energy policy, should not
be undertaken unless and until a na-
tional energy policy for Canadians is
worked out which will guarantee con-
trol and provide jobs for Canadians.

The Terrible Tories

Rompin’ Robert Stanfield, reacting
once again to the announced consumer
price increase, has dragged out the old
call for wage and price controls.

Somebody in the Tory caucus. keeps
on advising Stanfield that this will be
good public relations, it will make it
appear as if the Tories are doing some-
thing about high prices while, of
course, doing absolutely nothing. Stan-
field’s call for controls keep missing
one important point—what about profit
controls? :

The big lie that wages drive prices
up has to be fought. Some inkling of
what happens when the government
freezes wages is gained from Nixon's
freeze — wages stand still while prices
and profits keep climbing.

The food processing industry made
54.6% higher profits in the first quart-
er of 1973 than the year before. Where
is Bob Stanfield’s clarion call about
this? on

Out-of-sight costs of housing for
working families, tied as they are to a
167.2% profit increase In construction
materials in 1973 over 1972 don’t
bring one small whimper from the. Ter-
rible Tories — they concentrate the

attack on wages.

Every cent in wage increases wrung
out of the companies by workers and
their unions is lost in the soaring cost
of living — statistically workers are
falling behind in purchasing power
while profits are at +a record high.
When a giant corporation like Massey-
Ferguson pockets a 3267. profit in-
crease over last year, driving up the
costs of farm implements and food
costs in the bargain, they show a lot of
nerve complaining that their workers

ee pay boost is responsible for infla-
ion.

__ Bob _ Stanfield’s wage and _ price
freeze is as phoney as Trudeau’s use-
less Prices Review Board.

His master’s voice

Revelations in the Pentagon Papers
about Lester Pearson’s role in the criti-
cal early years of the Vietnam war
keep on coming. So do denials that
Pearson aided and abetted the U.S.-war
effort.

The record of Pearson and Trudeau’s
Liberal- governments throughout this
long and horrible aggression has been
miserable. In spite of wide popular
opinion, neither prime minister spoke
out against what the U.S. has done to
Vietnam. The point isn’t whether Pear-
son said this or that — it is that Can-
ada has not and does not condemn the
U.S. as aggressors in Southeast Asia.

We have sold $2,860-million worth of
armaments to the USA since 1959 —
much of it ending up in Vietnam, rack-
ing up a tidy $550 million surplus in the
process.

Pearson’s envoy, Blair Seaborn ran
messages for the U.S. which contained
threats of military action against the
Vietnamese.

This country still refuses to recog-
nize the Provisional Revolutionary Gov-
ernment or the Democratic Republic
of Vietnam.

And, with all his noise about “vio-
lations,” Gauvin and his truce team
haven’t made a sound about the U.S.
bombing in Cambodia — nor has the
prudean Liberal government at Ot-
awa. :

Revelations in the Pentagon Papers

about our role in the past are simply a

part of our role at present in Southeast

Asia — consistently on the U.S. side,
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