o> of 42 Ox OX UNION CARTOONS “Instead of a wage increase we permit our employees to take turns at the plant gate.” FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... BARRETT RESIGNS AS “PRESIDENT” GLACE BAY, N.S. — Silby Bar- rett, provisional president of Dis- trict 26, IMW of A, has handed in his resignation to Wm. Dal- rymple, representative of John L. Lewis in the District. Barrett, as a result of his sub- servience to Lewis, and his as- sistance to Besco in’ keeping down the wages of the miners, was overwhelmingly defeated in the last District elections, but the miners could not get rid of him, for he was kept upon the payroll by Lewis, although his presence in the mining area was exceedingly obnoxious to the workers. His resignation is welcomed by the miners, .as their patience with him and his fellow Lewis appointees was almost exhaust- ed. The overwhelming vote of the miners rejecting the last Bar- rett-Lewis iniquity, the Montreal contract, was the immediate cause of the resignation. The Worker, April 5, 1924 25 years ago... POLICE CLUBS FAIL’ TO HALT RALLY MONTREAL — In the face of a brutal mass of whiplashing, club-swinging mounted and foot police, peace forces in Montreal staged a successful hour-long demonstration against the Atlan- tic War Pact last Tuesday night. When a scheduled meeting called by the Montreal Council for World Peace at Carpenter’s Hall was cancelled on direct orders from local: thought-control police, hundreds of ~ anti:war people jammed the street outside the hall. Twenty -demonstrators were ar- rested after the vicious police at- tacks. A troop of mounted police rode into the people, savagely using whips and clubs on men and women. alike. Plainclothes- men armed with clubs and sticks clubbed the people who ‘were chanting “No More War”. The thousands of Cartier citizens who witnessed the brutal attack recognized the truth of the Com: munist warning against the At- lantic Pact. Tribune, April 4, 1949 Profiteer of the -week: SSE Lest we be accused of favoritism for pin- ning our badge on Maple Leaf Mills and George Weston over the past month, we hurriedly point out that Ogilvie Flour Mills Co. Ltd. also has connections in the busi- ness of making lots of. bread and fattening hogs the shareholders. Sorry: fattening hogs period. The shareholders found after nine months ended Jan. 31, they had $6,438,000 to play with. Up from $1,704,090, but allow .a million or two for a change in bookkeep- ing system. Even so, as they say at Ogilvie, its “satisfactory progress.” Ss Editor — MAURICE RUSH ; Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Business & Circulation Manager, FRED WILSON : Subscription Rate: Canada, $6.00 one year; $3.50 for six months North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $7.00 All other countries, $8.00 one year : North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $7.00 one year Second class mail registration number 1560. [i PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1974—PAGE 4 { . BSS SS rarer Again assurances, again gougitl After a cozy private meeting in Ottawa, the Prime Minister of Canada and the provincial premiers have jointly decreed that the people of Canada are going to Bey more for heat- ing fuel and gasoline. That’s to be our sacrifice for the common good. For the common good the multi-na- tional oil corporations not only refuse to sacrifice anything — they are going to be handed subsidies. by the govern- ment, out of the never-ending stream of dollars from the average taxpayer. It may be recalled that the home of- fices of seven of these oil giants, who Warheads add urgency to disarmament call The recent revelation that nuclear warheads, under command of U.S. generals, are stored in Canada, at Comox on Vancouver Island, gives. horrifying emphasis to the need to re- patriate control of Canada’s armed forces and military decisions to Cana- da—to take Canadian affairs out of the hands of the Pentagon, NATO, NORAD and the United States war department. os Coming as it does on the eve of World Disarmament Week, connivance to tie Canada more closely to the U.S. military calls for renewed: pressures on Ottawa to scrap the useless and costly NORAD agreement, and get out of the NATO war pact, which serves to prop up fascist regimes and put down liberation movements of the people. It is time for Canada to take the road to general and complete disarmament as called for by the United Nations, to state its independent policy, and to become a champion of such disarma- ment. | : This will be one of the urgent prob- lems taken up by delegates to the bien nial conference (in Toronto, April 6-7) of the Canadian Peace Congress. A plan of action will be presented. _ The labor movement, and democra- tic organizations, could make no more timely contribution to world peace, from which Canada would benefit — richly, than by full involvement in making Disarmament Week a turning point in Canadian policy. . Why wait? Do it now Well, we have another promise from the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- tion. It will begin withdrawing com- mercials from AM radio in September, and be done with them next March. TV a a be next. uSU as everyone was ready to cele- brate the demise of bleating, cajoling, noisy, raucous, insensible fraternity of hucksters and their tiresome products, we were told the death of commercials on TV would cost taxpayers $40-mil- lion over four years. he sooner we get rid of that bilge the better. But — since we've been the cording to air time used say in the past 10 years, to pay for worthwhile pro- grams? its helpmates think the people ower" clique which thinks it has a divin evolved over many years by the fé ‘shifts back to the real cule in 8 talist parties. One searches vainly one good reason for their being 12 indus own 99% of Canada’s petroleum a try, ee in See Os a after-# fits in just nine mon : betore sheaeal windfalls were eno These are the operators who are © satisfied with chiselling on then ; ers and robbing the consumers, wl want to get their hands into the P treasury. And the federal Ate “guarding” the interests of | rt of Canada, agrees. Not only 1s excuse for increasing the TiC nieve there is no defence for this division of the spoils. 2 The reasoning seems to be i if lot of bluster is created, to con ie people, the gougers will not dered. e In On March 28 we got word of the crease; seven or eight cents a ih 9 for fuels, they said. On Mae ( Ottawa revised that to 10 ot ane April Fool’s Day, Imperial On mp and Texaco (who last year ntad profits by hundreds of percel™ points) announced that they for 8 scrape by without a-price hike days. a 5 wy But on April 2 we learned pric’, creases will begin in a week — don’t count however, because, F Minister Macdonald explaine "4 have nothing to do with ae rices. To crown it, Finance Mi on urner pontificated that “rising its will lower prices”! aa a Does the Government of Canad country are a pack of idiots: % seen profits jump 100%, 50070, a Where were the lower prices: | tently they thumb their noses oa af working people, taxpayers, coney at on whom they keep heaping gre? nancial burdens while grabbing every possible profit dollar. . at It’s a time for the exploited majony to unite on the issue of inflate het whatever their diverse views on af things — and to persist in cone ing ; to put a stop to this haughty igh .¢ to rob the Canadian people. More gain, less grail ns While the dust still settled on a : x“ port Minister Marchand’s priva™® Plosion, revealing the “railway wdertl ~ ater government, evidence of the isa yi piling up at the lakehead. Convel ps. Wheat is not piling up for the #9 which will shortly be there for loa” : e With the lake shipping season ay ‘ob open, and the seamen back on t Hl a after a successful strike, the sP° 4, ef} mishandling — the federal gover™ and its wayward railways. : ck at The urgently-needed intes! 9 transport system which should bé be damental to a country like Canae 5 evidently beyond the ken of the ol” «Halil — and strokes out one more possibil ; at the transport ministry.