ie Editorial Comment... Big business in anti-labor drive BOOM PLCANADIAN TRIBUNE. Oo FLASHBACKS FROM | THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... KU KLUX KRUSADERS ARRIVE IN TOWN While the Ku Klux’ Klan is busy organizing on the Pacific coast, another brand of hundred per cent idiots is evidently determin- ed to stake out claims in the eastern part of the country. Fol- lowing the news from Hamilton that the Grand Conclave of the so-called Crusaders had celeb- rated by burning a fiery cross on top of the Mountain, we now have news that a second group has been organized in Toronto, making ten across the Dominion. This secret organization, which is supported to aim only at the organization of returned soldiers for the purposes of enabling them to live happily and usefully, is growing very fast. While it is denied that it has any sinister purpose, it is significant that >re- cruits have to declare themselves ready, CLOTHED and ARMED, to carry the torch flung by the un- known warrior. Such bunk! Just where they are going to carry it, - or what they mean by the torch flung by the unknown’ warrior, we are all left to guess. The Worker, Nov. 1, 1924 25 years ago... BULLETIN OSHAWA—Nearly 3,000 General Motors-workers took spontaneous strike action for a second time last week after management fired three shop stewards and a com- mitteeman who had led speedup protests on behalf of the mem- bers of Local 222, UAW-CIO. The firing of the union men was pre- ceded by a two-hour sit-down after GM speeded up the body line to 47 units per hour. Until recently the unit count had been 40, a jump over the 31 figure in 1948. Among those fired was union committeeman Lloyd Peel, who has played an active part in or- ganizing the union’s resistance to the company’s back- breaking speedup program. The second spontaneous walk- out ended in a meeting in the Civic Arena where hundreds of autoworkers roared approval when one rank-and-filer demanded that the workers should take im- mediate picket line action. How- ever, the final decision was to return to work and take a strike vote later if GM did not reinstate the four men. Tribune, Oct. 31, 1949 Profiteer of the week: SE y * > al Both the profits and sales figures of ro Abitibi Paper Co. are records, crows the Toronto Globe & Mail, Caanda’s mouth- piece of the big business boys. Yessirree boss, it’s true, especially those profits. In the nine months up to Sept. 30 of this year, Abitibi sawed off $35,938,000 in greenbacks as compared to only $16,972,000 for the same period in 1973. What's more, profits were up by over 100°/) on sales increases of 33%. Can these figures really be true, or is Abitibi printing its profit dollars on its own paper? Pacific Tribune é Editor — MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., : Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-8108 Business & Circulation Manager, FRED WILSON Subscription Rate: Canada, $6.00 one year; $3.50 for six months; North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $7.00 All other countries, $8.00 one year Second class mail registration number 1560 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1974—Page 4 _ The year 1975 is going to be a fight- ing year for labor. F Nearly a million-and-a-quarter Can- adian workers covered by more than 400 contracts will be face-to-face with bosses in negotiations starting this De- cember. Against the working class and the many its battles defend is arrayed, not . simply individual employers, but a sys- tem. A legion made up of everything from lobbyists; economists and lawmen £0 strike-breakers and anti-labor news- papers is at the service of corporations. and government. To leave a union to battle on its-own against this ominous line-up is like feed- ing it to the sharks. Labor unity has to be strong enough to meet the chal- lenges of the wealth and cunning of outfits like Bell Canada, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Royal Bank, and newspapers like the Toronto Globe and Mail, to name a few whose recent urgings have been to shift the turden of inflation fully onto the work- ers. If monopoly spokesmen like Bell’s chairman, R. C. Serivener have their way, workers” standards of living will _be shot down before they even catch up with inflation, let alone add new quali- ties to life. (Meanwhile, Bell ripped us off for $63-million profit in just three months, helped by Liberal Government permis- sion for a rate increase.) - “Government needs encouragement _ More diversification _ Diversification has long been needed in Canada’s economic relations. To the extent that Prime Minister Tru- deau’s Paris and Brussels visits forged closer links with the European Econ- omic Community and served that end, it served Canada’s interests. The long-tolerated one-sidedness dic- tated by U.S. ownership and control in Canada is a continuing threat to Can- adian Independence, and while the PM’s European jaunt has not immediately lessened the U.S. stranglehold, the logi- cal outcome of ‘such diversification would be to weaken U.S. control. ene strengthen Canadian sovereignty m any serlous way, however, would re- quire increasing trade with many more countries than simply those of the EEC. _ The need to give Canadians jobs fash- loning our own raw materials into pro- ducts for sale at home and abroad de- mands.a world view still sadly lacking. It is urgent to get rid of the cobwebs in Ottawa, and the prudish superiority of Cabinet Ministers, which prevents Canada’s recognition of bona fide peo- ple’s governments, which prevents Can- ada from embracing the reality that in — detente and peaceful co-existence lies mankind’s only hope for the future. It is on that basis that Canada’s diver- sification should be pursued, aided by funds transferred from the -enormous arms budged used to keep us in NORAD and NATO. We should dump both these war pacts, and seek full and genuine two-way trade with the world—includ- ing the flourishing socialist world. world, the hardening of world 0 to cut back consumer spending,” “ ener confided to the Canadian And he wanted “to show that busitt will back them if they do.” He we increased sales taxes (they’re the # that hit the worker hardest), © controls, and a cut in governm spending on “redundant” welfare grams, This representative of a monop? over-ripe for nationalization, } one of the big business brass ¥ an teering” his advice and support 10 @ anti-labor dirty tricks the govern™ _ may be planning. if Dennis McDermott, Canadian d j tor of the United Auto Workers, §P lately of the “unbelievable greed ont porations,” stating that “unless : has a chance to catch up, it’s nons cal for the government to talk ae restraints on labor and wages. But we have to go beyond that: "i restraints are unthinkable in as struggle where the worker sea labor power to capitalist monde fs who do everything in their pow nb extract more labor for less paymé Never, since the formative days 5) industrial trade unionism in be: has the need been more urgent 1g ordination of the entire movem™. g guarantee that no union feels it 18 rk ing alone, that every section of wo f the is backing every other section 0* working class. Living standards and trade a rights are on the line in battles ® y ing up for 1975. The forging ° f breakable labor unity can ensure - it will go down as a year of wor class victory. A world in one peace The Soviet policy of detente “8 damping down of tensions at a level among the world’s countrl th made gains in October. And fom mankind, picking its way throug: nuclear age, can be thankful. 7 When U.S. State Secretary a Kissinger was received in MoscoY talks with Soviet Communist ie Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet Fo : Minister Andrei Gromyko, further, sideration was given to ways t0 8 strategic nuclear arms, which now’. a kill capacity to destroy human 8° many times over. prt Next, Mr. Brezhnev and U.S. +" oy dent Gerald Ford will méet on 0 24 in the Soviet Pacific city of Vlad tok and, in a real way the succen their talks can bring closer they, when the arms race becomes af * reduction race. .. ti The balance of human forces pin f in favor of peace and food, not me billion dollar armaments, as well ay sober minds at home, compel the ~ to explore detente and peaceful existence. however abhorrent a deal of U.S. foreign policy. ‘6. But any effort to confuse posit” i lations between states with slack of the class struggle is misle® Detente, in fact brings into foc fact that it is in class battles the -ers can make gains, not in MY” brinkmanship.