NEWS ITEMS New hymns sing of stress in urban life ae THATS IT, EDGAR ... BRINGING THE Good Book UP 10 DATE ... THREE U.S. CATHOLIC PR BALTIMORE — Three Roman Catholic priests from their prison cells have proclaimed their innocence from FBI charges of a kid- napping and bombing conspiracy. Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Rev. Neil McLaughlin and Rev. Anthony Scoblick all of Baltimore la- belled J. Edgar Hoover’s wide-ranging attack on progressive Cath- olics, “‘a Criiuinal misuse of power.” They vowed to “conspire” with the people to end the Vietnam war and hunger at home. BOLIVIA NATIONALIZES U.S. MINING CORPORATION LA PAZ—Bolivia has nationalized the U.S.-owned international Metal Processing Company. Since 1965, the company has been engaged in working the tailings from Bolivia’s tin mines to ex- tract what tin ore had been left in them after their first processing. Bolivia’s Mining Minister Mendez Pereira said the government will set up a special commission, to report back within 30 days, to assess the amount of compensation the U.S. firm should receive. Mining authorities in Latin America say there are thousands of tons of ore still left in the huge tailing (refuse dumps) from the mines and that Bolivia can obtain badly-needed foreign exchange by processing the material and selling the tin ore abroad. MOON BUGGY GETS CHECK-UP MOSCOW—The Soviet moon vehicle Lunokhod 1 has been. steer- ed back to its mothership as a check on its navigation system and maneouvrability. The Lunokhod has now travelled a total of 11,788 feet across the surface of the moon since it began its exploration on Nov. 17. Luna 17, the space ship which brought Lunokhod to the moon, is not built to return it to earth. NEW WIDE-SCREEN FILM ON BIROBIDJAN BIROBIDJAN — A new wide-screen film, “Birobidjan in 1970,” has been produced in Birobidjan, the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East of the Soviet Union. Shown in the film is the ‘re- gion’s industry, represented by 50 plants producing metal, agri- cultural machinery, paper, cement, and other commodities, and a new shoe factory, still under construction, which will be the big- gest in the Soviet Far East. DEATH FROM HUNGER COVERED UP LONDON—A documentary film on South Africa is being shown on British television, produced by journalists Lesley Woodhead and Stevent Clark. A white medical doctor interviewed on a “Bantu- stan,” or native reservation, said 70% of the African children there suffered from malnutrition and that many people died of hunger. But he said the authorities refused to accept “starvation” as a pos- sible cause of death and did not report them that way. , Pacific Tribune Editor —MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 €. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulotion Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Conoda, $5.00 one year, $2.75 for six months North and South Amenca and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year All other countries, $7.00 one year Second class mail registration number 1560. Three ‘musts’ for MP’s It’s cold on Parliament Hill in Ot- tawa. But no MP is going to freeze feet or hands—or heart. That’s for jobless workers and their kids. But however cosy the House of Com- mons may be temperature-wise, its members for the most part are frozen in attitudes of subservience to the dis- astrous policies of the Trudeau govern- ment. Three ‘musts’ confront MP’s in this session of Parliament: © Repeal of the Public Order Act. Members of Parliament in all parties ° — including backbencher Liberals — must repel Trudeau’s efforts to turn Canadian politics menacingly to the right. They have the duty to refuse the “Maharajah of Canada” the support he seeks for permanent “emergency” le- gislation. e A crash p" vgra™ to create jobs—to begin to undo the incalculably tragic consequences of Trudeau and monop- oly’s deliberate policies of unemploy- ment. Such a minimum program — a billion dollars for public works at once, the building of 250,000 low-cost dwell- ings annually to start now—should in- clude public ownership (as called for by the Communist Party of Canada, and recently by others) of all energy resources, and their use for economic development. e Restore Canadian independence. Nationalize foreign-owned industry. That will bring Parliament and gov- ernments across our country to grips with the devastating U.S. control of Canada’s economy. In this respect, the demand of the NDP federal council that our oil and natural gas industries be placed under public ownership is a positive step. On to Victoria! That’s the rallying call for the giant jobless march Jan. 21 to British Colum- bia’s capital. Organized by the B.C. Federation of Labor and affiliated committees of un- employed trade unionists, thousands of unemployed marchers to the B.C. legis- lature on its opening day will protest disastrous government unemployment policies and demand jobs—work—the right of workers and their families to live and not to starve in Canada today. This militant B.C. demonstration car- ries with it the hopes of all Canadian unemployed workers. It’s the first such demonstration since Trudeau deliber- ately. increased unemployment 40% over what it was last year at this time. The B.C. Federation of Labor has set a splendid example. On two essentials it has shown real labor initiative: It appointed and pays for an unemploy- ment co-ordinator, Colin Snell. In this way it directly aids the union unem- ployed and others to organize them- selves into affiliated unemployed com- mittees. Secondly, with the jobless workers, the B.C. Federtaion of Labor is taking the fight for jobs, for imme- diate solutions to the urgent problems smij2:x9 of the unemployed, straight to t vincial government. Demonstrations of the unem across the country, like the “@ Victoria” march on Jan. 21, can Fe a massive demonstration for job spring in Ottawa. Such demonstrations will sh Canadian Labor Congress leadet of their indifference, will disp@ apathy they are showing. Even as late as Jan. 14, in the official announcement of 538 employed in Canada, all that Joe ris, the CLC executive vice-pre*, had to say for the main body of k, dian organized labor was mutt, of “unemployment has reached 4 ing proportions,” “this is an a sign,” ete., ete. But no action. The B.C. Federation of Lab? shown the CLC how to organ unemployed, how to fight for) how to act. Blood Money Canadian arms manufacturé rubbing their oily hands. Their f will soar. Defense Minister 4p MacDonald has demanded 42 dollar increase in the defense over the next five years. : $200 millions more a year for ons. “No freeze on governmen ing,” says Trudeau’s minister. But freeze social expenditult welfare, hospital, school budge more free stuff’ — except, of for the armaments profiteers a friends in Ottawa. . )) vi Stop gangster hos “Your money or your life!” That’s what big business in is today demanding of organiz ers. It’s as criminal as any hol Last week the Dunlop threatened its 600 workers at Ontario—“Take a 10% wage mediately (the present contract, expire for another three monl, we'll stop plant operations for This week it’s Canadian Ac and Gear in Weston. Its 1,000 face the company’s “pistol” Sign for three years without 2 increase—or we'll wipe out yO In this way big business is m™ direct action to make workers the economic recession by W: and unemployment. The Dunlop workers, membé United Rubberworkers unl0 given a resoundingly brave eut!” The UAW members at We be expected to refuse to Sl their wage demand rights. These workers. should have port of the whole organiZ movement in their fight. The Ontario government over these gangster compa operate them as publicly-ow™ prises.