_LABOUR

Unity against attack is vital,
CP Labour Day statement says

& A .
For one million Canadian workers, the

Past summer has been spent on the picket

€s or preparing for picket lines in defence
Of trade union rights,” the Communist
arty said in a Labour Day statement this
Week. “And for 1 million more workers, it
is been a time spent in the futile search for

a job.”
f “Labour Day 1987 has the bitter taste of
© most concerted attack on workers in
“Cades,” the statement, issued by the par-
ty’s central executive committee, declared.
€ statement continued: “Canadian
Workers view the latest strikebreaking legis-
tion against the railway workers by the
ral Tory government as signalling a new

level of attack on the trade unions.

~But even this temporary setback cannot
°Vershadow the magnificent performance
Canada’s working class to date. The Let-
et Carriers successfully took on the Tories’
Union-busting strategy. The one-day gen-
“tal strike by B.C. trade unionists against
ills 19 and‘20 made it among the most
‘ignificant in Canadian history. The trade
Unions helped organize the biggest political
Monstration in Saskatchewan history
against the Devine neo-conservative agenda.
d while the railway workers were being
Ordered back to work, the deHavilland
“mployees of Boeing successfully fended off
€ attempt to introduce American-style
abour relations into Canada after a 10-
Week strike.
“Those and many other critical battles
amply demonstrate the willingness of the
nadian working class to fight back.
. that capacity is vitally needed. But mil-
fancy is proving to be just one of the key
eeedients to successfully face the new chal-
“nge posed by the onslaught of the corpo-
fations which increasingly use scabs, police,
ohenctions and labour laws to aid monop-
We
_ If Labour Day 1987 means anything, it

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“The lesson of the railway workers’ set-
back is that labour cannot afford to under-
estimate the attack by monopoly capital. It
cannot afford the luxury of disunity
amongst various unions within a single
industry or within the labour movement.
Labour cannot ignore the users of govern-
ment services provided by unionized
workers nor leave public opinion to be
manipulated solely by the big business
media and the government.

“The Communist Party believes that
greater unity between and among trade
unions is essential. What is needed is solid-
arity with all victims of the neo-conservative
attack. Trade unions have to become the
centre of the fightback against the Tories.
Labour’s full employment program needs
to be made the alternative to the crisis poli-
cies of the Conservatives. —

“Part and parcel of the fight for trade
union rights and conditions is the fight to
prevent a free trade agreement with the Uni-
ted States. Labour Day should be a day of
resolve that free trade and the consequent
loss of Canadian jobs and sovereignty shall
not pass. The trade union movement needs
to step up its mobilization against free trade
in close co-operation with the many other

Canadians who oppose a comprehensive
free trade agreement.

“It’s not too early for labour to be con-
sidering the kind of government which will
replace the Mulroney Tories and their neo-
conservative agenda. It should be a new
government committed to guaranteeing the
implementation of the policies being
advanced in the popular struggles of today.

“The Communist Party remains con-.
vinced that the struggle for Canadian inde-
pendence cannot be separated from the
fight for an independent foreign policy for
peace.

“As humankind strives to rid itself of the
of threat nuclear annihilation, to arrive at
effective arms limitation and nuclear test
ban agreements, the federal Tory govern-
ment actively pursues the militarization of
the economy and closer military integration
with U.S. plans for Star Wars and first-
strike.

“The labour movement can play an even
greater role in helping prepare for the major
peace mobilizations set to take place this
fall. The struggle for peace is not just a
matter of survival for all — it is also a mat-
ter of a new direction for Canada, for jobs,
for independence, for prosperity.”

Call election before any
trade deal, Mulroney told

The president of the Canadian Labour
Congress called on unionists this week to
continue their opposition to free trade and
to demand that the Mulroney government
call a general election before signing any
free trade deal with the U.S.

“The labour movement is telling Brian
Mulroney to quit tinkering with the build-
ing blocks of our nations,” Shirley Carr,
president of the 2.2-million member con-
gress, said in a Labour Day message. “Our
way of life is too precious and nobody
should be able to sign away Canada’s herit-
age with the scratchmarks of a ballpoint

en
: Carr warned that a free trade deal would
turn Canadian industry into a rust belt and
undermine Canadian social programs, cul-
tural institutions and sovereignty.

“According to the figures of our own
government — a government which is
working in secret with the U.S. to strike a
deal — a free trade deal could mean the
dislocation of seven per cent of the econ-
omy.

“We are telling every member of Parlia-
ment that we demand a general election
before any trade deal is signed,” she said.
“When Canadians gave Brian Mulroney
and his Tories a sweeping majority

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Ken Georgetti, president of the B.C.
Federation of Labour, also highlighted the
labour movement’s fight against govern-
ment policies in his Labour Day message,
noting that the campaign against Bill 19
“has drawn working people and their trade
union closer together ... and given them a
new sense of purpose and a new goal.

“The government may believe that Bill 19
will shatter the labour movement but the
result will be the opposite,” he said.

“Over the next year, the labour move-
ment will grow in size and strength. Those
who made the decision to attempt to des-
troy trade unions in our province will wish
they had never made that decision. Labour
is determined to recover the justice which
was taken from it by Bill 19.”

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