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Communist Party of Canada, and
Communiste du Quebec,

carry the banner of the Quebec section of the party in the demon-
Stration-lobby at Parliament Hill on Monday.

‘Canada GM strikers
battling for parity

The Canadian UAW-GM Mas-
ter Negotiating Committee has
the full support of the member-
Ship in its stand for maintain-
Ing wage parity, Gordon Lam-
bert, chairman of the committee
told the Canadian Tribune.

As the negotiators for 24,000
Striking Canadian General Mo-
tors workers prepared Tuesday
Morning, Dec. 1 to meet again
With the company’s top U.S.
and Canadian brass, Lambert
Noted that Leonard Woodcock,
International president of the
UAW would be present in To-
Tonto for the critical bargain-
ing sessions.

“Our. committee’s meetings
last week with all our Canadian
UAW-GM locals in Ontario and
Quebec,” Lambert said, “have
Tesulted in the fullest solidarity

and determination to stay out

Until the company meets our
demands for wages and pen-

‘Sions parity, for a guaranteed

Supplemental Benefits Fund,

for voluntary overtime.”

Lambert made it clear that
the UAW-GM negotiations re-
Sume with the backing of the
Union’s General Motors section
in the United States. ‘‘That’s
Why Woodcock is joining us
this morning,” he declared.
“His participation at this time
Im the negotiations signalizes
the united support for our con-
tinuing struggle to maintain
Parity.”

By WILLIAM ALLAN

WINDSOR — The Canadian
Section of the United Auto
Workers union has called on
the Trudeau government not to
grant General Motors a defer-
ment on duty on cars shipped
into Canada from the U.S. while
the present strike of 30,000 GM
workers is in effect.

This was told the 1,200 angry
GM strikers at a mass rally
here at the weekend. UAW of-
ficials were headed by Gordon
Lambert, national chairman of
the UAW GM Council, reported
on the crisis in negotiations.

Charles Brooks, president of
Chrysler Local 444, also in ne-
gotiations, said a Canadian gov-
ernment deferment on duty
payments to GM would be out-
right strikebreaking by Tru-
deau. Brooks said that if the
GM corporation was allowed to
ship U.S. cars into Canada dur-
ing this strike of Canadian GM
workers, they could flood Cana-
dian dealers in an attempt to
break the strike.

Meanwhile in Dearborn, Mich-
igan, the Ford Motor Company
and UAW were obviously com-
ing to terms along ’ General
Motors contract lines after Mal-
colm Denise, Ford labor rela-
tions director, offered the GM
package.

ayonets will not solve
uebec issue — Douglas
agrees with CP lobby

“The government of Canada must
get cracking now on today’s number
one priority — the crisis of unemploy-
ment,” declared William Kashtan, gen-
eral secretary of the Communist Party
of Canada who, with Samuel Walsh.
president of the Communist Party of
Quebec, led their party’s “1,000,000
New Jobs” lobby Nov. 30 to Ottawa.

and Oshawa picketed the var-
liament building as the CPC de-
legation presented the party’s
brief (see page 4) to represen-
tatives of the Prime Minister,
and then met cordially with
NDP leader Mr. T. C. Douglas
to discuss measures to over-
come the “scourge of mass un-
employment.”

Speaking on the picketline to
radio, TV and press representa-
tives, Kashtan charged that the
Trudeau government “has chos-
en to ignore the urgent need for
the kind of crash and long-term
programs to provide jobs that
our brief proposes. This is the
real priority, instead of the War
Measures Act and its substitute,
which can’t deal with the
crisis.”

By MEL DOIG

Trudeau

Communists from Montreal
carried posters with the slogan
“Quebec needs jobs — not the
army!” Pointing to the slogan,
Sam Walsh ‘said, “The Bourassa
government was caught com-
pletely by surprise by the reac-
tion of the people of Quebec and
the labor movement, which re-
fused to be intimidated by the
War Measures Act and the army
of occupation and demanded a
genuine crash program to fight
unemployment. This was the
highlight of the great rally in
Montreal last Wednesday. It
will continue to be the central
part of the attack against the
callous policy of the Bourassa
government which has_substi-
tuted bayonets for jobs.”

Prime Minister Trudeau had

All-in European security
plan winning—Brezhnev

MOSCOW — The Berlin situ-
ation could be improved if all
sides display good will, Soviet
Communist Party leader Leonid
Brezhnev said Sunday in Yere-
van at a celebration to mark the
50th ‘ anniversary of Soviet
Armenia.

“The only thing needed for
this is for all sides concerned to
display good will and work out
decisions that would meet the
wishes of the West Berlin popu-
lation and take into account the
legitimate interests and sov-

ereign rights of the German De-
mocratic Republic.

“The Soviet Union has been
striving consistently for the de-
velopment of peaceful, mutu-

ally beneficial cooperation with
all states which seek the same.
We consider useful a certain
enlivening of contacts with
Britain.

“Notable changes are taking
place in the European continent
and there are fairly good
grounds to say that these are
changes for the better.”

The proposal made by the
countries of the Warsaw Pact
for a European security confer-
ence is becoming an increasing-
ly topical matter. Soviet for-
eign policy was, he said, “irre-
conciliable to any encroach-
ments by the imperialists on
the freedom and independence
of the peoples.

“The aggressors
stopped being aggressors. This
is very vividly brought out by
the recent provocative Ameri-
can air raids on a number of
populated localities of North
Vietnam.

“The just cause of the people
of embattled Vietnam will un-
doubtedly triumph. They may
further rely on Soviet assistance
and support,” he declared.

(The Soviet ambassadorin the
GDR has protested to the three
Western powers
meeting of the Christian Demo-

- cratic Group of Bonn Parliamen-

tarians in West Berlin on Mon-
day. The GDR refuses to allow
former nazis and neo-nazis, of
which many exist among Chris-
tian Democratic MPs, to use au-
tobahns or railways across its
territory.)

have not -

against a.

Calling recent federal plans to pro-
vide jobs this winter “a drop in the
bucket,” Kashtan said, “Ever since
introduced his calamitous
austerity program our Party has
fought against it. Life has proven we

were correct in doin
Communists from

so.”

earlier by letter curtly advised
the CPC he had “no time” to’
receive the party’s jobs program
submission and assigned his
corresponding secretary, a Mr.
Henri Lawless, and two others
of his personal staff to meet
with the CPC lobby delegation.

Formally presenting the brief,
William Kashtan told the Prime
Minister’s representatives, “Mr.
Trudeau’s austerity program
has done a great disservice to
our country. It is most urgent
that Parliament act now on un-
employment which already is
over 550,000 and threatens to
blast the jobs and lives of 750,-
000 workers this winter.”

Sam Walsh added, “The peo-
ple of Quebec are demanding
that the $500,000 daily expenses
for the army of occupation to
be paid for by the Bourassa
government be used immediate-
ly instead to provide jobs. In
Quebec today there is an appre-
hended crisis situation of mas-
sive unemployment requiring
particular attention.”

William Stewart, Ontario CPC
leader told Trudeau’s represent-
atives that increased U.S. take-
over of important sections of

Ontario’s economy is: consider-
ed “a growing cause of unem-
ployment. Both at. a provincial
and federal level the govern-
ment has to come to grips with
the need to restore the eco-
nomic sovereignty of our coun-
try. Otherwise we'll continue to
import. unemployment.”

The CPC delegation was re-
ceived in a friendly atmosphere
by, the New Democratic Party
leader, T. C. Douglas, who
greeted Bill Kashtan warmly.

Kashtan said the CPC ap-
proves of many of the points
raised by the NDP to meet the
present economic _ situation,
“Several of them correspond to
points. we ourselves advance.”

Mr. Douglas stated the eco-
nomic situation is far worse
than the government admits.
“We should,” he declared, “have
a massive program for housing
and public works, for redistri-
bution of incomes and for
machinery to control invest-
ments to create jobs.” Sharply
critical of the lateness and total
inadequacy of the Liberal gov-
ernment’s public works projects,
Douglas charged the govern-

tment had not miscalculated —
“Trudeau. has said he was pre-

_pared to have 6% unemploy-

ment in Canada.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1970—PAGE 5 .

. L issue, Trudeau told

oronto, Montreal