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ia RACISM LEADS
\@ TO LYNCHING

A shudder of horror was felt
across the world when a
Sumner, Mississippi, court
aquitted the murderers of 14-
year old Emmett Till. Kid-
napped in the dead of the night
for allegedly “whistling” at a
white woman, the lad was taken
out by two white lyncers and
brutally murdered. His body
was then dumped into the Tal-
lahatchie River.

Racism, white supremacy,
anti-Semitism must be outlawed.
The full force of much
strengthened laws must be
brought to bear against those
who practice and advocate it.
They way the Canadian press
reported this event was nauseat-
ing. Their use of racist refer-
ences, their glamerous build-u
of the defendants and their fai-
lure to condemn the court de-
cision will go down as one of the

' darkest pages of Canadian
journalism. Tribune,
October 3, 1955

FLASHBACKS FROM —
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

- 50 years ago...

SEDITION FRAME
EXPOSED BY CLDL

HAMILTON — The case of
Charles Stenberg came up in As-
size Court here today before
Judge Logie. Stenberg, an or-
ganizer for the Young Commu-
nist League, was arrested last
April because in a speech in
Market Square he advised the
workers to resist police attacks
on their meetings.

For this “crime” Stenberg was
charged with sedition, a charge
that entails a maximum penalty
of 20 years imprisonment. How
gentle our bosses are in this land
of British freedom!

The defence provided by the
Canadian Labor Defence
League exposed the whole busi-
ness and the jury returned a “not
guilty” verdict. Butin dismissing
Stenberg, the judge threatened
him with deportation and prison
if he continued to be active in
workers’ struggles.

The Worker,
October 4, 1930

Profiteer of the week:

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centres.

Somewhere down the road ordinary people
pay for the fact that Trizec Corp. of Calgary
rolled up an after-tax profit of $11,023,000 in
just nine months, up to July 31. Trizec, under
chairman P.F. Bronfman, is into ‘“‘all aspects of
real estate activities,” including shopping

Figures used are from the company's financia! statements..

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCT. 10, 1980—Page 4

EDITORIAL
COMIMUSINT

Give Clerks COLA!

For sheer backwardness in labor rela-
tions, the federal government’s Treas-
ury Board outdoes many a profit-hungry
corporation. Under its right-wing presi-
dent, Donald Johnston, the Board, it ap-
pears, was given the nod by the Trudeau
government to whip public sector work-
ers into line.

Imagine! In this day and age the
Government of Canada, whose repre-
sentatives are going to stand up in the
councils of the world and bray about
human rights, refuses its employees a
cost-of-living allowance (COLA). This is
a provision written into huridreds of

' trade union contracts with employers.

But the very government which has
allowed the cost of living to rise by 10.7%
in the past year, and food prices to rise by
a shocking 16.3% in that period, tries to
brush off its employees because it doesn’t
want to set a “precedent.” Perish forbid
that all public sector workers might want
to climb to the upper side of the poverty
line!

That is not the only issue but it is a key
issue in the current strike of Clerks and
Regulatory workers (CRs) of the Public
Service Alliance of Canada. If Johnston
and the Treasury Board have their way,
the CRs are to be sacrificial lambs in the
campaign to turn back the clock of labor
relations.

There is yet anothet element. Now, we
are to have government by advertising.
The Liberal government, which has con-

tracted to slip $8-million of our money to

its friends in advertising, will surely
beam over Johnston’s plan to try to
-advertise PSAC to death. The aim will be
“to break the strike’s solidarity, to split the
workers and cheat them of their COLA
and reduced hours.

To show how tough federal authority
can be on workers who challenge it, the
transport department is in the process of
suspending 250 air traffic controllers,
without pay, for two days for booking off
sick to protest earlier disciplinary re-
venge. Of course, it can’t suspend them
all at once; that would be like having
them allon strike. .

As for the CRs, their COLA demand
shows up the hollowness of government
talk of dealing with inflation. If Ottawa
really intends to bring down inflation,
why is it afraid of a cost-of-living al-
lowance?

And, finally, while we brace for a bar-
rage of Treasury Board advertising pol-
lution, the big media is either un-
ashamedly crusading against the COLA,
or lamenting that the Treasury Board
rejected the conciliation board report,
thus catapulting the PSAC members into
a militant strike action.

The CRs have been without a contract
for almost a year; their battle for con-
temporary living standards calls for all-
out support. The labor movement
should make sure that the reactionary
Treasury Board, the creature of a big
business government, breaks its teeth on:
this one.

Veto U.S. war ‘solution’

Humanity faces no greater threat than
the danger of being engulfed by nuclear
war. The USA’s Directive 59, like its un-
popular program to deploy new nuclear
weapons ‘in western Europe, escalates

the danger. In adopting Directive 59, the -

U.S. rulers in fact declared their intent to
launch a first nuclear strike at such time
as they consider that to be to their “ad-
vantage”. :

The USA’s nuclear strategy suggests
starkly that Washington has already de-
cided upon a point of desperation at
which embattled imperialism will plunge
the world into all-out nuclear ruin.
Washington’s readiness to degrade
human life is evidenced not only in hide-
ous plans for lasers, and for ethnic
weapons, but by another recent
development.

Last month, the U.S. Senate, despite a

1925 Geneva Protocol to the contrary, -

voted 52 to 38 to build a $3.15-million
plant to make nerve gas, which tortures

its victims to a gruesome death. This

from the fountainhead of human rights!
This from the country to which Canada’s
government binds us hand and foot in
military obedience.

Those statesmen then, and the mil-
lions-strong world public who are labor-
ing to realize détente and disarmament
are carrying on the single most im-
portant struggle in today’s world.

It is encouraging to learn that
representatives of the Soviet Union and ~
the USA will meet in Geneva during Oc-
tober to discuss medium-range missiles,
such as the Cruise and Pershing II,
foisted upon western Europe. At the re-
cent great World Parliament of Peoples
for Peace, representatives of 134 coun-
tries added their voices, calling for ac-
tions by peoples and governments to

- compel world peace.

In Canada, the Trudeau government
must be dragged away from committing
our country to the insane plans of the
USA; and that must be done by the mil-
lions who reject the Pentagon’s final solu-
tion for the human race.

— Oilline leak

In the federal-provincial tug-of-war
over oil pricing, one way to cut the waste
of money in non-productive leakage is to
put Canada’s energy resources under
public ownership and democratic con-
trol. Answering Alberta’s Lougheed and
his corporate patrons, Energy Minister
Lalonde notes that the biggest corpora-
tions pay little or no federal tax. That's to
give them “incentive” which they use to.
make handsome profits. Why.not stop
this drain on tax dollars by nationalizing
oil, and paying the returns into the pub-
lic coffers? SU panes