B® IDA EY EWoReD FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS | 25 years ago... BUILD PIPELINE OURSELVES LABOR Both the 70th convention of the 600,000-member Trades and Labor Congress in Windsor and the Labor Progressive Party na- tional headquarters in Toronto demanded this week that Ottawa take over the gas pipeline and build it as a publicly owned na- tional project. The resolution of the TCL convention called on Ottawa for an immediate start on the all-Canadian line “as a public enterprise, exclusively financed and build by Canadians with Canadian labor and materials.” Tim Buck, national LLP leader wired Prime Minister St. Lau- rent: “News of the threatened abandonment of the trans- Canada gas pipeline shows clearly the urgent necessity of immediate action to make a com- - pletely fresh start on a publicly- owned Trans-Canada pipeline. Tribune, June 6, 1955 50 years ago... WORKER FIRED IN HOPE TO BREAK UNION TORONTO — A strike is tak- ing place at the Reliable Pant shop conducted by the Indust- rial Union Of Needle Trades Workers of Canada against dis- crimination and ‘for higher wages. A similar strike had just ended there in support of a worker who had been fired. The boss again fired another worker: in hopes of splitting the workers’ solidarity. This tactic hasn’t worked. Again the workers refused to have a fellow worker discrimi- nated against. They realize this is a deliberate attempt to break the splendid solidarity that exists between them. They are on strike today picketing the shop, defying the bosses and fighting as class conscious, militant work- ers. The Worker, June 7, 1930 Profiteer of the week: You might be so unfeeling as to ask what the Bank of Nova Scotia did to pile up $100,014,000 in after-tax profits in just six months! (Up to April 30) The answer is they shuffled our money around and lent it at a higher interest than they gave us. It’s not a racket; it’s part of a system. (in the same months a year earlier they netted $82,650,000.) 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—JUNE 6, 1980—Page 4 RIDITORLAL COMMENT Spreading germs and deceit — Germ warfare, deadly chemical sprays, risks with nuclear weapons, and other actions of subservience to U.S. pol- icy, make up the record of deception by big business governments in Ottawa. Only on this May 12 did the defence department admit taking part in 1953 in U.S. spraying of Winnipeg with zinc cadmium sulphide, whose elements have been described as “toxic”, “poisonous”: ‘and responsible for “brain damage in industrial workers.” In these chemical warfare tests Canadians were the guinea pigs. Canada was also in the thick of produc- ing agents of biological warfare near Red Deer, Alberta, and jointly with the U.S. and British navies, in 1948, it tried them out in the Caribbean. They were de- signed to kill, paralyze, or infect humans with diseases such as typhoid and undul- ant fever, some, like botulinus toxin at- tacking the respiratory system. For decades Canadians has lived under the threat created by this ghoulish attempt to be able to cause mass pain, suffereing and death for the glory of U.S. imperialism. Thirty years ago, in 1950, the Cana- dian army was sent to Korea to aid the U.S. drive to prevent Korean unity, de- stroy democracy and sustain the fascist regime in south Korea which is showing its bestiality today. When the respected CBC correspond- U.S. should Despite Washington’s attempt to make Afghanistan a device in its propaganda war against the Soviet Union, the truth, however slowly, does seep through. It even seeps into Canada and the brain- washed USA itself. Among those who recognize the U.S. propaganda farce for what it is — a part of Carter’s war/election hysteria — it can only be a source of disbelief that the U.S. president would try to paint Soviet assis- tance to Afghanistan as a crime, to be punished in this distorted way. Behind that smokescreen the USA’s military plot in the Persian Gulf is a di- rect threat to the countries of the area — as it is a threat to world peace. Even Af- ghanistan’s offer to discuss Soviet troop withdrawals along with talks on guaran- tees of its borders, is twisted in the CIA mill, because it gets to the root of U.S.- inspired intervention which created a crisis in the country. : The USA should be called upon by the world community to take its massive fleet out of the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean where, thousands of miles from home, burning up boatloads of fuel, it tries to intimidate the area. What con- flicts with such a peaceable move is U.S. claims to every country’s oil, and the right to establish anti-Soviet bases wherever it pleases. Canada’s responsibility is not to the .U.S. threats both economic and military, since Canada is in the same boat with respect to the U.S. coveting Canadian re- sources. Instead, Canada should recog- nize the rights of the Persian Gulf coun- tries, including the right of Afghanistan to sign treaties with the USSR. That job, Boeing Corporation (USA). rubbed _duggery. Instead of billions of dollars build secure lives. Games doormat? ent James M. Minifie, in 1960 published, Peacemaker of Powder Monkey: Cana- da’s Role in a Revolutionary World, he declared: “The vivid and memorable act which will set the stage for restoration of Canadian independence would be a — Declaration of Neutralism. SS “It would involve dissolving the smothering alliance of NORAD (North ~ aN American Air Defence command), with- drawing from NATO...it would enable fuller participation in the United Na- tions, bolder initiatives without the ‘arm-twisting’ which currently goes on whenever Canada shows signs of depart- | ing from the American line.” = Under the Tories when Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro Arrow aircraft in — 1959, throwing 13,800 workers out ofa its hands. For the Tories had sold Canada out to the stationing here of ~ Bomarc nuclear missiles — made by Boe- ing. In time, Canadians forced their _ withdrawal. Today, the Trudeau government is squandering more money than ever on the means of mass killing, and back U.S. militarism without question. ¢ A halt must be called to this skul- Pup con id eh pledged to war, Ottawa should be told to end NORAD, get out of NATO — and start putting Canadians back to work to leave Gulf would be a real contribution to peace, to — democracy, and to an’ independent — Canada on trade and foreign relations. The Summer Olympics go on in Mos- cow as scheduled, notwithstanding the boycott instigators and their victims. That is an encouragement to all who em- brace the peaceable and democratic Olympic tradition — sports devotees or __ not. ‘e Canada’s weak-kneed parliament — should be ashamed to have scuttled the chances for Canada to take part. AS doormats of the USA, governments like that of the Trudeau Liberals doa disser- vice to Canadian sovereignty. The trans- _ parent pretext used to boost the boycott plot can be dismissed as garbage. Es The reality is that athletes of some 100 countries will be there when the new re- cords are set, when new personal friend- ship are established, and will have con- tributed to the spirit of détente. Canada’s -_ athletes, as political pawns, either misS the boat or wait and train another four ~ years in conformity with U.S. cold war policy. aa The International Olympic Commit- tee has extended the closing date for teams to bé there, when the Games opel” on July 19, and proceed in various Soviet — cities. It is only just that the Canadian Government be given sleepless nights ‘and hectic days by those thousands of - | Canadians who reject the ploughing under of our Olympic participation, O02 . U.S. orders.