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‘BUY CANADA’ BOOM SWEEPS THE USA

" Like a modern gold rush, a Buy Canada” boom is sweeping the United States. Dozens of ’ Magazines and newspapers are featuring special articles on Canada’s tremendous wealth of Natural resources pointing to this country as the main source for dwindling U:S. stocks of raw materials. ;

An $800,000,000 trust has been formed in Boston, a member of which is former prime minister Arthur Meighan, to buy up Canadian resources.

Following a joint meeting of U.S. and Canadian Chambers of Commerce, members of the St. Laurent cabinet have been mak- ing sales trips to the USA. Ex- ternal Affairs minister Lester Pearson told a meeting of U.S. State governors, “We are the Junior partner.and you are the great leader ...”

Tribune, + . September 1, 1952

- FLASHBACKS FROM | THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

CAPITALISM MURDERS

SACCO AND VANZETTI

Sacco and Vanzetti have been murdered. They were mur- dered deliberately and in cold blood by the American capitalist class. The instruments of that cruel capitalism were a_pre- judiced, hand-picked jury: (damn them, they ought to han anyway, Said one) ... Tria judge Thayer: (“those anarchist bastards,”) is what he called them.

Governor Fuller as a Con- gressman in 1919 called for the execution of “the whole Red scum brood of anarchists, -Bol- sheviks, IWW’s and _ ‘re- volutionaries.”

Sacco and Vanzetti were mur- dered ona frame-up August 23. They were framed by the Justice Department in 1919 during the notorious Palmer Raids. Mill- ions of workers rallied to them. Sacco and Vanzetti live. They are with us. The struggle goes on. We will never forget!

The Worker, September 5, 1927

CHEDELIC POSTERS

SENATE POVERTY REPORT

- SS i] nH Ose Nie ae

TEIDIMOIRIAIL

COMIMIEINT

Depression signs demand increase in labor unity

There is growing realization that a government devoted. to serve a small group of private interests cannot serve the vast majority of Canada’s working people.

The evidence is crystal clear: Trudeau’s government has made up its mind to abandon the needs of millions in favor of massive profits for the few. It is today an arrogant, vicious and callous government making no apologies for its open service to big business.

No more “Just Society” fairy tales; no more flower power hype. Gone are the illusions borne by many when one of the three wise men ascended to power nine long years ago.

Labor Day 1977 is marked by major crisis, the direct result of a calculated government drive against its people and for private interests. We have a govern- ment which can’t solve anything — the unemployment crisis, mounting in- flation, the crisis of confederation, ener- gy, Native people’s rights, education.

It wastes billions for war and ha.ids out millions to private industry. It attacks the

unemployed and the poor. It slanders:

the student and insults the elderly. It affronts the Native people and threatens the French Canadian nation.

‘ Ottawa is content to live with 1.5 mill- ion jobless and the disgrace of one in five Canadians existing in poverty. Content? It asks for more sacrifices, more belt- tightening. —

Replying to demands for an im- mediate federal budget with tax breaks and a jobs creation program, faced with shocking figures of a 0.6% drop in our

GNP and warnings of a full-blown

depression, Finarice Minister Mac- donald attacks the figures and prescribes more of the same medicine which is poisoning the patient.

With a shrug of his shoulders the prime minister heads off to Washington where he and Jimmy Carter will preside over the giveaway of more Canadian sovereignty and Native people’s rights when the president announces his deci- sion on a northern natural gas pipeline to the U.S. Congress.

More and more people are coming to understand this sick society does not simply result from accidental govern- ment stupidity or ineptness. They are seeing their government's active role as an appendage of the monied interests, Canadian and international — as an enemy of working people.

Such insights are contained in state- ments by labor which openly question this government/corporation collusion. Translated into mighty, unified political action by the victims of this collusion, Canada’s political and economic course can be changed.

A united fightback surely is the need

- of the day. Around the CLC’s demands

_for jobs creation and developing means

to tackle the basic causes of Canada’s many-sided crisis, a tremendous anti- monopoly campaign can be generated. The ingredients are there. They include organized labor, the unemployed, the NDP, the Communist Party, student, senior citizen and poor people’s organi- zations — the millions today hurt by government policies.

Labor Day 1977 is an excellent time to begin.

Tales of ‘infiltration’

Solicitor-General Francis Fox has done nothing to dispel suspicions. that Royal Canadian Mounted Police surveil- lance of working-class and democratic organizations is indeed carried on. Re- cent newspaper articles based on leaks in the system suggest not only that the state police keep dossiers on New Democratic members of parliament, on farm and labor organizations, but that ancient

; propaganda about the Communist Party

of Canada is still the stock in trade of the RCMP.

They are said to have investigated the “Waffle”, the “radical” group from the NDP, with “anxiety bordering on paranoia,” according to a Toronto Globe and Mail writer, because of fear that Communists might have “infiltrated” the Waffle. How droll, how quaint it would be, were it not for the fact that it involves “paranoic” police protecting our political

purity, as Hitler’s police did.

The truth is that the Communist Party of Canada, a legal political party in exis- tence for 56 years, has its own program available to the public, and (be brave all you believers in RCMP fairy-tales) does not “infiltrate” other political groups.

The police of a capitalist state, doing a job for their. patrons, the corporate monopolies and the _political regimes paid for by these monopolies, exert con- tinuous efforts to disrupt and discredit organizations of the working class, par- ticularly the Communist Party which points the steps to a workers’ political system.

It is by realizing this, and by knowing the RCMP’s anti-labor role over the years, that working people can protect their own organizations, challenge the hoary tales being dug out of their graves and pressed into service once again.

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