LABOR, COME ON INTO MY PARLAY 40 TALK ABOUT. NFLATION... YLNO9 29VA. a Ee ¥M$1 my) Wile \ see. Eg a ~ ss = < =. e : a / Nae | WPM / de FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... WORK FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET? TORONTO — “We will welcome any man who comes to Canada willing to work for what he can get,” says the press. What ‘can he get? This past winter, unemploy- -ment with the floor of the police station to sleep on, and one meal a day in the soup kitchen. For the city does not regard the new- ly arrived immigrant as any of its responsibility. A year’s residence in the city is the passport for the dole from the pogie. _ Many of the men in the bread- lines are from the Old Country, most of them have left behind wife and kiddies, being told they can send for them later. Some have been in the country for two years, have never had enough to keep themselves, have never had one cent to send home. The Worker, April 25, 1925 / iy . “} know the stairs are steep, but they're not half as_ _ steep as the price!” 25 years ago... FIVE MORE CSU MEN RELEASED The Canadian Seamen’s Union announced last week the release on ticket-of-leave of five more CSU members from Kingston Penitentiary. Behind the release of “Red Rogers (Montreal), Bert Schmaltz (Welland), Charles Scott (Sarnia), A. Girard (Bell River) and Basil Dawson (Owen Sound) was continual ‘pressure from a large section of the ‘trade union movement and the Civil Rights Union. The five just released were part of an original 21 CSU members arrested for taking part in the 1948 Great Lakes Strike. Five others, including CSU Great Lakes Director Mike Jackson, are still behind bars. * * * “CCF Sees Itself. in Power by 1967 — Revamps its Program”. — newspaper headline on Ontario CCF conventioh. Tribune, April 24, 1950 P From the Morning Star | PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1975—Page 6 Editorial Comment... _ May Day greetings to workers! Greetings for May Day! This day of workers’ solidarity is a day to renew our dedication to unity in militant struggle for ‘working-class rights, and working-class progress. To speak of the boss class today means to castigate the sprawling mono- polies, the multi-nationals rolling across our country, devouring our natural wealth and strangling our sovereignty. Workers learned long ago that the class struggle is real and serious. The profit-swollen monopolies and their con- trolled capitalist governments have de- monstrated with oppression and slaugh- ter — as in Chile, as in South Africa — that they ‘mean to exercise power over what’s left to them of the world, no matter how many workers it costs. Not surprisingly, more workers around the globe are seizing the advantages of so- cialism — a system free of monopoly exploitation with its unemployment, spiralling costs, its assaults on human dignity. On May Day and every day of the year the working-class press fights shoulder tq shoulder with working men and women to defend their rights and to help win for all of us the advantages of the technology of our age. Such a press joins with workers everywhere in their despising of the. lying rags published by capitalists to protect their positions, wealth and pow- Keep out of Vietnam! United States political and military leaders should have learned by now that further military incursions into Vietnam, or other parts of Indochina, are unthinkable to all sane sectors of the world. They should have learned. But have they? Washington is aghast with rumor. A sober correspondent speaks of “4,000 marines” off the Vietnam coast, and “30,000 in Okinawa armed and ready to go.” Ready to go where, to do what? These are the questions that have mentally stable observers aghast. Ford, Kissinger and Schlesinger evi- dently need to-be told again, as force- fully as possible, that the cut-throat generals who have survived Thieu must by no means be.aided in churning up another sea of blood in liberated Viet- nam. Despite lessons of the past the U.S. imperialist leadership must, it seems, be warned of the inadmissability of renewed involvement of U.S. forces in Vietnam. Such an adventure would bring down on the USA the concentrated loathing of the entire world. Besides, it would set in motion every means of anti-USA action around the world. The USA - could be brought to its knees economic- allv. Perhavs that is what the USA de- ‘serves. But do the Vietnamese people deserve our silence for even an instant at this crucial juncture? Canadians, who are constantly bru- talized by the big, crude U.S. neighbor, should be first to warn Washington that the world will not tolerate a repeat of its crimes in Vietnam. And we should make the same senti- ments known to Washington’s yes-men in the Trudeau Government. -’ ments on recognition of the sovereignty er, positions gained at the working people’s expense. 3 On May Day we salute, and march 1; the inspiring struggle that will lead ™ our day to an anti-monopoly coalitiol | throughout the land and in the halls of government, guaranteeing the workin class a decisive voice in the conduct 0 | Canada’s affairs at home and abroad. = We face monopoly’s threats with the knowledge that its days are numbereé | —that through our battles victory will . be won by the workers. i On May Day make our unity still | stronger! 4 Greetings to the workirig class, that | class which will lead in building a 80 ciety free of exploitation of man by man. Mackasey drags feet Postal workers, like other workers the public sector, were for long year® _the scapegoats for governments wh? | kept a large workforce at record-loW | wages. The increased militancy of thes@ workers in recent years has begun bring them to parity with organized workers in the private sector. But big business governments aré noted for their obstinacy when it comes to the democratic rights of. workers — and particularly the right to orga | nize and strike for their demands. , The post office, under whatever minis ter representing big business and its government, has never really been 12) danger of becoming a wage pace-setter although cabinet ministers tremble at the possibility. The battle of the letter carries for cost-of-living protection and a sho enough contract to give them bargain: | ing room is currently being blocke by the post office. Inside workers havé | yet to get from the government assur ance that technological change will nob result in mass firings. | It is time the federal government stopped acting as a brake on labor rela- tions, and made serious efforts to reach agreement with its postal employees 0? ‘terms which offer these workers the) means to keep ahead of inflation, t0 maintain their jobs. and to benefit. not suffer, as a result of technologica changes. ; If Postmaster General Bryce Macka- sey would put as much effort into reach- ing agreements that remove the eco: nomic threat which hangs over postal workers. as he puts into maligning them and into firing those who opposé - the use ‘of non-union labor, the people of Canada might then exnect that h? could concentrate on providing a posta _ service geared to the 20th, not the 19th, century. : ’ The. breakdown in Paris this month of talks between producers of raw ma- terials, including oil, on the one hand, and highly industrialized capitalist states, on the other, is a logical outcome of the imperialist drive to increase pro- fits at the expense of developing coun- tries. It testifies to the timeliness of the UN’s and World Peace Council’s docu- a of each country ‘over its own raw ma- terials.