HOW IT ALL BEGAN

FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...
CONCERNING UNDERWEAR

In these cold winter days under-
wear is found.to be necessary,
even by the working class. Mem-
bers of the bourgeoisie, however,
prefer underwear of a more dis-
tinctly “superior quality.” Walk-
ing past stores that are trequent-
ed by the members of the elite,
one can feast upon the glories
of “Penman’s Underwear Guaran-
teed not to Shrink.”

This particular commodity is
made in Paris, Ontario. ‘he hun-
dreds of girls that work in the
factories receive the sum ot $6
for their long working week, §4 of
which is paid to the Young Wo-
men’s Christian (?) Association
for room and board.

The other two dollars is uti-
‘lized for the purpose of recrea-
tion, clothing, saving and tor the
purpose of luxuries. Small won-
der that a girl in this factory com-
mitted suicide at work by drink-
ing carbolic acid. Small wonder,
also, that the girls are torced to
supplement their income by be-
coming prostitutes ...

The Worker,
December 8, 1924

25 years ago...

U.S. MACHINE

LAKE SUCCESS — ‘rhe United
States rallied its entire voting ma-

chine in the United Nations to

vote down the Soviet Union's pro-
posals for a five power peace
pact. Canada’s External Attairs
Minister Lester Pearson was sel-
ected for the job of giving the
verbal excuse for the vote, and
again chose the “big lie” method
of accusing the Soviet Union of

attempting to arrange the violent

overthrow of other governments.

In one of the most provocative
speeches yet given in the UN, he
called on the Soviet government
to disband the Communist intor-
mation Bureau.
voting machine rolled.

The U.S. and it satallites voted
to replace the specific Soviet pro-
posals with a platitudinous reso-
lution on peace in general. While
this was being done, the generals

and admirals of the Atlantic War.

Pact were meeting in Paris to al-

locate the U.S. billion dollar death

deal to ship arms to Western Eu-
rope. _

The Tribune,

December 12, 1949

Profiteer of the week:

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Editor — MAURICE RUSH 2 :
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Before you put the oil companies on your
charitable donations list because of their
recent uncontrolled weeping over taxes,
take a look at profits. Our.judges don’t like
to play favorites, but Total Pete (to strangers
that’s Total Petroleum (North America) Ltd.,
(Calgary) did the neat trick of increasing
profit 137% in the first nine months of 1974
($2,605,000 last’year to $6,182,000 this year)
while only increasing sales by 110%. Now
about the others .. .

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1974—Page 4

After this the

The Ford-Trudeau’ secret talks in
Washington last week were bound in
by the fact that both men head govern-
ments dedicated to the maintenance of
monopoly control of the economy. Yet,
in contradiction, both must strive for
eredibility with the increasingly defiant
working people who face dizzying infia-
tion and unemployment.

Nearly 6,000,000 are now out of work
in the USA (the worst since 1940—6.5%
of the work force). Canada’s November

for foreign policy

The depth of concern for the state of
Canada’s’ foreign policy was revealed
at Ottawa University, Dec. 7-8, when
180 representatives of a wide spectrum
of Canadian organizations participated
in an Assembly for a New Canadian
Foreign Policy.

The Trudeau Government’s foreign
policy, antagonistic as it is to the world
of the 1970s, is indeed due for examina-
tion. :

The Assembly did not aim at decision-
making, nor did it pass resolutions, but
through workshops and plenary ses-
siohs it extended the democratic process
by initiating a grass-roots re-examina-
tion of Canada’s contentious foreign

policy.

_The world-wide concerns, Interna-
tional Peace and Security, Sovereignty
and Independence, Social Justice and
Quality of Life, and others are the com-
manding ideas before all mankind to-
day. People in all walks of life have a
right to question their handling by gov-
ernments of monopoly capitalism.

Perhaps not surprisingly the idea of

- such a gathering originated with a

number of delegates back from feeling
the pulse of the peoples of 143 countries
at the World Congress of Peace Forces,

held in Moscow in October 1973. In.pre-
liminary discussions .in universities,

churches, labor unions, and countless
organizations working for human bet-
terment, the urgent need for a foreign
policy review resulted in the Assembly
Re echoes will long be heard in Can-
ada.

The processes by which masses of
people compel government policy are
multiplying on a world scale. Detente,
peaceful co-existence, the rights of peo-
ples to self-determination, are todav the
norms of human relations. The effects
of altering a backward foreign policy
like Canada’s can be enormous in a
world where the forces of progress are
sweeping ahead and the forces of reac-
tion are cornered — and deadly. °

The question is whether Canadian
policy will remain an obstacle to free-
dom and Justice in defence of world,
and in the first place USS., imperialism,
or will help to advance humanity’s lib-
eration and ensure a future of peace.

The Assembly could not decide what
was beyond its scope. What it could do
was open flood gates of organized pub-
lic opinion about what Canada’s foreign
policy should be. The government can-
not now appease such pressure of opin-

-ion with anything less than policies de-

fendine Canadian sovereignty. support-
ing self-determination for all peoples,
and aiding the extension of detente.

Who were talks meant to ser

aweek new lay-offs are announced, busi”

_ November and December will bea
for the old-line municipal politician? "7

ve?

jobless numbered 542,000—5.5%. Every

nesses cut back-or close. Recession 8”
eating into the USA; while Canada, for”
six months hovering at zero economle

growth, will know Dec. 31 whether 1
too has technically taken the plunge.

- Did the two leaders discuss this? The
press briefing gives few details. They |
talked about oil, and “chuckled over |
the auto pact, now that the USA has @
billion-dollar favorable balance, ane”
over the defence production sharing

agreement by which Canada keeps 18
fingers in the USA’s dirty wars, and a
arms deals with the likes of South Al”
rica. 2

It is said that more than half the an |

cussion time was on world topics. What
world topics? Well the cloak of secrecy

did not flap that far, so we don’t know: |

Whenever a Canadian cabinet mins :
ter goes to Washington, and particulat
ly when the prime minister does 5?

there is widespread uneasiness ti?

some more of Canada’s sovereignty Ha |

Agreements. between neighboriné |
countries are needed, of course.

just been gift-wrapped. |

change visits of heads of their govern”
mee should take place. For C7
dians it would be easier to swallow t
as a meeting of equals if U.S. corny
tions did not own 65% of our indus' + |
and 90%: of our resource industry ae
we were not sworn to obey U.S. mth ]
tary commands as a part of the No
American Air Defence. ;
(NORAD) and the militarist, expan’
North Atlantic Treaty Organizatl E
(NATO), also under the US. thum ial {
Canada needs domestic and foreia
policies based on the fulfillment of Fe
needs of her people, not on accommyry, |
tion of U.S. imperialist desires. — 3
Prime Minister must speak more sé!
ously and more openly of his talks er’ |
Ford, or Canadians will be left wor nis |
ing in whose interests they pal
fare to Washington.

~ Civic coalitions "74 |

The shift begun 1n civic Pol |

retard. anes sie |
Civic elections in towns and at |
across the- country. (without mnt? |

eruptions except in Montreal) pula av At

office a splendid sprinkling of ret’. |
minded, P rogressive-thinking, 1a
oriented, or socially-motivated rei ,
sentatives, often members of coali¥® 4 |
of varying degrees of cohesiveness; | af
including Communists. It is, after y: |
process of winning a new civic sock: ee

In this season’s elections gene aa
outspoken men and women were vi the
in in communities in at least halt on |
provinces of this country, a fine dente ;
stration of the new period were

ing, : ey
The days of the big daddy alder™ oy
councillors and mayor can be en¢ rf af
is not ended yet, but’ can be, wi shes |
alert working class united with its 4 ie
to elect people’s annals .
afraid of grass-roots democracy. |, \¢e |
Thefe is a vear-round job—for th? in
elected and for those thousands ot
back them — to win the citizem ig i

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can fight city hall — and win advan”

for their communities.

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