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The Worker, Aug. 23, 1924

25 years ago...

20,000 AUTOWORKERS
QUIT IN SPEEDUP FIGHT
DETROIT’ — Ten thousand

Chrysler workers were idle last
week on what they termed “a
protest vacation” resulting from
the corporation’s firing of two
union men. The workers held a
mass. rally at which several
thousand were present -and au-
thorized their union leaders to
call an immediate strike vote-
At the Hudson plant, 10,000
quit work when the company cut
down the working force in a sec
tion of the plant and demanded
the same production with less
rs.
wane toll of workers’ lives and
mounting list of injuries because
of management's attitude was re-
vealed at one of the latest reports
of the Michigan State Depart-
ment of Labor. In May, 447 work-
ers were injured badly enough
to require compensation, 350
with hernia injuries: In June,
475 workers won compensation
without a fight, 351 nae ee
injuri d five were killed.
salle aM Tribune, Aug: 29, 1949

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Editor — MAURICE RUSH

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a pans Maks the CTC, she’s as poor as
a church mouse. But when Ma Bell
figures come out, she’s ready for an oF
tended Riviera vacation. Consolidated pro
of Bell Canada increased by 72%. in the
second quarter of 1974 y
from $36.9. million for he same period last
ear. Apparently, Bell’s figure 3
late, with a Bell spokesman denying tot
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Editorial Comment...

Workers have a world to win

The strength of the Canadian work-
ing people, largely untapped, has the
potential for sharply changing the po-
litical course in Canada. Such change
will bear the stamp of the working class
seeking to fulfill the needs of the major-
ity instead of feeding the profit and
power appetite of state monopoly capi-
talism—the rule of the globe-straddling

-industrial and financial monopolies.

The working people’s potential, is
untapped in that many do not have
access to the organized labor move-
ment, are not. organized in trade
unions, let alone being class-conscious,
aware that they belong to that class
which produces all the values in our
society.

Last year on Labor Day the great
railway strike was in progress. Today,
the west coast grain handlers, and tran-
sit workers in. Canada’s two largest
cities are headlining the workers’ strug-
gle. A year ago, as-the fight against
rising prices was gaining momentum,
the Communist Party charged that,
“The enemy is monopoly!” and the ac-
cusation remains valid.

A year ago this paper warned of the
threat to the elected government of
Salvador Allende in Chile; its fall was
a blow to. all labor and democratic peo-
ple. That issue also spoke of the trial
of the three Marias in then fascist Por-
tugal. But look at Portugal now!

Events which have shown workers’
strength but warned them of the need

for vigilance cannot leave Canadian
labor untouched. _

The Communist Party statement in
this issue exposes the way “monopoly
and its governments seek to weaken

‘labor’s resistance,” and calls for “mobi-

lization for mass struggle around spe-
cifie objectives ...”

For workers in Canada, curbing the
monopolies’ ruthless economic. drive
must bear with it the responsibility for
curbing the corruption this injects into
our lives — cultural idiocy, enticements
to pit worker against worker, degrad-
ing “educational” systems, mental and
physical pollution. ;

Canadian labor will be further en-

_riched where its strength is utilized in

the full Canadian community — of Na-
tive people, the poor. the unorganized,
the young deprived of jobs from the
time of school-leaving, the victims of
housing inflation. Labor’s weigth is
essential, in solidarity with workers
around the world, to change Canada’s
disgraceful foreign policy, to end arms
and aid to fascist regimes and to de-
mand recognition of democratic and
working-class governments. The fight
for peace and detente is well within the
scope of Canadian labor in our shrink-
ing world.

We are living in a time of monumen-
tal change. Canadian working people
cannot be deprived of participation;
they must be made a part of that strug-
gle for labor unity on which the suc-
cesses of a year from now can be built.

A world-wide labor day

While labor. around the world cele-
brates May Day — May 1 — as inter-
national labor day, in North America,
where the May labor day was born,
large sections of the trade union move-
ment mark the first Monday of Sep-
tember as the annual day of labor.
However, as international labor soli-
darity grows, more workers are turn-
ing to May Day as the single world-
wide labor day. In some parts of Nore

rica, Quebec as a prime example,
ae Day 2 now the only Labor Day. In
greeting workers on this Labor Day,
September 2, we look forward to the
day when all labor the world over
marches on the same day — the May

. Day of honored labor tradition.

End the conniving

lockout of grain handlers on the
gee and the strikes of transit
workers in Montreal and Toronto are
the three notable examples of labor
struggle on the eve. of Labor Day.

The three disputes differ markedly,
but they all point to the urgency of
labor unity, to’ the need for militant
defend living standards

against the inroads of inflation, and to

defend union gains against the con-

ivers. ;
ar the dispute between the Grain

ers Union and the elevator com-
Meo a there is no need for the-further

“¢aterruption of work. The union has ac-

ted the recommendations of concil-
Be Neil Perry, appointed by the fed-
eral ‘government. The companies re-

fuse.

The role of the Trudeau government
reveals with some crudity its class po-
sition. A year ago the government
forced railway workers back on the job
on the basis of an inadequate arbitra-
tion report. Today the same govern-
ment fails to press the grain companies
to settle. This is a corruption of gov-
ernment responsibility. Calling parlia-
ment is not an issue. The issue is whe-
ther the government upholds its own
law or knuckles under to company pres-
sure.

In the strike of 5,700 Toronto transit
workers, the Ontario government de-
cided, at Tribune press time, to inter-

-“vene. Even without new information

from the premier’s office, compulsory
arbitration looms as the foremost dan-
ger. Such forced rulings are totally

unacceptable to the workers, and if at- .

temped deserve mass protest.

It is scandalous that workers must
still do battle on the simple issue of
having capitalist governments and
bosses deal justly with them and their
unions. And in this context, remarks
attributed to the New Democratic
Party’s Stephen Lewis make strange
reading. A newspaper reports that he
said: “Mr: Davis should have the TTC
offer a two-year wage increase of 28
or 29% — about midway between the
current union and management posi-
tions.” Is Mr. Lewis speaking for him-
self or for the TTC?

~ This strike and the 20-day-old one in
Montreal must be settled by above-
board negotiation and not by double
talk or: compulsion. This is what the
unions insist upon; this is what the uni-
ty of the trade union movement must
back up.

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