Beane oo bacattnnd FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... RELEASED LEADER 25 years ago... GOV'T OK’s SECRET ACCLAIMED BY THOUSANDS WAR PACT CLAUSES OF MINERS OTTAWA — Secret clauses in The miners of Nova Scotia gave the Atlantic Pact will commit Jim MacLachlan a rousing wel- Canada to participation in armed come when he returned from __ intervention in case of democratic Dorchester Penitentiary. revolutions within Pact-signing na- In Glace Bay the demonstration tions. Canadian troops would be _ Was enormous. From early morn- sent to France if the present gov- ing hundreds of miners waited in c.ment fell under the pressure of ei cae ecw a aieee the democratic movement in that from the different towns around country. Lester B. Pearson re- Glace Bay because they had no vealed the ‘existence of these money owing to the long period clauses in an “off the record” ap- of unemployment and the strike peal for support to Canadian edi- tBhlp se ‘tors recently._ Jim was sent to the pen for . ane fighting the battles of the work- Mentioning the charges of the ing class, and on his release he Canadian Tribune that Canada is takes up the struggle where he aq satellite of the .U.S., Pearson left it. His a = Se asked the press to join the gov- tion to every worker to devote : ; their lives to the task of dethron- Seeoe in the hoax;against ue ing capitalism and establishing Canadian people and to suppress the rule of the workers. this information. The Worker, March 22, 1924 Canadian Tribune, March 21, 1949 Profiteer of the week: Why is the price of housing going out of sight? A big problem is land speculation, but that’s not the only one. To build you need cement, and one of the biggest com- panies in Canada is St. Lawrence Cement of Montreal. Their profits in 1973 were $7,152,000 up from $4,776,000 a year earlier. That was a cool $2,376,000 more. The happy shareholders pulled in $2.58 a share in 1973 as compared to $1.73. That’s an increase of over 31°, in one year. 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, $6.00 one year; $3.50 for six months North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $7.00 All other countries, $8.00 one year North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $7.00 one year Second class mail registration number 1560. BOSS SSS UO SSS PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1974—PAGE 4 . +. yA " Yr Men ™~ * » t. ot aiteees ioe we. ers i SQL BOTS 19 PSP BRAN FSG 4 NAO beet K » : 1c Sty, ¥ a’ . = Pe teins ‘ sO IDG tie sh So ¢ t a 0 eal Come nel . oe Profit aim undermines railways Canada’s railways, the traditional east-west route since the driving of the last spike of the Canadian Pacific in 1885, are today, more than ever, the east-west (and west-east) lifeline for goods crucial to the Canadian entity. Yet, the Canadian National.and CP Rail, amply glutted with. profit, stub- bornly refuse to do the jobs for which © they are there. Documentation by the National Farmers’ Union and others exposes a deliberate program to sabo- tage grain movement, because the rail barons want to deal exclusively with _ high-revenue goods. Having built their empires on end- less subsidies out of the. taxpayers’ pockets, eluding taxes while working people and farmers have been taxed to ‘pile up rail profits, the railways are, at the same time, closing down lines not considered profitable enough, regard- less of the harm to communities. Now, Transport Minister Jean Mar- chand has approved handing over $3.43- million of taxpayers’ money to assist the railways in repairing freight cars, ostensibly to move grain. This is an- other hoax to mint money for the rail- way bosses. The National Farmers’ Union charges that CP-CN has 22,000 ’ box cars to move grain but is deliber- ately slowing it down. Furthermore the rail companies leave cars idle on sid- ings for up to 80 days as part of sabotage. When all these cars are use, if repairs are needed the mone can easily come out of the swollen val fits of the railways. Why should ¥ shareholders pocket dividends and CN hierarchy pile new wealth on™ present hoard at our expense? ft Mr. Marchand doesn’t blame CP ll not moving grain. “Why be interes ‘ii. in losing money?”. he asks facetion it The minister has discovered rather eH L aa it that in a country like Canada, e cannot have a network of transpol™ tion which is economic everywhere: si This is not new; the Commu Al Party pointed this out years a8) iol the more reason why the only sol 4 in this day and age to the operatio” | an efficient, economical system of it transport in Canada—is to operate all railways under public ownership #) | control. The profit motive and em ‘att building have no place in this transportation need of the-Cana®” economy and the Canadian people. | Considering the billions Canal. taxpayers have sunk in the rail it’s time the railways belonged to i It’s time we had a transport boa |.) cluding representatives from the a, ganizations of ordinary Canadian ple to run the railways in the intet” of the whole country. — Trouble for builders of ‘Atlantic bridge’ That the United States military- industrial legions can no longer domi- nate the world as of old was made obvious by Vietnam and the Middle Kast. And the stark truth is now rattl- ing the girders of the so-called Atlantic bridge. = ‘With incredible clumsiness the Wash- ington “generals” scramble over one another trying to keep the European partners in line. Their approaches are consistent only in their desperation over their shrivelling influence. Henry Kissinger, miffed that Com- mon Market ministers meeting in Brus- sels to plan their dealings with oil- producing countries, while he too was in town, did not consult him. His re- mark about European governments not being legitimate only firmed the with- drawal from U.S. influence. President Nixon’s rash letter to Willy Brandt, breaking off talks on “trans-Atlantic principles” (of all things) because Eu- ropeans were making their own deci- sions, undoubtedly caused wonder about the unsteady hands on the wheel of USA’s ship of state. : The dilemma for these leaders of & faltering system is whether to follow the sabre-rattling lead of a Schlesinger over the precipice of cold — or shooting — war, or to seek detente, even while striving to retain capitalist-world do- mination. _ Ae hhe US. militarists succeeded in having their ilk in Europe boost the European share of NATO military spending by a reported _$3,000,000,000 in 1973, but against rising popular resistence. Un- popular too was the panicky October alert of forces by U.S. commanders without consultation with Europe. hank Pee} es) RENE? BECK allen ‘ period one must work to qualifY i ; ~ the full period of unemployme? Since the NATO signing on Aptly 1949, about $1,700,000,000,000 have drained out of participating count in the interests of U.S. militarism the profits of U.S. corporations. The gimmick is wearing thin. — 4) decision of NATO bosses to oi simultaneous military and anthy™ if propaganda manoeuvres in the f : European Conference talks in G - WN and arms reduction talks in Vier seen as one more mad effort to W! inf! sentiment against detente. But = | further erode NATO’s influence. “nyt What is abundantly clear is ty “protection” at the erratic hands 0 USA, its military and its multi-naiay! robber barons, is not all that enti to Europeans. To a large degre? py are wisely leaving themselves fh to sample the advantages of Wa” | detente. : ‘We got the message W. E. McBride, one of the oe Unemployment Insurance coma i ers in Ottawa, has good news y the those who have been crying out 2 | _ blood of the unemployed. One of the changes fortheomine 4) says, will be to increase the eigh fo! unemployment insurance. He says the UIC has been list; to employers from coast to coast — we've got the message.” an gt Well, there’s another message re for Mr. McBride, his employer and the howling mob of Young“, vatives who. claim “the swiné | political right wing” justifies |W stand. The message of the joy people is a demand for unemP insurance benefits at 80% of wal