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FLASHBACKS FROM

THE COMMUNIST PRESS

25 years ago...
NO EXCEPTIONS

PASADENA — Three year
old Janet Gray earned $3 model-
ling for Muir Junior College art
class. When Janet’s mother tried
to collect her little girl’s wages,
she was advised by the pay-
master’s office that Janet would
have to sign a loyalty oath.

“But she can’t write” explain-
ed the mother, “how can I swear
for my child that within five
years immediately preceding
this oath she had not been a
member of an organization that
advocates the overthrow of the
government by force? I haven't
known her that long.”

“No exceptions” snapped the
pay clerk. “No oath, no pay”.

Tribune,
October 12, 1953

50 years ago...

WORKERS’ UNIVERSITIES
IN USSR

Workers’ universities began to
spring up in the Soviet Union
three years ago. There are 40 of
them, with about 12,000. stu-
dents. The major part of these
universities are connected with

‘regular universities and have at

their disposal competent lectur-
ers, buildings and laboratories.
The students, aged between 25
and 35, are skilled workers
whose ambition is not simply to
obtain a diploma but to get
thoroughly acquainted with the
production process from a
theoretical standpoint and to be-
come competent managers in
the plants where they work.

The Worker,
October 13, 1928

Profiteer of the week:

We've all heard how difficult it is to find
money to clean up industrial conditions which
cause illness and death among workers. Now
it looks as though United Asbestos Inc.,
Montreal will be able to lead the way. It hada
profit for the year ended March 31, of
$7,138,069. A year earlier it made $6,607,524

tax free. That should go a long way toward
making the industry a cleaner and safer place

to work.

Figures usec are from the company’s financial statements.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 13, 1978—Page 4

EDITORIAL
COMIMIEINT

_ Make parliament face up

While parliament will open on Oc-
tober 10 and the Speech from the
Throne will follow next day, there is
already enough handwriting on the wall
to compel working people to prepare
for battle.

True, we can watch for a bit of sugar
icing on Liberal pronouncements. But
underneath is the real and vicious
slashing of family allowances which they
mean to push to completion. There are
the cutbacks and disentitlements in
unemployment insurance to oppress the
working-class population. And even
cruder attacks on the jobless are already
in motion — such as forcing the jobless
worker's spouse to bear a double load,
in violation of the terms of payroll
deductions of UI benefits.

These, as a starter, are the kinds of
outrage workers will be called upon to
fight, through their unions and political
parties and by confronting the Liberal

and Tory Members of Parliament. Ac-

tions outside parliament — for that is
where the workers are — are bound to
be stepped up in size and militancy in
the face of the crisis policies of the old
parties, policies aimed at making work-
ing people pay, whatever the price. The
times call for a New Democratic Party
lead among the people as well as among
the parliamentarians.

At the root of the rushing decline in
living standards, the decline in the
economy and the decline in confidence
in the capitalist system in Canada, is the
failure of the parties of capitalism to
project the building of Canada, inde-
pendent, free from U.S. control. Their
motto is, as it has been for decades: Dig
it up, pump it up, chop it down and ship
it out for a fast dollar.

We've. seen the exposure of Tory
leader Clark’s mortgage credit gimmick
to woo voters and serve the middle and
upper income brackets, with results that

would hit workers in housing prices,

interest rates, etc. No worker should be
lured into the Tory net by this kind of
dodge.

The Canadian government has a
reasonably good record at the UN on the
question of fascist Chile, whose im-
prisonment, torture and political mur-
der are commonplace. Where, for
example, are the 2,500 “disappeared”
persons?

The Canadian government is not so
principled when it comes to. huge
financial, technical and trade assistance
to the butchers of the Chilean people.

An example is the recent infestation of
Toronto by two ministers of the Pinochet
regime. To their feet flocked the elite of
Canadian monopoly capitalism — banks,
resource extraction companies, and
others eager to wring super profits from
the harassed Chilean workers living at
the muzzles of guns manufactured in the
United States of America, whose presi-
dent extols human rights.

Canadians who learned of the re-
ndezvous in Toronto, ‘protested, ex-
pressing the rage of the millions around

For the Liberals, former red-neck

Tory, Horner, now minister of industry,
trade and commerce, has sketched vag-
uely his plan to enrich the corporations
even more. Through privatization,

hand-overs and handouts at a cost to the

living standards. of working-class
families, Horner declares: everything
for the corporations; cut the workers to
the bone. And like other Liberals he
intimates: we've got the clout to do it.
During 1980-85 a minimum of $2-bil-
lion on top of present give aways, will go
to big business.. ;
With every capitalist economist pre-
dicting upwards of 9% unemployment

for the next two years, and the dollars —
we do get falling in worth because the

old parties have deserted their respon-
sibility to their country, Charles Barrett
of the Conference Board of Canada
offers insight into. the manipulation in
store. Full employment, he says, will be
hard to reach. And
employment means 5.5% jobless! That’s
about one-half to three-quarters of a

_ million workers. Instead of jobs we get

Juggling of statistics.

“There is money to solve these prob-

lems. Some of it is right there in the
bloated arms budget, Workers hacked
at by UI cuts, by family allowance cuts,
should demand_.a 50% cut in the arms
squandering, which is among the Com-
munist Party’s consistent demands.

Arms make jobs, you say? A work-
shop paper of the Air Industries Associ-
ation of Canada differs: “In many
instances it is more likely an opportunity
which results in the transfer to Canada
of obsolescent technology.” Instead of
research and development controlled by
publicly-owned Canadian industry,
obsolescence and unemployment will
accompany the $2.3-billion expenditure
Ottawa promised-NATO would make
for warplanes. ,

Workers’ organizations can monitor.

the parties in the House on all these
crucial issues, and to plan a fightback
with this session of parliament the focal
point.

Boycott Chile fascists!

the globe who detest the fascist regime
foisted on Chilean by million-dollar aid
from U.S. multi-nationals and master-
minded by the CIA.

If Canada’s government cares to dit-
ferentiate itself from the horrors carried
on by the present Chilean regime, it
should enact at once a 100% boycott of
Chile to set an example.

The nerve of the Pinochet vultures to
enter a Canadian city where only days
earlier the widow of one of its victims,
Isabel Letelier, spoke at a public meeting
of viewing the shattered remains of her
husband Orlando Letelier, bombed to
death in Washington, D.C. by Pinochet’s
secret police, the hated DINA!

The Trudeau government is on trial
on this issue. It finds every way to legis-
late Canadian workers into poverty. But
it pretends helplessness when
monopolies trample any decency Ottawa
has paraded at the UN. ;

Boycott the fascist regime in Chile!
That is the action needed.

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