ON Se i FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... INDUSTRIAL PEACE FOR WHOM? The government of Nova Sco- tia refuses to pass a Minimum Wage Act that will even appear to raise the lot of the working class, specially the weaker sec- tions of it, the women and child- ren who need protection most. But it has no hesitation in passing an Industrial Peace (?) Act, limiting the right of the ‘workers -to secure what their in- dustrial power would give them. Governments are all-powerful when it comes to assisting the employers, but when it comes to helping the workers, ah, that’s different! It isn’t industrial peace that’s wanted today — it is war against the conditions that put the worker in the position of galley slaves. We read of war vet- erans committing suicide because of unemployment in Canada and of a man being fined $1,000 for feeding the family of a hunger. Striker. The Worker, ” May 16, 1925. 25 years ago... 1,700 MARCH FOR PEACE IN TORONTO The roaring chant of “No More War” rolled through the crowded streets of central Toronto last evening as long columns of peace marchers drew. rounds of ap: ’ plause: Decorated floats, a forest — of placards and hundreds of peace hats marked the march which was the opening demonstration of the Second National Peace Congress. Young people made up close to 500 of the 1,700 delegates and made a powerful contribu- tion. : Perhaps it was the peace torch that stirred the hearts of the de- legates more than anything. The relay runners had trod the long road from Montreal with their flaming symbol of peace and broke through police repression in Ontario and Quebec. Their’s was the unity of French and Eng- lish speaking youth who together joyously sang the Song of the United Nations. The Tribune, May 15, 1950. ‘ACTUALLY, YOUR LANDLORD SHOULD HAVE CALLED US SOONER! ' PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1975—Page 4 The 12% wage ceiling proposed by Finance Minister John Turner for the next year is meeting the outrage it de- serves. It attempts to keep alive the myth that pay increases are responsible for soaring inflation, it offers a roadblock to major negotiations coming up this year (as with the steel corporations), and it pushes even more of the expense of the economic crisis of the capitalist _ system onto the working people. Powerful trade union opposition to such a wage freeze is seen in pulp and paper, construction, steel and electrical unions. The steelworkers’ William Ma- Arms pact a priority World disarmament has become a crucial necessity for mankind. Not only are today’s horror weapons worthy of banishment from human so- ciety — nuclear mass killers and de- formers of generations, as well as anti- personnel agony-causing. weapons. - Behind the threat of war’s horror lurks the imperialist world system, the arms profiteers, and the fascists, up from the sewers slobbering for a repeat opportunity to debase human existence. It is not surprising that this is a time when the world’s rational people are pressing harder for the World Dis- _armament Conference to which the United Nations is committed, and for results that will put the war mongers under control and ensure the peoples of the world a chance to live peaceful, productive lives. Right now, as countries commemo- rate the 30th anniversary of the victory over Hitler fascism, which crowned six vears of bloody conflict costing 50 mil- lion lives, disarmament is a most com- pelling matter. 5 The Bureau of the World Peace Coun- ceil, at its enlarged, 30th anniversary session, held in Berlin, capital of the German Democratic Republic, spoke frankly of the danger of fascism, which “has plunged into the abyss the suffer- ing people of Chile . . . and is raising its head here and there, endangering peace and progress...” It points out truly that “for the suc- cessful struggle against fascism it is necessary to constantly show to the public its economic, political and mili- tary roots,” and those roots are in the imperialist svstem, led bv the USA. “Mankind,” the World Peace body declared, “has paid too much for the deliverance from the fascist plague to allow this highly dangerous’phenome- non to revive.” Basing itself on UN Resolution 3183, which set up a 40-country ad hoc com- mittee in December 1973 “to examine all the views and suggestions . . . on - the convening of a world disarmament conference,” the Soviet Union last month wrote to UN Secretary-General Waldheim, urging its “earliest convo- cation” to “devote supreme attention to... general and complete disarma- ment.” Taking into account ground work al- ready completed, such a conference in the nearest future should receive over- whelming backing from whole popula- tions, including those of arms-peddling countries such as Canada. Fight Turner’s wage-freeze plan! | islands. There countless political pry -soners died, and hundreds were aa honey condemned the “injustice” whi¢ “stands out in every part of the Turm@ proposals.” He noted that profits, however exo! bitant, “would be protected by allowilé price increases to cover cost increas? Rents, dividends, professional fees, SP®| culative land prices — all would be ff@ from any effective control.” _ United Electrical Workers presideth C. S. Jackson, pinned it down in a ™ cent wire to the Prime Minister: “Wage and price controls or restraint, whe) ever they have been tried . . . ha meant wage-freeze in fact, but pi control in name only. Heavy corpo! tion profit-taking is the culprit and ro™ cause of present inflation.” That is fact that all honest analyses prove. | A Canadian Labor Congress. stati” ment, including a sound, 9-point an inflation program, issued in reply ¥ Turner, has been interpreted in diffe! ent ways. But clearly, any idea of | trade-off, accepting wage restraints exchange for some sort of benefits mus be entirely unacceptable. 7 In a letter to Finance Minister Tur™ er and Prime Minister Trudeau, (pu) lished on page 5) the Communist Par called for decisive action and made spt cific proposals to lessen the effects © the economic crisis on working peop® Housing for low incomes, a mercha! marine, transfer of some auto produ tion to public transit, public ownersh! of CPR and CP Investments (amons others), markets and stable prices f0) farm products. trade with socialls countries ... all is possible—now. Such a program, Canada’s working peonvle can support. | ‘ “Workers have shown they wor i baek uv from Turner’s threat, wranpe in “voluntary” garb. Nor will they ba¢ uv from the “compulsory” wage-freeZ"| bill revortedly ready to be enacte® Such threats increase determinatio? for greater economic and political gain’ to make workers masters of their 0 future. oe The Davis Tories in Ontario will g@ that message on May 21 when the thow sands-strong Ontario Federation ° Labor rally hits Queen’s Park for jobs equal pay, and an end to inflation a™ profiteering. : 4 Organized labor, united, and linke? with all progressive segments of soc etv, has the strength to extract antl inflation measures from reluctant cap” alist governments. Likewise - wage freeze plans can be ripped up and cou? tered with demands for jobs. a roll-ba@’) of prices. a solution to the housife mess, and all-out peace-oriented dev® lopment for Canada. Tiger cages emptied — Among the many deeds for whic! all people of good will owe a vote thanks to the liberation forces of th® Provisional Revolutionary Governme?s of South Vietnam is their freeing 0 the victims of Thieu’s infamous tige! cage prisons on Con Son and Phu Qu? oes even manently crippled from months al vears in chains. The doors U.S. billion® kept sealed. the liberation forces hav? burst asunder.