crude pressure on independent states. ___ SWEDISH PRESS CONDEMNS PEACE PRIZE AWARDS STOCKHOLM = Dagens Nyheter (Daily News), Sweden’s biggest ~ daily newspaper, said it was ‘‘shocking”’ and “‘wrong”’ for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to Israel’s Begin and Egypt’s Sadat. Neither Sadat nor Begin are men who have devoted their lives to the struggle for peace,” the paper said. “Begin, moreover is the Prime Minister of a country which continues to occupy territories of other States contrary to United Nation’s resolutions.” ISRAELI COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS ON STRIKE TEL AVIV — Israel’s communications workers went on strike Oct. 30, paralyzing all radio, television and telephone operations. The strike was provoked by the Israeli government’s policy not allowing wage increases above 15%. The cost of living in Israel has soared 52% in the past year. Histadrut, the IsraeliGeneral Confederation of Labor, said it will demand a 24% increase for all public workers. Israel’s postal workers went on strike early in October, 70,000 teachers went on - strike iri September and will strike again starting Nov. 12. SPAIN’S PARLIAMENT APPROVES CONSTITUTION MADRID — Spain’s parliament, Oct. 31, approved a new constitu- ° tion to seal formally the country’s transition to democracy from the 40-year dictatorship of the late General Franco. Members of the Con- gress (lower house) and the Senate voted overwhelmingly for the 169 article charter which defines Spain as a parliamentary monarchy with King Juan Carlos as head of state. Final approval must come from the Spanish people in a referendum in early December. Communist leader Santiago Carrillo said it was a constitution of reconciliation valid for all Spaniards, which does not close the door to socialist reforms. ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE CONFERENCE IN BRITAIN LONDON — Invitations are now going out for the first Anti-Nazi League trade union conference. It will take place on Dec. 2 in Congress House, headquarters of the British trade unions. A letter now being widely circularized throughout the trade union movement says that the “purpose of the gathering is to ‘“discuss and assist the development of anti-nazi activity in the trade union movement at all levels, particularly at the place of work.”’ POPE THANKS BREZHNEV FOR MESSAGE VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II has sent a message of thanks ~ ‘to President Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union. The Pope said: ‘‘] ‘express sincere gratitude for the kind message of congratulations sent by your excellency on the occasion of my election to the Papacy. I wish prosperity to the Soviet people and peace to-all peoples of the earth.” USSR-VIETNAM SIGN FRIENDSHIP TREATY MOSCOW — The Soviet Union and Vietnam have signed an agree- ment on friendship and cooperation. Both countries pledged to stren- gthen peace and security in Asia and throughout the world. The USSR and Vietnam noted certain negative aspects of the development of the international situation, in particular in the Far East and’ in Southeast Asia. They agreed on the need to repel aggressive encroachments and NJ on - strongly condemned the criminal activities of Mussolini’s Successors and called for unity against fascist provocations. q Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN Associate Editor — FRED WILSON Business and Circulation Manager — PAT 0’‘CONNOR Published weekly at Suite 101 — 1416 Commercial Drive. Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9 Phone 251-1186 Subscription Rate: Canada, $8.00 one year; $4.50 for six months; All other countries, $10.00 one year , Second class mail registration number 1560 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 17, 1978—Page 4 SD IKORIVAE COMIMIENT A worker's right to a job © The question of jobs for a million un- employed who want to work cannot be set apart from workers’ rights as a whole — from the right to collective bargain- ing and the right to strike, all the way to the right of workers to a say in every matter of concern to them. _ Jobs as a right? Capitalism has never acknowledged it, although socialist countries have documented it in both state constitutions and in labor laws, and have lived up to them. What is needed is a strategy for full employment. And worker militancy needs to set fire under the seats of complacent labor leadership if such a strategy is ever to be invoked. A strategy for full employment neces- sitates a fight on several fronts. We’ve seen what the enemies of the working class can line up against us: wage con- trols; soaring prices and rents; cutbacks in health, education, child care, in social services right down the line; slashing of unemployment insurance benefits, dis- qualifications; foreign-owned plant clo- sures and layoffs; and use of parlia- ment, the legislatures, the state police and the ruling-class courts to smash strikes and to try to smash the trade union movement. The fight is against all that and for jobs at the same time. A strategy for full employment means a fight for — e a 32-hour work week with no loss in - take-home pay, a minimum wage of $4.50 an hour; e a fight for public ownership of Canadian resources and Canadian en- terprises, and the take-over of multi- national holdings, for independent, sovereign development to keep jobs in Canada; : When the prime minister and the 10 | provincial premiers met recently on con- stitutional issues, Canadians were led to believe that the interests and rights of the citizenry, and the up-building of the country, were their goals. A deeper look suggests otherwise. Asa starter, a key to Canadian unity, the guarantee of the self-determination of the French Canadian nation, was ig- * nored just as the federal government's Bill C-60 ignores it. The 11 were united. and other means of amassing wealth —. on behalf of the working people per- haps? — on behalf of the various group- ings of multi-nationals and of the Cana- dian corporate elite. Hs What is at stake is a reshuffling of the wealth of Canada among the corpora- tions with the Liberals and Tories gain- ing or losing political fortunes in the process — and the New Democratic leadership questioning only this or that aspect of the system run from corpora- ‘ tion board rooms. . policy change is needed to prove it.. - able by stopping the export of invest. Constitution and reality e a battle for the building of secon dary industry under public ownership at the source of resources, the resources to be placed under democratically con- trolled federal-provincial bodies with labor representation. No, not tripartism in new garb. The needs are far-reaching: redis- tribution of national income, un employment insurance at 90% of earn- ings for the entire period of joblessness. If they don’t like it, let them provide jobs! . a For young people who’ve never had a steady job at real pay, jobs or retraining at union rates. For women, equal pay for work of equal value. We need to build housing, create energy and trans portation policies for all Canada, not for the multi-nationals. Would these measures, along with boosted trade with the stable socialist economies, create jobs? Yes, and only a A large share of the needed money could come from cutting in half the in. defencible $4-billion a year Canadian arms appropriation levied against work- ing taxpayers to enrich the arms profiteers. More money would be avail- ment money created by the sweat of Canadian workers. A Canadian De. velopment Investment Fund in which labor had a voice could carry out Canada-wide building projects. To put into effect a strategy for full employment requires a united labor bat. tle to make labor’s voice dominant in Canada. A job as a right for every worker should be an article of faith sounding clearly from every gathering of Canadian workers. The media has regaled us with the “ideas” which arose in the conflab — Balkanization of Canada, the right of some areas to pile up fortunes while others get hand-outs. What such a meeting should do is to recognize the two-nation fact in Canada, and discuss the convening of a con- stituent assembly for drawing up a made-in-Canada constitution to estab- lish an equal voluntary partnership be- | _tween the French Canadian and the English-speaking nations. et The Communist Party sticks with its long-standing proposals, a true confed- eration based on these principles: recog- _ nition of the existence of two nations in Canada; guarantees of economic, social, political and cultural equality of both; - guarantees to Native peoples as distinct | peoples, their rights to their lands and to” regional self-government; cultural and linguistic rights of minorities fully guaranteed; the right to self- determination guaranteed to each of the. two nations up to and including the right | of either to separate if the majority of either nations decides. ' The first ministers ought to be dealing - with these realities instead of trying to_ fool the public while they serve their _ corporation patrons.