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25 years ago...
NEW TORONTC
SUBWAY OPENS ~

The excitement in Toronto
last week over the opening of the
new Toronto subway expresses
the justifiable pride of Cana-
dians in Canadian achievement.

The Tribune extends its warm
congratulations to the men and
women who did the hard slug-
ging, the Canadian workers and
engineers whose skill ad brawn
brought to realizauun a long-

held dream.

If we are proud of the subway,
how much more pride would all
‘Canada take in the opening of
an all-Canadian St. Lawrence
seaway? In a publicly-owned
Trans-Canada pipeline? In a
South Saskatchewan River dam-
and a Chignecto Canal?

These dreams are just as
realizable as the subway and just
as public pressure succeeded
here, so can it win these great
nation building projects.

Tribune,
April 5, 1954

“ae 2-79

80 years ago...
POLICE ACTIVE IN
CANADA AND FRANCE

A Women’s Economic Con-
ference meeting in Edmonton
with 40 delegates, has adopted a
resolution dealing with the
unconstitutional action of the

Chief of Police of Toronto for-

bidding the use of foreign lan-
guages as meetings.
* * *

PARIS Police Chief
Chiappe today mobilized his
whole department, surrounded
the Congress of the Communist
Party of France in session here,
and arrested the entire gather-
ing of 120 members. Their at-
tempt to break up the Congress
were resisted by delegates who
gave the police as good as they
got.

Following the arrests the de-
legates were taken to Sante Pris-
on.

The Worker,
April 6, 1929

Profiteer of the week:

Some shoppers have more to spend than
others. For instance Thomson Newspapers
Ltd. and George Weston Ltd. have both been
shopping to buy
any of them tell how much they’ve got, butthe |
annual profits are interesting, in view of the
search for inflation causes. in each case for
the year ended Dec. 31, 1978, after-tax profits:

Hudson’s Bay Co. Not that

were: Thomson (not your average worker's
paper) — $56,559,000; Weston — $50,615,000

Figures used are from the company’s financial statements.

--Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN

Associate Editor —

FRED WILSON

Business and Circulation Manager — PAT O‘CONNOR

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 6, 1979—Page 4

EDITORIAL
COMMENT

Jobs, inflation and votes -

Gerald Bouey, head of the Bank of
Canada should get an award for under-
statement of the season. But he also de-

serves a pat on the back for being more»

realistic than either Liberal or Tory pro-
fessional politicians. E
Bouey said in a report March 21 that
“.. except in extreme situations it does
not seem realistic to expect (people) to
accept — other than very briefly — in-
creases in their money incomes that fall
far below increases in consumer prices.”
The militant actions of workers, both
on strike, and in opposition to speed-up,
bullying wage freezes and underline that
sentiment. Workers are angry and
they’re fighting back. :
Turning that anger into practical ac-
tion to win victories is in many cases al-

ready happening. It requires unity on’

the economic front — and unity on the
political front. The payoff, if workers are
edi angry enough and united enough,
should bea parliament with anew face —
a progressive majority.

Reasons for fighting for real change
are numerous.

Liberal hatchetman, Jean Chretien
was at it again, just days before the elec-
tion call, promoting the lie that workers
are responsible for inflation.

While inflation is “a little high” (9.2%
over a year ago),.Chretien levelled his
main fire at workers, telling them “to

Elections and

The secret plans of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization to launch nuclear
war against the socialist states are no

longer secret, thanks to the actions. of a —

courageous woman, Ursel Lorenzen,
who took those plans with her when she
fled to the German Democratic Repub-
lic, March 5.

The capitalist media in Canada has
reported the “defection” but did not
turn a hair over the horrendous revela-
tion that Canada is tied to a nuclear war
plot!

Marking its 30th anniversary (formed
March 18, 1949) NATO is pummelling
public opinion with “modernization”
propaganda. Modernization for NATO
means a qualitative change in weaponry,
strengthening the nuclear component.
All sorts of trial balloons to see what the
public will accept, have been floated,
such as pushing for deployment of the

neutron. weapon. This is being pro-

duced bit by bit.

The major media of Canada, taking
their direction from the real govern-
ment of Canada — the corporations —
and their placemen in Ottawa and the
provinces, repeat tiresomely the myth of
a Soviet threat. It’s an excuse for
$4.5-billion a year arms spending by

Canada — plus extras not in that
budget. :

What the Canadian people need and

desire is an alternative to the arms race
and nuclear war — peace and detente.

make sure there is not a new round of bi
wage increases that will lead to big pm?
increases.” That line, and Chretien 10
should be retired. Pi
Instead there are threats of new wa
controls. What need controlling are pl
fits, prices and the export of investmen!
Clark’s Tory policies complemé
those of the Liberals; they woul
“privatize” social services right out ?
existence for all but the well-to-do. _
Grace Hartman, president of th
Canadian Union of Public Employet

_(CUPE), warned recently that the Di

business parties’ major sport in the el¢
tion campaign will be the bludgeoning®
public service workers. Her point |
backed up retroactively in a New Ye
statement of ‘Tory leader Clark, wi
promised to chop 60,000 public servié
jobs and dump the workload on the #
mainder if he got to be boss. ¥

As for inflation, 323 maniufacturil
companies had $2.4-billion in after-t4
profit. in the fourth quarter of 1978, @
increase of 46%, but some sect)
jumped as much as 170 and 180% Whi
about that for causing price increases

The choice being offered to workers!
to “take” it or fight it. Fighting it é
mands unity on the economic frof
unity on the political front. The pay®
can be a progressive majority in pari
ment, May 23. 4

These are the dearest prizes humankif
can win, and they must be won if th
anti-human push-buttoneers in NAT
and the U.S. Pentagon are to be stoppt
short of bringing down catastrophe ¢
the whole world.

On NATO’s 30th anniversary it
worth noting that the Warsaw Trea
Organization was formed, in answer!
that aggressive bloc, on May 14, 1955:
six years later! The Warsaw countt
have urged mutual disbanding of d
two pacts, which NATO brass wo!
hear of (including its ex-nazi secretal
general, Joseph Luns). .

The facade of “peace”, Carter style,
“human rights,” is a cover for plans
drag the world into nuclear destruct!
in the vain hope of saving imperialis
from the ash heap of history — in ¥
interests of stealing resources, of smas
ing liberation movements, of rendi
socialism. :

In the name of self-preservation a
self-respect the Canadian Governmé
must be made to dissolve its ties w!
NATO. It must get out of NATO
symbolize the rejection of such af
human plots, and to transfer the full
contributed for death and destructié
to projects for a better life in Canada.

Now that NATO’s. inhuman plot
public property, it is fair that evé
féderal election candidate be question!
on this, and told: We want Canada 0
of NATO! Negotiate for peace @)
detente! ees ;