25 years ago... CAN’T EAT SNOW TILL ROSES BLOOM Labor, civic and welfare bodies across Canada last week made renewed demands on Ot- -tawa_for,.action.an,,unemploy- eA asyobless.tofals continueto soar. Ottawa’s latest official Na- tional Employment Service re- port shows 362,678 seeking jobs as of Dec. 9 — up 64,103 in three weeks and 24,612 greater than those listed a year before. Cana- dian Welfare Council officials say unemployment is running at 450,000 across the country. In an emergency conference called by the Canadian Welfare Council and attended, by labor, civic, Red Cross, church, Salva- tion Army and welfare workers, a decision was taken to send a delegation to Queen’s Park urg- ing an immediate federal- provincial conference for jobless relief. The Tribune, January 31, 1955 FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... FASCIST TREATMENT OF ITALY’S WORKERS ROME — Twenty-eight work- ing girls, sentenced to a total of 129 years’ imprisonment by fas- cist special courts in one month alone; are evidence, of law and order in Mussoliniland. All were sent up for purely political of- fences. Typical of the prisoners are Giorgina Rosetti, a young textile worker and Anita Pustaria, a fac- tory worker sentenced to torture and maltreatment by fascist police. Anita Pustaria contracted tuberculosis in prison and Gior- gina Rosetti went insane as a re- sult of the treatment meted out to her. Another worker, Ziara Cian-— chi, needle trades worker, will serve a life term as a cripple in addition to her three-year sen- tence as a result of. beatings given her by police. 3 The Worker, ' February. 1, 1930 Profiteer of the week: Imperial Oil’s after-tax 1979 profit was $471-million, up from $314-million in 1978. That doesn’t include $22-million Imperial picked up . from a sale of Syncrude shares. The Liberal- Tory conspiracy with the multi-nationals to soak the people of Canada with higher prices on heating oil, gasoline, manufactured pro- ducts, etc., is well explained in that $471-mil- lion. Figures used are from the company’s financial statements. 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. VSL 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 PACIFIC TRIBUNE— FEBRUARY 8, 1980—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMIMIENT Defeat cold war candidates Candidates in the federal election campaign who would rather parrot the U.S. cold war line than take a responsible approach to Canadian concerns — some of them on foreign policy — should be defeated at the polls on Feb. 18. Such people, campaigning on U.S. imperialism’s propaganda hysteria, are recklessly dragging us toward the brink of world thermonuclear war. And all the while at the expense of urgent social needs. ‘ese Prime Minister Clark advocates Cana- dian involvement in U.S. military action against countries on the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. Aping Carter, Clark raises the alarming prospect of shipping Canadian troops to the Gulf with all its horrifying accompaniment. — Trudeau makes it clear he stands for a world imperialist confrontation with the USSR — a “global policy” of economic, political and diplomatic sanctions. *He could add, “backed up by nuclear threats,” for the Carter plan for U.S. domination requires expanding NATO throughout the Mideast, and Trudeau wants Canada involved in “even further military operations” in NATO. The two parties of the multi-nationals and the Canadian corporate elite and their media; fan the war hysteria over ‘Afghanistan, ‘totally ignoring ‘the Soviet-Afghan treaty, dismissing both countries’ spokesmen, and finding pure truth in Carter’s guide to arms escala- tion. The whole inverted pyramid of cold war propaganda is based on the lie that Back detente, reject war Candidates of the Communist Party of Canada, 52 are running for election in six provinces, represent the only party whose platform is unequivocal o foreign policy. : Communist candidates reject the Car- ter Doctrine of extending U.S. domina- tion to the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf areas and creating a major land, sea and air military build-up to threaten the countries of the area. Only the Communist candidates op- pose the expansion of the so-called North Atlantic Treaty Organization to further inflame the Middle East and to’ try to secure by force, the resources its member countries covet. Candidates of the Communist Party call for a reduction — not an escalation ~ — of Canada’s defence budget. Canada should say “no” to U.S. efforts to involve our youth in the such barbarity as was forced upon U.S. youth in the war of aggression against Vietnam. Communists stand for offering our youth opportunities at home, providing them with education, training and pay- ing jobs, and thus offering them a future in the building of a Canada they can be proud of — not a Joe Clark yo-yo-land, forever on the string of the USA. ’ same warhorse. Yet, there he is, gru : the Soviet response to its neighbor's call to help end interference and destabilt . zation attempts, was “an invasion”. a Judging by New: Democratic Patty conventions, one might expect not 10 find NDP leader Broadbent astride the | bing for votes he hopes the Carter Do trine can deliver. A pity. a _ Broadbent says: “This new aggressio? against Afghanistan has caused us a ot of concern, and rightly, President Cartel | has let the Soviets know, if they want 0 heat up the cold war, Western dena racies are prepared to face that and support that 100%.” -_ Maintaining the fiction of “invasion » Broadbent is prepared to send Cana dians to die for Exxon’s $4-billion annual profit. “... you have to support. free dom ...sometimes you have to go to wat to support that freedom.” Whose fre€ dom, to do what? This is the freedom 0 the multi-nationals and U.S. state department to exploit the world and all its people. . a NDP MP Pauline Jewett had to point out to Broadbent that by backing Cartel “he is not speaking for me, the caucus OF the party.” ‘ 4 Nor do the cold war candidates, what ever their party, speak for the aspira~ tions of millions upon millions of Cana; dians. Voters should demand to know candidates’ stands on detente, disarma- ment and strengthening trade and ex” change relations. Those who carry thé flag for the Carter Doctrine of world wat. should be denied our votes on Feb. 18: ¥ * Unlike the old-line and right-wing candidates, Communists recognize thé right of the governments of into ele and the Soviet Union to put into effec the terms of their treaty of military an@ other assistance; and these candidates re ject meddling by the USA, NATO, Chr na, or other proxies of the U.S. military- industrial complex. Sas The election program and related materials of the Communist Party can- didates make their case clearly — fot Canada — against sell-outs. The Com munist Party is the only party which stands entirely for detente, disar- mament, security of nations, and developing relationships between the socialist and capitalist sectors of the world. f ¢ Every voter who has not yet spoken to: the Communist candidate in his or her riding should do so, read the literature and discover why, despite the organized plot of the big business media to hide them, the Communist candidates prove they rate the votes. A wasted vote is a vote for the cold war candidates. Whereas every vote for a Communist is a vote for peace, detente, and the up-building of Canada.