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25 years ago...

KKK TERROR
The Ku Klux Klan is riding
again in Florida and North
Carolina. In Florida, where a
negro leader and his wife were

murdered in a recent KKK~

bombing and where the homes
of Jewish residents have also
been bombed by the goons dres-
sed in bed sheets. William Hen-
drix, Klan leader, called a
cross-burning demonstration of
klansmen in Tallahassee. The
night coincided with a confer-
ence called by the National As-
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People in Jackson-
ville to map plans to combat the
KKK terror in Florida.
_ In North Carolina six white
sharecroppers have been _re-
cently seized and flogged by
hooded terrorists who are on the
rampage, roaming throughout
the entire state without officia
opposition. _
The Tribune,
January 28, 1952

50 years ago...

“REFRESHING
BRITISH JUSTICE”

In Toronto police court, a
cleaner, employed at the Gen-
eral Post Office, was convicted of
stealing a dollar-fifty from a fake
letter “planted” by the postal au-
thorities. He was sentenced to
three years penal servitude.

The prisoner has five young
children and another is on the
way. The family, even while the
father was working, was in very
wretched circumstances.

On the same day, the chief of
police for Melbourne, Australia
was a visitor at court. He com-
mented on the proceedings of
the court in the following terms:
“There is something refresh-
ingly British about those of your
courts I have seen and I hope
you will always maintain a
British atmosphere in them and
be loyal to British traditions.

The Worker,
January 24, 1927

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JANUARY 28, 1977—Page 4

TEIDIMOIRIALL
COMIMIEINT

Racism and

Racism, which makes itself felt in
ethnic communities across Canada, is
getting a Task Force investigation in
Metro Toronto, whose unelected chair-
man, Paul Godfrey, has appointed Wal-
ter Pitman to discover whether or not
there is really racism, and to advise on
solutions. Pitman is president of Ryerson
Polytechnical Institute and former de-
puty leader of Ontario New Democrats.

The fact is that there has been evi-
dence over many years that racism is
practiced by employers, real estate
agents, landlords, by the federal immig-
ration department, by the provincial
Tory government of Ontario, which tri-

led student fees for foreign students, by
Loses by countless little tin-horn au-
thoritarians in jobs from prisons to un-
employment insurance offices.

How can a system that is part of world
imperialism be otherwise? Imperialism,
while exploiting every people it can, is
particularly parasitical in the case of the »
non-white, developing world. How can
an investigation mean anything when its

A blow at wage controls —

Quebec’s abrogation of the federal
anti-inflation program has aroused the
ire of federal Finance Minister Donald
Macdonald, who said Jan. 14, that it will
make the wage-cutting program “more
difficult to operate”.

From a worker’s viewpoint Quebec's
move is a welcome gesture, a step for-
ward. Monopoly-oriented governments
cannot be expected to emerge from their _
crisis-confusion and take such action, but.
Premier Levesque’s call to other pro-
vinces should, surely, win response from
the New Democratic governments of:
Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

The move by the Parti Quebecois gov-
ernment means that Quebec’s 580,000
public service workers, and those in the
construction industry, up to now subject
to the province’s Inflation Control

Disarmament

There were sinister implications for
Canadians in the three-day lobby by 175
generals and other military brass in Ot-
tawa, Jan. 13-15.

With Prime Minister Trudeau joining
the cold war chorus, Chief of Defence

Staff, Gen. Jacques Dextrase called for a

$70-million 4,000- to 5,000-man forces
boost. The generals wanted emergency
mobilization plans for up to 250,000.
They also demanded a new white
paper on defence — a biank cheque for
arms: spending — for which the
monopoly press, like the Toronto Globe,
has been carrying on a. softening-up
propaganda campaign.
“The cost of defence reaches as-
tronomical heights,” the PM said, then
fell in with the cold warriors to speak of
“the potential enemy’s capabilities.”
While the Warsaw Pact urged joint
dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization,
while USSR’s Brezhnev greeted dele-
gates to the World Forum of Peace

ism, its sleezy media and its garbage-_

Canadians,

_ the will on the part of Liberal, Tory, New

- genuine rent and price controls.

13% jump in one year) headed for 20% ~

te ©
capitalism
backers are committed in advance to up-
hold the racist system? .

Walter Pitman was absolutely right to
say: “I cton’t believe there is a causal law —
which states bigness (of a city) plus ethnic _
diversity equals racial violence.” Any gi-
ven mixture of peoples in socialist com- _
munities proves he is right. -

The everyday operations of capital-

dump “culture” show where the “thugs
and hoodlums” acquire their racist
venom. .
Racism, with the long-range payoff for _
capitalism of splitting the working class
and the democratic movement, is di-
rected against many groups — French —
Indians, non-English-
speaking, Arabs, Jews, Blacks, and East.
indians:
What is needed is not a task force, but

Democratic and municipal governments
alike to put an end to racism. Nothing 1s”
stopping them but their own reluctance.

Commission, are now free of that re-
straint. Finance Minister Jacques
Parizeau promised. the Commission —
would remain as an advisory body, but —
administrator Camille Blier quit his “un- —
tenable” job. . ne |

The other side of the coin is that —

the program.

The trend started:in Quebec could, if —
picked up in other provinces, spell the ~
end of the wage-control program, and ©
the restoration of collective bargaining ~
and the rights of workers throughout ~
Canada. This should be accompanied by ~

or cold war? |

Forces in Moscow with a Soviet pledge to —
work for arms cuts, Trudeau and De-

fence Minister Danson were justifying —
Canada’s $3.4-billion arms budget (a ©

of the country’s budget.
What is involved is not a military —
“threat” but a nod to the arms profiteers,
and to the military brass the go ahead ©
and make the world safe (again!) for —
ITT and Exxon.
Working people are expected to
forget the misery of the economic crisis —
in the “joys” of cold war. the cold war- —
riors believe they can disrupt the June ~
follow-up in Belgrade, Yugoslavia of the —
successful Helsinki conference on Euro- —
pean Security and Cooperation. ‘
Pressure is needed on the Canadian
Government to have it live up to the
Helsinki Agreements, and, instead of
aggravating the arms race, working to
stop it, as demanded by the Stockholm
Appeal for Disarmament, endorsed by —
hundreds of millions around the world. —