Cartoon by Nuez, Granma FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 25 years ago... CHARLIE AND CHARLES TALKING ABOUT PEACE Charlie Chaplin, proposing a toast to the “immortal memory: of Charles Dickens” said, “Were Dickens alive today he would be critical of our times and our Western democracy which is not without its hypocrisy and double-talk — wanting peace __» and at the same time an urgent ___ race for rearmament. “I think he would be critical of the cold war because it has achieved nothing ‘and has not deterred anything, only to make the whole world neurotic and to give hopeless feelings to our youth... F “It is a beautiful balance of both feeling and intellect by which we can survive this civili- zation and make of it with its nu- clear age a grand and glorious adventure for us all. ~ “It was this beautiful balance of intellect and feeling that was the soul of Charles Dickens. It was the essence of his work.” The Tribune February 21, 1955 Profiteer of the week: 50 years ago... CENSURING CHRIST LYNCHING BLACKS WASHINGTON — Three’ Georgia Congressmen _de- manded before the House today that a resolution censuring Christ for turning water. into wine, included in a speech last week by the Wisconsin: repre- sentative, be expunged from the Congressional Record. The cen- sure resolution is said to have been adopted by the Ministerial . Association of Charleston, West > Virginia. * & * The first public lynching of last night when Jim Irvin was de- livered over to a mob of rich planters and businessmen by Sheriff W.E. Tyler and was sav- agely beaten then burned alive on a bonfire. While Irvin is the first to be recorded this year in fake figures issued, over half a dozen Negro workers have been reported as “missing”. It is no- thing unusual for militant work- ers to be spirited away and their bodies thrown into the numer- ous swamps in the south. The Worker, February 22, 1930 Who says the old slogan — pump it up, dig it up, cut it down and ship it out — doesn’t pay profits? Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd., Vancouver had a 1979 after-tax profit of $49,900,000. On top of $44,900,000 in 1978. Of . the throughput of 384 billion cubic feet of natural- gas in 1979, 62% went to the USA, instead of to processing our other resources — which are aiso shipped out. Figures used are from the company’s financial statements. RiBUNE 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—FEBRUARY 29, 1980—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMIMIEINT Market got peace ‘scare’. | The fear of peace “breaking out” caused stock markets to plunge Feb. 14. Toronto’s market had its biggest drop in four months, the second largest since 1976. Just so precarious is the state of the - capitalist system. But not only precarious — cynical and destructive of human val- ues. Earlier in the year metal, mineral and mining shares climbed in anticipation of war. They fell when it was believed that the USA might not, after all, invade Iran; and when some sanity began to settle on segments of the capitalist world regarding Soviet aid to Afghanistan. What a tragedy for the coupon clip- pers! Not only no war, but a icenine threat of war, a likely slump in munitions profiteering. But the biggest of them skimmed off the cream before the slump. ; In Toronto, on Feb. 17, Philip Morri- son, a professor at Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, reputed to have helped develop the atom bomb, warned of the faltering “rationality” of political leaders, and urged the public to push for a world-wide test ban on nuclear weapons. Racism used Racism as a weapon for dividing the working people is deliberately promoted in. times of severe crisis for capitalism. Racism has been pressed into service to reak unions, divide wor ’ political the year took place in Georgia he 2 erie Werke esas movements, damp down the surging so- cial protest of peoples — and to justify the arms build-up, and war. With the utilization of racism to pro- tect the capitalist system against a united., working-class and democratic majority _ — its utilization by police, the immigra- tion department, courts, employers, and by elements of both the electronic and print media and publishing industries, — resistance has sprung up and is con- solidating. Hence, when the allegedly prestigious Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs decided to discuss immigration at itscon- . ference in Toronto, Feb. 23, it thought in terms of “backlash” or “indigestion”. It selected as speakers: Doug Collins, au- Priorities for Trudeau If ever a prime minister had some hefty priorities before him, Pierre > Trudeau has. The policies he enunciated in the election campaign indicate a sharp, though not permanent, cleavage in the positions of different groups of Canadian capitalists. At the same time, Trudeau’s assertion that Quebec is a province like all others, shows the dis- tance he has to go to cope with the fact of two nations in Canada. The solution, as the Communist Party consistently points out, is a united, bi-national state, based on a made-in-Canada Constitution rec- ognizing the right to self-determination, and guaranteeing equality of the two na- _ tions. The Levesque referendum em- “a major impact on 1981-1985,”. © thor of, Immigration: The Destruction ~ ‘ expose this toying with of racism. Racism — _ cut in the near $5-billion annual arms : But from Wall St. in New York come hungry expectations. Analyst Richard Hoey says the arms build-up should have ‘| In Canada the C.D. Howe Institute re — vels in the hope that if, according 10 — newspaper reports, “the crisis in Ataa| ganistan and Iran, together with the” pressure in the Persian Gulf to secure OV supplies, result in significantly increase@ military spending, the U.S. may avoid 4 . recession.” Salvation via the bomb! The “experts” go on to say that wat” preparations mean Contracts for Cana- E da, particularly the mass outpouring 0 ~ our raw materials. . That is the road, if not to nuclear oblit- eration, then at least to selling out” Canada to economic ruin, and rock bot — tom living standards. 3 While the stocketeers squeeze millions out of human misery, the real people Of ~ Canada are called upon to compel — government policies for peace, jobs curbing inflation, and proclaiming a? ~ independent Canadian foreign policy, — which rejects war, cold war or war hys- ~ teria. . for splitting er ae Soe ac ate ea chal : of English Canada; and Kim Abbot, ~ former immigration official and author — of full-page ads meant to swamp the © “boat people” with racism as part of its — workshop number three. 4 No wonder the Committee to Defend ~ Immigrant Rights Against Racism plan- — ned a picket and counter-conference tO — is a threat that fans out far beyond such conferences to all corners of our coun-— try, where Native people, newcomers tO — Canada, as well as life-long citizens who do not meet the standards of the ultra- — right, are daily harassed by officialdom. ~ Protests of this kind are part of the — unrelenting fight that has to be put up ‘7 Canadians until the racists in high places © — not just their uniformed minions — are legally and physically stopped from — carrying on their racist attacks. phasizes the priority nature of the crisis ~ of confederation. ; Add to that, the urgent need for an i independent foreign policy, first to ~ keep Canada in the Olympics, out of the ~ cold war, and to back peace with a 50% — budget, cancellation of the multi-billion — fighter plane fraud, and withdrawal of | Canada from NATO and NORAD. Then too, we need an all-Canada energy policy, and an industrial strategy ~ to utilize our resources in Canada in sec-_ ondary industry. The new Liberal Budget, must face up . to mass unemployment and still soaring inflation, deal with the pressing ques- tions noted above, and put the interests ~ of the people before monopoly profits. — porrienieniitns oe <