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25 years ago...
‘OPERATION CHILE’
GAINING IN TEMPO

By “Operation Chile”, we
mean the U.S. State Department
drive to smother democracy in
that country. In the copper

industry, 95% U.S.-owned, the

ment has tried to break a
strike by conscripting: workers. .

Blaming the strike on
“international communism”,
president Ibanez has asked the
Chilean Congress for special
emergency powers for six

_ months which would allow him
to place persons under house ar-
rest, to search without warrant,
restrict radio and press free-
doms, restrict holding of meet-
ings and fire government
employees at will. ;

The press has also attacked
the President of the Senate; Sal-
vador Allende who recently vis-
ited the USSR and spoke for
trade between the two countries.

Tribune,
Oct. 4, 1954

FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

GOVERNMENT BANS
WORKERS’ PAPERS

The Canadian boss govern-
ment, has banned and forbid-
den entrance into Canada no
less than five working-class pap-

ers. They are printed in the

United States by and for immig-
rant and foreign born workers
and have had a fairly wide
circulation in Canada. They are:
Freiheit (Jewish daily), Uj Elore
(Hungarian daily); Il Lavaratore
(Italian weekly); Saznanie (Bul-
garian weekly) and Radik
another foreign-born workers’
paper. Practically all the foreign
language workers’ papers that
advocate a militant policy of
struggle and conduct a genuine
fight in the interests of the work-
ers have been forbidden entr-
ance into the country by the
Canadian capitalist class.

The Worker,
October 5, 1929

Profiteer of the week:

What does it mean, the big business slogan
— profits before people? It means the likes of
Calgary Power, Calgary, Alta., filching
$46,074,000 in profit from customers over the
six months ended June 30. For people it
means a teeter-tooter of higher costs for
power and lower living standards.

Figures used are from the company's financial statements.

Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN
Associate Editor — FRED WILSON
Business and Circulation Manager — PAT O'CONNOR

Published weekly at Suite 101 — 1416 Commercial Drive,
Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9. Phone 251-1186

Subscription Rate: Canada $10 one yr.; $6.00 for six months;
All other countries, $12 one year. :

Second class mail registration number 1560

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 12, 1979— Page A

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| COMMIENT

Hands up, all those who believed the
Tories when they said they'd get the
economy purring again — with jobs,
lower prices, tax cuts, etc.

Capitalist economists paint a different
picture. Thomas Maxwell, vice-
president and chief economist of the
Conference Board in Canada, sees the
creeping U.S. recession dragging Cana-
da’s economy to new lows. .

It would take a government in Ottawa
dedicated to raising living standards and
creating jobs through Canadian inde-
pendent development, to offset such
stagnation. But there is every sign the
Clark government intends to hop to the
commands of the U.S.-based and other
multi-nationals and to sacrifice every-
thing else for their profits and greater
control of our lives. :

Maxwell forcasts no growth in exports
by year’s end. That’s a come-down from
a 9.3% growth in 1978. Inflation, his
organization says, will bound upward to
an annual average of 9.4% in 1980.
How’s that for restraint, lowered expec-
tations? The corporation bosses still ex-
pect to extort that much more out of us.

Gross National Product, that is every-
thing produced in a country, and a sign
of economic sickness or health, is pre-
dicted at a shockingly low 1% in the US.

this year, and 0% next year. Because of

U.S. hit list?

‘Canada on

Actions speak louder than words.
That is what has to be recognized in
President Carter’s response — not to a
provocation from Cuba or the Soviet
Union — to a highly orchestrated
propaganda barrage against Cuba.

The most reactionary plotters of the
U.S. administration cooked up the so-
called “threat” posed by a few Soviet
troops who have maintained their
number in Cuba as training forces for

17 years — a fact well-known to the.

USA. Washington must be clutching at
straws for its military “threats” these
days.

But the outcome is not so funny as the
re-cycled threats.

Carter ordered an attack on the
Island of Cuba, by 10,000 men on 16
ships, with 1,500 Marines storming
ashore — about a week from now. All
that keeps it from being a declaration of
war is that they'll land at Guantanamo,
the U.S.-occupied base at the tip of
Cuba, where the USA maintains an
unwelcome military presence by agree-
ment with the former dictator, Batista.

Carter ordered increased military

» manoeuvres in the Caribbean. He set up

a special base at Key West, Florida, to
symbolize the USA’s big, stick over its
smaller neighbors, and increased spy
surveillance of Cuba.

These provocative moves mesh with
the earlier establishment of a 110,000-
strong “contingency force” to roam the
Middle East, prepared to take by force
the oil resources there.

Economic nose-dive steeper

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scare Cuba (population 9.5 million)

‘same threats? The USA’s continentali®)

_the Marines and the contingency

Xs

Ottawa’s lack of concern for the people |
of Canada, we'll tag along with a pre-
dicted 2.4% GNP rise this year, and only |
1.5% next year.

This is the road to stagnation, and for |
the working people, the unemployed, |
and those on government-controlled. in- |
comes, the road to poverty and despait.
It needs to be turned instead into the
road for a workers’ offensive, a fightback |
of massive proportions.

Clark, Crosbie and company are dom
nothing even. to stop the shutdowns an
layoffs by corporations intent on grub:
bing up fatter profits in lower wage
areas. They not only want to share
Canada’s resources with the USA, they}
share the suffering of the U.S. crisis.

The forecasters said more. They said}
unemployment will soar from today’s
7.2% to 7.6% this winter; Toronto
Dominion Bank estimates 8.2% next|
year. The Tory answer is to ride out the}
crisis by draining every cent and dem)
ocratic right out of the working people:
They’re demonstrating that.

What is to be done? The fight for jobs,
for a say by workers in all matters affect: |
ing their lives, needs stepping up and)
buttressing with ‘coast-to-coast labor)
unity. The fight against every instance of
cutbacks in social benefits needs to turn
relentless. “It’s them or us.” .

The implicit threats to peace and 10)
the security of other countries ar
obvious. Beside such belligerent act
Carter’s support for SALT IJ and)
expressed desire’ not to rekindle the)
cold war look like grotesque masks.

As one of the two world bullies, the)
USA (population 214.5 million tries t0

while Washington’s ally, Maoist Chin@)
(population, upwards of 800 million)
rants about teaching a lesson to Vietna™)
(population some 42 million). But thé
two bullies have had. their nos@

ple the sovereign rights of othe!)
countries. a

It is something for Canadians ©
ponder. Can this country escape thos*)

scheme to “share” in Canada’s resour es i
is well known. And Rodney Grey, until .
recently Canada’s chief negotiator al
international trade talks in Geneva, hay
expressed the chilling reality: “A lot ON
Americans believe they have a right oy
our oil and gas because they put u the
money for it”(!) by investing in explot®
tion companies..

Canadians might ponder that, and
forc® |
as they wait through the dark, cold day? |
of winter for an energy policy from thé
Clark Tories that serves Canadians.

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