— Vancouver will mark Hiroshima at the Court House Square on 7:30 p.m. The rally is sponsored There will be a photo display and Dr. David Suzuki will speak at Day with a commemoration rally Friday, Aug. 9 from 5 to 9 p.m. by the Peace Action League. CIA spying Cont'd from Page 1 Patrick McGarvey, came to Ot-: tawa regularly for debriefing ICC members on their return to Canada. Another intelligence of- ficer recalled ‘‘seeing several messages regarding what the Canadian members of the ICC had observed in North Vietnam.”’ One message from a Canadian source in January, 1964, ‘‘gave the characteristics and numbers of anti-aircraft batteries and for- tifications in and around Hanoi.”’ The authors of Maclean’s article, who spent months researching it and the TV program, come to this conclusion: “Tt seems to us that Canadian foreign policy and the world situation in 1974 are incompatible with Canada’s maintaining a covert intelligence network, largely at the behest of the U.S. In areas such as Vietnam where ~ Canada’s policy emphasizes peace- keeping and neutrality, her position is severely compromised ‘when she is sending military in- telligence to the U.S. If Canada must have an intelligence network, then surely the only proper way is through parliamentary or executive control.” The article concludes by saying that the power of the intelligence groups continue their steady and FOOD PRICES. Cont'd from page 2 Regardless of what the monopoly owned media may tell us, the farm papers from these communities reveal the true situation, not-the varnished reports edited by the subservient monopoly owned media. If there is a world crisis, then it is not in shortage it is in an over- supply. 90 per cent of all food eaten has its origin on the farm and farm papers throughout the world are sounding a warning to the world that if the present situation per- sists, there really will be a shor- tage, as land speculators and greedy food monopolies are rapidly making it so costly to raise food on the farm, that farms will gradually disappear. What farmer would stay on land that he can sell for more than be could produce on it in 10 years? What farmer would stay on such expensive land when everything he raises on it is raised at a loss? Whelan and his cohorts had better pull up their socks. From what we can-see at the present level we can only come to one of a number of conclusions. He is totally ignorant; he: is completely indifferent; or he is in the pay of the large monopoly interests. Take your pick. in Canada unchecked march towards their inevitable end, the distortion of the democratic process, and that if not stopped, ‘hundreds of years of painful inching toward an im- perfect degree of democracy may secretly and silently be laid to rest.” The disclosures in the Watergate scandal in the U.S., and the at- tempt by President Richard Nixon to use the CIA and FBI in fur- thering his aim of establishing a presidential dictatorship, point up the danger to Canada of continuing the present arrangements under which RCMP and Canadian _in- telligence agencies act as an ex- tension of the CIA and FBI. Canadian democracy and our existence as an independent and sovereign country are in grave danger as a result of the present arrangements which further Canada’s subservience to the U.S. The lessons of Watergate point to the need for an aroused public to demand an end to the present, secret, anti-Canadian and anti- democratic arrangements with the US. SOCIALIST GDR Cont‘d from page 7 Now that the GDR has been: admitted to the United Nations Organization, there is even less reason to excuse the delay of the Canadian government in granting full recognition to the GDR. The GDR ranks tenth among the nations of the world as an in- dustrial power. Recognition by Canada would open the door to mutually advantageous trade and would be a significant step in the direction of peaceful co-existence between the capitalist and socialist . states of the world. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1974—PAGE 8 By EMIL BJORNASON (Reprinted from The Fisherman) The caterwauling on CBC one morning last month was a little different from usual. Depression. No, not “‘recession”’, depression. To be precise, worse depression than the thirties. Before the end of this year. This grim prophecy was not coming from a radical, a crackpot, or a professional doomsayer. The speaker was J. V. Clyne, 72-year- old former chairman of MacMillan - Bloedel. It wasn’t his first startling pro- nouncement of that week. Earlier he had spoken to the Canadian General Accountants Association, bewailing inflation, belaboring Trudeau, and publicly defecting from the Liberals to the Con- servatives. Since Clyne has long been a recognized spokesman for big business, he must be taken seriously, whether one agrees with him or not. Big capital is obviously worried. What has Clyne distressed is that if the present pace of inflation is not stopped, the system is headed for a bust, a depression. If solutions are not found, he says, “we may help to prove the assertion contained in the Com- munist Manifesto, that capitalism produces its own gravediggers,”’ although understandably, he didn’t enlarge on this statement. It’s noteworthy that in his radio interview, and also in the published account of his remarks to the General Accountants, there was’ not a word about the effects of inflation on people’s living stan- dards or on pensions, but much bellyaching about what it is doing to profits. Clyne maintains that the staggering increases in profits (37 per cent last year) are illusory, because they are in depreciated dollars, but by some kind of logic, peculiarly his own, he separates the dollar received by industry from the dollar paid to workers because ‘‘wage demands certainly are not illusory.”’ As a constructive thinker, Clyne doesn’t just cry havoc, he offers solutions. One of his solutions is the wage freeze so assiduously promoted by Stanfield during the federal election campaign. He~ doesn’t appear to think this will cure in- flation, but it will “stem in- flationary psychology for which Canadians are themselves to blame.” He also commends a proposal advanced in Britain that “organized labor accept the fact that it shall have no growth in real wages for two years.” But his main point is that the answer to inflation is to reduce government spending, especially on such “inflationary waste” as unemployment insurance. Clyne is not alone in sounding the alarm about depression. In two recent Vancouver Sun articles, N. Modak, the Cominco economist, has emphasized the acute danger of depression in the near future. Interestingly, Modak’s policy fears are the opposite of Clyne’s. According to Modak, inflation has already set the depression process in motion and the danger at this time does not lie in ex- cessive government spending, or excessive credit. Rather, he argues, the big danger is that governments will make the depression worse by tightening up on money at the very point where the main danger is a deflationary _ crisis. Big business the alarm What a dilemma for the minister of financé The voice of big business is telling him to put the screws on to avoid a devastating depression, while the financial adviser to big business is telling him, put the screws on now and you will make the depression worse. Let’s pose a question for Clyne. Suppose that Canadian labor agreed to accept a wage freeze: And suppose that American labor, having learned during the last two years that the tightest wage freeze didn’t do a thing to slow up in- flation, refused to go along with another. Would MacMillan Bloedel agree ~ to sell its lumber to the U.S. at a frozen price, no matter how high the price might rise across the line? Suppose the answer is yes: The export price of Canadian lumber is frozen so that we receive a fixed price for our exports, but pay continually higher prices for our imports. Obviously, this would cut the supply of goods to Canada and impoverish us. On the other hand, suppose the answer is no — an_ indignant refusal to sell to Americans at less than their own market price. Then Clyne is saying that Canadian workers must accept frozen wages, but pay ever- increasing prices for imported goods, while their employers receive ever-rising prices for their product and pocket the difference in excess profits. An ideal solution for a class-conscious bigot. Are we heading for a depression, or are the spokesmen of big business merely trying to frighten workers into. submission? Clyne was actually understating the seriousness of inflation. He quoted 10.7 per cent as the increase in prices during the preceding 12 months. That is correct, but the fact is that during the latest quarter, the annual rate of in- flation was 15 per cent. A few unions, whose agreements happen to terminate at this time, are in a position to negotiate wage settlements approximating the price increase. But the over- whelming majority are locked into _one, two or three-year agreements on infl ling lation providing for 1974 im anywhere from six to 10 P@ This means that the P power of the average Wor dropping rapidly. And the chasing power of the worker market for the producls dustry. That market, 1 shrinking fast. : This is is the classit?” production crisis, as desct! economists from Marx to ‘ The only difference is tha a never before struck W! t flation rate of 15 per ce ove! bank prime interest rate © r cent. mt the corrective effect depression is in proporties 4 economic strains that prod this one promises 10 ordinary. The signs are there. been major bank failure United States and the Federal Republic (d0 mney “wasteful’’ ployment insurance?) ; ning production has been fall’ U.S., Japan and othe western countries; theré layoffs in the German © Republic; Italy is in th acute crisis. a All we need now is Canadian government 10} damp down consumer © the very moment whet ting to shrink. This is Wh# demanding. It would be much bettet inflation from the 0' back some of ee ; outrageous prices 4 profiteers. Make mortgage > available at six per are Such measures dep guaranteed to prevent tae” but at least they will the real problem. & In the meantime, the federal government d Clyne, N. Modak 4? Stanfield to Moscow *" mission of inquiry © 1.1 why the Soviets can com bread and other esse public transportatio® on apartments at price established in 1934 altnee poo have quadrupled over years. Helen Mathieson, one of the early pioneers in the socialist movement and for more than fifty years a leading woman Communist in B.C.* passed away Tuesday, July 30 at St. fee Hospital at the age of Hundreds of friends throughout B.C. who knew this warm, devoted and courageous woman will mourn her passing. Helen entered the socialist movement in B.C. in 1912 and played an active role in that movement during the stormy years of World War 1. Shortly after the Communist Party was formed in B.C. after the war, she joined and remained a life-long member. She was chairman of the Hastings East Club for many years, and was an active _Member of the Broadway Club despite her advancing years, until illness overtook her. When World War 11 breke out and the Communist Party was outlawed and driven underground, she became one of the Party’s key organizers in Vancouver. . Helen Mathieson mou In the Thirties, prominent in the the unemploy: peace movement. leading member Against War and Fae" ye when the Spanish wa she worked untiring) Mac-Paps and for She is survived P. Her husband, Archie " : 0) cremation and no : requested.