The right to gainful employment and the guarantee of an
ale aid progressively rising annual income with the
jate introduction of a $2.50 hourly minimum wage, the
pay for the same job for men or women, maternity and
leave pay: a progressively shortened work week and
ity in employment, a full week's pay for every week
a guarantee to an adequate share of all benefits
ed from technological change;

The unfettered right to peaceful assembly, strike and
fet to protect jobs of striking workers;

The right of collective bargaining on all matters arising
of technological change, rationalization of production
cesses and automation, thus implementing the basic de-

HARTER OF LABOR RIGHTS

an agreement;

programs;

ernment expense;

paid holidays;

of the Freedman Report;
°

The right to strike during the terms of a collective agree-
if bargaining cannot resolve matters not covered by

le right to a meaningful say on all economic and social
ions affecting the vital interests of workers; trade union
entation on all governmental boards administering state

e right to training and re-training to meet the needs
nological change at full pay and at employer and

The right to take all measures necessary to protect safety
health of workers on the job;

@
le right to leisure through extended vacations and

The right to comfortable and secure retirement at 60
if so desired by the retiree.

Adopted at 20th Convention, Communist
Party of Canada, April, 1969

MENT TO PROFITEERS

Inly a truly Canadian
press, one with the
of Canada and directly
nsible to Canada, can
the critical analysis, the
d discourse and dia-
which are indispensible
ereign society.”

id the report of the
Commission on publi-
which was set up in
enquire into and to
recommendations con-
the position and pros-
Canadian magazines
dicals.

eport the Commission
es that a Canadian
cal is one edited in Ca-
a staff normally resi-
Canada; its typesetting
tever language) and its
Mechanical production
® in Canada, and its
Cation must be from a
“or places within Cana-

| description fits many
ade union, academic,
, Church, credit union,
and other’ publica-
| teference to publica,
ch as these the report
Commission said, ‘Of
ice among us of the
als of opinion, no matter
sCure, this may be said:
voices may some-
seem rash and irrever-
Y Gre of our proud pri-
¥ dissent, a right which
‘onfidently beside the
“way. To know the
=dom is to feel their
lly if we remem-

al

ae a tenn

ber how succeeding genera-
tions often build monuments
to the prophets their fore-
fathers stoned,”

The view of the Commission
was that whatever government
action was taken in an area as
vital and sensitive as that of
the press, it should be positive
and not negative, with the goal
the promotion of the Canadian
periodical, not the suppression
of the foreign. It recommend-
ed that non-profit, cultural
and “little’’ magazines carry-
ing less than one-third adver-
tising content should enjoy
free mailing privileges through-
out Canada for their first 5,000
copies per issue.

The new postal regulations
which go into effect April 1 fly
in the face of the findings and
recommendations of the
O'Leary Royal Commission.
Under the transparent guise of
making the Postal Department
pay its own way (as though it
were a corner grocery store
rather than an essential pub-
lic service), the Trudeau gov-
ernment has deprived the non-
profit “‘little’’ publications, the
Canadian periodicals, of sec-
ond class mailing privileges
thereby boosting their mailing
costs by anywhere from 400
percent to 2,700 percent...
| Meanwhile, the giants of the
newspaper business, such as
the Southam and Thompson
newspaper chains (and. all
other big daily newspapers),
will continue to enjoy second
class mailing privileges. So
will Time, Life, Readers Digest

ewe and comment...

and numerous other American-
controlled publications. Far
from having the Canadian
“feel, these are not even Ca-
nadian_ publications. Being
directly responsible to a for-
eign country they invariably
present the viewpoint of that
country on such matters as
Canadian independence and
foreign policy. Nonetheless
they will continue to receive
hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars every year in postal sub-
sidies...

Could it be that our million-
aire P.M., the swinging Mr.
Trudeau, representing his own
class as of course he must, is
deeply concerned about “the
place among us of journals of
opinion,” and that he feels
compelled to muzzle the ‘‘rash
and irreverent voices that are
our proud privilege of dis-
sent?”

And could it be that the Tru-
deau government in its conti-
nentalist approach to Cana-
dian politics is using this as
a means of further undercut-
ting Canadian sovereignty?

Well, Mr. Trudeau, in spite
of these obstacles, Union
Newsbulletin will continue to
publish on a regular basis in
hopes that “succeeding gene-
rations will stone the monu-
ments to the profiteers you
have built!”

Reprinted from Union News-
bulletin. Organ of Local 1004,

‘Canadian Union of Public

Employees, Vancouver.

GENTLE DEATH

Man should not die gently,
wrote Dylan Thomas. He
should rage, against the dying
of the light.

Countries can die too, gently
or with rage. Canada is taking
the quiet route...

The death rattle grows loud-
er. We lay plans to extricate
ourselves from military entan-
glements in Europe. For what
purpose? Not to carve out a
distinctive Canadian role in
world affairs, as so many had
hoped. The troops are being
brought home, it appears, to
man the northern outposts of
Fortress America; to scan the
skies for missiles that might be
heading for Chicago or Cleve-
land...

But must we die so gently?
Or should we begin to rage,
rage against the dying of the
light? And, in raging, it is pos-
sible we might ignite some
last spark of will that could
grow into a flame of self-pre-
servation...

We must reserve some of our
rage for those who are willing
to let Canada die for private
gain—businessmen who don't
recognize the word sovereignty
because there is no provision
for it on the balance sheet;
politicians who equate heavy
inflows of foreign money with
‘good times” and who are wil-
ling to let future generations
pick up the pieces.

Rage can be legitimate and
healthy. It could also be the
salvation of a_ worthwhile
country. We have been dying
too gently.

—Toronto Daily Star

- Salute to labor

“In France, England, Germany and other
countries where workers have already been
united in powerful unions and have won for
themselves many rights, they organized May 1st
a general holiday of labor. Leaving the stifling
factories they march with unfurled banners, to
the strains of music, along the main streets of
the cities, demonstrating to the bosses their
continuously growing power. They assemble at
great mass demonstrations where speeches are
made recounting the victories over the bosses
during the preceding year, and lay plans for
struggle in the future. Under the threat of
strike the bosses do not dare to fine the workers
for not appearing at the factories on that day.”

Written from a prison cell in Russia in 1896
these words were part of a leaflet mimeographed
and distributed to 43 factories. The Russian
working class, groaning under the tyranny of
tsarism, joined hands with workers qeoand: the
world to express their common cause.

The author of the leaflet was Vladimir Ilyich
Lenin who 21 years later was to lead the work-
ers to power in the first socialist revolution.

May 1 belongs to the working people. Arising
out of the struggles of the American workers
for the eight-hour day, it was codified into an
international working class day of solidarity and
protest by the Second International in 1890.
Since that time workers in most countries of the
world have celebrated May Day as their own.

In equal measure the boss class, and those who
do their bidding in the labor movement have
done everything in their power to deflect the
workers from May Day demonstrations.

This May Day, workers throughout the world
face the attempts of imperialism to impose
harsh laws on them, to cripple their economic
power, thwart their national aspirations, saddle
them with unjust wars and continue to exact
massive profits from their toil.

The answer of workers is to organize, unite
and draw around themselves the students, intel-
lectuals and all democratic people in common
struggle against their oppresssors. They unite
in the factories, mines, offices, cities, provinces,
countries and around the world in common cause
for their total liberation from the rule of capital.
In this they represent the will and interests of
the overwhelming majority of mankind.

Canadian workers feel the added powe of
unity with workers throughout the world as they
fight against repressive anti-labor legislation
and for a charter of labor’s rights, against un-
bearable tax increases, for an end to the per-
fidious American war in Vietnam and the im-
mediate recall of American troops, for Canadian
withdrawal from NATO and NORAD and for
a new democratic Canadian constitution recog-
nizing the full national rights of French Can-
ada, and for government action to raise the
living standards of the have-not provinces.

A salute to Canadian working men and women
this May Day!

EAGLE-EYE

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—-APRIL 25,1969—Page3.