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CANADIAN TRIBUNE

FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 Years ago...

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The Worker, August 16, 1924

25 years ago...
LIFE. PERILED BY
JIMCROW JUDGE

NEW YORK — The ruthless-
ness and cold bias with. which
this modern Reichstag Fire trial
at Foley Square is being con-
ducted was illustrated in Judge
Medina’s treatment of defendant
Henry Winston this week. Wins-
ton, war veteran, and a national
Negro leader, is the Communist
Party's national organizational
secretary. June 3 he was jailed
by Medina for the remainder of
the trial because he protested
that requiring Communist wit-
nesses to disclose Party member-
ship on the prosecution’s demand
meant subjecting Southern Negro
Communists: to the threat of
lynching.

June 24, Winston (who had
been warned by his physician to
watch his heart) suffered attacks
in the region of the heart. He was
taken by jailers for an examina-
tion. He was not allowed to see
his private physician.

Tribune, August 22, 1949

Profiteer of the week:

Pacific Tri

Sick and tired of exhaust fumes? We're
_just as sick and tired of reading the oil com-
panies’ profits. This time i
Canadian arm of British Petroleum, London.
This profit-guzzling enterprise too
earnings of $17.8-million in the | t
of 1974, compared to just $8.8 million in the
same period last year. We're eagerly await-
ing the advent of the water
That will at least end exhaust fumes.
BP is still around, want to bet that water
won't go at 71 cents a gallon?

t’s BP Canada,

k in net
first half

car.
But if

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Monopoly-rigged prices, corporate
profits-and military spending are insep-
arable features of state monopoly capi-
talism. The same factors are at the
very heart of the inflation crisis. In
other words, inflation is a disease of
monopoly capitalism and its ship of
state. Inflation and the economic and
political system producing it feed upon
each other. It is both naive and futile
to wish the plague will go away of it-
self. What is required is a fuller under-
standing of the system that produced
this sickness, and. meaningful action
to root it out by coming to grip with
the system itself.

Even defenders of the system of
state monopoly capitalism, such as the
Toronto Star, to mention one, are some-
times unable to hide the truth. Its edi-
torial, “Ford’s doubtful inflation cure,”
August 14, criticized the U.S. president
for proposing to balance the U.S. bud-
get “wtihout reducing defence expend-
itures.” It called this strange medicine
at a time of “zero economic growth”
and “rising unemployment.” It then

went on to point out: “If defence is to.

be sacrosanct, that means the budget
cuts must come out of other more pro-
ductive areas of spending, and out of
social welfare programs.” — It could
have said at working. people’s expense.

One outstanding example of the rob-
bery and profiteering is the way the
oil monopolies rigged their prices and

For peace on Cyprus

The role of U.S. imperialism becomes
more transparent with each passing
moment on the war-torn island of
Cyprus. The increased use of the Turk-
ish military might to partition Cyprus
and prevent its continuation as an inde-
pendent sovereign state, is being back-
ed by elements in the U.S. who want to
continue the cold war.

Te fighting on Cyprus and the Turk-

ish aggression is a tailor-made situation

which will allow the U.S. to extend
its influence over a ee of the Medi-
terranean which has been largely under
the influence of Britain. A partitioning
of the island is being viewed as an
opportunity for the U.S. to expand its
use as a miiltary base for NATO and
pose a further threat against the work-
ing class and the democratic movements
of the socialist countries and other
countries in the Eastern Mediterran-

ean.

The forces of reaction and imperial-
ism must not be allowed to use the
island as an “unsinkable aircraft car-
rier” for future aggression against
world peace.

Cyprus has the right, through UN
agreements, to be a. free, independent
and united state.

Cyprus needs to be supported and the
Makarios government should be allow-
ed to function freely on Cyprus with-
out the threat of partition hanging
over him and its people.

Support for the peoples of Cyprus
aust come from Canada and the Cana-
dian people must continue their de-
mands for government action. The

Prime Minister and his newly appoint-

blamed it on the Arabs. But balance of
payments surpluses and deficits are
not decided by what the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC) does. It is the system of state
monopoly capitalism that has caused
the disruption in the international
monetary system, and not the other
way around. It is monopoly capital and
its governments that put profits, rents,
eee and dividends above all human
values.

Last March 20 the Communist Party
produced a program to combat infla-
tion and called upon workers, their
trade unions and all working people to
combine economic and political action
to protect their vital interests. That is
what workers are now. doing in this
country, engage in militant economic
action to win substantial wage in-
creases, both to catch up with rising
prices and beyond it to protect them-
selves for the immediate period ahead
against further erosion of wages.

But it is on the political action front
that action is now urgent to ensure

_ government action to curb monopoly ’

price fixing, roll back prices on food,
fuel, housing and rents to January 1973
buttressed by legislation enacting price
controls.

It is on the political ‘front that a bat-
tle must be developed to take the land
out of the hands of the speculators and
making housing a public utility. -

It is in this area of political action
that a battle must be fought for a $3-
per hour minimum wage, pensions of
$250 starting at 60, a guaranteed an-
nual income of $4,000 single and $6,500
for a family of four. Abolition of pro-
vincial and federal sales taxes and a
tax on excess profits. These are defen-
sive measures to protect standards for
working people.

But further measures are needed to
get at the cause of the problem, which
is monopoly. Such measures must in-
clude ‘nationalization’ and democratic

control of such monopolies as Bell Tele-

phone, the CPR holdings, the banking
system, etc.

Without such radically new policies
the working people will continue to be
on the defensive.

The tasks are: to unite in action to

. protect living standards! Unité in ac

tion for radically new government
policies now!

ed Minister of External Affairs, Allan
MacEachen, must recognize that Can-
ada’s responsibility to world peace does
not end with the sending of a contin-
gent of Canadian troops to the island
to act as peace keepers under UN char-
ter. The Canadian government must
exert all the pressure it can muster to
bring an end to the U.S.-backed Turk-
ish aggression, stop the partitioning of
the island and bring back,the Makarios
government.

It is time that Canada show some
measure of independénce and dissociate
itself from the imperialist aspirations
of the U.S. and ally itself with all the
Reoples of the world who want a just
settlement for the Cypriot peoples.

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