25 years ago... SUBWAY FARE HIKE TORONTO — The Tribune was informed last week that turnstiles for the new TTC sub- way are being made to take di- mes — meaning another fare in- crease. The report is in keeping with persistent City Hall talk that TTC chairman McBrien is “master-minding” a general fare hike to a straight ten cents in 1952. The three-for-a-quarter increase was the first step in this direction. Part of the TTC subway costs are being charged against TTC operation and neither the TTC or the Board of Control have made any effort to press for the federal government’s promised 20 percent grant of the Toronto subway cost. It was promised by C.D. Howe. Tory leadér George Drew opposed it. Tory Mayor McCallum is silent. The Tribune November 27, 1951 50 years ago... COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN IN WINNIPEG The campaign of the Com- . munist Party in Winnipeg to put Comrade W.N. Kolisnyk into the City Council as alderman for Ward Three goes on apace. There has been some dif- ficulty in obtaining schools for public meetings. It is the rule in | this city that all candidates in municipal elections are entitled to use the public schools for this purpose free of charge. The “little Fascist,” Mayor Webb, is again in the field. Dur- ing his term as mayor he has ad- vocated throwing labor leaders into the Red River and shooting unemployed workers. Fred Tipping of the - Independent Labor Party is running against him. The Communist Party ad- vocates a solid labor vote. It is hoped that the Party will win this election. Last year it was short by only seventy-nine votes. The Worker November 27, 1926 movement in the west. communism is a vivid expression of the gratitude and infinite tespect for the services he performed to the working people of all countries. Engels devoted great attention to events in Russia and attached special signifigance to the victory of the Russian Revolu- tion. He foresaw that the revolution would become a turning point in world history and give a new impetus to the working class PACIFIC TRIBUNE—DECEMBER 3, 1976—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMIMTENT Shut out U.S. pollution A United States irrigation project which threatens to pollute five rivers, in- cluding the Souris and Red which flow into Manitoba would, in that case, violate the 1909 Canada-U.S. boundary waters treaty. The project, the Garrison diversion, in North Dakota also “has the potential,” according to the Canadian Govern- ment’s Oct. 12 note to the U.S. state de-- partment, “for injury to fisheries in Canada.” _ According to other sources, the pro- ject will make these Canadian water re- sources unsuitable for municipal, in- dustrial or agricultural use without sub- stantial and expensive treatment. And, the project, which the USA has been working on since 1965, despite several protests from the Canadian Govern- ment, presents according to studies, a serious threat of flooding on the Souris which flows through some of Manitoba’s best wheat-producing land. It could send slimy algae into Lake Winnipeg, and af- fect cattle. All this and still no assurances from any U.S. agency. As External Affairs Minister Don Jamieson said in his note, while the project is not scheduled for operation until 1978, “... advanced or completed construction of such projects naturally forms a powerful argument for their operation.” Former Environment Minister Jeanne — Sauve put it more strongly in June 1975, : calling the scheme “madness”. It had been protested right up to the state de-_ partment, Mme. Sauve said. . 3 “Our position,” she said then, “is that | they, the Americans, can do what they © want to do in the United States. But they _ cannot do anything that will in any way — endanger the Canadian environment in | terms we define ...” But it looks as though they are doing it. The International Joint Commission, _ that body designed .to settle such dis- : putes, had to put off its report from Ocaig tober to next June because of “complexi- | ty.” Was the complexity technological or y political? Despite Canada’s note, citing — “serious problems that ... would indeed _ injure health and property in Canada,” _ Washington’s decision on funding the £ project will be taken before the IJC re- . port. 2 Canada’s first note of concern in April, _ 1969 was repeated in Oct. 1973 to no avail. We've been fed to the gunwales with that “unguarded border” slosh. Its hard | to see how cross-the-border agreements | _ favoring the USA can be gone ahead | with while the USA ignores this threat to | Canadians. Social needs before guns The lid can no longer be kept on the inner conflicts tearing at U.S. imperial- ism over its wanton military spending while social needs — in the USA and throughout the capitalist world — go begging. The ‘aggressive militarism of the USA and other imperialist countries is in stark contrast to the desires of more and more governments, and millions of the world’s people, for peace — for an end to the arms race. The USA is now spending $104-billion annually on armaments and military build-up. Into this sorry picture has come an astounding new dimension. Echoing what working people have been de- manding for years, a panel of indus- trialists, financiers and former govern- ment officials (among them, leading Car- ter backers), has urged U.S. agreement to Soviet proposals for a 10% military budget cut, and demilitarization of the Indian Ocean, as well as withdrawal of nuclear weapons and troops from Korea and a thousand nuclear warheads from Europe! The recommendations clash head on with those of the powerful “Present Danger” group, urging more militariza- tion, and risky provocations such as mov- ing NATO legions up to the German Democratic Republic border. They also clash with U.S. and NATO brasshats, echoing the dictates of the arms monopolies who demand the beef- ing up of NATO. ‘The Canadian Government has no- thing to be proud of in this regard. With 679,000 officially jobless and tens of thousands existing on the poverty line in Canada, Ottawa pours close to $5-billion a year down the arms drain. Joe Clark’s Tories would boost that, he promises, if they gained power. The USA will greet 1977 by sending. supersonic F-15 fighter planes to West — j Germany and additional F-111s to Bri- _ tain. This came out as the USSR an-_ ‘nounced it would cut next year’s defence Ss budget by $254-million. At NATO?’s recent defence ministers’ meeting in London, attended by Cana- da’s defence minister, Barnett Danson, the pact’s chief hawk, Joseph Luns, said the USA is preparing to send _ its nuclear-armed Cruise missile to Europe — a further escalation. The Canadian Government, wallow: _ ing in crises, might pay heed to the U.S. _ business group’s requests for moves to- ward détente and disarmament. In fact, the business men who, with Minister of External Affairs Jamieson visited the Soviet Union and discovered the grow- ing trade opportunities in the atmos- phere of détente, should be first to con-’ demn NATO's opposite role of fannin the embers of the cold war. The widespread backing in Canada for the Stockholm Appeal to end the arms race, along with signs that Cana- dians are fed up with government re- fusal to solve the real problems facing _ them, show the need for increasing pres- sure on the government to cut the arms budget, get out of NATO, and plot an independent course for Canada’s development.