25 years ago... FORD FAMILY TAKES AND TAKES How would you like to make a cool $4-million overnight? Top Ford Motor Company officials stand to make as much as $3.5-million and $4-million each asa result of the splitting of company stocks for sale to the public. The news came on the heels of the much-publicized an- nouncement that the Ford Motor Company had switched from exclusive family ownership of the company, to selling 60% of its common stock shares. New York Stock Exchange chairman Keith Funston called the move “a landmark in the his- tory of public ownership”. But the facts show otherwise. The Ford family will still dominate the company, since it takes less than 40% of voting shares, which the family retains, to ef- fect control. Tribune, November 28, 1955 FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... STOP DEPORTATION OF JOBLESS WORKERS All over Canada foreign-born workers are being rounded up and shipped away because they have become unemployed and destitute. Last week 77 workers were deported for becoming “public charges”. This week nearly 100 workers were rounded up in Port Col- bourne for registering as un- employed in the hope of getting work or relief. As things stand, many workers feel they must starve in silence or run the risk of being deported. Many are sent to fascist coun- tries where they are jailed -as soon as they arrive. Daily the shiploads of deportees are leav- ing Canadian ports. As soon as an unemployed foreign-born worker applies for aid at a hospi- tal, his name is given over to the immigration authorities. This will continue unless the working ~class puts a stop to it. - The Workers, November 22, 1930 Profiteer of the week: plant. Imperial Oil, which threatens to shut down Cold Lake oilsands development unless government pricing is right, had an after-tax profit of $481,000,000 in the first nine months of 1980. Under public ownership that would . ensure Canadian development, instead of threats from this U.S. multi-national’s branch 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—NOV. 28, 1980—Page 4 - the -U°S: EDITORIAL COMIMUENT ~ Constitution needs labor The constitutional mess created by the Liberals, and compounded by Tory . one-upmanship arises from their eva- " sion of responsibility to the Canadian people. The claims of concern for Cana- dian sovereignty and individual rights is shameless deception which serves the big business interests they and their media represent. There is a way out of the mess, the way that ensures self-determination for the French Canadian nation; the way that guarantees Native people political equal- ity and the right of decision over their own lives; the way that proclaims Cana- da’s natural resources the property of the Canadian people as a whole, not of multi-nationals or a “Canadianized” corporate elite. What the two big business parties are skirmishing over is which set of capitalist monopolies will hold sway. All of them view with alarm the loss of leverage, should the people of French and English Canada establish unity in equality, and the Native people win from the syste their many just claims. ; Looking beyond the political gymnas- tics, workers can see that a constituent assembly, broadly representative, to draft a made-in-Canada constitution, would bury the phoney debate about re- suscitating the British North America Act, an insult to millions of our citizens. The key point is that labor has to take a strong stand and battle for a democratic outcome, in the interests of workers and the vast non-monopoly majority. Labor has already expressed such views. The Communist Party takes this stand, and demands a charter of rights and free- doms embodied in the new constitution. It is unfortunate that New Democratic Party leader Broadbent chose a saw-off with the Liberals on “patriation”. But a powerful unity can still be built by the working class and democratic forces. Their part in drawing up 4 — made-in-Canadaconstitution isnecessary to ensure that it speaks, not for the monopolies, butforthe Canadian people. Use Madrid to win peace The meeting of 35 countries in Mad- rid to look at fulfillment of the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, has the potential to be a landmark on the road to peace and human survival. Since Canadians, as much as anyone, have a stake in heading off nuclear incineration, we should be united in very loud demands on Ottawa to use the Madrid meeting to guarantee peace, not simply.to set off the Penta- gon’s stink bombs. The Helsinki Final Act provides a blueprint for responsible leaders for guiding the world away from the brink of nuclear extermination, onto the sane path of disarmament, détente, and peaceful co-existence of different politi- cal systems. . Human rights is also a very important issue. It is not, as U.S. and Canadian propagandists would have us believe, the only issue the Final Act and the Madrid meeting are about. And when it comes to human. rights we need to consider human rights in U.S. serogate states like Chile, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, in South Africa — or in the USA itself. Let’s look hard at these mass human rights — and include Canada’s Native peoples; and give proper rebuff to the drivel we’re served by the capitalist press when the USSR prosecutes criminals in its established courts. . The big business media have prepared us for Washington’s main propaganda pitch — Afghanistan. The Washington/Ottawa team in Madrid ex- presses terrible wrath at the so-called Soviet breaching of the Helsinki agree- ments. Hidden, or blustered over, is the fact of marauder gangs, armed, sup- plied, trained and incited by the USA, China, Pakistan, and Egypt. The Afghan Government’s battle against these de- stroyers is supported by the USSR at Af- ghanistan’s request. These diversions and propaganda stunts, aimed not only at undermining socialism, but also at the reinstitution of colonialism and at NATO/U.S. world domination. They are a threat parallel to the chilling reality of U.S. implantation of new nuclear missiles in Europe. It will be tragic if Canada’s.representa- tives are not pulled back in time from damaging the possibilities of détente and disarmament which are inherent in the Final Act. Canada’s working people, who would make up millions of the victims of a nuclear war, are the sector with the organizational strength to impress these urgent facts upon the government. Media trial At a recent trial in Toronto under County Court Judge Frank Dunlap, two Metro Toronto police constables charged with manslaughter in the shoot- ing of Jamaican immigrant Albert Johnson in his home in August 1979, were acquitted. : The disgraceful parady of a trial, in which the murdered Johnson, not the — police, was put on trial will be adequately dealt with elsewhere. , What has to be held up the light of day is the irresponsible role of the establish- ment media. Without exception the mas- — ters of distortion at the CBC, at the big business Star:and Globe, at the redneck Sun, conspired to put across the concept — that killing Albert Johnson was excusa- — ble because witnesses were produced to claim Johnson was emotionally unstable. — It’s not the first trial in which the — media have had a dirty role to play, but — the stink from this one proves which side — the ruling-class media is on when the police, the courts, and the racists gang up — against democracy and human rights.