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again this week. And so did stocks—some with a venge-
ance in exceptionally busy trading.

50 years ago...
WHY WE ARE POOR

In Canada there are 38,344
establishments employing 88,316
salaried workers,
wage workers. These 681,490
workers produce products of the
value of $3,520,724,093. The sala-
ries paid total $130,855,202 whilst
the wages paid amounted to
$558,579,217.

In other words the’ workers of
Canada produced about $3,500,-
000,000 and got in return less than
$700,000,000. Which means that
the workers got one dollar in
salaries and wages for every five
dollars they produced.

The Worker,
March 1, 1923

25 years ago...
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HOPES OF MILLIONS
PLACED IN: WALLACE
Henry Wallace is the outstand-
ing figure in the U.S. continuing
the fight for Roosevelt policies.

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tions of millions of people
throughout the world who sup-
port his fight for “peace and
plenty.”

Wallace is neither Socialist nor
Communist. He believes the “cen-
tury of the common man” can
come about under capitalism in
the U.S.

While many people may differ
with some of Wallace’s social

concepts, in the conditions of to-.

day he represents the most
powerful opponent in the U.S.
of the trend to fascism and im-
perialist conquest via the Mar-
shall Plan and the Truman Doc-
trine which policies can but lead
the world to a catastrophic war.
His candidature represents a
fighting program for all who op-
pose the Wall Street drive to
fascism and war.

Tribune, Jan. 10, 1948.

Worth quoting:

Auschwitz existed. It was all the more incumbent upon men to
investigate why it was built, what it did and who was responsible.

‘The vast evidence was no reason to hold back from enquiry; it was

a mandate to expose in the main hope that men might learn the

- shameful lesson of their moral cowardice—for Auschwitz is our res-

ponsibility. We failed to stop it. We condemned it too late. Crimes,
barbarous crimes are reported daily from Vietnam. They are crimes
of an aggressor, an occupier, a tormentor. Our task is to display this
truth to the people of the world. Our duty is to investigate every
fact so that every fact will serve to arouse passionate resistance.

Bertrand Russell, International
War Crimes Tribunal, May, 1967.

West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune:

Editor — MAURICE RUSH

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editorial Comaenl,

Energy and Yankee gall

An energy crisis in the United States
results immediately in glutton-like
slavering over Canada’s resources, and
efforts to push Canada into a continen-
tal energy policy. (A continental energy
policy means that Canada is expected
to hand over even more of its resources

_to its greedy neighbor.)

The bloody nerve! While packs of

B-52s and F-111s and swarms of heli-

copters are squandering petroleum
products by the millions of gallons in
Vietnam — a monstrous use of precious
resources — U.S. citizens are shiverin
in their homes for lack of fuel. An
Canada is expected to make sacrifices.

It’s worse than squandering because
these valued resources are used to
slaughter people, to destroy homes, so-
cieties, yes, and to destroy the resources
of Indochina.

Canada must tell the U.S.: if you’re
short of oil, stop making napalm to fry
the children of Vietnam and fuel for
flame-throwers t6 burn villages; stop
the horrendous bombing in all parts of
Vietnam; get out of Vietnam, and take
with you the terrible arsenal of air and
land vehicles you handed to butcher

 Thieu. You have a nerve wanting oil

from us while he is supplied for his
villanous purposes. Call home your pack
of sharks, the Seventh Fleet. .

In the circumstances, the USA’s ogl-
ing of Canada’s fuel resources is inde-
cent, an.attempt at perversion — a per-
sonal insult to every Canadian worthy
of the name.

Jobs, Mr. Turner!

Even while Throne Speech promises
of jobs were being unreeled before a
waiting public, Statistics Canada’s
whirring computer was coldly disgorg-
ing a new 6.8% unemployment figure
— 580,000 Canadians were denied jobs
in December. Simultaneously the cost
of living rose again.

“On Jan. 9, Finance Minister John
Turner told Commons questioners that
millions of dollars are going into
make-do job schemes, but he evaded
long-term responsibility and the up-

building of a sound and independent

Canadian economy.

It’s not as if this government were
unaware of the concerns of Cana-
dians. It imposed unemployment. The
government’s problem is its inability
to serve both its monopoly masters
and the people. Its pretence is always
transparent; in its majority heyday,
it didn’t even pretend. Prime Minister
Trudeau told us we’d have to live with
unemployment because it. suited his
big business friends to sell Canada for
a fast buck rather than build the eco-

nomy.

Mr. Turner, under pressure, defined
full employment as a situation in
which “every able man and woman
legtimately seeking a job can’ find
work.”

The catch is that neither Turner nor
Trudeau promises or cares about full
employment. Pressed for a percentage
figure to represent full employment

the minister said that “the definition
of full employment is not a statistical
target; it is a human target.”

How humane! But that answer will
not do, Mr. Turner.

What is needed is a genuine solution
to unemployment. Such was presented
in Ottawa, Jan. 8, in the Communist
Party statement which appears else-
where in this issue.

We’ve had enough double talk —
what the country needs is jobs.

End ALL bombing

In the first week of 1973 the Cana-
dian peace movement convinced the
federal government to pass a resolu-
tion deploring U.S. bombing of the Viet-
namese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong
and urging no resumption.

That was a victory and proof of the
strength of people united for peace.

Such amity and strength are needed
now, more than ever, to impel the Gov-
ernment to be bolder — not simply to
deplore. . : .

It’s time for every last Canadian who
reviles the bloody U.S. genocide — the
brutal wiping out of populations for
political gain — to answer his or her
conscience.

It’s time to tell the Trudeau govern-

ment: the criminal U.S. war on the

people of Indochina must stop, The gov-
ernment of Canada must now call upon
the United States to stop all bombing
and sign the 9-point peace agreemen
concluded in October. |

Further the Canadian government
on behalf of Canada’s people must
without delay, (1) stop the sale of war
materiel to the U.S. (No more busi-
ness as usual, Mr. Sharp!); (2) r =
nize the'‘Democratice Republic of Vie
nam; (3) warn the Nixon Govern-~
ment that its refusal to reply to the

eontents of Canada’s communications

on this matter is an affront to Canada
and its people.

White collar organizing

The Canadian Labor Congress white ©
collar organizing drive, will zero in on
Toronto, we’re promised — emphasiz-
ing unionization of: insurance offi
mortgage firms, banks and other finan-
cial institutions.

The Association of Commercial and
Technical Employees (ACTE) has been
created by the CLC for the purpose.

The cry, “we’ve: heard it before,”

from the skeptics does nothing to lessen
the need and timeliness for bringing
into the trade union fold — into the
class struggle — this great army of ©
working people.
_ That basic, and much evaded trade
union reponsibility of organizing the
unorganized, makes possible a further
shift in the balance of power to the
working class.

No less than in the industrial organi-
zation of the ’80s must staunch labor
men ‘and women today take up this bat-
tle to breach those high-rise bastions of
finance capital, and win to the ranks —
of struggle for a better life, these
thousands the bosses have tried to iso-
late from us.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1973—PAGE 3