25 years ago... SOVIETS PROPOSE COMPLETE DISARMAMENT The Soviet Union has submit- ted to the League of Nations another proposal for complete and immediate disarmament for consideration by the preparat- ory disarmament commission, it was announced. The suggestions are con- tained in a concrete covenant, based upon the proposals made by Maxim Litvinoff to the pre- paratory disarmament com- mission in Geneva last November. The convention would order complete world disarmament and demobilization of land, sea and air forces within four years, but would “limit the possibility of armed conflicts within one year” by. immediate reductions of all fighting forces. . The Worker, Mar. 4, 1928 INFLATION — TRANSFORMATION Ww > A yg sf 3 =. \ Se 2 amen # : 4 , Pe) = oy 2 - J + fe 4 3 : : SRizeMUR! 50 years ago... US. GERM ASSAULT “Conclusive evidence exists” that the U.S. military forces in Korea are using bacteriological weapons in the front lines and in rear areas of North Korea, Pek- ing radio broadcast Feb. 21. The radio announcement listed a series of such attacks from October to December 1952, charging that disease- infected spiders, flies and hand- bills had been dropped. Premier of the People’s Re- public of China Chou En-lai, ina report to the National Com- mittee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Con- ference, declared: “The U.S. imperialists are: barbarously using the peoples of Asia for ‘testing’ their ‘new weapons’. Tribune, Mar. 2, 1953 from VHumarate. ¢'ats PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 10, 1978—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMMENT Two anti-worker meetings | The recent first minister’s conference -has already been seen by many for what it.was, a search for the best means to shore up the capitalist system by further assaults on working-class living standards. If this confab smelled of electioneer- ing, with its pretenses at statesmanship, while class solidarity was pledged, the following Liberal policy conference was simply confirmation that Trudeau in- tends to ride roughshod not only over the working people of Canada but over the issues raised by his own party. Both these meetings were challenged for answers to the stagnating economy, the million-and-a-half jobless, out-of- control prices and a declining living standard which aggravates the lives of new hundreds every day. The only answers were some _ profit-making schemes for the politicians’ friends. The easiest point on which to reach agreement was that as employers, the, governments would set the example for the private sector, in slamming the lid on wages, in making fewer workers do more work, in cutting the “frills” from con- tacts. In other words the political mouthpieces of the corporate monopolies are also the official anti- labor hatchetmen. Nor did they deal seriously with the constitutional crisis. We need a made- in-Canada constitution, drawn up. by representatives of our two nations, for a bi-national state! But these defenders of the status quo, and of corporate monopoly’s dominant place, failed the Canadian people. . For the future, the best predictions” they can dig up show more unemploy- ment stretching into the future, a lag-- ging Gross National Product and sag- ging trade. They offer no hope of con- trols on food prices, rents, transit and the rest.. : In a country with vast potential, they offer no hope — for the young, for the old, for the working class, or for ending costly armaments squandering. Those gentry claim there are no clas- _ ses in our society. Yet they and their sponsors stand viciously against labor, - against the working people, against the working class. They, whatever their par- ty, defend the ruling class system by threat, by legislation, by police violence, and provocation. These are every day facts from the system’s own media. What should be agreed among work- ing people is that they are determined to | stand as firm as their tormentors, in the ~ trade unions, workers’ parties, organi- zations, to fight back the attacks on their jobs, homes and living standards. 4 In the everyday battles for jobs, rent controls, daycare, a hundred things” working people need — but not least 10 © . the forthcoming election battles, it _ should be workers for workers! It’s time — for a real change! More say: No to neutron! People or the neutron bomb? Which will inherit the earth? If the people in their millions decide, then people shall be supreme. If the psychotic heads of imperialism’s military-industrial com- plex have their way, the neutron will be set loose. Neutron radiation is not for destroy- ing bases or supply lines or hardware, but for killing people — some quickly, some slowly, some in later generations. General Alexander Haig, U.S. comman- der in Europe, calls it “a modernization”. It is being forcibly imposed on countries of western Europe, against the wishes of governments, but with gleeful aid from the military apparatus. Canada, participating as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also caved in to NATO demands for a 3% arms budget increase each and every year for a minimum of five years. By 1980 Canada will be putting $5-billion a _year down the arms drain. In contrast to this grim drive is the human tide rising on every continent, denouncing the people-killers and their gruesome toy, protesting its manufac- ture and deployment. And in Canada too, increasing numbers are challenging the Trudeau government’s spineless sell-out to the Pentagon. Last month in Montreal, some 80 organizations came together in the Quebec Disarmament Conference to de- clare opposition to the neutron bomb and other aspects of the arms race, and to take the side of people against the bomb. Romesh Chandra, president of the World Peace Council, reminded us all then, that, “every day while millions of — dollars are invested in arms production, — a million human beings in the world are suffering in the throes of hunger.” The neutron peddlers are twice in-— human — recklessly pushing their mass_ murder weapon, and snatching food” from the hungry to ensure their profits” on it. . ’ The excuse for such arms squander — ing, a mythical Soviet “threat”, presup~ poses public ignorance in the face of vig- orous and consistent disarmament ac — tions by the USSR in the relevant United Nations bodies. | a - Today, ad hoc committees across Canada are distributing post cards ad-_ dressed to Prime Minister Trudeau, de-— manding he oppose NATO’s deploy- _ ment of the neutron bomb and ask Pres-_ ident Carter to stop its production. —__ And, fittingly, in the midst of this angry response to the neutron, will be— held a much broadened and extended biennial meeting of the Canadian Peace — Congress, this month in Toronto. In that meeting, the Congress, its affiliates, and guests promise to seek out and put (0 work every means of stopping the neut ron bomb. — No one can be excused from answel~ ing: People or the neutron bomb? To favor humanity means action, the urgent need for thousands of Canadians to fight the neutron bomb in every way possible — until it is dead.