FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... THE IRON HEEL Bernard Markson, who has had the misfortune to work in the Capitalist ruled inferno known as Peterboro, Ont. has been arrested for alleged publication of an article, in The Worker of Feb. 15, describing ‘the horrible condi- tions under which the slaves of Capital work in that boss-cursed town. Apparently the “boosters” and other vermin who _ infest that burg are determined to run the courageous worker out of town, as they do not wish to have the lid pried off the industrial cesspool in which their slaves rot their lives away in order to pile up profits for as ruthless a gang of profit-mongering pirates as ever blighted the country. Of one thing the rulers of Peter- boro can be sure and that is: that the workers will rally to the support of Com. Markson, who evidently succeeded in penetrat- ing the thick and scaly hides of the bosses. 3 The Worker, April 2, 1923 25 years ago... ‘CHARGE PROBE WITNESSES WITH CONTEMPT’ Toronto housewives are de- manding that the parliamentary committee investigating prices “hold for contempt” witnesses from the bread companies who refuse to‘ divulge information about a secret meeting prior to the bread prices being increased. A telegram from the Toronto Housewives’ Consumer Associa- tion reads: “Housewives shocked to read that War Time Prices and Trade Board representative was present at secret meeting of Bread Com- panies held in Toronto hotel which decided to raise prices of bread. We consider this a grave matter implicating government board in possible illegal price fixing and not as an excuse for whitewashing government. We trust your committee will press witnesses for full details and hold for contempt those who re- fuse to divulge information.” Tribune, March 6, 1948 Worth quoting: “All art is a collaboration; and there is little doubt that in the happy ages of literature, striking and beautiful phrases were as ready to the story-teller’s or the playwright's hand, as the rich cloaks and dresses of his time. It is probable that when the Elizabethan dramatist took his ink-horn and sat down to his work he used many phrases that he had just heard, as he sat at dinner, from his mother or his children. In Ireland, those of us who know the people have the same privilege... ok West Coast edition, Canadi wae, , Pacific Tribune —John Millington Synge Tribune: Editor — MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. __ Business & Circulation Manager, FRED WILSON Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $3.00 for six months North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year il PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY,; MARCH 23, 1973—PAGE 4 : Editorial Commeut... Comrade Tim Buck = We bear the proud name, Communist, with greater honor for having known Tim Buck and called him our comrade. For more than 40 years he illumined for Canadians, especially for Marxist- Leninists, that vision of the future, free of capitalist greed and imperialist wars, in which the dignity of mankind — male.and female — will be assured. To the struggle for that future we re- dedicate ourselves as we say farewell to a beloved comrade. Comrade Tim was of all lands — an internationalist, born in England, yet whose immense dedication to his adopt- ed country lent major impetus to the forces that would change forever the course of Canada’s history. _ In the class struggle shall the work- ing class and its allies wrest for the people of Canada a mastery of their own future; and Tim Buck helped us set our feet on that road, the road to socialism, when the way ahead seemed veiled in uncertainty. Comrade Tim excelled as a teacher. Rare was the conversation with him from which one did not emerge with a fresh idea, some new knowledge — and this applied a hundred-fold at his public meetings — as it applies to this day to his many writings. '. He met people on their own ground, acquitting himself equally in the high- est level international meetings, or talk- ing in a working-class kitchen back in iC B | to! Or His passing is a severe 1088 od sn working class, to the struggle tor 4 ism and to Canada, but most © ca, to the world and Canadian com movements. Yet, he would ask no greater than that we build the C0 E Party in numbers and quality, * ahead with the tasks before U* In an interview with the $66 Broadcasting Corporation in Co rade Tim asserted that, “The +t nist Party must be a. rev? mati party or it will cease to be a CO party.” He used this “cliche,” he said if recognition that the fight 0 sselll on bread and butter issues 18 } | The of whi Canada, always a true member . class. F yy gress, but that we Communist not reduce our aims. Rather, “concentrate on those who 0° wyatt) Cla study Marxism, those who 0 vend 20 see a little further than the b qt es butter struggle for wages, atti ten the Party, strengthen the Be +0” extend our influence in preP@™ ing the change which I know 38 ea come.” : se We salute our dear comrade, i in highest esteem his mem? nec works, as we too prepare fort we know is going to come. se ] « And you, Comrade Tim, wi us in that victory. Me R i Unity against assault In Canada, we can see the attack on the rights and living standards of the working class building towards an all- out assault. In corporation board rooms, government caucus rooms, in Parliament, in clubs of old-line party henchmen, big business is busy rally- ing the media and everyone it can buy or blackmail, to villify, slander, con- fuse, and sow dissension among the workers. _Profit-geared prices zoom out of sight, unions are confronted with refu- sal to negotiate or degrading offers (while bourgeois courts conspire to ‘paralyze labor unity and resistance). The Native peoples who show signs of becoming a strong.segment of the peo- ple’s united front, are deceived and harassed. The ruling class is on a rampage to put the people down. The plans to butcher unemployment insurance, to bilk pensioners of in- creases they haven’t yet received, to containue the orgy of price hikes and profit grabbing — these are already in operation. Pilfering the federal treasury to pay off government commitments to the monopoly bosses (with corporation tax reductions and other concessions) is * ’ etc tthe eccrine aia es ele BAM (fANAY WAN aIS hats Trudeau government policy- ue field’s Tories will go right d0 0 with this when the chips aré a. 1A) In seats of reaction, 1a 0 people’s needs are met wit f tive brutality. The Davis Die 3 simply cuts off funds for neé wil health care and education, ying these hard-won gains of wie 5 a ple, and smugly dares them ~~ thing about it. jade This spring a million Canagiit unionists face contract né pet and every enemy weapon WI fac! j on them. The Canadian Manv ag) Association, and other such P'0 daily feeding us the poison fat ers — not profits — cause 17 ol unemployment, that wages yo frozen, and profits given freé Some organizations have Phe — farmers, trade unionists; ort munist Party, some women e tions, but a much stronge coil front is urgent. We need 9 ¢ i wide, militant organizatio? tty ployed workers. We nee a ak “Aj welded unity that will not bre assault. : ast That is the goal, and in ps oh wards it, each of us findin& “je0hy most effective niche in it, ME of ty Canada ean show their pre ff our determination cannot ok that we won't be swept b@ pat dirty thirties, that we’re Pty fight to establish the inviola working people.