“1am sorry to hear down... You will be sorry to hear that your rent is going up...” your ceiling is coming FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 25 years.ago ... RACISM MUST BE FOUGHT EVERY DAY HAMILTON — Oscar Peter- son, Black Canadian pianist, _ walked into McQuaid’s barber shop and was refused a hair cut. Many similar crimes are never heard of, but Peterson forced the issue. This obscenity, condoned by the laws of Canada, must be fought tooth and nail. Hamilton labor has the special duty of making such an issue of the McQuaid racist act as will arouse the whole city. Ontario anti-discrimination law does not prohibit these crimes. It deals only with employment and does not ex- tend to premises and services. The Peterson case shows ‘we cannot remain complacent, that the fight for civil liberties and a Bill of Rights must be stepped NHC : Tribune, May 14, 1951 50 years ago... THOUSANDS GREET RELEASED COMMUNISTS LONDON — Twenty-five thousand London workers wel- comed the released Communists recently and called for the free- dom of others at the greatest meeting yet held on Clapham Common. After hearing speeches from leaders from all sections of the labor movement, the great crowd formed behind their banners and marched to Wandsworth. Outside the jail fully 20,000 demonstrators raised lusty cheers for the six inside. - The march, which was about ten deep and_ half-mile long, represented the Worker's De- fense Corps, trade unions and councils, Labor Party, Com- munist Party, unemployed and the labor press. Mounted and foot police were also present in their thousands. Worker, May 8, 1926 Rebs EZ. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 14, 1976—Page 4 EDITORIAL COMMENT ‘Tories try to win unwary The Ottawa Tories.are making noises in the monopoly-run mass media as if they'd had the word that the monopoly rulers of Canada were ready to dump the federal Liberals and set a new gang to looking after their interests. Workers are incited to get riled up and become Tory-partisan over the kick- backs, favors, shady deals and just plain theft which is a normal part of capital- ism. Well, sure we despise these work- ings of the system, but the way to deal with it is to kick out the system, not to accept Tory pap. And that operation be- gins with an anti-monopoly coalition to control the monopolies who pull all the strings of Liberals, Tories and Social Credit. The Tories, who, whenever they had the chance, muzzled the worker and democracy, as R.B. Bennett did in the thirties, are trying to suck us in with mar- vellous exposés of the judges’ case, the Sky Shops affair in which Liberal Senator Louis Giguere has been charged ‘with theft, the dredging scandals; then there is the case of the Liberals being fleeced by one of their own bag men. But the Tories fish for suckers with a cruel hook. In power they, instead of Liberals, are the executioners appointed ~ by monopoly capitalism. [tis a case of the “ins” and the “outs”; and what anguish to be barred from the “opportunities” of being the party in power. But as the bedraggled Liberals at On- AIB winks at price rises For good reason the so-called Anti- Inflation Board is already widely known as the wage-cutting board. It is no less true that it encourages soaring prices and profits by protecting instead of: prosecuting the corporate bandits. While it is rolling back wages and destroying collective bargaining, it is also providing “restraint” guidelines for pro- vincial social cutbacks. But it does nothing to curb prices. Clearly it was a hoax from the start. The week-by-week cost-of-living jumps are further proof of that. The AIB’s “impartiality” was exposed by that mouthpiece for state-monopoly capitalism, Jean-Luc Pépin, its chairman. In a dirty anti-labor slur, he readily ad- mitted that the AIB “has hurt collective bargaining,” but “you can’t really say col- lective bargaining was a crashing success in Canada before the controls, with all the strikes and high wage demands.” The inference is that if the AIB could demolish collective bargaining entirely, that would be a good thing. __ More and more workers see that side of it clearly, and demand the repeal of AIB Bill C-73. There is equally good - reason to condemn it for its pretext at limiting price increases. With a 3% to 4% food price increase predicted in the next two months, we are told there will be a 5% increase in butter, cheese and milk, and a 10% to 15% in- crease for beef, along with a government-dictated fuel cost rise, and rising rents and taxes. Tens of thousands of workers have demonstrated their demands that the \ _which are the only antidote to Toty tario’s Queen’s Park shout and stew an@ do everything to uphold the system oF bribery and corruption, so do the sorty] Tories in Ottawa. : 4 Now that the monopoly corporation are firing up their media to discredit thé Liberals, “inside information” (which) one would expect to be locked away iff) RCMP files) finds its way into Tor hands. How handy. 1 * Ok OK The best the Tories could do fo leadership — Joe Clark — represents 2 effort to bring back Toryism to Canad in the rotten tradition of Iron Heel Bet! nett, Clark’s.1930s predecessor. With _ great flourish he is shuffling committees making a great show of “freshness.” But Toryism is as reactionary as’ eve — Toryism, with the blessing of th ruling monopolies. Clark’s remarks denying Palestinia rights are a clue to such a leader’s foreig® policy. Domestically, Tory policies pol to “getting tough” with labor. Despite the blandishments, workin people can never fall for the Tory) crusade against evils: which are pre sented as evils of Liberals, but are, in fa part of the rot of capitalism. q It is the working people’s, th socialist-minded people’s programs © build an anti-monopoly, coalition, © overwhelm the power of monopoly) poison. ‘| Cee ge ey eee ene AIB be scrapped. Massive reinforce” ments for these workers reside in th millions of Canadians who have taken a¥ the slaps in the face they are prepared 0] take from the corporate price gougers-|| Organized to fight the price rises, 1} demand genuine price and profit com], trols under democratic norms (unlik€ the pro-monopoly AIB), what a fo these “price-strikers” can be in sendin | the AIB scurrying, and abolishing in- | famous Bill C-73! _— Chile protest — Protests should fall like rain on tht \ Chilean fascists and their embassies an® ; consulates, demanding an end to tortur®), and murder of countless political pris oners of the U.S.-backed butchers. The arrests continue, those languis ing in the fascists’ prisons are dent their right to freedom, and with the sup” port of: world imperialism, the junt parades as a legitimate governmen), granted aid, trade and military backing in exchange for turning over the bir right of the Chilean people to the mul national corporations, such as Canada? Noranda Mines Ltd. It is for these monsters that men al® women of Chile are rotting in jail, % dying amid torture devices, while ch dren face the horrors of trying to gro” up under fascism. a No protest can be too strong; no de mand for an end to our governmen™ relationship with the junta too shar? Every protest goes to help save the liv of Chilean patriots.