—— a, aga EDITORIAL COMMENT Ban the Klan There is no room for the Ku Klux Klan in Toronto, or - any part of this country. For more than 100 years, these narrow-minded bigots have terrorized, usually with impunity, the Black popu- lation of the United States. They have organized against working people and their trade unions, have incited racial violence and propagated the big lies of the bosses and ruling class. We don’t need them, or any others of their ilk in Canada, and we can’t help but wonder at their appear- ance in Toronto only two days after the headquarters of the Communist Party was razed by fire. - The Klan was driven out of Canada before. The au- thorities must be forced to guarantee that they won’t be allowed to relocate here now. Energy resources battle It has become clear that protection of Canada’s energy resources, and their utilization for the good of Canada and her people, now rests with the working | class and its allies. In contrast to the bickering of Alberta Tories and Ottawa Liberals, who want the returns from draining away Cana- da’s oil and gas to the USA, trade unions and the consistently working-class party, the Communist Party of Canada, express licies to ensure those resources will nefit Canada. The monopoly corporations, the transnationals which know no patriotism but Maximum profits — and govern- ments which serve them — prove by their manipulations that they care no- thing for an energy policy to strengthen Canada’s economy, to raise the stan- dards of her working people. The Canadian Labor Congress, in its Energy Policy Statement, at its 13th Convention in May, stressed “essential energy needs” in Canada for all “reg- ions”; to take into account “environmen- tal impact”; and demanded ensurance of “Canadian ownership and control.” The United Electrical Workers, in a brief to the federal government, noted: “_,. there is not a single, solitary reason why Canadians should be saddled with sharp prices increases in the cost of pet- roleum products . ..” The UE called for a freeze on oil and gas prices, an east- west all-Canadian energy corridor, and the bringing of Canada’s energy re- sources under public ownership and control, Canada should be reaping the benefits of plentiful oil and gas, and, as the Communist Party advocates, distribut- ing it coast to coast through gas and oil pipelines. The essential is that this wealth be taken out of the hands of the monopolies and foreign transnationals and claimed for the people of Canada as public property. Stop kidding on auto pact It took the Americans just one day to tell Canada’s “economic nationalist” in- dustry minister Herb Gray to forget about the U.S. living up to its part of the Canada-U,S. auto pact. Hiding behind the excuse of foreign imports “flooding” the North American market, a U.S. of- ficial commented: “Gray realizes that if Canada keeps plugging for its fair share of North American auto trade it will end up with a fair share of zero...” Aside from the well-deserved con- tempt with which U.S. government negotiators hold their Canadian coun- terparts, the whole episode vividly re- veals an inescapable fact. It’s time for politicians and some labor leaders to stop kidding the troops about the auto pact being a way out of the current crisis. Last year Canadians were hosed to the tune of $3.1-billion as a result, of Cana- da’s auto trade deficit with the U.S. That was Our money and our jobs being sucked across the border. Those who predicted 15 years ago, when the auto act was signed, that it would not only be armful for the auto industry but the entire Canadian economy have been proven right. This includes the Communist Party which was the only political party to speak out against the auto pact at the time. Each year the deficits have steadily in- creased. Over the 15 year haul, some $11-billion Canadian dollars have been lost in auto trade to the U.S. A Canadian car and a publicly-owned Canadian auto industry have been dreams in the hearts of autoworkers for the past couple of decades. Though pressure has to continue to be mounted on the Canadian government to make the U.S. live up to its end of the auto - trade deal, it is to this fundamental break with U.S. multi-national corporate con- trol of the auto industry that workers must turn as the only real solution to the current crisis. The creation of such a publicly-owned industry is admittedly no easy or un- complicated task. But then, neither is the battle to unite the forces in Canada who will curb, then eliminate the harsh con- trol Canadian and foreign corporations exert on our daily lives. In the end you can only fight or crawl. 25 years ago... SEND U.S. FOREMAN HOME The demand that a U.S. fore- man be sent back home was put forward by 360 plumbers who staged a walkout at Petrofina Oil Refinery, Montreal East on July 3. The foreman in question, im- ported from the U.S., was ac- cused of introducing a cruel speed up system on the job to the point where he measured the number of inches welders were doing in a day. As a result four plumbers, members of the AFL Plumbers and _ Steamfitters Union, Local 144, were to be fired. The stewards met and cal- led the walkout. J. Connolly, general or- ganizer of the plumbers union made a special trip to Montreal to convince the men to return to work, but they still refused. The walkout is on. Tribune, July 11, 1955 FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS UAS © FO-NC A 50 years ago... FIGHT OR STARVE Sudbury, Ont. — The unem- ployed workers here decided at a meeting recently to organize to- gether to struggle for work or full maintenance. A provisional executive of seven members was elected and plans were made for future activity. Over 30 workers took the card of the organization and paid their initial dues. The local capitalist. paper stated the day before this meet- ing that “there are only 62 un- employed registered at the Sud- bury office of the Employment Service of Canada,” and that “The roll was padded also with the names of a number of men who were only in town long enough to add their names to the list and then caught the next freight out.” This shows clearly how false and hypocritical the Statistics given out about the number of unemployed are. The Worker, July 12, 1930 Profiteer of the week: $23,537,000. When a company demands $25-million tax- free profit on its products, that’s going to cost a lot of people a lot of money somewhere down the road. Cadillac Fairview Corp. Ltd. of Toronto rang up $25,665,000 for the year ended Feb. 29, 1980. CF develops and builds residential and commercial buildings and complexes. Profit a year earlier was Figures used are from the company’s financial statements. Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN Associate Editor — FRED WILSON Business and Circulation Manager — PAT O'CONNOR Published weekly at Suite 101 — 1416 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9. Phone 251-1186 Subscription Rate: Canada $10 one yr.; $6.00 for six months; All other countries, $12 one year. Second class mail registration number 1560 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 11, 1980—Page 3