CALL UNIONS TO PARADE

FOR END TO U.S. WAR
The war in. Vietnam is still raging, bringing death, distruc-

tion and misery in its wake to millions of people in Vietnam
and all of Southeast Asia. In spite of the hypocritical words

U.S. troups engaged in mass murder in Indochina.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are being wasted on the war,
causing inflation and-high prices across North America, in-
cluding Canada. This position was clearly stated at the last
convention of the Canadian Labor Congress, and has been
backed by the NDP and leading economists.

OCTOBER 31—INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST

On October 31 we in Toronto will join Americans and mil-
lions the world over demanding that the insane murderous
war be stopped and all American military forces and those of
their allies be immediately withdrawn. We demand that the
people of war-torn Vietnam be allowed to rebuild their coun-
try in peace and independence. We further demand that the
billions wasted on war be used to provide jobs by building
houses for the poor, hospitals, schools, recreation centres and
rehabilitation for the forgotten millions of suffering people.

END CANADA’S COMPLICITY

We demand that our government end its complicity in the
war by ceasing its support for U.S. aggression, by stopping
the export of the millions in arms, chemicals and strategic
resources to the U.S. war machine.

COME AND JOIN THE LABOR CONTINGENT

Please come with your families and friends. Join the labor
contingent at Queen’s Park (north side) Saturday, Oct. 31, at
2 p.m. We will march to the City Hall Square where promin-
ent speakers will address the mass rally. Bring the banner of
your organization if possible.

Let’s do our part for the great cause of peace. ©

The following labor leaders endorsed the appeal to labor to
support the Oct. 31 demonstration to protest the war in Viet-
nam. (Name of the organization for identification purposes.)

UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS UNION (UAW)
Dennis McDermott, Canadian Director
Fred Clement, Vice-President, Local 399
Reg Screen, President, Local 28
Jack Kane, President, Local 303
William Rutherford, Plant Chairman, Local 222
Archie Wilson, Plant Chairman, Local 1967
George Specht, Sub-Regional Director
George Thomson, Secretary, Local 673
Jack Kirkby, Chief Stewart, Local 1967 UAW
George Oleksuik, PAC Chairman, Local 112 UAW
Norman Simpson, Financial Secretary, Local 124 UAW
CANADIAN UNION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES (CUPE)
- Andre Beckerman, Educational Director, Local 1000
Percy Huggett, President, Ontario Division
Lois Wattam, Executive Officer and Editor News & Views,
Local 79 CUPE
Sherley G. E. Carr, General Vice-Pres., Canadian Union of
Public Employees
Gil Levin, Research Director Canadian Union of Public
Employees :
UNITED ELECTRICAL RADIO AND MACHINE WORKERS
George Harris, Secretary-Treasurer
Dave Monie, President, Local 531
Ed McDonald, National Representative
Jean Paré, Canadian Vice-President.
LEADERS OF OTHER TRADE UNIONS
Gerry Gallagher, President Local 183 Laborers International
Union of America
Ted Ryan, President, Millwrights Union, Local 2309
Stan Thornley, Chief Steward, Local 540, International Ass’n.
of Sheet. Metal Workers ee
Workers Council %
Calman Cole, President, Local 101, Canadian Union of Operat-
ing Engineers
Jack Jagt, President, Local 64, Can. Communications Workers
of America (CWA) : :
David Vagner; Exec. Secretary, Softdrink Workers Joint Local
Executive Board (JLEB) -
William Menard, President, Southern, Ont. Port Council Mari-
times Trade & Labor Dept. (FFL/CIO
Cris Trower, Chairman Community Action Committee, Labor
Council of Metropolitan Toronto
J. C. L. McNeil, Executive Board member Labor Council Met-
ropolitan Toronto, Local C4C CCWC
CANADIAN LABOR COUNCIL FEDERAL LOCALS .
Doug Upton, Pres. Local 24739 CLC
Don Churnside, Pres. Local 24529 CLC
Bathea Kenopic, Pres. Local 24762 CLC
Bill Harrington, Pres. London and District Labor Council
Tom Simons, Pres. Oshawa and District Labor Council.
FOOD AND ALLIED WORKERS UNION
Alfred Barber, Pres. Local 114
Gordon Brannon, Business Agent Local 114
Giles Endicott, Research Director District 15.
UNITED STEEL WORKERS OF AMERICA (USWA)
Bill Hans, Pres. Local 5629
Bill Norton, USWA
Bill Longridge, USWA
Harvey Murphy, USWA
J. B. Tester, Pres. Local 598 Mine Mill Union
David Birrell, Chairman PAC Local 232 United Rubber Work-
ers Union
Pearl Wedro, Secretary Labor Committee VMC, Local 82, Fur,
Leather, Shoe and Allied Workers.

of “peace” by President Nixon, there are still over 400,000 -

Borris Mather, Executive Director, Canadian Communications .

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 30, 1970—PAGE 6

Donald MacDonald, president
of the 1,650,000-member Cana-
dian Labor Congress has warned
that under the War Measures
Act “powers given to the govern-
ment and the police could be
used to suppress all dissent.”

In a statement issued Oct. 16
within hours of the proclamation
of the viciously undemocratic
Act, the CLC president said:
“The Canadian Labor Congress
is bound to express its concern
about the proclamation of the
War Measures Act since the Act
makes possible the virtual elim-
ination of all civil liberties and
need not apply’ exclusively
against those who engage in acts
of subversion or terror. It is ap-
plicable throughout Canada and
not only to Quebec. It is an ex-
traordinary form of action in
peacetime, even in the face of
present circumstances.”

The historic united call on
Oct. 21 by Quebec’s three main
trade union centres for “‘the im-
mediate withdrawal of war
measures which are threatening
democracy and civil liberties” is
being voiced by trade unionists
across Canada.

The Hamilton and District La-
bor Council last week unani-
mously endorsed the position
taken by the CLC president.

The Cape Breton (Sydney &
District) Labor Council endors-
ed the stand of T. C. Doublas
and his supporters against the
invoking of the War Measures
Act. :

Labor fights for civil rights |

e@ Cont'd from pg. 5

Each day further exposes the
fact that the War Measures Act
is aimed at the well-being of the
working people. Extremely wor-
ried by growing strikes and un-
rest, Canada’s capitalist rulers
are mobilizing all of its weapons
to maintain capitalism’s posi-
tions.

It appears that the Cabinet
was split on the question and
that Trudeau had to use enor-
mous. pressure. In fact, the
whole record of parliament in
this sordid business needs look-
ing at. MPs who spoke against
the WMA, later, when they had
to stand up and be counted,
in an opportunist about-face

- switched their votes in favor of

it. 3

Trudeau obviously aimed at
emerging as Canada’s “strong
man” — the man of the hour
who could do anything to meet
any situation.

The applause he received on
Parliament Hill whenever he ap-
peared with armed soldiers tes-
tifies to his success in winning
a section of the middle class by
giving them the illusion that Ot-
tawa would protect them from
both big monopoly and the radi-
cals, obscuring the fact that the
Trudeau administration speaks
for big monopoly, from which it
will protect no one.

Justice Minister John Turer
spilled the beans at what the
government aims are when he
said, ‘“Whether they are in the
regulations or an act, these are
the powers that are needed.”
Full speed ahead to a police
state!

Defense Minister Donald S.
MacDonald stated that plans to
cut Canada’s armed forces are
being reconsidered. He also
raised the possibility that the

Speakers saw in the govern-
ment’s action an attempt to rule
by intimidation and expressed
fears that the same measure
was to be used against the Can-
adian labor movement.

In a-strongly worded resolu-
tion adopted Oct. 20, the Van-
couver Labor Council called on
the federal government to im-
mediately lift the War Measures
Act and restore civil liberties. A
recommendation brought in by
the Council executive deplored
terrorist activities of the FLQ
and charged that the Federal
cabinet had hastily invoked the
War Measures Act, thereby de-
priving Canadians of their civil
liberties. Delegates expressed
concern over the “‘special legis-
lation” the Trudeau government
has indicated it intends to intro-
duce to replace the War Meas-
ures Act. The Labor Council sent
a letter to Vancouver’s Mayor
Campbell and City Council con-
demning his totally irresponsible
and insulting statements which
threatened to use the War Meas-
ures Act against young people
and other groups in that city.

On the eve of the Ontario Fed-
eration of Labor Convention, the
Windsor and District
Council sent a telegram to David
Archer, OFL president, calling on
the 600,000-member Ontario la-
bor centre to “urge the Canadian
Labor Congress. to immediately
convene a meeting of all the pro-
vincial federations’ top officers
to discuss the War Measures Act

government will unfreeze the
national defense budget from its
present level of $1.8 billion an-
nually. And who benefits from
that, if not the big monopolies?

The government stints no ex-
pense—all of which comes out
of the workers’ pockets—in de-
ploying 7,500 troops, plus the
entire Quebec police force, who

have managed to arrest between |

300 and 400 persons in Quebec.

“Over half have already been re-

leased—all this in face of the
claim that the FLQ numbered
3,000 and more, and that an in-
surrection was imminent. :

Certainly a few isolated acts
of terrorism are not an impend-
ing insurrection. So big is the
lie, that the capitalist media
can’t hide it. One big newspaper
(the Toronto Star, page 1, Oct.
26) featured a story claiming
that the WMA was invoked not
because of FLQ terrorism but,
if you please, because a group
of influential, well placed Que-
bec citizens intended to replace
the Bourassa regime in some
sort of a coup.

Inside the same edition its
readers are told that the WMA
was proclaimed because of a
pattern of terrorism rather. than
the discovery of any “specific
plot.” Who’s lying? Well, you
pays your money and you takes
your choice.

The Establishment acted out

of weakness, not strength. The
WMA is not a sign of strength

and: stability. Faced with grow-

ing opposition to its austerity
program, and the growing crisis
which affects every facet of peo-
ple’s lives, the government has
moved to a hard line, hoping to
crush opposition, and to create
a climate which will allow the
government to proceed with its
plans to unload the full burden

Labor ~

and particularly its implica]
for the trade union movement’
In earlier interviews with
Canadian Tribune’s William
lan, as reported in our Och 4”
issue, Edward Baillargeon, Pi)
dent of the Windsor Labor COU)
cil, Charles Brooks, president”
the Windsor UAW-Chryslet 4 -
cal 444, and Vic White, ach
president of the UAW-Ford 4
cal 200 also of Windsor, all h#
warned of the dangers for 7)
democratic. rights: of Canadist
workers involved in the "”
Measures Act. : il
Eamon Park, assistant to wi
liam Mahoney, Canadian head?”
the United Steel Workers Unity
told the Canadian Tribune |
Friday that although his uf
has. not yet made a decisis
about a statement on the "
Measures Act “on a national
sis”, “the United Steelworkél
in Quebec has identified i)
completely with the position |
the Quebec Federation of 4
which has called for the rev ,;
tion of the Act. We have hae’ |
‘least one of our staff persons |)
Quebec detained without aP? "|
ent reason and released 4 fe
hours later.” is,
Speaking personally, Park a
“I take the position of the th
Liberties Association. It has S#
ed that the federal governt A
has given no reasons for inv)
ing the War Measures Act”
days pass by,” he continvt ‘e
“the position of the governm,
becomes less and less tenable:

of the crisis onto the backs
Canada’s working people. th
Trudeau overestimated Hy E

worship.” Now Ottawa is cont
pelled to manoeuvre, to
try to sneak the WMR pack
another form. Any legislati
which curtails democratic Tid!
is aimed at the right of the wo”
ing people. st)

Actions of the people agail®)
repressive legislation aré f
ported elsewhere in this papi

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A petition is being circulated >)
73 Quebec University (Monti i
professors. The Canadian ‘)
Liberties Association, a num’
of prominent labor leaders, !4 i '
councils, important. figures
the NDP, ad hoc committe)
students organizations — all # ‘fh
on record against the Act at
any restriction of democra
rights.
On the other side of the led .
there is still political’ opportt |
ism and confusion. In Winnie
there are sharp differences inty
ranks of the NDP. Canada’s 0”)
NDP Premier is on recard § -
porting Trudeau, while his.”
tional leader is against. _ ft
Manitoba’s NDP transPe 4,
minister Jo Borowski has ff
Premier Trudeau, “Thank ba
for initiating the War Measure
Act and rounding up those !
man criminals. When you ©# AK:
the abductors execute the >?
tards.” 8
Some NDP leaders, such of |
Ontario’s Stephen Lewis, wi :
approached for statements
the Canadian Tribune, duc
The Canadian working peor,
have one powerful and effect! t
weapon—one which will ” it
back all efforts to curtail oo
democratic rights—organi 7
The time to organize is noW-

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