OPERATION MASe RID SS = _ ‘Bo VIET-HAM Oo eS ‘A ag FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... A PRINCELY JUNKET The commercial trip by the Prince of Wales will cost a cool million dollars. British business believes the result will justify the outlay. The South African market is slipping, the burghers of South Africa have not much love for the empire that used their bodies for target practice in 1900. And the workers have not forgotten the wounds inflicted on them during the Rand strike when their leaders were shot down with the song of revolution on their lips. While British business spends a million dollars on a princely junket there is famine in Ireland. Only a short time ago parliament appropriated $12-million to sup- port the large army that the Orange government at Belfast maintains to defend the.empire’s interests. The Worker, April 11, 1925 25 years ago... BELL PROFITS AND INEQUALITY . Bell. Telephone saves half a man’s wage by using women, boasted its vice-president T. W. Eddie last week to the Board of : Transport Commissioners at the hearing where Bell is applying for rate increases. . To use women on switchboard and other jobs formerly held by men had been found “a good idea”. They are paid an average of $5.88 a day — about half the average male wage at Bell. The company now employs 17,000 women as compared to 10,552 men. In brief, the man is out of a job, the women $5 short on her day’s pay and Bell Tele- phone -gets the rake-off. And that’s all legal — just “lowering production costs.” (The right to equal pay for equal work was one of the main points in the Bill of Rights for Canadian Wom- en adopted at the recent CCW Congress.) : Tribune, April 10, 1950 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1975—Page 4 Editorial Comment... Imposing Paris terms on Saigon The Paris Agreement on Peace in Vietnam has been systematically sabo- taged by the United States and its Sai- Son puppet since the day the Agree- ment was signed — J anuary 27, 1973. ‘Refusal to stop military aggression against liberated areas of South Viet- nam, refusal to free some 200,000 poli- tical prisoners, refusal to acknowledge the Third Force as a political element, refusal to permit holding of democratic elections and, in effect, refusal to ac- knowledge the Paris Agreement’s re- cognition of the Provisional Revolu- tionary Government as a joint initiator of any preparations for 4 peaceful fu- ture — all of this obstruction was sown by the Thieu regime operated by U.S. imperialism. _ The Canadian Government partici- pated both directly and indirectly in the Sabotage of the Paris Agreement, through arms shipments to the Thieu regime and through refusal to recog- nize the legitimacy of the PRG bestow- ed by both the Paris Agreeemnt and the Vietnamese people, : Now the Thieu regime is reaping the wrath it invited and the USA is seram. bling to prove its purity. The ‘fact is that the liberation forces which have swept through much of the country are fighting for the provisions of the Paris Agreement denied to the Vietnamese by the Thieu police state. Canadians are fed “news” concocted by the U.S. propaganda machine, dis- ‘tortions, half-truths and outright lies, to trv to head off in Canada anv identi- fication with the liberation of South Vietnam from its U.S.-paid jailers, The Canadian Government should make amends for its failure to face its responsibility, and for its contribution to the suffering of the people of Viet- ham, by immediately proposing the establishment of a mission of the PRG . in Canada, and a reciprocal Canadian mission in liberated South Vietnam. It is not enough for Canadians to applaud the victorious advance of the people’s forces in Vietnam — applause comes easily. What is needed js heavy pressure on Ottawa to change policy — begin to live up to the Paris Agreement — and start with recognition of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam. e@ @ e@ Kidnapping children One of the most reprehensible acts of the U.S.-Thieu conspiracy is the kid- napping of hundreds of Vietnamese children and USA. This crime is carried out on the “au- thority” of the Saigon butchers. And middle-class America which may be tiring of its chihuahuas and poodles, will have a new diversion. The Provisional Revolutionary Gov- ernment has not invited the imperialist munitions suppliers who have ensured the death and maiming of thousands of Vietnamese children to now kidnap others for mental mutilation, for alien- ation against their own heroic people. The PRG has appealed to the United Nations for aid so as to provide food, medical supplies, education facilities, and a happy family life for the children in their own country. The vile policies of the U.S. Govern- if it weren’t meant to brainwash th? _had been ousted by the democratic go” removing them to the: the Pinochet regime should be a 1 _ Special favors. Britain has demand? | that Chile honor its debt immediatelY!| _ ment, quickly supported by Canadiat governments — the policies of borne defoliators, undercover agents and t0 : turers — must surely have reached t ‘i limit of depravity in snatching fro Vietnam even its children. Trudeau's solidarity Prime Minister Trudeau’s message 0! understanding and solidarity to stv i ing asbestos workers at Thetford s nes, Quebec, would have had a tru eh ring if his government’s record MG cleaner. of The picture painted by the big Be ness press of the PM breaking pe) precious “neutrality” that had vy viously existed would be just plain sl) | working people themselves. oe an It wasn’t neutrality that legislate, the dockworkers back on the job, ct earlier the postal workers. The gover ment’s frequent demands for wage d straints while closing its eyes to rec ‘ profits do not suggest neutrality, oe adherence to the same anti-labor line #| the monopolies. i Mr. Trudeau, along with Transpo! c: Minister Marchand and Communict) tions Minister Pelletier, may think ae their telegram to the 8,500 worke af with whom they brashly associated in he 1949 strike has transformed the imag : of their government. . ban If the prime minister wants to | press “solidarity” with the workin My people of Canada he should begin wi f government workers by ‘ending f : bractice of ramming through strike breaking legislation. He should intro} duce a program of full employment, e tending job-making trade with socialis economies, undertaking a vast hor building proiect, putting brakes on t soaring profits behind inflation. out . Solidarity as that would be welcome No concession to junta Efforts are being made by the fascist military rulers of Chile to renegotla e Chile’s national debt. The same inter national financeers, in the Club of Pa! ; who refused new terms to the Allen ve Government in 1970-73, are now Coot ie sidering how to reward the junta % handing the country’s riches back, ch} the multi-national corporations wh! ernment. : op The decision will be based in partie the report and recommendations of ig | International Monetary Fund and tet current president, Finance Minis t0 John Turner of Canada. The answer sounding “No!” : This oppressive clique, whose te ist rule was condemned by United fo! tions resolution 2,114 of Nov. 1974 ( ‘0 which Canada voted) is not entitled F and Canada should demand no ee Italy, Belgium, Sweden and Holland 4 ul refusing to discuss any such renegotl tion. : at Mr. Turner should understand the he has no mandate to yield to t junta’s request for concessions throug which it could shore up its dictators! at the expense of the Chilean people.