25 years ago... ‘PANAMA’ GENERAL GRABBING SEAWAY The U.S. Army general who ) “as in Ottawa July 6 to Negotiate the St. Lawrence Sea- | “ay with the federal govern- Ment, is the same man who on €b. 3 last said: “I regard the away as analogous to the Nama Canal which is under ‘he control of the Secretary of e U.S. Army.” Press despatches from the q “Onference between the U.S. f) and a t as * : ig orities indicate that, as the ! Laurent Canadian Seaway au- Tibune has warned, the St. government is pre- i Pared to sell out Canadian + Si : *vereignty over the St. Lawr- ye I Cana ence: U Waterways system to the ‘S. and repudiate the 1952 GutUSs. agreement for an “Vanadian system. Canadian if te Teports say: “It has gener- Can aa €n conceded here that @ will now fall in line with | : Plans to j I Sectio control a major LS OY, OS NEI oe a ae AORN ANN tc aCe ot are cen tire ame —sMe adamanbe N of the seaway. _ FLASHBACKS FROM — THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... BRUTAL TERROR RAGING IN GASTONIA Another charge of murder, the lashing of one Gastonia textile striker already con- demned to a month on the chain gang, and the eviction once more of the Workers International Relief Station in Gastonia, feature the last two days of the situation. here. Amy Schechter, relief direc- tor of the WIR since the early days of the strike was served yesterday with a warrant charg- ing murder, which in North Carolina may mean electrocu- tion. Two WIR_ representatives held in Gastonia jail, Caroline Drew and Berta Crawford, have been released. The affidavits submitted by the prosecution to the defence today mention Drew’s name only once, as the person who introduced a Negro speaker as “brother”. For this she was charged with secret assault with intent to kill. The Tribune, . The Worker, July 12, 1954 July 6, 1929 Profiteer of the week: Torstar Ltd., publishers of the Toronto Star newspaper, made a tax-free profit of $9,464,000 in the last three months of 1978 and the first three in 1979. In the same period a year earlier the figure was $5,601,000. A paper which depends on government and private corporation advertising budgets for much of that always has a tendency to slant its mes- sages against the working people. 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 Subser iption Rate: Canada $10 one yr.; $6.00 for six months; All other countries, $12 one year. Second class mail registration number 1560 EIDITORIALL COMIMUEINT - Clark a ‘pro’ at sell-out -He “performed like a pro”, said one civil servant about Joe Clark’s debut at the Tokyo summit meeting where the major capitalist nations once again, for the fifth time, showed the depth of their economic crisis for all the world to see. Clark’s “pro” performance, of course, was his uncanny ability to collapse. On the key matter of energy, Joe Clark began his international career by announcing before the meeting this country would not cut oil imports and ended the meeting by committing Canada to cut oil imports. Not a bad start for the boy from rural Alberta. But that’s not the real point of Clark’s performance in Japan. Eager to please, he called Canadian oil prices “seriously out of line”, and pledged to raise them. He acknowledged this will have serious inflationary results and _ create hardships. “This”, said the professional, “is a fact of life we’re just going to have to face”. The other fact of life is that the current energy crisis is due to’ the stranglehold the huge multi-nationals have over energy resources (not to speak of the one they have over politi- cians like Clark). Time magazine re- ports in a feature article this week that the gouged U.S. consumer, despite all efforts to blame the OPEC countries, points the finger at the big corporations. They’re dead right. These greedy multi-nationals have made a king’s ransom in Canada, too. And for their election support to the Tories, they now anticipate more pro- fits, including getting their hands on what little control Canadians had via PetroCan. There is another way — and this has been spelled out by the Communist Party many times. We require a fully integrated. energy plan for Canada which must go beyond gas and oil to encompass all sources of .energy. We must have exact knowledge of all this country’s resources. But key to all this: Canada’s energy policy must be based on public owner- _ ship under democratic control: without which there can be no real control of resources, no planned rational use of them and no decision-making by the Canadian people. Energy is not only gas in our cars or heat in our homes — it is related to economic growth and independence. With control out of the hands of the Canadian people and exercised by the big multi-nationals, we lose control of jobs, living standards, economic development and independence. Clark’s Tokyo performance should be seen as a sell-out of these vital needs. ‘Boat’ talk veils war plan The blatant propaganda war against socialist Vietnam, in which the Canadian Government and media are guilty participants, aims to manipulate the minds of Canadians, make them accept destabilization and military aggression against Vietnam. Those drawn into the hysteria about the so-called boat people, the pawns of U.S. and world imperialism and its Pek- ing ally, should ponder the facts. The United States failed, despite its barbarity, to exterminate the Viet- namese or wipe out their institutions, or even to kill socialism in Vietnam. The Maoist leadership of China failed in its bloody-thirsty aggression approved by the U.S. Government. Now they are at it as partners. And reactionary govern- ments, right-wing elements and _ anti- socialist misfits of every stripe are being recruited to turn each and every fact on its head. The first fact stood on its head, Viet- nam’s alleged “expulsion” of hapless people who wanted to stay and build socialist Vietnam, really challenges cre- dibility. In fact, it was a Peking campaign of subversion and incitement to anti-Viet- namese acts, using threats to the ethnic Chinese, preaching war between China and Vietnam, which seduced many ethnic Chinese. The United Nations High Com- mission on Refugees’ has signed with Vietnam an understanding ensuring the orderly departure of all who wish to, and qualify to leave. So much for forced eva- cuation-in “leaky boats”. The U.S.-China axis is ready to sacrifice lives to make propaganda. As Canadian media urge this country into a frenzy of hatred for Vietnam, the dirtiest slur comes via the Toronto Star. It likens the Vietnamese to Hitler’s Nazis. What a journalistic atrocity! The Star shou:d apologize to its readers and the Vietnamese. : Weeping crocodile tears about human rights, the Star blunders into mixing real Nazi gas ovens with its calumny that the Vietnamese are “the world’s new nazis.” As a recent (June 27, 1979) viewer of Auschwitz death camp in Poland, scene of four million murders by Nazis who, in their day were supported by just such big business media, we denounce the Star’s malicious slander. In Auschwitz lies the horrendous proof that it was people like the Viet- namese — in this case Poles, Russians, Gypsies, Jews, working-class leaders and more — who fought for their families, people and countries against a brutal military-industrial machine, under which they perished. An outgrowth of imperialism — fascism — carried out the savage program of annihilation, as the Maoists tried to do in Kampuchea; as the Washington-Peking axis is preparing to do in Vietnam. The ability of Canadians to resist this avalanche of lying can seriously alter the ‘stance of the Clark government, and help shift the odds for preventing a new massacre in Indochina. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 13, 1979—Page 3