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FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...
CANADIAN STEEL
TRUST SLAVE LABOR

OTTAWA — “Worse than any
form of patronage” was the des-
cription J. S. Woodsworth, Labor
leader in the House of Commons,
applied to the importation of
Chinese jabor for the vessels
operated by. the British Empire
Steel Corporation. The charge
was fully borne out by the Minis-
ter of Immigration, J. A. Robb.-

Robb stated that 76 Chinese are
now working on the ships under
‘bond under authority of the Domi-
nion government. These men have
mot been admitted as immigrants
to Canada, but are held as prison-
. ers on the Besco vessels. The
Chinese are working as cooks and
stokers for the most part, but on
one vessel their employment is
not limited in this way. They have
been brought over from England,
having come via the Suez.

25 years ago...
MOST WOMEN KNOW
THE POLITICAL SCORE

In the coal-mining areas of
Alberta, where miners are taking
lay-offs, sometimes of several days
a week, the women too, are con-
scious of the fate that awaits
them if the present policies of the
government go unchecked. Added
to this, many of
women have come from European
stock, and besides unemployment,
the tragedy of war is not un-
known: to them. Not only did they
flock to meetings, but in the town.
of East Coulee, 60 women stayed
after the meeting to form a Wo-
men’s Comriittee for Peace Ac-
tion. One of them, who readily
accepted a position of responsibil-
ity on the committee, had proved
herself a great fighter during the
days of the last depression, so
others told me, and there was no
doubt of her ability to give leader-
ship to the women during the
coming struggle to elect Art Rob-
erts, the miners’ candidate. So it
is Art’s home town where women
will prove a political force.

Tribune,.May 23, 1949

Profiteer of the week:

The Asians are taking the place
of Canadian seamen, as, in Robb’s
words, “Besco has difficulty in
getting crews to stay.”

The Worker, May 24, 1924

The. question is not whether Nelson Eddy
‘was doing a PR job for Bell Canada, by
singing, when I’m calling you. The ques-.
tion is how much longer the people will
‘allow Bell to call the shots on soaring pro-
fits — hence soaring prices for phorie users.

Bell profit from Jan. 1 to Mar. 31 this year
was $52,118,000, that is up $7,504,000 from
the same period ‘last yéar. No, it’s not a
wrong number, it’s the amount we paid .
which is surplus to’ providing the phone ser-
vice. :

SSSR

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‘PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1974—PAGE 4

these grand -

.The ‘Communist Party of Canada,
primed by a 22nd Convention which
breathed confidence, has adopted poli-
cies capable of seizing the imagination
of the working-class and democratic
movements, and arming them with
political initiative whose influence will
be felt both in the July 8 federal elec-
tion — and beyond.

Canadian and world events indicate-

new conditions open for Communists

and those with whom they can unite on |

programs for Canadian independence,
for guarantees for labor, for protec-
tion of living standards. And behind it
all, new national policies are needed to
free Canada from the small-minded-
ness of the old-line political parties and
institute great economic and social ad-
vances needed to move Canada into the
mid-seventies. -

French voters show
future is for Left

In France, “the political future of the
right lies behind it; the political future
of the left lies before it.” These words
of Communist leader Georges Marchais
sum up the reality that, in France, as
in other parts of the world, deep-going

political change is being wrought by

the common people in united effort, by
Communists and by alliances in whic
Communists are a leading force.

Socialist Party leader Francois Mit-
terand, candidate of the Common Pro-
gram: of Socialists and Communists,
has won upwards of 14,500,000 votes—

49.3% — for President of France.

The fact of life today is that large
sections of the world’s people are mov-
ing in the general direction mapped hy
Communist programs, united with so-
cialist and democratic people, all of
whom are discovering the power of
unity. This discovery can serve Cana-
dians as well.: ,

_ In the Portuguese government: set up
in the wake of the-military overthrow
of the infamous fascist regime, the
Minister of Labor is a Communist, and
the leader of the Communist Party of
Portugal — Alvaro Cunhal — is a Min-
ister Without Portfolio, while the So-
cialist Party leader is Foreign Minister,

The parties of these representatives
of overwhelming masses of people had
to be recognized by the military as a
necessary part of any government
which would be stable, and move the

country forward.

In Italy a powerful Communist-led
coalition defeated rightist efforts to
gain power under the umbrella of the
divorce debate. Sas

_The French election, far from set-
ting back the Communist and Socialist
Parties, places them as the key force
with which French politics and the
French government must reckon fully
from now on. ;

The ideas of Marxism-Leninism, on
which Communists base their policies,
are proving to be the solution to man-
kind’s severest problems; and events
like the French election testify to the

~ recognition of that truth. -

to Communist election camp

plied at once-to the election, © H)

“responsible basis for their ®

the common needs and den
working people in the capitalist
oping and fascist-dominated cou
It is policies such. as those
delegates to this convention, t
how to lift this country out of
Pentagon’s stable and declare 4
policy favoring peaceful co
supporting detente and revers
present government policy of
for fascist regimes while refu
cognition to many governmen
people.

Unique among Canadian FF
partion the CPC holds a threé
discussion on the policy resolu :
troduced at its convention;
view are fully argued, and dem
conclusion reached. When, pro
are voted for, they carry
weight of the convention, af
this crucible comes Communis
and in this instance the poli¢

The 50 to 60 Communist 2
candidates — 45 of them nam mai
convention — go into what prot
be a hard-fought campaign W

statements and proposals. .

The Communist Party focus tit
the challenge of putting forth §
to the far-reaching economic
problems inflicted on the Worm
ple by an obsolete system. It a
to call a halt the inflation tin
eroding living standards, crea m0
erty. It is possible, by putting
lies in the production. tran c0
and financial fields, under puble
ship and democratic contro 068.
profiteering and roll back p# trols)
possible through proper ¢0? eo
foreign investment to ensl yout)
Canadian resources, and the f |
of the Canadian working-class ng,
ized for the benefit of Cana a i!

It is possible, by withdra¥ "yan
country from war pacts like d
and NORAD, and from the Ae
production sharing agreeme em
USA, by which Canadian 2™™ hyo
are the means of suppression doe
to save our people billions 0 tyr |
with which to build Canadas eo

en ee sats

It is possible, as Commun”
long insisted, and the CLC a e wl
proved, for the Canadian 1 i
movement to take strides t0 stg itt
master while strengthenINg
national ties. nicl

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brace all of Canada, whic? gp

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munist, the CPC asserts
integral part of its policy, ¢ the
unite with other segments 0)
ing class and its allies and oie.
progressive bloc to parla” "4
prevent a shift to the right