FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... A GOOD SUGGESTION FOR CANADIAN WORKERS MOSCOW—Thirty factory man- agers and “bosses” have been discharged on grounds of cruelty, inefficiency and graft, the charges against them having been lodged by workers in those factories. The sister of Lenin, Mary, chose those thirty as an object lesson. She obtained the information by starting a contest among workers for letters about ‘the best and worst directors.” The workers responded with the ut- most frankness, indicating why a manager was bad and another good. The Worker, March 15, 1923 25 years ago... ROLL BACK PRICES DRIVE Signatures to the Roll Back Prices petition are approaching the 200,000 mark, according to word from the Toronto House- wives’ Consumer Association, or- ganizers of the Million Names drive. Organizations are endors- ing the campaign for their entire memberships, the Association re- ports. Every mail brings in a new flood of signed forms to the more than 40 offices of housewives’ and consumer groups in every part of the nation. Montreal has counted more than 40,000; Toronto 34,000; Winnipeg 20,000; Halifax 7,000. Plans for the national delega- tion and convention have met with wide approval and enthu- siasm. It is expected that more than 500 delegates will converge on Ottawa April 15, 16 and 17 to carry the campaign directly to the government. The convention itself, out of which it is hoped will emerge a national consumer organization, will be held in the Little Elgin Theatre in Ottawa, April 17. Tribune, March 13, 1948 Worth quoting: “Marx was the best-hated and most slandered man of his age. Governments, both absolutist and republican, expelled him from their territories, whilst the bourgeoisie, both conservative and extreme- democratic, vied with each other in a campaign of villification against him. He brushed it ali to one side like cobwebs, ignored them and answered only when compelled to do so. And he died respected, loved and mourned by millions of revolutionary workers from the Siberian mines over Europe and America to the coast of California, and | make bold to say that although he had many opponents, he x had hardly a personal enemy. “His name will live through the centuries and so also will his work.” —Frederick Engels at Graveside of Karl Marx, March 14, 1884. West =, Pacific nereetetetetetetetatetetetetatetetatetatetetetetets Editor — MAURICE RUSH eretatetatetetatetatateretetetete 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 countries, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year : Second class mail registration number 1560. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1973—-PAGE 4 Editorial Commeut...~ Affront to labor The recently published AFL-CIO Executive Council statement on Viet- nam unequivocally indentifies the AF'L- CIO with the U.S. imperialist aggres- sion against Vietnam. Not content with this outrageous swindle, the statement calls upon the affiliates of the AFL-CIO to work hand-in-glove with the butch- ers of Vietnam to impose an imperialist peace on the South Vietnamese people. In their statement, the AFL-CIO leaders assert that U.S. “intervention” into Vietnam has preserved the “sov- ereignty and independence” of South Vietnam, has “prompted peace ‘in this vital region” and served to discourage “wars of national liberation” through- out the world. Following hard upon these fraudu- lent distortions of fact, the statement goes on to boast that the AFL-CIO “has correctly and steadfastly supported the ‘basic Vietnam policy of three Adminis- trations” (namely those of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon). The labor lieutenants of U.S. im- perialism, who unfortunately can claim to speak on behalf of millions of trade unionists in the United States and Canada, must not be allowed to fix a union label on the monstrous U.S. ag- gression against the Vietnamese people. Nor must they be allowed to attempt the subversion of the South Vietnam Confederation of Labor to the aims and policies of U.S. imperialism in the name of AFL-CIO. The Canadian sections of most AFL- CIO internationals can only forthright- ly condemn the AFL-CIO Executive Council statement on Vietnam, for this statement is the exact opposite of their own policy positions on Vietnam taken over the past number of years. The Canadian Labor Congress and its direct affiliates, by the very same token, should give their full support to every effort of Canadian sections of the AFL- CIO to secure the repudiation of this infamous statement. Stop the massacre “Thousands of political prisoners are today being massacred in the dungeons of the Thieu regime, spokesmen of the Provisional Revolutionary Government told me at their offices today.” _ Those are the words of the respected journalist of the Daily World (New York), Joseph North, in a despatch March 9, from Hanoi. Canadians on the International Com- mission of Control and Supervision: es- tablished by the Agreement on Ending the War and Establishing Peace in Vietnam, are responsible for seeing that these political assassinations are stopped. Canada’s Minister of External Af- fairs, Mitchell Sharp, accompanied by Andrew Brewin (NDP) and Eudore Allard (SC) are now in Vietnam. It is their moral responsibility to direct the Canadian ICCS contingent to put them- selves between Thieu and other politi- cal prisoners threatened with murder. The killing of political prisoners, whose bodies in prison garb have been found in ruins, must be stopped; and Mr. Sharp must be ordered hy his gov- ih ernment, to intervene to halt yy mass murder plot. ; Prime Minister Trudeau must mit Canadian ICCS members relenting observation of the Belsens and Auschwitzes of the butcher. Porliament’s ansWe i Talk of an election, now ramp Parliament Hill, arises directly est confrontation on the Governmers : posed corporation tax concessi iat pected to be introduced before ~~ of March. F, Directly related is the fast of machinery ‘costs, design F C a nr h is) Sa manufacturers millions of Gy dollars at the working peoples The NDP has vowed to opposé The Tories’ Stanfield, wh claimed duty is to oust the Ki at the first opportunity, seé to correct the Liberals, “I™* concessions to big business. For the working and farm v0 Canada a responsible and Prof stand has to be taken on om ie! ness can only drive down the He : standard of living. wen Working-class representat ig accept neither the proposed ‘ 5 ness package, nor the rec less of a minority government i” ind! it may be quite possible to W™ cessions for the people. ment proposals. The gifts q()” qu There is no need to: put ah : through another election ™ ded n has been hinted. What is ne ak, unrelenting fight inside ar ott % Parliament, to force the GOV.) iy aN) a to withdraw this discredited J¢ The Government can there ows ; own life, provided that it fo ry with a genuine program needs. f gue Time is short, however. 1f Aogi to be achieved, the House ° itl must be flooded immediately nes sages demanding: Withdray st (f porate tax concessions and mn offs! Only quick mass actiO? joj), unions, farm organizations, a ple’s organizations and amOMr sity of unaffiliated citizens has 9 mye! convincing the Governme!» —iqls ter deserves priority attentiOl cal locals and labor councils aerate (} ole "wovne. because the proposed legisi# money out of the pockets 0 fill those of the monopolists:_ il) NDP members in particul®”¢p van urged to take a stand, as t thie nist Party is doing, insisting nat legislation be withdrawn, an© ‘ail liament come to grips at on® (ply real needs of the Canadian P” af) e 4 ‘Z Should recogmizé ) In refusing visas to three vie : carrying Provisional va ye Government passports, Can® gration Minister Andras my ‘ fronts one of the Paris ceaS” idle tories, recognized in the any ye preventing Canadians fF0! oll the PRG spokesmen, our > gpl lends credence to suspiclon™: d independent role. The de¢l® cot be reversed and the Paris a held. +