FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... INNOCULATING THE CHILDREN Toronto has just witnessed an- other profoundly significant mili- taristic display. Over 11.000 school cadets and girls’ brigades paraded on Empire Day to the martial. strains of bugle and brass bands. The capitalists are paying more ‘attention to children than used to — much more. Certainly the training and organization of fascists both old and young is taking place on a new scale. It’s a simple matter to line the chil- dren up under the approving eyes of the Lieutenant-Governor and military officers and innocul- ate them with the poison of im- perialism. They recite the greatness of an Empire: upon which the sun never sets. They impress them with an address by an old To- ronto boy, now: an Imperial Oil employee, who tells them how successful the British have meen 2 The Worker, June 6, 1925 25 years ago... TORONTO COUNCIL OKAYS DISCRIMINATION BAN Led by Ward 4 alderman Nor- man Freed, the power of progres- sive forces broke through in To- ronto to’ force unanimous pas- sage of a motion in city council barring racial discrimination by commercial enterprises for reas- ons of race, color or creed. -City licenses granted to ‘bar- bershops, hairdressers, garages, swimming pools and other estab- lishments will now -contain a specific clause making this law. The motion was carried despite initial strenuous opposition. by the Tory-backed Board of Con- trol Mayor McCallum and the racist Telegram-Globe press. * * * Mme. Eugene Cotton,-president of the WIDF, and famous French scientist has been arrested be- cause of her part in the French women’s vigorous _ protests against the war, in Vietnam. Tribune June 5, 1950 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S DAY, JUNE ist, has been celeb- rated each year since it first was established in 1950. Our photo shows a school in the German Democratic Republic where children receive the best care possible today. In the GDR, many parents still recall their own childhood which was overshadowed by the misery, hunger and horror of World War Two. With the defeat of fascism, German anti-fascists who had gone through the inferno of the concentration camps, and those emerged from the underground struggle or had returned from exile, issued a call in 1945 to their fellow citizens to save the children. They were anxious to ensure that those who had no guilt in that criminal war would not, in its wake, become its victims. Famished children received hot meals from the Soviet Army. Orphans found ~ space in the palaces and villas of the big landlords, The example of high responsibility of government and society for the development of children is provided: by socialism which creates, in all spheres, conditions to ensure a healthy, creative and happy childhood. ; SUGHERCUEQUEEOEEELUCUESUOUGEQECUNEGOCUUQEELUOUOSUCUOUSULUEEONDGAGOOUUGUGEAESSOOOOUDOUNRRCOOOOUUORNES PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 6, 1975—Page 4 ~ Edttorial Comment... _. Munro ‘solution’ evades issue Industry-wide bargaining, as a “solu- tion” to labor-management impasses, has been proposed by federal Labor Minister John Munro, who is thrust forward as the “good guy” in the Lib- eral cabinet, backed by the Prime Min- ister. The evils of “fragmentation” of con- tract negotiations, as seen by the gov- ernment, have particular application to the public sector operations of moving mail and grain, which involve several unions. : One need not oppose the principle of industry-wide negotiations to insist that what is required today is govern- ment engagement in honest negotia- - elected representatives of workers an@- tions aimed at just settlements with its employees. ae This is the course the government 15 most reluctant to take. Its laws are evitably stacked against labor, and iM | favor of the monopoly ruling class. Ref- | erences to industry-wide bargaining call | only be regarded as an Ottawa gamble” at undermining the rank-and-file’s de- mocratic rejection of unsatisfactory wage settlements. a The new government “initiative” 18 | basically antidemocratic, aimed at eli- | minating what it considers too many | too strong a membership voice in bat- gaining. : i. NATO incited by USA steps up armaments .. . The North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion has met in Brussels, amid dissen- tion, following a meeting of NATO defence ministers. It was to be.a demonstration of un- diminished U.S. vigor and reliability as~ imperialism’s world’ leader, despite its drubbing in Indochina, and its exposed treachery in the Middle East. The mood was dampened by increased estrange- ment of the Scandinavian countries, Netherlands and France. (France got out of the military wing years ago.) At the defence ministers’ parley U.S. Defence Secretary Schlesinger tried vainly to get the seal of approval for Spain — Spain’s demand, apparently, in exchange for U.S. military bases on Spanish soil. Even. with the bait that to save Eu- rope from peril, the USA had begun deploying two more combat brigades plus other ground and air force strength for the 310,000 U.S. military in Europe, Schlesinger could not buy suvvort. : The threat of Dutch Defence Minis- ter Henk Vrendling that his country. would leave NATO if the alliance onen- ed militarv facilities in South Africa killed another Schlesinger scheme. Gerald Ford ansrily warned Turkey and Greece over their Cyprus confron- tation. Not only was one NATO mem- ber forced to condemn the aggression of another, but Greece seemed certain to so the wav of France and shuck military commitments. : + Fard warned Portueal too, that it could face exnulsion if it persisted in its socialist direction. All in all, the USA showed itself intent on interfer- ence. strong-arm tactics and on taking the dangerous course of heating up the cold war. : On the eve of the NATO meeting. a Pentaron document advised U.S. arms manufacturers not to shrink from bri- berv (or presurnably anvthing else) to sell their wares: the U.S. Senate (May 19) lifted its arms embargo on Turkey (which invaded and occupied. Cvprus with U.S. equipment); and NATO de- fence ministers. haraneued by Schles- inger, agreed (May 22) to boost joint arms snending. Finally, under pressure (as publicly admitted by Belgium) four governments asreed to buy $2-billion worth of ‘U.S. F-16 fighter planes from the General Dynamics monopoly. NATO thus fulfills one of its noble ‘ronean Economic Community. purposes, that of being strong-arm | hucksters for U.S.-munitions makers. | That the spokesmen from severa NATO governments resisted many U.S: demands is a reflection of the swelling support of the pedvle of Europe for 4 | continent dedicated to peace and na- tional security, and their rejection of U.S. imperialism’s military projects. While the sabre-rattlers are becom ing more isolated, the threat they posé requires an ever stronger peace move | ment to pressure governments — like | Canada’s —- to break free of U.S. wat mania. ... Canada’s dollars wasted on arms pact - Prime Minister Trudeau told the NATO alliance that Canada could only continue to support NATO if such ex penditure could be justified in the eye of the Canadian people. It seemed t0 carry a seed of truth, the ring of de mocracy. But to justify the expenditure of Ca- nadian tax dollars to contribute the means of mass destruction to an ag” gressive pact run by the U.S. militarist is to lie to the people of Canada. . If that is what Mr. Trudeau intends to do, or if he plans to let his mentor’ in the Pentagon do it through thel! Canadian Broadcasting Corporatio? and other propaganda outlets, the P may expect a torrent of protest fro! Canadians. They will be more tha? - justified in demanding that the gov — ernment: Take Canada out of NATO war pact! ~~ a Mr. Trudeau may say that he only sold out Canada’s principles to gal? contractual arrangements with the Ev: That is a strange kind of peaceful contract. We, argue that our country need not abandon principle, need not hire out as a powder-monkey for thé USA in order to win trade agreements: We firmly believe that added to what trade can be won on its own merit with the EEC, trade with socialism can greatly exvanded. With the commo! practice of credits, trade can he ha with develovine countries and with thé} countries of Indochina, ravaged by U.¥ imnerialism. ; The Trudeau Government must bé nersuaded by popular anger to conduct} the affairs of government in the inte!”| ests of Canada’s people. not in the 1” terests of the multi-national corpora tions and their men in Washington a? in NATO. q