« Ne oN ne Tete RENNES on fine os — *, : Va Prizewinning poster by Soviet painter Z. Yefimovsky. Verse at the ‘op reads that the devastating blow of the punishing hand of the “letnamese people will knock the madness out of the bloodthirsty Waders, es WHO THEY ARE European Business, the jour- Nal of the European Institute of Business Administration, re- / S€ntly published the results of {%n interesting poll conducted } %mong more than 1,000 presi- €nts and general directors of © biggest industrial firms in the capitalist world—576 from the United States. It reveals at almost 900 of the more Gn 1,000 company presidents {nd general directors ques- 'Oned are scions of wealthy Qmilies and with fortunes of @ir own. The rest come from the middle class. Business: in the capitalist World is thus administered not by newcomers “from below,” Ut by those who both own the Production machine and run it lN their own selfish interests. New Times. TRUE AMERICAN CREDO : Any people anywhere, being clined and having the power, Sve the right to rise up and Shake off the existing govern- Ment and form a new one that Suits them better. This is a Most valuable and sacred right 9 tight we hope and believe S to liberate the. world. Abraham Lincoln, 1884. A WHOLE EPOCH The socialist revolution is by no means a single battle; on the contrary, it is an epoch of a whole series of battles around all problems of econo- mic and social reforms, which can be completed only by the expropriation of the bour- geoisie. —V. I. Lenin CONSCIENCE DEAD? The Pentagon attempts to soothe the public conscience by stating that in the -final weeks of the Indian wars of the nineteenth century, far more Sioux Indians were killed in one cavalry raid than died in the village of Pinkville. Somewhere ‘in the midst of this legal conflict and acade- mic controversy lies the corpse of the American conscience. Larry Skory, Daily Ryersonian, Toronto RATS STILL ABOARD? The Liberals held a pow-wow To help their party live Like the wise men of Gotham Who went to sea in a sieve. J. S. Wallace. | @Medseces0-0:020. 620505 swereres Eos Sessa Editor—TOM McEWEN iC West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH Soviet wheat deal The good news that the Soviet Union has bought 1385 million bushels of wheat will brighten Christmas for prairie farmers. It will: put over $200 million into circulation. Significantly, it is once again the socialist market that has eased the farm crisis a bit. It comes at a time when a three-man Soviet trade delegation is on a cross- Canada trip, for the purpose of selling Soviet hydro-electrical equipment to Canada. David Cass-Beggs, outstand- ing Canadian engineer, has commented in the past on the advanced develop- ment of Soviet hydro-power systems, so there is no doubt that the Soviets have something to sell us. Last year the Soviet Union bought $400 million in wheat, and sold only $22 million worth of goods to Canada. Any steps to open the Canadian market for Soviet goods in exchange for Canadian goods will bring all-round benefits to both our countries. Such development could, indeed, transform the gloomy economic scene on the prairies to one of growth and optimism. We suggest to Premier Thatcher that. he gives it a try. His government has just bartered: $400,000 worth of wheat for Japanese electrical generators through the Pioneer Electric Company of Winnipeg. While it is true that the amount of money involved is small, the possibili- ties it opens are promising and vast. It is also obvious, without counterposing it to barter, that the freeing of the res- trictions on Canada’s trade is a central question. : This is contrary to the avowed policy of the Trudeau administration. The latest Greene-Hickel proposal to turn over all our key power resources to the United States further restricts those independent policies that could be pur- sued by Canada. It is this fight for new trade relations that is also part of the struggle to frustrate the Trudeau gov- ernment’s plans to squeeze another mil- lion people off the land. Scapegoat for inaction | -The Company of Young Canadians continues to be a focal point of public attention. The Quebec and Federal governments singled it-out -as_a—“fall guy,” while actually the unrest in Que- bec, as everywhere in Canada, whether » or not you agree with the direction and the forms it takes, arises out of the serious economic and-social problems facing Canadians today. The CYC was set up by the Pearson administration, supposedly to help young Canadians. The magnitude of that task is spelled out by the multipli- city of crises affecting every aspect of capitalist: life, which maim and blight life for Canada’s young people. . Idealists and reformers found their way into the CYC and, while they did little or nothing to resolve the prob- lems, they helped expose some of the ulcers of modern-day capitalism. The hatchet job now being done on aim at becoming a vehicle for official government policies. The resistance of the CYC is to be commended. Their main hope to become an organization contributing to the progress of Canada, is to turn to Cana- da’s working class for co-operation and assistance. Curb hate literature ‘There is a great hullabaloo about Bill C-3, which is supposed to curb hate literature in Canada. Some politicians, notably John Diefenbaker, expressed concern lest some of its provisions may be used to limit the democratic pro- cesses. No doubt Mr. Diefenbaker full appreciates the capabilities of the capi- aoe rulers of our land in that direc- ion. . Bill C-3 proposes to punish “everyone who advocates or promotes genocide.” It also proposes to punish anyone who ~ “by communicating statements in any public place, incites hatred or contempt against any identifiable group.” The struggle against capitalism in- volves the struggle for more democ- racy, and to curb the filth spewed up by capitalism. Anti-Semitism, racism, and anti-Communism are all part of it. To refuse, in the name of democracy, to curb peddlers of hatred and geno- cide, is itself undemocratic. There is no such thing as a “pure democracy” standing above and outside of all class- es. The weakness of the Act is that it does not specifically name what it has ’ in mind, although that is the simplest of tasks. It does not name the forces from which this hate literature emana- tes, such as the Edmund Burke Society, - the Canadian Intelligence Service, the Canadian Nazi Party, the “alert” ser- vice — the Walshes, Beattys and Gos- ticks to name but a few. It is Pee to spell out the racism directed against Canada’s native peo- ple . . . the Negro and other colored people. It is possible to detail anti- Semitism. The hatred of this kind is a° healthy hatred, that needs nurturing. The present bill, unamended, leaves too wide a variation of interpretations. Nixon’s Xmas hoax Nixon has announced another 50,000 troop withdrawal from Vietnam. This is another device to cover up his stri- dent xefusal to end the war against . Vietnam. Wix9n’s response -to Britain’s Sir Robert Thompson’s proposals as to how the U.S. imperialists can win in Viet- nam is ominous. Thompson was -the ‘architect of Britain’s mopping-up ope- rations in Malay where the British conducted a cold-blooded, monstrous, methodical program to totally extermi- nate all opposition. Readers from those days will remember grisly pictures of Britain’s Special Forces holding the iopped-off heads of Malaysians. Nixon. and all his backers and allies, are sitting on a powder keg. The United. ee BA SE Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., All other countries, $7.00 one year." Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth ‘Second class mail registration number 1560 countries, $6.00 one year. _ the CYC is an attempt to turn it into one of those respectable, government- run, civil service type organizations, of which we have more than enough — organizations which attempt to divert all unrest into safe channels, and which a ng te tf ORS tS ACES tee cath) States cannot win-the war, nor can it duplicate the British genocide policy. The world has changed, and the peace forces will compel an American presi- dent to make decisions on the basis of a defeat of U.S. imperialism. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—DECEMBER 19, 1969—Page 3: .