“if we give her enough injections she'll more pliable.”

= Nee

25 years ago...

HOUR OF DECISION
IN EUROPE

The instigators of war have
gained a partial victory. By a
combination of crude threats
__ and bribery they have succeeded
in their aim to rearm West Ger-

_ Many...

‘A Toronto daily writes: “The
U.S. government has committed
itself to provide heavy equip-
ment for the army.and planes
for the air force. A considerable

rtion (of which) has already

n produced and stored in
U.S. and West German depots
..- The West German govern-
ment has already received more
than 150,000 applications for
appointments as officers and =

ion are Secon

=~ adnan

The men of Lidice and Buch-
enwald are avid to get back into
uniform in privileged positions
but the rank and file soldier will
have to be conscripted.

‘Tribune,
Oct. 11, 1954

FLASHBACKS FROM _
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

KKK MARCHES.
IN HAMILTON
Hooded and gowned, over
1,000 labor-hating Ku Klux
Klan paraded through Hamil-
ton streets on their way to a
meeting two miles outside the
city. They were shepherded by
Provincial and local police who
also stood guard over their
demonstration.
J. S. Lord, Imperial Secretary

of the Canadian Klan, who is -

also a member of the New
Brunswick legislature, delivered

‘a tirade calling on businessmen

and politicians to rally to this
secret band of midnight assas-
sins, lynchers and terrorists say-
ing KKK methods practiced in
the South are a sure way to fix
labor organizers and bolsheviks.

A 30-foot cross and three
smaller crosses were then
burned on a nearby hill. Still
hooded, the brave, bold, dis-
guised Klan were escorted home

by police.

The Worker,

Oct. 12, 1929

Profiteer of the week:

Brascan Ltd., Toronto is a company of many -
interests. In Canada it’s into resources like
Great Lakes Power, Western Mines, and also
owns part of John Labatt and Canadian Cable,
plus Brazilian holdings, although it sold its
electric power company in Brazil. Profit for
first six months of 1979: $11,600,000. Same

period in 1978: $6,800,000.

Figures used are from the company’s financial statements.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE— OCTOBER 19, 1979—Page 4

EDITORIAL
COMMENT

Speech ignores urgency

The Clark government has its ear at-
tentively attuned to the corporation
board rooms — of Canada and the USA.
As for working people, pensioners, un-
employed, students, working farmers
and others who are not owners of Cana-
da’s means of production but just do the
work, let them “tough it out”.

The Speech from the Throne, Oct. 9,
discusse
scandalously lacking in any sense or
urgency. It was business as usual while
the government maps out a Balkanized
Canada, shorn of Crown corporations,
and more tightly in the grasp of the
multi-nationals and home-grown corpo-
rations. The million jobless, slashing of
medicare, of children’s social :benefits,
denying workers their right to .unem-
ployment insurance, a hurricane of
prices increases ruining family budgets
and their hopes for housing, education

elsewhere -in this issue, was ©

a

and health care — these were given nd
immedicay in the Throne Speech.

To hope that Clark means. well i

- naive. He means well for the corporaté

elite. But he holds out nothing bettel|
than a threadbare passage to recessiol|_
for workers. : 7

Fortunately, because of long, bittel)
and consistent struggle on the labor ané
litical fronts, we are not in the samé
Lae today as in the dirty thirties. Tht
working class today has it in its power
change the outcome of the Tories’ driv
to the right. i
The Throne Speech is a mixture
threats and promises — all to be enacted)
in good time, while we sink in the mire 0!
capitalist crisis. The answer is to confronl
this Tory government now with workin
people’s demands, with unity, and with4
determination not to be silenced.

30th anniversary of GDR |

Throughout 1979, but highlighted on
October 7, the German Democratic Re-
public has celebrated its 30th anniver-
sary. This noteworthy date calls for
hearty congratulations.

The GDR has been in the forefront of
preserving peace despite endless man-
oeuvres and provocations plotted by
reactionary circles in the West. It has had

to fend off, with the support of the Soviet ~

Union, intrigues by the cold warriors,
who misused and still misuse, West Ber-
lin, an “island” more than 100 miles in-
side.the GDR borders. fe
Since its founding the GDR has up-

held the allied postwar agreements on —

abolition of all remnants of fasicst
ideology and deed, and ‘new genera-
tions are raised in the spirit of peace and
détente. i

The propaganda barbs still used
against the GDR by the capitalist media

_ Apartheid threatens war _

South Africa’s threat to send its mod-
ern war machine against Zimbabwe-
Rhodesia if patriotic forces representing
the Black majority get the upper hand, is
the apartheid regime’s most blatant ra-

cist declaration to date.

As a demonstration .against such ra-
cism, the. United Church’s sale of its
shares in Falconbridge, a corporate
backer of South Africa’s apartheid re-
gime, is commendable.

For years the white supremacist gang
in Pretoria has shown its disdain equally
for human rights, for sovereignty and

_ for world and United Nations opinion,

by its illegal military occupation of
Namibia (formerly Southwest Africa). -
Now it is prepared to bring death and
destruction on a grand scale to Zim-
babwe to prevent the African people at
any cost from claiming their birthright.
The South African racists obviously
have no differences with Bishop. Abel

Muzorewa, the Ian Smith Black puppet

_ development assured by policies of st#’

‘the non-whites of South Africa.

in Canada and elsewhere cannot hide th
fact that this socialist German state, #
prosperous and cultured member of thé
socialist community of states, offers to 2
its people the opportunity for work an@
bility, security and peace. ,
Today the GDR is the site of an oul
standing and positive step for peace ~
the USSR’s withdrawal of troops.
congratulating the GDR’s government
its people and its Socialist Unity Party 0”
this 30th anniversary, people of goodw!
everywhere see the need for matchil})
acts by the NATO powers to reduce te?
sion and stop-the arms build-up. We D&
lieve that Canada, as a NATO membé
should speak up in practical terms fo!
matching moves by NATO, and shou!®)
act for full normalization of relation’
with the German Democratic Republi

in Salisbury, who sends annihilatio®
raids agains the Patriotic Front. ‘

With South Africa’s threat to unleas!
its modern military might (which repot
edly includes nuclear wea ns) agailt
guerrillas fighting for their homelaml”
the veil is off. The racist alliance of BE.
tain’s Lord Carrington, white supre™®
cist Ian Smith, and the genocidal Bish®
is illumined for all to see.

_ Those in Canada who support suc!
crime must be unmasked. For all WY
fight racism it is time to put it to the 1
Canadian government: Human ri A
anywhere must mean human rights ae

boycott of South African goods has tor
tightened; and Ottawa must not be let?”
the hook. It’s time to break with. racist
It’s time to take command of the billio#
of Canadian dollars corporations f€°,,
ing off Canadian workers now inves
apartheid, in racism, in South Afri