sa RL LA oe - va a ... fortunately for us, however, there appears to be one law for the rich and another for the poor. : 25 years ago... U.S. CRACKS WHIP AT U.N. Reports from Ottawa said Canada would “sit on the fence” when the admission of People’s China to the United Nations issue came up, Sept. 21. What happened? Canadian delegates led by Ex- ternal Affairs Lester Pearson jumped off that mythical fence into the arms of the U.S. whip- crackers and war-mongers and voted for hoisting, the issue for another year. 33 _ This after Prime Minister St. Laurent’s and Pearson’s word- juggling speeches this year about the need for recognition of China. It's high time Canada cut loose from U.S. policy. Recognition of China by Canada would ease world tensions. It must be-done. Tribune, Sept. 27, 1954 FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... NO PERMITS FOR . WORKERS’ MEETING TORONTO — The Toronto Police Commissioners submitted to the Toronto City Council for approval a by-law whose provi- sions make it necessary for any- one holding an outdoor meeting to obtain a permit from Chief Draper. ' This by-law is directly aimed at workers and the Communist Party and is a further extension of the Toronto bosses attack on working people. It is designed to give legal sanction to Draper's reign of terror. It represents the strengthening of the bonds be- tween the state and the police. Draper is already displaying the utmost brutality in smashing up all workers’ meeting much to the bosses’ delight; the enactment of this by-law will encourage him to commit even more dastardly deeds. * =A The Worker, September 28, 1929 Pivhters of the week: begins. _Daon Development Corp., Vancouver, had an after-tax profit of $26,060,000 for the nine months ended July 31. That's up from $8,730,000 in the same period of 1978. Daon gets its take from the basics of real estate — land office buildings, shopping centres and residential spreads — and so the price spiral 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—OCTOBER 5, 1979—Page 4 eIDITORIAIL COMMENT eet No mandate for such acts _ A broadside of unpopular Tory policies and legislation is set to be un- leashed on working and low income people with the opening of parliament, October 9. Since the Clark Tories came to minor- ity power in May their every move has been calculated to depress workers’ liv- ing standards, enrich corporate monopoly, and to bolster reactionary causes at home and abroad. Clark and his Cabinet should re- member they were elected with 36% of the popular vote; the opposition parties got 64%. Clark was chuckling recently over Richard Janelle’s bolting the Social Cre- dit Party to join the Tory benches. And Tory spokesmen were boasting theré would be more; besides they would win _two by-elections, and soon have an over- all majority. (Standing now in the 282- seat House, is: Tories 136, Liberals 113, New Democrats 26, Socreds 5, and two seats vacant. Guessing is that one Liberal, James Jerome will be re-appointed - Speaker, thus neutralizing him.) The fact remains the Tories have no mandate to enact unpopular and anti- ople policies: the sell-out of Petrocan, the disqualification of vast numbers from unemployment, the tinkering with medicare, the handing over of multi-mil- lion dollar “incentives” to corporation Flora shields imperialism — Flora MacDonald, Canada’s external affairs minister, made her first speech to the United Nations General Assembly on ‘Sept. 25, homing in on human rights, the fight against starvation, freedom from war and programs of aid. While she was speaking, the vice- president of the Canadian International _ Development Agency was saying in Malta that “now was the time for retrenchment” rather than fast growth for the Commonwealth. Fund for Technical Cooperation, and developing countries could not expect more. MacDonald had condemnation for mass trampling of human rights, as in the Central African Empire where the “emperor” served up his victims’ flesh for Sunday dinner. He was lavishly ban- krolled by French imperialism, which has thousands of troops and hundreds of war planes in former French colonies, and needs friends like Bokassa. Mac- Donald should have condemned the source. And she should have sent a sol- idarity note to the Non-Aligned Confer-. ence whose anti-imperialist policy truly gets at the roots of the evil. She said we “must find new ways of combatting... violations” such as “apartheid”. Do the Tories then intend to clamp down on Canadian cor- porations, and multi-nationals using a Canadian base, to stop their collabora-. tion with apartheid? - MacDonald urges devising a way to end the “distressingly large numbers of disappearances.” No disappearances are more infamous than those under the fas- ‘ing of Canada’s Israel embassy to 0% “people can fight Parliament Hill — fi _their standards and selling out of thé! - Session to be followed by a World Co! _and continued threats. She igno tht plight of the Palestinians, because oft bosses, the removal of any remaining, barriers to foreign take-overs, the moY cupied Jerusalem, and the joining in i monstrous U.S. propaganda campaig! against Vietnam, via the “boat people hoax —at acost of millions to Canadian) — The $2-billion tax cut was just an electio) — promise that’s gone, and the mortgagt interest deductibility scheme never hat lower income people in mind. Es Everything Clark and his ministe® have tried to ram down the public thro@ during these many months witho? parliament has been ‘bad news for #! people, a gift for the corporations. The Tories should remember i outside. New Democratic Party init tives, like those of Broadbent on Petl® can, are welcome and timely, as is @ consistent struggle of the Commut® Party. Besides, the concensus growing? the union halls, labor councils, ¥ working-class families, and among ™ stream of jobless and disqualified bei” pushed into poverty, must be a warnif to Clark. a A hard-hitting fightback is needed © win gains for labor, to cut back the profi " and power of monopoly, and to tell 36% prime minister the workers © Canada won’t put up with slashing © country to the multi-nationals. cist junta of Chile which was installed P the U.S. Central Intelligence Age? Nor did-she tell the United Natio! about Canada’s quickly grow! economic ties with Chile, especially ! loans and direct investment in Chl; mineral wealth by Canadian-ba® multi-nationals. Omitted, too, was M®& tion of these corporations’ plans — exploit cheap labor in Guatemala 4” Indonesia. . a She lamented the growth of arms, ye part of the Tory election -pitch to uh corporations was an increased art budget. It would be worthwhile if i recognition of the U.N. Special Sess! on Disarmament meant Tories w0" now press for the projected next Sp ference on Disarmament, going bey” the U.N. That wasn’t in her speech: 4 _ While the minister raised the tat) rag of Carter’s “human rights” policy attack Vietnam once more, she had 8? word about Maoist Chinese aggressi Clark government’s close alliance ibe expansionist Israel and its banker, ” USA. 25 , = What is there to distinguish any of! ’ minister’s remarks from pure hypoctis, If Flora MacDonald wanted to real changes in access to human rig” she would have had to question, not OF Tory policy, but the -policies of NA . and the U.S. Pentagon, to which i : governmentis trying to tie Canada tightly.