=n CTT ——— | Communist On a warm and muggy eve- ning we gathered to meet a visi-_ tor from Glasgow, Scotland. ur hostess, interrupting a dozen. or more discussions, said: “Usually at gatherings like this a prominent party leader is Presented. Tonight, instead, we have a rank-and-file party mem- ber from Glasgow who is visit- a, I’m sure: you’ll be interest- «,/ Modest working woman, “Mrs. Mac” spoke with a most Pronounced Scottish brogue. “Well, there’s really not much Or me to say,” began our guest Modestly. “I’m just an ordinary Party member. My job is dues. lm in charge of keeping the dues up on about 350 members. It’s a big job, but I am an or- penizer so I get others to help e, “IT guess elections are usually Our busiest time. My husband Tuns, you know. We had an aw- ful time last year. He ran in the Municipal, and there was a gen- eral election,. too. You know Ow it goes. The members get together, there’s leaflets to fold and put in envelopes,” she said With her hands going through the motions, “money to collect, and lots of canvassing to do.” «, Besides that,” she went on. cook meals for the school Children. They get one hot meal - a day, free, right at the school. he school is kept open during the holidays. For lots of chil- dren it’s the best meal of the day, They tried to take it away from them, the c~™cil did. But We fought it, anv ve’ve still got It. At least we can be sure that the children get one decent Meal. We won that. NrcPetenet wig, Pacific Tribune modesty... “Then they tried to take away the summer vacation meals — which would be a great hardship for most of the children because most of the mothers work. We were able to organize the ‘meals workers’ to fight for this too, along with the parents, because it means their jobs for the summer. “What are my impressions of Canada? Well, my first impres- sion is that you are a lot better off than our workers. I’ve been out shopping with my daugh- ter-in-law, and we. carried home some great sacks of groceries. In Glasgow we buy in smaller quantities.” With great pride she spoke of their achievements in Glasgow, especially the winning of a trade union centre, a sort of club for workers from all the unions. This quiet-spoken, dignified, and beautiful working woman won us all with her simple pre- sentation of the things she does for the cause of mankind—all of it the voluntarily assumed, selfless work of a Communist Party member. There are members of the ‘Communist Party in Canada like that, too. They put out leaflets, put on socials, collect money, and do many other things. Right now they’re ga- thering signatures on the OUT- NOW campaign. And there they were on Sun- day evening at the Labor Festi- val in Toronto, after a full day’s hard work to raise ‘the money needed by the party, dancing on the grass, singing and laugh- ‘ing! (W.B.) t edition, Canadian Tribune Editor—MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bidg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one yeor. . All other countrles, $7.00 one year Second class mail registration number 1560. Carpetbagger Greene Energy Minister Joe Greene is quite a performer. On a CBC program he stated that Canada has been under no pressure from the U.S.A. to sell its power resources to U.S. monopoly (!) ; that the U.S.A. has all the energy it can ever need or require(!); that the whole question of Canada’s energy re- sources boils down to price. Canada’s energy is cheaper. Can we, he says, convert this into currency and foreign exchange? NDP leader T. C. Douglas has cor- rectly labelled it a sell out. Tory leader Stanfield, on the other hand, goes right along. Thus the stage is being set for the ultimate betrayal of Canada by its own bourgeoisie. Decades of behind-the- scenes wheeling and dealing have been going on. These are the policies which have given rise to the million unem- ployed, and the serious crises in hous- ing, health, and recreational facilities — policies which have reduced five mil- lion Canadian working people to pov- 1ty, and which are forcing ever more farmers off the land. Time is running out. The Communist Party of Canada is the only party which has called for unity of all work- . ing people to fight for an alternative program—one which would export our surpluses to United States and every- where else in the world, with adequate safeguards to protect the national in- terest. At the centre of those safe- guards would be retaining of national ownership of all resources, and the in- sistence on the priority of Canada’s needs at all times. Thus, any agree- ments to export surpluses would have to contain such safeguards. Canada’s water should never at any time be ex- portable. : On this basis, plans to develop Can- ada could provide the’ challenge of a creative future to Canada’s youth, and could provide jobs, homes and a rising _ standard of living for Canada’s work- ing people. Now is the time for action by the union locals, and for letters and delega- tions to MPs. To hell with the world Despite widespread opposition within the United States and around the world, the U.S. government has pro- ceeded with dumping a large number of nerve gas containers in the Atlantic. While the Canadian Government has been. prepared to raise a great row about Soviet vessels legally fishing in the Pacific, it turns its blind-eye to the. Pentagon’s nerve gas disposal in inter- national waters. Instead of protesting, our government leaders give us lec- tures about leaving too many empty beer cans around. te In the opinion of many scientists the ocean may be seriously contaminated as a result of the Pentagon’s typical take-a-chance venture. The containers were leaking badly, threatening to explode, although this is no justification for polluting the ocean too. For what was‘such a gigantic mass of nerve gas needed? How much more is there, and where will the Pen- __. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1970—PAGE 3. tagon dump it? And what else do they have? When they were built, did not the manufacturers — who made a lot of money ‘out of it — know of the weak- nesses of the bombs, and the dangers? Each day brings fresh evidence of the reckless disregard for human life and welfare by the military-industrial com- plex. All of this widens the credibility gap and furthers the feeling of many honest people that the monopolies must be curbed. e e e ‘ & The imperialist mind “AsI recollect, he was just throwin out a great barrage of questions,” sai a U.S. Senator, commenting on a claim ‘that, while he was president, John F. Kennedy had considered the assassina- tion of Cuba’s Fidel Castro. We are told that Kennedy considered it to be possible, and cold-bloodedly discussed its likely political effects with his col- leagues. One is left to gather the idea that the assassination proposal was dropped because it might have had ne- gative consequences for United States - capitalism. The public revelation should dispel from people’s minds any illusions they may retain about the high-mindedness of the leaders of imperialist countries. The imperialists-have utter contempt for the democratic process unless it benefits them. If they can they remove ‘from office in Central and Latin Ameri- ca all those governments that do not support the aims of U.S. imperialism. The police forces and army cadre of Latin American countries are trained in the United States. They teach them methods of torture. And history amply reveals that presi- dents of the United States, even those around whose names false and exag- gerated legends have been built, are ready to unleash the assassins. And when John F. Kennedy’s plans ran counter to those of the CIA, he himself was felled by an assassin. What irony! People before profits One of the sources of potential devel- opment capital was revealed in the de- bates over automopile insurance in the Manitoba Legislature. It was stated that under Manitoba’s government insurance scheme better coverage at reduced premiums was in- cidental to the fact that millions of dollars of insurance profits would re- main in the province. A billion dollars in such profits goes down to the United States early The efforts to set up a western Canadian bank a few years ago were aimed at retaining investment capital in west- ern Canada. . It is an argument for public owner- ship, although no one should be under any illusions. It must go together with a fight to prevent governments, includ- ing Manitoba’s NDP Government, from using those profits to finance big mo- nopoly, The fight is to compel all levels of government to use the profits from business to develop our natural re- sources, to provide jobs and homes for Canadian workers, for tax relief, and to provide the services the people need.