6 Som) a ESR. CA AD PA AE ETE BEERS. — Ss Sass. So SS Se ee Sent ES EPS IENOER NNN ES TTT PLL LLL CLL LLL LALLA LE TLL N THE occasion of May Day, the Communist Party extends greetings to working men and women in Canada and throughout the world. We extend a special May Day greeting to the heroic men and women of Quebec, who under the leadership of a Common Front, have conducted an exemplary general strike to gain some measure of economic justice for a quarter of a million people -€ngaged in public services in French Canada. We greet workers both in Canada and throughout the world who are in the front line of struggle against state monopoly exploitation, against imperialist op- Pression in any and all forms and for world peace. In Canada on this May Day of 1972, conditions are Maturing for working class struggles of unprecedented Scope to win full employment with guaranteed jobs or an adequate income for all Canadians as a right; shorter hours of work; vastly increased living stan- dards based on the fruit of the new technology being Passed on to labor and consumers; extension of demo- Cratic and civil rights; a united Canada made up of the two nations—English and French-speaking—ex- Pressed in a new confederal pact based on equal and Voluntary partnership of the two nations in a demo- cratic, sovereign bi-national state, and on the inalien- able right to self-determination; an independent anada with its own foreign policy of peace. The possibility of winning working class support for the political defeat of monopoly capital in Canada arises from the inability of state monopoly capitalism to solve its own inner contradictions. The steady Srowth of the labor force on the one hand, and the new technology in the hands of state monopoly capital seeking maximum profits on the other, result in perm- anent and growing unemployment and inflation. Ficti- tious capitalization, armaments and war, speculation and expanded credits and money supply in the hands of the rich feed the inflationary tendencies. A new militancy, based upon a firm determination Unite! Defeat monopoly attack! Win peace, jobs and progress! CANADA'S “NOT FOR SNE ‘ ae MIXOW : of workers to assert their rights, reflects monopoly efforts to rob the working people in every possible way in order to realize higher monopoly profits. Ra- tionalization of productive activity is carried on at the expense of the working class through layoffs, mass unemployment, a squeeze on workers’ real income and monopoly-rigged price structures. The banks, the speculators, the big corporations are reaping a bon- anza of profits, while working people are forced to pay increasing costs of education and social services through discriminatory tax policies. The challenge before the organized labor movement on this May Day is to provide dynamic leadership based on class struggle policies to the mass democra- tic movement; to curb monopoly power by economic and political action anchored firmly to a class ap- proach; to undertake mass struggles to expand the public sector of the economy; to put the unemployed to work; to raise buying power of the people through higher wages while cutting the hours of work; and to achieve economic expansion on a sound basis of full employment and rising standards of living, now made possible by the new technology. It is to these aims that the Communist Party pledges its support, as well as to closer unity in action with all the workers of the world, and with special emphasis on the socialist world where the working class has achieved political power and abolished the rule of big capital. In Canada too, there is already developing rapidly a new consciousness about the socialist perspective and the need to unite in action for the realization of a socialist Canada, free from monopoly exploitation and going forward in unison with the new and rising world of socialism and world peace. Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada UU LUUUOUOUAALOUUUEDEUECOUOEAOUEDEQUU COED EEEREUEEEEDEEELEED ESS PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1972—PAGE 5