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FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

BARRETT’S CHEQUE
IS RETURNED
_ J.B. MacLachlan received at
Christmas time in jail, a delayed
cheque for his salary as Secre-
tary of District 26, covering the
month of July: when the miners
Were on‘ strike. The cheque was
Issued by the Barrett-Baxter
fang, who were discarded in a
regular election by the miners,
but foisted upon them through
the imperial ukase of Czar John

. Lewis.

Jim wasted no time in refusing
the cheque, sending it back en-
dorsed as follows:

“This cheques, issued by trait-
ors who kiss the miners in Cape

~ Breton in order, Judas-like, to

betray them, -can be cashed by
anyone who is :fond of blood-
money.’

The Worker, Jan. 19, 1924

25 years ago...
LOCKED OUT WORKERS
MONTREAL — Local 500, Mon-
treal Boot and Shoe Workers
Union (CIO) this week issued an
urgent call to the Canadian labor

movement to rally to the support
of the 150 French-Canadian union-

ists locked: out for eight weeks»
“by Dominion Wood Heel, sub-

sidiary of the giant United Shoe
Machinery monopoly.

The lock-out started when the
company refused to recognize
the union, and “fired” >-all its
workers eight weeks ago. The
workers have refused to return
to work without their leaders
and without a union contract.
USMC, according to union: of-
ficials, is trying to reduce its
French-Canadian. employees to
“second-class” citizens.

Tribune, Jan. 17, 1949

Profiteer of the week:

chine |

West Coast edition, Cana

Staples such as potatoes, rice, wheat,
etc., are going up in price, we are told, be-
cause of a “world shortage.” The shortage
never seems to worm its way into the profit
figures, however. Mount Royal Rice Mills
Ltd. of Lachine, Quebec, managed to col-
lect profits of $1,072,000 for nine months
ending last Nov. 30, as compared to $292,-
000 for the same period the year before
(Globe and Mail, Jan. 15). Little wonder that
the price of rice jumped about 100% during
1973. Let's have more shortages, says La-

MS

ets.

ibune

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Canada in hed with the CIA

The revelation that Canada’s National
Research Council serves as a branch
office of the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency, spying on the Soviet north,
marks the federal cabinet in unmistak-
able terms as a U.S.-manipulated body,
hostile to the true interests of Canada
and Canadians. The Defence Depart-
ment in conformity with External Af-
fairs plays the dirty game of under-
mining world detente and stirring hos-
tilities.

Serving as a Peeping Tom in the em-
ploy of the USA — eavesdropping (on
the CIA’s behalf) on the USSR, with
which Canada is carrying out advan-
tageous trade and other agreements —
is both a disservice and an insult to the
Canadian people.

It is more than a simple indiscretion.
This government, yes, and on the ree-
ord, the Diefenbaker Tories before it,
deliberately set out to aid and abet the
most cold-blooded terror organization
ever. Their record stands in Chile,
Greece, and far and wide.

John Marks, former staff assistant of
the U.S. State Department’s Director
of Intelligence, said on the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation television
service, exposing the conspiracy, that
most equipment on the Distant Early
Warning Line was not for detecting air
attacks, as the government lied to Can-
adians that it was, but for U.S. moni-
toring of communications in the north-
ern parts of the Soviet Union. That’s

the “defence” equipment Canadians
paid for — an elaborate U.S. espionage
system. It’s as some had said, including
the Communist Party, concerning such
fake defence expenditures: there is
nothing to defend against.

Canadians may ask themselves how
much of the recent $2 billion increase
in the defence budget is also designed
to serve U.S. interests and to draw Can-
ada deeper into its desperate plots.

Canadian government collusion in
damaging the name of the National
Research Council, set up to serve Cana-
dians, is a serious breach of trust which
must be rectified promptly, so as to
clear the name of the Research Council.

This permitted intrusion into Cana-

dian affairs deserves overwhelming

eondemnation directly to the Prime
Minister and to MPs in their home
ridings. The powerful and decisive
voices of the trade unions, the churches
and other people’s organizations carry-
ing great impact, will be joined by
those millions of voters, each of whose
vote will be solicited next election time.

The fact that the CIA was permitted
to influence a respected Canadian insti-
tution shows the need for a sharp cut-
off of all subservience in relation to
the USA. The Canadian government
must state that henceforth it is imper-
missible for Canadian institutions to
serve the purposes of the professional
saboteurs and assassins who make up
the CIA.

Bugging in Canada

It is hard to believe that with the
lesson of Watergate so recent and so
strong, the Canadian government at
this time should have introduced and
Parliament should have adopted a law
providing for police wiretapping of
homes and offices.

The provisions of this law have the
appearance of limiting arbitrary prac-
tices by the officers of the law in this
sphere, but the rulirig that they must
obtain authorization of a judge to do
the job would have meaning if there
weren’t judges prepared to cooperate
with them in- this regard. Moreover,
even that provision does not hold where
the police think or say they think that
national seurity is involved.

We have seen how the “national se-
curity” excuse was cooked up in the
United States to cover even the bug-
ging of the Democratic Party head-
quarters, If we think Canada is differ-
ent, let us recall the various times the
War Measures Act has been used to
smash labor or political opposition, or
to try to cow the people of Quebec only
a couple of years ago.

The passage of the wiretapping legis-
lation was accompanied by a skirmish
with the Senate. One of the provisions
in the bill adopted by the House of Com-
mons was that persons subject to police
wiretapping would have to be notified
of this in writing within ninety days of
the completion of the bugging opera-
tion.

The Senate thought this was a case
of democracy running rampant or
something, and struck that provision
out. Justice Minister Otto Lang and the
Conservatives were apparently ready
to play footsy with the Senate and pro-

pose 2 compromise, but the New Demo-
crats quite properly said No, and the
original bill was sent back to the Sen-
ate where the majority finally voted
forata-..,

This was a relatively small incident,
but it underscores that the Senate is
retained not simply from inertia but
for a definite purpose. This is where
the dead hand of politicians past — in
most cases the senators are “elevated”
to the Red Chamber after being defeat-
ed by the electors — is held ever poised
to veto any action that may be consid-
ered adverse to the interests of wealth
and privilege.

The Senate is not simply useless. It
has a bad use — to curb popular democ-
racy, to keep a tight rein even on the

government and the House of Com-—

mons. It should be abolished.

Secondly, the problem with police
wiretapping is not that it should be
hedged with what are in reality non-
existent “safeguards,” but that it is a
dirty and unnecessary practice and
should be done away with altogether,
instead of being provided with a legal
fig leaf. 1

China and Chile

In the current issue of his monthly
newsletter, Dr. James Endicott attacks
the Soviet Union and Leonid Brezhnev,
“fn an act of political obscenity tried
to link China to the bloody fascist re-
gime in Chile .. .”

Ignored is the fact that the Mao Tse-
tung government linked itself to that
“bloody fascist regime” through recog-
nition of it, and has received “a thou-
sand congratulations” for Mao’s birth-
day from the butcher-general Augusto

“Pinochet. |

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1974—PAGE 3

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