i will be >) a great day wi when ‘ou Loghools have ‘al/the money they need and the military has-to hold a bake sale to buy a: bomber. 25 years ago... ‘ OTTAWA YIELDS ARCTIC CONTROL The St. Laurent government has yielded yet another big chunk of Canadian sovereignty to the United States in turning over to the U.S. armed forces the building and manning of a new radar network across the Cana- dian Arctic. In effect, this turns over to U.S. military control a vast area of Canadian territory from Churchill, Manitoba to the North Pole, from Ellesmere Is- land to the David Straits. The deal signed in Washington May 5 and tabled without debate in the House of Commons on May 29, eve the U.S. the right to build the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line from Alaska across Canada to Baffinland at a cost estimated at $300-million. 50 years ago... DEFENCE LEAGUE WINS APPEAL TORONTO — The appeals on behalf of Mayor Kilg, Jean Corbin and Fred Rose, workers who were arrested in connection - with the Queen's Park struggles against police terrorism and suppression of speech for work- ers, and who were sentenced to 60, 20 and 30 days in jail respec- tively were sustained and convic- tions quashed by the Appeal Court here recently. - The Canadian Labor Defence League exposed the class nature of the convictions and savage sentences so completely that the boss court, mindful of the need to preserve some few shreds of the illusion’ of “impartial jus- tice,” squashed them. Tribune, The Worker, May 30, 1955 May 24, 1930 Profiteer of the week: Phenix Flour, Steinberg Inc., Montreal, had an after-tax profit of $15,827,000 for the 36 weeks up to April 5 — that’s about $2-million a month. That’s mowey it makes on customers of Mira- cle Mart, Steinberg’s Foods, Ivanhoe Inc., Steinberg’s Properties, Steinberg’s Shopping Centres, Steinberg Realty, Cartier Sugar, ‘Intercity Food Services, Cardi- nal Distributors, and the 50%-owned Phar- maprix Ltd. 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 Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9. Phone 251-1186 — 1416 Commercial Drive, 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—MAY 30, 1980—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMMENT Quebec votes new deal The people of Quebec have voted in _the referendum, and the “majority,” in the words of the Communist Party’s statement on the matter, “whether vot- ing yes or no, in fact voted for a new deal, for fundamental change, for anew relationship of equals between English and French Canada. The statement of the Communist Party bears thorough reading for it cuts through the fog of hypocrisy spun out by the mass media, all belonging to the “no” forces. The crux of the matter is the recogni- / tion of Canada’s bi-national character, | and the guarantee of the right of self- ' determination for the French Canadian nation, as well as the English Canadian. By no means the entire total of “no” votes are allied with the monopolies, their media, and their government spokesmen who pulled out all the stops for the status quo. True they put the icing of constitutional change on top of their sawdust cake. . Now that it is clear that the “majority” vote in Quebec was for fundamental change, whatever thie word on the ballot, what is needed to lift the spirits of the big business forces is the defeat of the Parti Quebecois government and its replace- ment with a big business Liberal government. The Parti Communiste du Quebec spoke prophetically last fall when it © wrote, with genuine concern to the PQ, NATO endangers all of us" Both the North Atlantic Treaty Or- ganization and the Warsaw Pact coun- tries met this month in stark contrast to one another. From Warsaw came two valuable proposals in pursuance of peace. State leaders “from all regions of the world” were invited to meet in Warsaw, to try to cool the hotbeds of war. Also, states who ‘signed the 1975 Helsinki Final Act (on Security and Cooperation Europe) were asked to take up at their Madrid gather- ing in November, an invitation to. War- saw to discuss military détente and dis- armament. At the NATO meeting in Brussels, Canada’sdefence minister, Gilles Lamon- ‘tagne, pledged to the NATO brass that this country will dump ever more billions into the military pact. Currently, $4- billion, badly needed for Canada’s social and economic programs, goes to NATO?’s war measures. Lamontagne and his government went further and committed Canada to the arming of the right-wing govern- ments of Turkey and Portugal. This move not only robs Canadians but crushes the aspirations of the peoples’ involved. Forty years ago Hitler sucked millions of Germans into his plot for “purifying” the world. Now Carter be- lieves it’s his turn and Canada’srulers are _ obediently responding. NATO, which was founded in April _made three years ago! This was revealed -the German Democratic Republic. Gulf oil, leaked the fact that NATO pointing out that if the PQ insisted on the referendum question being Of sovereignty. association (meaning sep aration), it risked not only losing the te- ferendum but loss as well at the next election to the party of big business 2 Quebec, the Liberal party. It is no sul prise then, that Quebec Liberal leader Claude Ryan is already clamoring for aa election. _ It is no surprise either that the squabbling provincial premiers, who promised Quebeckers “constitution reform” if they voted “no” are squabbk ing among themselves, but at the same time calculating how constitutional Te form can be rigged to give each in his only little kingdom, a bigger slice of th Canadian pie. 2 ~The big business spokesmen do have something in common, however, and in this the: New Democratic Party joims) them: they refuse to acknowledge the French Canadian nation and to @ proach the new Constitution with thatm mind. . i The referendum, clearly, did not end the battle for a united Canada with full equality for its two nations, and en trenched rights for the Native people. AS the Communists point out in thei post-referendum statement — “a greal responsibility rests on the working class of English and French Canada to solve the crisis of confederation.” The battles} needed to achieve such a working-class solution are just beginning. : 1949 (six years ahead of the WarsaW Pact) to uphold U.S. imperialism, con- tinues its cunning by pretending to T& spond toa “Soviet threat” — with plansit recently by a NATO _ headquarters employee, who carried the evidence Real threats are found in such remarks as those of the Canadian rear-admifa who, just prior to the NATO meet, just fied U.S. and NATO claims to Persia? countries’ fleets in the Persian Gulf are becoming a NATO commanded fleet. The Government of Canada, whic should be acting for détente and dis armament, instead expressed full sup port for the U.S. military concentration in the Persian Gulf. To allow such cof centration, Lamontagne promised more Canadian spending on other aspects 9 NATO. Nor did Canada raise objections to deployment of U.S, nuclear missiles— the Pershing I and the Cruise, through out western Europe. Carter’s Ottawa clients — Liberal and _ Tory —are eager to beef up NATO and the U.S. military-industrial complex. To thousands of Canadians, however, the arms drive and its drain on living stat dards, demands protests, right up to and including insistance on Canada’s com: plete withdrawal from the aggressiv€ military pact.