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Labor condemns Ottawa sale of

$12", million NHA mortgages

Sale by the Canadian government of $1214 million N.H.A. mortgages at a discount “is a disgrace and an act of treachery”, a Vancouver Real Estate Union represent- ative told the Vancouver Labor Council last Tuesday. ~__

Barney McGuire said that the mortgages, which were to be sold in blocks of not less than $250,000, at somewhere between a 20 and 30 percent discount, would make million- aires overnight out of the pock- ets of Canadian wage earners. It ‘had taken’ several years and to. the NHA to enable the Canadian government to carry through this swindle.

The council passed a resolu- tion protesting the proposed auction of the mortgages by

the Canadian government and proposed that instead the Cana- dian and provincial govern- ments should go into the sec- ond mortgage field to protect the home buyer from exorbit- ant interest charges.

The strike of 150 members of the Wholesale Retail Union against. Taylor, Pearson and Carson, Ltd., suppliers . of wholesale hardware, has enter- ed its second month and the union reports that the picket lines are solid and the morale

CUBA

_ Continued from page 2 Without the possibility of get- ng an education. . We are increasing our so- “al production, we are devel- Sing our industry, we are in- Vesting a billion pesos in in- dustry, me are abolishing illitera- “Whereas the dictatorship %f the imperialist exploiters Wed to make soldiers enemies %f the people, now the work- ts and the peasants are our uldiers to protect the rights f the people.” C en, pausing’ a moment, astro asked his audience, t hat is this??? And a million Bopats swelled with the an- Wer: “Socialism!” * oo * Ry enis was the theme which acl Castro hammered in his Mprehensive programmatic Beech, namely, socialism; the wy that it is for all the people Xcept the exploiting enemies Cuba; the fact that the *‘Volutionary workers and “asants are the guardians of fNuine democracy and the aterial well-being of all the “ple, hone speech demonstrated . Priceless relationship be- “€en Fidel Castro and the “‘Uban people. “very one of the million de and women, young and a as an active participant. th €ir participation was more simply - answering his : and cheering the “ints that he drove. home. is ey reminded him. When ““y demanded that he rest a le ang then continue, and ,°Y compelled him to rest by Boe ine in unison a prose ee composed’ of the word op ol’, set to the most moving , “ll music, the rhythmic beat

Yer ore than a million human Vices,

throat showed tiredness}.

When in the cource of his speech (during the third hour) Premier Castro described, for the first time in a public ad- dress, the significance of the unification of all the various revolutionary organizations into one “United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution”, he asked his audience:

“Do you want such a single united party?” :

A million throats split the sky with their roar of “Yes! Yes! Yes!’

At this point the audience interrupted Fidel for 23 min-

party song, sang the 26th of July hymn and, miraculous as it seemed, thousands of them, in a hundred different places in the jam-packed crowd,

danced. * ® ®

A sidelight on one of the means by which support for the lies about the Cuban revo- lution is rationalized was pro- vided the day after this land- mark in Cuban history by a newspaper reporter who had been sent to Havana by a big capitalist daily to “cover the 26th of July celebrations.”

Talking to two Canadians and a Cuban student about the demonstration of the 26th, this person denied its importance entirely with a sweeping dis- missal of the people as “un- educated” ‘and “uninformed” and therefore ‘easily led up the garden path” and not truly representative of Cuba. .

He informed his three lis- teners that he knew the peo- ple on the square were not representative of the decisive opinion in Cuba because he had been told so on good auth-

ority, namely, by his taxi driver. The Cuban student was

dumbfounded that a rich daily paper should rely on people who flaunt such ignorance of the profound social forces ‘that are operating in Cuba.

utes. They cheered, sang the’

| of Kenya.

of the members high. The

Assuming that the reporter| ynion has asked for financial really believed what he said) assistance from all unions for “a taxi driver had told him’’| the strike.

the student asked us: : :

ee se Bud Hodgins, union repre-

Isn’t it known that a VeTY| sentative for B.C., reported large part of the business Of|inat a misunderstanding be- taxi drivers in Havana WaS\tween the Wholesale Retail with the tourists? How can alang the Machinist Unions man understand so little that which had Jed to a machinist he considers the opinion of a) pounter picket at one of the taxi- driver who stays away to Taylor Pearson operations, had be worth more than the feel-|peen cleared up with the help ings of the million who went) of the B.C. Federation of La- to the celebration?” bor.

Our explanation that. the} wholesale Retail also report- newspaperman might not be-|og that the strike against the lieve the arguments that he|_ ¥. Goodrich Co. was solid in used in order to rationalize his/ ii; second month and asked contempt for the Cuban pe0-/ financial help for the strikers ple left the boy bewildered. © | there.

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* * A Doug Gibson, reporting for

minded the council that the strike against F. W. Woolworth Co. in Port Alberni was in its third month with picketing continuing and the stzikers determined to win mands. The union has ergan-

Woolworth Co. and they may have to get out on the street, he said. Powell River F. W. Woolworth was organized and

tices was being brought against

of the stores range between 65¢ to a maximum of $1 an hour.

Council voted $50 fer the Glaziers and Glassworkers strike in its third week against Vancouver glass firms and ask- ed its affiliates to give finan- cial aid to the strikers.

On the civic front a motion of censure was passed eriticiz- ing the Vancouver city council for giving away one acre of Pioneer Park. ;

SKODA TAKES BEAUTY PRIZE

The 1961 models of Czecho- slovakia’s. Skoda ears were very successful at the Inter- national Car Beauty Competi- tion held in Weisbaden, West Germany, recently. The Skoda- Felicia sports car was award- ed the first prize and the Skoda-Octavia limousine the second prize.

To the extent that such non- S pense 45 “pe elise as “objec! ty government was, very — pi seese ee ogee. largely, a result of President ease pabite as inion gpd Pre: Kennedy being fooled by the vide ammunition for the cam- me S

‘ . propaganda of “his man Al- ae pee Cope: ‘on fin.| 122 Dulles. The attempt. that nibh Re : a gaflirad BF the is being made DON a Orpen

a new offensive against Cuba also depends on this sort of lie to soften up public opin- ion. :

This time a coordinated propaganda. and trade offen- sive. is being attempted pre- liminary to military action. _

Every word written, or spo- ken on radio or television, which» encourages the idea | that there is: substantial sup- port in Cuba for this new at- tempt to organize action against the Castro government is an’ attempt to deceive the people: of Canada and the

United States.

‘| «Every such word is certain- ly contrary to the national in- terest of Canada.

Premier Castro posed the

JOMO KENYATTA, Kenya's! issue categorically toward the African leader who was held| end of his 3%2-hour speech. prisoner by the British for Reiterating his urgent. em- nearly nine years, was this! phasis upon the fact that he week released due to persist-| and the Cuban people want ent demands from the people} peace, he warned that if the ; imperialists chose to ereate a

pretext to attempt another in- vasion, “they may inflict heavy damage on us but they cannot conquer Cuba.”

“In fact,” he added, “they will.be the main losers in such an adventure.”

Reminding his audience that the imperialists have prob- lems, he said:

“We, by our own conscious

lems of growth. By growing and measuring up to bigger

literally day by day.

“And, great lands of socialism, . all that is best in Latin America is for our revolution, because all that is noble in Latin America wants freedom from United States imperialism.

“This is why the imperial- ists cannot win. This is why we shall make Cuba rich as well as free.”

There is a profound lesson in this for every patriotic Canadian. In our own nation- al interest we must strengthen the demand “Hands Off Cu- ba!’ and “Canadian Credits to Expand Our Trade With Cuba Now!”

August 18, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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