ARANSLATED INTO TE WAGE-EARNERS LANGUAGE IT MEANS- PRICES and. PROFITS GD BOOM _ FLASHBACKS FROM — THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... ANOTHER MARTYR With few exceptions the repre- sentatives of capital of any coun- try, always appear to, be well- fed. In the United States they make a custom of trying to kill their distinguished visitors. with kindness. The latest victim to gourmandizing is the British Am- bassador to the United States, Sir Auckland Geddes. This titled gentleman, it is announced, is re- turning to England. One of the reasons for his return is that he had been forced to eat too many elaborate luncheons and dinners. There is little possibility of Can- adian workers being forced to quit their jobs because they are eating too much. But the Geddes types are not going to stop. guz- zling and give food to the work- ing class out of -pity. The world will not be rid of such useless parasites until the workers of all lands sweep them from: power and establish Workers’ Republics whose motto shall be: “He who does not work, neither shall he eat”. The Worker, June 13, 1923 25 years ago... 5,000 VOTERS EELE VICTORY TORONTO — Traffic in the Bathurst - Spadina - College - Queen area came to a dead stop Tuesday night when 5,000 cheer- ing MacLeod and Salsberg sup- porters took over the streets ina gigantic victory parade. Their numbers swollen by hun- dreds of citizens from the ridings who joined in from the sidewalks and by a motorcade, it was clear that the paraders represented the majority of the citizens living in the two ridings, men and women who united at the polls to deal red-baiting toryism a crushing de- feat. The parade’s beginning was pre- ceded by a packed meeting at 300 Bathurst Street where hundreds jammed the large hall and gallery to hear clection returns which told the story of the LPP victory, the defeat of Col. Drew in High Park and the CCF sweep in Tor- onto and Yorks. Tribune, June 12, 1948 Worth quoting: *”. . Communist theory—the science of Communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism—has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and ... has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.” —V. |. Lenin, The Tasks of the Youth Leagues West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune- weg, Pacific Tribune Editor — MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Business & Circulation Manager, FRED WILSON Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $3.00 for six months North and South America and Commonwealth countr:es, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year Second class mail registration number 1560. es PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1973—PAGE 4 | Editorial Comment... Time to talk shorter work week The rising tide of trade union strug- gle for the shorter work week is more than justified by the fact that produc- tivity keeps rising; corporate profits jumped a flagrant 53°. at annual rates in three months of 1973; dividends to stockholders set a record in May, with payment of $77.9-million of the wealth produced by Canada’s working class. If the workers can produce that much ‘wealth for the monopolies and their coterie of coupon clippers, then they’re putting in too many hours for what they’re getting, Trade unions are taking up the short- er week demand, and it will be hard now for company negotiators to side- step it. What is essential in such a demand, as the United Steelworkers’ recent policy conference noted, is to “vigorously oppose” a longer workday to gain the shorter work week. That -kind of saw off is monopoly’s way of boosting that 538% profit rise further. Ever since the day Karl Marx com- pleted the first volume of Capital, those class-conscious workers who, to the chagrin of their bosses, took an interest in politieal economy, have known that the boss bleeds out more profit by sub- jecting them to long hours of speed-up than from opening jobs to unemployed workers. The degrading compulsory overtime clauses are a similar monopo- ly manoeuvre to blunt the class inter- ests of the worker who is caught in the 4 squeeze of making ends meet. j The other side of the coin is that this land of endless potential, federal government policies keep 500,000 of the labor force idle, because Canada’s state monopoly system is incapable of pro viding full employment without aftect- ing the status quo, without coming nl conflict with the private ownership the means of production. 5 Only by foreing big business and its governments to halt layoffs and shut- downs, and provide jobs can the work- ing class serve its own interests. And these interests dictate less and less willingness to pay the price living in a backward political syste™ More are learning of the advantages in societies free of an exploiting class where, in leisure time many millions develop new avocations, freed from countless worries by free medicare and education, controlled prices, token-siZ® rents, rising wages, full employme? and free vacations for millions. The fight for the shorter work week is a working-class challenge to. ee crushing power of monopoly, which at so often out of reach of the wrath the ordinary citizen. A 32-hour week at no reduction iz pay and no increase in the workday, : a justifiable demand, supported by * , Communist Party and, around whi¢ the whole trade union movement 4? the NDP can build maximum unity. es More than higotry - John Diefenbaker, that echo of a by- gone age of empire, made a point of voting and vociferating against the Government’s official languages resolu- ~ tion in Commons on June 4. The resolution, which passed by 214 to 16, and aims at implementing bilingu- alism in the civil service, gives greater recognition to the French language on a par with English (whatever the ul- terior motives of the Liberals). The insulting spate in Commons by arch-reactionary Diefenbaker included the statement: “We: shall never have unity. if we have Anglophones and Francophones and Multiculturalphones or whatever other kind of phonies.” The Toronto Globe and Mail, while disagreeing, excuses Diefenbaker, who was not, says the Globe, appealing to “disgruntled voters who resent the’ more equitable role French Canada is coming to assume .. . not exploiting sectional fears.” He stood, the Globe says, for a “Canadian ideal.” Such a sordid ideal is unwelcome in today’s Canada. Diefenbaker speaks for that band of brigands who have bled the French Canadians for profit by keeping them in an inferior economic, political and social condition. But those days are fading away, and the reality. of Canada as a two-nation state is here. While monopoly capitalism is well versed in the divide and rule technique, and profits from keeping French Can- ada apart and at lower standards, it would cause the most mischief if it suc- ceeded in keeping apart the French and English-speaking working class — who directly challenge monopoly. Words such as Diefenbaker’s, seek whie ing to stir up the divisiveness nt weakens the anti-monopoly moveme' come from the reactionary heart . Tory tradition and, along with Tory vote-seekers, deserve to be shunn all parts of Canada. e 5 e White's pipe dream In these days of science and soph tication there is not much left * ae astounds. New technological advan y are soon followed by more. But, 4 mag has been found to keep people sayrel “IT don’t believe it,” and by none oul than Ontario’s treasurer, John wi a man every bit as sociologically # vanced as Ghengis Khan. In chilly April, White slapped sales tax on heating — electricity, om oil, gas — and advised those to WH me the added cost would mean a cold ho”? to wear sweaters. A remarkable enerey saving plan, but it ended with the Pir lic, many legislators and not least ot Communist Party — first on the p!¢ + 0 line — forcing the Davis governme? drop the idea. ; sade White has now wrought another mn boggling marvel. How to control Wg sprawl? How to prevent people cl? sy ing in where they’re not wanted? Bae Put in small-sized sewer pipes. ete picture? “If the pipe is only ye4 1% there. will only be so many pe? White proclaimed. Incredible. sick All Canada holds its breath anal pating these massive mental P® 2 of being brought to bear to solve MQ” ay mankind's woes with such feats of magic. coal, is ath %e ¢ Sd. 2 % ~ ay , sa ett 4 laohovet ns de Magnes Gi waved : : fife 4 ‘ ‘ Se Se ORR (CCL Aisa gi84 4 i Oe eae ae | ane ee eae eBeate uh Tal UE TAT SEIS