AS, “. . . today our planet stands perhaps closer to a firm and lasting peace than ever before. The Soviet Union uses all its influence to promote this beneficial trend.” — Brezhnev. FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... PLUMBERS’ WAGE AGREEMENT SIGNED MONTREAL — After two months of negotiations an agree- ment was signed here between the Master Plumbers’ Association and the Catholic and National Syndicate Plumbers’ and Steam- fitters’ Union, calling for an all- round increase of five cents an hour, and to last for two years. The new rates will be 75 cents an hour for class A men, 70 cents for class B and 65 cents for class C men, the latter scale being gen- erally for first-year men who have served apprenticeship. As in the past, the “open shop” clause remains in the new agree- ment. For six months hours are to be 40 a week, with 44 hours for the balance. Time and a half is to be paid on Saturday afternoon and after regular hours until mid- night. From midnight to 7 a.m., on Sundays and legal holidays, double time must be paid. The Worker, May 30, 1923 25 years ago... MacLEOD CONDEMNS DREW USE OF PLANE TORONTO — “I join Mr. Far- quhar Oliver, leader of the Liber- al party”, said Mr. A. A. MacLeod of Bellwoods (LPP) last week, addressing a large election meet- ing in the south end of his riding, in “condemning the use of a pro- vincial Hydro plane to take Mr. Drew around to his speaking en- gagements in northern Ontario. The lame explanations of Chair- man Saunders that he just hap- pened to be in Kapuskasing at the same time as Mr. Drew and just accidentally happened to be going in the plane to the same place that Mr. Drew was going to will deceive no one. “This amounts in fact to the back door use of the public treas- ury to help finance Mr. Drew’s campaign. It is an underhanded piece of business that should not be tolerated,” declared Mr. Mac- Leod. Tribune, May 29, 1948 Worth quoting: “Yes, that power of the spirit is the pride and glory of my people, and there is no human quality in all of America that can surpass it. It is a force only for good; there is no hatefulness about it. It exalts the finest things of life — justice, equality, human dignity and ful- fillment. It is of the earth, deeply rooted, and it reaches up to the skies and mankind's noblest aspirations. It is the time for this spirit to be evoked and exemplified in all we do, for it is a force mightier than all our enemies and will triumph over their evil ways.” if &, Pacific Tribune —Paul Robeson, Here | Stand ea West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune- Editor — MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Business & Circulation Manager, FRED WILSON. Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $3.00 for six months North and South America and Commonwealth countr:es, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year ee a “Se PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 197 : Q : co alin ait obs a Tien ae pet 3 LESS awn Second class mail registration number 1560. 3 — PAGE 4 { IChomoamt yt yesaswounetal Qinmenesotensa°pUlS! Maasai 1.) qoimetieqocortcbssiaisorniaitedest Jizihnenanas tid a ete) anipumaonmad Qa itide ls Oldoneinokevsiindd® © » INAS SSEROT WUE, CAGES Ae ala eT DEAT AG Edctorial Comment... No back-tracking on health care The people of Canada, whose work roduces the country’s wealth, have an inherent collective right to withdraw from that store of wealth their health- care and hospital needs. The money is there. It is how it is to be used, and who is to say, that remains a question. And if another demand is to be made, it is that health care should be extended to denticare and to making medicines available without wiping out family savings as happens now. At the federal-provincial conference, May 28-25, the Trudeau government proposed a new formula for health and hospital payments which frees Ottawa from the discipline of matching ap- proved provincial expenditures. The proffered extra six percentage points of federal income tax, along with liquor, beer and tobacco excise taxes, instead of the old system, has not yet been fully evaluated by the provinces. But there have been some indications of acceptance. : What does this tug-of-war mean for working people? Big business govern- ments, federal or provincial, are notori- ous for directing as little as possible of the taxpayers’ money for the benefit of the working people. The three NDP governments could do a service at this juncture by using their facilities to re- veal, both in terms of costs and of re- sponsibility, the full meaning of the closed-door meetings in which they took part. What is particularly disturbing at 4 time of soaring prices and widesprea unemployment, is the apparent lessen ing of federal concern for raising health care levels across the country, for en Suring that the health of some Cana- dians is not jeopardized because of the province they live in. The danger is not alone in less favor- ed provinces, but in monopoly-run prov inces like Ontario which has already set a course of cold-blooded cut-backs in hospital and health care as well as 2 education. On the surface very little seems t0 have come out of the meeting of prem iers with Mr. Trudeau and his minis, ters; Ontario didn’t win control ° cable TV; Ottawa’s plan for revising education financing was vetoed; 4 agreed to talk about foreign ownership — sometime. But- we are left with the nagging worry that a backward step has bee! taken in the handling of medicare an hospital care. It looks suspiciously 38 though, with unqualified grants, the provinces will decide unilaterally on ei level of health care their citizens W! receive. All the signs point to the need for 4 powerful people’s struggle on the fed eral and provincial fronts to win gual antees of equal opportuniy to healt protection for all Canadians, and healt care up to the limit of individual nee¢* a Not a U.S. task force At home, United States imperialism’s Watergate revelations are licking at the highest-paid law breakers, including the commander-in-chief. Internationally, however, U.S. im-, perialism is still the world’s bully, lash- ing its minions into a frenzy of provo- eations, sabotage, corruption and kill- ing. Nixon, not long ago, threatened_to resume bombing the Democratic Re- public of Vietnam; and_provocatory U.S. spy flights over the DRV are going on. The bombing orgy in Cambodia is kept up, and insolent. bombing raids have been made in South Vietnam — all violations of the Paris Agreements. The clear intent of Yankee imperial- ism is to continue to swagger about the world despoiling everything it touches. It is encouraged in this by men like Michel Gauvin, who behaves on the In- ternational Commission of Control and Supervision as if the Canadians there were a U.S. task force. The Los Angeles Times reports that classified documents prepared by the U.S. embassy in Saigon show that the Canadian observers have increasingly supported the South Vietnamese and American governments. It’s a disgrace for Canada’s so-called truce team to serve, openly or covertly, as an agent of the bloody aggressor who raped Vietnam, and as the apologist of its paid puppet. While insisting that Canada remain on the ICCS, we have also demanded that its ICCS team break its servitude to the USA and instead'work for peace © and the implementation of the Pati Agreements. Canada’s decision to withdraw from the ICCS cannot lessen the deman Canadians for a sovereign and ind® pendent foreign policy. g We must oppose in every way, U: : efforts to retain an aggressive military foothold in order to dominate military, political and economic policies 0 various regions of the world. Monopoly’s sewer We who are everlastingly snappitg off the radio or TV in disgust at a obnoxious, tiresome, imbecile comme ie cials directed into our homes, now hae to agree with at least one of the st@ ments of an insider. a John S. Straiton, vice-president of ; Toronto ad agency agrees that ©? . mercials are “sillier, more pointless} less factual and more trivial in 1973 -**, In the _ publication, Advertising: Manipulation or Persuasion, we ; 7; t - told that advertising “is not the grea force for evil that many militant cor, sumerists would want us to believe Advertising, it says, is just a love ne little old “primary economic tool of free enterprise system. . .” Radio and TV, which could se¥% genuine needs and desires, are we instead as monopoly’s sewer line, oa ptying into all our homes. What 15 é markable is that the ruling class vat pects anything so repungant to ender monopoly capitalism to its vicm rather than ignite protests to bro# casters and sponsors alike. CATER 31183 Pe di ne SUigenem destesW dé rithsbe