When it comes to Sharing our resources Pierre and Joe really mean business $0 years ago... APPEAL LOST of H-BOMB TEST COMRADES JAILED lin, Ollowing a University of To- | The appeals against the sen- ; nto physicist’s warning last. tences of comrades Ryan, Smith, ek that the U.S. H-Bomb Farby, Langley, O'Sullivan and _ *cific explosion scheduled for Andrews has been lost and the » *Pril-22 could send radioactive sentence of 30 days stands. _ “ust across Canada via jet stream ACT TO STOP Ne sated . They have preferred to go to nds, s vege median Fence <2, jail rather than pay the fines and arliamentary action to haye.the aré prepared to take the conse- . quences which the fight for free ‘yest cancelled: },, The physicist warned the speephandGesonemey the 4 “Bomb blast would be in the 4, ature of a bomb 1,000 times Their arrest and sentences are gr the result of the police sup- Toronto which prohibit speeches in any other language he Canadian Peace Con- than English at Communist or Bress demanded that parliament workers’ meetings. Our com- Must act at once to stop all hyd- rades were arrested at open air Togen bomb tests and for the meetings and charged with dis- Utlawing of H-Bombs. “No orderly conduct although there yee Matter of public business is more obviously was’t any disorder. ek Mrgent,” it said. yy of Tribune, The Worker, __ April 19, 1954 April 27, 1929 - Profiteer of the week: | Roman Corporation Ltd. is one of those struggling mining outfits such as the Ontario Tory government has just handed more financial aid. It’s an insight into what Tory Joe Clark would do as the big commander in Otta- wa. Roman Corporation had after-tax profit of $15,251,000 in 1978, up from $6,705,000 in 1977. Voters may recall Stephen Roman as a defeated Tory candidate a few years back. Nice connections. P \ Figures used are from the company’s financial statements. _ Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN ae _ Associate Editor — FRED WILSON es 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 year; $6.00 for six months; ; ’ All. other countries, $12 one year. Second class mail registration number 1560 pression of free speech in > EDIMORIAIL COMMENT ‘Libs or Tories’ no choice ~ The various families of the big busi- ness corporate elite, and their loyal media machines, are’ offering working- class voters a “choice” — Trudeau or Clark. The Westons, Thompsons, Bronfmans, Blacks, not to mention General Motors and all those, compete at amassing vast profits and powers. But they are agreed on some fundamentals. The selection of the government and prime minister to preside over their system can’t be left to chance. The capitalist system and their privileged positions must remain unchanged. Hence the offer: Trudeau or Clark — and not to the extent that New Democ- rats support capitalism they'll get notice too. That is the “works” behind the demo- cratic election called by the state to. adjust priorities. A vote for either old- liner is a vote for new attacks on family budgets, more price rises, more unemployment, more state action against trade union and democratic rights (such as the. “guilty” verdict against the Postal Workers’ leader). The media’s Pierre and Joe Show would be funny were it not in the ‘serious business of mugging the work- ing people of Canada. Trudeau, the millionaire who can’t disdain for workers, has a lot of nerve telling the unemployed — “get off your ass...and worka little bit.” _ Even ‘when the government shrank the million-plus. jobless. to .a_.900,000 average for 1978, it could only report 44,500 jobs vacancies (and many of those not fit for humans). What jobs, we might ask His Arrogance, are, the other 855,500 expected to do? Nor are farmers exempt. The wage- freeze man tells them to quit complain- hide his ing — while a sell-out _ government allows: multi-nationals to gobble u more and more of Canadian agri- culture. But the working-class electorate, understandably wanting change, should be forewarned, and not leap from the frying pan into the fire. Eager to wield power for the system is the Tory machine with its Joe Clark radiator cap.. Tory economic policy —a dangerous, anti-social, anti-labor doctrine — would empty the pork barrel, through “incen- tives” for monopoly corporations. The Tory Davis government in Ontario gave a preview in its Apr. 10 Budget, which heaps the gifts of taxpayers’ dollars on the rich mining corporations. Clark promises to remove “excessive” regulations on multi-nationals and U.S. corporations wishing to swallow more chunks of Canada. But he would rest- rain government spending in exactly those places that hit the working people. This kind of restraint is called cutbacks, the same hatchet used by Trudeau to chop health, education, unemployment insurance, and to cripple the means of _job-creation in an independent Canada. And while Clark now denies it, the idea of soaking citizens over and above medicare costs for doctor visits, is in the Tory bag. Clark admits he would kill off 60,000 civil service jobs. There are a lot of working people in this country, enough that any time they _ decide to unite, they can elect their own overnment, and boot out the vultures rom the posh board rooms. Workers ‘have an opportunity to elect their own government — a progressive majority, with that necessary element, Com- ‘munist MPs — on May 22. ; - Democracy — CBC style? The federal election campaign is in full swing, and the Canadian Broadcast- ing Corporation, trué to form, is dis- criminating against the Communist Party of Canada (which has been active in Canada for 58 years), against its plat- form and candidates... A token interview in one or two secon- dary centres is not equal opportunity. Why the blackout? What is the CBC - afraid of? Where does its vendetta origi- nate, and how does it explain its parti- sanship? Is this democracy — CBC style? Not only is the CBC news department guilty of manipulating the news on a 365-day basis, but at election time it out- does itself in its efforts to manipulate the minds of voters, by blacking out a party running 75 candidates, a party with a serious platform which answers many of Canada’s needs. : Would the CBC snap out of its self- appointed role as gatekeeper of our minds if it were deluged with’ protests? Canadians who resent being news- managed and mind-managed have the _answer as near as their pencils and tele- phones. Massive Chinese build-up The combined military and prop- aganda~ push to smash Vietnamese policies of independence and peaceful construction, and to smash the country itself, is being stepped up. ; The World Peace Council has cabled an urgent alert to peace organizations around the world, of a massive build-up ‘of Chinese troops on the Vietnamese and Laotian borders. There is little time for world pressure to put a stop to this provocation which heralds further ag- ession. : Every dirty propaganda means is used to distort Vietnamese reality — includ- ing the “award-winning” racist film: The Deer Hunter. ade, The Canadian Government has put it- self firmly in the camp of the racists, the _ U.S. imperialists and the Chinese expan- sionists, in its cowardly refusal to con- demn China’s aggression of Feb. 17. In- . stead it has comforted the aggressor by cutting off hospital funds promised to Vietnam, by inflating the hoax of a Viet- namese “invasion” of Kainpuchea, and by cooking up a “charge” against a Viet- namese diplomat. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 20, 1979—Page 3