By JOHN WEIR With a lot of fanfare the federal government announces that in the interests of the fight against inflation it has decided to postpone its. planned increase in postage rates. : What a hero that man Trudeau is! Reminds us of the story about a GI who was decorated by the Pentagon for bravery in rescuing a woman from rape. How did he accomplish that deed of valor? He changed his mind at the last minute. —o0o— There is a difference at that. The GI at least changed his mind, while Trudeau only postpones this particular crime for the moment. —o0o— Just look what a flaming Canadian patriot Mr. Trudeau has turned out to be, too. President Nixon has instructed the U.S. State De- partment to step up the negotiations to secure for the United States billionaires the “freer exchange” (read: take-over) of Canada’s energy resources: oil, natural gas, coal, electricity, uranium ore, passage through the Northwest Passage, and anything else that’s lying around loose. : - Mr. Trudeau gallantly fights back by declaring war on. . . the international (U.S. and Canada) trade unions such as the Teamsters and Auto Workers that would make firms (mostly U.S.-owned to begin with) in Canada pay wages equal to those that are paid across the line. : —o0o— That brings to mind the valiant struggle once waged by Lord Plushbottom in Britain, under the slogan, “Hands off the people’s food!” to reduce the tax on champagne. ; . —o0o— He’s an amazing man, is Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The reactionary brass of the AFL-CIO Meany type could over the decades intervene in Canadian union affairs, arbitrarily remove from office leaders elected by Canadian members, bar (in collusion with the U.S. State Department) elected Canadan district delegates from attending international conventions in the U.S., negotiate agreements that discriminated against Canadian workers, etc., etc., and not a peep out of Mr. Trudeau. But just let the workers on both sides of the border begin fighting together against their common bosses, and Mr. Trudeau suddenly becomes very patriotic and demands U.S.-based unions keep out of Canada. : In other words, “Capitalists—unite! Workers—divide!” ~ —o0o— Communists. have always fought for Canadian unions to decide their own affairs just as we fight for self-determination for Quebec and for the Canadian people to be masters in their own house. How- ever, that’s not in order to split, isolate and weaken the workers, but to make possible free all-out unity in action with our brothers in the U.S. and all other countries. —o0o— : Young Americans that oppose the illegal and undeclared war that the U.S. is waging against Vietnam have been picked up and sent out of Canada, delivered to the tender mercies of the FBI and the Pentagon. Fred Hampton and other Black Panther party spokesmen were deported to be murdered within a couple of days by the police in Chicago. South Vietnamese students who oppose the war against Vietnam are now fighting an order by Canadian authorities that they be deported to Saigon .. . and prison if not death. The other side of the medal is the “political asylum” granted to anyone, whether an outright criminal or “simply” a counter-revolu- tionary, who “flees” from a socialist country to Canada. —o0o0— The law of course is impartial, as the Liberals tell us, and our government is activated by purely humanitarian motives . . . Yet it’s peculiar to say the least that reactionaries and crooks are always let in while patriots and opponents of-war are shipped out. Or are the liberals befuddling something that’s really very clear and simple—that the law is loaded and the authorities primed in favor of reaction and against progress. Outraged as all decent people must be at the savage sentences passed by Judge Hoffman on the Chicago demonstrators and their lawyers, it is necessary to discern the cunning method in that madness. By first having the police attack the demonstrators, then arresting leaders (and in the case of the Black Panthers also kill- ing some of them), and finally staging what is in effect lynching courts, the powers-that-be are attempting to drive dissenters either into passivity or into desperate actions, such as terrorism, that would serve as an excuse to isolate and exterminate them. Don’t imagine that they can’t succeed. U.S. labor and true American democrats must step in now to beat that threat — and sympathetic encouragement from Canada will help. —o0o— To get back to Trudeau, he is continually trying to identify him- self with “minorities” — he even quoted the Talmud and practically passed himself off as one of “the chosen people” at the B’nai B’rith banquet_in Montreal, for example. Tribune reader Chrétien main- tains that Trudeau is in fact definitely identified with only one minority group—the bloodsucking wealthy parasites of this country —o0o— In a special article: from Washington dealing with the Chicago trial the Toronto Daily Star draws the lesson that “the New Left is on its way to producing as its chief attainment a New Right”. The Globe and Mail editorially considers that the Chicago defend- ants were real revolutionaries one of whose purposes “was to goad Judge Hoffman into reactionary statements and harsh rulings that would seem so unjust that they would win converts to: the revolu- tionists and instill a sense of activism in those who previously had none.” Whichever way you look at it, Liberal or Tory, the sheep are to blame for being eaten up by the wolves. ee. es PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 27, 1970—Page 8 SOVIET GEORGIA In forefront of progress By DON CURRIE The Georgian S.S.R.—one of the 15 national Soviet republics — has more people per capita with secondary and higher edu- cation than any other country. This amazing fact dramatizes the strides the small country of five million has made under so- cialism. Georgian contributions to science are world renowned. One of Georgia’s most famous sons is mathematician Academ- ican N. I. Mushelishvili. Not only have his discoveries influ- enced mathematics and physics the world over, but his accom- plishments also involve his du- ties as a Deputy of the Supreme ’ Soviet of the U.S.S.R. and presi- dent of the Academy of Sciences _ of Georgia. It was with modest pride that Academician Raphael Dvali, vice-president of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and President of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Geor- gia, related these and other re- markable facts of the achieve- ments of the Georgian people to me and other foreign guests recently. President Dvali explained that Georgian education and higher institutes have existed since the 12th century. The 12th and 13th centuries represented a _ high point of the development of Georgian culture and art. But Georgia was ravaged in the 13th century by the Mongol-Tatar- and later Turkish invasions, and Georgia, a Christian country, found itself surrounded. by Mos- lem. states. From the 14th cen- tury on Georgia conducted a bitter struggle for its national existence, which only was fully achieved after the 1917 October Socialist Revolution in Russia. At times the Georgian popula- tion fell to near extinction and the people fled to the mountains later to return and resume their fight. GROWTH OF SCIENCE The Georgian Academy of Sciences has 40 research insti- tutions with a combined staff ‘of 6,000. The Academy is divid- ed into 6 sections: Mathematics and Physics, Chemistry, Biologi- cal Sciences, Applied Mechanics and Control Processes, Science of the Earth (divided into Geo- _physics and Geography) and the Humanities. Georgia boasts 400 Doctors of Science and 800 Candidates, (equivalent of our Ph.D.’s). Georgian science has made recent breakthroughs in cybernetics applied to high- speed electronic computers, and experiments in the field of low temperatures. Georgian industrial develop- ment can be summed up by the fact that Georgia produces more heavy locomotives than the com- bined locomotive production of - France. Georgia also produces cars and trucks. Twenty-five years ago Georgia opened up a metal industry in a formerly barren and deserted area of the SEVEN YEARS A military court sentenced Spec. 4 Richard Gearity to seven years in prison and ordered him dis- honorably discharged for the murder of the Vietnamese boy, Vu Van Doi, 14. Witnesses testi- fied that Gearity, who had been drinking and on sentry duty, shot at a passing bus, wounding one boy and killing another. Gearity will be eligible for parole after serving one-third of the sentence in a federal penitentiary. country. Today the town has 100,000 inhabitants producing machines for export and pre- cision instruments. Georgians mine and supply most of the manganese used by the U.S.S.R. and have developed techniques for the enriching of manganese which are used all over the Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries. ADVANCED FARMING In agriculture Georgia pro- duces outstanding wines, cognac and champagne. Tea is a big crop. Old Tsarist Russia import- ed all of its tea, mainly from Ceylon. Today Georgia produces 90 percent of all of the tea con- sumed in the U.S.S.R. An amazing breakthrough for Georgian inovators was the con- struction of the world’s first tea picking machine. The machine must pick three leaves from the tea plant, not two or four, but three. A team of seven engineers mastered the problem and re- ceived a Lenin Prize for their efforts. The production of citrus crops was another outcome of the establishment of socialism. To- day Georgian lemons, oranges, tangerines, and limes find fav- our all over the Soviet Union. Georgia, a mountainous country has successfully developed the cultivation of crops to the 2,300 foot level. NATIONAL CULTURE Georgia is an example of a nation which preserves and de- velops all of the best of national combined with an international- ist spirit. The people are bi- lingual, speaking fluent Russian alongside the flourishing Geor- gian language. There are small communities of Azerbaizhanians and Armen- ians within Georgia which have their own schools. Children study Russian from the fourth grade. It is undoubted that fu- ture generations of Georgian people will not only be fully bi- lingual but multi-lingual. A high point of our visit to the Georgian capital was a visit to the museum where the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks (Communist Party) of Georgia in the period 1903-1905 had established a secret undet- ground press .The press was OF ganized by Stalin and for three years worked undetected 1 produce newspapers, pam phlets and __§ translations of Lenin’s writings into Georgia and Armenian. The head of thé museum told us proudly, that a recent visitor to the museum had been Tim Buck, who ! 1969 was a guest of the Geol gian Communists. In comment ing on the importance of the museum Tim Buck had sal@ that it was a vital link with 4 revolutionary past and a wor derful example of the ingenuity and revolutionary zeal of the Bolsheviks. High points of our visit 10 Tblisi are too numerous to men tion in one small article. But since the future belongs to the youth let the last recollection be about their life. YOUTHFUL OPTIMISM Our young guide told us with pride about the work being cal” ried on by his wife. She is # young engineer who had only recently made an important dis covery in the use of cement an mortar which strengthened the bonding effect of the materials: She was off to Moscow to pre sent her discovery to experts there and was hopeful that het new ideas would improve c0B: struction everywhere. ie The youth -are..full.-of opt mism. A new university is. ris ing on the outskirts with bol modern outlines and mosaics distinctly Georgian but reminis- cent of the art emblazoned 0? Mexico’s university buildings by Sequeiros. Our host President Dvali e* cused himself from our sumptu- ous supper, explaining that he had to go to speak to a large Komsomol (Young Communist) meeting. The topic? To wif more young talent for science. “The youth must have sciencé now, you know,” he said simply: u —_— or by amputated limbs. Please send donations to: FOR WELFARE CENTRE AND HOSPITAL FOR MOTHERS AND NEW-BORN CHILDREN IN VIETNAM APPEAL TO ALL ORGANIZATIONS: AND INDIVIDUALS OF GOOD WILL! ° One half of all children born in Vietnam do not live to reach the age of five. One quarter of a million children have been killed by the war in Vietnam. Thousands are maimed by napalm, ~ CBC Correspondent Michael MacClear reports that civilization has ceased to exist in most of the southern provinces, and in 4 region containing one third of North Vietnam's 17 million popu- lation, “there is nothing left to hit . . . Four years of concen- trated bombing have erased a civilzation.” More tonnage of bombs has been dropped on Vietnam than during the whole of the Second World War. “Destruction is total. . . . Those that suffer most are the innocent children—thousands of them wat orphans.” (TORONTO STAR, Oct. 24, 1969) Cholera and plague, once nearly eradicated, are now almost epidemic. (N.Y. Times, Oct. 12, 1969) The Congress of Canadian Women has joined with women in more than 70 countries of the world to build a welfare centre in Vietnam for the protection of mothers and new-born babies: and a pediatric hospital, under the auspices of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF). We propose to raise funds for hospital beds for this project— a gift from Canada. Will you help? CONGRESS OF CANADIAN WOMEN P.O. BOX 188, STATION “E", TORONTO 4 H. MURRAY, National Secretary C. GRAHAM, National President | a oe, 6m