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30th Anniversary

of the defeat of
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a JORONTO—Canadian, Chilean
Nd Portuguese workers’ spokes-
Men were cheered by a crowd
ae more than 400 at the most
piled Toronto May Day meet-
itt in recent years, held May 1
the west end Casa Loma
Hall. \
afnthusiasm mounted as speaker
€r speaker saluted the
people's victories in Vietnam
ae Cambodia, and working-
ass advances in Portugal. .
Before a banner reading,

“Unite, defend jobs and trade
union rights — International
solidarity for peace and so-
cial progress,” chairman Jack
Kirkby, president of Local 1967,
United Auto Workers, got the
meeting off to a cheering, ap-
plauding start with a reference
to Vietnam, as he introduced
spokesmen _ bringing greetings
from organizations of the meet-
ing’s sponsoring committee.
Key speakers were Evelyn
Armstrong, National Rep.,

se

Similar legislation in 1973.

Sake

Quebec longshoremen defy
back-to-work legislation

MONTREAL — The 2,500 striking longshoremen, cargo
checkers and repairmen are continuing to defy the federal
government's back-to-work order.

At a meeting held Sunday, May 4, the striking workers
voted to stay off the job.- The leadership of the checkers’
local of the International Longshoremen'’s Association did
not make any recommendations to the membership but
“simply read them the law.”

The back-to-work legislation was passed by the Commons
on April 23. The: defiance by the longshoremen is the first
action of its kind taken by union membership since large
numbers of striking railway workers in Vancouver defied

The ILA has filed an action in the Quebec Superior Court
challenging the legislation on the grounds that “it is un-
constitutional.” Court hearings are scheduled for later this

;

—_,

Luis Corvalan awarded Lenin Prize

Luis Corvalan, the junta-imprisoned General Secre-
tary of the Communist Party of Chile, on Wednesday was

Named a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize.

Nikolai Blokhin of the USSR’s
in Prize Committee made the
announcement in a Moscow news
Conference. He said two others

Were also named Lenin Prize
pennECS: Jeanne Martin Sisse,

First Vice-President of the
Republic of Guinea in West
Africa, and Canon Raymond Goor,
a Roman Catholic clergyman
from Belgium who has played a
leading role in the peace move-
ment.

Press Ottawa to extend hand

ECOGNITION

FOR VIETNAM!

Workers;
president,

Electrical .
Ferreira,

United
Thomas

tion; Oswaldo Cortez, Central
Union of Workers of Chile
(CUT); and Harvey Murphy,
veteran Canadian labor leader.
George Hewison, of the United
Fishermen and Allied Workers,
both appealed for support to
his union’s campaign for a
policy to protect Canada’s sal-
men fishing, and gave the gath-
ering a rousing lead in singing
songs of struggle.
Reject NORAD

The meeting passed a resolu-

tion demanding “that the Cana-

dian Government refuse to re- .

new the NORAD agreement
with the United States of
America,” and it called upon
“all trade unionists, democratic
and peace organizations to de-
mand the immediate termina-
tion of NORAD, and Canada’s
withdrawal .from NATO, in
which the United States is a
dominant power.” *
Stressing International Wom-
en’s Year — proclaimed by the
United Nations for equality, de-
velopment and peace — Evelyn
Armstrong said ‘“the- specific
struggles of women workers are
not isolated from the struggles
of the working class,’”’ but rein-
force demands for.“abolition of
all forms of exploitation and
discrimination.”

She charged that “one of the

most effective methods” used

700 - word

TORONTO — The defeat of
U:S. imperialism in Indochina
has opened new ‘prospects of
development in south-east Asia,
says a statement issued by the
Communist Party of Canada fol-
lowing the victory of the Viet-
namese liberation forces.

“Democratic Canadians,” the
statement urges,
“should compel the Trudeau
Government to extend the hand
of friendship, cooperation and
good will to the Vietnamese
people and their government.”
It warns that “there are strong
pressures” emanating from the
USA to prevent such Canadian
government action.

The success of the liberation
war waged by the Provisional
Revolutionary Government and
the National Liberation Front,
“actively supported by. the
Democratic Republic of Viet-
nam, all socialist countries, par-
ticularly the Soviet Union, and
anti-imperialist forces through-
out the world .. .” the Com-
munist statement points out,
has created conditions “to
achieve the freedom, national
independence and unity of Viet-
nam, and eliminate an area of-
international tension and mili-
tary conflict.”

Artificially Divided

The USA’s “entire south-east
Asia policy has collapsed,” with
its “historic defeat in Vietnam
and in all of Indochina. . .”

- Portuguese Democratic Associa- _

along with its pretence of “sole
leadership of the capitalist
world,” the statement says. It
cites this as further evidence
that “U.S. imperialism is a de-
clining power in a world where
the balance has shifted . ... in
favor of the forces of peace,
democracy, independence and

socialism.” i
With the Vietnamese people’s
opportunity “of reuniting their
country which was artificially
divided by colonialism ‘and im-
perialism,” the statement con-
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On May Day, William Kash-
tan, general secretary of the
Communist Party of Canada,
sent the following congratula-
tory cable to the Provisional
Revolutionary Government of
South Vietnam, on behalf of
the Party's Central Commit-
tee: |

“Congratulations on historic
victory which brought an end
to U.S. imperialist aggression
in Indochina and creates con-
ditions for reunification of
Vietnam. Democratic and
peace-loving Canadians wel-
come this development which
strengthens peace, detente
and independence. Rest as-
sured of continued solidarity
and aid in overcoming wounds
of war.”

15,000 celebrate

Montreal

By HERVE FUYET

MONTREAL — To celebrate
May 1, International Worker’s
Day, around 15,000 workers, ac-
cording to official estimates,
marched in the east end of
Montreal and held a meeting at
the Centre Paul Sauve with
Marcel Pepin, president of the
Confederation des Sindicates
Nationaux, Yvonne Charbonneau,
president of the Teachers Union
(CEQ) and Louis Laberge, presi-
dent of the Quebec Federation of
Labor (QFL).

Already an hour prior to the
march, trade unionists from the
Montreal harbor, United Aircraft,
postal services, asbestos mines
and other places, as well as
many people’s organizations and
a large number of Communists
and Communist youth were
forming their groups at Molson

May Day

Park while talking politics and
exchanging friendly greetings.
(There were also various ultra
leftist groups). Combat was
sold all around and comments
from the buyers indicated that
a growing number of working
people read it with interest while
they are more and more irritated
by the empty -phrase-mongering
of the ultra leftist rags.

All along the march, which
started around 7.30 p.m., slogans

of unity, often spontaneous, such .

as “Solidarity!”, “Quebec to
the Workers!” and “Our Struggle
Goes On!” showed clearly the
strong desire for unity and soli-
darity among the rank and file

trade unionists and among the

communists.

Trotskyite and Maoist ele-
ments, obviously alien to the
Continued on Page 9

by the bosses to keep workers” &
divided, “is utilizing the tradi-
tional inferior position” assign-
‘ed to women in capitalist
society.

Harvey Murphy, long - time
trade union leader, accused the
federal government of forcing
strikes in the public sector
where they hoped public
opinion could be turned against
those who strike. He charged
that unemployment is being

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