Le en ae ee ee EE. ee SS “End Cuban blockade’’ — McGovern = Senator George McGovern (D-SD) toured Havana on uesday and called for an end to the U.S. blockade against Socialist Cuba. The South Dakota Democratic Senator fred in_Havana on Monday evening at the invitation of Ms Cuban government. He was greeted on arrival at Jose C rti airport by Jesus Montane Oropesa, member of the entral Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. ficj McGovern told journalists in Havana that he is on a private, unof- Cial three-day fact-finding mission to the first socialist republic in the at a Americas. He said: ‘I have no powers to lift the embargo, but open ade is in the interests of both countries. The Cliche Commission A bludgeon against Quebec's unions , . By SAM WALSH It’s a little late for the leadership of the Confederation of Na- tional Trade Unions (CNTU) to rid itself of its illusions about the Cliche Commission, for whose establishment the CNTU had waged 2 long campaign. But better late than never. For its Confederal u has totally rejected the recommendations of a commission Which “led to converting trade unionism into an instrument of the State instead of an instrument of the workers,” and which are regnated with a class spirit.” That this is only too true is evident in the statement of the Em- Ployers Council of Quebec which uses the Cliche Report to launch assault on trade unionism. affirming that “it is time that em- Ployees in the public sector ul to live within the means i the taxpayers . . ..the state S not required to become the st employer in Quebec.” This, Course, in preparation for the Crthcoming negotiations in the Public sector. Furthermore the Cliche Com- Mission recommended the crea- een of a single employers’ asso- aon (so as. not to let them- = ne be divided by the work- a) and the Association of Uilding Contractors hastened to @nnounce acceptance in prin- Ciple, Class Spirit Bo. then, can we summarize oh, recommendations . of the wiiche Commission which are Impregnated with a class Spirit?” fs They destroy trade union si €doms (which the commis- = was mandated to protect) 1 obliging unions to submit €ir constitutions and by-laws 0 the Tatification. Phe They impose control on : ike votes and _ negotiated €reement votes. 4 They impose government hoe of union affiliation, Tough the Building Trades Ureau of Quebec. S They submit stewards on ran euction sites to the arbit- Ty decisions of management. Se They impose government Celveship for a period of three Sale including dictatorial pow- lib. thus suppressing trade union erties completely. Tre They set up the Building eens Bureau of Quebec, which fae Teachers Union (CEQ) cor- a tly calls a “corporate-fascist gan.” : ® They forbid the election or cypointment of anyone having ¢ Mmitted certain types of Times, tis, They create the presump- ie of guilt for construction € stewards in case of an il- €gal strike. € Bourassa government provincial cabinet for. rushed: to present three very tough bills to the National As- sembly designed to deliver the unions, sole defence of the work- ers, bound hand and foot to the mercy of the state and the multi- nationals which it serves so eagerly. Mr. Bourassa declared war on the unions, to use his own words. It is state receiver- ship over three principle build- ing trades unions of the Quebec Federation of Labor (QFL). It is Continued on Page 9 By TOM MORRIS TORONTO — At 6.45 p.m. on May 6, as he was walking from his job in a suburban plaza, 15- year-old Michael Habbib was killed with one blast from a .38- calibre revolver. Half an hour later, police apprehended a man following a gun battle. Police told the press they had been looking for a man who, the day before, had told someone he was going “to shoot the first nigger” he saw. Michael Habbib had moved here with his family 18 months ago from Jamaica and today is dead — unquestionably a vic- tim of growing racism in Toron- to. The poster reproduced with this article is being pasted up on Toronto streets this week. It speaks for itself. - In the past year or more, hun- dreds of racist slogans, some with letters four and five feet high have appeared everywhere calling for death to Blacks, Com- munists and Jews. : The poster “Political Terror” is identifiable. The slogans bear the sign and signature of the Western Guard Party. And yet, not one person has been arrested _ maximum wage REJECTS FREEZE Morris presents By RICHARD ORLANDINI TORONTO — The Canadian Labor Congress, in a_ policy statement last week, rejected the Turner proposals for special re- straints on wages. ; The Finance Minister’s work- ing paper proposals were finally submitted to the Congress early last week and the CLC called a special conference to Uraw up a response to the call for restraint. The Turner restraints called for increases of 12% or $2,400 a year, whichever is less, and for price increases limited to the costs of produc- tion and marketing. On May 7, more than 75 repre- - sentatives of organized labor, re- presenting up to 90% of the or- ganized work force in Canada met as the Executive Council of the CLC and adopted a policy statement in response to the Turner proposals. Gap in Eauity Concept The statement, read by CLC president, Joe Morris, said the discussions with the govern- ment “so far indicate in no un- certain terms that the govern- ment is unwilling or incapable of bridging the gap between their concept of equity and ours.” : Morris continued, “It is evi- dent from the ‘proposals’ that the government has completely ignored or refused to accommo- date the CLC’s position on rents, dividends, profits, professional fees, land speculation and hous- ing within our position of equity and visible sacrifice from all sec- tors of the community.” After pointing to the actual decrease in buying power over the past few years, the CLC statement noted, ‘In the face of these realities Turner’s propo- sals would freeze the already reduced buying power of wage and salary earners at their pre- sent levels and provides no me- chanism to protect the public against the rising costs of rents, interest rates, professional fees and land speculators.” No Move by Government “The government has not made a single :positive move to meet the commitment given in Turner’s ministerial statement relayed to the Congress on April 4, 1975, that: ‘These proposals must be equitable and also seem to be equitable. This iS absolutely es- Central committee meets May 24-25 The central office of the Com- munist Party of Canada has an- nounced that the party’s central committee will meet on May 24- 25 in Toronto. The 62-member . committee will examine the deepening eco- | nomic crisis, its consequences and the fight-back, with the aim ' of strengthening the party’s ef- forts to develop broad united action by the labor and democra- tic forces to stop the drift to depression in Canada. economic program sential'to the gaining of support. Equity, in this context implies several things. It implies that all grcups in the society are asked to accept an obligation to be- have in a manner consistent with the objective. It implies that those who have been left behind in the recent period have an opportunity to catch_up and those earning lower incomes should be given somewhat more leeway than those earning high- er incomes. It also implies that there is flexibility in the pro- gram of obligations to permit special treatment of special cases.’ “The Canadian Labor Con- gress’ position is that no pro- gram can be considered accept- able unless it includes the fol- lowing positive measures and is hased on the principles contain- ed in the Minister’s statement. CLC’s Economic Program eA major step to improve the supply of housing, which has seriously deteriorated and which has caused an erosion of real incomes through higher housing costs. e Regulation of rents to curb gouging of tenants. e An active program to curb land speculation. e Regulating of oil and gas prices which have contributed to the fuelling of inflation. e A negative income tax, or some form of tax credits, to pro- tect those who have little or no bargaining power and who fall into lower income brackets. e Full employment policies to Continued on Page 9 violence increasing and charged from these groups in this connection. Leader of the Western Guard Party, Don Andrews . spoke for two hours on radio station CHUM two weeks ago to preach hate. Still nothing is done by the authorities. Meetings of progres- sive organizations are smashed, people are injured and maced — — nothing happens. In the last 24 hours, more slo- gans appear—this time on the front of a University of Toron- to building where an AMEX (a war resistor organization) dance is to be held. Windows are smashed over the past weekend in the Communist Party offices — still no action by the police. The front of the Tribune’s of- fice building is covered with hate messages, we've had arson attempts. Bookworld, a progres- sive bookstore in the city has had attacks over the past few years — a shotgun blast through the front window on one occa- sion and hundreds of volumes destroyed on another — no ar- rests, no suspects... Last summer, in front of tele- vision cameras, swastika arm- banded thugs roughed up a Continued on Page 9 Build the THE FUTURE BELONGS TOTHE FEWOF US. STILL WILLING T0 GET OUR HANDS DIRTY. National Socialist Revolution through Armed Strugsie. : FASCIST poster (National Socialist—Nazi) being Soited up in Toronto this week openly calling for armed terror vividly points up the growing racist and fascist activity. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1975—Page 5 came ned | | 3k