MAE Food PRICES ‘REVIEW BOARD INVESTIGATION 1S OUT fo FIND OUT --~- WOW HIGH 15 U pon'T worry / pl x atom f, ; CANADIAD TATQUNE. FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... THREE SHOTS FIRED AT WM. Z. FOSTER CHICAGO — Three shots were fired at Wm. Z. Foster, president of the Trade Unicn Educational League, while he was speaking at Carmen Hall here Aug. 28. Foster was not hit. The gunman fired at Foster’s back and fled down a fire escape. Foster succeeded in quietening the frightened audi- ence of 3,000 and continued his speech. “Our enemies must use guns, they have no arguments left,” was Foster’s serene reply to the shots. “This is a final demonstra- tion of the complete inability of the enemies of the TUEL to an- swer our arguments for the League program—amalgamation, shop committees and a_ labor party,” he said. The Worker, Sept. 12, 1923 25 years ago... BIG DAIRIES DUMPING MILK Big: milk distributors are al- ready dumping excess milk in an effort to maintain and increase the price. The Toronto Milk Pro- ducers Association is investigat- ing the dumping of large: quanti- ties of milk by the big dairies as well as the return of “excess milk” to farmers for pig feed. Distributors are arguing -that “shortages” and “rising costs” will necessitate at least .a 2-cent increase in the price of milk. But Dr. Alex Skelton put the lie to the need of the price increase when on that same day he said that bumper harvests of most foods this year in both Canada and the U.S. would result in lower feed grain prices. Tribune, Sept. 11, 1948 Worth quoting: “Tam not here then as the accused, | am here as the accuser, of Capitalism dripping. with blood from head to foot. “It is not because | am against my own people. My own people are the workers here, and the workers in Germany and elsewhere. “It was not the workers who instigated the war. The workers have ho economic interest to serve as a consequence of the war... | have remained true to my class, the working class, and whatever | do | think | am doing in the interests of my class of my country. | stand loyal to my country because | stand loyal to the class which creates the wealth throughout the whole of the world.” —John Mclean (conducting his own defense for anti-war activities, 1918) Editor — MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Business & Circulation Manager, FRED WILSON Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $3.00 for six months North and South America and Commonwealth countr:es, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year SoS SN Hamilton’s cost-of-living battle Wherever working people defy at- tempts. to impose on them inferior wages and conditions they strengthen the cause of the working class and merit its steeled support. In today’s conditions of soaring liv- ing costs, ruthless profiteering and har- dening attitudes to workers’ demands by bosses and their governments, there is a deepening determination to fight both on bread-and-butter issues and to sustain working-class principles. These principles, and not the monopolist’s dol- lar phlosophy with it threats, pressures and bribes, become the measure of right and wrong. As with the last ditch groups of strik- ing railway workers who saw in Labor Minister Munro’s back-to-work edict the law of the big stick, so with the civic workers of Hamilton, who have held out for two months for a cost-of- living escalator clause, there is commit- ment involved which the ruling class and the trade union right wing would do well to consider. The long hold-out in Hamilton.gauges the temper of working people right across this country, who are challenged by growing anti-labor attacks. The 800-strong outside workers, Lo- cal 5, Canadian Union of Public Em- ployees, who walked out.July 11 de- manding parity with their Toronto counterparts, were later joined by Lo- cals 167 and 1344, inside and mainte- nance workers, and received full back- ing of the Hamilton and District Labor J} Council. As everywhere this yeal) | wages are paramount, but from the | start, a cost-of-living clause has been 4 key factor. “ Threatening legal action, Mayor Vi¢- tor Copps has charged the outside workers with not bargaining in g00 faith, perhaps because they twice sel | back their negotiating committee with | word of no settlement without a cosh 7 of-living clause. 1 Good faith on the part of this elected | employer, allows-Laidlaw Transporta [ tion Ltd. — through its Superior Sank } tation division — to make strikebreak | ing proposals to the city administratio? | while the workers are on the picke line. : | If Canadian workers show contempt | for those men of “good faith” in high | places, they have every reason. With | the rise of living costs virtually uh ‘ checked by Parliament’s chit-chat, pro 7 tection against stepped-up price goug ing is needed, in the form of cost-oF | living provisions in contracts, That said. i ast be added emphatically thay this is simply to match the price spira@ The longer-range need for workers to share in increased productivity, 4 improve their living standards, to w1é 7 greater authority over the wealth the produce — all this is not altered, dilute’ or replaced by the call for cost-of-livin® protection. The latter is an urgen need right now, which stands on its ow? q merits. — Sakharov's iimenls harmful to detente In recent weeks the Western press has carried statements made by Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov who, accord- ing to reports, has warned against de- tente between the USSR and the west- ern nations. These statements, which would be remarkable coming from a Soviet scientist at any time, are made even more incredible today in the face of trends toward easing of tensions on a world scale. Soviet foreign policy has always re- jected nuclear war as a means of solvy- ing differences between states. Today, thanks to years of patient, careful work by the socialist states and the USSR in the first place, it is possible to see the way out of a world nuclear confronta- tion. The talk on arms limitation, the recent Helsinki conference, the normal- ization of European borders, greater East-West interchange at all levels and the imperialist defeat in Vietnam is socialist foreign policy in action. Andrei Sakharov’s comments directly oppose these trends. Here, he has join- ed with those who would turn the clock back to the frightening days of the cold war and brinkmanship—days in which, - on this continent, the war planners held sway and the answer to the progressive and peace forces was unbridled anti- Sovietism and anti-communism. The struggle to force imperialism back from its drive toward war with the socialist world is succeeding. Im- perialism is in retreat and is forced to manoeuvre. It is, however, still dange? : ous and has many allies who can reconcile themselves to the thaw in be cold war. It is unfortunate that a Sov scientist permits himself to serve thy interests. The sacrifices of progress’ people the world over during these ie. decades have been too high to allow SU*” comments and attacks to go unanswé ed. he For Canadians, living between nd USA and USSR, nuclear war wot mean annihilation. Detente betwee our country and the socialist wor. greater cooperation, better understar, . row g 1 Sakharov’s colleagues, in a lett cerning his conduct, accuse him 0 nal | torting Soviet reality and the int ney and foreign policy of the USSR. nts make the point that his statem ary identify him with the most reaction! 4 imperialist quarters who are opp”. to peaceful coexistence between SU ns | As scientists, they describe his a¢ tio? as alien and opposed to the prom? of of scientific and cultural coopera ie which is the policy of the Soviet st@ ; Serious Canadians will not be tal in by the heavy barrage of articles the editorials in the daily press lauding ie likes of Andrei Sakharov and apple ig t ing his remarks. He has joined the, at business press and the cold wat! they speak for. i Je of They are on one side, the peop” the other.