Vandals, under cover of darkness, attacked Bookworld, a progres-
sive bookstore in downtown Toronto. Police who investigated the
damage speculated that about 12.30 Monday morning the attackers
fired a sawed-off shotgun at the window from a car parked at the
curb. This was the second attack on Bookworld by right-wing ex-
tremists in less than a year. Before the attack Monday, the fascist

goons of the Western Guard had been in the area, breaking up a

meeting of African Asians at the International house. The photo

above shows the damage from the shotgun blast.

*

D’Arcy McKeough, along with
Dalton Bales, should immediate-
ly be removed from the Provin-
cial Cabinet by Premier Davis,
Wm. Stewart, Ontario Leader of
the Communist Party said.

Mr. McKeough’s involvement
in South Chatham Estates at
the very time he was minister
of municipal affairs (February
1968) and his subsequent ap-
proval of the subdivision of the
land (Decentber 1969) clearly
convict the minister of having
his snout in the proverbial pork
barrell.

The disclosure comes hard on
the heels of a similar disclosure
;0f the involvement of the Hon.
Dalton Bales in an obvious piece
of land speculation in the

Pickering area where the new

airport is scheduled to be built.

In addition to removing Mr.
McKeough and Mr. Bales, the
Premier must disclose the finan-
cial connections of his entire
. Cabinet. This not only applies to
land holdings but must be wid-
ened to include all stock and
corporate connections which
could possibly lead to conflict
of interest in the course of
cabinet duties.

With government involvement
in such transactions as forgiv-
able loans, tax concessions,
mines development, etc., pos-
sible conflict of interest reaches
into almost all areas of corpo-
rate endeavour.

A case in point is the decision
last week .of the Ontario Muni-
cipal Board to cause Nepean
Township to rebate $1.2 million
in property taxes to multiple
housing (read apartments) on
the grounds that the township
could not level a higher rate of
assessment on apartments than

applied to single family dwel-
lings.

This abominable ruling by the
OMB opens the door for all
to appeal

apartment owners

aa

their assessments thus shifting
the tax load still further onto
the backs of homeowners. It is
a move in entirely the wrong
direction. Instead of discriminat-
ing between revenue producing
property and non-revenue pro-
ducing property, the OMB is
moving in the opposite direc-
tion. They are proposing to
move next to eliminate the split-
mill-rate which allows munici-
palities to charge a higher mill
rate to industry than to private
residents..

Clearly the people ought to
have a right to know what the
financial connections of Cabinet
members are so that they can
judge before the event their
right to make certain decisions.

There is a strong and growing
suspicion that having had their
hands on the Ontario tiller for
more than 20 years the Tories
have begun to think they own
the province and are translating
that thought into reality.

organizations and citizens
‘played a massive role. aes
/ She told her hosts she had
waited years to visit “the first
tond of socialism,” and felt
“wonderful to be on the soil

“ef the Soviet Union.”

Alongside another leap in the cost of
living and more unemployment, the
wolves’ chorus of big business, its press
and politicians is at full howl as Labor
Day 1972 approaches, heralding the
escalation of the monopolies’ offensive
against Canada and the Canadian work-

ing people.

U.S. tyeoon Herman Kahn came over
here to tell us the Yankees don’t really
need to gobble up Canada’s resources,
resulting in a rush of sell-out Canadian
politicians hollering, “Oh yes, you do!”
and in line with that the federal gov-
ernment announces that it will build a
power plant in New Brunswick to sup-

ply the U.S. industrialists.

In another ploy the politicos are play-

Incomes

Young, that wage controls (they.
price controls the better to screen
real aim) are “almost certain,” pre
ably because the U.S. has them —
sad results for the workers.

Labor Day 1972 is a day o
not rest. United labor action. to be
back the monopolies, to win jobs a
an income for all as a right, is
tive — in labor parades, on pic
and at the polls!

Need united action
to rout monopolies |

ing round with the estimates of the
Unemployment Insurance Commissio#
deficit — preparing the public fo
ering the boom on unemployed and We
fare recipients. ;
Meanwhile the notorious Prices
Commission has
through the lips of its chan ee
a
ene
sum
with

declare

Stop runaways, closures,
blackmail!

By RICHARD ORLANDINI

Labor solidarity in Britain and
other countries, as well as by
workers in some places in Can-
ada has been successful in pre-
venting big business blackmail
and plant closures. A recent and
spectacular example of this was
on the Upper Clydeside in Scot-
land. There the solidarity work-
ed, but in Ontario much of this
kind of solidarity seems as yet
to be lacking. And until labor
here unites to fight the corpor-
ate blackmail, more and more
companies will use the same
threats that three Toronto firms
recently issued as their “get
tough with labor’’ policies.

They are DeHavilland Aircraft
Ltd., Canadian Acme Screw and
Gear, and the Milner Refrigera-
tion Division of Canadian Tyler
Refrigeration Ltd. Although the
three corporations have used dif-
ferent excuses and tactics, the
end product that they hope for
is the same: to break the unions
and reduce the real wages of
the workers.

DeHavilland Aircraft Co.
president B. B. Bundesman an-
nounced last week that the fu-
ture of the company is in jeop-
ardy if “a reasonable” settlement
to the eight-month-old strike is
not reached soon. Mr. Bundes-
man’s “reasonable” settlement
would obviously be an accept-
ance of the wages offered by the
company irrespective of the re-
cent leap in the cost of living or
what other union locals have
won in the same industry. If the
UAW local was to accept* the
company’s terms it would prob-
ably break the union. The com-
pany knows this and is using
blackmail on the workers.

The workers at Acme Screw
and Gear were forced to take to
the bricks last week when the
company insisted that they ac-
cept another 18-month wage
freeze. The first freeze came in
1971 after a short strike. The

company claimed that it needed
time to “recover financially” or
it would have to close down.

The company’s ruse worked
once so they are trying it again.

From all indications it appears
that the company has provoked
the walkout by the workers,
since it will not have'to give the
required three month notice of
lay-offs nor will it have to pay
termination pay in the event of
closure. :

Not to be outdone by the two
larger corporations, the Milner
Refrigeration Co. is trying to
break the union and lower wages
using a different tactic. Instead
of screaming closure, this firm
simply and callously told its
employees that if they wanted to

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keep their jobs they woul :
to work in a new plant pf a
60 miles away. Then, # enoue,
sive relocation was? hem
the company also to
with the rehiring, ¢
lost their seniority 2”
accept a new rate °
of course, is about ;
less.
The company’s effort
money by lowering vache

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cutting pensions 4) tage
pay has another advé sulle
the corporate posses: © oak as
ful it would probably pres
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