“When I countto thiee, you will come out ue your trance, insist on working overtime, and refuse to be paid for it” 25 years ago... DAY OF PROTEST IN SOUTH AFRICA JOHANNESBURG — Prime Minister Daniel Malan has is- sued a threat of violence against leaders of the African National Congress which has scheduled April 6 asa day of protest against the government's racist policies. The date marks the 300th an- niversary of the arrival of the first white settlers in South Af- rica‘and the beginning of the en- slavement of the native population. The Indian community will also join in the day of civil dis- wk sna In an attempt to split the Africans and Indians, the government arrested Dr. Yusef Dadoo, Indian leader and nine associates on trumped-up charges. Dadoo, released later on bail, proclaimed again that April 6 would introduce “a new era in the struggle against racial segregation.” The Tribune, February 11, 1952 50 years ago... SACCO & VANZETTI LAST FIGHT - BOSTON — Afight to the last ditch to save Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti, awaiting | sentence to the death chair, was under way in the supreme court. Attorney William’ G. Thompson; representing the two radicals whose frameup for murder had attracted world wide attention, argues on excep- tions to the refusal of Judge Webster Thayer to grant Sacco and Vanzetti a new trial, in spite of: the presentation of new evidence. In the last appeal for a new trial,- conclusive evidence was presented, including a complete confession, that a man named Madeiros.:took part in the hold- up and testified that neither Sacco nor Vanzetti were there. Madeiros is under reprieve from the electric chair to which he was sentenced for a Wrentham Bank stick-up in which the cashier was murdered. The Worker, February 12, 1927 ar 8 i Ht \iea y . 2 = = x Tis — w Sa ai ————s . cf “a ey ly ad a: Wa EDITORIAL COMIMIENT After controls — an attack Talk is cheap, and talk about the post-controls period, after Dec. 1978, or maybe sooner, has almost reached the © pollution category. Just glance at the monopoly-run press. “He'd ease curbs on profits, not wages.’ That’s the president of Lake Ontario Cement. “Executives fight.idea that pro- fit is.a 4-letter word.” That was Toronto’s fat-cat Board of Trade. All the monopoly forces are driving for higher profits and bigger guns to turn on labor. Finance Minister Mac- donald’s parliamentary secretary, Robert Kaplan (MP for York Centre) promised Toronto businessmen, according to his" supporting press, that “expenditures for Ce eae education will decline . bonuses. (family allowances) anode enormous expenditure, will also decline ... guaranteed income supple: ments and hospitalization and medicare . costs, should become stable soon ...’’ (Trib emphasis) It’s clear that the road ahead is to be sown with economic and political land mines for labor, but lest anyone think .that even the Tories would be better, let | us see their own words. - The ancient conservatism of Toronto’s Globe newspaper, unable to find any substance in frittery Joseph Clark’s re- marks, turned to a deep-dyed Tori George Hees. Hees’ shocking proposals are enough to set a labor-based anti-monopoly coali- tion in motion over-night. What he proposes for after the AIB is a one-third cut in wages of those who have been unemployed! Called af employment incentive, Hees’ plan would pay employers (out of taxpayers’ money) the equivalent of one-third of a workers wages, for the humanitarian service of hiring more workers at slave wages. Thé employer, under the Tory scheme would pay the worker one-third less than standard wages. Says Hees: “... he (the worker) would have the satisfaction of working instead of remaining in diene : and would begin paying income tax. Truly, the old order has lost its mind. 3 It would be foolhardy indeed for any -lone sector of the working class to set out to assault the monopoly dragon. But un- ited in its millions! United, the. or devia with provision made for action y the great army of unorganized — un ited the working people can down thé AIB, can down the plots of the arch To- ries, and in time can down the monopoly character of parliament, and put in its own representatives. : . First the working class must realize the truth, Then it must act — united. Abolish the ‘blacklist’ For a country whose government, whose ruling monopolies and their media shout much about human rights — particularly in other countries — the six-year-old “blacklist”. of former Solicitor-General Jean-Pierre Goyer is a questionable piece of work. The “dissidents” and “leftists” on this list, civil servants suspected of forming’ “an extra-parliamentary opposition,” were never given a right to clear their names. Just what is the government doing in the dossier business — what is the under- lying parpoes How many other such “blacklists” exist in Ottawa and in pro- vincial capitals? What has this to do with the real security of Canada? It looks more like an attempt to suppress criti- cism of the social system. Royal Canadian Mounted Police j, harassment of persons listed by the RCMP themselves, their helpers, and | stool pigeons of every stripe, is well known to the Canadain labor movement — and to immigrants. Suppression of. unions and union organization ; is not be- ' neath the “Mounties”. Only an aroused protest can put a stop to this crude state interference with the eke. of the individual, the labor move- ment, and student and people’s organizations. A remarkable circumstance is the dis- appearance of files from quarters later found in flames. The Praxis Institute, a -welfare-rights organization is a known. _ victim; a Metro tenants’ organization — had the same PAPOMEnLe: fire-thefts are not unknown. - A Conservative member of parliament got denials when he accused the RCMP of burglarizing to obtain the:names and information wanted. Taking the pres- sure off, the editor of the right-wing Tom Other onto Sun came forward as the “good citizen” who handed over the stolen files to the RCMP. People with normal memories will re-_ call that Western Guard nazis have been pointed to in several cases of arson against democratic organizations, and that the Sun displays a friendly inside track on nazi activities. This time some- one “anonymously” provided The Sun with stolen documents The Sun would normally like to see, before servicing the RCMP. An interesting, and perhaps re- versible, transmission belt. If the new Solicitor-General, Francis Fox wants to investigate subversidn of rights and the misuse of public trust, the RCMP and its shady collaborators should be candidates. Above that, the people of Canada have a right to demand of the highest gov- ernment authorities that all “blacklists” be destroyed, and this fascist-like prac- tice be abolished once and for all. The labor movement has a particular stake since it is dealing with an anti-labor government.