- 25 years ago...

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“It was a new era in which the
underworld no longer bought
protection but furnished its own
candidates to provide it.” (at
_ U.S. Senate Criminal Hearings)

“Another paradox is that we
always seem to get on our feet by

manufacturing arms.” (Hamil- .

_ ton Spectator)

“Truman does not seem to be
able to deny anything to the
military. The Pentagon is run-
ning the U.S. today and we are
moving towards a garrison
state.” (Rev: James Crain in the
Globe and Mail)

“Canada Prepared to Bear
Burden, U.S. Assured” (Globe
and Mail headline reporting on
speech by defence minister C.D.
Howe)

Tribune,
April 9, 1951

_ FLASHBACKS FROM —
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

ASASSARSOAS SR ASS

50 years ago...

GOLF LINKS AND DEATH
In 1924 the average wage of
Montreal’s employed was
$1,051. The same year each
worker produced a value of
$5,061. The banks cleared
$5,355,000,000 that year. The
city has 20 golf clubs, several
race tracks and many clubs de-
voted to hunting, yachting and
polo. 5
Last week a freezing mother
was found in bed beside her
dead child. In the helpless
woman’s efforts to keep the
baby warm, she inadvertently
smothered it. This brings to
mind a poem by Sarah
Cleghorn: *
The golf-links lie so near the
mill,
That almost every day
The laboring children can look
out,
And see the men at play.
Worker,
April 3, 1926

COST OF LIVING

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EIDIMTORIALL
COMMENT

Build all-labor rallies —

At no time is workers’ international
solidarity better demonstrated than on
May Day — the international workers’
day — when, on all continents, marchers

7 display the slogans and the spirit of the

class struggle.

It’s timely to speak of it because in
Canada, a return to the traditions of May
Day are being sparked by the increasing
need of the working class to fight for its
rights. In addition to Quebec, where
May Day is well established, plans are
already afoot for May 1 rallies in Win-
nipeg and Toronto, with participation by
the Manitoba Federation of Labor, the
Winnipeg Labor Council and the To-
ronto Labor Council. The Ontario Fed-
eration holds its mass protest at Queen’s
Park just three days before on April 28.
The widest-ranging participation ever in
these events can be expected because the

High pay for hating Cuba

Imperialism, not noticeably buoyant
these days, is nevertheless, like the last
tyrannosaurus to survive on earth,
dangerous, but with a future no more
promising. :

What could be more painful to the sys-
tem’s chosen than the fact that a small,
physically isolated, often threatened
socialist island 90 miles from the mighty
USA is remarkably successful and widely
admired?

Cuba’s example of defiance, as feared, .

has had an effect on other peoples of the
area. And that angers not only the U.S.
state department and Pentagon, but
Canada’s monopolist media as well.

From the spineless CBC news to the
treacherous high-revenue dailies, the
diet fed Canadians is one of contami-
nated, anti-Cuban, anti-socialist rubbish.

As if to prove the drought of ruling-
class ideas, the Toronto Globe and Mail
re-warms a London Daily Telegraph
“thriller” trying to liken a hypothetical

Diefenbaker’s

_ In London recently, John Diefen-
baker, one-time prime minister of Cana-

da, received a Companion of Honor |
award from the Queen, and chose the -

visit to re-open his closet of Victorian

views on world social order.
Media attempts to cast Diefenbaker as

a wise elder statesman, whose right-wing
outbursts represent Canada, is a slur on
Canadians. Championed by remnants of
by-gone power and privilege, lauded by
left-over fascists from Hitler’s day,
praised by the Zionist aggressors of Is-

‘rael whom he embraces, such an arch

reactionary places himself as an enemy
of those concerned with peace, progress
and the independence of peoples.

Like a thief crying “thief’, Diefen-
baker charges the Soviet Union with
seeking control of world resources and
says we are vulnerable in Canada. The
real danger to us in Canada, which he
and his fellow sell-out artists don’t men-
tion, is the smothering control of Cana-
dian resources, industries, and culture
by the U.S. multi-national corporations.

lest worker demonstrations in mam

cold war

world’s people are, like the USSR, s

- makers.

need for a fight-back on wage-cutting;
social cutbacks, on attacks on tradeu
rights involves all Canadian workers.
But Canadian workers are also part!
an international movement, and Mé
Day on a world scale embodies the
for peace, for detente, for the conditi
in which working-class families can b
their lives free of the burden of ar
ments, and the threat of war.
Canadian workers are inextri
bound up in the world-wide struggle
the kind of peaceful world May D
bonds of international labor solida
help to establish.
It’s a few weeks early to greet May D
But it’s high time to organize the mi

year, insisting on the right and duty)
participation by all parts of
working-class movement.

attempt by Chilean fascists to crush }
golan independence, to Cuba’s respo
to Angolan pleas for help to beat bi
exactly such fascist invaders — f
South Africa and Zaire, backed by
U.S. CIA and Maoist China. EY
The Toronto paper’s denegration ”
Cuba as a down-at-the-heel sugar Ca)
republic spouts ignorance easily cha
lenged by tens of thousands of Can
dians who have seen for themselves"
have the good sense to read between ¥
isoned lines. we
As the Latin American peoples t@
heart from Cuba’s victorious socialis#
of course, the billions of dollars %
monopoly capitalism are being throw
into the fight to turn back progress, 4)
make Latin America safe for the mul
national corporations.
At the same time it is the inl
nationalist duty of workers to expose ay
destroy the attempt by monopoly-ow#}
media to incite enmity between work@]
of Canada and Cuba. 4

Ignoring the towering Canadian #
even worse U.S. armaments squandé :
ing, ignoring the Ford-Kissinger thr@
of war in our hemisphere, ignoring *
horrendous U.S. Trident nuclear 5!)
marine base 100 miles from Vancou¥)
Diefenbaker utters the cold-war cry _
Soviet military build-up.

This, while more and more of | |

rting detente, peaceful co-existel
the Helsinki agreements, and the
kholm Appeal with its practical step
world disarmament.

Diefenbaker may well worry ovet
old order, for it is finished. Zimba
he mutters,’ has 67% of the wo
chromium for steel making. With
socialist bloc supply it would equal 9:
Worrisome -indeed to imperialist

Diefenbaker’s hope for imperial
reclamation of world domination !
lacking in substance as the media’s
paign of fawning.