: FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... BRUTALLY ATTACKED PARIS — Police threw a cor- don about the residence of De- puty Cachin to prevent his es- cape while legal formalities to enable his arrest were completed. Cachin, a Communist, was to be arrested on charges of treason arising out of his organizing activities. The chamber of deputies voted 371 to 143 to suspend M. Cachin’s parliamentary immunity. Then there developed a “battle royal,” Actual fisticuffs started when a conservative accused the Com- munist of cowardice. “Pig,” retorted Cachin. This is sufficient to start a battle any- where in France. Prince Joachim Murat leaped over a desk and struck the first blow for the con- servatives. Dariac, chairman of the finance committee, a former boxer, did considerable execution on radical features. Many noses were bloodied and eyes blacked as struggling deputies fought and rolled about on the floor. Those who did not join the battle beat the “devil’s tatoo” desk covers. The Worker, Feb. 15, 1923 25 years ago... FILM NOT SUBSERVIENT, SO U.S. BARS IT OTTAWA — A highly-placed U.S. movie czar has_ turned “thumbs down” on the most. re- cent Canada Carries On film en- titled “Eyes on Canada.” The film was scheduled for release to American movie houses through Paramount. with their Theme of the picture deals with the need for Canada devel- oping a one-world concept of trade and relations on U.N. lines. Canadian subservience to the U.S. is frowned upon, and the casting of the U.S. in the role of a giant overshadowing Canada as a nation does not make for a good film release in the U.S., ac- cording to the commanding staffs of movieland. Officials of the National Film Board deny the film has been suppressed in the U.S. Tribune, Feb. 14, 1948 Worth quoting: “! know that imprisonment will be as hard for me as it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and wicked torture. But | do not fear prison, and | do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of seventy of my comrades. “Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.” Fidel Castro, 1953, to Batista’s court. ae, Pacific Tribune West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune: Editor — MAURICE RUSH ‘ Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, FRED WILSON Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $3.00 for six months North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. . Allother countries, $7.00 one year Second SA PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1973—PAGE 4 156 h Editorial Comment... Should dump NORAD - in interests of Canada _ The Canadian government intends, in May, to reaffirm its commitment to the so-called North American Air De- fence agreement—NORAD. For 15 years we’ve our subservience to jectives and, thus proclaimed US. military ob- Says External Affairs -Minister Sharp, the commitment will be renewed regardless of the views of the Canadian people or their represen- tatives in Parliament. NORAD cur- rently commits Canada to squander some $40 million a year on the pretext of a threat by Soviet bombers, - Mr. Sharp and his cabinet i pretend there is a defence heed fee keeping Canada shackled to the US. war chariot. But their reasons are far removed fom genuine concer t Nn Over Ca- nadian safety. oe Besides tying Canada t ixon’ militaristic foreign poley Nones forms a link in the chain of defence production and resources sell-out to US. control. Canada’s three Voodoo interceptor squadrons in NORAD are a mere extension of the U.S, Air Force. In what sounds remarkably 1; blackmail, a U.S. assistant ierene a retary told a Senate committee recent- ly that Canada’s commitment to the U.S. through NORAD, made him “op- timistie about the ability to work out an (ehergy) agreement with Canada.” ‘George Hees shaking his head any blackmailer would, or the fy will get worse. In other words the Canadian are being made victims of Liew ing to U.S. commands, with the ing a reporter: “Our hands are in altering our role in NORAD of our great reliance on the 8 of the United States.” It was with such “goodwill” th U.S. went to Vietnam, and cally glorious defeat, militarily and @ at the hands of Vietnamese of their sovereignty and indepé With growing deters ai great majority of Canadians respect for our sovereignty, 10¥ d dependence — a fact that rp brought home to Trudeau, Sh@ fence Minister James Richards) the Tory party which has no break the U.S. grip on our coun! If such a pact as NORAD is iy ted by Parliament to remain 2 it will serve as further evidenre people of Canada that the old- ties of big business serve the vo of the U.S. military-industrial a ahead of the interests of the Ca™ people. Anti-Poverty Confere With the aim of forming 4 cot dedicated to the enactment of tion to end poverty, the Ontarid | Poverty Conference takes place Fi 18 at Toronto’s Lord Simcoe S Se a 22 SUES as —_ And on February 9, President Nixon troduce the import Canadian and Jap- along, threatened to re-in surtax directed at anese goods. Play he says, as Representatives of labor, chur fessional and low-income grou volved deserve widespread suP this urgent work. pot j = Dollar devaluation bares deeper ills The capitalist world’s: latest monetary crisis, which forced a 10% devaluation of the US. dollar, grew in part out of the harsh trade rivalries of the Western powers and Japan. It grew in part out of the worsen- ing of the general crisis of capi- talism; and it will not be the last such crisis. The fact that efforts to patch up similar problems in Dec. 197] failed, indicates that the capital- ist world may be on the verge of an even more severe crisis, as its world-wide opportunities for exploitation are curtailed. The United States, trying to correct a 1972 foreign trade de- ficit of $6.4 billion at the ex- pense of its trading partners — particularly West Germany and Japan—aims at putting cheaper products into foreign countries while Nixon promises legislation authorizing him to manipulate tariffs against imports, When U.S. foreign spending catches up with it, it looks for someone to saddle with the bills; but this time a united West Europe turned it down and forced devaluation. Wishful speculation on the outcome of devaluation for Can- ada, sees Canada’s floating dol- lar drifting downward with that of the U.S., allowing us to buy and sell in U.S. as at present. But if the Canadian dollar re- mains higher, we'll suffer both in_exports and imports. The argument that we can benefit in European markets is offset by the fact that two-thirds of our Import-export business is with the U.S.; our European advant- age would be small indeed. If, in addition, the threat to increase tariffs is carried out, our “big- gest customer” may home grown items. The present crisis is but a continuation of the previous revaluation crisis, reflecting the Instability of the capitalist world economic system. The United States, hold on “its” world system, is ever more in conflict with its so- called partners, with shar trade wars ahead. Ree choose | losing its~ {0 Canadians will do well consider their close give’, ties and look to trade, oF ation if this country 3 aq) its industries running workers in jobs. The crisis of the iM% i system is reflected ie eof less efforts. to subvet nf by war, in its crude att™ dominate economically: The monetary crisis y i a the fore once agaim © oy”) vantage of dependenc® US: st The details may need a but the handwriting 1S one wall clearly for all wht do. see the meaning of op crisis. The U.S trying d@ gi ly to cling to economle © aj tion cannot point the wea ‘ for developing - county. | other capitalist countri¢ A As in the example of td f war in Vietnam, the wea conclude that a syste with the ills of imperiali®® no promise at all. ;