a Continued from Page 5 q ew from the USA by U.S.- back Corporations which cut il tions a ee Canadian opera- an workers, expense of Cana- |} «clailing May Day 1975 as an i renseiration”, he recounted that said y US. President Ford had in On television that “the 3 8s that are happening were that ng him sick,” Murphy said “ship pene, United States leader- ‘boing t Sick . . . and what is mak 0 happen this year will € them sicker.” ois Crisis of System reste.” to the meeting the ngs of the Communist P, ad of Canada, Bruce Magnu- . Peopetalism in Vietnam and gle eed it has on the strug- World, peace everywhere in the wet he warned that “there are aay of places around the rid that could yet be turned 3 ra The situation re- Political oubled efforts to make iam detente irreversable and univ leve military detente and : Bade disarmament, he said. i feac Canadian scene he Wit, ued the Communist Party “ae interests of “Canadian _ 4€Ts deeply involved in the Wee against the ravages of ae and mounting layoffs.” . nti-Monopoly Alliance seat the blame for the eco- 4 step ee clearly on the door- capital the system of monopoly = ism; Magnuson called for 7 CPC expels 7 Murray Dickhout Pro MONTON — The Alberta 4 Com, Ncial Committee of the tlic Munist Party has made pub- ons € expulsion of Murray Dick- s ship a Edmonton from member- | take nN the Party. The action was Re On the basis of unmistake- th Proof. of his cdnnections the local police force. tg Committee acting on the Of recommendations from x€Cutive, endorsed the ac- at its April 20 meeting. : CANADA LEADS WAY } by ENEVA — Statistics prepared Orga ne _International Labor if the hization (ILO) indicate that in ae 1970-73 Canadian tick €rs spent more time on the ay ct line than workers in any i] ¢ ab} ) Wi basi tion the exception of Italy. Us Noted the historic defeat of © _,€f major industrialized country ~ JACQUES DUCLOS : William Kashtan, general *8cretary of the Communist Sa of Canada, has sent a ‘| Slegram on behalf of the | Sry central committee, ex- | | Pressing condolences to the Cmmunist Party of France °n the death of Jacques Du- Duclos, who helped to found . © Communist Party has been . member since 1926 and first: Ntered parliament that same Year. He was 78 when he died. a text of the Canadian . m H J . Bcd, unist Party’s telegram bp, Untimely death of Jacques | 2uclos is a great loss to the » | -°mmunist Party of France | [nd to the international Com- | ™unist movement. He made |" outstanding contribution | to the struggles of the work- oe class and democratic | | '8rces and their unity and in gt | “&fence of Marxism-Leninism, Proletarian. internationalism. We extend our condolen- | S°s and firm handshake at this | | Sifficult, moment.” cece ‘ SOR TY | Clos, -ti | cer a long-time leader of the a roll-back of prices and profits, and for nationalization of Can- ada’s natural resources, energy, transportation, communication, banks: and national credit, for solidarity with the forces of peace, democracy and socialism, and for an anti-monopoly alli- ance of the Canadian people that will open the door to a so- cialist Canada. The meeting heard greetings from a Winnipeg May Day meet- ing, carrying greetings “on this international day of labor soli- darity.” Sponsoring organizations of -the Toronto meeting included: African National Congress; UAW Local 1967, Brampton; Italian Aid Agency; Canadian Peace Congress; Association of United Ukrainian Canadians; Congress ‘of Canadian Women; Ontario Anti-Poverty Organization; Unit- ed Jewish People’s Order; Young Communist League, and Com- munist Party of Canada. Events in Portugal Thomas Ferreira, of the Portu- guese Democratic Association, began by reporting that “at this moment in Portugal, 3,000,000 workers, in a country of 8,000,- 000 people, are in the streets commemorating the First of May.” The military coup on April 25, 1974, Dr. Ferreira said, was only the most obvious fact of a com- plex development. “The 25th of April was the result of a strug- gle which lasted 50 years,” 50 years of fascism, he said. He spoke of the role of Portu- gal’s African colonies in over- throwing fascism, of the hero- ism of that revolution’s Black leaders. : A revelation for most of the audience was Dr. Ferreira’s disclosure that while well-to-do Portuguese youth went to uni- versity, many from the working class went to military school which was free. The idealistic young graduates went to Africa “to defend their mother coun- try,” he said. pe “But they found that they were not in Africa defending Portugal, but defending . . . Por- tuguese millionaires . - . than defending the Portuguese millionaires, they were defend- ing Gulf Oil, Shell, ITT. and other multi-national companies.” This was part of the back- ground to the deep-going change in Portugal. As for bourgeois concerns about the army’s role: “The army is there, dear friends, because the people want the army there!” At the conclusion of Dr. Fer- reira’s talk, a group from the Portuguese organization sang the song, banned by the fascists, which was broadcast to signal the revolution. Abe Moffat dies at 78 Abe Moffat, former president of the Scottish area of the Na- tional Union of Mineworkers has died in Edinburgh at the age of 78. Moffat joined the Com- munist Party of Great Britain when he was 26 and played a prominent part in the 1926 Ge-_ neral Strike. In 1930 he became secretary of the Scottish Union and in 1944 when it was superseded by the NUM, he was elected Scot- tish president, a post he held until his retirement in 1961. Several years ago, Abe Moffat visited Canada as a fraternal delegate to a Mine Mill and Smelterworkers convention. more i Hails peoples’ victories Oswaldo Cortez, Chilean trade union speaker, put forth the de- mands embodied in a document from the Chilean Trade Union Committee, which met in Paris in January. He called for a total boycott on the shipment of arms to the fascist junta, denial of the use of port and airport facilities, and for a temporary boycott on im- ports-exports, such as copper. He urged direct material and economic aid to the Chilean workers and their trade union movement, and rallies to explain events in Chile, to promote the defence of human, democratic and trade union rights. “This is the petition of the Chilean working class,” said Cortez. “It represents our needs in this struggle.” Speaking directly to Canadian workers, he said: “Your support is indispensable for final success. We know we can count on you... We on our side will pledge our class duty and will fight fascism until the end of our lives. “We understand that the de- feat of fascism in our country will be the most generous con- tribution to humankind in their struggle for peace and prosper- ity. United we shall overcome — with the people of -Cambodia, Vietnam, and Portugal!” The meeting closed with the singing of The Internationale: MONTREAL MAY DAY Continued from Page 5 working class movement, were unsuccessfully trying to impose narrow, sectarian slogans quite out of place in a march organ- ized under the sign of unity. On arrival at the Centre Paul Sauve in a warm and fraternal atmosphere, _ trade unionists from United Aircraft, asbestos mines and the Montreal harbor spoke about their struggles and emphasised their solidarity with the workers of the whole world. Marcel Pepin spoke about security on the job. Yvonne Charbonneau asked for one minute silence in memory of the patriots of Southeast Asia who died in the course of a long struggle, finally victorious. Louis Laberge, representing the QFL and its striking members at Montreal harbor, United Air- craft and elsewhere, was stupidly interrupted from the start by a group of ultra leftists sitting in the upper back rows behind the speaker’s tribune. “The same group was shouting “Solidarity and Common Front” a few minutes earlier. After the speeches the demonstrators enjoyed them- selves, had some beer, and Life of poverty at $40,000 NEW YORK (LNS) — Former New York State Supreme Court Judge Owen McGivern is calling on President Ford to raise the pay for federal judges from ~ $40,000 to $60,000 per year. The present salary, McGivern insists, has forced federal judges to live “lives of honorable poverty.” “It’s a deplorable situation,” McGivern said of the judges’ $40,000 a year salary plus ex- pense account. “‘There’s very lit- tle take home pay and it’s very difficult to exist.” Our photo is of artist Guil- lermo Nunez, now under ar- rest in Chile. He is world re- nowned for his work, many of his paintings are displayed in Washington, New York, Hav- ana, Moscow and_ other cities. Nunez was arrested for the second time, (previously spending six months in jail) on the eve of an art exhibit at the French Cultural Institute in Santiago last March. After three weeks of his re- cent detention, neither the French Chancellory, nor his relatives, nor friends had any information as to his where- abouts. The Toronto Chilean Association together with other solidarity movements have started a vast campaign to save Nunez’ life. Cables and letters demanding his freedom should be sent to: Life of Nunez in danger His Excellency Horacio “Arce, Ambassador of Chile, 56 Sparks Street, Suite 204, Ot- tawa. : Recognition for Vietnam! Continued from Page 5 tinues, new prospects appear for the “peaceful reunification of Korea, and of collective security in southeast Asia... . “Canadians owe a debt of gratitude to the indomitable courage and heroism of the Vietnamese,” the _ statement says. In upholding their right to self - determination and_ inde- pendence, they strengthened the insistent demand by Canadians “to become masters of their own destiny, free from U.S. control.” Media Smears The Communist Party urges Canadian recognition of the Revolutionary Government, and a pledge of material aid without strings. oe Noting attempts to smear the Revolutionary Government and the people, who for 30 years fought Japanese, French and U.S. imperialism, the statement castigates U.S. imperialism “which napalmed the people, defoliated the countryside,” bombed “defenceless cities,” and now talks about the alleged danger of a “blood bath”. “Similar smears,” out, emanate from sections of Canada’s mass media “including the CBC, which kept silent about the shameful and obscene role of Canadian imperialism and its government in. selling arms to the USA for its pre- datory war against the Viet- namese people while pretending to be neutral. The Canadian TOKYO—Over one-million workers participated in May Day cele-~ — it points. people should not be taken in’ by these smears, all of which emanate from the CIA.” The Communist statement charges Ottawa with giving way to U.S. pressure in accepting so- called refugees, many of whom betrayed their country, while Canadian workers who foot the bill, are attacked for demand- ing “the right to job security ‘and decent living standards.” Warning of the need to keep a watchful eye on U.S. imperial- ism, the main threat to inter- national detente and the prin- ciples of peaceful co-existence, the Communist Party “calls upon all democratic and peace- loving Canadians, all true patriots, to extend. all-out. sup- port to the Vietnamese people jin their gigantic task of recon- struction and re-building of the country which U.S. imperialism, - aided by arms from Canada, did ‘so ‘much to destroy.” No insurance for Portugal WASHINGTON (LNS) — The Kemper Insurance Company an- nounced on April 7 that it would cancel its plans to hold its an- nual sales conference scheduled for June in Esteril, Portugal. James S. Kemper Jr., the pre- sident of the company, said, ‘““We will not contribute more than a half million dollars to the eco- nomy of a nation which has na- tionalized its insurance compa- nies and banks.” brations in this Japanese city. Above: May Day parade in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1975—Page 9 ;