uring recent weeks much has happened in Canada

5 and elsewhere throughout the world to thaw the
discomforting winds of the coldwar. To mention only two
events: the recent visit to Canada of Soviet Premier Alexei
Kosygin and the final admission of the Peoples Republic of
China to its rightful place in the United Nations Organization,
coupled with the ousting of the U.S.-puppet regime of Chiang
Kai-shek on the Chinese Island of Taiwan (Formosa).

Both these events are of momentous significance to world
peace and peaceful coexistence, because both show a marked
stiffening on the part of official Canada for peaceful and
mutually beneficial relations with our northern neighbor, the
USSR. The other marks a very definite stiffening of official
Canada against being “‘pushed around”’ any longer to suit the
economic, political, and/or the conspiratorial war plans of U.S.
imperialism, in Asia or elsewhere. Two very historic
milestones indeed, indicative of a new awakening of Canada
for independence, sovereignty, and leadership in a global
struggle for peace.

Of course, there were those who “‘surfaced’’ during the

visit of Premier Kosygin, the socalled nationalist ‘‘ethnic’’
groups, consisting of Ukrainian, Slavic, Hungarian, Zionist and
kindred “‘riff-raff”’;who do not desire to see the coldwar ended,
who pressgang their uninformed youth into “‘protest’’
demonstrations, who are joined by other anti-Soviet and anti-
Communist hooligan elements such as the ‘Edmund Burke
Society”, and whose individual and collective provocations;
aimed at violence, assassination and worse, constitute a
disgrace to their adopted country, plus a standing menace to
peace.
Such groupings however are not wholly to blame for their
hostile actions. Unfortunately as yet, the coldwar conditioned
news media, TV etc., gives them every encouragement; to fan
their real or alleged grievances into violent or hostile acts.

Perhaps the most contemptible of all these socalled
“ethnics” are the Zionist groups who presume to speak for
Soviet Jewry and who never miss an opportunity to slander and
defile the Soviet government on its alleged “treatment of Jews
in the Soviet Union’’. It is not so many years ago since this
Zionist lackey of imperialism was fulminating against the
Soviet Union for promoting Jewish emigration to Israel, hoping
thereby to “‘destroy the Israeli €conomy’’. Now it is just the
opposite. Behind the phoney slogan of ‘‘Let My People Go”’, the
Zionist provocatures have found a new harassment of Soviet
emigration regulations . . . and let it be said, a new way to
bring disgrace upon the people of Jewish origin, Soviet or
other.

Moreover, it is a well-known fact that the leading ~

personnel of this Zionist puppet of Western imperialism, would
themselves no more emigrate to Israel than set up in business
at the North Pole selling ice cream cones to Eskimos. But they
get uninformed dupes to blow their Shofar horns, engage in
their ‘‘prayers”’ for Soviet citizens, and participate in their
political hooliganism and violence, aided by the openly-fascist
Burkite-com-Social Credit would-be assassins.

Truly, the old saw of “‘birds of a feather flock together’”’
applies in this instance as it did in the early days of Zionist-
Hitler unity, leading eventually to the Hitlerite death ovens for
over six million Jewish people. In their class-inspired hatred of
the Soviet Union, these Zionist provocateurs forget history —
and defile the great people, living and dead, they presume to
speak (and ‘‘pray’’) for. :

When the representatives of the Peoples Republic of China
take their seat (long denied by U.S. imperialism and its dollar-
dominated satellites) in the United Nations, a new era will
emerge, hopefully an era of peace and understanding between
nations and peoples; an era in which the UN can work for
peace, freedom from the dollar-domination of a U.S. imperial
collossus.

And the fate of Taiwan? At the end of World War II the
Allied Nations declared Taiwan “‘an integral part of mainland
China” together with all other coastal islands in recognized
Chinese coastal waters. That declaration was reversed by USS.
imperialism, and U.S. puppet Chiang Kai-shek installed on
Taiwan, to foment provocation and war upon’ the Peoples
Republic of China. In an historic vote the world body of.the UN
has reversed that position, and the future is now pregnant with
great events— all leading to a lasting peace.

war in Vietnam are being held‘in
the U.S. and Canada on Satur-

End Vietnam war protests
to take place November 6

Demonstrations against »the

number .of major’ cities across
*. Canada. There will also be a
march in Vancouver, which will

day, November 6. Central theme
of the protest demonstrations in
Canada will be the call to end the
war and against Canada’s
complicity. . :

Marches are taking place in a
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1971—PAGE 2

assemble at the CNR pier, foot
of Main St. at 1 p.m. and end up
with a rally at the Federal

‘building at Hastings and
’ Granville at 3 p.m.

The B.C. Federation of Labor
has added its voice to the
condemnation of Education
Minister Brother’s move to set a
six and one half percent limit on
teachers salary increases.

Secretary Ray Haynes said
““Once again the Bennett
government has dangerously
undermined collective _ bar-
gaining in British Columbia.”’

He said the provincial
government should be increasing
expenditures on education
instead of moving in a
retrogressive direction. At a
time when pupil-teacher ratios
are too high, and with hundreds
of qualified teachers
unemployed, the government is
proving once more just how
distorted their priorities are.

Wage negotiations.’ are
presently underway’. in
Vancouver between the school
board and teachers. Prior to
Brother’s announcement the
school board had agreed in
principle to pay an 8.9 percent
increase. Negotiations have been
suspended until the board has an
Opportunity to meet with
Premier Bennett and the
education minister.

Donald Brothers has been a

consistent financial hatchet man
for the Socred government. A
few weeks ago he announced the
school financing formula would
be cut to 108 percent of previous
year’s budget instead of the
present 110 percent.

The move met with strong
opposition from teachers,
parents, school boards and other
groups concerned with
education. This new attack on
teachers salaries is in line with
the Social Credit policy of

Port expansion
will make jobs

Labor must put up a fight for
expansion and modernization of
port facilities in Vancouver says
Andy DeVaal_ of ~ the
International Longshoremens’
Union. He told delegates to the
Vancouver Labor Council that it
would mean employment for
hundreds of workers with related
benefits in other: areas of the
economy.

Three major. shipping
companies do not make use of
the port because of the lack of
container facilities, he said.
There is only one crane and no
back-up area. General cargo
sheds are too small and it takes
hours for the consignee to find
his cargo.

He reminded delegates that
Transport Minister Jamieson

‘had promised the federal

authorities would embark on a
massive work program to
develop the harbor as long ago as
January, 1970. Nothing has been
done.

Large importers such as
Eatons and Woodwards have to
use Seattle facilities for a large
portion of their imports, he said.
Seattle harbor, operated and
owned by local authorities spent
millions of dollars to modernize
and improve their facilities.

“We are losing a tremendous
number of jobs to Seattle. It is
time we determined a policy on
this question’’, the longshore
worker urged.

cutting the quality of education
in this province.

Vancouver school teachers
immediately wired the education
minister, labelling his latest
move ‘‘a morally wrong attempt
to tamper with and influence the
teacher salary bargaining
process set out in the Public
Schools Act.”’

They warned further that his
interference in school board-
teacher bargaining threatens not
only the position of teachers but
of everyone who comes under
the Labor Relations Act.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE

Fire tragedy

for low rental housing —

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN
Five more people have died as

a result of a fire ina Vancouver .

Skid Road rooming house, this
time in the Skyline Hotel
adjacent to the -police station.
Reports indicate that the fire
alarm in the building failed to

function, the hallways had no-

directional signals pointing to
escape routes, and fire doors
which should have been closed
had been wedged open. *
Fire Chief, Armand Konig has
announced that he will appear
before City Council to ask for
more stringent fire safety
bylaws. * ;

This is not the first such
tragedy. Each time one occurs it
is decided that safety laws
should be more stringent and the
regulations enforced with
greater strictness. But the fatal
fires haven’t stopped. Why?

One reason undoubtedly is that
fire safety laws haven’t been
enforced in the slum areas of the
city. A double standard appears
to operate.

Another reason is that the
regulations are difficult to
enforce on old run-down
buildings. What can. you do, for
example, with.a 75 year old
wooden frame building? No
matter what you do to it, it will
still be a fire trap.

Soviet Premier

Soviet Premier Alexei
Kosygin was presented with a
Cowichan Indian sweater
during his visit to Vancouver
by the Vancouver branch of
the Canadian-Soviet Friend-
ship Society.

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