Montreal to battle for jobs. MONTREAL — The Montreal Labor Council, grouping 150,000 workers affiliated to the Quebec Federation of Labor in the met- ropolitan district, decided at its meeting of Jan. 20 to call, to- gether with the QFL, a mass rally of workers to which those responsible for unemployment — Mr. Trudeau and Mr, Bouras- sa — will be invited. The new president of the Labour Council, Marcel Per- rault, also president of the Pos- tal Workers in Montreal, an- nounced the rally at a press Canadian delegation conference held together with Fernand Daoust, general secret- ary of the QFL, at the Federa- tion’s office on Jan. 21. This public assembly, to be held Monday, Feb. 28 at the Montreal Forum, will be part of a general offensive against un- employment. The QFL has al- ready sent invitations to the premiers of Quebec and Canada, asking them to come and ex- plain publicly the ways in which they are combating unemploy- ment. Speakers with different @ Continued on page 9 to world peace meet MONTREAL — A delegation of some 25 Canadians, describ- ed by Mr. Edward Martin Sloan, chairman of the Comité Mora- toire du Vietnam in Montreal, as the largest ever to go from Canada to attend an _ interna- tional peace conference will take part in the Feb. 11-13 World Assembly for Peace and Independence of the Peoples of Indochina in the Versailles Palace of Congresses. Coming from Quebec, On- tario, Saskatchewan and Brit- ish Columbia the delegation in- cludes official representatives of organizations and individu- als. Delegates who will represent their organizations at the Ver- sailles World Peace Assembly are: Héléne Meynaud, Front In- ternational Anti-torture; Ray- mond Legendre, Quebec Teach- ers Corporation; Jean Paré and West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune: at Pacific Trib une Editor — MAURICE RUSH Dave Monie, United Electrical, Radio and Machine. Workers Union (UE); Madeleine Paré, Ligue des femmes du Québec; Edward Martin Sloan, Comité Moratoire du Vietnam; a repre- sentative of the Communist Party of Canada; John Beech- ing, B.C. Peace Committee; Hildége Dupuis, Central” Coun- labor ra Mass layoffs today are throwing thousands more Canadian workers on the streets in bitter winter, swellin to unprecedented disaster levels the al. unemployed. ready massive numbers of International Nickel (INCO) has laid off 725 mine workers without advance notice in Sudbury, and will lay off an- other 1,240 there in the next three cil of the Confederation of Na- . ; tional Trade Unions; Dufour, Quebec Federation of Labor; Pearl Wedro, Canadian Peace Congress and United Jewish Peoples Order; Nancy Pocock and Kay MacPherson, Voice of Women; Mary Kalud- jer, Association of United Ukra- inian Canadians; Emilien and Madame _ Prud’homme, Local ‘598, Mine, Mill and Smelter % Workers Union; Michel Char- trand, Montreal Council, CNTU; Helen Lucas, Federation of Car- © Continued on page 9 Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. : All other countries, $7.00 one year ; By WILLIAM KASHTAN (Leader, Communist Party of Canada) The changes in the cabinet announced by Prime Minister Trudeau has added fuel to the speculations that a federal elec- tion is not too far off. Indeed, some politicians believe the elec- tions may take place late in April rather than in June and they may not be wrong. What is obvious is that any move now by the government will be re- lated to an election this year, be it April, June or October. In the meantime it is worth- while examining the shuffling of ' cabinet posts and what they portend. On the surface they look like a game of musical chairs with the players changing chairs while everything remains the same. In this particular case the changes seem to have a particu- lar meaning, that is, they are aimed at mending fences, at placating the corporate inter- . ests. who finance the Liberal and Conservative parties and de- termine their policies. These corporate interests have been clamoring quite strongly against the tax reform bill and were successful in virtually eliminat- ing anything of a reform charac- ter in the new tax legislation. They have been clamoring equal- ly strongly against the proposed Competition Bill which would give the government certain powers with respect to mergers and take-overs, and against the proposed Labor Code which would have given the workers certain rights with respect to technological change during the period of the contract. As is known both these bills have been withdrawn to show big business that the government does not intend to do anything to injure their interests. And to PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1972—PAGE 4 Gaetan <<" underwrite this Prime Minister Trudeau has gone further and shifted cabinet posts around, to make it clear the government was starting afresh. True enough, the prime minis- ter also stated that the govern- ment intends to proceed with the new bills later on. How- ever it may be safe to assume that if and when it does pro- ceed, it is highly doubtful if the essential features of these two “bills opposed by big business, will be included. The concessions to the cor- porate interests find their re- flection in the hard line taken by Prime Minister Trudeau with respect to the guaranteed an- nual income. “We cannot afford it now,” he said. It finds its re- flection too in .the speech he made in Toronto where he stated there are enough jobs for every- _ one if people were prepared to work for less money in out of halt to layoffs, plant closures By MEL DOIG | ing used extensively in arrows which cut down everything in s. Photo below: one of these arrows town jobs, In both cases he made clear his government does not intend to “mollycoddle” the poor or the unemployed and pay them for not working.” This top was a signal to big business not to be alarmed with the policies of the Trudeau gov- ernment, that it has done no- thing and would do nothing to harm the basic interests of monopoly, Such a calculated stance by Trudeau is also aimed at under- Cutting the Conservative Party and preventing it from becoming the preferred party of mono- Poly in the coming election. The image the Trudeau gov- ernment js trying to. acquire, and more particularly Prime Minister _ Trudeau himself, is markedly different to the style he and others promoted prior to the last election. _Then Tyydeaumania and char- ® Continued on page 9 months. “It’s almost like putting the up against the wall and shooting thet declared Mickey United Steelworkers Local 6500. Het ports the relentless drive of monop for production speedup that ne them 1971 profits vastly higher tha 1970: “A year ago our men were W ing double and triple shifts and “Quebec—about this but a fel ‘sponsored by the Quebec Fede -cism of the Trudeau goverti Maguire, presiden days a week. Now the co) ny’s laying off people.’ Jobs of over 1,000 pulp workers ‘in Quebec and tario are to disappear pent ently when two mills shut d0 operations soon. a Canadian International Par Co. is closing its Temiskaml dissolving pulp plant, thro’ a 875 workers on the junk PM Domtar Fine Papers Ltd. a shutting down its Cormwe) mill, ending the jobs of ano 170 workers. In Kapuskasing, the SP Falls Power and Paper Co. of Toronto — that’s its nal but it’s owned by the notorid} strikebreaking Kimberly Cla? Corp. of Neenah, Wisco and by the New York Timé laying off 400 of its: wo this month for two weeks 2 for another week in Male with employment thereafter © a month-to-month basis. Ff Speaking for Sudbury WOP ers who have lost their jobs ® INCO, a Rock and Tunnel Wor ers’ Union spokesman said! all for Canada’s unemplo “These men don’t want unem ployment insurance or we they want jobs.” 2 The layoffs reported here in natural resource indust Jan. 16 at Bathurst, New B swick, in the great “Da Concern” march and rally testing the mass layoffs in mining, pulp and paper fishing industries in that Pp ince, the 6,000 demonstr roared their approval of the ® mand that natural resource ™ dustries be nationalized, turne over to public ownership. 4 This is what the Canadiél Labor Congress should now ® demanding. February is the month CLC designated some time 48 for its campaign for full em ployment. So far nothing ? heard from the CLC—except resolutions here and there. A mass, united rally for jobs, ration of Labor and the Mol treal “Labor Council, both pa! of the CLC; is to be held Fe) 28 in the Montreal Forum. The) are also initiating a massif campaign calling for job-creat ing policies, federally and p y vincially. * CLC president Donald M Donald, instead of leading Cal ada’s great organized lab movement in actions like thes for jobs, is reported to be bus) redbaiting Quebec leaders ©& CLC affiliates: He'll have “Marxist” policies in his org ization, says MacDonald. Through its president, tt CLC has many times condem ed the callousness, the cyni ment for its policy of delibé @ Continued on page