Carter: “| fully expect the Shah to maintain power in Iran and for the present
| probiems in Iran to be resolved. The Shah has our support and he also has our
confidence.”

—Press conference, 12/12/78

W 25 years ago...

| MONEY FOR MP’s
BUT NOT.WORKERS

Judge Rene Lippe has turned

fidown a demand for a 10c an

yihour increase for workers ‘at

s@Dominion Textile Co. and’

Montreal Cottons by the United
if Textile Workers of America
ei TLC). His reason was the “pre-
‘carious state” of the industry. No
tht nention was made of the mil-
iM} ions piled up by the indystry in
Yithe past by the toil of the
aiemployees. If MP’s wanted to do
“something important to’ earn
«their recently increased grants,
sythey could make the govern-
nament end the cold war, open
a ttrade talks with other countries,
gstart big projects and end
‘mounting unemployment.
‘Maybe then workers would have
chance at wage increases. But
hey will’ probably spend more
‘time voting themselves more
“money. - Tribune

January 11, 1954,

|

Profiteer of the week:

50 years ago...

POLICE TERRORIZE
PUBLIC MEETINGS
The NEC of the Canadian
Labor Defence League met on
Sun. Dec. 30. The committee
was asked to discuss and con-
sider action to withstand the
police persecution of our non-
English comrades in the unwar-
ranted interference which is_
being carried on in connection
with . concerts and _ enter-
tainments of a social character.
Formerly the edict of the police
was against political meetings,
but recently this interference
has included the innocent forms

of .amusement and enter- ~

tainment which have no political

EIDIITORIAIL
COMIMUEINT

Militancy needed in 1979

Working-class_ militancy in the
economic struggle needs to be insepara-
bly linked to political militancy to
guarantee victories in 1979.

The postal workers’ strike showed
clearly that bosses, be they governments
or corporations, never hesitate to use
their political power to attack labor. Just
as clearly does the Inco strike show that
labor solidarity over rides both right-
wing retreat and establishment efforts
to defeat the workers.

It would be disastrous if the working
class and the labor movement were to
follow obediently the advice of the
Dennis McDermotts. The Labor Con-
gress president would narrow political
action down to blind electoral support
for candidates of the New Democratic
Party. Long years of working-class his-
tory prove that instead a wealth of
activities, including handing out leaflets

and holding demonstrations, so scorned
by McDermott, help move the fight
forward.

The year opened with the consumer
price index up 9% over a year ago, food
up 16.4%! Added to that squeeze, the
unemployment insurance amend-
ments will deprive thousands of their
benefits. Real income declined by 1% to

. 4% in mid-summer. A million are with-

out work. And federal tax and welfare
changes aggravate it by benefitting the
rich and hitting the -poor and un-
employed.

- It is in these cold-blooded cir-

- cumstances that workers have to chal-

lenge the monopoly-run system, to de-
fend and extend the gains of the
working people. In such a united strug-
gle, the possibility does arise of electing
a progressive majority, including Com-
munists, to the next parliament.

West’s interests in Iran

United States meddling in the affairs
of Iran is more than interference in the
lives and sovereign rights of Iranians, it
brings the world face to face with the
danger of war. The 80,000 U.S. agents
and other personnel, including military
“advisors” in Iran are a threat to turn the
struggle for emancipation from an au-
tocratic regime and for democracy, into
a coup in the interests of U.S. military
strategy.

A horrifying aspect of it to Canadians
is that the Canadian Government instead
of dissociating itself from the bloody re-
gime of the Shah, and from U.S. military
and subversive actions, is on record in
full sympathy with this course.

External Affairs Minister Donald

significance at-all. The commit- Jamieson put Canada solidly behind the

tee felt that strong protest must
be made against this illegal per-
secution on the part of police.
An organizational tour is being
planned.

January 12, 1929

We know food prices have gone up, but you
wouldn’t want a corporation like Ogilvie Mills -
Ltd. to make a poor showing would you? Well,
they didn’t. In just six months, ended Oct. 31,
1978, they made a tax-free profit of $6,305,000.
in the same period a year earlier they grabbed
$4,080,000. You know Ogilvie, they’re into
: flour, Catelli products, feed, dairy foods, pud-
| s dings, Laura Secords, etcetera.

Figures used are from the company’s financial statements.

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The Worker

Iranian despot and, evidently, behind all
efforts to keep him in power against the>
wishes of the Iranian people.

“JT have no hesitation in saying that ob-
viously the West’s interests are very
much tied in with stability, and that
means in preserving the Shah’s regime,”

_ Jamieson said, Dec. 5.

But Jamieson said more: “We have to
be aware of where our interests lie in
these matters.” That is to say, Canadian
capitalist “interests” lie in brazen disre-

gard for the opinions and demands of
the great majority of Iranians.

Iranian workers are dying in a fight
for freedom. Canadian workers owe it to

forbid Jamieson and his overpment to—

of Iranian workers as the Shah has al-
ways done.

’ Washington’s and NATO’s clients, Is-
rael and South Africa get 65% and 90%,
respectively, of their oil from Iran. But
U.S. horror at the thought of an inde-
_pendent Iran goes beyond that. Strategi-
cally placed on the Soviet border, Iran
has been a world leader in its build-up of
sophisticated U.S. weaponry. It is at the
heart of imperialist military policy in the
area. :

Iran’s workers reject both the Shah
and U.S. imperialism. They have been
told exiled religious leader, the Ayatol-
lah Xhomeini, that they, the workers will
decide when and if they should end their
successful strike against the oil industry.

It is these forces Canada’s Jamieson
seems intent on “preserving” over the
bleeding bodies of Iranian workers. If
these’ are the tactics Canada’s Govern-
ment is willing to endorse, those tactics
should be shot down while they still
apply to workers outside Canada.

Long live socialist Cuba!

Socialism in the America’s — what a
bone in the throat of imperialism — par-
ticularly United States imperialism!

Cuba has just celebrated the 20th an-
niversary of the revolution which
opened for its people the road to social-
ism.

While millions throughout the world,
people on every continent, applaud the
victories of Cuba’s people, its govern-
ment, and its Communist Party, the
crisis-ridden imperialists and their
media try might and main to brainwash
Canadian workers by distorting Cuba’s
remarkable developments. Even when
journalists cannot avoid the truth, the

headline writers make sure that truth is
obscured under a tirade of slander.

We join the majority in greeting Cuba
on this 20th anniversary, in demanding
normal interchange — an end to every
vestige of blockade of this socialist island
— in wishing the free Cuban people even
greater progress in the building of their
new system.

Our hearty revolutionary greetings to
socialist Cuba, whose giant strides even
detractors cannot hide! May the Cuban
people reap an ever more abundant har-
vest from their vast labors in every facet
of human development!

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