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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.

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