7 FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 25 years ago.. THOUSANDS SIGN FOR MORTON SOBELL Petitions bearing signatures of more than 5,000 persons were presented to James V. Bennet, Director of Prisons, in Washing- ton requesting that he transfer Morton Sobell from Alcatraz. The petitions were filed with Bennet by Prof. Ephraim Cross, and Helen Sobell, wife of Morton Sobell. Sobell, who was sentenced to 30 years in the Rosenberg trial, has maintained his absolute in- nocence and is seeking a new trial. ey The text of the petition reads in part: “Morton Sobell, a young scientist, charged in 1950 with conspiracy to commit espionage was sentenced to 30 years. Sobell, who maintains complete inno- cence, was convicted on a word of only one witness, a self-confessed perjurer; and no documentary evidence was presented against him”. _ Tribune, June 20, 1955 50 years ago... WALL STREET ENVOY TO CANADA For rounding up the vote of the American’ Legion behind Hoover when he ran for Presi- dent in 1928, former Legion commander Hanford MacNider has been rewarded by President Hoover with the post of United States envoy to Canada. MacNider is a millionaire and therefore a fit representative of Wall Street. He is owner of the MacNider Loan and_ Trust Company of Mason City and one of the richest men in Iowa. Though poor farmers toil from dawn to dusk the MacNider fortune continues to grow with its toil of interest hikes and mortgage foreclosures. MacNider has already distin- guished himself by his lurid, lying attacks upon the Soviet Union. He will doubtless get along well with the boss politi- cians in Ottawa. The Worker, June 21, 1930 Profiteer of the week: Toronto-Dominion Bank had a net profit for the six months ended April 30, of $83,023,000; that’s up about $10 million over the same six months a year earlier. That’s a pretty good take for juggling other people’s money. But the profits don’t belong to the customers or the community — just to T-D. 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 20, 1980—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMMENT Re-industrialize Canada The federal and provincial govern- ments have had their own way long enough to create mass unemployment and galloping inflation. Their solution never varies: soak the workers! It’s time they were compelled to listen to the ad- vice and demands of labor, of farmers, of economists from their own big business ranks — and from the Communist Party, whose solutions to the crisis of the economy are unassailable. “The recession is here!” says Douglas Peters, Toronto-Dominion Bank vice- president and chief economist. One of the factors is the drop in Cana- da’s share of world trade during the 70s, from 8% to 6%, while aggregate world trade rose by 4%. Our share of trade in manufactured goods is especially poor. Peters predicts that “trade figures for the rest of the year can be expected to de- teriorate sharply.” In 1979 alone, Canada lost 615,000 direct jobs to imports of machinery, says the Machinery and Equipment Man- ufacturers Association of Canada, in a report during the first week of June. Yet the Communist Party has pointed to ways around this swamp of de- industrialization of our country. At its January 1980 Convention it stressed: “One of the demands which ought to be advanced is that of establishing a Crown Corporation to produce industrial “machinery and equipment. This should be part of an industrial strategy which stimulates production in Canada.” The Auto Pact is an example of de- Ottawa sells Policies dictated to Ottawa by the USA are seriously eroding Canada’s position in the international grain market. Jump- ing to the’ U.S.-proclaimed boycott of grain sales to USSR (17 million metric tons), the Clark Tory government, in its brief heydey as Washington’s mouth- piece, pledged not to help Moscow make up the shortage. The Liberals have neither altered nor repudiated this sell- out of Canada’s interests. Among. major grain producers Canada has been placed in the worst of positions by this kind of “leadership”. Argentina never did agree to cripple its grain trade at the behest of big brother, and has, in the current crop year sold the USSR a record six million metric tons. cote Australia, while it promised not to make up what the USA chose to withhold from its normal sales, has already signed agreements for record sales to Moscow in the coming crop year. In true hypocritical style, the USA is having an excellent year in its grain sales to the USSR; the 17 million tons a mere symbol — and a whip over obedient ser- vants. (The U.S. Department of Agricul- ture estimates USSR grain purchases on the world market to the end of June, at 31. million metric tons.) Among Canadian grain farmers, who account for a huge part of our export _ the unemployed, a host of categorie pendence on*U.S. head offices: the rent auto deficit against Canada $947-million. On the’ other- side of the coin, unemployment, the transnational porations and homegrown monopo: are the guilty ones, for it is their poli that willing governments echo. A B of Canada “technical report” decl that “in Canada the natural state (of employment) is currently 7%.” T means they consider 7% jobless as “ employment”. _ Figures for May show 7.8% out ¢ work — almost a zero by B of C calcula ing. It’s an excuse to do nothing. An ficial” 904,000 are unable to find wor but Statistics Canada admits 200,000 “left off’ the list. More than a millié Canadian workers have no jobs becaus of corporation/government policies. — It’s time to make changes, to devel0 industry based on socially-owned sources, sophisticated exports chan led through a state trading entity, all the progressive ownership by the peop! of Canada of all key sectors of economy. The silent majority who produce # wealth of this country, and service evel, thing in it, need the strength of unity! the fightback against imposed recess — workers, farmers, the self-employ: It’s time to turn Canada onto an in pendent, productive path, and fre from U.S. domination, recession costly military entanglements. out farmers — income, as among other sectors of grain. exporting business, deep angry concern is expressed. Has the Canadian Government come the vehicle for transferring 0 the backs of the Canadian people ev facet of the U.S. recession? Is it so lack in allegiance and stamina as to née! stand up for Canadian interests? ~ The Tory-Liberal “vision” of Cana it seems, is of this country as a per ment satellite of U.S. imperialism; 4 that is how Canada is regarded aro the world. Canadian farmers have always known as an independent breed. Bu! anything humbles the independence Canadians be they farmers, work intellectuals or whatever, it must sul be these constant sell-outs to U.S. int ests. x _ The scandal of successive big bust governments wrecking our grain traf squeezing the farmers off the land, P’ ting thousands of farm implemé ‘workers on the streets, and generally 4 plying U.S. policy, must arouse the! all but the ruling clique. It is such brazen attacks on wor and farmers alike that is bringing a0©), their increased understanding of € other’s problems. Their unity nee be strengthened to prevent the _ government in Ottawa from ruil them both — along with the country: