i fe 4 ‘ sd 7 3f i BE +etlete +4 - stent sae 2 Lice 2 sk 5 “= aes 2. a Fiagtes* aes ? beret Fee: 38 osbae <> eee tt + = setrse 2 Ss: - bt Fy Peat eg Moe =388e S: Ps a8 nc88 ERR 3% -> VWozeds. ttit +1 > J Es Bo=zbe 27 ue as on ‘ SSESER . a Pas ye B ie 9: = ad HG Canada’s unemployment and rate of inflation rose 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... : . ne HOPES OF MILLIONS PLACED IN: WALLACE Henry Wallace is the outstand- ing figure in the U.S. continuing the fight for Roosevelt policies. Jobless, inflation news was bad but stocks kept rising anyway and 593,316 . abesersaess Hacat SEEESEESSCS Sit Stet S: EES REE E-5z* eBbT gate tetens Bees: rr secs x ese: S Tees 3 Se eaanbe fbcettsceied “#2 Bare Bitty saskzss. 8. cy ecdusee i ety epssezase eget +t se gieelsytt 2 ene. , 3: Sri se BGs<-8o 1 SetEaeth: R PSY aa Fee pepetSe So ctevepoub SE, efeSe go SEESE eesaeeseas esES = SF; -; = As such he represents the aspira- 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 eretetetetetate! cote eee, Pacific Tribune eats! 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. All other countries, $7.00 one year SOS E ST St \ 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