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make strong statements against
communism.

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Frankfurt admitted they are dis-
carding a key paragraph in the
four-power agreement on how
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Tribune, Nov. 3, 1947

‘Ntenced to five years imprison-
"ent. Carel Christian Stassen

Nown as the Special Treason
°urt is inflicting these ferocious
Ftences. Mass meetings should
“held everywhere to protest In
Vor of those who have been
‘Ndemned to die for their strug:

Worker, Dec. 1, 1922

orth quoting:

True, the law is sacred to the bourgeoi

hn, enacted with his consent, and for
,° knows that, even if an individual law should injure him, the whole

Bric protects his interests; and more than all, the sanctity of the
™, the sacredness of order as established by the active will o one
PM of society, and the passive acceptance of the other, is the
Ongest support of his social position.

s, for it is his own composi-
his benefit and protection.

Frederick Engels, 1844

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Edctorial Comment...

Keep up the pressure

President Nixon’s Indochina plot con-
tinues while he stalls the Vietnam
peace agreement.

His massive arms build-up has made
a Frankenstein monster of a nothing—
General Thieu. His disguised “civilian”
West Point Military Academy gradu-
ates are settling in for a long stay in
Saigon. His CIA “advisers” in subver-
sion and torture are adjusting their
masks in preparation for “peace and
democracy” Nixon style in South Viet-
nam.

In due course the forces of peace and
self-determination will have to deal
with this phase of U.S. strategy. But
phase one is: End the war.

Appeals to Nixon have to hit now,
hit hard and jolt him every time he
breaks his word on peace.

The World Peace Council, the World
Federation of Trade Unions, the World
Council of Churches, to name a few,
denounce the bloodthirsty delay in
making peace.

The appeal of 37 mayors of the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the
mayors of the world to take courage,
speak out against genocide, must be
pressed with urgent conviction by Can-
adians who value their own communi-
ties.

The essential is: pressure Nixon. De-
mand Trudeau’s support. The time for
action is today. The lives of Vietnamese
men, women and children are in the
hands of all of us. The vantage-ground
of peace lies ahead.

A Tory story

_ If a fiction writer set out to create

the image of a corrupt, labor-hating |

government, indifferent to “People’s
needs but eager to please its big busi-
ness masters, how might he achieve the
effect?

He could throw light on government
ministers who just happened to invest
in land which they knew would be ex-

-propriated at inflated value.

He could have the government, like
a Scrooge, snatch money away from
education and hospital care to the ac-
companiment of impertinent “prescrib-
ing” by the ministers responsible.

A novelist who, we all understand, is
permitted to stretch credibility a little,
could picture such a government award-
jing a multi-million dollar construction
deal, involving the Workmen’s Com-
pensation Board to a deserving con-
struction outfit; he could then depict
this company making an unsolicited do-
nation of $50,000 to the government po-
litical party. In view of poor ratings
over that, the government might invent
a great circus of transportation goodies
for all to behold.

It might appear straight off the
Hollywood screen, but the public could
cool its anger by saying: Well, it’s only
a story.

Having gone that far, the novelist,

_at risk of being called an exaggerator,

might concoct a scene where the gov-
ernment’s solicitor-general actually is-
sues a license for strike breaking.

To give it a ring of authenticity he’d
depict a company called Canadian Scab

Herders, run by A. Ghoul, with a rec-

ord of delivering strike breakers across
picket lines. When labor protest be-
comes too effective, the company does
a stunning merger, then goes through
a metamorphosis like a caterpillar and
comes out.a beautiful butterfly named
Intercon Security Ltd.

Of course, the first to congratulate
it is our fictional government, by licens-
ing it and sending it on to bigger and
better strike breaking.

The novel’s author is about to bring

-in an aroused working class to raise a

clamor of protest in and out of the
legislature when he begins to doubt
himself. They won’t believe it, he tells
himself, they won’t think a government
could be that rotten.

But people .in Ontario say: bring on
the ext scene — we can believe every
word.

Demand jobs

Unemployment is a popular topic.
The Federal government and the mo-
nopolies it serves have a well-orches-
trated debate going about greedy
housewives, and others, bankrupting
the country by draining the unemploy-
ment insurance fund.

Labor will have to take the necessary
actions to counter that campaign, and
to win adequate benefit, without delays,
and for all who are left jobless by
the same government-monopoly conniv-
ance, and U.S. economic control.

But it’s a “no thank you” from labor
to the merry-go-round of higher pay-
roll deductions, higher taxes, just to
win an increased maximum _ benefit
that’s gobbled up in inflation.

The basic issue is still jobs.

Yet, our big business government
(the Tories and Liberals have always
seen eye to eye on this) has no policies
to provide jobs, unless you count the
familiar promises made by Trudeau in
Regina last week.

The program of the Communist Party
of Canada for a million new jobs is
now fully valid, and workable.

Failure of big business governments
to make capitalism work for the people
is a sound argument for electing a large
number of progressives to parliament
to change the direction of government
policy.

In the meantime, an organized drive
for jobs is an urgent necessity. With
mass, united trade union and political
action on every level, labor can wring
from the minority government in Ot-
tawa, a jobs policy that provides real
and lasting employment.

Wants election

It’s fascinating the kinds of things
that keep presidents of the manufac-
turers’ association awake nights.

Daniel Sprague, Canadian Manufac-
turers’ Association head, hinted to his
executive that the Liberals and Tories

should get together in Parliament.’

They “share the responsibility of deny-
ing the minority Socialist party influ-
ence in the new House out of all pro-
portion to its true strength,” he said.
While he wished “a second election
could be delayed for a yeaYor more,”
he was more inclined to rush right into
it to re-establish the good old days.
Pssst, Mr. Sprague—it could get worse.

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