{ NEWS (TEM. : = ST. CATMARINES — : “ 4UES. OCT. IS- C0. TRucks CROSSED AWROUGH rok oes oe gar. ocr.19- 9 TRutks CRASHED AUROUGH PIEKETS -INJURING AEEN AGE GIRL. RIKER: Local 536-UE- STRIKE VS. ETON YALE- fOR HIGRER WAGES. ~ ZI CANADIAN TRIBUNE. FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 25 years ago... TRIAL RECALLS 50 years ago... AS THE WORKER SEES IT . TIM BUCK TRIAL It would be amusing — if not The eleven leaders of the U.S. tragic — to note the unanimity Communist Party who were con- victed of “conspiracy to teach or advocate the overthrow of the government of the United States” were indicted under the Smith Act, a law passed in 1940 by with which everybody agrees that the unemployed don’t want doles. And yet having wasted their lives working without wages, would it be so surprising if the unemployed decided for once to Congress. accept wages. without work? Back in 1931 in Canada, eight st leading Communists, including : Tim Buck, national leader of the LPP, were similarly charged un- der a similar law — the infamous Section 98 of the Criminal Code, since withdrawn! was a result of tremendous public campaign. In both trials, the state did not ‘ : attempt to prove any “overt act”, cata we wae Way OF ayeEes. for any actual advocacy of force and its production? Only $406,730,278. nolenceaThey 4 Seeds Sak * - possible. Instead, the laws are When, in a typical industry, worded in such a way as to at- only about thirteen per cent of tach guilt ifthe state can con- the output can be bought by the’ vince a jury that the teaching of producers, is it astonishing that Communists, might, one way’ or that market is so quickly glutted another, - result, sometimes or and unemployment is so com-_ other, in violence by someone or other. A little light is thrown on the cause of unemployment by fig- ures for the automobile industry in the United States. The output of the industry in 1923 amounted to more than $3,100,000,000 in value. Just what part did Labor mon. Tribune, Oct.-24, 1949 Profiteer of the week: Cominco Ltd., Vancouver, whose stingi- ness to its employees touched off a three month strike that has just been settled, has much to be happy about. Its ungrateful workers managed to boost the company’s profits to $70,800,000 for the first nine months to Aug. 31, 1974, compared with only $29,400,000 during the same period a year ago. And Cominco’s ingenuity can also be seen by the fact that the 150%) profit increase came on an 80°/ increase in sales. Cominco is generous, all right, but only to Cominco. . The Worker, Oct. 25, 1924. SD oa = Pacific Tribune West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune: j Editor — MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., ~. Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Business & Circulation Manager, FRED WILSON Subscription Rate: Canada, $6.00 one year; $3.50 for six months; North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $7.00 ~All other countries, $8.00 one year Second class mail registration number 1560 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1974—Page 4 Editorial Spend on real needs. not arms Military spending by the Trudeau Government is going to squeeze Cana- dian taxpayers to the tune of about $2.5-billion in the 1974-75 fiscal year’ — about $100-million more than was bud- geted for, Does that sound like cutting back the military? All the blather we’ve been hearing about military cuts is a hoax perpetrated on the Canadian people to serve two interests: the monopoly cor- porations who profit mightily out of military production, and the U.S. Pen- tagon which is determined to hold sway over Canada through NORAD and NATO. NORAD, which defends us against nothing and infringes Canadian sovere- ignty, deserves to be dumped uncere- moniously. when it comes up for re- newal in May. This country is being milked for $140-million annually for NORAD. From 1968 to 1973 Canada spent more than $9-billion on ‘so-called de- fence. including the aggressive, U.S.- run North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion aimed against the socialist world. Canadian governments have dumped $50-billion down. this sewer in_the past 25 years! For whose benefit? By 1978 we’ll foot a bill of $3-bil- lion annually for this hoax according to Defence Minister Richardson’s plan of a year ago. Now he wants it raised. How many price roll-backs, how many in- dustries to process our own raw mate- rials could contribute something worth- while to Canadian lives if this money, or even half of it, were spent on the things working people need? It is a time to pry Canada loose from this sinister “guns instead of butter” Monopoly to blame Call it mischievous, call it criminal, the monopoly corporations and their spokesmen in government.are carrying out a grand deception of the working people by hiding the real sources of in- flation. = Labor Minister John Munro now admits the “erosion of the real purchas- Ing power of wages as a result of in- flation,” and says “. . . labor has some catching up to do.” Agriculture Minis- ter Whelan now admits there is too much price spread. between the farm and table. Prime Minister Trudeau has called provincial premiers together to discuss inflation. The fact is that not one of these, or any other spokesman of big business will admit the truth, that state mono- poly capitalism is responsible for infla- tion through monopoly domination of the market place, the compounding of profits, and the assault on workers’ liv- ing standards on every front. _ Only the mass, united efforts of work- ing people. with organized labor play- ing its full role can turn anger and frustration into the needed pressure on government to force it to curb mono- poly profits, to enact legislation for the protection and raising of living stand- ards. Any idea that the fight against in- flation can be left to big business and its governments leaves the working people-at the mercy of the gougers. An all-out fight to put monopoly under con- trol is what is needed, and needed now. hack. Racism, quota systems 2? og! mentality — $3-billion a year for a but we are told to use powdered Working people, trade unionists, labor movement are the best orgal to compel the government t0 a genuine cuts in military squande These same workers must insist civilian employees who lose mu és based jobs are guaranteed employe pensions, or where applicable re Jot] ing. The government, which slyly a ated many of these jobs where was nothing else to work at 18 at? responsible for seeing that wore” ; not punished for a cutback in the @ race. The labor and hard-earned, dol of Canadian workers, now crits wasted on military output can be a ed to the benefit of the working Pe i when the united voice of labor res” ly demands it. No room for racism i Conadian immigratiot the Immigration policies leaked by , federal Cabinet and attributed to th gration Minister Andras ber” strong stink of racism, and shou ger fierce opposition, particularly the lator movement. Potential immigrants fro ait’ Latin America, the Caribbean and t of Europe would face legislated qicts mination under the new Andras A: qa Cabinet sources have been qu? ‘on o sayine. The pretext is the protecU™ t, jobs. But what is needed to gual, iobs is a policy of full employme®™ the equating of 6% unemployme? full employment in order to wage-busting pool of unemployé Notoriously the Canadian ei ment has screened to a mere ; those it suspected of having demorrin pro-labor or socialist ideas, while ot ing-the doors wide to those. it exn ith to be anti-labor and to the PQ right. xp Working people know from © 4 ence the bosses’ trick of using re to split labor’s ranks. Does the 82: ment. in turn, think that it can a racially dependable group in th movement to defend it in the ; now rampant throughout the cay é system? Does it think that a ae 4 immigration policy will cure } th ey fot | < ments — inflation combined W! nomic stagnation? a A racist immigration volicy yj fact, an extension of policies by the government consorts with chi heid South Africa. with fascist uit and with the brutal regime of T stat! Vietnam, by which it takes its jest” with imperialism against the nicl] cratic and liberation movements youl? have won the support of labor 9 the world. test If the government wants to nat | Canadian people with a discrim™ . immigration policy to see hove el can go — it deserves a resound! | the like are repugnant to working Py in particular, whose strength is}? ~~ with all workers. or It is timely. in view of the dant thinking in Cabinet, for labor Z the government straight from the : der — “no racism in Canada’s 10h” tion laws!”