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SIDELIGHTS

The $1,000,000 sa lwich

Guido was small, wiry and
talkative. Sparkling brown eyes
looked out from a deeply seamed
face. His hands were gnarled
and the grime of his job was still
deeply ingrained-in them. In
them he held a sandwich.

We were being taken to an
internment camp near Petawa-
wa, Ontario. He, an Italian immi-
grant, was being “put away for
the duration,” and there were
three of us Communists, arrest-
ed by the Red Squads as “dan-
gerous enemies” during the first
years of the Second World War.

The fact that Communists and
fascists were shoved into a con-
centration camp together was

part of official policy. Perhaps

they hoped the fascists would —

kill us all off?

With us in the railway car was
a group of Italians, one of them
a multi-millionaire, part owner
of a big industrial empire, confi-
dante of people in high places,
friend of the premier with whom
he is reported to have held fre-
quent meetings while interned.
That the “‘so very anti-Commun-
ist” officers could be bribed by
him I saw with my own eyes.
But that’s another story.

We had been given sandwich-
es for the trip, and there was
plenty of water. Most of us bolt-
ed our sandwiches right away.
But not Guido. As the leaden
hours went by, hunger grew.
Finally the millionaire asked
Guido for a sandwich.

Guido rose. The guards with
tommy guns woke up.

West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune

“Sure,” said Guido, “I'll sell it
to you for a million dollars.”
“You crazy ...” swore the mil-
lionaire.

“I'll keep the offer open till 6
o’clock. If you don’t buy it then,
I'll eat it,” said Guido.

“Crazy, crazy . . . Look, ll

give you some money. Here’s
five bucks. No? Well, ten. How
about twenty? Ah, shut up!”

Guido turned to us, laughing.
“Look at me,” he said. “For
years I shovelled aggregate for
that S.O.B. Hurry up! Hurry up!
All day long. At night my hands
were shaking so badly I could
hardly eat. When I went to bed
my arms jerking would keep me
awake. Now I have a sandwich
and he doesn’t. It’ll cost him a
million dollars if he .wants it.”
He threw back his head and
roared,

At 6 o'clock Guido stood.
“Well Mr., are you going to take

_ my offer? Give me a million dol-

lars and its yours.”

~“*Shut up!” snarled the million-
aire, ‘You're crazy.”

Guido bit into one half of the
sandwich. Oh, how he savored
each bite, exclaiming at its de-
liciousness. “Still one half left,”
he said. “I’ll let it go for half a
million.”

No takers.

“Well, here goes a million dol-
lar sandwich,” Guido said as he
ate the rest of it, his eyes twink-
ling merrily.

The guards? They were puzzl-
ed. They didn’t seem to under-
stand the little drama.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1970—PAGE 4

Rightist trickery

The election of Salvadore Allende as
President of Chile is not just an exer-
cise in balloting. It has been a revolu-
tionary struggle by the Communist
Party of Chile, by no means over.

Allende could not have been victori- ©

ous without the coalition of progres-
sive and revolutionary forces, the out-
standing accomplishment of the Chile-
an working class. The Chilean voters
rebuffed capital and the right wing,
and set back reaction throughout Latin
America.

Allende’s warning that a general
strike will be called if he is denied the
President’s post is-a promise to mobil-
ize the Chilean working class to back
up the expression of people’s will in
their recent ballot.

His turn to the general strike is pre-
dicated upon the fact that the working
people are the main force for social
change in society. Without their organ-
ized will, exercised in elections, as well
as continuously outside of the parlia-
mentary arena, the people will be
cheated of their victories by the. capi-

talist class. The capitalists soon shelve:

their “love of democracy” when com-
munist and united front candidates
start winning elections.

No doubt the U.S. imperialists are
thinking of counter measures. Let us
not forget. what happened elsewhere
in Latin America when people’s govern-
ments were overthrown with the direct
connivance of U.S. imperialists. During
the elections a virulent anti-communist
hate campaign was carried on through

CIA financed ads in newspapers, and

over the radio stations.

The Chilean voters freely chose a
Marxist at the polls. The process that
is on in Chile is the struggle to win
working class power, the struggle to
set the Chilean people on the path to
socialism. Already, it can be seen as a
many dimensional struggle, uniting the
struggles of all working people outside
of parliament, with the struggle of
elected Communists within parliament.

We pledge our solidarity. We will
work to block all efforts. at counter-
revolution and intervention.

Fire Trudeau

“It is a tragic fact that at the end of ©

the 1960’s there are more sick, more
undernourished and more uneducated
children in the world than there were
ten years ago... every half minute 100
children are born in developing coun-
tries. Twenty of them die within the
year. Of the 80 who survive, 60 have
no access to modern medical care dur-
ing their childhood. An equal number
will suffer from malnutrition during
the crucial weaning and toddler age—
with the’ possibility of irreversible
physical and mental damage; and dur-
ing this period their chance of dying
will be 20-40 times higher than if they
lived in Europe or North America.”
This is from a report prepared by
the United Nations. Two-thirds of the
world’s children living in developing
countries are estimated to be mal-
nourished or undernourished. The
World Health Organization says that
“malnutrition is the real killer of chil-
dren aged 0 - 4 in developing countries,

. produce too much food, and there's

“deau wouldn’t cure.

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and threatens to become worse.”
And Trudeau tries to tell us that Wé

nowhere to sell it. There’s nothing
wrong with Canada that firing Tru: |

A snap of the fingers |

Former president of the United
States, Harry Truman, asked if he had
made his decision to drop the atom
bomb on Japan after much soul sear@™ |
ing is reported to have answered, “Hell, ;
no, I made it like that,” snapping hls |
fingers. That’s how easy it was fd
a U.S. imperialist to decide to wipe out |
hundreds of thousands of people—U™ |

necessarily at that—and to embark 0 |

a course that endangered world pea
to keep countless millions in slavely
That snap of the fingers condemné
hundreds of millions of babies to dl?
of starvation and perpetuated diseas®
ignorance and poverty. It was the fits!”

step in making U.S. imperialism t

_ self-appointed world cop in associatio?

with a bunch of international band!
and gangsters. It was that snap of t
fingers that started them on the roa
to Indochina. And, in case anyone ¥ |
feeling smug, Canadian imperialis™
has been right in with them.

Friends in 1939 too

The capitalist press says that Pruitt
sures are mounting to persuade outh |
Vietnam’s Nguyen Cao Ky to call off |
an appearance in October at a Right |
Wing rally in Washington, because it
is feared his visit would do more har™

than good. Well, well! . aa

Washington understands that the
democratic peace movement in thé
United States would give him a wel:
come that would make him wish he’d |
never set foot in the country. |

In line with this, there’s an increa®
ing number of love feasts going 0 |
lately which stink to high heaven. Re
cently, some Canadian ex-prisoners ?
war invited their erstwhile Nazi pris?
guard sergeant to visit them in Cal |
ada. He was wined and dined. We wet® |
told that a number of Canadian priso™ 7
ers from that very Nazi’s camp ha? ™
escaped, were caught, and then wer@
shot. Even the politically polluted al |
mosphere of Ottawa can’t cover UP |
that smell.

A few days later we were told tha!
a Nazi German war ace, credited wit? |
downing 352 allied aircraft, attended * |
reunion of U.S. fighter pilots and crew®
in the USA. Perhaps the. significan! i
point made is that “most of his kill
were on the Russian front.” They
haven’t learned the lessons of history:

Old Faithful

Reader’s Digest has an article tellin8
us how to make the old pay cheque gt
farther. It reminds you of the Gre@
Depression when your selection wa
limited to a choice between one kil
of beans and another. Then we we
told how to make relief, or low wage® |
go farther. |

Typically, Reader’s Digest has 2?
proposals to curb profiteering, or
raise the incomes of the needy. As al |
ways, Reader’s Digest is true to cap!
talism, in case you had any doubts. |