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50 years ago...
MONTREAL PARTY

BACKS BAKERS
MONTREAL — The party here
has succeeded in organizing a
good many of the bakery drivers
‘of this city. A strike has subse-
quently been declared in one
‘bakery on account of a worker
being discharged. The strike pro-
mises to. conclude successfully as
already this baker’s losses have

‘been terrific. The conditions of

these drivers are far from being
desirable. Most of them earn less
that $20 per week.
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The Jewish branch is adding
the formation of a Communist
Library to its many activities.
Two rooms for this purpose have
been set aside at the Workman's

. Circle Headquarters. This will be
a great help to the study class of
the branch in which one hundred
workers have already been en-
rolled.

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The Ukrainian branch is having
a membership recruiting month
for the month of October. Once a
week mass meetings will be held,
dealing with vital topics besides
the other usual activities.

The Worker, Oct. 11, 1924

Profiteer of the week:

25 years ago...
‘THOUGHT CONTROL’
GOVERNMENT AIM

NEW YORK — Defense attor-
neys at the trial of the eleven
Communist leaders warned last
week that the outlawing of the
Communist Party would lead to
the destruction of the democratic
liberties of the American people.
They charged that both the
Smith Act, under which the Com-
munists are being tried, and the
indictment are clearly unconstitu-
tional, and that the trial is an
attempt to establish thought con-
trol after the pattern of fascist-
militarist Japan.

“This is the -first- time ‘in the
history of the country,” stated
the defense legal brief, “that men
have been tried as criminals sole-
ly ‘because they sought to parti-
cipate in the democratic process
through the organization of a
political party as a means of
political expression . . .

“Conceding that it cannot prove
the charge against the individual
defendants of the party they lead,
(the government) . . . has placed
a new defendant in the dock —
the theory and philosophy of
Marxism-Leninism”,

Tribune, Oct. 10, 1949

sattetet,
“Seeders

To forestall any tears that might be shed for
Canada Steamship Lines, tied up by strikes
recently, be it known that the company was
up $10-million in profit in the first half of
this year over the same period in 1973 —
$16,324,000 compared to $6,550,000. What
is more, the figures made public suggest
that it took only a 7.45) revenue increase to
catapult profits by 149%!

Pacific Tribune

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over rotten housing,

Indian demands deserve suppor!

The Caravan of Native peoples jour-
neyed to Ottawa from as far as British
Columbia to present a set of demands
for negotiations with the federal gov-
ernment. “We are here to talk about
justice . . . about equality and human
rights .. .” said their printed declara-
tion.

In answer, Indian Affairs Minister
Judd Buchanan, a full-blooded Cauca-

"sian (if one adapts capitalist press ter-

minology) assigned the protesters
“minimum credibility”; and Solicitor-
General Warren Allmand, angered by
protests over Royal Canadian Mounted
Police violence, could reply only that
the charges were “horse manure.”

If credibility is strained, it is strain-
ed by these government ministers and
an arrogant prime minister who blames
the Indians for lack of progress on
their demands. The government was
ready to move, he said.

But the ministers failed to move them-
selves out to the steps of parliament to
offer reassurance to those who had
come to the capital out of desperation
insulting educa-
tion, bitter poverty, unemployment,
lack of health care, and the further ills

of capitalism which follow these
wrongs.

One might have expected a concern-
ed and dignified response from the mil-
lionaire prime minister and his aides to
a group who spoke in defence of the
dignity of their people while not neces-
sarily knowing where the next meal
would come from. ~ -

Instead the RCMP brought out its
“new” riot squads, unused since its
formation in 1967, to test its bristling
clubs in the traditional RCMP role of

beating Indians.

But there will always be greater

it
dignity and justness in a people fight

ing for its rights by the means opel”
it Shari in all the pomp. of the gene
who deny those rights. The a
people of Canada may not be
lithic in their views. There ne 4
bones of contention within then
and between them and their wé n $00
ers. But that their rights have bee?
long sabotaged is a stark fact. Canad
The Road to Socialism in ims
(1971), the Program of the Comal. on
Party of Canada, condemns this é
tinuing disgrace to Canada” of aati
ment denial of rights to. the met!
peoples. Abolition of the govern
ward status” in favor of “full pols
equality” for Native peoples,
ing the. right to decide on al i
relating to their distinctive
ment,” is the direction it urges t
nment to take. a
aah the final analysis only socially .
will compensate the Native peop ds 0 |
the historic injustices at the han ave
the colonizers, which injustices op0lf
been continued by the rule of mon0r
capital. a
a to the present urgent need gall
democratic Canadians and their ° nt i?
izations, the trade union movem helt
particular, have the duty to throm of
full support belung the just caue
the Native neonle. a
The battle for jobs, for Me
meet soaring prices, for housin ‘orit!
health care, the basics for the ee)
of Canadians, are even more pic,
Native people who are far be |
most instances. me
No barriers should be allowel
stand in the way of widest une
ginning with the labor mover
efforts to change the discrim! tim
government policies which Vi¢!
the: Native people. ;

Labor in front line

Increased trade union militancy
across Canada is more and more effec-
tively standing up to inflation and to
anti-labor legislation. It shows an in-
creasing readiness to take on the em-
ployer-government drive to “put labor
in its place.”

Week by week the media reflect the
hardening worker determination not to
be crushed by the crises of the capital-
ist system. While it may not be spelled
out in labor circles, a crisis of confi-
dence in the system itself is piling up
because of its insufficiency in meeting
even the basic needs of the working
people.

Instead of curbing profits and pro-
tecting the rights of working people,

Ahout TIME

TIME magazine’s 550,000 Canadian
readers might, have to do without their
“Canadian” edition if the publishers
make good on their threat to stop pub-
lishing should tax breaks now given be
withdrawn. TIME’s contribution to
Canada amouts to four or five soppy
pages out of 60 — which nets them
$16-million in Canadian advertising
revenue yearly. Here’s a “free enter.
prise” booster afraid to compete with
genuine Canadian magazines on an
equal basis. Fine. If we’ve lived with
TIME, we sure can live without it.

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the federal government, aided be oft
business provincial poverty th
helping monopoly enterprise t0
an anti-labor course. otta

The recent Throne Speech in th
hinted at plans to tamper Mis: if
collective bargaining system Me
improvements can be made in t
ally adversarial nature of the be it
bargaining system . . .” Let’s a jal
class society is basically adv allen!
As long as workers have to ¢ Aatio®
profits to chase skyrocketing ¢ the
they will be on the opposite sie
political fence to the monopo
their governments. per?
_ The efforts of companies to hea py
with scab labor during strikes, a
injunctions against picketing, ;
fusal of governments to Pr oud
strike-breaking legislation, call "
labor solidarity against labors |
Saries — the bosses. pod

A two-digit inflation rate, ve $
between 10 and 15% is intolera® ’
September’s unemployment } fic
5.8% — 563,000 Canadians Ca
reported) out of work. With mpl
nomy slowing down, and 7% uM :
ment forecast for next year, oa 18
government efforts to weaken 14"
understandable. ont

Workers these days are dem jet
ing their defiance of the we
labor ‘offensive. Through strix©
resistance to boss pressure, ‘
manning a front line of the anv"
tion, pro-people fight.

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