EBITGRIAL

Unite labor anger in fightback

Not how rotten conditions can get, but how
well labor fights back against the crisis im-
posed upon it by monopoly capitalism, is the
key to defending living conditions, and com-
pelling the adoption of new policies.

Experience in the fightback is also an im-
portant factor in the preparedness of work-
ers to put into power new, progressive
governments. The development of class con-
sciousness, needless to say, is another im-
‘portant factor.

This is said in the light of the current as-
sault on labor, labor’s retaliation, and the
varying degrees to which it is taking the of-
fensive.

With estimates of from 1.75 to 2 million
actual unemployed, against the official 1.3
million (12.2%), there is a constant boiling up
of resentment and anger. It is added to by the
likes of Employment Minister Lloyd, Ax-
worthy whose reaction to mass unemploy-
ment and a shameful 63.2% utilization of
Canadian industrial plant, is: Tough it out.

When workers put their will to it they can
tough it out in a way Axworthy doesn’t im-
agine. His insult to thousands of Canadian
families sunk in the crisis of capitalism is
compounded by his refusal to extend the Un-
employment Insurance benefit period
beyond the current 50 weeks.

The contemptible anti-labor campaign on
every front by all the representatives of the
monopolies and transnationals, Liberal. or
Tory, escalates while more and more jobless
are exhausting their benefits. Estimates are
that 7,000 to 9,000 a month will be forced to

turn to welfare this winter, up from 2,000 to

3,000 a month. “The impact on welfare is
really quite small,” bubbles Axworthy. But
he'll hear differently from panic-stricken
municipal councils caught in the flood of de-
mands.

The federal 6-and-5 wage restraints are
called “the most dangerous attack on or-

ganized labor in recent history,” in the words
of postal workers leader Jean-Claude Parrot.
Ontario union leaders say they'll enroll the
public in their campaign against the Ontario’s
Tory 5% restraints. From teamsters to uni-
versity faculty to Chrysler workers the sounds
of resistance multiply.

History, and a consistent policy of fighting
for the rights of labor, put many of these
points on the Oct. 9-11 agenda of the Com-
munist Party of Canada’s Central Committee
meeting in Toronto. Increasingly vigorous
campaigns will be mounted by the party, this

leading body states.

Communists, New Democrats, trade
unionists, and all the millions-strong allies of
labor need now toclose ranks and refuse to be
the victims in capitalism’s crisis.

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Expose and defeat Toryism!

The Tory Davis government of Ontario is

trying to solve its problems by a series of

cutbacks and wage restraints, and by bullying

its way through the legislature with retro-

grade laws. Davis’ 5% wage restraint on pub-
lic service workers is calculated to spread like
a virus with the help of the corporations.
At the same time, these entrenched Tories
are slashing funding of health care, educa-

tion (Bill 127), and traditional financing of —

essential municipal programs.

The Lougheed Tories of Alberta have cal-
led a Nov. 2 provincial election, having hon-
eyed, at least the news pages and TV screens,

with a dip into the $1 1.7-billion Heritage Sav-
ings Trust Fund for a plan to east mortgage
interest rates. Its result is hardly known since
the election was called while its propaganda
value was still fresh.

Meanwhile federal Tory leader Joe Clark,
from the safe position of having no program,

Urge Ottawa act on Mideast

In big business media coverage of the Mid-
dle East the fascist falangists (Christians)
seem to have disappeared in the dust, ‘and
been metamorphosed as part of the
“Lebanese Forces”. The World Peace Council
reports that hand-in-hand with their Israeli
_ cohorts they continue the killings, mass ar-

Flashbacks

25 years

rests and tortures of Palestinians, using U.S.-
supplied weapons.

Canadians must demand of Ottawa two
immediate things, out of all the steps needed
for a Mideast peace: Demand total Israeli
withdrawal from Lebanon; and recognize the
Palestine Liberation Organization.

_no policies, only rhetoric. is hoping the elec |
tors of Broadview-Greenwood in Toront0 |
will bungle the by-election by putting another
Tory in the House of Commons.

For a massive record of anti-labor, anti-
democratic legislation and practice, oné
‘could find nothing to equal the doings of
Tories atevery level. They should be defeated. |

Like a game of musical chairs Dominion Stores Ltd.,
opens, closes and converts stores, gas bars, conveni-
ence stores, etc. Owns Min-A-Mart, Best for Less, Gen- |
eral Bakeries, Bittner Stores, HiWay Market. For the 13
weeks ended June 19, after-tax profit was $9,330,000, up
from $6,729,000 a year earlier.

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SHARE IT FOR PEACE

The world’s first conquerors of space and the secret’

of intercontinental flight are willing to share their
knowledge with the rest of the world.

USSR leader Nikita Krushchev told the press his
country wants the sharing to be part of an overall
agreement on peaceful coexistence between the USSR
and USA. He argued that if both countries showed a
spirit of sensibility they could bring all new scientific
development under control and avoid the danger of
even more terrible weapons that science can produce.

By contrast Prime Minister Diefenbaker told a
Montreal audience that day Sputnik was launched,
Oct. 4, that the Soviet success means the need to spend
more millions for NATO to win the arms race. Canada
has spent over $1 1-billion over the past nine years on
NATO and the entire alliance has spent $371-billion.

Tribune,
October 14, 1957

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 15, 1982—Page 6

50 years

ACCUSING YELLOW STRIPE

WINNIPEG — Retention of the exact form of the
inscription on the tombstone erected by the miners of
Estevan in memory of their comrades who were mur-
dered by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police during
last year’s strike was insisted upon at a mass meeting at
Market Square called to commemorate Estevan
Memorial Day.

The inscription at Beinfait cemetery reads: “Lest we
forget — Murdered in Estevan, Sept. 29, 1931, by
: . P. Markunas, age 29, N. Nargan, age
28, J. Gryshko, age 29.”

After the word “by” there were the letters “RCMP”,
but these. were taken out and filled with plaster,
painted yellow, the color of the stripes on the moun-
ties’ breeches. The cemetary committee wants “killed”
substituted for “murdered” and the accusing yellow
stripe eliminated.

The Worker,
October 8, 1932

BOMBING ‘MORE HUMANE’

C.G Grey, editor of The Aeroplane and one of the
foremost authorities on military aviation wrote in the
Winnipeg Tribune:

“Tt is useless to make a distinction between combat- —
ants and civilians. The latter also help to win the wat
and if they do not, they deserve no consideration.
Anyhow, bombing civilians is more humane tha!
starving them to death by blockade as it does not affect
permanently the physique of future generations.

“The strategic aim of the next war will be the sys
tematic destruction of the enemy’s production an
communication and spreading of panic among
civilians. :

“For this it is necessary to obtain mastery of the air by
destroying the enemy's air forces.” The formation 0
No War Committees should be the aim of the labor
movement in Canada on a nation-wide scale.

* The Worker;
October 16, 1922