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FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

ORGANIZATION ACTIVITY
IN DRUMHELLER

_ DRUMHELLER — The organ-
ization committee started by the
Midland Vale Local of the UMW
of A to which delegates have
: been elected from all the unions
- in the city has got down to busi-
. Ness, ‘
~_Atva recent meeting a start was
» Made with the hotel and _rest-
aurant employees. A canvass was
Made of the workers «concerned
and a preliminary. meeting held.
There was every indication that
a charter will be secured and a
Strong local established. ~

Efforts are being made to or-
ganize the local laborers. There
ar> quite a number of laborers
in this valley, and it is felt that
unless they are organized they
will constitute a menace to the
miners and railroad workers in
future battles for better condi-
tions. :

The Worker, Jan. 12, 1924

25 years ago eee

MILK PRICE

HIKE VETOED
REGINA — The people won a
victory last week when the Milk
Control Board of Saskatchewan
refused to grant an application
for a two cent increase in the
price of milk presented by Dairy
companies in Saskatoon, Moose

Jaw and Prince Albert.

At the Saskatoon hearing, the
Dairy companies met a solid

front of opposition’.from such: ©

women’s organizations as the
Housewives, the Local Council of
Women, and Jewish Women’s
groups, from the organized labor
movement, and from the LPP
and the CCF. The Teamsters
Union on behalf of its milk driv-
er members pointed out that an
increase in milk prices would in
effect mean a wage cut for them,
because lower sales would mean
lower commissions to the driv-

ers.
Tribune, Jan. 10, 1949

Profiteer of the week:

to hell.

The profits of Distillers Corp.-Seagrams
Ltd., Montreal — $25,587,000, up two mil-
lion over the same period last year, really
impressed our judges. The fact that this
was for just three months (1!) (ending Oct.
31, 1973) calls for added vigor in the sym-
bolic salute pictured on our medal at left.
The judges were touched by the fact that
distillers and government combine to
charge exorbitant prices aimed at saving
the poor from sin, while letting the rich go

Editor — MAURICE RUSH

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» Second class mail regis tration number

The Communist Party of Canada is
pre aring for its 22nd Convention to
e

held in Toronto, April 12-14. The

business of the convention will be the
adoption of a policy statement, the
election of the party’s central commit-
tee and leader.

The convention is being prepared at |

a time when the crises facing Canada
— economic, fiscal, monetary, energy,
national and social — express in Cana-
dian conditions the insoluble contradic-
tions besetting the entire capitalist sys-
tem, which in their totality represent a
new stage in the further sharpening
and. deepening of the general crisis of
capitalism,

It is a time also when monopoly is
mounting a growing offensive against
the standards, jobs and rights of the
Canadian people creating conditions of
sharpened struggle between labor and
capital; this is accompanied by an up-.
surge of democratic struggle for Cana-
dian independence, democratic rights,
peace, detente and peaceful coexistence
between states with different social sys-
tems.

The draft policy statement for the
convention “The Communist Party in
the Struggle for Working Class and
Democratic Unity” is a plan of action

eo @ 8

- The Communist Party convention

for unity of the working class and de-
mocratic forces against monopoly pow-
er for Canadian independence, peace,
democratic advance and socialism. It is
based on the sound Marxist-Leninist
ea that the main direction of man-

ind’s development is determined by
the world socialist system, the inter-
national working class and all revolu-
tionary forces. It is based also on the
growing trend to working-class, trade
union and democratic unity in Canada
and the prospects opening up for more
rapid growth of the Communist Party,
the Young Communist League and the
communist press. i

For the next three months Com-
munist Party members from the Mari-
times to Vancouver Island will discuss
the Draft in Party clubs, public semi-
nars and in the columns of the Party’s
discussion bulletin “Convention ° ’74.”
Such a lengthy period of inner-Party
and public discussion makes the Com-
munist Party unique among political
parties in Canada. This uniqueness is
not accidental. It is founded in the
nature of the Communist Party which
has no interests separate and apart
from those of the working class, all
working people, of Canada as a whole,
and the two Canadian nations.

Solzhenitsyn utilized
to blur capitalist ills

It’s eery how the same “news” media
that blame working people’ for the ills
of capitalism (inflation, unemployment
and rising costs), “change,” at a wave
of imperialism’s wand, into handmaid-

‘ens of anti-Soviet slanderers like book-

peddlar Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Kery,
but revealing.

‘Capitalist press bosses have no hope
of influencing the Soviet. people, who
know fact from slander in their system.
What the press barons are doing is zero-
ing in on you and me — with an eye
to splitting the organizations of the
people over here. The same tired meth-
ods have been tried before.

With a new hero, imperialism’s press
hacks are willing to play it one more
time, using Solzhenitsyn’s hatred for
everything Soviet to disparage the so-
cialist system to undermine detente,
and destroy the idea of peaceful co-
existence.

The alternative hungered-for by the
military-industrial complex.is a return
to the super-profits of the cold war, of
arms escalation, with imperialist-spon-
sored regional wars where profits soar
with the kill-rate. Your friendly local
paper, sponsoring Solzhenitsyn, spon-
sors too his rabid despising of efforts
towards world peace.

But this spate of anti-Sovietism is
also related to the mushrooming evrises
within capitalism, including the crisis
of confidence in the system itself.
Soviet-haters view with blind rage the
giant strides socialism is making while
capitalism flounders in its contradic-
tions.

The campaign, pushed by the likes
of the Toronto Star, is meant to divert
the underpaid, the unemployed, the el-

derly, the poor, the Native peoples, the

young generation, from the crimes com-
mitted against them here in Canada.
The maturing Canadian labor move-
ment cannot afford to swallow the
poisoned bait wrapped in anti-Soviet
tinsel. In the principled fight to advance
their cause, the working and demo-
cratic people are compelled to combat
not only the monopolies and their gov-
ernments, but must see through and

fully expose the deceitful role of the

ruling-class press, radio and TV.

For ‘real income’ gains

Prime Minister Trudeau describes
himself as “a very rich man,” which
fact may explain his detachment from
economic realities known to millions of
‘Canadians.

Looking through his gold-colored
glasses, he noticed that Canada came
through.1973 “rather beautifully.” The
conclusion was not reached in consul-
tation with those workers whose U.S.-
owned plants closed down, those who
battled in long strikes for wages only
to have the gains snatched away by in-
flation, or those whose fixed incomes
were raised just enough to keep them
above the hunger level.

For 1974, our very rich PM noted
that “we’re looking at investment inten-
tions and we see that they’re good and
high.” A lusty “bravo.”

The Canadian Labor Congress is on
solid ground when it calls for militant
labor action in 1974, “centred around
gains in real income,” after a year of

record corporation profits and high un-

employment. In his New Year message,
CLC President Donald MacDonald calls
for organizing the unorganized, pres-
suring governments for an income
guarantee, and safeguards against the
gouges of inflation.

This is one New Year’s resolution the
whole trade union movement can sup-
port through resolute action on wages
and through unbending labor unity.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1974—PAGE 3