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By MIKE GIDORA

President Clarence Campbell to set
lus straight as to what really
happened during the  just-
Completed series between the two
touring Soviet hockey teams and
eight representatives of the
National Hockey League.
| Campbell said that Soviet hockey
was “very skilful, fundamentally
Sound, but wouldn’t sell tickets in
North America.
| “I don’t think I would want to
(pay money to see it more than
once,” he added.
__That’s what I like about old
Clarence. He gets right to the heart
of the Neanderthal Hockey
League: money. And without
letting a little thing like sport blind
his loyalities — or his priorities.
_ Under Campbell’s guidance, the
NHL, which once featured skills
Such as skating and shooting has
matured to the point where a
typical league game could rival the
St. Valentine’s Day massacre in
terms of pure bloodshed. And
Campbell has done it all for the
people who hire him and pay him,
the owners of the 18 NHL ‘teams,
who really couldn’t care what
happened on the ice as long as they
Can make a dollar out of it.
Last Sunday’s series final in
Philadelphia may well have been
the crowning point in Campbell’s
Career. After all, the Philadelphia
Flyers had just beaten the Central
Red Army team in what Flyer
Coach Fred Shero had billed as the
Championship of the World.” And
beat them the Flyers did,
Primarily with their sticks about

the head and shoulders to such a -

degree that the Soviet team left the
Ice in protest over the sheer
brutality of the game.

| it is not unheard of for teams to
“eave the ice in protest when they
are playing the Philadelphia
Bet S; it’s happened at least twice
ete when they were playing
Other NHI, teams, who are

Prepared for the terrorism dished.
out by the Flyers.

unday’s game wasn’t a ‘world
It wasn’t even
ey. Sunday’s game was a
le commodity designed,

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I knew we could count on NHL

developed and packaged for
paying customers who, as the
Vancouver Province commented,
“would cheer for Frankenstein if
he could skate.”’

And on Sunday there was the
added factor of anti-Sovietism,
which has surfaced continuously
during the eight games.

Looking back over the eight
games, it has been these two
factors, the threat of possible
violence and the anti-Soviet at-
titude of various players, coaches
and commentators which have
stood out, and frequently over-
shadowed the hockey.

Both are eminently salable, and.

both were used to their maximum
in order to justify Clarence
Campbell’s personal crusade
against the communist menace.

Now that the series is over,
maybe an honest appraisal will be
made of the eight games. In terms
of who won, it’s obvious. The two
Soviet teams won five of the eight
games and tied one. They out-
scored their NHL opponents 35-31.

More than that, they outclassed
them tremendously. At all times,
even when trailing by five or six
goals as the Wings were against
Buffalo, the Soviet players refused
to be drawn into the petty violence
which so often accompanies
hockey in this country.

The Soviet attitude was one of
sportsmanship, of friendly com-

petition. Contrast this to
statements by Bobby Clarke of the
Flyers, that he ‘“‘hates the

Russians,”’ or the silly attempts by
Phil Esposito to characterize the
Soviet players as robots who “have
to learn emotion,” and the real
winner ofthis series becomes
obvious.

‘Tf anyone lost, it was Clarence
Campbell, who now, more than
ever, will find it harder and harder
to sell his league as the only league
in town.

The real losers are, of course, the
hockey fans who have to put up
with old Clarence and his tired old
pitch of ‘‘we’re number one” with
the full knowledge that there’s
more to the game than terrorism.

-the

CLC HEAD SAYS:

Labor faces tough year

Canadian Labor Congress
president Joe Morris predicted
that 1976 will be a bad and bitter
year for Canada’s 10 million
workers... According to CLC
economists unemployment-for 1976
is expected to rise from this year’s
7.2 per cent to 8.5 per cent.

When all forms of unemployment
are included, such as new entrants
into the labor force looking for
their first job, it is predicted by
economists that Canada will have
close to one million unemployed.

Morris told reporters, ‘‘wage
controls are going to do nothing to

‘reduce industrial tensions in this,

country . . . the growth rate of the
economy will fall off, creating even
higher unemployment.”’

He continued, ‘‘The world is not
going to pull out of this slump as
quickly as alot of optimistic people
have been saying.”

1976 will see 710,055 workers or
approximately 42.5 per cent of
major collective agreements
coming up for renegotiation.

Spokesmen for the 25,000 striking
paper workers in the Canadian
Paperworkers Union say that the
federal wage-cutting program has
been an important factor in
prolonging the monumental strike
which began in some instances in
July 1975.

1,700 aircraft workers at
DeHavilland Aircraft and 8,800

KASHTAN

Cont'd from pg. 2

“Real planning under socialism,
which guarantees rising living
standards and full employment, a
real new life and a new quality of
life for the people. . .”’Kashtan

declared; contrasted with the .

system where the prime minister
calls for ‘‘belt tightening’ and
reduced ‘‘expectations.”

The Communist Party of Canada

has played a very important role’

during the past year, the general
secretary indicated.

‘Implicit with the growing crisis
in the capitalist. system, and
dynamic advance of socialism,” he
said, ‘is the growing questioning
by people and a growing turn
toward socialist ideas.’’ This was
reason, he_ said, for
capitalism’s sharpening
ideological campaign against the

people and against the socialist .

world.

In the face of this, Kashtan said,
it was important for Communists
to fight back “‘with every ounce of
energy they have against all the
lies and distortions of capitalism in
its effort to denigrate socialism
and thereby blind people to the
path forward to the achievement of
a more humane and just society.

“We must do better in helping to
unite the people of Canada in the
fight for peace and independence,
in helping to strengthening the soli-
darity movements of the people on
all. fronts, and with respect to
building our Party, the Young
Communist League, and the
press.”

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Metro Toronto high school
teachers have both been nailed by
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having been rejected by the board.

Canada’s 95,000 railway workers
have been bogged down in
negotiations in Montreal since
October due to the chaos created
by the introduction of the controls.

Major pacts which come up for
renewal in 1976 include air traffic

controllers, who begin negotiations ©

in the early part of the year, the
Seafarers International Union with

the Canadian Lake Carriers
Associations in March, and 6,380
Toronto Transit Commission
employees will begin talks in June.

Next fall will open up a new
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fades out the Thunder Bay Grain-
handlers’ will be opening
negotiations.

In B.C., 200,000 workers will be in
negotiations for a new contract in
1976.

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