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BLISSFUL...
“I'm one of those stupid bums that never went to university—
and a fat lot of harm it did me.”

—Prince Philip

INDICTMENT

In his book, Conversations with Americans, taken from tapes
made by U.S. veterans, Mark Lane lists these practices as being
common in South Vietnam:

“American soldiers and marines snipping off enemy ears- and
wearing them in their hats or preserving them in jars of alcohol
. . . torture of suspected Viet Cong by bamboo splits under finger-
nails, amputation of fingers, electrical wiring from field telephones
attached to the genitals . . . prisoners dropped from helicopters . . .
gang raping of Vietnamese nurses, followed by Gls firing hand
flares into the women ahd exploding their stomachs . . .”

Not since Mark Twain led the American outcry against the Bel-
gian atrocities in the Congo has there been such a terrible indict-
ment of one nation enslaving another.

—tThe Fisherman, Vancouver

RE-SAID IE ss.

When authority in any form bullies a man unfairly all other men
are guilty; for it is their tacit assent that allows the authority to
commit the abuse.

—Pierre Elliot Trudeau

FREEDOM

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which
the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf de-
nounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty, especially
as the sheep was a black one. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are
not agreed upon a definition-of the word liberty. Hence we behold
the process by which thousands are passing from under the yoke of
bondage hailed by some as the advance of liberty, and bewailed by

others as the destruction of all liberty. :
—Abraham Lincoln, April 18, 1864

ILLEGAL...

Adequate means exist under normal law to deal with bombings
and kidnappings. Those things are illegal, after all.

But, Marchand, incredibly, said that the WMA was intended to
get those people who were working for change through legitimate,
accepted channels.

The government passed a special law to smash legal opposition
to government policies, to smash the sort of dissent that democracy
is supposed to thrive on.

POTMA must be fought, as the WMA should have been fought.

_The means for that fight, for the moment, escape us. It is ob-
viously not enough to speak up and voice our displeasure. Many
have done that.

But any other means are probably illegal . . . and what makes
them illegal are the WMA and POTMA, that is to say, the things
we wish to fight make it illegal to fight them by formerly legitimate
means.

—The Gauntlet, Calgary

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A clear call to the CLC

They were separated only by time,
eight months of terribly worsening un-
employment. They spoke with one clear
voice. They declared the responsibility
of organized labor to lead a Canada-
wide struggle for jobs, for full employ-
ment, against the disastrous, pro-mono-
poly policies of the Trudeau govern-
ment.

The delegates to the Edmonton con-
vention of the Canadian Labor Con-
gress last May, as this paper reported,
“hammered down the CLC leadership’s
attempt to turn the convention away
from action on this vital issue ... they
overwhelmingly referred back a sub-
stitute resolution that had watered
down militant resolutions from local
unions demanding action on unemploy-
ment.”

The CLC delegates called for the
CLC to lead “a national day of protest”
against Trudeau’s policies. They de-
manded that the CLC itself establish a
full employment committee to organize
the unemployed in Canada.

Since then, only the B.C. Federation
of Labor has acted in the spirit of the
CLC convention delegates. It has ap-
pointed a full-time organizer to co-or-
dinate the B.C. fight for jobs.

And what have we from the CLC
leadership?

Denunciations of the federal govern-
ment’s policy of creating unemploy-
ment, of throwing workers on_ the
street, and timely warnings about how
unemployment this winter will reach
catastrophic proportions. But the CLC
executive has not carried out in action
the will of the CLC convention dele-
gates who spoke for union members
across the country.

Now, the Poor People’s Conference
has decided to call on organized labor
for support of a Canada-wide day of
protest on January 25.

That’s the first day of the meeting
in Ottawa of federal and provincial
welfare ministers and officials. The
delegates to last weekend’s Poor Peo-
ple’s Conference in Toronto united peo-
ple from all parts of Canada who didn’t
beat around the bush in their fight for
full employment. They’re going to or-
ganize a series of protest demonstra-
tions and take their demand for the

right to work to Ottawa and to every

provincial government.

They want the CLC, provincial fed-
erations and labor councils to help
them. Now. Not eight months from
now. The whole Canadian labor move-
ment should show its concern about
poverty and unemployment by taking
part in these demonstrations.

The CLC leadership will be a thou-
sand times guilty of betraying its own
convention delegates if it does not im-
mediately respond willingly and con-
cretely to the call from the Poor Peo-
ple’s Conference.

The bosses and their governments —
first of all the Trudeau government —
aim to increase unemployment still fur-
ther, to tighten the screws mercilessly.

Witness the savagery of the Dunlop
company’s threat to shut down its
Whitby operations unless the workers,
more than four months before the end
of their collective agreement, accept
now a 10% wage cut.

Witness the Ottawa government’s

Scornful treatment, of the young Uno

“-with loss of their posts-because stl

of, Canadian democratic right

employed—to provide 20 buses t
them around sightseeing, to pay&
slaye wages to work on reforesta
on Yestocking salmon streams,
And witness the testimony Of
Poor People’s Conference dele
from British Columbia. They repk
the signs are there for all to see tha
government is preparing concentl
camp living condiitons for the J@
and their families. ..
No! Talk by the CLC is not®
enough.
The date has not yet been S@
Ottawa for this year’s annual CLUs
mission to the government. But
be in the spring. 7
That “presentation” should bé
the occasion for a massive lobby ™
tawa for jobs and an end to ti
human unemployment policies of®
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The same labor councils an
unions, and many more, who sent}
delegates to last May’s CLC conver
to demand it act against unemployy
and help the jobless to organize, 5%
demand that the CLC act boldly #
ganizing now for a Canada-wide, ¥
ty demonstration in Ottawa fol
employment when this spring the)
speaks directly to Trudeau. F

Police-state outrage |

Thought control, backed by | /
state measures, is in effect tod@

Quebec.
Some 50 teachers are thr

and their parents—encouraged t0?
pigeon by a special Quebec law~
informed a government-appointe@y
missioner that the teachers ha'
speaking up in classrooms agall
suppression of political dissent
protest, which is now called “pe
indoctrination.”

The Rev. Gerard Dion, profes?jj
industrial relations at Laval Unlv®4
— and you can bet it wasn’t @
workers who created that “illus
university chair—is the comml
He’ll report his findings directly
Quebec minister of education, wW#
the unchallenged. power to mM
teachers.

The Public Order Act, like its Ba.
cessor the War Measures Act, 15 ‘c
used by Trudeau above all in Qs
to perpetuate an atmosphere of Hit
of fear. His threats to legislate ¢
sophisticated police methods” 12 4,
ada are already cold police-stal© @
in Quebec. ;

Faced with his declared inten
introduce permanent legislatl
pressing still further democrati¢ ©
and civil liberties throughout ou! |
try, this is no time for complace? 4)
organized labor and the dem
forces of English Canada.

The continued refusal to grat
right to bail to Michel Chartrant
sident of the Montreal Central pe
of the Confederation of National» a
Unions, is but one instance of thai
outright denials of justice in
today. The latest is the outrageo
tence of one year’s imprisonme!™ 4,
Chartrand for “contempt of cou!

Organized labor, above all,
English and French Canada
time to lose in uniting with
demand the restoration and e*

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