NEWS ITEM: “Rea SPEAKING AT A CONFERENCE ON CANADIAN NATIONALICM at the UNIVERSITY of ToRonTo PROF. ROBERT ALIGER- an AMERICAN EcoNaMisr And CoNcuLTAéNT TO the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENLY, SAID; => ECONOMY OF Domi CANAPAS CONCERN with FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF ITS 1S A SEXUAL FANTASY NATION and CONTROL eS Aas BP ASS ak gS ere TE a ee he | rem DORE hs #7 FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... ORGANIZE LUMBERJACKS IN NEWFOUNDLAND In the remote. pulpwood forests of Newfoundland where lumber- jacks get 25 cents an hour for a 10-hour day, with living costs higher than in the United States, the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers hopes to bring several thousand loggers and papermill men into one union and unite the scattered trades of Newfoundland into a central labor body. Pulp workers all over the U.S. and Canada are menaced by the new open shop mills in New- foundland. Efforts to organize and strike have been viciously repress- ed. Last summer premier Munro sent.a battleship to repress strik- ers in the Humber Valley. The Worker, Feb. 7, 1925 25 years ago... WORK AND WAGES NOW! VANCOUVER — A mass “Work and Wages” lobby initiated by the Unemployed Action Committee will descend on the B.C. legisla- ture. With unemployment zoom- ing and with labor, church, social and unemployed organizations de- manding joint municipal-provin- cial-federal action, it can be ex- pected’ that the main bodies of government will have the crisis dumped right in their laps. A campaign centering around the key issue of jobs has been launched by the B.C. district of the Labor Progressive Party. Can- ada has between 450,000 and a million unemployed, according to Percy Bengough, president of the Trades and Labor Congress in challenging the government figure of 323,000 put forward by Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell. Tribune, Feb. 6, 1950 Profiteer of the week: lf J. M. Schneider of Kitchener, Ontario, a modest sausage-maker, can boost its an- nual profit from $2,708,000 in 1973 to $3,- 286,000 in 1974, it deserves our award, as pictured. In this period of restraint, all will be glad to note that JMS has begun con- struction on a $3,000,000, six-storey office building to house a computer and electro- nic data processing centre to keep track of your dollars. SASS SSeeee a are, Pacific Tribune ribune- avavaveTaTateTeTeteTetetetateatatetetetetatetatatatetetatetetettet teat eneeeneeneenenene, serene PSS SSIS RSS SSS OSS SDDS Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-8108 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, FEBRUARY 7, 1975—Page 4 _bigger picture Edttorial Comment... USA puts words in our mouths Familiarity with U.S. domination of this country’s economy must in no way diminish the feelings of alarm at the insidious nature of foreign control of Canadian publishing. The take-over of Canadian publish- ing by companies in the USA challenges ~ every Canadian’s right to participate, through the printed word, in our own history, cultural and scientific develop- ment, politics, and the contemporary expression of an independent Canadian world outlook. It denies opportunity to Canadian writers. The crisis stems from years-long ac- quiescence by successive big-business governments in Ottawa, adapting their policies to the dictates of U.S. monopo- ly capitalism. The fact that 85% of Canada’s pub- lishing industry is in the hands of for- eign-owned companies (USA — 77%) does more than undercut publishers, it goes to such lengths as to dictate pro- positions to be embodied in the educa- tion of the young generation. Text-publishers like W.,J. Gage and ‘Ryerson are gobbled up by U.S. com- panies, with government compliance, while what budgets there are for Cana- dian text-books are cut back by educa- tion authorities at various levels of government. The Independent Publish- ers Association points out that “recent- ly the Department of Education of Prince Edward Island announced that it planned to cease buying in Canada,” undoubtedly attracted by U.S. tariff- free, cut-rate books. The case for public ownership of the “textbooks and learning materials in- | dustry” as demanded by the Commu- | nist Party has become unassailable. Every one concerned with the educa- | tion of Canadian children, every sup- | porter of the right to Canadian inde-— pendent thought and expression is pro- | pelled toward the same conclusion. The address of Secretary of State Hugh Faulkner to the Conference on the State of English Language Pub- lishing Canada, in Peterborough, Ont., | Jan. 24-25, made clear the government’s unwillingness to face up to-such a need. | He offered tokenism instead. Of 38 million paperbacks sold in Can- ada annually in 10,000 outlets, only | 3.5% are by Canadian authors, while | U.S. publishers flood us with 80 to 90° new titles a week! To this, the minister ‘says, come and see me when you've solved the problem. Legislation to stop foreign take-overs of both publishing and distribution of paperbacks (as wel as periodicals) ; plugging loovholes in | the copyright act, through which tons | of cheap left-overs of Canadian authors’ | U.S. editions are trucked into Canada before Canadian editions are off the press; and steps to begin to restore | foreign-owned publishing in Canada to Canadians — these are the actions needed in defence of Canadian sover- eignty in the area of the printed word. Call Ouellet’s bluff on prices roll-hack! Last April, Canadians were hearing about the government’s anti-profiteer- ing bill, at that time under the tutelage of Corporate and Consumers’ Affairs Minister Herb Gray, before he fell out with the Cabinet. The new minister, cabinet junior An- dre Ouellet, who once shocked his elders by threatening to jail profiteers, and now custodian of the bill, promised in Vancouver, Jan. 27, a roll-back of prices, a freeze on prices, and even re- funds to consumers who had paid exces- - sive prices. If that last one is retro- active we’ll all qualify. Undoubtedly the cabinet elders want to judge the public mood — whe- ther they are compelled to act, or whether talk will still get them by. The minister is already hedging, refusing to touch profits directly — only prices. And there is more to profits than the retail price tag. But let’s see the anti-profiteering bill roll back prices, as Mr. Ouellet says it will: let’s see prices frozen at 1973 levels, if that is his intention; let’s see refunds to consumers who continue to be gouged. No one says workers have to be satis- fied with that: they should not be. A prices roll-back is one vital part of the including wage in- creases, and taxes directly on fattened profits to free funds for social needs. Clearly. Mr. Ouellet, an apprentice to the svstem of state monopoly cavital- ism, does not want to damage that sys- tem. But the clear-eyed, even among the capitalist politicians. can see that the monopolies must be forced into at least cosmetic concessions to the rising anti- monopoly, anti-profiteering tide. Other- wise, pressure for public ownership, which is on more and more lips thes¢ days, will be overwhelming, they fear. Their fears are justified: the battle is on.to free the working people from monopoly’s profit grip through public ownership of key sectors of the eco- nomy, including food processing. But history’s facts prove that noth- ing effective will be done about prices | — or profits — despite all the talk, with- out mass action by the Canadian people inspired by the working class. Now is the moment, during this sit- | tine of parliament. Price roll-back com: | mittees. which should be organize everywhere, can compel the federal gov- ernment to enact an anti-profiteering bill with teeth. and use it to force mo: nopoly prices back to 1973 levels an freeze them there. Persian Gulf threat Bristling U.S. armaments in the heartland of Arab oil producers is 4 natural, but dangerous, follow-up t? military threats by Kissinger and Ford to seize Arab oil by force if U.S. im perialism’s schemes should require it. A US. “spy-plane base” (adequaté for fighter-bombers as well) on the Island of Masirah in the Persian Gulf represents an alarming new U.S. mové towards the threat of force to gall control of resources and to step up re placement of strategic bases. The full-scale militarizing of selected Arab governments, while equipping Israel with latest weaponry can only suggest that the USA sees advantage’) in continned Middle East fighting, and the possibility of stepnine in at a give? moment to establish its “claims.”