HEAVIEST BOMBINGS IN CAMBODIA PHNOM PENH — USS. B-52s carried out four solid hours of Carpet-bombing attacks around Phnom Penh April 24 in the heaviest Concentrated bombing of the Cambodian war. Much of the bomb- a Was aimed at Takhmau, only five miles from the center of the dan Podian capital. Tuesday’s air strikes marked the 48th straight ay of U.S. bombing of Cambodia. United Press International ae sPondent Bert. Okuley reported fron’ Phnom Penh: “Today’s t Taids Shattered the pre-dawn calm and jolted many of the city’s Wo million residents out of their sleep. Where food prices are Stable as wages go up By MONICA WHYTE sin OSCOW—In the more than So years we have lived in the viet Union, prices of all basic While pave remained _ stable, Bularly. ges have gone up re is Ee does not mean that food cont €ap in this country. On the rather” most families spend a A as large part of their income Sa Sod and clothing. The com- tra Sating factor is that rent, “Nsportation and other ser- Ces are remarkably low. ant typical food prices ah a ly equating the rouble epes the dollar): cold storage age Cost nine cents each and is $) fresh eggs 13 cents, butter lemo ‘50 a pound, oranges and i Ns about 30 cents each, . . hothouse cucumbers $1, fe $2 a pound, sugar 35 i pound. Senators charge U.S. embassy directs hombing tia Senators have charged Us ,.° Pentagon is using the a Pee passy in Phnom Penh as More pend centre for directing @Bainc: “et 200 air strikes a day nt Cambodia. Ww Charge was made last Sengend by the chairman of Commi Foreign Relations sub- ing lttee, Senator Stuart Sym- a Tepe, following publication of Who ae Senate investigators ss ad visited Cambodia. Violated Symington said this sig the intention of con- 197) Pal legislation passed in Rampenunst U.S. involvement in the ». 1% and added: “We have trate to ask what the admin- by ¢ this Continuing destruction of Th ttle country.” Margy, “Port said that by late tach | the giant B-52 bombers, bom , Pentagon admitted that 40,099 ‘S. had dropped about ia tons of bombs on Cam- toy during March, and Sena- leary ington said his staff had being that most of this was Sely© “topped on the most den- J, POPulated areas. For, 220i, North Vietnam’s Menten inistry issued a state- tematic” the “serious and sys- Nam ie Violations of the Viet- Ug ansefire agreement by the Doing Nd the Saigon regime.” It hag, Cut that while the U.S. bogig Panded the war in Cam- b pend resumed earial bom- lense git Of Laos, the U.S. De- to agai €cretary had threatened bomb North Vietnam. expects to accomplish. The variety of vegetables is limited but carrots, onions, cab- bages and beets are reasonable. White bread — very good and coming in innumerable shapes and types—sells for seven cents a small loaf to as high as 40 cents for huge loaves. Potatoes are 10 cents a pound; beef and pork around a dollar a pound. Other Costs Low Muscovites ‘eat well, appar- ently not bothered by prices. Over the May Day holidays they bought 13,000 tons of apples and oranges, six million lemons, 500 tons of fresh cucumbers, 700 tons of tomatoes and 1,000 tons of spring onions. They have money to spend on food and delicacies (such as elaborate, expensive cakes, cho- colates, etc.) because other liv- ing expenses are low. For example, the rent for our three-room apartment is only $12 a month; our phone costs us $2.50; gas is 17 cents per per- son per month, regardless of the amount used. Transportation is ridiculously cheap: three cents for streetcars, four cents for trolley buses, five cents for gas buses and subway. Taxis are widely used, fares are about one quarter of what we pay in Can- ada. Medical and dental care is free. University students receive free education and stipends. Soviet citizens spend money freely because they have no worries about the future. There is no unemployment. Prices re- main stable and wages con- tinue to rise. Life is getting bet- ter from year to year, VV AFIS 68) PROB RGB Pe BON Pee LRN AR BOBS PBB.) For Peace, Solidarity May Day, traditional day of demonstration of working-class solidarity, for labor rights, for peace and democracy, takes on varying emphasis in countries throughout the world. In Canada and the United States (where May Day origin- ated in Chicago in 1886) May Day activities were still to come, at press time. In the Soviet Union, where millions of people participate in May Day demonstrations in all the cities of the USSR, May Day 1973 was accompanied by - a review of successes in the eco- nomy and in home and foreign policies. In Moscow, Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Com- munist Party. of the Soviet Union, stressed that “The policy of the Soviet Union in Europe, just as in other parts of the world, is first of all a policy of peace’. 3a’ At the same time, as Pravda warned on the eve of May Day, quoting the CPSU call to the working people of socialist countries: “Be vigilant against the intrigues of the enemies of socialism!” In Canada, the Communist Patronage in Hydro TORONTO — Premier Wil- liam Davis of Ontario let mem- bers of the House know that he was enraged with the accusa- tions that his government got caught with its hand in the till. Instead of answering the charg- es directly, he and his not very credible treasurer, John 'White, attacked the press for making the disclosure that a large pat- tronage contract was awarded for the construction of Ontario Hydro offices. The company that was award- ed the contract, Canada Square Corp. Ltd. had inside informa- tion on Hydro’s needs nine months before the three other companies who submitted pro- posals to Hydro. And not only had Canada Square early access to the proposals, but the com- pany was underbid by another and still got the contract. In spite of the disclosures, the premier insisted that he “has complete confidence in the Hydro commissioners and their chairman, George Gathercole” and he “did not intend to sus- pend him from his job pending the result of the enquiry he or- dered.” Mr. Gathercole was the man responsible: for the con- tract award. Without answering the charg- es, the angry premier swung into an offensive posture and claimed that the press was ped- dling stories that were “self- contradictory, incomplete and misleading.” He challenged the story because one of the sourc- es who tipped-off the reporters was undisclosed. Differ on Costs If the story was misleading, the confusion probably arose from,the fact that the official minutes of the Hydro ‘meeting and Chairman Gathercole dif- fered on the costs of the origin- al proposals. After attacking the press for making the disclosures, Premier Davis added to the patronage quagmire when he told report- ers that “I can neither confirm Party pledged firm solidarity with the Canadian working class in its struggle for jobs, independence, and democratic rights. In Britain, where the Morn- ing Star proclaimed, A May Day to shake the Tories, tens of thousands of workers were re- ported on strike to protest the government’s wage freeze. “The big lie that inflation is caused by higher wages has been blown sky-high by the Tories themselves. They froze wages last November, but it hasn’t stopped food and other prices rocketing since then,” the Morning Star charges. In the trade union battles ahead for Canadian workers this spring, along with battles on prices, housing, jobs and social benefits, the spirit of working- class solidarity raised this May Day can make a vital contribu- tion towards victory. contracts nor deny” that Mr. Moog had donated funds to the Conser- vative Party. Mr. Moog is pre- sident of Canada Square Corp. Ltd. and a longtime personal friend of Premier Davis. Thank Friends The disclosure of the Davis government’s pork-barrel pat- tonage to its cronies comes at a time when workers in. .the building trades are fighting with- in their own locals and against Ontario Hydro to prevent the implementation of a. proposed 10-year contract. The political dictum of “thank your friends and defeat your enemies” has obviously been adopted by the Davis govern- ment. The patronage disclosures reveal who Davis considers his friends and the manipulations by his government to impose a 10-year contract on the people who build Hydro’s | buildings show that the workers are con- sidered the enemy by the Davis regime. PHOTO—EDYA WEIR United: States planes have been ruthlessly bombing Cambodia for over 50 consecutive days. In Toronto, a demonstration protesting the bombing was held April 25 in front of the U.S. consulate. Called by the Toronto Association for Peace, the demonstration brought together over 75 people from several. Toronto peace and progressive organizations. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1973—PAGE 5: eet 4