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25 years ago...

PASTOR FOR PEACE

Dr. Niemoller, Protestant
church leader who made a six
day visit to Moscow on the invita-
tion of the Russian Orthodox
Church, stated on his return to
West Germany that he was very
satisfied by his trip.

There could be no question
about the fact that church life in
the Soviet Union was very active,
he told reporters. He had been
greatly impressed by the large
number of believers whom he
had seen at the various services
he had attended. In Moscow he
had also attended a service of the
Baptist church, and received a

hearty reception from
thousands of members of the
congregation.

Shortly after his return from
Moscow, Niemoller, preaching
in Frankfurt, appealed to the
women and the mothers of West
Germany to oppose the con-
scription law planned. Every
single family must take part in
the fight against remilitariza-
tion, he stated.

The Tribune,
March 3, 1952

50 years ago...

CANADIAN WHEAT POOL
INVITES S.U. TO TALKS

The Canadian Wheat Pool has’
invited the Soviet Union to take
part in a world wheat growers’
conference to be held in Kansas
City early in May and has re-
quested the United States Gov-
ernment to grant the Russian
representative a visa.

Canadian Wheat Pool officials
consider that it is only a matter
of time until the Soviet Union
returns to the World market as a
stiff competitor, and competi-
tion is just what the existing pool
does not want, when it comes to
marketing wheat in Europe. It
wants a system whereby every
wheat exporting country will
feed the consuming market in
cooperation with other coun-
tries. The main subject of discus-
sion will be a proposal which will
aim to regulate the flow of wheat
into the European market. Un-
der such regulation a higher
price for the growers will be
maintained.

The Worker,
March 5, 1927

“ See how well our automatic grievance machinery works! “’

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 11, 1977—Page 4

EDITORIAL
COMMENT

International Women’s Day

On _ International Women’s Day,
March 8, women around the world are
working — some are dying — in the
cause of human rights. Everywhere in
the struggles to end the arms race, to
enhance human development, to lay
down the right to the everyday things of
family existence and fulfillment, increas-
ing numbers of the women of the world
are playing a significant role.

In countries where the liberation
struggle collides with racism, apartheid,
fascism, and the world imperialist sys-
tem, women, alongside men, are fighting
at this moment. In South Africa, Zim-
babwe, Chile, Uruguay, Indonesia,
South Korea, to name some, the dark
ages of torture and imprisonment have
not yet been swept aside. :

In the socialist countries — European,
Asian, African and Latin American —
women have long ago won the right to

equality, have taken their places in alk.

spheres of society and are working to
perfect the society in which men and
women live as complementary equals.
In capitalist countries, like Canada,
which back up and are part of the op-
pressive world imperialist system,
women are increasingly resisting efforts
of the system’s propaganda to pacify
them with technological trinkets, as in

Jobs, not wage controls! —

The goal of the magnificent October
14 Day of Protest — the goal of putting
an end to wage controls — was brought a
step closer in Ottawa Feb. 24 when a joint
UE-IUE brief charged the Anti-Inflation
Board with robbing workers of $2.5-
billion in wages, and depriving the
economy of that amount of purchasing

wer. .

The need to end wage controls is daily
more urgent. And the Canadian Labor
Congress was 100% correct in rejecting
Ottawa’s splitting tactic, the nibbling at
wage controls piecemeal..Such a plan is
meant to divide workers into those “al-

lowed” to demand pay hikes, and those -

forced to “sit out” a contract till its expiry
date.

The labor movement should tell Labor
Minister Munro: No way!

The CLC is equally right to insist that
Bill C-73 be killed across the board — for
public and private sector workers alike.
“Deceitful” was too kind a word for fed-

_eral and provincial suggestions that a lid

be kept on public sector workers when all

others are freed from the AIB strangle

hold. ”
What better way for the monoploies
and their governments to cancel out the
October 14 worker unity than through
such splitting and friction — if they
could get away with it?

The one political party that has un-

-waveringly and at every level, fought

wage controls from the day they were
hatched, is the Communist Party’ of
Canada. The CPC record is clear and
solid. Its practical demands for policies
to put Canada back to work, again repre-
sent the interests of the working class.
This country needs a Budget from the
reluctant finance minister which reflects

women to fight back — to fight for equal

port, for it will serve to break down more

television’s crude commercial barrage.

On the contrary, Canadian womel
take leading places in the key struggles
for jobs, for disarmament, for adequate
social services, and against the outrage
ous inflation that hits the working class
hardest.

It is the working class, of both sexes;
cognizant of the everyday realities (i
flation, unemployment, extortionate
housing, disorienting education, literary
sewage for culture) that is winning

rights, to fight on the picket line and in
election and mass public campaigns, fot
dignity, for the future ‘of the young
generaion, for the new -society which
human ability makes possible.

On International Women’s Day it
timely to greet Canadian women, and
women around the globe, for thei
achievements in the escalation of social
progress — through their own organiza
tions as well as through trade unions,
political parties and other channels. It is
a time as well for celebrating the resul
tant human happiness, and for saluting
this year-one of the Decade of Women;
which needs both male and female sup-

of the barriers to that happiness, to
genuine human freedom. a

such new policies — to expand thé
economy, create jobs, and redistribute .
the national income in favor of the work
ing people, the poor, the pensioners.

The government must be compelled
to start by cutting the useless — but pro-
fit-making — arms budget by 50%. The
people of Canada can use that $3.5-
billion a year for real needs instead of
satisfying the appetites of the NATO war
provocateurs.

Vast housing and public works pro-
grams, reduced hours — 30 at 40 hours’
pay, more trade with socialist and de-
veloping countries, are real answers. _

In the last quarter of 1976 corporate
profits jumped 10% over the 1975
period while Gross National Product fell
0.6%. Such profit productivity on fewer
products shows where the controls
should be. : oe

The battle to end wage controls is part
and parcel of the fight for a healthy
economy, for jobs, paid training pro-
grams for youth, and fora voice for labor
in all questions of concern to it.

Defence budget

In the editorial, Disarmament or cold war?, in
the Jan. 24 Tribune, the following paragraph ap-
peared:

' ‘While the Warsaw Pact urged joint dissolution
of the Warsaw Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, while USSR’s Brezhnev greeted de-
legates to the World Forum of Peace Forces in
Moscow with a Soviet pledge to work for arms
cuts, Trudeau and Defence Minister Danson were
justifying Canada’s $3.4-billion arms budget (a 13%
jump in one year) headed for 20% of the country’s
defence budget.” ; :

In the published version, the second last word,
defence, was omitted, as was a clearer explanation
that the 20% referred to the annual increase, which
was to have been held to 12%. uf