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CANADIAN TRIBUNE

FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

POST OFFICE HOLDS
UP RADICAL PAPER

oa YORK — Post office cen-

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against e ‘war has been revived
: Martello”, an Italian
nei weekly published
t Y Carlos Tresca. According
» the issue of July 21
Week eld up in the mails for one
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to Washington for cen-

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Tate Action does not surprise
‘ resca, “for many Fas-
Vicious ans in Italy have made
®DDeals acks on Martello, with
dor to be the Italian ambassa-
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clare ambassador, Tresca_ de-
Ae gins been further moved to
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Ssed €very radical paper.

The Worker, Aug. 15, 1923

P exercised against Social-

25 years ago...

ROLL BACK EXORBITANT
MEAT PRICES

I have been canvassing a_To-
ronto-Trinity subdivision as a re-
presentative of the Consumers
Research Council with a petition
to “roll back the price of meat.”

Canvassing now that meat
prices are higher than ever is in-
deed timely and I found the peti-
tion eagerly accepted and signed.

A grandmother ‘said to. me,
“What we are going to do? My
grandson is 12, my son-in-law has
just an ordinary job, and after
food is bought there is no money
for anything else. We older ones
must do without clothes, as of
course, the boy does too.”

We are able to make clear who
is at fault concerning outrageous
prices and to tell them that
monopoly capital — “big shots”
to the average worker — coupled
with the refusal of the govern-
ment to introduce price controls
and subsidies are to blame and

_ must be fought.

Tribune, August 14, 1948

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trot ber 1560.

Demand real cuts in food prices

_ Working people are fed up to the
eyeballs with slick talk from fat cat
governments and the Prices Review
Board about how: we, who try to get
by on a weekly wage, or who try to
subsist on a pension or other “allow-
ance” can tighten our belts.

Prices are skyrocketing because mo-
nopoly manufacturers and processors,
blessed by the government, are milking
us for millions of dollars of profits
every year — year in and year out.

Monopoly’s ears, like its belly, are
big; it hears the growing protest and
has come up with another anaesthetic
— more subsidies.

Does anyone believe that subsidies on
basic foods such as milk, meat and
bread (as the NDP caucus suggested),
or, as Beryl Plumptre recommended,
that subsidies on milk, eggs, and beans
(!) would solve our shopping problems?

The Toronto Star, that defender of
the working class, devoted 10 inches of
editorial space to the magic of a sub-
sidy on bread, so it has to be suspect.

Subsidies? “Lovely,” shout the mono-
polies. In the first six months of 1978,
food tsar Weston grabbed $12 million
profit; in just 18 weeks Canada Pack-
ers raked in almost $4 million; British
Columbia Packers skewered us for $4
million in 24 weeks (double what we
shelled out to them last year); and
Burns, Swifts and others did equally
well.

What about subsidies? Are we
against the farmer making a living?
(The ruthless Massey-Ferguson empire

robbed him of $37 million in the first
nine months of 1973 alone! That was
the profit after taxes.) Are we against
our senior citizens and widows, the poor
and disadvantaged getting a break in
what they have to pay for necessities?
Certainly not.

What we.are against is the federal
government saying to meat packers, to
the canners, to the food processors, the
fish packers and the bakery giants
that their profits are sacred.

Don’t reduce your prices, says the
government; don’t pay your workers a
union wage out of your exorbitant
profits. Those profits are holy. We'll
pay the shot with taxpayers’ blood.

It’s time the Ottawa-monopoly alli-
ance knew that this is no longer good

. enough.

Workers need wage increases — the
railway workers for instance — be-
cause the monopolies snatch everything
they earn. Old age pensioners, welfare
recipients, those on widows’ pensions
and mothers’ allowances, need protec-
tion because the chainstore hoods keep
raising prices.

But the money ‘for a décent living
has to come out of the profits stolen
from the pockets of the workers — not
from the feudal income tax exacted
from working people and pensioners.

Ever-growing subsidies is a cheap
way out for state monopoly capitalism
— but it won’t do.

The government has to check the
profit-robbery that’s going on — has to,
for once in its existence, serve the peo-
ple — not the monopolies.

Who's behind Chile’s
civil war threat?

The people of Chile, united in their
majority with their constitutionally-
elected government, and President Sal-
vador Allende, are vigorously opposing
attempts to foment civil war.

Sabotage of transportation by a pri-
vileged group of truck owners, the
trotting out of dentists and store own-
ers in support (which the capitalist
press here tries to pawn off on us as a
strike, as if they were speaking of the
working class) — all lend themselves

to the inciters to civil war. The students —

are “used” by organizers from the anti-
Allende parties. Generals’ wives (!),
the very essence of the working class...
North American press services are
trying to hoax us into thinking that the
masses of people who elected the Al-
lende government have turned against
it. :
But who is really trying to smash

| the elected government? The world well

remembers the confession of the U.S.
multi-millionaire International Tele-
phone and Telegraph monopoly, that it
connived with the CIA and with Chile-
an murderers and saboteurs to try to
prevent Allende’s election — even by

assassination.

The international copper monopoly,
Kenecott, enraged at losing its grip on
the throats of the Chilean workers,
failed in a try to ruin Chile’s economy
by blocking its world copper trade. But
the lust for squeezing millions of dollars

— and life — out of Chilean miners has
not died.

The world remembers the recent mili-
tary-coup in Uruguay, bearing the im-

print of the U.S. Central Intelligence

Agency.

It is not surprising then that fascist
groups in Chile find the organizational,
financial and material help they seek
for plunging the country into devasta-
tion. Any flunky who could be thrust
into the president’s chair long enough
to have his picture taken would be elig-
ible for U.S. military aid.

ITT offered $1 million to do Allende
in in 1970; how much is it offering to-
day?

The cold-blooded assassination of the
President’s aide-de-camp, Captain Ar-
turo Araya, and of the trade union lead-
er, Oscar Balboa reveals the killer nat-
ure of the “opposition.”

The World Federation of Trade
Unions, stating its solidarity with the
Chilean United Workers’ Centre
(CUT), with the people of Chile and

‘their legitimate government, (Aug. 9

statement), “calls on the workers and
trade unions of all countries to demon-
strate their solidarity, and express their
support for the patriotic struggle of
the ‘working class and people of
Chile . . .” in defence of their elected
government, and the reforms it has
introduced.

Outspoken support for the govern-
ment of Chile throughout the Canadian
labor movement, urgently called for, is
a blow in defence of fellow workers
striving for a better life, and against
their imperialist tormentors.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1973—-PAGE 3