AN EXPENSIVE ROAD at Provincial government Al Ace 18.4 percent of its an- bet budget, or $650 million if roads and highways. This : ae Percent of its total dis- 5 'sements for economic deve- pee and the August issue ag € United Electrical Work- eccoreh bulletin asks whe- Publ SO percent of the total Ba funds for economic nt ©pment is a sensible pro- os fon to put into the annual Wennsion of the automobile May of life?"’, ‘con omPared to this only 11'/ oe Per dollar is spent on all El of health and welfare. ieee gobbles up $1,589 eee or 45.1 percent of the ig Of this figure $925 mil- - S spent on education be- ay University level and $529 '0n on university education. thok 4 it is observed that less lation S percent of the popu- oF reach university the per- tec. disbursement seems “Tate what out of whack. The ins Of increase for expendi- On the university level was eid a. half times that for igh onal training and gene- Education over the past Years, ne A Research Bulletin makes “Pay a to the trade unions) to the much more attention to or &xpenditure side of gov- lustrate Activities, which it il- g a is. part of the studied “they Ment policies of helping Do and impoverishing the THE FIRST TO GO ; pares sighs today in the 4 Three peso playgrounds of ted 5 vers. They stand deser- Ten ecre than 5,000’ child- ™No have been deprived at } 9 of their young men and women. supervisors. The’ reasons? The city has decided to cut the municipal budget! _It's always the same formula that prevails. As soon as a municipal council is in finan- cial trouble and must reduce its expenditures, the young are the first to be hit! This is what is happening in Three Rivers. Last week the city manager, Mr. Roger Lord, ad- vised the director of the new municipal recreation depart- ment, Mr. Alvin Doucet, that it was necessary to cut $25,000 off the recreation budget for the rest of 1969. As a result, it has been decided to stop or- ganized activities in the 19 municipal playgrounds .. . This was the painful news announ- ced last Friday to the 90 super- visors gathered for their weekly meeting. In this way there will be a saving of $7,000! But for the 5,000 children of Three Rivers, this is a bitter deception! +. . Picnics had been organized; young athletes were to have participated in the Olympiads at Shawinigan; a festival was to have been prepared for the youth clubs of boys and girls. All of these have gone by the board. For the children of Three Rivers, the end of the summer vacations of 1969 has brought them profound disillusionment! La Presse, Montreal POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY “Imperialism’ cannot expect to succeed if it openly speaks of its true aims. It is compelled to create a system of ideologi- cal myths to disguise its true intentions and lull the vigi- lance of the peoples.” L. |. Brezhnev. Thirty years ago The Second World War began 30 years ago, on September 1. During its course, more than 55 million people were killed, and another 35 million were wounded or crippled. It spawned the A-bomb, twice used by United States imperialism to transform two Japanese cities and their populations into gas. War, alien to man’s character, arises out of the very nature of capitalism. The capitalist classes turn to war for "answers to their problems. The exist- ence of a socialist camp compounds their problems. Socialism represents the future of mankind, and stands in the way of their plans. They dream of a successful war against socialism. The monstrous crimes of the nazis— concentration camps, genocide and slave labor — during World War II, were a perverted outgrowth of the search for profits. Such crimes against human beings shrink man’s stature, slowing him in his advance to what man will truly be. Many people in Canada point the finger at the nazis. However, Cana- dians have had the crimes of the U.S.. militarists in Vietnam brought to them over the TV, and through the picture pages of Life magazine. Canadians still elect a government that supports the United States’ aggression in Vietnam, which profits from selling it military supplies, and which is part and parcel of imperialism’s war pacts. But that giant industrial neighbor of ours has been brought to an impasse by the Vietnamese, helped by the Soviet Union and the socialist camp, along with the peace forces of the world. Those, who are old enough, recall the efforts made from the very outset by the world’s first socialist state to re- solve world conflicts peacefully. “The foreign policy of the Soviet Union has always been based upon the policy of peaceful co-existence. Much is said by the anti-Communists about the Munich Agreement, signed a - year before World War II began. The same people who are shouting the loud- est today against the Warsaw Pact countries, gave the nazis the whole of Czechoslovakia, although it was not theirs to.give. Their congenital hatred of Communism led them to believe they were masters of the situation. Instead, within a\ year they, themselves, - were fighting for their existence in a war with a strong and powerful monopoly state which they, themselves, had built. The contribution made by the Soviet people to the defeat of Hitler, and in liberating half of Europe, remains un- paralleled in the world’s history. An epic in the history of mankind, it is the kind of heroic selflessness that in- creases the stature of man. The dreadful war against Vietnam is but one of the many war-making situations of the day. The Middle East, in which an aggressive Israel continues to occupy Arab territories seized as a result of aggression, is fraught with the threat of world war. The activities of the revanchist gang in Bonn, grow- ing bolder every day, isanother powder _ ic Se eam es ~ _ PACIFIC TRIBUNE keg upon which we are sitting. The in- creasing anti-Soviet stance of the Chi- nese (reported elsewhere in this paper in the account of W. Kashtan’s ad- dress) heightens the war danger. We do not believe there will be, an- other world war. Over 20 years ago, a tide of peace activity began in our country, with thousands going from ‘door to door with the ban-the-bomb petitions. It was a huge process for peace, which secured nearly a quarter _ of a million signatures on two occasions. The-peace movement has been acting, ‘learning and growing. A broad, united -- peace movement can win far-reaching- -ehanges, not only in the dangerous game of support for the United States -. by our Ottawa: politicians, but also in economic reforms. We are part of that mighty peace movement, at the fore- front of which stands the entire social- ist community, which is going to impose peace on the imperialists—an act that, by itself, will open the door to far- reaching social advance and happiness for mankind. Labor - Farmer Unity There have been sharp differences between workers and farmers, as well as occasions when they acted in con- cert. Farmers think workers strike too often, and get too much pay. Workers think farmers are rich, and responsible for high prices. Usually, workers only strike as a last ‘resort. Without farmers to buy farm implements, workers could not be em- ployed. Famers cannot look to an ex- panding home market when wages are depressed and when one-fifth of the nation is poverty-stricken. The struggles of workers and farm- ers for the right to organize, to take effective action, to strike to withold goods from the market place, to be po-' litical, and to lobby, is centuries old. To meet—and overcome—the delib- erate attempts to create unemploy- ment, and to cast the farmers ‘adri the defense of all social gains, combin- ed with a struggle for further gain, is essential. — Rather than too much, the unions have too little power. How can anyone seriously equate the strength of unions to the giant Weston Food Trust, or to the three biggest auto corporations? _ No worker or farmer can get the’ incentive tax concessions, or the low royalty rates, freely given to the giant billionaire companies. Instead, they are compelled to struggle for a price for their labor or for their product, through a sometimes long and painful rocess, of which the strike is often a nal and vital part. The class struggle, far from subsid- --ing, is sharpening. Restrictive laws, - which protect the interests of the wealthy minority, mean coercion and force against the majority. We can say, with certainty, that if the workers and farmers find the way to cooperate together, it will be a big step towards the transformation of life in our country to the greater benefit — 2 those who are called the “Common > an,’