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ANDREWS DAILY WORLD

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COVER-UP

FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago... WHAT HAVE THEY TO SAY? The fight begins as soon as the unemployed demand work or maintenance and the employed support them directly and ener- getically. This first necessary step is intended not only to alleviate the lot of the unemployed, but to protect the living standards of the employed as well. Like other Communist policies, this one is as wide as the working class. Meanwhile, let us ask once more what policy, what program, what slogan is issued by the “safe” and “sane” leaders of labor in the present crisis? When it comes to junketting trips to stave off action on the part of the workers, they are right there. But now, when the workers want results, where are they? What are they doing for the rail- way workers being laid off by the CNR? What have they to say to- day when these workers are fired?

The Worker, Jan. 17, 1925.

25 years ago...

300,000 JOBLESS IN CANADA

Humphrey Mitchell’s statement that the current unemployment situation results from an increase in workers “rather than a de- crease in jobs” is viewed here as another typically inept remark of a bumbling minister of labor. A second statement by A. R. Mo- sher, CCL president and Percy Bengough, TLC president stressed that it was a matter of “indiffer- ence” to a jobless worker as to what caused his unemployment, what he wanted was work.

Mitchell admitted that a mini- mum of 261,000 jobless were re- gistered, but organized labor puts the figure at 300,000. Tim Buck, national LPP leader and M. J. Coldwell, national CCF leader, have also stressed that 300,000 is a ‘minimum figure.

The two congress heads again demanded that the government put. into action the public works projects they had promised in pre-election pledges.

The Tribune, Jan. 16, 1950

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"Tis the New Year and the spoils from last year’s food gouging are being admitted — but only in the dark recesses of financial statements, which are not displayed at the check-out counters. M. Loeb Ltd., Ottawa, owners of various food interests. managed to scrape up, in the 39 weeks ended Oct. 26, a neat $3,191,000 profit. That’s $1,650,- 000 better than a year earlier, a 107% in- crease. Better than the pay boosts, eh? If you want to be nasty and add in an extra- ordinary gain of $779,000 making profit $3,970,000, well, who could be so pica-

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E ditorial Comment... The voice of U.S. imperialism

The dangerous war threats being hurled by the United States Govern- ment, and the irresponsible urging to military action by influential elements there have to be taken seriously.

Henry Kissinger has issued crude threats, first to the oil producing coun- tries, that the United States would in- vade and take the oil it wants if it felt restricted by quotas; and then his dec- laration to the world that the US. naval force leaving the Philippines re- cently should have gone to North Viet- namese waters to show U.S. strength there. Such threats are symptomatic.

The fact that these U.S. warships were heading for the Indian Ocean where the Pentagon is trying to estab- lish a powerful war base, is criminal in

Putting nuclear power in hands of a tyrant

The Government of Canada could scarcely provide nuclear know-how to a more reactionary government, with a worse record of crimes against all poli- tical opposition, than the corrupt pup- pet regime of Park Chung Hee in South Korea. Its desire to take over the northern part of the country, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is well known.

Canada’s foreign policy has a knack for seeking the most repressive regimes

on which to bestow aid, as if every little _

outpost of U.S. imperialism were dear to the hearts of Canadians.

External Affairs Minister Mac- Eachen spoke grandly at the UN on Sept. 25 about curbing nuclear prolifer- ation, about “truly effective anti-proli- feration measures,” and he captured the heart of Henry Kissinger.

The capitalist press, as recently as Jan. 1, 1975 warned of the danger of nuclear weapons know-how falling into the hands of “terrorists or other crimi- nals.” Furthermore, 9,000 pounds of uranium seemed to have vanished in as safe a place as the USA!

Yet, unless the Canadian people stop the deal, Canada will hand over to the Park regime. maintained by U.S. sol- diers in UN helmets, the means of making nuclear bombs — probably within 30 days.

Oh, Canada will make Mr. Park pro- mise not to manufacture bombs. And he’ll have to promise to let the Interna- tional Atomic Energy Agency inspect his plants. Park’s promise would be about as comforting as a knife in the ribs.

And when he and his hoods say: “No more inspections: now we'll get down

-to business,” the Canadian Government

and its bomb-pushers in industry (re- lishing the $300-million sale price) will

look to international opinion to correct.

things.

International solidarity, and the Ko- rean people, will ultimately deal with

Park. But neither they nor Canadians .

will forget that it was the Trudeau Government which handed the ultimate murder weapon to the worst bomb- throwers, imperialism’s flunkies, hated by their own people.

itself. At the Conference Against Mili- tary Bases in the Indian Ocean, in No- vember, representatives of countries of the area eondemned the U.S. decision to construct a base at Diego Garcia Island, as a “threat to the sovereignty — of countries in that region.” r

This is not the 19th century, when powerful empires could get away with — ordering the lives of millions in less ~ developed countries, ordering them into — war as well, to serve the interests of imperialism.

The puppets used by the United States these days to protect its: intru- sion on other continents are despised © by the mass of humanity and upheld — only by U.S. dollars. ‘ 3

It is to maintain in power the butch- — er of Saigon, Thieu, that Henry Kis- singer would threaten a renewed U.S. — calamity in Vietnam. It is U.S. bombers — in the hands of Thieu traitors that are —

bombing the people of liberated areas 4

of the south. It is this U.S.-financed © regime which sytematicallv sabotages ~ the Paris Agreement on Vietnam, an ~ agreement designed to bring peace and © constructive development to the coun- ~ try.

Instead, Kissinger would prefer to — fabricate another Gulf of Tonkin inci- dent as a pretext for military action against the Democratic Republic of. Vietnam, a country which backs the Paris Agreement and exposes U.S. treachery. At this moment U.S. spy planes are flying over Hanoi.

It is a yery dangerous game the USA is playing — dangerous for all human- ity.

The fact that imperialism, and in the ~ first place U.S. imperialism, cannot, by — gunboat diplomacy, take over the 7 world’s resources at will; the fact that — corporations with multi-billion dollar — military contracts want guaranteed — battlefields; the fact that, at home, U.S. imperialism (and is junior partners such as Canada) cannot offer its people — any future but depression, all contrib- 4 ute to the panic in the imperialist camp. — This panic has now led to the flinging out of militarv threats by Kissinger, backed by Ford.

The peace policy of the socialist coun- tries ceaselessly blocks imperialist ef- forts to gain its ends by force. But it — would be an avoidance of duty it were ~

‘left to the socialist countries, if the ©

peace forces in everv countrv did not throw their fu)] weieht into the strug- © gle for neaceful development as opposed ~ to military adventurism. More than © that. the fieht for jobs. homes, for main-— tenance of living standards — as oDpos- — ed to soaring militarv budgets — is an urgent part of the effort needed now, to ensure a fulfilling future. and to ward off a holocaust sparked by im-_ perialist lunacy. a

Get it moooving

The Canadian postal service being — what it is, farmers shouldn’t slaughter — cows. Postmaster General Bryce Macka- sey might be able to saddle them uP and institute a fast mail service by running a “pony” express from sea t0 shining sea.