More than 400 members of the United Electrical Workers (UE) and International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) staged a joint demonstration in April outside the Ontario legislature demanding the Ontario government take action on housing and protesting the province's growing unemployment. Quebec police attack aimed against unions Cont'd from pg. 1 “It is scandalous, unimaginable, ugly and inhuman.” Reacting to the later insistence by police that only ‘necessary force” was used, unionists pointed out that an agreement to vacate peacefully had already been before the attack. UAW secretary Gonthier added: , “These workers are not terrorists, they are workers who have been out on strike for 16 months have seen their jobs being taken away by scabs.” Out since January, 1974 the workers at United Aircraft have witnessed efforts by both the company and the government to break the strike and the union it- ‘self. : Aided by injunctions restricting _ picketing, the aircraft company has brought in more than 1000 scabs and has succeeded in maintaining 65% production although, according to strike committee chairman Jacques Brisebois, much of it has been: scrap since scabs cannot replace the highly-skilled workers who are out on strike. . UAW Canadian director Dennis McDermott likened the tactics employed by the company during the long struggle to those practiced by “the industrial wing of the John Birch Society.” Despite the strike, United Air- craft was successful in obtaining a $14.4 million subsidy from the government — to ‘‘create work.”’. The government assistance to the American-owned company was’ also at the heart of comments by Marcel Robidas, mayor of Longeuil, Tuesday morning after the police raid when he declared, “T find it terrible that the Quebec people pit themselves against one: _another for American interests.” The savage attack by police has’ also been seen as a further move by the Bourassa Liberal govern- ment to strengthen its repressive hold on Quebec labor. Only hours after the demon- stration at United Aircraft, em-~ ployer’s groups were already clamoring for stronger laws to control unions and for swift passage of the anti-labor legislation now before the Quebec government drafted in the wake of the Cliche Commission report. Appointed several months ago, the Cliche Commission was ostensibly charged with the responsibility of investigating practices in the building trades industry. Quebec unionists blasted the” appointment of the commission as ai attempt to “smear the whole suebec trade union movement” and predicted — correctly — that restrictive labor legislation would follow its report. : The Quebec Federation of Labor also demanded that the Com- mission ‘‘put as much energy into exposing the corrupters and the politicians involved as it is in ex- posing a few union elements in- volved.” The proposed labor legislation contains, among other restrictive provisions, the basis for putting four construction unions under trusteeship. Another clause states that any worker involved in an illegal strike will be presumed guilty unless he can prove himself innocent — a grim reminder of Section 98. Claude Demers, editor of the progressive French language newspaper Combat also explained in a telephone interview with the Tribune Tuesday that the labor legislation was intended to serve both an economic and political purpose. It will enable. Bourassa to complete several major projects such as the Olympic site, he pointed out, without fear of action by construction unions. More important, Demers em- : phasized, is the’ attempt by the the" government to extend legislation to the whole trade union movement and to prevent the reemer gence of the Common Front in the upcoming negotiations in the public sector. Quebec labor minister Jean Cournoyer has already stated that it is the government’s intention to extend the proposed legislation to other areas of the trade union movement. “These are nothing less than police-state laws,’’ Demers declared, ‘‘and they will require the greatest labor unity to defeat them.” ; PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1975—Page 12 Testing and deployment of: the “Manoeuvrable Re-entry Vehicle”’ (MARV) missiles, which will be carried by the Trident sub delivery system being built at Bangor, Washington, threatens the world with “‘escalation to total war.” This was the warning issued by six members of the U.S. Armed Services Committee, who in- troduced a bill in the U.S. Congress last Friday, May 9, to prohibit the testing and deployment of MARV missiles. They charged in a 34- page report circulated to all 435 members of Congress that the MARV missile, which will be carried aboard the Trident subs, is the most dangerous of defence secretary James Schlesinger’s first strike nuclear ‘‘counterforce’’ weapons. Schlesinger has placed the Pentagon’s arms program before the House Armed Services Com- Iittee. It calls fora vast expansion of U.S. nuclear power, which in- cludes the testing and deployment of the MARV missile, the Trident sub base at Bangor, Washington, and development of the very costly B1 bombers. The bill introduced in Congress was sponsored by Reps. Les Aspin (Mich.), Bob Carr (Mich.), Ron Dellums (Calif.), Tom Downey. .(N.Y.), Jim Lloyd (Calif.), and MAOISTS Cont'd from pg. 11 __ the circles in the FRG which dream of a revision of the frontiers in Europe and of the swallowing up of the German Democratic Republic. Peking expects the struggle to be waged along those lines over the background of a genuine peace-in Europe achieved by the all-European conference. This is why the Chinese leaders so openly demonstrated to Strauss their approval of his views on the “unity of the German nation.” Peking is starting a dangerous ‘ game. Its purpose is to coordinate pressure upon the countries of the socialist community. Strauss’s assistant Voss summed up the talks with the Chinese leaders in the following terms: ‘‘The more the Soviet Union focuses its at- tention on Western Europe, the more dangerous this may become. The moment the Soviet Union knows that it will have to reckon with the East, this danger is reduced. All this also has an in- verse relationship.” The new People’s Republic of China constitution speaks of the need “‘to strengthen solidarity with the socialist countries.”” But how can this declaration hold true with - Peking’s link-up with the most. reactionary forces of imperialism to counter the peace loving policy of the socialist countries? The Chinese people are actually striving for friendship and cooperation with the socialist countries. As for the policy of the Maoist leadership, against the interests of the detente in Europe, against the interests of the peoples of the socialist coun- tries, and against the Chinese people themselves. —Novosti Press Agency it is aimed- HOUSING CONTINUES IN SHARP DECLINE OTTAWA — The Central Mor- tgage and Housing Corp. reported last Friday that the rate of new homé building across Canada continued to drop in March to an annual rate of 144,000 units. Trident sub base’ risks world war | Patricia Schroeder (Colo.), all Democrats. They warred that Schlesinger’s counterforce strategy would rish ‘‘escalation to total world war,” and they branded MARV as “by far the most dangerous of Dr. Schlesinger’s counterforce proposals.” MARV, they charged, ‘‘might provide the U.S. with a first-strike force” capable of wiping out Soviet defensive missiles, which suggests that the U.S. is toying with a strategy of a ‘“‘pre-emptive first strike.” They referred to the chilling impact MARV would have on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), declaring, “The possibilities for SALT progress in such a strategic environment would not be promising.” The six lawmakers lashed the Pentagon for sabotaging efforts to ban another- counterforce weapon, the Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV), and reacted to Schlesinger’s expressed fears about Soviet development of MIRV. “This possibility would not exist if SALT had banned MIRV, but “such a ban was rendered im- possible by the MIRV tests con- ducted by the Defence Department before the treaty could be con- cluded.’’ Observers noted that this was an unusually strong in- dictment of the Pentagon by members of the House Armed Services Committee. Their report pinned direct blame on the Pen- tagon for the current difficulties in the SALT talks. The lawmakers warned that “Congressional action is necessary to prevent repetition of the MIRV mistake” in development of the MARV. “This device,” they said, “can only be avoided by agreement with the Soviets. Such agreement is possible as long as the Soviets are confident we cannot deploy the system. Such con- fidence is possible only if we have not tested it.’ The six lawmakers were backed by Rep. Bella S. Abzug (Dem.- N.Y.), who denounced the counter- force weapons as ‘‘the most -dangerous part of this Pentagon budget.’’ In testimony before the to hold a giant protest rally House Armed Services Comm! last month, she said the coun force weapon (includin Trident'sub base) would ult cost $28 billion. “What are we getting for « money?” she asked. “NO defence but greater insecu the threat of war increases: The opposition to the Pen program for escalating ™ weapons in the U.S. Com expresses the growing OPP among the American people nuclear arms race an@ demand for agreement Wit" Soviet Union at the SALT de-escalate the nuclear th mankind and lead to agreem! the cutback of nuclear W production. : It becomes clear from developments in the U.S opposition to the Trident s which is the major delivery for both the MIRV and missiles, is part of the fight world peace and to W ternational agreement on of nuclear weapons. These events in the Congress will give added $ to the campaign in B.C. aga building of the Trident sub Bangor, Washington. Cons of the base is going ahead the opposition in Congr among the U.S. people. funding, which is being cha in Congress, provides — deployment of 10 subs at } with 240 missiles carrying — MIRV/MARV nuclear wat However, present design fo! base includes future capab! for 20 subs. The fight in B.C. to stop building of the base is- part parcel of the struggle to stoP, nuclear arms race an agreement at the SALT talks save the world from a dangé escalation of nuclear wé4 which threatens world peac®: --In B. C. plans are moving *, Peace Arch on Saturday, Ju? Speakers are expected from sides of the border and a % number of people from the Northwest are expected t0 © part.