“The Stopper” 25 years ago... HALT INFLOW OF CRIME COMICS An urgent appeal to Ontario Attorney-General Porter and the federal government to “save our children from the horror of made-in-USA comic books was made in Toronto April 20 to 400 citizens. Sponsored by the home and school association, the gathering included service and church groups as well as individual citi- zens. They their de- termination to rid Canada of the comic book filth brough here from the U.S. in huge quantities. They asked for strengthening of the new Criminal Code which makes it an offence to print, publish and sell crime comic books and demanded a Cana- dian code for evaluating the de- finition of-crime and horror comics. BC M.P. David Fulton, guest speaker, described the ef- fect of such material on children as “pernicious” and supported FLASHBACKS FROM _ THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... WORKERS HONOR DEAD LEADERS Five thousand workers marched through the streets of Fort William, Ont. escorting the bodies of two working class fighters to their last resting place. The two dead workers were organizers of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada. They disappeared under suspicious circumstances while making a tour of lumber camps during a strike when 800 men were fighting stubbornly against slashing wage reduc- tions. During this strike all the torces of the boss government were put at the services of the lumber barons against the workers. This spring their bodies were found in the bush. The boss — coroner’s court brought in a ver- dict of “accident death”, but the workers of these parts aren’t Satisfied with this verdict and suspect agents of the lumber tighter laws. bosses as being responsible. Tribune, The Worker, May 2, 1955 May 3, 1930 Profiteer of the week: Wondering why food prices are 0 high? One of the reasons can be found in the fact that in just 12 weeks, ended March 22, Loblaw Companies Ltd., raked in after-tax profit of $5,179,000. in the same 12-week period a year earlier the profit was $2,952,000. Let’s see, our wages didn’t make quite that jump did they. Figures used are from the company’s financial statements. RiBsUNE ?ACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 2, 1980—Page 4 Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN Associate Editor — FRED WILSON ; Business and Circulation Manager — PAT O'CONNOR Published weekly at Suite 101 —. 1416 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9. Phone 251-1186 Subscription Rate: Canada $10 one yr.; $6.00 for six months; All other countries, $12 one year. Second class mail registration number 1560 ‘ EDITORIAL COMIMIEINT Real life vs the F18deal _ Government handouts to corpora- tions are a growing feature of Canada’s capitalist system. Ford took $68-million and repaid with layoffs. The forest industries have their hands in the public treasury while glibly predicting they’ll slash jobs later. The federal government is working on terms for a big gift to Chrysler. But the most blatant deception involv- ing public monies is the purchase of 137 F18A Hornet fighter-interceptor planes designed for war. And now, added to the list of reasons why it is a bad deal for the people of Canada, is the fact that the federal cabinet has approved $39.5-mil- lion to “help” the corporations involved get set up to provide the “Canadian jobs” the hard-sell propaganda promised. The deal was rotten from the start be- cause Canada does not need a fleet of war. planes. But NATO wants such planes, so the people of Canada are going to be made to Bey for them — unless the deal is killed. The cost of the planes began at $2.3- billion (Aug. 1977), is now about $2.7-bil- lion, on its way to $3-billion, and by completion in 1988 will reach a peak var- iously estimated at $4- or $5-billion. The handouts set at $39.5-million could also rise; and in the end these “loans” could The Davis Quebec junket The right of self-determination for the French Canadian nation is a right which democratic Canadians every- where should defend. In these pages we have argued for a united Canada, but a united Canada guided by a made-in- Canada Constitution, drawn up demo- cratically by representatives of both na- tions — French Canada and English Canada — and which upholds the right - of both to self-determination. When Premier Davis of Ontario says he is going to Quebec to speak (during the referendum campaign on so-called sovEreeaty, association), we can be sure it is not the above ideas he will be espous- ing. He admits that his mission of intimi- dation is to support the “no” vote of the corporate elite. Working people in English-speaking Canada can readily understand, once they have the facts, that if the forces pul- led together behind the “no” vote, were working together anywhere in Canada, it would be for anti-labor, pro-monopoly, anti-democratic purposes. Consider who wants the people of Quebec to vote no: Bell Canada, the Aluminum Co. of Canada, Gulf Oil, In- ternational Paper, Simpson-Sears, Hil- ton; Dominion Textile, and others of the same stripe. Such. corporations are not and never were concerned for French Canadian rights, or for the unity of Canada. But they are very much interested in being able to dominate French Canada for purposes of exploitation. And that is the TELL TRUDEAU: LET OUR ATHLETES GO! Re ay ee ee ee ee a a ee ES profit, could better be invested in peace- ‘cians like Davis to interfere on behalf of _ glish Canada as they will be rejected by ; be forgiven. The government does that with loans to corporations. a | Of the 137 Hornets, as many as 50 may be deployed by NATO in Europe. Another 25, while based in Canada, will be on NATO business, “defending — Denmark and Norway! Of the remail- der, many will be commanded Py NORAD — from Colorado Springs, for U.S. purposes. So much for Canadiat “defence”. The patrol craft we need for asserting Canada’s sovereignty on the coasts of three oceans, plus the 200-mile limit, and engaging in effective search and rescue operations are not these heavily-armed monsters designed 10 make war on other people. Canada footing the bill for the kill-power desired by NATO, NORAD and the Pentagon. The money the government is willing to sink into this deception, much of it t0 be drained off by major stockholders 4s { ; time industry, which provides a higher ratio of jobs. : With estimates on every side. of 4 worsening economic situation; soaring living costs, mass unemployment, ati i open talk of serious recession, the squandering of these billions of dollars to satisfy the aggressive forces led by U.S. imperialism cannot be justified or ac cepted. S © aS purpose of the mission of Premier Davis — to try to scare the Quebec people into voting for the status quo — what they've - always had — inequality. = It’s appropriate that the leader of the Quebec Liberals, Claude Ryan — who is the official. leader of the “no” vote cam- paign — should be on the same side as _ Tory Bill Davis. Neither party recognizes French Canada as a nation nor is either prepared to acknowledge that nation’s” right to self-determination. | Davis says Ontario wants to negotiate constitutional change after a “no” vote, a vote for the status quo. But there were none of the Davises around when the Communist Party was demanding an honest question dealing with constitu- tional change to guarantee equal rights in a two-nation state. | The trick question rigged by René Levesque to get approval for an inde- pendent Quebec under the command of the Parti Québécois, instead of strengthening ties between French and English-speaking Canadians, endangers" such ties, and threatens the oppor- tunities for genuine unity. Levesque is all for NATO and NORAD, he also wants to” build monopolies — but French- speaking. . a Whatever the outcome of the referen- | dum on May 20, the status quo cannot prevail in Quebec. The efforts of politi-— the status quo should be rejected by En- Quebec.