“General, with ten of these babies you can biow up the whole damn planet, but we're prepared to give you a very special price if you order 5,000. spss’ I 25 years ago... INDONESIA TERROR Indonesia’s_ collaborationist President Soekarno, has or- dered the arrest of thousands of Indonesian Communists, in- cluding leader Alimin Aged, youth leader Aidit, 14 members of parliament, editors and jour- nalists. They were jailed without charge and no date has been set for trial. Immediately after, the government’ signed __ the Japanese rearmament treaty and entered into closer relation- ships with Washington. The Communist Party had led the campaign of exposing the Japanese treaty and USS. economic aggression in In- donesia and were supported by the majority of the people, in- cluding the labor movement. Tribune November 2, 1951 * FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... GENE DEBS Eugene V. Debs is dead. Time, aided by the brutal perse- cution of the capitalist class, has at last conquered “Gene” the idol of revolutionary workers in America for more than two de- cades. Gene would have been 71 years of age had he lived until November 5th, but he suffered a nervous breakdown early in September, from which he never properly rallied. With our regret at the loss of a fighter from the working class ranks, there goes also regret that at the very end he was still not in the very front rank. In history Gene will ever live and inspire the student and worker with the desire to live, to fight, to hurl defiance at our masters, and to inspire our class with the desire and will to power. Worker October 30, 1926 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 12, 1976—Page 4 IDIMTORILAUL GCOMIMIEINT Jamieson trip good news | Canadian Government efforts at di- versifying Canadian trade, in part by ex- tending relations with the Soviet Union, can have only beneficial results for the people of Canada — as for the people of the Soviet Union. During Foreign Affairs Minister Don . Jamieson’s visit to the Soviet Union in October, accompanied by 35 Canadian businessmen, he said in Moscow that Canada wanted to extend the range of goods and the volume of trade with the USSR. That’s a positive approach because, al- though Canadian capitalism has its own reasons for seeking out stable markets — to try to offset the growing crisis of capitalism — the fact of a stable market, which only the socialist countries can of- fer, the fact of stability of prices of things we need to import, can be beneficial to the Canadian people and the Canadian working class. “Can be,” because how much benefit is derived by Canada’s working class de- , pends on the class struggle here in Canada. But the potential is there. There are other important factors. Jamieson, who met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Trade Minister N.S. Patolichev, was in thé Soviet Union as head of a Canadian Gov ernment group, to attend the first ses| sion of the USSR-Canada Joint Commis sion om-economic, industrial and scient’ fic cooperation. 4 ' Discussion of areas with such ingre dients for raising the standard of life opens up immense potential for agree ments advantageous to both countries. Call it peaceful co-existence between dif ferent social systems, or not, it de) monstrates that detente and trade go to gether. More than that, it adds stature t0 the Soviet Union’s frequent proposal fot serious disarmament steps to free funds for non-military progress. _ Canadian Government interest in eX tending trade and cooperation with the USSR, not only points to more jobs fot Canadians. It justifies the growing de mand for policies of disarmament an reduction of the huge arms budget largely ordered by NATO. The arms race, which steals from thé social needs of the working people, als? tends to undermine, with its mythology of a “Soviet threat”, the very initiatives Canada is taking in other fields. ———— National Student Day National Student Day, Nov. 9, called to express by various means the concerns for the future felt by post-secondary stu- dents across Canada, is a significant day, worthy of support and input. In the battle for democratization and democratic reform of_the educational system, students and progressive profes- sors come up against the same big busi- ness forces, and the system by which big business wields its power, as does the labor movement. .___ There are strong lines of cooperation forming between students and labor. This was particularly noticeable on Oct 14 when student contingents with thei! banners showed themselves as part of 4) — united struggle — or a struggle that should be more consistently united. When students choose a single day 0? which they together respond .to risi0§) tuition fees, inadequate student aid, the unemployment that awaits a_largé number of them, and concerns about s” cial services, working conditions and thé right to organize, it is a day to be greeté with working-class solidarity. 16-point ‘gift to labor’ 7 A shower of crumbs might be the first definition to come to mind for John Munro’s 16-point gift to labor enun- _ ciated in the Commons on October 18. But the labor minister and_ his monopolyrseny ing government have something more serious in mind. It’s the same government after all that is con- tinuing its hatchet job on wages through its Anti-Inflation Board. Munro’s buddy-boy role as labor’s friend, which he has been perfecting for some time now, putting out patronizing statements and patting the labor move- ment on the head is, evidently, meant to pay off for the new program. Canadian workers have had “indust- rial democracy” stuffed into them by the mass media in quantities enough to give them political diarrhea. Not that the rul- - ing class has abandoned the big stick; reprisals for the Day of Protest, con- tinued wage-cutting, toughness in negotiations, lockouts and strong-arm methods prove that. But with labor’s growing militancy, in a world of growing labor militancy and unity, if state monopoly capitalism cant get away with murder, it’s willing to try rape. The 16 points, loaded with tokenis™ are designed to win over the unwary fo! management, and to-split labor by ap” pearing “reasonable” to as many as pos” sible. Munro admits: “Many of ou! proposals are intended to diminish thé adversary element in the collective bat gaining process. . .” in short to deny that there are classes in society, that one clas owns the means of production at exploits the other. The Munro program is an attempt © _ defuse demands made time and again these pages and elsewhere in the labo! movement. Yes, the workers will have 4 say in health and safety, and in a host of other matters, but through stronger, col’ lective bargaining procedures, throug? their unions not by undermining thet To withstand the pressure of big bus ness government requires that thé working-class play a key role in an anU — monopoly coalition which can defea! monopoly control and form a gover ment which guarantees workers rights: GR AA PE a ES nae eee at le Se ee Doed’ ‘gece . bad peek | fel bee