NEWS ITEM: Defence Minister Danson proposed conscription as way out of unemployment crisis. 25 years ago... A VILE TORY SMEAR Alderman J. Kucherepa, a Tory has joined the motley crew that misses no chance to vilify working folks. He has accused the residents of Toronto’s emergency housing projects of being shiftless, of living on the backs of the taxpayers. He de- mands that they be compelled to make monthly payments to- wards a down payment to buy a house. The majority of the leads of families in the emergency housing projects are veterans, working men. They could never raise families and accumulate the thousands of dollars that Kucherepa’s real estate friends demand as down payment on a home. Kucherepa knows this. Tribune October 13, 1952 50 years ago... COLLIER’S BLURTS OUT THE TRUTH The most extreme statements made by Sacco-Vansetti sym- pathizers are fully admitted to be true by Collier's one of the most influential organs of reac- tionary opinion in its current number. In an editorial entitled “Con- form or Keep Out” which is a plea for a stricter administration of the immigration and depor- tation laws, this national weekly says: _ Many conservative Americans felt that, irrespective of the crime imputed to them, Sacco and Vansetti were symbols of forces alien to America and hos- tile to the fundamental ideals of -our country. The Worker ~~ October 15, 1927 Profiteer of the week: What’s in Figures used are from the company’s financial statements. TAKE THE SRING OVE, SWAT THE a name, asked Shakespeare. Doesn't Husky Oil Ltd. give the feel of the tough northern struggle with Mother Nature? Really, Husky is more familiar with the bank- ing and investment establishments of the south. With a neat tax-free profit of $19,700,000 from Jan. to June 1977, Husky had a profit about 45% higher than the first half of 1976 — $13,700,000. AA.B PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 14, 1977—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMIMIEINT Widen the fight for jobs While the Nova Scotia and Manitoba federations of labor were setting exam-. ples, committing themselves to an all-out battle for jobs, Ottawa was looking at new ways to slash living standards. - The fight for full employment when it takes hold everywhere, defiantly, is the only argument that will compel the corporation bosses and their govern- ments to abandon their mass _ unemployment policies. But what is Ottawa doing? With Au- gust inflation at 8.3% above August 1976, the Liberals seek new ways to tamper with their own “anti-inflation” rules to freeze wage increases at or below 6% in 1978. ' Treasury Board President Robert Andras has another dirty trick in mind — a demeaning means test to probe workers’ families to see they aren’t get- ting too. much in family allowances. Last year thé government robbed Canadian families of $200-million by killing the cost-of-living increment which had helped keep family allowances abreast of inflation. Andras wants this same_pocket- ‘ picking used to knock down public ser- vice pensions. The best answer — the effective ans- wer — to these assaults was seen in the " Halifax march of hundreds of united trade unionists, unemployed, students and others who heeded Nova Scotia labor’s call for an all-out fight on a pro- © gram for jobs. The hardening anti-labor attacks can only be turned back by mas- sive unity in a campaign for jobs, homes and living standards. A step for Mideast peace _ The joint Soviet-U.S. statement on the Middle East, made public on the October 1 weekend, is a promising step toward a just peace in the Mideast. The statement, which recognizes the legitimate rights of the Palestinians, and puts renewed pressure on the expan- sionist government of Israel to return to the Geneva talks, will: be welcomed by. people everywhere who strive for peace. The U.S. shift to a more tenable posi- tion in view of diplomatic, economic and public opinion pressures, cannot be vie- wed as a drastic change from support of Israel as an imperialist outpost. It can be seen as an effort. to have Tel Aviv con- form to policies which are better suited to-U.S. relations on a world scale. These realities do not detract from the vast potential benefits of re-opening the — Geneva talks, with participation by all parties concerned, including the Pales- tine Liberation Organization. Israel has had a sign that flashly prop- ,aganda.and calculated. military. strikes can. no longer excuse its theft of territory and its inhuman treatment of the Pales- tinian Arabs. The joint statement by the USA and the Soviet Union should give impetus and unity to all peace forces working for a just Mideast peace. Ottawa hypocrisy showing | Hypocrisy, says The Gage Canadian Dictionary, is (1) “the act or fact of put- ting on a false appearance of goodness or religion. (2) a pretending to be what one is not; pretence.” The Canadian Government sent Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Don Jamieson to the United Nations to blame the General Assembly for not solving the serious is- sues of the world. He cited 20 resolutions on the Middle East and 34 on questions related to southern Africa which he said “were devoid of practical proposals for action.” The same government sent MP Robert Stanbury to the World Conference for Action Against Apartheid in Lagos, Nigeria, where he refused to endorse Section 26 of the conference’s Declara- tion calling for an arms embargo against Vorster’s apartheid regime in South Af- rica. . Stanbury’s Nigeria statement called apartheid “an evil abhorrent to us all.” But an arms embargo — well, no. What meaning:is there to the Cana- dian government’s 1963 so-called em- bargo on the sale of military equipment to South Africa? As everyone knows, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the USA and other “democracies”, like West Germany, ship arms to the racist regime from their own and NATO arsenals. And Canada has willingly committed it- self by billions of dollars to the military demands of the NATO brass. If the United. Nations is unable to make its decisions fully effective it is exactly because of this back door dealing by imperialist governments. While Jamieson was flogging the UN for the “time and effort, not to mention the money” it had used to counter fascist and racist regimes, Stanbury had just finished telling Africans that Canadian corporations had the government’s bles- sing in pumping millions of dollars into Vorster’s favorite enterprises because “Canada trades in peaceful goods with all countries, even those’ with whose policies we are in profound disagree- ment.” Despite demands from concerned Canadians that the federal government take a lead in isolating the facist regimes in Chile and South Africa, and the ex- © pansionist Israeli military threat in the Middle East, and thereby strengthen UN resolutions, the Trudeau government prefers business as usual — and hypoc- ricy at the UN.