4 rte = Re i ' j WW 4 ” 4 A f ‘ v\ t a 3 ~ ie al ae OBSTACLE COURSE he wh wm mm Bh. 25 years ago... TORONTO — HAVEN FOR U.S. CAPITAL The City of Toronto is being taken over lock, stock and bar- rel by the American dollar. According to a US. real es- tate firm with $50-million to spend in Canada: “Toronto is the threshold for U.S. capital entry.” The statement was made Feb. 16 by Elliot N. Yarman of the firm of Tankoos and Yarman Ltd., which opened an office in Toronto last week. More than half the company’s . $50-million will _ be spent in Toronto in 1955, said Yarman, but his interests are Canada- wide. “Someone has __ sold Canada by an enormous public relations job in the United States. Canada has become a new frontier for U.S. capital and technicians,” he said. The Toronto _ Industrial Commission reports that of 53 new firms established in To- ronto in 1954, 33 are U.S., 8 are British, four are “other” and only 8 Canadian. The Tribune, February 28,-1955 FLASHBACKS FROM > THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... TWELVE YEARS OF THE RED ARMY On February 24, 1918, the first Red Army in the world was created. Surrounded on all sides .. . the Soviet Government and the Party issued the slogan “for the formation of a Red Army”. From the small red Guard detachments composed directly in every shop, from the partisan groups spread all over the coun- try, there was created the army of the © victorious Revolution. Since 1918; the Soviet Repub- lics have passed through bitter’ struggles against inside and out- side enemies of the working class. It is due to the class essence of this as yet only army of its kind, that the ragged and often pitch fork-armed detachments could secure bril- liant victories over the foreign interventionists whose well- equipped armies could not withstand the smashing attack The Worker, March 1, 1930 Profiteer of the week: Canadians. With fuel and heating prices soaring, and affecting manufactured products, Dome Pet- roleum, reported to shareholders an after-tax profit for 1979 of $181,711,000 to add to 1978's $125,132,000. With oil monopolies national- ized the profits from resources belonging to all Canadians could be used to benefit all Figures used are from the company’s financial statements. Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN Associate Editor — FRED WILSON 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 $10 one yr.; $6.00 for six months; All other countries, $12 one year. Second class mail registration number 1560 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 7, 1980—Page 4 October - ‘suito . countries, Canada and EDITORIAIL COMUMIEINT Who gains from war mood? There can be no question that in our day peace is the key issue — the fulcrum of our future. There should be ques- tions, however, about following the - policies of the USA, as did the Clark Tory government until its downfall. There should be questions about Cana- da’s present involvement in cold war campaigns, succumbing to the right- wing military lobby now active in this country, and dragging this country into the ever-increasing military build-up of NATO. Canada’s Lt. Gen. G.A. Mackenzie, commander Air Command, did his best at the Conference of Defence Associations, Jan. 17-18, to stir up hysteria over an assumed threat to Canada from the USSR, and as an antidote a huge arms spending program. The general also revealed some facts which ought to prompt Canadians to demand to know just what elsé Canada’s war jingoists are up to. Mackenzie lamented that NATO’s European mem- bers lack free airspace for practicing low level sorties, evidently needed for bomb- ing and strafing military and civilian tar- gets. “We really have something valuable to offer to our European allies,” crowed Mackenzie. “As you may know,” he went on, “the Royal Air Force have used Goose Bay for severai years as a base for low level train- ing operations for their Vulcan bomb- ers.” Well, quite a few Canadians per- haps didn’t know that. And how much else do they not know about Canada’s integration into the U.S.-NATO military expansion drive? Open the way for détente — _ Policies which offer alternatives to the U.S. cold war hysteria have to be taken up by Canadians prepared to struggle for an independent Canada in a world free of nuclear war. People around the globe refuse to condone the U.S. militar- Ist response to all the problems of hain anada needs to throw off the war policies imposed by the USA on its allies, and instead take its cue from the Helsinki Final Act, which Canada signed in 1975. - That pieces by 35 countries was in pur- pig cuanmuament an increas- ing interchange among all European “ : the USA. - In Madrid, later this year, those pow- ers will meet again, with the opportunity before them of getting détente back on the rails. Canada’s new government, which came to power on a wave of revul- sion for the Tory cold war program, should take a lead in that regard. Meanwhile, what positive steps in the same direction are seen? While the USA hides its own skulduggery against Af- ghanistan and Iran behind an anti-Soviet propaganda war, there are manifesta- tions against the Carter cold war. e A wave of protests hit White House orders sent down to countries in the U.S.” orbit on boycotts of grain, technology, etc., against the USSR. ee e The U.S. campaign for a wide- spread boycott of the Summer Games in ‘thousands of kilometres A According to a report on Feb. 14 “sources” in Bonn, West Germany an- 4 nounced that six of their Phantom Je® 4 will practice low-flying and shooting ® ractice over Labrador this summet: > he “sources” denied that two full S squadrons would be involved. x A month or so after General Macket= 4 zie made his sabre-rattling pitch fous more billions for militarization, some . 10,000 military personnel, 80 aircraft and 40 ships from six NATO coun. including Canada, were carrying oun Exercise Safe Pass ’80 — an operation” meant to whip up a war atmosphere 1” which Atlantic shipping would need pr 4 tection from “the enemy”. Canada’s , Commodore A.C. McMillin was to aS % sume command of all NATO navies ate one time during the Feb, 25-March 1 exercise. Almost simultaneously, 4 March 27, 1,000 Canadian troops wel training intensely with five other NATO” forces including 24,000 from West Ger , many, in Exercise Anorak Express, coms veniently in northern Norway, “dé signed to test rapid deployment of «+: — forces.” 3 Are these the burning needs of Cana- dians? The only beneficiaries are the armaments profiteers and the generals” who imagine they are about to reconquer the world for imperialism. eS It is clear that a great deal of pressure — on the new Trudeau government | f needed to prevent. bankrupting the economy, and to turn war preparations ~ into preparations for peace — the only | genuine security. 4 i yes Moscow is faltering both on govern- mental and sports association levels. e Soviet President Brezhnev’s chal- — lenge, Feb, 22, to USA to stop colluding with China and Pakistan in interference in Afghan affairs, points to the basis for re-establishing a climate for détente. e Soviet Premier Kosygin’s reference, — a day earlier, to intensified U.S. military | activity in the Caribbean, the Indian ; Ocean, the Persian Gulf, and the — Mediterranean and Red Seas, points up — the logic of Canada’s dissociating itself from these threatening. U.S. moves — Pom its shores. 4 i] Instead of a boycott of the Moscow — Olympics, what is called for is a rejection of the U.S. drive for military supremacy — and world domination aimed jointly at — grabbing resources, and stifling socialist and developing countries’ progress. Op- position to Canada’s involvement in that { policy deserves the widest public outcry. ] 4 . Nationalize Bell! Nationalize Bell! Canadian Labor Congress support for _ the 7,400 operators and cafeteria work- ers battling the Bell Canada manerey oints to the labor solidarity, includin nancial aid, needed urgently by Bell workers. Help crack Bell now. For sec- urity in the future: Nationalize Bell.