RN ear Ne SE WA, “ea EDETOREAL Strike back at fed budget Federal government contracts with public service workers are nothing more than scraps of paper, whose covenants the government has thrown aside as it gets set to roll back wage gains already agreed upon. That government is inviting the big- gest fight it has ever had on its hands, and the fight should end with the routing of droves of those anti-labor hacks who People the Liberal/Tory political swamp. Labor cannot be expected to take this nonsense lying down. : While Finance Minister MacEachen reads off his dictates for slashing work- €rs’, pensioners’, farmers’ and family liv- Ing standards, and Treasury Board Pres- ident Johnston .reveals they mean to knife pay raises already contracted for, Tory captain Joe Clark applauds the at- tack on public sector wages as a good first step. What would be his next step if, Perish forbid, the electorate allowed their anger at the Liberals to put the ories in power? These Liberal/Tory barnacles have to be removed by the working class; and the Communist Party of Canada, first and foremost, accepts its responsibility for - uniting with all those ready to see the fight through. Besides punishing public service workers (which is the capitalist system’s . foot in the door for clamping pay restric- tions on all workers, as Clark hinted), these big business agents, parading as spokespersons for the people, are punishing the elderly, the young families, the youth. All this is dealt with in detail elsewhere. The question is: What good are these manipulators for the monopolies and transnationals, to the working people of Canada? Their system has no future; and workers should see to it that none of that unscrupulous crew has any future. As the Canadian Labor Congress recognized at its recent convention, the way to fight back is not to allow unions or sectors to be picked off one by one, but to hit back as one fully-united, organized and disciplined force. Canada-USSR — linked 40 years Many thousands of Canadians have had the stimulating experience of visiting the Soviet Union — it cities, its resorts, its scien- fic and cultural centres, and meeting its People in all walks of life. Perhaps unknown to many Canadians, large numbers of Soviet tourists come to Canada, and, until the U.S. commanded boy- Cott of exchanges, highlighted by the foolish lympic Games boycott, ascending artistic and scientific, trade and technological ex- changes were mounting — to our mutual be- nefit. ; | _ Any Canadian can visit the USSR and see life for himself or herself. Many exchange Visits are of teams, artists, musicians, perma- frost experts — an endless train. . In June a significant anniversary was cele- .Srated — the 40th anniversary of diplomatic Telations between Canada and the USSR. hat is a significant anniversary. These two Countries stand on the threshold of enor- Mous mutual advantage, the areas of poten- hal co-operation are multiple. ._ therefore, on this promising anniversary itis to the advantage of Canadians to echo the sentiments of their millions of friends in the Soviet Union and say: Let’s increase our mterchange a thousand-fold. Flashbacks 25 years END ALL NUCLEAR TESTS COLOMBO — The World Peace Council has ap- Pealed to all world governments “in the name of all that is sacred”, to vote for the immediate cessation of nuclear tests. ; t was made at the end of a seven-day WPC session attended by 450 delegates from 74 countries. The Ouncil also cabled UN Secretary-General Dag. Ham- Marskjoeld urging him to bring together Britain, the ‘S. and USSR in an effort to conclude an agreement halt testing. ee dee f all fe he resolution called for the liquidation of 2 preign bases in Europe, demanded a seat for China in the United Nations, urged an end to the war in Algeria Tribune, july 1, 1957 oe repression in Cyprus and an end to foreign inter s €ntion in Taiwan. GF KK X\ \' / < eS VA Bs \ } MACEACHEN PREACHING RESTRAINT : YAS -12' Time Since the bloody invasion-of Lebanon by Israel’s terrorist army, the Zionist govern- ment in occupied Jerusalem has smugly kept the world guess about whether or not it will choose to demolish West Beirut and massacre its residents. Such a “choice” does not belong the Israeli regime. The whole world has already made the choice, at the United Nations and in angry denunciations around the globe: Israel must get its mass murderers out of Lebanon now! It is clear that the Israeli government and army have been manoeuvring with the full intent of committing a mass atrocity in West Beirut as they have in other cities of Lebanon. They have never strayed their racist course of annihilation of the Palestinian people, whose land they have usurped by torture, murder and pillage. How many thousands more have to die and be rendered homeless to satisfy the lust of the Israeli ruling clique and its armed “might? Adding to their crimes, the Israelis have now used cluster bombs, phosphorus bombs and nerve gas — all condemned and banned by civilization. What is Canada’s government _ doing about that, since it takes such a deep interest in such matters at all other times? 50 years MARTIAL LAW IN CHILE SANTIAGO — The United States ambassador to Chile has offered the help of American warships in suppressing the revolutionary struggle of Chilean workers. The fascist military dictatorship, fearing foreign intervention may further arouse anger, has assured U.S. ambassador Culbertson it “has the situation well in hand”. The dictatorship had several days ago asked American copper interests to use their private police force against striking workers at the Braden Copper Company. Joos : 3 The entire country is still under martial law with “troops ordered to shoot down workers who should attempt to gather on the streets. The Worker, July 2, 1932 Stop Israeli terrorism! How long is this fraternal capitalist govern- ment in Ottawa prepared to wait before join- ing with other countries to deal Israel a deci- sive political and economic blow — to stop its acts of genocide? ‘4 Profiteer of the week Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is crying that its aftertax profit for six months ended April 30 was only $112,782,000, down from $147,362,000 in the same period a year earlier. It’s enough to make one lose faith in the system. Either that or workers should tighten their belts more. Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN — Assistant Editor — DAN KEETON Business and Circulation Manager — PAT O'CONNOR Published weekly at Suite 101 — 1416 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9. Phone 251-1186 ‘Subscription Rate: Canada $14 one year; $8 for six months. All other countries: $15 one year. Second class mail registration number 1560 60 years ‘GRIN AND BEAR IT The attack of Capital on Labor is world wide. It has become almost impossible, except by the aid of a catalogue, to follow the endless monotonous succes- sion of wage cuts. Whatever their fine differences of national temperament, the actions of the capitalist class all speak the same universal language of wage cuts. The present coal and railway crisis on this continent has its parallel in Great Britain. Under the “National Agreemient” wages have been reduced to little more than those in 1914. Lower wage grades in more than half the coal fields have been cut to starvation levels. And a certain Mr. Bridgeman, Secretary of Mines, suggests the workers’ only course is to “grin and bear ee Tee The Worker, July 1, 1922 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 9, 1982—Page 3 ca