| BOOK REVIEW ‘La Commission Cliche et l’unité Ouvriére au Québec, by Sa- muel Walsh, (Editions Nouvel- 1 Frontiére, $1.00) For French reading Tribune ders the appearance. of this short pamphlet provides an _ op- ine Cliche ‘Commission and the Views of the Parti Communiste du Québec on, the needed res- bonse from the Quebec labor _ Movement. _ Quebec has a long history of ti-labor legislation and gov- €rnments operating in the inter- €st of monopoly capital. Today, in the service particularly of the giant multi-nationals, the drive f the state against labor has taken many forms, one of which Was the establishment of the Cliche Commission: This .pamph- €t carefully documents the col- _ laboration between the Bourassa 80vernment and the corpora- tions to ensure a “tame” work Orce, particularly for the James _ Bay project, and how under the uise’ of assisting workers to ht gangsterism in the unions, commission of inquiry was *Stablished whose recommenda- ights: } : Throughout the inquiry and Important booklet tunity to learn more about. sven more of their democratic since the mass média in Canada has continued to portray the Cliche Commission as an instru- ment of reform when in fact, as Walsh explains, it was really an instrument of repression. The speed with which the Quebec government put into legislation those recommendations that cur- tailed the trade union movement -when contrasted with the ob- vious ignoral of these recom- mendations that would have in- fringed on management’s rights or ended the collusion of gov- ernment representatives only TRIKEBREAKER NUMBER ONE | TORONTO — “The Toronto un’s November 9 front page ditorial headed ‘Cross the Picket aced call for strike-breaking nd an incitement to violence,” ¢ntario. Communist Party Or- anizer Liz Rowley said in a tatement Nov. 11,\ She charged that the Sun “has mtinuously interfered in the Aternal affairs of the Canadian Inion of Postal Workers, dist- ed the news beyond all recog- ion, and has taken a blatantly ased_ position against the ion, since before the strike ad even begun. She labelled the itorial. asserting that “The trike can be defeated . . . the trike will be broken . . . the un- holesome, anti-democratic ele- ents eliminated,” as “the most 8nti-labor, undemocratic piece of ellow journalism that Canada nas yet seen. ; : “The Communist Party fully ‘SUpports the just demands of the Ostal workers for decent wages, nditions of work, and job secu- ine’ is nothing less than a bare-. man said. She declared: “These workers are on the front line in labor’s fight-back against Bill C-73 and the wage controls of the Trudeau government, and as ‘ such.are receiving the brunt of the legislation not only .from Postmaster General Bryce Mac- kassey, but also from the most vicious of our monopoly-control- led press, ‘The Toronto Sun’. “Though the attack centres on the postal workers,” she said, “it is in-fact a call for ‘open season’ on the entire labor move- ment, and demands the most un- equivocal response from the labor and democratic move- ments all over Ontario.” The Communist Party has called on Premier Davis “to take action against the Sun for its illegal and vicious attack on the postal workers.” The Commun- . ist Party is also urging the Of- ficial Opposition and the Liberal MPPs ““‘to speak out and roundly condemn the Sun for its incite- ment to violate and. to strike- breaking. = “An all-out counter-attack by »” the Communist spokeswo- In this booklet, People’s Pro- _Sressive Party chairman Ched- CHEDDI JAGAN Jagan outlines on ar ON : acl te Gomer ° CRITICAL. tis 4 consice, clear Marx- SUPPORT t view of developments in _Suyana, the road the Party has travelled since its found- ing in 1950, and the new situ- | tion in the country. ~ 16 Pages, the booklet, pub- lished on the 25th anniversary Of the People’s Progressive ty, issued by the Interna- at Bureau of the People’s Progressive Party by the Asso- zim snvencay COeRENE or Siation of Concerned Guya- gga IE ag cae ese, P.O. Box 284, Station eC, Toronto. New pamphlet on Guyana struggle ) on Quebec underlines the fact that for Bourassa and the interests he represents the Cliche Commis- sion has served its purpose. The second theme of the pam- phlet, that of labor unity in the face of these onslaughts, while particularly directed to the workers of Quebec, is also use- ful reading for the labor move- ment in English Canada for the problems posed are not solely existant in Quebec. They include the need to distinguish whom is the main enemy: not the work- ers in another, albeit rival, union but monopoly capital reinforced by the state. Written before the Trudeau wage freeze program, the type of emphasis upon unity which is placed in the pamphlet serves equally in relation to Ot- tawa’s attacks upon the workers , as upon Quebec’s. Walsh show the ebb and flow of the unity movement in Que- bec and stresses the fact too often, as he shows, forgatten by some trade union leaders, that there is more to unite than to separate the different sectors of the movement and that only by moving in the direction of a solid establishment of the com- mon front can the labor move- ment defeat the forces of mono- poly capital. .—P. C.. - Toronto Sun's vicious role the labor and democratic move- “ments, the New Democratic Par- ty and the Communist Party, taking the form of an official boycott of the Toronto Sun, would. swiftly and surely make the point that organized labor and the people of Ontario will not tolerate this kind of incite- _ment under the guise of edito- rializing,”” the Communist Party organizer said. : She emphasized that the Com- munist Party “stands.behind the Canadian Union of Postal Work- ers and demands. that the gov- ernment sit down and seriously negotiate a fair settlement on the CUPW’s 14 points, and the overall issues of wages, condi- tions, and job security. Sunday SU - @ SUNDAY, Nov. 9, 1975 . ¢ 220 pages, 7 sections Vol. 3, No.9 paldcirculation 211,534 , 2 svtise 2nd Class Mall Reg. No. 3204 of City Mail, Cross the _ picket line of a contir’-