25 years ago... YE OLDE RED TAVERN It is time for all worthy burgh- ers to beware, for buying a drink in the future is going to be a problem. We have just read that the licence of a Windsor tavern Owner may not be renewed unless he can prove he is not (nor has ever been) a reader of the New York Daily Worker or any other progressive literature. Even the U.S. fascist McCarran Act hesitates to snoop into the nation’s drinking habits,-but thank ~ goodness we dre more advanced in Canada! We have reached a-point where drinking is no longer a social problem, but a political one. If a tavern owner is suspected of reading the Daily Worker, what about his customers? In this background of hiccoughs is a sorry, sordid tale of “communist infiltration.” : Tribune, Jan. 29, 1951 AAR. LEST WE FORGET: ES. Rin Le AD Gen. Pinochet, fascist dictator of Chile 50 years ago... GREEK. DICTATOR ADMIRES CHURCHILL The Greek butcher, Pangalos, ‘who. has seized power in Greece and declared himself dictator, stated to the press that the most important reason for his assum- ption of the dictatorship is to crush the growing communist movement. Winston Churchill and Mussolini are the people he most admires. * * * The latest method adopted by British authorities of Kenya Co- lony (East Africa) to “civilize” the natives are described in the Man- chester Guardian. Men are impri- soned on the flimsiest charges and put to forced, unpaid labor in detention camps where flogging is the rule. This is a poorly-veiled attempt by the government and companies operating in the co- lony to. provide a “useful” labor supply.” Worker, Jan. 23, 1926 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JANUARY 30, 1976—Page 4 . It was the Canadian Paperworkers Union which declared at a weekend i meeting, Jan. 17-18, that its strikes ‘would continue not simply until settle-. ment with the companies, but until con- firmation of the settlements by the federal government’s Anti - Inflation Board. The meeting consisted of 130 delegates from 72 locals, representing 10,000 striking Ontario paperworkers. The three-point program of the Cana- dian Labor Congress unveiled in Van- Arms limitation talks plus people’s actions FLASHBACKS FROM | THE COMMUNIST PRESS Millions of people in capitalist and developing countries recognize the multi-billion dollar armaments pro- grams as direct challenges to their right to enough to eat, a place to live and a future for their children. They angrily demand an end to this waste. The armaments monster, kept alive solely because of imperialism’s aggres- sive character aggravated by economic crisis, devours the wherewithall to meet the genuine needs of humanity. The ‘talks in Moscow then, between Leonid Brezhnev and Henry Kissinger, searching for agreement on further limitation of strategic offensive weap- ons, concerns us all. Detractors claim the talks are. not useful because the present strategic arms stock could already kill everyone on earth several times over, in a world war. What they deliberately choose to hide, or undermine, is the emergence of a svstem for reducing these terrible arsenals. : The rush of human development and the threat of annihilation of human- kind, compel the USA to take part in such talks, even while President Ford is proposing a record $100.1-billion ‘“de- fence” budget for this fiscal year. It is a budget designed to serve the war mo- nopolies and in the dim hope of re- establishing imperialism’s predominant. place in the world. Canadians defending their right to — family allowances, unemployment in- surance and other social measures to shield them from monopoly’s crisis, are justified in putting enormous pressure on the Trudeau Government to slash its $8-billion arrhs budget to meet peo- ple’s needs. The internationally circulated Stock- holm Appeal, calling for a stop to the arms race and the creation of a new international economic order, is one means of putting pressure on govern- ment. Canadian sponsors of the Appeal are aiming for one million signatures by August. The obligation of Canadians towards the furthering of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) is to see to it that Canada’s government policies support rather than undermine efforts for detente, peaceful co-existence and the use of resources to benefit our own people and others struggling for inde- pendence and peaceful development. ditorcal Comment... Urge strikers to challenge AIB couver, Jan. 26 by CLC Executive Vice- president Julien Major, backs the con- tention of the paperworkers. It calls on all its affiliated unions (1.8 million mem- bers) to press employers to pay imme diately the full amount of newly nego- tiated wage increases, however they relate to federal guidelines. Since Ottawa gave the Anti-Inflation Board the green light to short circuit the collective bargaining process by im- posing its own settlements, more than one union has found that what it won from the boss was snatched away by the AIB after the workers were back on the job. Getting them back while the AIB dragged its heels on their settle- ments was nothing but a cheap strike - breaking trick, a trick labor should no longer fall for. In nine eases out of ten the AIB cut their wages. A relentless fight-back is the only re- sponse labor can choose. All labor, threatened by AIB attacks on its strike settlements, can welcome the CLC’s ‘new call to action. Besides urging unions to seek imme- diate: payment of increases, the CLC recommends that no agreement be sign- ed containing a clause ‘subjecting the agreement to AIB approval. The other aim is for a provision requiring the employer to support all provisions 1n the agreement. . Already the AIB’s credibility is in- question. over the decision by Irving Pulp and Paper in St. John, N.B. to pay the full wage increase déspite its breaching of the Ottawa guidelines. . The new. CLC program, carried into action by unions, is almost certain to politicize the economic struggle, which in this instance of fighting the inter- ference of the AIB, is a struggle to pro- tect bargaining rights won in battles by unions right across this country. No government board set up by monopoly’s representatives will succeed in nullify- ing such rights—provided it faces @ united labor movement. at C of C on the attack deserves blunt reply The plans big business has for the people of Canada were further exposed in all their cold intent when the Cana dian Chamber of Commerce issued its recent report. In its call for the abolition of family allowances, and for an end to efforts to aid those areas of the country where © unemployment is highest, the ultra’ conservatives of the C of C are giving a further expression to the desire of segments of the Canadian ruling class to push politics to the right in Canada. It may be that through repetition of these outrageous proposals they hope t0 weaken the natural response of work ers, which is to fight them to the finish The more often such attacks on living standards are made, the more detel” mined should be the fight-back.