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25 years ago...

ASSAULTED BY POLICE,
15,000 HEAR ROBESON
PEEKSKILL, N.Y—More than
15,000 people braved fascist lynch
mobs and state police here last
weekend to hear Paul Robeson
sing. After the first concert a
week ago had been stopped by
police-aided gangs who assaulted
the audience and burned a fiery
Klan cross, Robeson came back

to sing again.

‘This time he sang, despite the
threats of fascist hoodlums who
again were aided by police and
who threw rocks and stones that
injured more than 100 people-
Robeson has called upon Presi-
dent Truman “‘to restore law and
order in New York State” and

laid the blame on state police
who, he said, “attacked and as-

saulted us” during the five hour
affray- tees are
“There can be no argument”,

he declared, “we were attacked —

by arms of the state and local
government. Dewey sent in the
troops saying they'd defend us,
but they were really there to
beat our brains out.”

Tribune, Sept. 12, 1949

for them?

The workers are costing us money! Woe
is us! So complains the Ogilvie Flour Mills
Co. Ltd., who decry the fact that “a six
week strike at the Montreal mill reduced
feed division ship volume and delayed ship-
ments . . .” But don’t worry. The Ogilvie
boys aren't on the brink of starvation. In the
first three months of 1974, they took in
$2,035,000 in profits, ccmpared to only
$1,144,000 a year ago. If the workers are
costing them money, then who is making it

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Editorial Comment...

‘Solving’ inflation for whom?

There is something theatrical about
the spate of articles, editorials, com-
mentaries, and analyses of the current

‘unbridled inflation which is helping to

churn up crises in capitalist economies.

Protests against inflation from the
people who have suffered most from it
— working people, pensioners, the
young people — are understandable and
commendable. But the big business
media, crying out against the threat
of a slump, the dangers of: inflation,
which is a creature of their own system,
give the man in the street the impres-
sion he is seeing the first act of a stage
drama. At times he is made to wonder
whether the men backstage really know
the outcome; at others he can be cer-
tain that there is indeed a plot.

Walter E. Lawson, president of the

Canadian Manufacturers’ Association, —

who happens to be vice-president and

general manager of Domtar Packaging .
-Ltd., wants “a top-level, national con-

ference” on inflation. John Diefenbaker
wants one too. Some leading. capitalist
newspapers (which backed Stanfield’s
wage-freeze proposals during the fed-
eral election) are now comparing the

Canadian government’s inaction un-

favorably with the daring of U.S. Presi-

. dent Ford.

In the USA, one response to Mr.

Ford’s economic summit call has been >

a suggestion that he be given all the
powers he needs to deal with inflation.
Is that what somie big business spokes-
men are angling for here?

The Toronto Star has toned down its
former wage freeze to “guidelines” and
says that since “the Trudeau govern-

the people agreed,” we'll just have to
face the “consequences.”

For the. Liberals, Finance Minister
John Turner said the inflation problem
has reached a level where it is danger-

‘ous for the world, and has gone on an

international search for solutions, start-
ing with a meeting with U.S. Secretary
of the Treasury Wm. Simon. ~

Prime Minister Trudeau, who has
been holding meetings across the coun-
try, said in Calgary this week that he
has considered an economic conference,
aie will. watch what happens in the

While the stage managers for big
business are allowing suspense to build
to the point where they apply a solution
— undoubtedly one which soaks the
workers and lets monopoly capitalism
off the hook — this is a good time for
the people of Canada to write the next
act.

Inflation, which is a permanent feat-
ure of capitalism, is a burden and har-
assment on the working people in the
first place. It needs to be fought by
mass united action, mass pressures of
all kinds centred on the demand for a
roll-back of prices; for price controls
on food, fuel, housing and rents, for
curbs on the profiteers, for substantial
wage inceases!

To win these demands, and further,
for the nationalization of key industries
to free the economy from uncontrolled
monopoly domination, a powerful coa-
lition formed in the process of the anti-
inflation struggle will serve the inter-
ests of workers, farmers and consumers
as no cooked-up meeting of big-business

ment rejected” a freeze on wages “and minds will ever do.

Bell coup a challenge

In giving its blessing to a -new profit
gouge by Bell Canada, and once again
demonstrating its contempt for the
Canadian people, the Trudeau Govern-
ment may think it has settled the mat-
ter. *

On the contrary, nationalization of

billionaire corporations like Bell is
more justified and more timely than
ever, and the rising demand for public
ownership and democratic control of

_ such outfits cannot be stopped.

The government could have disallow-

ed the Canadian Transport Commis-'

sion’s deal with Bell, granting not only
a telephone rate increase, but a “form-
ula” by which Bell can offset “inflation”
by further increase. (Its profit in. the
first quarter of 1974 was $52-million;
its total in 1973 was $200-million.)

The government was urged to put a
stop to it by the Canadian Labor Con-
gress, other labor bodies, the Commun-
ist Party and many organizations, In-
stead, it demonstrated, if any more
proof was needed, that it governs solely
in the interests of monopolies like Bell.

Government arrogance has, in the
past, touched off devastating public
campaigns. The efforts by this govern-
ment and its monopoly masters to put
added burdens on the working people
deserve no better treatment.

Labor divided won’t do it. But labor

united in a mass extra-parliamentary
force, multiplying many times the
strength of the current strike move-
ments, has the power to jolt the gov-

ernment into acting on the demands of

the working people, putting monopolies
like Bell under public aa anaes
ping in their tracks monopoly’s increas-
ing attacks on the living standards of
workers.

Toronto transit workers were back
on the job on September 4, awaiting
the appointment and findings of an
arbitrator, but their strike’s contribu-
tion to today’s labor militancy remains
a landmark.

When the Ontario Tory government
called the legislature to order the TTC
workers back (while neglecting the un-
employment problem, soaring rents,
etc.) the transit workers demonstrated
an insistance that their demands be
properly dealt with — they stayed out
an additional four days. It was the first
such defiance of the legislature in On-
tario’s history, and well deserved. Even
then 1,075 of a total of 4,888 voted
against a return to work.

Struggles in defence of labor’s gains
are made harsh by mounting pA oe
ment and boss pressure to force a
working-class retreat. The transit
workers have set an example of readi-
ness to meet that kind of challenge.

_ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1974—PAGE 5

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