FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...
RAGS AND-MEDALS

The official ceremony of Armis-
tice Day, when crowds cheer the
spic and span troops parading
before the tomb of Unknown

_ Soldier, was followed by a less
brilliant manifestation. in the
afternoon.

Some 20,000 disabled war vete-
rans, representing 400,000. war in-
valids, slowly paraded through
the main thoroughfares of the
capital on their way to Premier
Herriot’s residence.

Covered with decorations for
bravery in the field of battle, clad
in rags and dragging after them
their almost starving families,
the veterans were demanding
from the government pensions to
enable them to -live without ask-
ing charity from passers by on
the corners and on the streets.

A delegation of mutilated men
told Premier Herriot how impos-
sible it was for ex-soldiers, who
have lost both-arms and legs ‘and
have in most cases a family, to
live on five to eight dollars per
week.

The Worker, Nov. 29, 1924 ~

25 years ago...

DR. BETHUNE
DIED FOR CANADA

November 22 was the tenth an-
niversary of the death in China
of the great Canadian Communist
Dr. Norman Bethune, symbol of
Canadian-Chinese friendship.

Peking’s papers carried Mao
Tse-tung’s article written in com-
memoration of the death of the
famous Canadian doctor. They
also carried photos and articles
about the surgeon who diéd from
blood poisoning while serving
with the People’s Liberation Ar-
my on Nov. 22, 1939,

Dr. Bethune was a member of
the Communist Party of Canada,
wrote Mao Tse-tung. He was sent
by the Communist Party of Can-
ada to help the Chinese people in
their war against Japan. He took
the liberation of the Chinese peo-
ple as his own cause. This is the
spirit of internationalism, the
spirit of communism. . Every
Chinese Communist Party mem-
ber must learn from the spirit of
Dr. Bethune. :

Tribune, Nov. 28, 1949

Profiteer of the week:

Turner?

AURICE RUSH

Consolidated Bathurst Ltd., which gets its
take from mining and other enterprises,
offers a lesson in the kind of restraint mono-
poly exerts to combat inflation. In the first
nine months of 1973 it had profits of a mere
$12-million. This year, by Sept. 30, it had
cleaned up $34-million clear profit. The
company says it expects the “improvement”
to continue into the fourth quarter. With
“improvements” like that, who needs John

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1974—Page 4

_ How is it the Canadian Government,
in the name of peace, democracy and.«
freedom, always comes down on the side
of tyranny, aggression, fascism, racism,
oppression and dictatorship? How is it
while pretending to be contemporary it
reeks with last century’s moldy im-
perialism — squirming in the presence
of socialism, hiding from recognizing
the power of peoples to determine their
own future, ever ready to clasp the
bloody hand of all who block human
progress and enlightenment?

While the South Vietnamese risk
their lives daily to expose the brutal
Thieu dictatorship, Canada supports it
m every way — gun-running, as a U.S.
agent, propositioning the World Bank
to divert funds to the dictator — while
refusing recognition to the Provisional
Revolutionary Government acknowl-
edged in the Paris Agreement.

_ Canada abstained in the UN vote to
invite the Palestinian Liberation Orga-
ization, preferring to let Israel settle
Palestine. Only later did External Af-
fairs Minister McEachen acknowledge
the need for an equitable solution for
the Palestinian people. In the vote to
bar racist South Africa in the current
session, Canada voted in favor of the
ae one ich a few weeks
earher had us ogs to tear apart
Black dissenters. e

While Canadian churchman Rev. G.

orrison is arousing world public

The ugly Canadians

opinion against the criminal dicta
ship in South Korea, Canada’s gove: aa
ment comforts it, but stubbornly shu ai
the Democratic People’s Republic 4 9
north. Ottawa appears determine@ |
be last in the world to recognize te
year-old German Democratic Re of
This month Papadopoulos and 4 at
his junta henchmen in Greece a
charged with treason (the tor i
are confirmed). But in the horror- ‘iat |
heyday of the fascists the Cana ts.
Government refused to break off 48
affair with them, defending them
NATO brothers. In similar fashion ke
tawa sabotaged aid to the democrau
ally elected Allende Governmen’ iy
Chile, but rushed help and recogn! ‘
to the murderer of thousands, Pin
after he gunned down the elected pr
dent. «oh Cali
Are these the policies by which 64 a
dians want to be known? No! A 8F a
and growing number resent the i t
cation of vro-fascist, racist sen C
and opposition to the liberation st!¥2
gles of the oppressed.

Angry protests already voiced, be i
trade unions, the Canadian Peace ne |
gress, democratic associations of 1 te U
grants, and consistently by the Comm :

nist Party, should swell to a tidal W4 ‘is
to put an end to misrepresentatign
the democratic convictions of the 04 fi:
dian people, by the ugly Canadian ©

ing class. a

A policy for whom?

Last week. Leonard Woodcock an-
nounced a policy to combat the crisis in
US. auto. Perhaps it was by some trick
of fate that Toronto was the setting for
the meeting of the International Gen-
eral Motors Council of the United Auto-
mobile Workers Union, where Mr.
Woodeock,
made his pronouncement.

Mr. Woodeock’s program was class-
collaborationism at its worst. Union
advertising to sell big three cars; union:
approval of. big three price gouging;
overhaul of the U.S. economy so that
people can continue to be gouged by

big auto. These were the elements of
his program. : :

No demands on General Motors,
Chrysler, or Ford! No proposals that
these profit hungry corporations should
cough up from their swollen profits to
make cars cheaper and more readily
accessible to working ‘people! No pro-
posals that the government should act
to place controls on the industry and
make it operate in the public interest!

Rather what we got from Mr. Wood-
cock was endorsation of the old re-
train: “What’s good for. General Motors
1S good for the country.” .

The Canadian industry already faced
by a deficit balance of $1-billion in auto
trade last year, faces massive shut-
downs asa result of ¢

The 60,000-worker gs ] i -
by ie mall parts indus

the U.S., is

feeling the effects of U.S. cut-backs and

y. ¢ are predict-
ing that similar cut-backs as them
within a week or two,

There is too much at stake for all

Canadians for us to sit idly by ant ,
watch an industry employing dia
more than 100,000 go down the drav# 0
~ Mr. Woodcock’s program offers ot, :
solution for the Canadian auto WO |
nor for the Canadian economy to W:
auto is quite central. C no
Action to protect the jobs of U4) |
dian auto workers, and to ensure a
stability of the Canadian economy jd .
squarely on the doorstep of the f ;
and provincial governments. for
Auto workers are not resvonsible
the economic crisis hitting the USA of
Canada: the corporations and the
ernments are. Auto workers canne
made to pay for the crisis. the |
No johs must be sacrificed 02 ~
altar of Big Three profits!
Ottawa and Queen’s Park
now!

For Middle East peace

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The achievement of peace in the we
dle East demands a political settlem™ ¢
based on the rights of all peoples 0 sted
area—it demands observance of Un ays |
Nations resolutions spelling out W°7 ]
to peace. It demands re-conveniny, A
the Geneva conference on the f tbe
East; it demands the readiness 9 Es
parties to seek peace — not fu
aggressive war. i
ae recently as October, the Comm
ist Party of Canada, welcoming nine
Nations’ recognition of the .Palest..,
liberation Organization “as the he
thentic voice of the Palestinian Al y
and “their right to self-determinat it |
asserted “the right of all states to “int |
existence in the Middle East, inclu ood |
the state of Israel. as a sovereign cook
independent state.” Any refusal to 74
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roots in that area, continues the th! —
to the peace of the world.