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25 years ago...

USSR OFFERS TO
BUY OUR WHEAT

“The sale of wheat to Russia
and a’smaller crop this year may
help to alleviate the surpluses
now on hand.” This is the opin-
ion expressed by R.A. Purves,
president of Lakehead Termi-
nals Ltd. “A Russian trade group
has been in contact with the
grain trade in Canada and is
seriously interested in purchas-
ing our wheat. Two cargoes of
barley were sold to the Soviet
Union this week. This business
could mean a great deal to us.”

Earlier this year, the Soviet
Embassy in Ottawa, according to
a report to the Financial Post,
provided Canadian exporters
with a list of Canadian products
it was interested in buying, in-
cluding: wheat, butter, meat and
other food products; mechani-
cal, electrical and wood working
equipment, paper and cellulose
equipment, raw hides and mer-
chant ships.

FLASHBACKS FROM |
THE COMMUNIST PRES:

50 years ago...
MASS LAYOFFS IN
AUTO INDUSTRY

The auto workers of the bor-
der cities are realizing more and
more what constant speed-up
and the raising of production
means to them. The laying off of
thousands of workers which has
taken place just recently and the
cutting down to four days a week,
instead of six goes to. show how
much Ford Motor Co. (with its
paternal stunts) gives adamn for
its employees. If you lose a day

. Sick, when the plant is running

full time, you are sure to get hell
from the foreman, and some
one is sent around to see if you
are “really” sick. Workers are
being laid off right now in all the
big plants, and others are work-
ing short time. The motor com-
panies have got exploitation
down to such an art that they get
more out of the workers in a few

~months than was possible before

in a whole year.

Tribune, The Worker,
June 21, 1954 June 22, 1929
Profiteer of the week:

It has been said that capitalist newspapers
not only represent big business, they are big
business. In the three months ended March
31, Thomson Newspapers Ltd., Toronto, had
an after-tax profit of $11,649,310. That helps to
explain why they distort rather than express
the views of the working class. Thomson pub-
lishes 98 daily and 21 weekly papers in

Canada and the U.S.

Figures used are from the company’s financial statements. .

Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN
Associate Editor — FRED WILSON
Business and Circulation Manager — PAT O'CONNOR -

Published weekly at Suite 101 — 1416 Commercial Drive,
Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9 Phone 251-1186

Subscription Rate: Canada $10 one year; $6.00 for six months;
All other countries, $12 one year.

Second class mail registration number 1560

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 22, 1979—Page 4

EDITORIAL
COMIMIEINT

SALT II a crucial step ©

The only alternative to the crippling
arms race is détente — an easing of
tensions — through steps toward nuclear
and general disarmament. Failure of coun-
tries to take those steps means recycling the
disastrous cold war with the possibility of a
nuclear shooting war as a heritage for
today’s children.

The strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(second stage), or SALT II, is an oppor-
tunity to take positive steps to limit
strategic arms, an opportunity which
people of goodwill throughout Canada
greet as their expressed desire.

The Brezhnev-Carter meeting in Vien-
na, June 15-18 to sign the SALT II
agreement, will not only set in motion
“limitation” processes, with definite ceilings
on various kinds of weapons, it will begin
the work of dismantling a number of
nuclear weapons in both countries, The
agreement will carry a statement of princi-
ples in which the USA and the USSR
pledge to begin work “promptly” on a

rther step toward disarmament — SALT
III. .

President Carter, while conducting a
campaign for SALT II against the Senate
hawks, at the same time manoeuvres for
advantages for U.S. imperialism, which are
a threat to the frail beginnings through
SALT of eventual complete disarament.

Wrong way in the Mideas

A news item, June 8, from the Israeli-
occupied West Bank of the Jordan — Arab
land — speaks of the “lightning-fast .. .
military operation” in which Israel yester-
day established a new settlement on a hill
overlooking the Arab town of Nablus —
the first Jewish outpost since the signing of
the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.”

The Zionist expansionists have not al-
tered their policy except to kiss the turn-

coat Sadat into their brotherhood. And .

Canada’s prime minister is trying to lead
Canadians by the nose into approval of
Israel's state policy of aggression. That
is what is implied in Clark’s plan to
move the Canadian Embassy from Tel
Aviv to Israeli-occupied Jerusalem.

It is a move in the wrong direction in
Mideast foreign policy, damaging re-
lations, and allying Canada with the
most implacable foes of human rights.

Clark is misjudging his mandate. He is
trying to carry out an unpopular policy dn.
the strength — or weakness — of a
minority vote. Yet, Trudeau and Broad-:
bent are so magnanimous, their lips re-!
main sealed. ;

The Israeli regime stands condemned
not only by the Palestinians, whom it has
dispossessed and put to death. It is accused
also by Lebanon for the June 7 desecration:
of the ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel, as is its
way, bombarded.a Lebanese village, and
Israeli fighter planes terrorized civilians.

Ignoring the resolutions of the United .

Nations, ignoring those in Canada with a
more rational grasp of things, Prime
Minister Clark marches to the Zionist
tune.

Rabbi Benjamin Friedberg of Beth
Tzedec Congregation’ in Toronto, in an
angry outburst, blurted out that Clark and

at

His launching of the Trident, af
nuclear missile-carrying submarine;|
approval of manufacture of compo
for the neutron bomb, and now ft
ahead for the first strike nuclear missl)
MX, are acts which treat recklessij’
signing of this agreement. The pushith
these weapons on behalf of the mil

industrial complex, not only increas}
danger of nuclear war, they at once a)
inflation, to unemployment (because
are taken from job-creating ind
and lower the living standards of
people. That this~would spill ovef
Canada is unquestionable given |
branch-plant tie-ins, and our govern
tie-in with U.S. military policy. 4

Not because they have reconciled 8
selves to the continuing successes 0)
socialist world, but because of inc 5
problems of keeping NATO's mei)
countries in line when they balk at nUé
weapons, and keeping them paying ?)
extortionate “dues”, the NATO ‘7
recently gave their blessing to SALI
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West
many, publicly announced his SALT $
port. If self-preservation dictates real
it's alltothe good. \

SALT IT is no overnight miracle, bul)
of the steps necessary to win world dis
ament. Every pressure in that directiol)
contribution to world peace. ey

his lieutenant, Ronald Atkey, had ™
clear commitments in the recent fede
election. Itwas, said the rabbi, “a very
and unequivocal election promise,” tha!)
Tory government would ignoré |
Palestinians and Israel’s other /)
neighbors, and recognize Ist)
occupied Jerusalem. e

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and Company bribed the St. Pauls)
Eglinton Israeli “patriots” to vote *|
and the Tories are being told to pa)
no matter what the cost to Canad@ 7
those who happen to be Cana
patriots. 3
It is clear that Clark and his Tories ,
out not only the Palestinians, whose h¥)
rights are not mentioned, but they a!’

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