Indians ask for justice, receive clubs —See page 10 Greek paper on newstands ATHENS—Rizospastis (‘The Radical”), the newspaper of the Ommunist Party of Greece, went on sale legally in newsstands all over Athens on Sept. 26 for the first time in 27 years. Both the paper and the CPG had been outlawed in Decemeber, 1974, in the Greek civil war. Premier Constantine Caramanlis of Greece this week lifted the ban on the CPG and on all other political Parties, : Issues of Rizospastis were reportedly being sold out. Rizospastis frontpaged a statement by the CPG central committee that the Caramanlis’ government’s abolition of the anti-Communist law “is not only a victory for the Communists but a victory by and for all working people, all the people of Greece.” It warned, Cwever,. that Greek ruling circles will not cease trying to impede the activities of the Communist Party by other means. een Reject offer, strike at Goodyear goes on _ By ED McDONALD TORONTO — Striking rubber- Workers at Goodyear in Etobi- Coke, who have been on the Picketine since April 25, rejected € latest company offer which Was recommended to them by ir local negotiating commit- Ne ‘The two-to-one rejection Ighlights their determination to Win through a settlement in line With their needs. 4 Goodyear’s wage offer, based Na three year contract, would - wre provided increases of be- ieee $1.25 and $1.90 per hour Ong with a cost of living for- Bula which the workers consid- “red inadequate. The vote to re- Ject was 699 to 356, As the Tribune reported last Week, William Punnett, Cana- the director, was censured by © local membership. A part of = Teasoning behind the cen- an was the lack of leadership Own by Punnett and the lack 4 communications with the Whubership. At the meeting Ich rejected the company’s stone in Hamilton, who are in their eighth month on the picket- line, heard of the Goodyear meeting through radio reports. It’s a sad commentary in these days when corporations are try- ing to impose settlements incon- sistent with the needs of their workers who are producing at an ever-increasing rate. While rubberworkers in Eto- bicoke were rejecting the com- pany’s Offer, production and of- fice workers in Bowmanville were voting to accept. The ex- perience of the rubberworkers,.. _ employees of such multi-national corporations as Goodyear and Firestone, highlights the need for the ultimate in unity and the widest forms of cooperation and support from the labor movement. As some picketers put it the day after they had re- jected Goodyear’s offer: ‘“We're prepared to stay out until we get satisfaction — especially as it relates to COLA.” This kind of determination is symptomatic of growing numbers of workers as atest offer, Punnett wasn’t even they struggle against the brutal Present. And it is reported that attack on their living standards triking rubberworkers at Fire- by such employers as Goodyear. Pe Toward municipal vote ; Nine hundred and five Ontario municipal governments are involved in elections this December. Eighty-three of these have more than 10,000 population and five of them — Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Windsor and London — make up almost half the total population of Ontario. sae Addressing itself to the multitude of problems facing municipalities, the main political document of the Ontario Committee of the Communist Party, adopted on Sept. 28-29 weekend, zeroed in on the major issues around which it will concentrate its civic work: ® Tax Reform — with the major emphasis on removal of @ducation tax from property; : ® Housing — with cities entering more actively into low rental public housing. Rent controls and subsidization; i ® Transportation — mass rapid transit at costs people can Offord; _© Civic Democracy — municipal reorganization based on ialogue and ensuring rights of people affected. _ The Tribune will carry the Communist municipal proposals . In full in coming issues as well as news about campaigning Gs it develops. The Communist Party has set its. sights on entering into the Ontario December 2nd elections in: Metro Toronto, Windsor, London, Kitchener, Guelph, Brantford, St. Catharines, Welland, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Y: : ees The Speech from the Throne, launch- ing the 30th Parliament of Canada, was read by Chief Justice Bora Laskin, on September 30, the opening day of the new Parliament. The speech, which ostensibly spells out government plans for the new ses- sion, “combines many left-overs from the last Parliament with some new pro- posals, all of which are couched in very general language,” the leader of the Communist Party of Canada comment- ed, when asked his opinion. “What is not clearly spelled out,” William Kashtan said, “is the kind of economic policy the government intends to pursue. It calls for restraint by la- P olicies pursued -inThrone Speech threaten slowdown that the government intends to under- take measures of restraint. “These are proposals that go in the wrong direction,” he stated. “The only restraints that should be undertaken are against the monopolies and the multi-national corporations who are re- sponsible for inflation, not against the working people, who are the victims of inflation.” The Communist leader said that “an economic policy is needed that would lead to further expansion and growth, rather than the policies the govern- ment is now pursuing. These policies,” he charged, “are leading to a slow- down in growth and rising unemploy- ment without coping with inflation which, in fact, continues to rise. bor, by the Canadian people, and states ‘Advisor says Trudeau planning leftist stance in foreign affairs’ —Globe & Mail, Sept. 26/74 “In short, an economic policy is required that is based on full employment and rising stand- ards, and these are not at all the guts of the Speech from the Throne,” he said. “The Speech from the Throne shows also that the government has retreated from its election promises — from the housing proposals advance by Mr. Tru- deau, from the transport policy likewise put forward during the elections, and from proposals to strengthen the Canadian identity ‘and Canadian independence, ¥5 both in the economic field and in the cultural field,” Kashtan pointed out. “The speech raises the ques- tion of collective bargaining,” he noted. “It could be construed as meaning that the govern- ment wants to further weaken the collective bargaining posi- tion of the unions, and their right to strike. “Coming on top of the cam- Continued on page 10 By FILS DELISLE BERLIN — The parliament of the GDR has written into its Constitution the historical fact that the GDR is now not merely constructing socialism, but has become a socialist society. In accordance with that fact, parliament last week adopted a number of. amendments to the constitution, the heart of which is a definition of the status of the country’s current stage of de- velcpment as follows: “The Ger- man Democratic Republic is a socialist state of the workers and farmers. It is the political organ- ization of the working people in the cities and on the land under the leadership of the working class and its Marxist-Leninist Party.” This technical, legalistic for- mulation of a democratic epochal development is the realization of a dream of Marx and Engels for their native land, the dream ‘+ of Gomnaunists, social democrats and others, who found their way to, one; another in nazi prisons and dea’ derground resistance movement. In the words of Horst Sinder- mann, Prime Minister of the GDR: “It marks the 25th anni-— versary of the GDR as a turning point in German history and as an important milestone in cent- ral Europe.” Erich Honecker, general sec- retary of the Socialist Unity Party, who presented the propos- - ed constitutional amendments in parties, pointed out that “now the entire industry of the Ger- man Democratic Republic is the property of the people,” that “the victory of the socialist society in the GDR is final and irrevocable.” - The amended constitution also reflects the fact that socialist relations have long been sup- reme in agriculture in the form, of farmers’ cooperatives and state farms. But the realization of the dream of socialist society here is by no means at the end of the road. At a time when no capitalist government anywhere in the world can offer its people anything but gloomy forecasts and retrenchment for. the fore- Continued on page 10 MOST AMERICANS BELIEVE NIXON SHOULD BE TRIED PRINCETON, NJ. — A majority of Americans believ : ON, e fo President Nixon should be tried for possible criminal pvgivemeee in the Watergate affair, according to a Gallup poll released a while ago. Fifty-six percent of those interviewed said the i y thought N should be tried for possible criminal charges, Siipered to 37% who said he should not and 7% who had no opinion. : Democrats favored prosecution 70% to 25% i %, and independents, 55-36%. Republicans, on the other hand, were against ads 59 to 33%. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1974—Page 5