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FLASHBACKS FROM.
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...
AS THE WORKER
SEES If

A month ago all Halifax
“mourned” the passing of the big-
gest slave-driver in the city —
S. M. Brookfield. Among many
similar positions to his credit was
the presidency of the Halifax In-
dustrial School, ‘to which juven-
iles are condemned by the courts.
Investigation shows .that under
the eye of this public-spirited
citizen, youths were (1) Compel-
led to eat human excrement; (2)
Cooped up without beds, food or
proper ventilation; (3) Beaten
with metal tracers; (4) Fed, in
true fascist fashion, epsom salts
as a form of punishment; (5)
Beaten with fist and foot when
handcuffed; (6) Strapped across
a table and beaten while naked
—and so on ad nauseam. Contrast
that with the barbarous Soviet
Russia, where working class chil-
dren‘are housed in the palaces
of princes, and treated as such!

History has its Black Hole of
Calcutta, but it remained for

Brookfield to put those previous -

crude methods to shame.
The Worker, Nov. 15, 1924

25 years ago...

“I MARRIED A COMMUNIST”
FLOPS OF FIRST RUN

NEW YORK — These three
items from two Hollywood trade
papers tell a sad, sad story:

Part 1. “Red Menace: We were
scared of this one and tried to
cancel it out. It drew poorly the
first night but after the glass was
smashed out of our marquee we
publicized it and admitted all the
grade and high school students
for nine cents. We didn’t make
any money but we received a lot
of publicity .. .” (Bob Halliday,
Williamette Valley Theatres, Al-
bany, Oregon in Motion Picture
Herald, Oct. 22.

Part 2. “Iron Curtain: I expect-
ed business to be poor on this
one and it turned out that
way ...” H. A. Corr, Community
Theatre, Marwayne, Alberta’ —
same rag, Same date.

Part 3. “RKO has purchased the
title “Beautiful But Dangerous”
from Leon Gutterman for pos-
sible use as the new tag for “I

Married a Communist” which was

withdrawn after test runs in Los
Angeles and San Francisco.”
Tribune, Nov. 14, 1949

Profiteer of the week:

West Coast edition, Canadi

%, ,Pacitic Tribune

It's time to ring Ma's Bell again to the
merry merry tune of more profits. So what's
new, you ask? Didn’t we hear the same a
few months ago? Yes, but the figures are
getting better. For the first nine months of
1974 to Sept. 30, Bell Canada rang up |
$177,000,000 in profits, as compared to only
$142,900,000 during the same period of 1973.
You can thank the Canadian Transport.
Commission and the Liberal government for
being so generous with your money—for
allowing the yearly rate hikes that swell
Bell's coffers and eat up your earnings.

Tribune

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1974—Page 4

Strident voices of Ukrainian national-
ists are heard in Canada, encouraged
by the capitalist media, whose present
wail is over an anti-Soviet conspirator
now serving a prison sentence.

Twice caught plotting to subvert his
country’s sovereignty, and linked spirit-
ually and financially to a-Munich pro-
nazi group, Valentyn Moroz’ jail term
would attract no one were this not one
of the final anti-Soviet flings available
to haters of socialism.

Long after the slanders about Soviet
trade unions,
travel, and living conditions in USSR
have been laid to rest, the expedient of
making instant writers, historians, pa-
triots and freedom fighters of anti-
Soviet plotters is still considered a re-
liable method to trap the do-gooders
and win the plaudits of the big business
press.

As a historian, writes News from
Ukraine, Moroz “hardly managed to
write two theses for reports at a scien-
tifie conference,” and as a publicist, he
should have little renown for the “few
lampoons about the Ukrainian people
and their culture” which he published
abroad. - ae

One might have expected the Ukrai-
nian defenders of Moroz in Canada to
spend these days celebrating the 30th
anniversary of the liberation of Uk-
raine from the nazis. The nazis sent
against the Soviet Union its best 190

Soviet citizens’ right to

The real liberation of Ukraine —

and the tru?

_ divisions (55 million men), * thet

« patriots fought against, not fo

Half a million partisans, 60 national

ties, fought them on the territory :
Cisuine: liberating 140 cities and othe
settlements, destroying nearly ’

enemy trains, and liquidating
risons, preparing the ground

: e
the true heroes of Ukraine, but
scummy voice of capitalism wou! aie
er lead the defence of an anti-
anachronism. 00
The fascists razed more than. jn
cities and towns, 28,000 villages, + sod
industrial enterprises, and plundt,
20,000 collective and state farm
if the Quislings who ran away W: 4
nazis, among them executionens’ had
Ukrainian people now in ee Hitler
had their way, the appointee 0
would now hold court in Kiev.
The Soviet people are quite bea
of conducting their own legal De
ings. But Canadians who foug h
cism with their Soviet allies, W
joice in the great strides by the sine!
nian people (and who are gen Call
concerned with imprisonment mi f
ada of a disproportionate nue di
Indians, and of many others W por
not have the educational and joo in
tunities of a Moroz) are justine’

being fed up with this intermina.

ital
right-wing harangue and the capita

press which finds it so useful. |

On November 18, Finance Minister John
Turner will bring down the Federal Govern-
ment Budget outlining fiscal policies which
will bear on the lives of all Canadians. In
view of the serious state of the economy
concern that the Budget should come to grips
with the major problems is expressed in a
letter sent Nov. 8 to the Finance Minister
by William Kashtan, leader of the Communist
Party of Canada. Its timely proposals deserve
wide support.

In connection with preparations of the
Budget and its presentation to Parliament on
following observations:

The Budget should be based on measures
to assure full employment policies. There
are views being advanced which, under cover
of inflation, and allegedly to cope with in-
flation, propose economic policies leading to
deflation and to the building up of unemploy-
ment to the level of 6 to 7% of the labor
force. The aim here is to equate 6 to 7%

~ unemployment wiht full employment.

There are also views afoot which suggest
a policy of “moderate restraint” in Govern-
ment spending, the inference being that Goy-
ernment spending stimulates inflation.

We believe some Government expenditures
such as expenditures on arms production and
defence spending are inflationary. These.
create no new values or products which can
be “consumed.” There are also Government
expenditures which are in the form of sub-
sidies or other forms of financial outlays to
the corporations.
stimulate inflationary tendencies.

However, Government expenditures direct-
ed to expand social security, to expand the
economy, to create new values, are not in
Our opinion, inflationary. These lead to an
improvement in the Standard and quality
of life, assure employment and should there-
fore be continued and expanded.

We therefore Propose that the Budget out-

line effective policies to achieve full employ-
ment.

This should include measures to cope with

the housing crisis. Despite the declared inten-
\_ ten of your Government that housing would

Budget must

November 18, our Party wishes to make the

‘These- too in our view, —

not be used as a weapon to raise or on
economic activity, it is being so ee ue
at the expense of the well-being 0
nadian people. :
Sauce han a massive drop in hous
construction which may decline to a
housing units in 1975, \from over ae fe: ‘
units this year, we believe there shoul tion
massive increase in housing conse
directed to satisfy the needs of lower inc ie
and medium brackets. The decline in ee fs
ing construction, apart from accentint a
severe social problem, has also led to a
scale unemployment in the forestry indu
in B.C., Alberta and Ontario. “a
Budget policy should ensure a come
hensive attack on the housing crisis a otf
at making low cost housing and rent
commodation available to Canadians. In ul
to ensure that this is done, housing sh
be considered a public utility, land asta
should be undertaken on a large scale ey:
mortgage rates lowered to 5% by effec
Government measures.’ ae
We further propose a just re-distribu A
of the national income. Inflation contin ao
to redistribute it in favor of the corporal
They in fact are the only ones who a:
complain about inflation, nor do they :
cause to, considering their profit levels. Be
We believe a redistribution of the nae /
income should take the form of tax re ily:
tions on incomes below $10,000 ana
It should also take the form of exten! ai
social security measures such as a qu
teed annual income, denticare and pha ‘a
care, and substantially increasing pens
ments. - 3
* Such a redistribution of national incor
could and should include a roll-back on. ae
of essential food ‘stuffs and housing, ‘ly
areas where prices have risen most oe
in the past period. Such a roll-back on Mes:
followed by price controls under strict
democratic control would in our opinion, Be
much to alleviate the hardships being ee
fered by an ever growing body of Canadi He
We believe that if the budget inclu i
such measures it would be widely we |
comed by Canadians in all parts of
country.

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