_MAY DAY MESSAGE Unite to defeat monopoly AUCHORLONOORUGOURCOOCHR CERCA ERA GHRGRROR RRO NERA CRSRRGRRERERERAERAADASHeccenconaen = = = ii HELLAS LUE Fellow workers! Greetings this May Day, the day of international solidarity of the workers of the world. This May Day the Canadian working class is faced with new problems and challenges, above all, the necessity of fighting for new policies of full employ- ment and rising standards, of peace and expanding trade with the socialist and newly liberated countries, and for a united struggle against imperialism. The need for such new policies was never so self evident and urgent as it is today. The economy continues to stagnate, despite gov- ernment statements to the contrary. Unemployment hovers close to the one million mark, while living standards are being eroded by rising prices and taxes. Poverty grows while the rich become richer. State monopoly capitalism has shown that it cannot assure full employment, rising standards, stable prices and- equal opportunity for all. Civil liberties and democratic rights are under severe. attack. Pressures are mounting to have the Public Order Temporary Measures Act become per- manent legislation or be replaced by other repressive legislation. This goes together with a reactionary drive to implement anti-labor legislation, designed to cripple and destroy the fighting power, growing mili- tancy and unity of organized labor. The national rights of the French Canadian people are being denied and attacked, economic and social inequality continue in Quebec, a direct result of mono- poly control. The October crisis has brought into the open the depth of the crisis of Confederation which government repressive measures have further aggra- vated. The growing crisis on the domestic front is accentu- ated by the crisis of national development, arising from the Trudeau government's failure to stand up to the pressures of U.S. imperialism to impose a contin- ental energy policy on Canada. Rather than pursuing policies which would strengthen the sovereignty and independence of our country, use our vast energy and ‘natural resources for building secondary industry, and developing the Northwest, the Trudeau government in the interests of monopoly is seeking to work out deals with U.S. monopoly interests at the expense of the real interests of the country. Monopoly control is not only despoiling our resources; it is polluting our land, our waters and atmosphere. The refusal to stand up to U.S. imperialism is re- flected in the Canadian government's complicity in U.S. aggression in Indochina, in its refusal to dis- sociate Canada from the criminal actions of U.S. imperialism. The present disastrous course of the Trudeau gov- ernment must be defeated if Canada and the Cana- dian people are to progress. E—FRIDAY, APRIL30,1971—PAGES BURDAALELARUURAUEUEELUESEESGUALOELUREULEEEUUUREEEORUULEET ERAT ELE ELT TLE The means to do so are at hand. They lie in uniting all the national and democratic forces in English an French Canada to unite all those opposed to mono- poly and to imperialism into one mighty democrati¢ coalition. The natural leader of such a coalition is the working class and its Marxist-Leninist party without whom no meaningful social change and revolutionary transformation of society is possible. . On this May Day the Communist Party calls upo” the working class, all working people, the democrati¢ forces of our country to demand, @ A million new jobs to put the unemployed info productive work, by a vast program of public housing and the further construction of hospitals and schools: the development of our energy resources based of public ownership, the extension of trade with the” socialist and newly liberated countries on a mutually beneficial basis. ® The 32-hour work week with no reduction in take home pay and earlier retirement based on a drasfi¢ increase in pension payments, to enable those so re" tired to live in security and dignity. © The repeal of the Public Order (Temporary Measures) Act; the adoption of legislation which would extend the democratic rights of the Canadia" people. i @ The adoption of a new Canadian Constitution based on the voluntary equal partnership of fé French and English-speaking Canadians in a demo cratic and sovereign bi-national state. @ The unequivocal dissociation of Canada from the U.S. war in Indochina, the recognition of the Pre visional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam and an immediate end to Canada's participation !" the U.S.-Canada defense sharing agreement; a stOP to the sale of Canadian arms to the USA for use !* Southeast Asia. @ Support to a political settlement in the Midd pe based on the UN Security Council resolution ® _© Support to a European Security Conferences 3 aimed at bringing about a detente in Europe, and th immediate recognition of the German Democrati¢ Republic. Make May Day this year another step forward strengthening unity of the left in the trade union a | working class movement in the struggle to curb ™ power of monopoly, in the struggle to defeat imp®! ialism, and to win peace, independence and dem® cratic advance towards a socialist Canada. Central Executive Committe? 4 Communist Party of Canad? BULUHUAGEAUANULOSUELLASAMASALULUAUELEASEAETELELE COGAN puveanennuugucsuucauuaureraeeeeeeeeansnannni etl;