- FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS | - ———s«#BO years ago... NO LABOR MEMBERS ON LABOR COMMITTEE OTTAWA — The carelessness of the old-line parties — and even of the Progressives — in regard to labor affairs has been striking, illustrated in connection with the new committee set up by the House of Commons to deal with “Industrial and International Re- lations.” This committee was created: at the insistence of J. S. Woods- worth, leader of the Labor group. Yet, when the’ whips came to ae oe arrange the list of members of — , this committee, they neglected to i 2 place either him or Wm. Irvine, tae ae the other Labor member, upon eee it. When the matter was brought up in the House by Woodsworth, ea Premier King quickly promjsed te to have it remedied. | pa The omission of Labor. from ee the committee was no doubt an . oversight; but it does throw a ae ae curious light on the indifference Shei pes of our larger parties to a grow- j ee ing political force. : The Worker, April 26, 1924 25 years ago... UNION LEADERS HIT GOV’T GANGSTERISM WINDSOR — A $1,000 check from Windsor auto workers and fighting statements of solidarity from George Burt and Freeman Jenkins, executive - committee members of the Canadian Con- gress of Labor, featured last week’s growing swell of labor protests as the deep sea strike of the Canadian Seamen’s~ Union (TLC) went into its third week. The $1,000: check from Local 200, UAW-CIO to the National Seamen’s Defense Committee was accompanied by a joint statement of solidarity signed by George Burt, UAW-CIO Canadian Direc- tor, Roy England, president Ford Local 200 and Earl Watson, presi- dent Chrysler local 195. If the Halifax shooting of CSU members had occured in Windsot “our 20,000 members would .have come to the assistance of the seamen without hesitation,” the statement said. Tribune, April 25, 1949 Profiteer of the week: fe a rf West C Paci 4 SEES "eratatetete SS ISS fie Tribune Corporation presidents, to hear them talk, do the country a favor by giving jobs to workers, and making life better for all. Cadillac Development Corp. Ltd. of Toronto, buys, sells and builds properties through their commercial, residential and new com- munities groups, out of pure goodwill. Well, you’d just be staggered by how hard hit they are by costs. However . . aged at vear end to pile another $6,535,000 clear profit on top of last year’s $4,082,000. What’s a mere $10-million out of the’ pockets of home buyers and tenants? - they man- + edit Editor — MAURICE RUSH ; Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. ia, Business & Circulation Manager, FRED WILSON | oe 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 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 3 1974—PAGE 4 aie} SPAS Editorial C A May Day to roll back prices! _ eral Spinola’s talks with _ tive of Communist, Socialist, and Chris- || RRS EES 6s es On May Day 1974, the working peo- ple of Canada are in the thick of a - militant struggle for their living stan- dards, battling the profiteers at both ends of the line — where they work and where they buy their needs. The two sides of the anti-inflation struggle must be unbreakably joined. As the strike movement rises in 1n- tensity and solidarity, the consuming public is girding to roll back prices and demand prosecution of the profit- eers. The federal government has been forced by people’s actions to bring in. a bill promising to do these things. The scepticism is understandable. —o n the day Consumer Affairs Minis- ter Herb Gray heralded his “anti- profiteering” bill, Finance Minister John Turner tabled an economic review blurting out the truth: the worst infla- tion is yet to come. And the government attitude as in the past (and despite its bill) is: you’ll just have to get used it. But Canadians in ever-increaslit numbers see through these hoaxes refuse to accept gouging as the no state of affairs. 7 May Day not only recalls the histo® victories of the working class, Ff serves as a focal point of militant 9) darity, from which we go forwaa F economic and political battles 4 if A key objective in those battles Mats be to stop rocketing prices and rt which wages inevitably trail behin® , Govermmert bill or no bill, the uw working-class and de:nveratic fore? Canada must set out from this : Day determined to achieve 04 9 rolling back prices, prosecuting the o fiteers, and beginning to take thei future out of the hands of the corP tions, —_— | Insult to common sense David Lewis, leader of the New De- mocratic Party, has come up with a formula for wage increases for low- paid workers which is destined to leave economics experts agape. He has been quoted as saying that workers earning $8 an hour should “rest this year and let the other guy. earning $2 an hour catch up.” This incredible solution to low wages presumes that if better-paid workers would just allow themselves to slip be- hind in purchasing power, the corpora- tion bosses would not pile the savings onto their mountainous profits, but would rush to better the lot of those at the subsistence level — or beneath it. It is no service to the working class to suggest that workers who, united in battle, win worthwhile contracts from employers are responsible for the rot- ten conditions of the lowest-paid work- ers. Mr. Lewis should be directing his fire against the exploiters who extract pro- fits from all workers, instead of against organized labor, whose victories on the economic front serve the interests of all workers. One fascism ousted The new circumstances in Portugal with the successful military coup against a 48-year-old fascist dictator- ship means that — regardless of what twists the military rulers.may take be- fore the elections promised a a year hence — Portugal will never be the same. The “invincible” iron grip of fas- cism has been broken. Africa will never be the same be- cause while the regime under General Antonio Spinola may wish to hold An- gola; Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in a Lisbon-centered federation, the liberation forces are not only gaining ground, not only winnig support in far corners of the world, but have seen that the bloody dictatorship which sent destruction against them could be broken; and any other like it can ke broken. The arrests in Portugal of the hated secret police, the lifting of press cen- sorship, the promise of free elections the freeing of political prisoners, Gen- a representa- countries — troops maintain@™ 9 tian Anti-fascist Parties — all these a indicators of the scope of the vttet won by the Portuguese people hard years of resistance. wes May the Spanish fascists trek ull may the racists in Rhodesia and able | Africa quake; may the desP! may | NATO gun merchants convulse; vot the people of Portugal utilize this P” | ised democracy to scrub the st@ fascism from their institutions, . 4 continue the battle to liberate man be; Their battle entails the withd i of all Portuguese troops from A mn NATO. And that sets more of @ migil | lenge for Canadians than some Ho first think, because we are still @ ig ing our tax dollars to be used to er such NATO operations as the m@ Ca of black Africans. It is time W dians yanked our government 0 nd the arms race: and out of NA bi hastened developments such aS ©” — Portugal. Two more deal death a ipa A. fascist military court In Chi co sentenced five civilians to deat) tga | ed of resisting the dictatorshIP “oy | Where are the LaMarshes an tons and the rest? It seems the no word of censure for these b aw of Hitler who torture and kill aS“ | of life. , f de | How is it that those “defenders i it 7 mocracy” who talk so loudly ning f| serves anti-Sovietism, say not carl: countries where concentration tare are the way of life as on 4", Dawson Island — Chile’s Belseh | po} is it that the super democrats qero”® word of criticism for the mut once junta of Greece and its island ¢ tration camps? “ ef! Don’t trouble us with such 4 erats”. It is the working peor ug understand and share the grim § of their brothers and sisters io y over. And it is urgent that ee into the campaigns to save the, and health of those workers SUrc to fascist “justice” in countt Chile and Greece.