te | LIBERA as ERAL MPAIGN TO |; CONTROL WAGES \ Ty == ras { AR TK 6 COU TRB. ----1ttt/y) pe NORA 25 years ago... CHECK THE 1L.Q. OF THE FBI “A Canadian passport doesn’t mean a thing,” according to FBI men, John Clare of MacLean’s magazine was told during hours of grilling. A Taken for Gus Hall, a leading member of the U.S. Communist Party, the writer was given rough treatment in Mississippi. “The FBI told me if I submitted to fingerprinting I would be set free if they didn’t correspond,” said Clare. They checked with New Or- leans, but no Hall prints were available. Finally after calling the city, the FBI was told that Hall was five feet eleven. “Your six foot three, and I don’t think even a Communist could grow four inches overnight” was the brilliant observation. H - Tribune, " Sept. 24, 1951 FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... DEMOCRACY AS SPOKEN IN SPAIN MADRID — DeRivera has announced that historic events are being prepared in Spain — probably an alliance with fascist Italy, probably at the bidding of American super-capitalism, the better to frustrate Great Bri- tain’s plans in the League of Na- tions. ‘ A revolt has broken out in the Spanish navy and army against the fascist dictatorship. When DeRivera wants to hold a na- tional referendum, heemploysa » . simple method. Only affirmative votes are permitted. Those not satisfied with the government cannot say so, but must just abstain from voting. Surely capitalist governments elsewhere are wasting their time. Worker, Sept. 18, 1926 Va NICOSIA — The broad al- llance backing president Makarios swept. into power Sept. 7 taking 34 of the 35 seats in the new Greek-Cypriot House of Representatives. The alliance of Socialist, Communist and Democratic Rally parties backed Makarios in his effort to reunify Cyprus following the Turkish invasion in 1974. Supporters of former president Clerides, who op- posed Makarios’ position failed to win a single seat. The only non-alliance candidate to win was an independent. The final count gives the Democratic Rally party 21 seats, the Communists nine Seek the Socialists four. Progressive alliance victorious in Cyprus ~ President Makarios PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 24, 1976—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMIMUENT Unity crucial for Oct. 14 The words put on record on Labor Day by Ontario’s New Democratic Party leader, Stephen Lewis, can be welcomect by workers as they organize for the Day of Protest, Oct. 14. At the annual directors’ luncheon at the Canadian National Exhibition, de- stination of the Toronto Labor Day parade, Lewis declared: “NDP leaders and myself have been asked what do we think of Oct. 14. We unequivocally support it ...” It is gratifying to know that both the British Columbia and Ontario NDP have now decided they are behind the Day of Protest. It is to be hoped it spreads to the NDP governments in Manitoba and Sas- katchewan. It is to be hoped that NDP federal leader, Edward Broadbent, will also pledge his support before the day has come and gone. Broadbent’s exposure of aspects of the “controls” hoax, of the profiteering of- ten reported in these pages, is all am- munition for the working class, but it. must be capped by outright, unqualified _ deeds for October 14. Back at the end of August we said editorially that the “Communists have urged that the NDP accept its responsi- bility for helping to make the Day of Protest a resounding denunciation of monopoly rule and a landmark in the march of working people toward taking a stronger hand in running the affairs of Canada — in an out of parliament and the legislatures.” : The NDP-Communist cooperation called for at that time is still the key to getting democratic unity around Oct. 14 — and after. October 14 is not the end of the work- ers’ struggle, but it is a confrontation oul of which we must emerge triumphant, with unity firm, ready to face the assaults of the ruling monopolies, their chosen governments, and their high-paid media. : $1.2-million con job +} In a new phase of its war on the work- ing class, the Trudeau government plans to spend $1.2-million of taxpayers’ money helping us learn to like being robbed, cheated and denied democratic rights by Canada’s ruling monopolies and their government aides. Phase one of this particular war opened on Oct. 13, 1975, when the wage-cutting, union-busting Bill C-73 went into effect. Mao Tse-tung The treatment of the passing of Mao-Tse-tung in the capitalist press gives away the ardent hope imperialism held of being able to use Maoist policies to aid it in its world-wide struggle against socialism. But the temporariness of this cause is a defeat for the imperialists. The long-range interésts of the Chinese people compel them to restore good neighborly relations with the Soviet Union and with the socialist ‘world. Such long-range interests dictate the need for China to pursue inter- nationalist policies -and to restore frat- ernal relations with all Communist Par- ties. This paper, always concerned for China’s progress, has inevitably dif- ferentiated between the harmful ce ee by Mao on the one and, and the real voice of the Chinese people, and the fraternity of the Chinese Communists and working mas- ses on the other. Their welfare has never been the con- cern of imperialism, however, as these forces sought to utilize temporary dif- ficulties at the expense of the Chinese and of the peoples of the world. The $1.2-million now being squan- dered, while the government mouths off about the need for restraint, will go to fatten advertising corporation profits, and to convince us — the ignorant major- ity in Trudeau’s view — that it’s all right for our wages to be slashed, it’s all right for people’s needs to be curtailed, and, collective bargaining to be scuttled, just as it’s all right for prices to keep rising,) and for profits to swell to bursting. Any government or ad agency hack — who tries to tell us the cost of living is not rising (while wages are being chopped) is|__ a bare-faced liar, and we should mail — their ads back to them saying so. Anyone who tries to tell us that the billions of dollars heaped upon other billions in monopoly profits is just the — universe unfolding as it should, is a liar and an anachronism. Monopoly capitalism is not being swept from the face of the earth because _ no one thought previously of spending $1.2-million on a sales pitch. It is disap- pearing (not overnight but inevitably, even where it tries through fascism t0| delay its demise) because it offers no- thing but indignity and hopelessness to — the vast majority of humankind, and _ power to the. privileged handful. This is the kind of system that gave — birth to Bill C-73. That is the kind of system whose arbitrary actions sparked) the Day of Protest. It is an anti-labor, — undemocratic system that workers will) have to fight far beyond the Day of Pro- test. But the new brainwash campaign, flying the banners of monopoly capitalism and its agents in the working class, will try again-to gun down the Day of Protest, as it tries in the long run to) | bring the workers to heel. In that sense it will put to the test workers’ ability to re- sist the high-powered blandishments of — all of the bosses rolled into one big anti- labor brainwash.