25 years ago...

COCA COLA
AND SS HONOR

FRANKFURT — A neo-
fascist organization has been set
up under the name Deutscher
Jungerbund and has the closest
connections with the terrorists
of Die Erste Legion (The First
Legion).

The young fuehrer of the leg-
ion declared recently: “The
Americans are the pledge of our
victory. With their help we will
re-establish the honor of the
Waffen SS.”

German newspapers. com-
mented on these words some-
what ironically. And well they
might. According to these news-
papers, Deutscher Jungerbund
has already received a first sub-
sidy of seven million marks (be-
tween five and six thousand
pounds sterling) from ... the
Coca Cola Company.

Tribune,
April 9, 1951.

- FLASHBACKS FROM —
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

THREATS TO DEPORT

UNEMPLOYED LEADER

LONDON, Ont. — A.C. Av-
ery, president of the Un-
employed Organization here, is
in danger of being deported by
city authorities. :

Avery, who has been un-
employed all winter, and like all
workers, up against it, being
practically without food or fuel
for himself, wife and family of
three, applied to the Relief
Officer Saunders for relief.

He asked Saunders for
potatoes and meat. He was told
that they had none, but that they
could give him deportation. He
asked for blood and they gave

him a stone.
Interestingly, Avery has been

one of the most active fighters in

the city for the rights of the un- |

employed who are_refusing to
starve in silence. This, of course
has disturbed the local babbittry,
and therefore the deportation.
Worker,

March 27, 1926

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 9, 1976—Page 4_

EDIMOMAL
COMIMIENT

More anti-labor attacks

The “Anti-Labor Inflation Board” has
been at it again on behalf of its masters,
the monopoly corporations. It has
proved once more that it is anti-labor

* and that it aids inflation by allowing

prices and profits to soar.

Of course, there’s its beer commercial.
It ordered O’Keefe in Quebec to in-
crease prices only 4% instead of 7%!
That has to stand as its contribution to

fighting price increases. All hail!

But, as headlines have proclaimed:
“No AIB intervention in steel price
rises.” While living costs zoom, the
monopolies who pull the strings of gov-
ernment, who pull the strings of the
AIB, refuse to cut their own profits.

Robbing the workers is the AIB creed.
It cheated teachers of a pay increase they
won before collective bargaining was

_ killed; it hi-jacked paper workers’ pay,
put aside for them by their employer;
and now it stretches out its larcenous
fingers to pick the pockets of sugar
workers in Saint John, N.B. who have
been ordered to repay from $300 to
$500 each, of money.awarded to them in
a settlement. ASE

The one and only answer is to scraf
the law which permits organized crimMiic

against the working people. -

...as media gnash teeth kc
The anti-labor media, from CBC new 34
to the two corporate press pillars in Teal
onto, were in full cry after the histotjanc
making demonstration of 35,0U%s
working people on Parliament Hill :
March 22. -
The reactions ranged from argumeny,
to “bring labor to its senses,” to a SU
piece headed: “Controls: Labor’s ovelr
kill is a flop,” by a financial chatterer, oMn
of his depth in labor politics. 7
The fact is that the mass protest 9 |
labor, headed for even bigger manifest a
tions (called by one press prattler 4%,
“unpopular minority group”) shook
sneers from corporate faces. fe
As has been pointed out, labor has ™
yet really shown its power, but the timé
nigh. What the monied press fears
happening — the foundations have bet
laid for a separate edifice of worki |
people’s - policies, governing workilto
people’s decisions on what will be
laws and who will enforce them, 1"
whose benefit — in fact who will gove™),,
in whose interests.

Fakery at Queen ’s Park :

Whether or nor the people of Ontario
want an election this spring appears to be
least among the concerns of the per-
formers at Queen’s Park.

The Davis Tories, hated for their so-
cial destabilization — slashing social
benefits, shutting down hospitals, re-
fusing daycare facilities, and harassing,
like bullies, those least able to fight back
— are in league with the wage-cutting
federal Liberals, determined to pay for

capitalism’s crisis by throttling the work- —

ing people.
But what of the “opposition”?

Spectacular Liberal contortions, -

swinging froma fire-breathing challenge
to the Tories, to purple embarrassment
when it appeared that New Democrat aid

_ would make the Liberals responsible for

toppling the government, ended with a
re-swallowing of Liberal “wrath” when it
came right down to protecting the ruling
class.

That “loyalty” was one side of it; the
other was, as one of the motivated cried
out: “Our leader is virtually unknown.”
A bad omen for an election. So, the pro-
vincial budget due April 6 would have to
be “the worst budget in history,” before
the Liberals would knock it down, they
admitted.

If the growing, united force of work-
ers and their allies, yell “fake” at the
sham battlers of Queen’s Park, they are
fully justified. And they are justified in
calling for NDP action in and out of the
legislature.

Many felt that Stephen Lewis’

‘ response to a Liberal shield against an
election offered only more indoor fire-
works colored to look like policies. “It

allows us to be seen as the Opposition

"all know by now, that should have D¥ue

with a clarity which would not have bet
possible any other way,” he is quoted &
saying. .

Ontario’s fourth registered polit@
party sees unity and mass political act,
of the working people themselves 4 |
key to compelling new policies whl
serve the people. =

The Communist Party’s program ff
Ontario’s working people has bee?)
consistent battle against the Tory ©
sault, for a comprehensive poll
often expressed in these pages, and is)
yet, the only sound and worka®
working-class program leading towal
new kind of government in Ontario, Wy
a pro-worker, not an anti-worker, ba)
The Communist Party hails the prep4
tions for a mighty rally on April 28. |

The Day of Protest at Queen’s Pat
organized by the Ontario Federatio? |
Labor and its affiliates, is the next g™
opportunity for working people in"
province to state their own case. In"
process they should be able to sepa!
the genuine fighters for labor and ?
people from the dazzling word-artis®
the legislative chamber. q

Correction

In the editorial, A call to |
peacemakers, (Mar. 29), we referred,
“all Canadians who are fed up ©
dumping more than three million dt

an
lars a year down the armaments drag

while social needs go begging . . .” ASUR

‘three billion a year the Canadian
ernment is squandering on armame