. 25 years ago...

HORSES HAVE BETTER

STALLS IN THIS CAMP
Looks like I’m settled in this
slave camp. That's what exper-
ienced lumberjacks call it. Living
rters are a very poor excuse
for a barn. The guys are saying
_ that horses have better stalls.

© Bunks consist of 2 by 4 uprights

with a metal frame and springs
fastened on top. No bedsheets,
not a pillow — a two-inch mat-
tress and three blankets are sup-
pose to make a man comfortable
and warm. There is no recrea-
tion centre or anything for rela-
xation. But the worst part of all is
the absence of showers.

The guy who hired us for the
company lied. There aren't any
_ white or red pine, but jackpine
and spruce — all small stuff.

_ And you can imagine how hard

one has to work to make a 100-
~ cubic-foot cord — all that for $4.

— From a letter to the editor.

The Tribune,
Nov. 14, 1955

FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

ARABS RESIST
EXECUTIONS

Jerusalem reports that the se-
vere sentences of Arabs by the
British imperialist courts are
adding to Palestinian unrest. In
Haifa three Arabian peasants
are condemned to death, twelve
to life sentences and four to ten
years prison. Even minors are
given long terms.

Many Arabian demonstra-
tions are taking place in the dif-
ferent towns against the terrorist
verdicts. The political prisoners
at Jerusalem, Akka and Jaffa are
on a hunger strike for better

conditions.

School children in Naplus
participating in the protest
strike of Oct. 26 were flogged by
school management. This
caused great indignation of the
population. A general strike has
been proclaimed and great
demonstrations are bringing
conflicts with police.

: The Worker,
Nov. 16, 1929

Profiteer of the week:

The frequent argument against greater
safety measures on the job, and to protect
communities, is: “there isn’t enough money.
Anticipating an investigation into Canadian
Pacific Railways’ derailment at Mississauga,
Ontario, and questioning of safety pre-
cautions, let it be said: From Jan. 1 to Sept. 30,
1979, Canadian Pacific Ltd. (including the

railway) had profits of $268,048,000, up from
$241,467,000, same period last year.

Figures used are from the company’s financial statements.

FD KO RICAIE

COMIMIEINT
Hua undermining détente|

Hua Guofeng, a leader of the Chinese
ruling clique, delighted the reactionaries
of western Europe during a recent tour,
and had a particularly amiable affair
with Margaret Thatcher, Tory Prime
Minister of Britain. He saved for her his
most virulent anti-Sovietism, his most
obscene comparisons.

It would be revealing enough for Hua
to hobnob with this 19th century Tory
while the workers of Britain are being
bled under the stiletto heel of her
government. But even more serious is
the undermining of détente, the open
collusion in support of the arms race, of
which he is guilty. Hua’s reckless collu-
sion with U.S. imperialism and NATO
exposes his counter-revolutionary role.
Without calling the Soviet Union by
name, he used every device to stir up war
hysteria against the USSR. He stooped
his lowest in a tribute to Thatcher, say-

ing:
“Just as Winston Churchill exposed
the ambitions of the Nazis, Prime Minis-

ter Thatcher had unequivocally identi- ~

Bethune spurned ‘threats’

-to Canada, and his dedication to the}

At this time of the year in 1936 Cana-
dian volunteers were in Spain to fight on
the side of the constitutional govern-
ment against the fascist forces of General
Franco, who was armed and backed by
Italy’s fascists and Germany’s nazis.

Dr. Norman Bethune arrived in Spain
on Nov. 3, 1936 to do pioneering work in
field blood transfusion services, and
treatment of the wounded among Loyal-
ist forces.

Ironically, it was in the same month,
three years later, that he died of blood
poisoning while carrying out surgery
among the Communist forces of China,
who were battling Japanese fascism.

Bethune, a member of the Communist
Party of Canada, which he joined in the
summer of 1936, went to Spain because,
like many of the 1,200 Canadians who
volunteered for military service there, he
could see the danger to humankind. Al-
ready a famed surgeon and innovator of
surgical techniques, as well as a
humanitarian, Bethune’s contribution to
the Canadian blood transfusion unit in
Spain cannot be forgotten. =

Nor should we forget that Bethune,
far from being fawned on by the ruling
class with its arms profiteers, and ap-
peasers of fascism, weathered instead
government and media hysteria over
“the bolshevik threat”.

Today it’s the “communist threat,”
and the “Soviet threat” from the same

NORAD propaganda pact, before it P¥

fied the source of the war danger and
called for effective counter-measures.” |

It has become a familiar fact that}
nationalistic, expansionist regimes}
propped up by U.S. arms and money,}
not only support NATO’s nuclear mad-|
ness but despise the liberation move-
ments. Increasingly in such countries the}
working people, and forces of peace and |
democracy suffer some form ol}
economic, racist, political or military)
persecution. .

Such regimes add to the menace 0
world nuclear war by linking their ow
extreme policies to imperialism’s global
strategy. It is demonstrated by Israel,
Egypt, South Africa, South Korea, Chil
and others. Peking’s incitement to a wal
on socialism drags China into the sa
camp.

Any visions that may have lingered
Maoist China as a state oriented
socialism, have been dispelled by Hua
outbursts in Europe. They have raiseé
starkly the extreme danger in th
Chinese leadership’s alliance . wi
imperialism.

party and cause he embraced until his}
death in China at the age of 49. 4

His steadfastness in the face of fascist
fire abroad, and reactionary threats ane
propaganda at home is a valuable exa
ple for us who face similar dangers 10
day.

NORAD a danger

The North American Air Defene
pact has to go! It is an intolerable
financial burden; it is useless — aime
anon-existent “threat”; and it is a sell-0
of Canada’s sovereign right to decide not
to be a part of the triggering of a nucle
war.

_ On Nov. 9, seven Canadian jet fighte
roared aloft from Comox, B.C., ordere™
by a so-called “faulty computer” under |
U.S. military control. What of the faulty —
minds which keep alive this deadly m
tary machine. In their hysteria to w™
up imperialism’s cold war, who can
their poison-fed computers will ™
order missiles next time? ‘

The only thing NORAD does fo
Canada is invite obliteration of Canad
cities in a nuclear exchange anytime V"
brass has a bad dream. e:

It’s time for this country to annul

an end to us. S
CORRECTION: Inadvertently an i”

quarters, using this to divide working

_ people, weaken the forces of peace and
democracy, and justify the huge arms
build-up.

Those who want to identify with
Bethune, the member of the Communist
Party, the humanitarian, the fighter for
genuine human rights, will do his name
honor by rejecting as he did the “Soviet
threat” smokescreen put up by
monopoly capitalism.

Bethune lives through his work for
Spain, his powerful appeals on his return

correct formulation appeared in the ©
cent Tribune editorial: Tory
million fraud. The Tribune position,
that of the Communist Party of C

is for a democratic alternative to the
old-line parties of monopoly. During ©
election campaign we warned that yOU
Tory would be like jumping from ©
frying pan into the fire. This sense ™,
not have been conveyed in the edito!”
reference to Trudeau’s policies as
the blatant, anti-people policies 9
advocated by the Tories.”

Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN
Associate Editor — FRED WILSON
Business and Circulation Manager — PAT-O'CONNOR

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