| 25 years ago...

HBACKS FROM

COURTS SEIZE
ROSENBERG CHILDREN
Michael and Robert Rosen-

\) berg, 10 and six years of age,

@ children of they martyred Ethel
¥ and Julius whose execution last.
} June stirred the anger of mill-
ions of people are now being

tortured by the New York City

| Welfare Dept. Messages of the
/act are pouring into Mayor
» Robert Wagner fronrall‘parts of

the world.
The welfare commissioner is

j seeking the appointment of a
) new guardian over the children
in the courts. Both boys were

‘subjected to a typical swooping
down of police cruisers and city
officials at the home of Ann and
Abe Meeropol, where they were

~ staying.

Only the previous night the

) children had learned. of. the
§ sudden death of their guardian
’ Emanuel Bloch, the
) berg’s defence lawyer.

osen-

Tribune,
» January 25, 1954

50 years ago...

RELEASE IMPRISONED
U.S. LABOR LEADER

Jack Johnston, prominent
militant labor leader of the Un-
ited States is still held as a
prisoner by British imperialism
inIndia,

Johnston was arrested by the
Anglo-Indian igo Gernniehe in
Dgaria, India where he went as
a~representative of: the: world

organization of anti-imperialist |

leagues to speak at the All India
Trade Union Congress, Dec. 25
to Jan. 1.

His message to the Congress
was an uncompromising attack

upon reactionary policies in In-
dia’s labor unions,.which are’

controlled by British puppets,
and a demand that the workers
of India control their own
unions and lead the struggle
against imperialist exploitation.
For this he was arrested. © .

_ The Worker,
January 26, 1929

Profiteer of the week:

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transit, shopping, recreation, health and child
care facilities and other cost-of-living factors
are largely decided by developers. (See
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by-product of developers’ good deeds is pro-
fit, e.g., Daon Development Corp., Vancouver,

hada tax-free $16,720,000 for the year ended

Oct. 31, 1978. A year before it was $10,551,000.

Figures used are from the company’s financial statements.

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EDINTORIAL
COMIMIENT

Guidelines for Jamieson —

Events in Kampuchea and in Iran,
which share-some similarities, have held
the centre of attention of late, and with
good reason. Both the Pol Pot regime in
Kampuchea, bolstered.by Maoism, and
the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza
Pahlavi in Iran, have earned the hatred
of their peoples for their brutality and
enforcement of poverty.

Iran, long a U.S. military stronghold,
dangerous to the peace of the world,
and a source of oil for expansionist
Israel and racist South Africa, is in what
may be but one stage of a process. The
Shah has gone. Can his chosen govern-

‘| ment head, Shapour Bakhtiar, be far

behind? :

Demonstrations in Teheran call ever
more loudly for the expulsion as well of
the U.S. presence in all its forms. The
corruption, oppression and poverty of
the masses of people under the Shah,
went hand-in-hand with his close ties
with the USA and the squandering of
billions on arms purchases from U‘S.
arms makers. Heir apparent in Iran’s
next stage, Moslem religious leader
Ayatollah Khomainiso far gives the USA
no hope of regaining its influence.

These are facts of the living history
we are watching. But some clear asser-
tions must be made. If not for the Soviet
Union and its stern warning against
gunboat diplomacy, U.S. troops would
already be there. If not for Soviet and
Vietnamese steadfastness, the Western
propaganda steamroller would by now
have thoroughly rewritten the. success-
ful struggle of the Kampuchean people.
The propaganda is still rolling out but it
has been unable to wipe out the real
events. <

Canada’s position has been hypocriti-

cal, and the press of Canada has played
a foul role, distorting the Kampuchean

-people’s victory to pass it off as a.

Vietnamese invasion rather than the
rising of a people against despotism. |

- External Affairs Minister Jamieson is
on record on both issues. He stated that
Canada’s interests lay with keeping the
Shah in power — along with all the
skulduggery of the CIA until it misread
the mood of the Iranians. The Cana-
dian Government should admit its guilt
in lining up with a regime unwanted by
the citizens of the country.

On Kampuchea, Jamieson, along with
U.S. spokesmen, and dozens of U.S. and
Canadian capitalist ,publications, is on
record — in fact Jamieson raised it at
the United Nations — protesting the
“gross and persistent violations” of
human rights by the Pol Pot clique.

‘Now what has happened? The Cana-

dian Government clings to recognition _
of that ousted band of butchers. That is ~

far from good enough.

Ottawa should recognize the new
Government of Kampuchea, the
People’s Revolutionary Council, headed
by Heng Samrin. Such recognition
should. be forthcoming without another
day’s delay.

It is inappropriate for Canada to
parrot the unctious and hypocritical line
of the USA — the USA which raped
Vietnam — and now cries rapist to
protect its own imperialist interests and
those of the adventurist Chinese leader-
ship.

For the Canadian Government the
guideline should be: Hands off Iran!
Recognize the People’s Revolutionary
Council of Kampuchea!

_ Aneye on UK labor fight

In strike-bound Britain, truckers and

railway workers lead a growing protest —

over the 5% pay ceiling enacted by the
so-called Labor ‘government. The
government, under severe pressure
from the right, has before it. at this
moment a choice of acceding to work-
ers’ just demands, declaring a state of
emergency and calling in the troops to
operate all transport, or reaching ag-
reement with enough right-wing union
leaders to break the strike movement.
The .situation is not so remote for
Canadian workers. We too have experi-
enced a wage freeze while prices and
profits soared ‘skyward. And pressure
from the right in Canada is for more
stringent controls\ on wages, more
handouts to corporations, a_ brutal

crackdown on all the social benefits won .

in hard struggle over decades of battl-
ing. ve

It is clear that one thing the British
workers need is fearless, militant leader-
ship, leadership which will not.sell out,

- not give up, but lead the fight to prevent

the working class being pushed into the
abyss the monopoly system has ready.
What of Canada? What of the 2.3-
million member Canadian Labor Con-
gress and its president, Dennis McDer-
mott? As one who talks a lot about the
New Democratic Party, Canada’s party
of social democrats, like Britain’s Labor

Party, what is McDermott’s position, by
comparison?

It’s no secret he spearheads tripartite
talks with government and big business,
despite CLC policy against it. The
businessmen’s press recognizes his “ac-
comodating and conciliatory posture
toward business and government.”

The social democrat government in
Britain is showing that political move-

ment’s worst side, the unwillingness of |

the so-called Labor government to take
the side of the workers against the
inroads of monopoly capitalism. It lays
bare the point on which right-wing
social democrats and communists differ
— the former do not want to get rid of
the system of bankers and board room
tycoons, and introduce a socialist system
to benefit the working people and the
vast majority.

This is no time for trade union
leadership to “accomodate” and “con-
ciliate” in the interests of the profit and
power of the corporations and their
governments. Trade unionists across
this country may find an interesting
lesson in the situation in Britain, com-
bined with the grim facts of the war on
labor-in Canada. It’s a militant battle for
labor’s positions, not accomodation to
protect the system, that is demanded of

‘trade union and workers’ political lead-
ers.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JANUARY 26, 1979—Page 3