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The Washington Teamster

‘Con :
Meme rtulations, Mr. Hayfield. Your farm has been picked as the first Sen. Henry M. Jackson

rial Missile’ Site.”
No
FONORARY DEGREE pany, as well as the brutality
R THE BOSS! of its subsidiary, Gaspé Cop-

per Mines Ltd. in Murdochville,
Quebec in the 208-days strike
of 1957.

U Thant, general secretary
of the United Nations, was to
have received an_ honorary

Waq :
dil 1 Spring greeting to
Ingecsity students!
*tg| ee their Students’ Gen-
ve quip ciation they advised
iver tes Of Quebec city’s
they'd protest the

o, Posed Brant doctorate at the convocation.
yy deg, anting of an hon- Laval students would not allow
No wee to the president “this man of peace” to be part

bade oo Mines, John R.

Wal ty:
cat University’s spring con-
"as forth creduled for May 31
Bade cancelled!
Cents, nleld,” said the stu-
rPloits 'S the type of man who
h @ working class.”

Sy fe,
tian feed the Anglo-Cana-

Secs ism of his com-

of a ceremony marred by the
proposed fawning of their uni-
versity before the Noranda
Mines president. |

The students themselves
gladly forced cancellation of
the gala convocation where
1,344 degrees were to be given
them .. . but not with Brad-
field!

Brother can you walk and talk
with me :

Land in the ditch and the dock
with me

Tremble on the butcher's block
with me

From Selma to Saigon?

Brother can you share the load
with me

Answer to the gas and the goad
with me

Struggle on Freedom Road
with me

From Selma to Saigon?

Listen to the voice of victory
Flashing of flags that | shall not see
Brother will you carry one for me
From Selma to Saigon?

Joe Wallace

OF SHOES, AND SHIPS
AND POSTAL ZONES

Hon. Eric W. Kierans (Post-
master General and Minister
of Communications): We have

introduced the zoning system

in Toronto and some other
cities. We are suspending it in
other areas until such time as
we have studied very carefully
the recommendation of the
task force concerning the intro-
duction of a national coding
system. If we do introduce such
a national coding system it
will incorporate the existing
zones.

May “27, 1969

House of Commons,

WIRE TO PRIME MINISTER
TRUDEAU

“We are alarmed by press
reports from Brussels that Ca-
dieux is backing away from
Canadian government deci-
sions on reduction of its NATO
forces. Is Canadian policy de-
cided by your government in
Ottawa or is it decided for us
by the governments of the Uni-
ted States, West Germany?
We believe the Canadian peo-
ple expect an immediate forth-
right statement that decisions
already taken on the extent
and timing of troop withdraw-
als will be carried out. Nothing
less can now uphold the sov-
ereignty and dignity of Cana-
da.”

William Kashtan,
Leader, Communist
Party of Canada.

United labor—“Moh”

Labor in Ontario spoke with one voice at
Queen’s Park on Saturday, May 31, and the mes-
sage came through loud and clear. Reject all
proposed anti-labor legislation, enact a Bill of
Rights for labor.

The message was read and understood by the
Toronto morning paper, which both in its news
coverage and editorial comment following the
demonstration, laid bare its fear and hatred of
organized labor and called on the Ontario gov-
ernment to put a strong dog collar and chain on
the labor movement of this province.

The editorial, pounded out by a white-hot
scribe obviously sitting tight in his chair, in-
cluded the following invectives: screeched,
vicious mob, uglier demonstrations, raw labor
muscle, jeering, howls, young buck, frenzy,
intimidation, physical threat, mob, mob, mob.

There was not a punch thrown that Saturday.
Not an iota of physical harm, unless you want
to include a broken leg suffered by a spectator
who fell from the lofty heights of the George
Brown statue. Not a window broken, nor a sin-
gle piece of property damage reported. Not a
suit or dress torn, a car scratched nor even a
jousting match between the ever present police
and the unionists.

The fact that 15,000 workers, gathered at the
steps of the very legislature in which successive
Tory governments have authored the anti-labor
legislation which trammels their bargaining
rights, refuses many of them the right to belong
to unions of their choice and now faces them
with legislation which would render their unions
powerless, and were not provoked into a single
instance of violence, is a testimony to the disci-
pline and power of the working people.

And it is precisely this discipline and power
which frightens economic decision makers in
this province. When the organized labor move-
ment begins to bury its differences and appears
in united mass demonstrations for the rights of
the working people who make up 80 percent of
the population, they reach into their bag for
laws to kill this threat in the womb.

Congratulations to those 15,000 workers who
shouted down Dalton Bales. To those who say
he has a right to be heard, we answer: he is
heard. He is heard every day through the news-
papers who reprint his every word. The essence
of his speech to that gathering was reprinted in
every paper in Ontario, but little space was
given to the speeches of the labor leaders. It is
jabor that is not heard in the columns of the
“free press” and when it speaks loud enough that
its voice cannot be ignored, it is attacked and
maligned by slanted news reports and hysterical
editorials.

As legend has it, however, “the dogs bark.
but the caravan moves on.” Labor unity started
rolling with a vengeance on Saturday, May 31.
The Toronto morning paper and the interests
it represents can continue to bark, but the pro-
cesses of labor unity in action are at work and
those who arraien themselves against this force
will be swept aside.

“The Minister is economising; in future you are only
to wash the white squares!”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 6, 1969—Page 3