IBERAL KSGIVING & HALLO t - FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 25 years ago... OTTAWA SELLS CANADA TO USA The -6point pact signed by Canada and the U-S. on Oct. 26 gives Yankee industry almost complete ‘control over our rich natural resources. Point . Two says the two: countries “will em- ploy coordinated controls over the distribution of scarce raw materials and. supplies.” If U:S. steel companies declare steel in short supply they can stop the use of steel in Canada for peacetime building. Canada’s minister. of trade and commerce, C. D. Howe, has termed the pact “a military partnership” and has + tied the Canadian economy to Washington. The U.S. greets the signing as “greatly increasing our potential which will better enable us to prepare ourselves for any mili- tary emergencies.” Tory Ontario quickly followed by stating new iron ore deposits found will likely be taken over by Beth- lehem Steel. , Tribune, Nov. 6, 1950 50 years ago..." HENRY FORD FINDS A CANADIAN GOLDMINE The Ford Motor. Company in Canada started in 1904 with capi- tal of $125,000. and. only half of this in cash, the balance going to ‘Ford’s for rights. For the $62,500 cash put up, the stockholders have since. drawn in real money 1 no less than $20,176,238. Rather a _ tidy return for a 21-year invest- ment. And that’s just a start. In addi- tion they received free issues of stock valued in the present mar- ket at $35-million. Put another way, for every $20,000 cash dividends have been returned plus a bonus of $24,000. Contrast Henry Ford’s genero- sity to the shareholders with that shown to a worker who _ has sweated for 21 years as a Ford employee. “The productive day’s - work is the greatest goldmine ever opened up,” Ford is fond of saying. The Worker, October 31, 1925 $100 invested, © The federal government has decided it can make all labor crawl on its knees if it can break the postal workers. Postmaster General Bryce Mackase has eagerly taken up the dirty job and, as of now, the postal. workers are a test case. Mr. Mackasey has not read labor’s mood; he needs it shouted at him, and demonstrated to him. Counting on isolating the CUPW, the arrogant Trudeau government is satis- fied to “bust” one union at a time, or try to scare the rest into meek obedi- ence under a three-year wage freeze. -CUPW vice-president Jean-Claude _Parrot on Oct. 27 charged Mackasey with moving negotiations back. to square one by wiping out gains already agreed to. A high-handed move indeed by the corporations’ bat boys who think they can legislate an end to the class struggle. - Labor is the authority in this country _ any time it wants to speak out, 10-mil- lion strong, in a single voice, act as a single force. : 2, Workers, trade unionists, are not im- ‘pressed by those who incite scabbing, who urge workers to cut each other’s Fighting the freeze is fighting monopoly The economic crisis has been made. ‘. worse by the federal wage freeze, dis- guised by cosmetic tinkering around prices and profits. Workers’ purchasing. power is being cut. As a result unem- ployment will go up, not down, but that — is an, integral part of capitalism’s “so- lution” to inflation. Working-class answers are needed, and the Communist Party of Canada, along with presenting its own program, has consistently urged greater.activa- tion of the Canadian Labor Congress anti-inflation points. Communists are not against all con- trols. We want. controls on the rent gougers, controls on the land sharks,. controls on the food profiteers and oil monopolies (with prosecution of profit- eers!), controls on profits, and controls to cut the scandalous armament budget. A program of jobs, a fight for the 30-hour work week at 40 hours’ pay. a ‘program to build 400,000 housing units a year for five years. This is the kind of thing to ensure jobs and a rising stand- ard of life for working people. The fight against the-crisis cannot be - other than an anti-monopoly fight, with millions of Canadian men and wo- men — workers, the working poor, ' pensioners and all who are the natural components. of an alliance against mo- nopoly power, joining together. In the ongoing economic and political _battle the nationalization of key indus- tries, banking and credit, natural re- - sources and transportation is necessary to deliver these assets to the Canadian people, out of the hands of largely U.S.- owned corporations. oo In the political arena, working peo- ple’s representatives at all levels of gov- ernment bear responsibility for. rally- ing working-class and democratic or- ganizations to fight an all-sided fight PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 31, 1975—Page 4. to change government policies.. Postal workers are a test case ‘the postal strike will’ just as surely be | _ ment crush “any strike. . . seen to D@ “an effort to break the anti-inflation. controls.” ieseey I _honestly or face the wrath of the entire | ‘labor movement. ~ ie have as their allies rightist elements of ; the Socialist Party and the'misleadingly | and democrats goes on ‘amid efforts by | - nal Telephone and Telegraph which fit” ‘Germany’s extreme right spokesmati r. - Jorge Jardin. Portuguese financier, for, - mer ownef of half of Mozambique; an® | ‘dealer. ; 4 throats, or by the pip-squeaks of thé) business community to spend their ill gotten profits on costly anti-labor news paper ads. _ ys The vicious campaign of slander and | misrepresentation aimed at crippling | turned on the rest of labor if it is nov} defeated. . rae e. 3 Mr. Mackasey’s insolent threat 10) close down the post office for months} to teach the workers a lesson is at the | same time an insult to all Canadians. | It is, after all, our Post Office, not Mr | Mackasey’s. A big business daily, back | ing him up, demands that the goverl” | The attack on the postal workers 16 | an attack on all of us.» Decisive an@ | united action can bring the Mackasey | Trudeau caper to a close and compel 4 just government settlement with the) Canadian Union of Postal Workers. — It’s time to tell both PMs — prime} minister and postmaster — enough 0 | this anti-labor conniving! Negotiate | In the face of a so-called anti-infiation | program that makes workers the scape” goats for the ills of capitalism, they fave no alternative but to insist 0? | their demands. And every worker negotiations or on strike has a right to the support of the whole labor move ment. sat h — Plot against Portugal — The people of Portugal are fighting | for the democratic life of the country | against the remnants of fascism, which | named Demoeratic Centre Party nd } the People’s Democratic Party. =| | Attempts on the lives of Communist? | some parties in government to “weed | out” leftists. The aim is clearly to ope? the way to “legalized” oppression and 4 introduction of a “strongman”. |_|. Notorious General Spinola is said t? | have worked out a plan in Lausann@ | Switzerland, with the CIA’s John Mc | Cone, also vice-president of Internati” anced the rape of Chile. Multi-nation@ corporations have guaranteed $250-mil lion to Spinola for the purpose of “sa¥ | ing the revolution!” —. Concocted rumors about a “Commu!” | ist coup” are meant to brainwash peop!® | throughout the capitalist world | readiness for the entry of the “Port | guese liberation army” now training 1? | fascist Spain. . ee If further evidence is needed, Spinol# | also conferred with Joseph Abs, Hit) Jer’s. former banker, representing? Krupp;Franz Joseph Strauss, Wes! | . Mariano Felichi, well-known arms The world should not now be misled by cries of a Communist threat, bu’ | clearlv recognize the fascist plot, what | ever the disguises of the perpetrators. —