HOW RDOES BORA BORA WANT A JoB ? SOUND TO You 7 oS aN 25 years ago... TWUA SPLIT Jack Robinson, Hamilton di- rector of the CCL-CIO textile union, on May 11 announced that 300 executive members and stewards of 26 locals of the union had voted to split from the TWUA, he declared: “Every de- legate from the Hamilton area who attended the Cleveland TWUA convention has stated he is fed up with the corruption .. . and the dictatorship of presi- dent Emil Riever.” The 2,500 delegates at the convention spent the majority of the con- ventions time discussing fac- tional wrangling and the purge by the Rieve machine of its ri- vals. The textile workers, are bound to learn in practice that a power struggle divorced from a program of workers’ needs can only be of good to the employers. The Tribune May 19, 1952 PHOTO —TASS among FLASHBACKS FROM — THE COMMUNIST PRESS New laureates of the Lenin Prize “For strengthening Peace Peoples” — above (L-R) Janos Kadar, First Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Worker's Party; Agostinho Neto, Chair- j man of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA); Moises Machel, Chairman of the Mozambique Liberation Front; Hortencia Allende, outstanding political figure of Chile; Below (L-R) Sean McBride, outstanding state, public and political figure of treland; Pierre Pouyade, well known public figure of France; Yannis Ritsos, famous poet and public figure of Greece. 50 years ago... BRITISH M.P.’s FOR RELEASE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI Fourteen members of the British parliament, in a cableg- ram have aligned themselves with 22 others who had previ- ously demanded the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti. The flood of letters reaching’ the State House was no longer unanimous in sentiment, however for sev- eral received today urged. the governor to make no move On behalf of the radicals. The British cablegram read: “British members of parliament . emphatically protest against re- jection of new trial, and view ‘with horror violation of justice committed in this case, and de- mand withdrawal of death sen- tence and their immediate re- lease. The Worker May 16, 1927 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 20, 1977—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMIMIEINT. The ‘concern’ about jobs One in every 12 men and women in the Canadian workforce is unemployed. The jobless, estimated at between a mil- lion and a million-and-a-half, share.that plight with workers in all the most “ad- vanced” capitalist countries. At the recent London summit of the so-called “magnificent seven” — USA, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy, ‘Canada and Japan —the unemployment crisis became a major concern. Monopoly capitalism had not suddenly taken up the-cudgels on behalf of work- ers. Prime Minister Trudeau spoke the real concern at a press conference, say- ing that the unemployment crisis “gives concern for the very survival and flourishing of our industrial democ- racies.”° One might ask what is so democratic about a system that forces a million Canadians into joblessness? One might also caution those spokesmen about ' speaking of it as a world-wide problem. It is only as-wide as the capitalist world. There is no unemployment in socialist countries. In Canada, the response of both Lib- erals and Tories is to urge a freer hand for the corporations. Such a free hand should be resisted with all energy to pre- vent further hardship for the jobless and their dependents. The system that wants a free hand to end the unemployment crisis, gave us in April a record 8.3% unemployed. The fact is becoming clearer that monopoly capitalism: cannot solve the crises of unemployment, or inflation, or the development, of an independent Canadian economy free of U.S. domina- ~ tion. . We have seen some of their proposals for “getting rid of’ the unemployed. The Economic Council of Canada proposes that the first 4.5% of the unemployed not be considered unemployed. Up to 4.5% should be called “full employment.” 'To-: ronto’s fattest capitalist paper speaks agreement. But Ontario’s Tories want “fullemployment” set at 5.3% jobless! So- much for monopoly capitalism’s — solutions. Genuine policies for full employment will only be won by working-class strug- gle, drawing into it all anti-monopoly forces, and battling for a thorough redis- tribution of the country’s wealth. The jobs programs put forward by the - Communist Party of Canada, the Young Communist League, this paper, and in varying degrees by the Canadian Labor Congress, the trade union movement, ~ and the New Democratic Party, point to real solutions. But putting any large part” of them into effect requires the curtail- ment of monopoly power. The workers’ struggle must become, in deeds, an anti-monopoly struggle, if jobs and democratic rights are to be" wrested from the ruling class. More arms — more excuses Where does all the money go that is hooked out of pay envelopes every week, and which is realized through taxes we pay on everything we touch? One thing can be said with assurance. Too damned much of it goes into the profits of the arms monopolies; and this was skirted around by External Affairs Minister Don Jamieson at a ministerial meeting in London, May 11, of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, that military pact of imperialism. — The billions of dollars paid by Canada into NATO is on record, as are NATO's goals: to threaten the Soviet Union, to try ~ to destabilize countries friendly to the Soviet Union, to back up imperialism’s agressive designs. Also on record is Canada’s annual military waste of $3.4-billion (more re-. cent figures are slow to be released) — plus the squandering on U.S.-built anti- submarine planes, West German-built 10-year-old Leopard tanks. Now it’s a new airborne radar warning system called AWACs, which Jamieson modestly estimates would cost Canada another $180-million a year over many years. Watch for the price to triple. The governments of monopoly capitalism have no honest answers to give. Therefore they go on building their myth of a Soviet threat. The com- munique issued at the two-day NATO meet again harped on its “concern” over what it portrays as the growing “strength” of the Warsaw Pact. _ This completely ignores the offer of — the Warsaw Pact countries to disband the Warsaw Pact simultaneously with the — disbandment of NATO. Trudeau’s re-_ sponse was to reaffirm Canada’s sub- — servience to NATO’s generals. 3 To put the final touches on the anti- Soviet propaganda package, Jamieson looked ahead to next month’s Belgrade meeting of 35 states to build on the agreements of Helsinki, 1975. Dripping - with sentiments of détente and freedom (while boosting the arms budget) he gave notice that the monopoly-run Canadian Government would keep up the prop- — aganda campaign around the fake issue — of “the cause of human rights in Eastern Europe.” It’s time the big business Canadian Government came clean with the people of Canada and talked straight. There are ~ a dozen and more categories of Cana-_ dians who could do with some rights the — fastidious minister wants perfected else- where. There are millions of Canadians ~ who would do much more for Canada with those billions squandered on arms — than the arms barons will ever do. Come to think of it there are a lot of Canadians who could run a government so as tO © meet the needs of the working people. What we are seeing is monopoly capitalism’s answer to the economic, con- stitutional and, social crises and that answer is more of the same. What we need are new, anti-monopoly policies t0 stop arms squandering and put Canada ~ back to work!