25 years ago... MEYER GETS FREEDOM Parents of Rfn. R.G. Smith and Trooper Ken Pedlar, both murdered on Meyer’s orders in Normandy, received a medal- lion a day before the news broke that Meyer was free and “romp- ing with his children”, on leave from Werl Prison. Joseph Smith, one father bitterly corrected the inscription on the medallion say- ing his son had not “died in the service of his country” but had been murdered. Douglas How, the CP reporter who broke the story reported Nov. 29 that a new SS paper Wiking Ruff (Viking Call) pub- lished near Hanover, said Meyer wrote his wife last March that he expected an early release. Wide-spread protest blocked the move, the government was forced to fly Meyer out secretly at an expense of some $8,000 to Canadian taxpayers. The Tribune December 10, 1951 50 years ago... FORD AUSTRALIAN WORKERS FIGHT OPEN SHOP MELBOURNE — Following the example of Ford factories in the United States, the manage- ment of the Ford factories in Australia is opposed to having their workers unionized. At the Ford works at Geelong, near Melbourne, the management refused to allow union organiz- ers to mix with the men in the factories during the lunch hour — a thing conceded by every other employer throughout Au- stralia. However, the Ford men are being steadily organized, and whether Henry Ford likes it or not, his Australian slaves will carry union cards and medals. Incidentially, the Ford plant near Melbourne works a 48- hour week, and has refused to put a 44-hour week into opera- tion. ~The Worker December 18, 1926 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—DECEMBER 10, 1976—Page 4 ED IITORILAIL COMMENT Pay-offs at our expense What would be crookedness to the av- erage citizen is just “normal business” to agencies of the Canadian Government. Itis not only “normal” but commonplace to monopoly corporations. The Canada Development Corp. de- nies that $1.9-million in a numbered Swiss bank account was a bribe — a sum known to Prime Minister Trudeau to have been ”rebated” by Polysar Ltd., a chemical producer now part of the Canadian Development Corp. Chairman of the CDC, Anthony Hampson, assured Canadians: “It was not illegal or illicit.” No — it was within the bounds of the legality and morality of state-monopoly capitalism. While, according to a headline of Nov. 25, “Computers sniff out fake jobless claims” and workers are hounded and harassed and cut off unemployment in- surance benefits because no matter how legitimate their claims, the government’s anti-labor bureaucracy is out to make them the victims of its crisis — while th- ese iniquities are pursued, United Development of Tel Aviv was paid, ac- cording to press reports, some $20- million “commission” and expenses for selling a Canadian nuclear reactor to fas- cist South Korea. The scandal swirling around the eral government over the millions kick-backs is whooped up by the To whose monopoly-capitalist ethics precisely the same. But the working people of Canad have good reason for wrath against th entire-monopoly ruling class which p bribes and monopoly-to-monopoly ki backs above food for Canada’s childrer above relief from poverty for Nativ People, above morals, above education above health and above jobs for workers The Royal Commission is a stallin extricating manoeuvre. It won’t do! Th money should be put back by taxin monopoly profits. The demand shou be to turn it to social needs; cut taxeé provide a program of full employmen Such millions available to the econom ,can do much to alleviate the assault living and ethical standards, but they \ not be used for that purpose by th monopolies and their government uf less the working people — through the unions, political parties, all their orga zations — compel it. The wealth Canada rightfully belongs to the wo ing people who produce it. - Anew look If the corporate elite had its way wage controls would be applied for a long, . long time. Donald Tansley, the wage- cutting “anti-inflation” tsar is plumping for his rulings to stay in effect for the life of contracts, even if the Anti-Inflation Board is scrapped. Tansley brags that he has been able to snatch $625,800 from workers and in fines to employers. Now a whole chorus. of monopoly spokesmen want wage controls forever. Make public sector employees the exam- ple they urge. Finance Minister Donald Macdonald, In wage cuts in consultation with 16 business leade is for post-controls wage clamps. So is tht Canadian Chamber of Commerce, ané presidents of corporations. ; It is clear that the trade union move ment’s fight against wage controls need and should get, the backing of Nev Democratic Party provincial gover ments in Manitoba and Saskatchewan: and the Parti Quebecois in Quebec. I needs the country-wide support from the NDP and the Communist Party as thé Communists have been urging, tocomp the scrapping of the AIB. Mocking UN’s principles The United Nations resolution ap- proved November 24, which calls for Is- raeli withdtawal from occupied _ter- ritories, and provides for a Palestinian state, is being made out to be contentious by a minority group led by the imperial- . Ist powers. The vote on the resolution was 90 in favor, 16 opposed (including Canada, USA, Israel, and some West European countries), with 30 abstentions. The usual shrill screams of the Israeli imperialists echoed about the UN as Is- raeli spokesman Chaim Herzog called it “sinister” and said Israel, as usual, had “no intention” of responding to world opinion. Israel showed every intention of con- tinuing its outlawry, occupying Arab ter- ritories by military force, shuttling Is- raeli settlers into the stolen territories, and continuing its discrimination against Israeli and other Arabs. It showed its resistance to acknowledging the rights of the Palestinians. The Trudeau Gvoernment supports _agreed upon by the parties concern this behavior, if Canadian delegaté Robert Stanbury is the indicator. He offers the spurious excuse tha! only negotiations “in a form and foru u can produce a settlement that is just an? — lasting.” ae But what is just and lasting about Is raeli military occupation of stolen ter: ritories, settling them with “new citizen drawn by propaganda, from vario parts of the world? What can be just an' lasting in the Israeli theft of oil and oth assets of the stolen territories? The o thing lasting is Israel’s indifference UN decisions. Certainly the parties should seek a jus! political settlement, but on the basis o} Israel giving up its ill-gotten plunder, o} at long last, recognizing the legitima rights of the Palestinian people which has sought to dismiss.as non-existent. 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