— \ i 2 Ae ake > (el! “Why all this fuss ab ZEA Zz being npl yed ag thaven’t worked a day in the last 20 years!’’ 25 years ago... TERRORISTS GIVEN CANADIAN ASYLUM A terrorist group supplied with money and weapons by a United States CIA agent, kid- napped travellers. aboard a Czechoslovak express train and took the train across the frontier into the U.S.-occupied sector of West Germany. The 32 kidnappers involved are to be brought to Canada by permission of the Canadian government, despite interna- tional demands that they be re- turned to Czechoslovakia to stand trail for their crime. Canada is becoming a haven these days for the world’s riff- raff. Several times in past weeks terrorists, spies and hoodlums have been granted entry into Canada. Tribune October 12, 1951 FLASHBACKS FROM | THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... 10,000 HARVESTERS STRANDED CALGARY — Thousands of harvesters, brought to Calgary through alluring advertisements are stranded, hungry and broke, no place to lay their heads, some of them only getting three days work in the last month. A delegation of harvesters vis- ited the mayor of Calgary in complaint of their disgusting treatment, and requested ‘that he get in touch with federal au- thorities immediately to ac- quaint them with their situation. These workers are mainly east European immigrants, many were promised jobs in eastern Canada and came expecting to ‘ be able to send for their families in the near future. After being shipped to the west their future looks even more bleak. : : Worker October 9, 1926 - BES ORINGFOR PEACE. | Speaking at a public meeting in Toronto, Sun. Oct. 24, with Romesh Chandra, World Peace Council Secretary-general, will be Mrs. Mirjam Vire-Tuominen. Mrs. Vire-Tuominen, member of the Finnish parliament, and general secretary of the Finnish Peace | Committee, above receives the signature of Finland’s president, Dr. Urho Kekkonen, on the Stockholm Appeal. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 22, 1976—Page 4 EDITORIAL GOMIMUEINT Salute to Day of Protest — A salute to the triumphant Day of Pro- test carried out by Canada’s labor movement from coast to coast! In a multiplicity of actions against wage controls, the working class, the working people as a whole, in particular organized labor, raised their political sights to a degree to advance the anti- monopoly struggle in the months im- mediately ahead. Detractors who pretend that all re- mained the same on Oct. 15 as on Oct. 13 missed miserably the powerful points made by the Day of Protest. Working people in a swelling tide — and all who share the same problems — declared immovable resistance to Bill C-73 and, in effect, to its perpetrators, with 1,054,744 off the job, and thou- sands more in on-the-job protests. October 14 established a permanent ~ democratic rights throughout Canada. challenge to the imagined “right” of the monopolies and their picked govern ments to shackle workers with anti-labor, anti-people laws. The history-making Day of Protest) gave reactionaries in and out of govert® ment an initial taste of labor unity, and labor’s refusal to back up in its battle against wage controls. sf The labor movement can be proud of this landmark. The new militancy, unity) and political awareness achieved will be) sorely needed, not only to fight Bill C-73; but in face of severe new anti-labor legis lation being planned both federally and} provincially. The Day of Protest cannot} help but increase the understanding of ay need for a broad anti-monopoly coali-| tion in which labor plays a key role. — The fight against monopoly and 16 governments is the fight for labor and —— Bonuses for big business _ The federal Throne Speech of Oc- tober 12 strives to appear as benefactor and bearer of the good life to every sec- tor of Canadians. But past performance has taught ‘working people to look . beyond this tinsel at the elements of the Speech which are more in keeping with Liberal Party deference.to the ruling monopolies. In the Speech are definite concessions to big business, evidently made in the hope of strengthening Liberal support. This is seen in the declaration on a free hand for big business in the marketplace, a pledge to hand over certain govern- ment programs to business (however it harms the country and the majority of people). and the government’s promise to further subsidize monopolies involved in foreign trade. The government sidesteps, in its Throne Speech, the entire issue of a full employment policy. It speaks vaguely of a job-creating plan without ever altering its view that 700,000 unemployed is. normal. There is evidence too, that the gov- ernment intends further tinkering with collective bargaining. That is clear in its | assertion that Canadians are “disturbed by the loss of productivity and increased social tensions,” it blames on collective bargaining and not on state monopoly | capitalism’s class rule. The Speech suggests that there are those in govern- ment who want to further paralyze labor’s right to strike. At the same time, the government con- tinues with its line of bilingualism despite its utter bankruptcy. A made-in-Canada Constitution, guaranteeing the rights of French Canada, is the genuine need of today, not the crisis policies adopted by the government to appease powerful U.S. and Canadian business interests. If the Throne Speech says anything to the labor and democratic movements it is that they need to step up the battle for their own needs, that they must fight — on the economic and political fronts — for a voice in all questions of concern to the working people. a FREEDOM FOR LEONARD PELTIER! Recognizing the ex- treme urgency of the situ- ation and the blatantly ra- cist implications posed in the extradition of Leonard Peltier from Canada into the blood-stained hands of the U.S. and its FBI, the 23rd Convention of the Communist Party of Canada adopted the fol- lowing resolution. (See story page 2.) The federal govern- ment is set to extradite Leonard Peltier, a leader of the Native people’s movement, back to the United States to face trumped-up murder charges. These extradition pro- ceedings, recommencing Oct. 25, 1976 are one more manifestation of the blat- antly racist attitude of the government towards the Native peoples. To extradite Leonard Peltier into the hands of Ronald Basford the FBI is to extradite him to his death. This 23rd Convention of the Communist Party of Canada is resolved to convey to Justice Minister its strongest opposition to this extradition. Further, our party re- solves to give full support to the efforts under way to prevent the extradition of Leonard Peltier.