HuRRy! BIG TAX CONCESSION / wo “Hl +t |GOT A GUY FROM THE GOVERNMENT COMING ABOUT A 25 years ago... RCMP INTERFERES WITH LPP RIGHTS The RCMP book defended by ustice Minister Garson in his letter to Tim Buck, was used to prevent the Labor Progressive Party national leader speaking in a public school. The Montreal Gazette, June 23, reported the incident: “Permission for the LPP to hold a rally in Van Horne School tonight has been withdrawn. “W.E. Dunton, chairman of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, announced last night that the board did not recognize the LPP as an election rty because of the recent RCMP report. . .” Tribune June 29, 1953 50 years ago...._. 3 S. AFRICANS FORM BLACK UNIONS — A press report from Capetown, South Africa, states: A big force of police was held in readiness for emergencies at Lichtenburg Diamond Dig- gings, after a strike by 20,000 native workers whose wages were reduced from $5 to $3 a week. ; The native: workers are or- ganizing themselves in unions and are prepared to fight against the degrading conditigns under which they are forced to work by the South African millionaires. The white workers unions in the TUC and the Cape Federation are opposed to allowing native workers to join their union. Only recently these ‘white unions’ re- fused unity with the native un- ions. The Worker ‘June 30, 1928 WASH |T DOWN THIS SHOULD HELP J] FOREIGN BANKS WILL BE ALLOWED TO SET UP SUBSIDIARIES 'N CANADA. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—June 30, 1978—Page 4 eIDITORULAIL COMIMIENT A right to protect jobs On June 15 the Tory minority gov- ernment of Ontario brought down the axe on a private member’s right to strike _ Bill. Whether such deeds are by Liberals backed by Tories or Tories backed by Liberals, they are in the anti labor tradi- tion of the old line ruling class parties. Such deeds are symbolic. When the Tories, led by the labor min- ister Bette Stephenson, scuttled New Democrat Mike Breaugh’s Bill, they were declaring anew the class nature of our society with minimal rights for workers. ; We don’t say the Bill was ideal. It had some debatable concepts. But its general thrust was in the interests of labor; as a starter, it would have prevented employers from hiring scabs during strikes and lockouts. So, the Tories slew it. Symbolic also of the class struggle have been the actions of the ruling class in the Fleck Manufacturing Co. strike — police brutality waged against the women strik- ers, the conflict of interest of an Ontario deputy minister, whose family is part owner of Fleck, and the complicity of the Ontario Government and. its labor minister. What is involved —. making the right to strike and _to picket vital — is the work- er’s right to protect his or her job — against scabs, police brutality, manipula- . Canada’s government is to become a junior partner in the ownership of Zaire, by putting up $7 million of the $1 billion agreed to by capitalist countries and the puppet dictator of Zaire, Mobutu. For that price he handed over the country, to NATO, the International Monetary¥Fund (destabilization experts), and various capitalist governments fronting for the multinationals of the military industrial complex. Besides its mineral wealth, always controlled by foreign corporations, the “partners” now get the entire economy, control of customs and finances, and the use of Zaire as a military base from which to try » to undo the African continent’s rev- olution. It is a matter for shame that Canada has plunged into this dirty deal with Trudeau’s promise of “no African ad- ventures.” The base purpose is to rob the people of Zaire of their legitimate demo- cratic rights and rights to their own re- sources. More than that its purpose is to threaten Zaire’s neighbors who have taken a non capitalist path. The Trudeau government and its mis- sionary, Don Jamieson, may offer pro- testations that Canada is supplying food _ and medicine only. But how is it it is supplying these pre- cisely to a NATO dominated dictator with a treasure house of minerals? How is it Canada backs NATO’s hor- rendous arms escalation — many of which arms go to Mobutu’s thugs — not from Canada (perish the thought) but from NATO? How is it the imperialist missionaries are not as generous with other peoples? 2 PM's ‘Africa tion by the ruling clique’s courts and _ legislatures. _ It is absurd to put on a par those who own the plants, the machinery, the raW materials, the means of transport, thé sales facilities, and control the employ ment of thousands of service or profes sional workers, and on the other hand workers who own nothing but their labo! power, which they must sell to survive. Workers, who are the system’s victims, demand the right to a job, and the right to protect that job. Anti scab legislations essential to the democratic rights the capitalist system hoots about in intef national circles. . The NDP, although responsible fot the ill fated Queen’s Park Bill, is not blameless in the slow progress. As long 4s the NDP is content to wear the old:schoo! tie and confine itself, and masses Of workers, to the parliamentary niceties 0 the Tories, it will not win gains for work ing people. a On the other hand, trade union an broad labor unity, united action by labor; the NDP and the Communist Party fundamental to compelling reactionaries who hold on precariously to power, t0 grant democratic rights to workers. It$ _ time for the workers to take control 0 their own destiny. Mass joint actions for the right to strike, to picket, toa job.and to protect that job,.are the order of the day.) _ SE: cs eee aoe wait elsibivip Dee PPI END n adventure’ rena The USA, which heads the aid tO Mobutu, like a sneak thief avoids paying © reparations to Vietnam, solemnly agreed to in the January 1973 Paris Agree — ments. Stop oil grab! Despite double talk from the Prime Minister, he, Energy Minister Gillespie, Trade Minister Horner (the former T0- ry), and Tory Opposition Leader Clark jointly give approval to the take over 0 heavy oil holdings of Husky Oil Ltd. of Calgary by Los Angeles based Occidental Petroleum. ; This whole affair, which saw thé Canadian Government’s Petro Canada blanked out in its purchase attempts by Husky’s board of directors, stinks of thé Manipulation of resources and invest ment funds, and profiteering on re sources which rightfully belong to thé — people of Canada. _ Rather than get lost in the maze of corporate manipulations, or blinded by their smokescreen of Canadian “pat riotism,” workers are on sound groum! with simple and basic demands that: The government declare a country wide energy policy designed to serve Canada’s needs for the foreseeable fu- ture. An open and public survey be made of our resources, not tampered with by the oil majors and their agents in parlia- ment. The energy resources of Canada be switched to public ownership, wit democratic control.