We’re out to fight controls. Support mounts daily for Oct. 14. Sudbury labor council begins action for Day of Protest Special to the Tribune SUDBURY — A concentrated effort is being made by the Sub- bury and District Labour Council to make the October 14 National Day of Protest a success in this mining city of 100,000 people. The Labour Council officially kicked off its organizational work September 13, when 169 affiliate and non-affiliate trade unionists met at the Steelworkers Hall to voice their displeasure with Tru- deau’s wage cutting policies. A number of committees have since been formed. Plans include a protest parade through the city; astreet dance, or ~~ Pensioner finds ‘price controls’ Don’t apply to insurance Special to the Tribune SUDBURY — The story was a familiar one. Another pensioner had felt the brunt . . . the injustice of the government’s so-called anti-inflation controls. The pensioner, a woman living alone, found that her fixed wage in 1976 wasn’t enough to pay for fire insurance. Only a year before, when Trudeau announced his grand scheme to battle inflation, the pensioner was paying $111 for her insurance policy. - But with ‘“‘controls”’ in effect, her bill went Up instead of Down. One insurance company alone wants $298 per year. “‘Where did her pension go, I’ll tell you, out the window,”’ stated an angry. Kay .McNamara,.a CUPE member of the Sudbury and District Labour Council. “Sure the rate was re-adjusted to $196 but that it still too much for her to pay. Besides any in- creases pensioners do get is taken away when they buy groceries.” McNamara was speaking at a public meeting held at the Steel- workers Hall McNamara’s point was well ta- ken. Under the guise of controls and in the name of a “‘national emergency”, Trudeau, backed by monopoly, has engineered a wage cutting program which fails to stop the escalating costs of necessities; food, power (oil, gas, petroleum products and hydro- electricity), housing and rent. Speaking to the meeting, Terry Meagher, secretary-treasurer of the Ontario Federation of Labour, emphasized that the trade union movement has always been the champion of the under- priviledged. Meagher answered charges that trade unions went on strike because they are never satisfied. ‘‘The business community has . been striking against the public — for years by threatening not to in- vest their money in Canada,” he said. a es While the export of capital by high profit making Canadian banks for investment in racist South Africa and nations gov- erned by military dictatorships is an every-day occurance, a prov- incial government closes hospi- tals and a federal government hands out funds to Lockheed. “The National Day of Protest is important because the people of Sudbury will be able to say, when the crunchcame, we were there,” Meagher said. The OFL officer went on, ““we can say that we stood with the workers, we stood with the coun- try and we are going to have a better trade union movement for ita The Finnish Senior Citizens Club echoed the prevailing mood of the meeting, when a spokes- man said that senior citizens weren't buying the government's statements that wage and price controls were going to help their lot. : Announcing their support for Sudbury’s fight against controls were the Communist Party of Canada, the New Democratic Riding Associations and Onaping Falls mayor Jim Coady. Alberta expecting excellent turnout for October 14 EDMONTON — Labor in the province of Alberta expects an “excellent’’ turn out by working Edmonton labor backs Appeal - . EDMONTON — The Edmon- ton and District Labor Council voted unanimously Sept. 21 to endorse the Stockholm Appeal for an end to the arms race and the convening of a World Disarma- ment Conference by the United ~ Nations as soon as possible. The vote by the council, in ad- dition to the Calgary Labor Council’s recent endorsation of the Appeal, represents a total of 90,000 workers in Alberta who have called for the arms race to end. : Following the Edmonton vote a delegate proposed that the coun- cil immediately distribute the ap- peal among its affiliates to ensure maximum support for the cam- paign for universal disarmament. a people to protest the federal gov- ernment’s wage-cutting program Oct. 14. Spokesmen for the Alberta Federation of Labor announced Sept. 27 that in addition to large mass demonstrations being plan- ned in both Edmonton and Cal- gary.there will be at least five other protest demonstrations in small towns north-east of Ed- monton. These include small industrial centres, mining, oil, and lumber camps. A total roll call of the union loc- als affiliated to the AFL has eli- cited an excellent response to the federation’s call for all out on Oct. 14. — Bumper-stickers and posters issued by the Canadian Labor Congress are much in evidence throughout Edmonton, notifying the community that labor and its allies will be out “‘to fight con- trols’’ Oct. 14. The bosses have not been idle either in their frantic attempts to deprecate the protest. A vicious campaign has been launched in the press and all of the other media to discourage people from participating. In its leafletting campaign to mobilize for the protest, the fed- eration is appealing to the broad community as well as the labor movement to join the protest, and is linking its demand for the resto- ration of free collective bargain- ing to the wage-cutting program effects in social services and edu- cational cut backs. ‘One group, the Alberta Teachers Association whose executive refused to endorse the CLC protest, is feeling the pres- sure from its rank and file mem- bers of the Edmonton local to do something. These teachers, it is expected, may be out on Oct. 14 anyway as they rapidly approach an Oct. 8 strike vote in negotiations for a new contract. Bill Tuomi, Alberta leader of the Communist Party told the Tribune that even with the 8-fold increase in the numbers of Tribunes being distributed in the province, that they will run short. should it rain, similar events at the main Steelworkers and Mine-Mill and Smelter Workers Halls. A protest picket surrounding the Federal Building, where the Anti-Inflation Board offices are located will also take place with a “soup kitchen’, set-up to meet the needs of the large influx of people expected. Commenting on the Day of Pro- test and the parade, Manfred Hoffman, an international repre- sentative of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Unions (RWSDU), said: ‘‘This is a march against Trudeau and his govern- ment, and union leaders will have to stand up and be counted or be pushed aside by their members and other supporters.” ‘Sudbury is a labour commun- ity and the eyes of the country are upon us,”’ said Hoffman. “And we’ll give them something to look at. ‘‘Certainly the protest is not al- together legal but neither is that of the government when it takes away our democratic right to free collective bargaining.”’ An extensive media campaign is being undertaken. Advertise- ments in local newspapers and promotions on local radio will underline the importance of the Day of Protest and encourage people, organized and unorgan- ized workers, to participate in the day-long activities. Through leaflets, distributed to homes and at plant gates, the Labour Council will illustrate the injustices of recent rollbacks im- posed on the workers by the non-elected Anti-Inflation Board and its administrator Donald Tansley. The feeling of Labour Council representatives is one of high op- timism. Several non-trade union groups ‘and individuals hav pledged their support and active assistance. Meanwhile, despite threats by the largest employer in the Sud- bury area, Inco, the 15,000 member Steelworkers Local 6500 overwhelmingly supports the Day of Protest. : ‘*Should the union engage in a walkout on October 14 the action will be illegal,’ read the Inco statement. The challenge has been taken up the union which has as its aim ‘*zero production’’ on the Day of Protest. David Campbell, Steelworkers co-ordinator for the Day of Pro- test, said participation was being urged because of the effect of the anti-inflation guidelines on future negotiations with the company. The present three-year agree- ment expires in July, 1978, four months before the government lifts the so-called controls. If the government has not with- drawn the legislation by then, Steelworkers would be locked-in to four %. ‘‘Hopefully the protest will be the biggest rally since the 1930s and 1940s when much of Sud- bury’s labour movement was be- ing organized.”’ said Campbell. Past, Present Canadian theatre Canada on Stage: Canadian Theatre Review Yearbook 1975. General Editor Don Rubin, CTR Publications, York University, Downsview, Ont., 379 pp., $14.95 hard cover. -A Bibliography of Canadian ‘Theatre History 1583-1975. By John Ball and Richard Plant, Playwrights’ Co-op, Toronto, 160 pp., paper $3.95, cloth $6.95. The two new books listed above testify to the vitality of the theatre in Canada. The first re- cords activities of a single year; the second directs us to four cen- turies of comment. The Bibliography’s 2,000 en- tries range from early history to the present in both English and’ French Canada, from the little theatre movement to our profes- sional theatre of today, and cov- ers‘ education, architecture, de- sign, biography and criticism, as well as periodicals, theses and even a bibliography of bibliog- raphies. There are 20 photos and an index. A great deal of writing has been done on the subject, but new- paper reviews and articles are not included here, wrongly, I think. There are entries for the Work- ers’ Theatre and the Progressive : Arts Club of the Thirties, but.not the Theatre of Action or the later Play Actors of the Fifties in To- ronto, nor similar left theatres in ‘Montreal, Winnipeg’ and Van- couver, although their activities were recorded in both the Daily Clarion, the Canadian Tribune and other newspapers. Omissions aside, the Bibliog- raphy is a valuable reference work and a must for every theatre library. ; Canada on Stage, CTR’s sec- ond yearbook, lists 100 profes- sional theatres (compared to 70 in the 1974 book) province by pro- vince and grouped as winter, summer, festival, roadhouse and young people’s theatres. The large, attractive format is easier to handle than last year’s and has 350 scene photos and listings of 600 shows, with casts, production credits and dates; a checklist of - theatres, with address, phone number, name of principal of- ficer; plus a 22-page index. The 1975 productions included many scripts of substance, classi- cal and modern, serious as well as comic, with an impressive number of Canadian writers. Don Rubin’s unduly pessimistic intro- duction will surely be con- tradicted by an examination of the book’s evidence. Missing from the new annual are the introductory regional es- says carried in the 1974 edition. I think this feature should be re- sumed to ‘further enrich a very lively and informative volume. — M.S: PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 8, 1976—Page 5 ebeaend TER De On nt atone tor RR ee Ml age Aten inia hits nyse tye)