< Pow Role Defended = boarg “uairman of the calc, Of Dow Chemi- sai ©” Carl Gerstaker, Compa esterday _ his b Beany is being hurt ompe/’Sts against the YS supplying Sha 7 US. Je ‘| jst rtment. He rolengly defended the Porting | Plays in sup- ietnee U . troops in | | A fi A bap ting is the editorial te, Britis in the Morning Fay follo Communist daily, Po the une the devalua- the ued the pound, but Aly CUrrenc: eae ent, Y of political , bal he In h | | ! ; } f inn, Ople. r\ tlemae that there were ipient_,, Ves before the gov- Tay ney €value or to bor- » bank, from the interna- &ts—and that he had 10N so as not to S put on Britain’s tion, Ditin@S Built ivi ie ith pe y of deceiving ting» t€ment j Peitoods, Tis not true Ky te both ne and not the 4. to devalued and de- Ow over £1,000 "le bankers. that the British atds ge. Will have their Phy Wily logciving reduced, and nite Still more of their h rth 4 i deument that there 4 £09 minors attached to y oe lllion loan, it is dif- nk, W much tougher have got with T. Wilson himself Tiny, “aby Pi congey didn’t need / tp Minj alitions because the f Me taig "told them he was "Neve © Bank rate to the whens 3 decades, slash itches Pending, tighten Wap. s® —— = its “Bes dow, tictions and h any at he did this 0 ne a J . Much th twisting his at, | Worse, if it is i Mitson Sai ogittacks ld that devalu- i te This a Problem at Ta, ct S the exact Op- atin Wh “liam nat Mr. Callaghan ’ Bi =) it in { uly, When! he F Lae mM a ee ee eh | Devaluation— a British view said that “devalution is not the ° way out of Britain’s difficulties. The problems that we have to tackle . . . are more fundamen- » tal.” ad ELSON has not only | For the labor movement this is another tragedy caused by _ right wing leadership. It can only is broadcast last | bring grist to the Tory mill. The root cause of the difficul- ties under both Tory and Labor governments has been the at- tempt to hang on to what was left of the British Empire and protect the profits of big busi- ness. The government has not put “Britain first” as the Prime Minister said last night. It has put the City of London and the giant monopolists first, and trade unionists, Labor supporters and the people way behind. Mr. Wilson’s broadcast deli- _ berately concealed the real alter- - native. the worst of all - It is the alternative advocated by the Communists and many others on the Left—to abandon the old imperialist policy, stop looking after the militarists and the monopolists, and put the needs of the British people first. REA BIPCO MINUTE MAN ( —2! OKAY GUYS:~ STOP THE UNION TALK AND GET BACK To WORK! * Party’s regional organizer is | ‘ » spelled Comishin’ (not Commis- i n). SDWOW Aik VTA. “38 Gl "3i0 Who gets gravy? NE is reminded this week of the old British ditty, ‘‘It’s the same the whole world over’ with the refrain, “It’s the rich which gets the gravy and the poor which gets the blame.” Our government, quick to protect Canadians (!) from the effects of devaluation has announced an increase in the bank rate to the highest in our history. When this is placed on the background of eco- nomic developments over the last period of time, growing unemployment, higher prices, threats of increased taxes and cut backs in welfare programs, there can be no doubt that the intention is to make the workers pay and pay and pay. How can one talk of the need of “cooling down” the economy when the figures for unem- ployment are showing a substantial increase and when stories appear almost daily about new cut backs? In the Maritimes for example, where the issue of Dosco and its future is far from settled, there have been reports that the Canadian Na- tional Railway is planning big layoffs and rumors of others to come. Not only in the east but also in the west is the _ talk of layoffs on the railways looming. The CPR railway shop in Calgary is slated to have serious cutbacks. Already the problem in North West Ontario grows large. And then of course, there WANT PEN PALS : We, students of the Novosi- birsk Pedagogical Institute are very interested in Canada, her history and her people. It is this interest which motivates our ing to you. We Sane like to correspond with Canadians ages 17-20. We would be very glad to hear from chanGhent our heartfelt greetings to Canadian young communists. Yuri Novgorodsov, Novodachnaya Street 2, Novosibirsk 49, U.S.S.R. CORRECTION Inadvertently the source of the editorial “Vietnam—World War 32” on page 3 of last week’s Tribune was omitted. It was the Miners’ Voice, journal of the United Steel Workers of Ame- Go in the article on North West Ontario there are two mis- takes; The NDP member in Fort William was defeated by the Conservatives not the Liberals and the name of the Communist i 94) BRAND LOOKING AROUND The Old Farmer's Almanac (circulation: 2 million) makes news with its weather predictions. Most are as vague as the Delphic oracle is, but last year the OFA correctly fore- told the “Great Blizzard” of Chicago, and this year it forecasts a heavy snowstorm for the northern United States between the 6th and the 12th of February in 1968. From his editorial office in a red barn in Dublin, N.H., Sagen- dorph claims that he has no use for such twentieth-century nonsense as U.S. Weather Bureau forecasts. A Harvard graduate, '22, he bases his predictions ‘fon study of the Gulf Stream, ocean temperatures, sun spots, cycles, past averages—and upon a subtle, artistic something that can- not easily be defined.” are those companies that have made no public announcement but are also planning to cut down the work force. From Ottawa comes action that can only result in further unemployment and a further deteriora- tion of the standard of living of the working people. All this talk of “restraints on both workers and management” is a screen to cover the fight of the bosses to deny the wage increases which workers need in order to, if only partly, make up for the high rise in prices. The provincial premiers are busy cooperating like mad—to do what? To agree to postponement (forever if possible) of medicare which is only in the interest of the private insurance companies. Quite properly the question was raised in the house that if we would cut down on our unneces- sary defence expenditures there would be more than enough money for medicare and a host o other things as well. : Ontario’s Premier, John Robarts, always out to do his share for big business, has come up with a solution to the problem of high municipal taxation by proposing that the school boards be amalgamated into large districts and then levy their own taxes. This, he hopes, would take the heat off the provincial government which has been under tremendous pressure to pay a larger share of education costs, and who have the power to levy a capital gains tax which would mean that the monopolies who benefit as much or- more than anyone from the education system would have to pay a fair share of the costs for it. There is no doubt that a battle has to be put up by the whole labor movement to have govern- ment measures that would control the profiteering of the monopolies and ensure expanded economic development so that the needs of Canadians for medicare, housing and jobs will be fully met. Newsweek S Switchboard operator at Ontario Legislature on Nov. 20 said to the Tribune, “Confederation for Tomorrow Confer- ece? That has nothing to do with the Ontario government.” Learning that the President of the United States was to join his congregation at worship last Sunday, the Rev. Coatesworth Pinckney Lewis of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Va., amended his sermon to include remarks about Vietnam. He said that the country so far had not been given a satisfactory justification for the war. People at the White House were very upset, not because the Reverend intro- duced a delicate public issue, but because his remarks on the subject were the sort of remarks the President doesn't want to hear. At the White House, they pointed out, the President does not have to listen to any opinions he doesn’t want to hear. Why, they ask, should he be subjected to them in church? Russell Baker, in New York Times. ta WOMAN BASIS RA CIs a 8 4 Awe te Te PEW BE MOTPHS9 SRO US CS2 9 EGEMBER 1, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 Je JALSIN DIAIDAT=NOCt tHE MOR