Belt-Tightening Time 25 years ago... ‘MORE FOOD, NOT FEWER BABIES’ An 18 year-old Ontario farm girl knocked the props out from under Dr. Brock Chisholm’s “overpopulation” theory when she spoke to the 24th annual meeting of 4-H Clubs. Chis- holm, prominent Canadian doc- rand, until recently head of the UN's World Health Organi. zation, propounded his Malthu- sian theory of “too many babies” in a magazine article last week. But to Kathy Merry the solu- tion does not lie in limiting the world’s birth rate but in better ways of producing food. In Canada, she said, far from ‘being “food poor”, more than one-fifth of the original crop land has already been destroyed by bad farming methods. Merry argued for more efficient pro- - duction and added, “it is impos- sible to stop world population growth”. The Tribune, March 14, 1955 FLASHBACKS FROM — ‘THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... 75,000 DEMONSTRATE | UNDER CP CALL Workers across Canada re- sponded to the call of the Com- munist International in mass demonstrations calling for jobs and an end to police terror. 20,000 marched in Montreal, 6,000 in Fort William, 15,000 in Toronto, 3,000 in Winnipeg, 10,000 in Vancouver and 1,000 in Edmonton as well as several other demonstrations in smaller centres. Under banners calling for: “Unemployed and Employed”, “Unite to fight capitalism”, “Join the Communist Party” and “De- fend the Soviet Union” the. workers listened to Communist Party and Young Communist League spokesmen supporting the demand. for work or relief, an end to evictions, and no wage cuts, © parte In typical capitalist state action the respective police forces of these cities barged in clubs swinging, arresting speakers. The Worker, March 15, 1930 Profiteer of the week: The Thomson Newspaper empire last year took over FP Publications, including Toronto’s Globe and Mail, ending 1979 with an after tax profit of $65,028,987. Thomson fights unions, defends corporations and feeds on war and horror. The Canadian Tribune is asking read- ers for $55,000 to keep telling the workers’ story, helping to organize, and defending ac- tions for peace. Isn't there a world of dif- ference? Figures used are from the company’s financial statements. Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN Associate Editor — FRED WILSON Business and Circulation Manager — PAT O'CONNOR Published weekly at Suite 101 — 1416 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9. Phone 251-1186 Subscription Rate: Canada $10 one yr.; $6.00 for six months; All other countries, $12 one year. Second class mail registration number 1560 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 21, 1980—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMMENT The people of Canada got rid of the Clark Tory government in Ottawa, but in nearly every province they still have Toryism, or its Socred variant. From Newfoundland all the way to B.C. — with only the Quebec and Saskatchewan gaps — Tory resource grabs, sellouts, handouts to corporations, cutbacks on social services and ignoring of mass un- employment prevails. The action is always in one direction, concessions to corporate monopoly, Canadian or multi-national, accom- panied by an assault on the living stan- dards of workers. Acting like administrators of private Tory kingdoms, such governments help: to enrich “their” capitalists — Lougheed, the oil interests, Davis, the mining and manufacturing corporations, Bennett, the pulp and paper giants, while selling out energy for U.S. dollars. — Recent provincial budgets in B.C. and Ontario underline these points. Bennett ~ would turn every river in the province into a _power source for U.S. monopoly. Davis wants his protégé, Ontario Hydro, to mass produce nuclear power for ex- port — and at high risk to Ontario resi- dents — while doing little to revitalize stagnant industrial production. In Alberta, corporation profits, plus interest and miscellaneous investment, rose from about $1.4-billion in 1970, to almost $9.5-billion in 1978. Yet in that rich province the social services minister compared recipients of social assistance to “diabetic dogs”, so great, she said, was their appetite. The fear that legions of such “dogs” may descend on generous Alberta, prompts the severe program of NORAD danger to Canada ‘In no way does the North American Air Defence agreement with the USA serve the interests of Canada. On the contrary, it is a danger and-a harm to Canada in a number of ways. NORAD was set up in 1958 at the height of the cold war. There were ques- tions then about its pretense that Soviet bombers were likely to come swarming over the North Pole. In reality, no such danger ever existed. What NORAD did do was integrate Canada into the U.S. military apparatus, a coup for continentalism by the mili- tary-industrial complex. U.S. generals had command of Canada’s air space. What it did was augment the cold war clamor of the day. © ~ | As far back as 1972, Dr. Colin Gray, in Canadian Defence Priorities, called NORAD: “an anachronism”. In 1975 - Richard Rohmer, author and reserve military officer, told a House of Com- mons Committee that membership in NORAD could contribute to Canada’s subservience to the U.S. And a Univer- sity of Toronto professor added, “NORAD is the historical symbol of big- ger issues: the integration of Canada economically, culturally, physically and politically in an American-controlled North America.” In 1975 the federal government re- newed NORAD for five years. None _and warning systems, in anti-submarine _-Government to ‘dumping NORAD. restraints — naturally of working people, the poor and Native people. ~~ These Tory administrations imitate” sovereign states another way: they at tempt to turn “their” workers into G6 fenders of the realm. Success in such @- scheme would shatter the workel movement into 10 fragments. One ex-Tory, Richard Collver, until recently their Saskatchewan leader, 946_ the idea that instead of selling Canada bit-by-bit to the USA, he’d stretch the U.S. border around the whole of wester Canada. It’s a natural direction of TOry “loyalty” which besides cheating the working people, has consistently soldout Cariada’s interests to the highest bidder. Not only Canadian unity, but Cana dian independence and sovereignty, deed simple loyalty toone’s country 40% not to the corporate elite and’ ther laced governments, rests with the work- | ing people. Allegiance to Canada — UR ited, not carved into capitalism’s king doms — depends upon the working