CARRY ING BIG LOADS ,PARDNER/ ASS 25 years ago... DEEDS, NOT WORDS President Truman’s note to Oviet premier Shvernik on What he called “the peace terms Of the American people” was ‘Carcely in keeping with the ac- tion of his government a few Ours before in shutting closer the gates of Soviet-U.S. trade. Truman sent along a U.S. Ngress resolution and_said, ‘perhaps having in mind the World-wide demand for a Five Power Peace Pact meeting) “The Unhappy results of the last few. days demonstrate that formal diplomatic negotiations among - ‘Rations will be largely barren While barriers exist to the friendly exchange of ideas and formation between peoples.” _ He did not say that people ‘Speaking out for peace in the USA are declared subversive Under the Smith Act and jailed. Tribune, July 16, 1951 FLASHBACKS FROM ‘THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... A SIMPLE-MINDED ENGLISH GENTLEMAN W. Dobbie, president of the British National Union of Rail- waymen, characterizing the “peace-loving” Premier Baldwin: “The government, led by that honest, peace-loving and simple-minded British farmer, Stanley Baldwin, left no stone unturned to break the move- ment. If a typical English gent- leman were a hypocrite, then Baldwin is a typcial English gentleman. “He advertized himself as a man of peace. “In parliament he said he would not fire the first shot and he prayed for peace. But he has always fought the workers and, during the general strike, he fought frankly, openly and vici- ously to defeat them.” , Worker, July 17, 1926. “It’s not my factory that’s polluting the lake. all those dead fish that’re doing it."” _ It’s EDITORIAL COMMENT Crisis of bilingualism The split in the Liberal Cabinet over Transport Minister Otto Lang’s settle- ment of the strike of English-speaking pilots and air controllers, has so far re- sulted in Cabinet Minister Jean Mar- chand’s resignation, and a sharp public statement by Jeanne Sauve, minister of communications. Mrs. Sauve’s comment that the gov-- ernment was¢‘kneeling down to a bunch of fanatics,” was a fair description of the Ottawa response to a flood of media chauvinism and racism over the prop- osed use of French at Quebec airports. The position of the Communist Party that “the government gave way to the pressures of the racists, chauvinists in English Canada as well as those who: honestly believed the issue was one of safety,” has been fully stated in these pages. What Jean Marchand’s abrupt resig- nation mirrors is the growing crisis of bilingualism, a crisis whose roots lie in the absence of a made-in-Canada Con- stitution embodying the voluntary partnership of Canada’s two nations. After long years of monopoly capitalism’s preserve of cheap labor in French Canada, monopoly is looking to see what it-can salvage. The deepening crisis of bilingualism, and its increased mis-use to try to weaken the new-found unity of French and English-speaking workers, calls for step- ped. up strengthening of this country’s anti-monopoly forces (a) to compel gov- ernment policies which. unite Canada and, (b) concurrently, to change the make-up of parliament to reflect working-class and anti-monopoly opinion. Fight for jobs program The attitude of governments of monopoly capitalism — federal and pro- vincial — toward chronic mass un- employment in Canada is to make work- ers pay both in human and monetary costs. Employed as well as jobless workers are victimized by the pretence that un- employmentisa necessary price for slow- ing down the economy to cure inflation. But inflation continues; and-unemploy- ment is calculatedly ignored. One-fifth of Canada’s production capacity is out of use, driving up unit costs, notes the United Auto Workers’ booklet — Unemployment, Canada’s #1 Problem. Shorter hours at the same take-home Aggression Terrorism throughout the decades has split and isolated movements for na- tional liberation, for working-class rights. Terrorism has been condemned repeatedly by Communists and other progressives as harmful to the struggles of the working class and its allies, as set- ting worker against worker, and as a hor- rendous infringement on the rights of innocent victims. The recent hijacking of a French air- liner and the holding of hostages at En- tebbe airport in Uganda must be con- demned as damaging to the cause of the Palestinians. As for the Israeli aggression against Uganda, the murder of 20 Ugandans, the wounding of 32, and the war-like destruction of Ugandan aircraft on the. ground — this aggression deserves uni- versal condemnation. Predictably, the monopoly-controlled _ media in Canada, with their usual pro- imperialist, pro-fascist biastare “thrilled” by. Israel’s “neat, swift, com- plete” attack, leaving a trail of blood, as the dedicated of Zionist aggression have _ada’s pay, a planned economy, and curbs on monopoly power and profits require un- relenting struggle if workers, and par- ticularly young people thrown out of jobs completely, are to have any as- surance of a future. The increasing trade union politico- economic struggle, plus demands like those of the Communist Party for a 30- hour week at 40 hours’ pay, a vast housing program for jobs and homes for low income groups, an end to taxes on incomes under $10,000, and an increase in pension payments, along with measures to combat the economic crisis, can be used to call the government to account on this issue of programmed unemployment. no antidote done repeatedly in Arab lands to the same applause. Embracing Israeli aggression, Can- External Affairs Minister MacEachen, backed by Prime Minister Trudeau, was part of the disgusting, but instructive, congratulations of imperial- ism, from U.S. President Ford to the Federal Republic of Germany’s Helmut . Schmidt. What the bloody-handed imperialist spokesmen like to ignore is the fact that terrorism against Israel, however mis- guided, derives from Israeli terrorism against the Palestinian Arabs, the destruction of their homes and lives, and the attempt, tried in another time and place by Hitler, to reduce a people to the existence of animals. In all of these crimes Israel receives the backing of the imperialist powers — Canada’s Liberal-Tory alliance included. But naked aggression will not stop terrorism. A settlement of the Middle East crisis with guarantees to all con- cerned, including the Palestinian Arabs, is the only way to.end terrorism related to that part of the world. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 16, 1976—Page 3