In the surging activity and debate for nuc- lear disarmament two targets loom imme- diate and large.

One: Put a stop now to the Cruise missile, whose characteristics open the door to adven- turist nuclear war.

Two: Demand that. the federal govern- ment, without qualification, declare Canada a nuclear weapons-free zone, and behave accordingly.

A top priority, and an opportunity unique to Canada in suffocating the Cruise is to pre- vent the testing of this nuclear mass murder weapon on the range near Cold Lake, Alta., and Primrose Lake on the Alberta-Saskatch- ewan border.

“Refuse the Cruise!” means bringing every. pressure to bear on the federal Liberal re- gime to refuse to sign an agreement allowing such U.S. militarization of our country. Reports warn that the signing in only weeks away. That would open Canada as a nuclear target range for the U.S. military — for the Cruise and other, unspecified, weapons. It would also make Canada a first target in the event of nuclear war. Canada’s membership in the U.S.-run shameful sell-out of our country as a nuclear weapons test site, are two sides of the same counterfeit coin. Both surrenders to U.S. war policy must be ended.

That is what the marchers, demonstrators, speakers and their millions of supporters throughout this country must achieve and

can achieve! Canadians were making their

determination felt and heard during UN Disarmament Week, Oct. 24-30, and after- ward.

Two good deals

Wheat and satellites — they show the benefits of peaceful international trade, communications and technological agree- ments. Canada’s grain sales to the Soviet Union worth about $1.5-billion this year — and the spin-off in machinery and fuel to service it — spells nothing but good for Canada’s economy. Back in September, three Canadian fliers, down in the B.C. mountains were saved from death thanks to a distress signal relayed from Soviet satellite Cospas 1. Launched July 30 its rescue use was agreed to by France, Canada and the USSR. There seems to be nothing but good news in such east-west agreements.

Flashbacks

’ AJOBS PROGRAM

WINDSOR — Over 1,000 workers rallied Oct. 27 to pledge an all-out fight against mounting unemploy- ment and endorsed a five-point program placed by UAW Canadian Director George Burt and President of UAW Local 444 Charles Brooks.

The program demands: Supplemental seasonal benefits to be paid from the general fund of the fed- eral treasury; a federal tariff structure encouraging development of Canadian secondary industry and so to assist in curtailing increased imports of auto parts; immediate action on a federal works program for the Windsor area; an agreement between the Ontario and federal governments whereby the province will re- ceive federal aid when unemployment rises above a certain percentage; immediate utilization of all pos- sible resources to establish industrial machinery, air- craft, chemical, steel and aluminum industries in the area.

Tribune, November 4, 1957 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 5, 1982—Page 4

Ottawa! Refuse the Cruise!

aggressive pact, NATO, and this latest

__ EDITORIAL

Across the land, from Atlantic to Pacific, actions for peace, for nuclear disarmament,

have built up mighty support. The Oct. 30 -

anti-cruise protests in many places stand as evidence of public opinion. In Quebec, advo- cates of nuclear disarmament and Canada as a nuclear weapons-free zone were making the long trip, about 800 km (500 miles), Mon- treal to Bagotville to protest the storage there of U.S. nuclear weapons. ;

Comox, B.C. is another site of nuclear weapons on Canadian soil, and the govern- ment hedges on whether Chatham, N.B. isa third site. t

No nuclear weapons on Canadian territory is the justified demand that’s growing in vol- ume. No testing of the Cruise in Canada be- fore or after it is nuclear triggered.

The government has to hear it in clear, no

concessions terms: “Don’t sign the sell-out

deal! Refuse the Cruise!”

Lopsided look at the crisis —

Words to describe the speech of the new finance minister, Marc Lalonde, to the recon- vened parliament, Oct. 27, will be many and descriptive. References will be found. else- where in the paper.

The object here is to call attention to the backdrop on which the Lalonde speech ap- peared. The prime minister's T'V appearance on three consecutive nights to sell the federal 6/5% restraint program for public service wages and, surreptitiously, for private sector wages as well.

_The strait jacket has been put on workers’ wages, but mass layoffs and epidemic un- employment continue. That's _ruling-class justice. | :

To show its democracy, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has agreed to les- ser amounts of time on TV for the leaders of the Conservative and New Democratic par- ties. It has allotted no time for the Commu- nist Party of Canada. It is always argued that the CPC has at present no members in

‘parliament. So?

The point is that the CPC in its 60-year history. has consistently come up with pro- grams to solve the economic and political problems facing working people, while the capitalist parties have, generation after generation fought the working people. Such is the situation right now, which is why the CPC has protested to the CBC, and de- manded time to express its views.

BORDEAUX HELL-HOLE

MONTREAL — Arrested in January, 1931, on trumped-up charges of the Montreal red squad and fighting their case through the Quebec provincial court, Fred Rose, Dave Kashtan, Tom Miller, Dave Chalmers and Phillip Richey have started to serve one year in Bordeaux jail.

All of these workers have already spent three months in Bordeaux and Fred Rose writes about the prison: “The food out in Bordeaux is surely not fit for pigs .. . from eating such food and from lack of exer- cise and fresh air (the prisoners never go outside in the yard) most of us suffer from headaches and stomach troubles.”

Rose reports the practice of solitary confinement is common practice in the prison. Leslie Morris, arrested at the same time, is out on bail pending the hearing in his appeal by the provincial court. The fate of the five faces him.

The Worker, October 29, 1932

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In contrast to the Communist Party’s pro" gram to meet the concerns of working-class families in the current crisis, the political i” triguers in Ottawa want to save capitalism not its victims. ;

The capitalist system is unfolding in it normal (?) way; and the workers’ fightback clearly in need of a powerful push.

That mad, bell-ringing robber, Ma Bell is at it with great er gusto than ever. In the nine months ended Sept. 30, Ber Canada had after-tax profits of $459,100,000. That's afte! all expenses were paid. It was a nice jump from the sal period a year earlier when the figure was $368,300,00™

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