Trudeau pushes ‘iron heel’ law

e@ Cont'd from pg. 5

to avoid losing their confidence,
by finding ways of denying
their needs through methods
that sound reasonable and
therefore fool them. This is
what makes Prime Minister
Trudeau one of the most dan-
gerous adversaries the working
people of Canada have ever had./

The convention called for a
guaranteed annual income. The
Prime Minister said that it
won’t come for a long, long
time. That was his resounding
“no” to the Senate Committee
on Poverty, which hasn’t yet
brought in its report, but whose
chairman, Senator Croll, has
said he will recommend a guar-
anteed annual income as a
must. That “no” from the Prime
Minister is the grim reality the
five million Canadians existing
in poverty, the millions living
in near poverty, and the mil-
lions more that unemployment
will drive into ‘the ranks of the
poverty-stricken this winter,
have to face.

Of real importance, there was
a call to reduce the govern-
ment’s annual $1.8 million arms
spending. Defense Minister Don-
ald MacDonald quickly took the
floor against this motion, say-
ing, “If you want the choice to
be able to speak up for .Cana-
dian sovereignty, to control
civil disturbances, to have forc-
es for peacekeeping or to fly
disaster relief to stricken areas
such as those in Pakistan,
you’re going to have to spend

money for it . .-we shouldn’t
‘ start’ by cutting the defense
budget down.”

We're not told whether any
delegates rose to point out that
the spending of an amount,
equal to 25% of the total spend-
ing on social welfare in Canada
at all levels, on wars stands in
the way of effective measures
to overcome poverty, poor hous-
ing, inadequate educational,
medical and recreational . facili-
ties. It helps to prevent a sys-
tem of day-care nurseries from
being established. It stands in
the way of securing markets

for farm products. It doesn’t -

overcome unemployment. It
keeps pensions too low.

The War Measures Act and
repressive legislation came in
for treatment. The capitalist
media did not reveal the degree,
if any, of opposition to the turn
to the right by the Trudeau ‘ad-
ministration. However, the con-
vention, while endorsing the
government’s repressive legisla-
tion, did pass a resolution call-
ing for a review board—which
would help to ensure that de-
mocratic principles (!) are pre-
served and abuses minimized.
It is, of course, sheer nonsense,
since it is impossible to ensure
that “democratic principles are
preserved” through their restric-
tion! There remained, said the
capitalist press, “an undercur-
rent of dissatisfaction.”

There can be no doubt that
in this sensitive area, the ma-
chine men worked full tilt to
attempt to suppress, hide and
divert any expression of opinion
which would embarrass the Tru-
deau government.

The growing concern among
Canadians about foreign domi-
nation took up a major part of
the convention. All the skill of
the machine men was used in
a concentrated effort to produce
a policy statement on foreign
ownership which would head off
what the capitalist press terms
“the economic nationalists,”
which would prevent a real split
in the Liberay party’s ranks, and
which would not tie the hands
of the government in any way.

A special Quebec resolution
moved by a recent aide to the
Prime Minister, Montreal lawyer
Michel Vennat, stated that there
must be more effective control

‘of -the Canadian economy by

Canadians, but there must be no
systematic restriction on for-
eign investments’ which would
according to the resolution, be
harmful to the “slow-growth
regions.” Instead, the resolution
urged a “selective policy” of
control over foreign ownership
of banking and the public media.

The sponsorship of the  reso-
lution by Quebec seems to give
credence to the opinion, ex-
pressed in some quarters, that
at least part of the reasons for
invoking the War Measures Act
in Quebec was to create the

Apprehended’ unemployment

@ Cont'd from pg. 5
pal governments to re-establish

a winter works program and_

construction of 5,000 subsidized
dwellings, and the “establish-
ment of a whole housing pol-
icy.” The Montreal Labor Coun-
cil resolution states, “We fore-
cast. for the coming winter an
‘apprehended’ crisis of unem-
ployment, with the unemployed
rate going up to 15%.”

The Saskatchewan Federa-
tion of Labor legislative sub-
mission stated the economic re-
sults of the Thatcher govern-
ment’s labor program were that
average weekly wages had fal-
len in relation to the Canadian
rate and those in Manitoba and
-Alberta, using DBS figures to
prove the point: “Where four
years
only $5.77 behind the national
average weekly wage, the aver-
age Saskatchewan employee's
income is now $12.67 less.
Where Saskatchewan wages
topped Manitoba’s by $5.28 a
week in 1966, Manitoba’s now
exceed ours by $2.85.”

The SFL delegation stated

ago Saskatchewan was.

that in 1966 Alberta’s average
weekly wage was $4.66 ahead

of Saskatchewan. “This gap has —

widened in 1970 to $14.24,”
Federation leaders said.

The SFL asked the govern-
ment to reduce the legal work
week to make more jobs avail-
able: A 36-hour work week with
firm limits on overtime should

be instituted, the labor delega- _

tion urged.

In its submission to the pro-
boss Thatcher government, the
SFL called: for the immediate
repeal of Bill 2 and for the
elimination of those parts of the
Trade Union Act which imped-
ed employee organization and
collective bargaining, and the
addition of sections which
would strengthen such rights.

The delegation, led by SFL
president Ross Hale of Saska-
toon, stated, “The Federation
is completely opposed to the
labor courts proposed by the
government since they are evi-
dently an expression of Bill 2’s
state interference and compul-
sion. Such methods negate free-

’ dom and are destructive of col-

lective bargaining.”

PAGIFIC TRIBUNE->-FRIDAY» NOVEMBER 27s 1970=PAGE.10°- “©

“right atmosphere” to encour-

_age U.S. monopoly investments

in Quebec, because they would
be backed up and protected by
the armed might of the state.

And on this question Quebec
delegates united with the dele-
gates from the Maritimes, the
Prairies and B.C. The strongest
support for control over foreign
investments, and a return to
Canadian ownership came from
the Liberal delegates from To-
ronto and Ontario.

A member of the Walter Gor-
don group, Tex Enemark, spe-
cial assistant to Consumer and
Corporate affairs, Ronald Bas-
ford, urged delegates to defeat
the Quebec resolution. “Our

own savings” he said “are be- .

ing taken from us to finance
foreign takeovers, and ‘that’s
pretty dumb.” :

The only proposals .the con-
vention could come up with—
besides endorsing the sale of
the resources of underdeveloped
regions to U.S. monopoly own-
ership — was that special tax
rates should be_ established
across the country and free
trade zones (presumably to help
the U.S. monopolies to obtain
Canadian raw materials as
cheaply as possible) be estab-
lished between “slow-growth
regions and the USA.” And
special incentives for process-
ing mining resources in the
province of its origin.

The conference failed to come
up with programs to overcome
unemployment, for the building
of a million badly needed jiow-
rental homes, for schools and
hospitals, for the training of
doctors and teachers, for the de-
velopment of our country. The
convention even rejected a. re-
solution calling for day-care
centres where over 50% of the
employees were women. —

Thus the Liberal Party’s de-
claration of 10 “shining” goals
for the Seventies is a cruel and
hollow mockery of the under-
privileged, the poor, the unem-
ployed, the farmers facing dis-
possession — and the millions
of young people who want alife
with a purpose.

The fight for a million jobs
goes on.

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N. S. KHRUSHCHEV

As evident by the news pub-
lished by the press of the Unit-
ed States of America and sev-
eral other capitalist countries,
the so-called memoirs or remi-
niscences by N. S. Khrushchev,
at the present time, are being
prepared for publication. This
is a fabrication and | am out-
raged by it. | have never given
any such memoirs or material
of a memoir character to any-

to other foreign publishing
houses. | have not given any
such material even to the So-
viet press. Therefore | declare
that all this is a fraud. It is
not the first time that the mer-
cenary bourgeois press has
been caught with such lies.

one—neither to the Times nor |

The Soviet eight-wheeled

; automatic “Lunokhod-1,” a self-propell:
ing laboratory rolling over the moon's Sea of Rains, is conducting

an incredible experiment that opens a new era in space explorations.
Builders of the vehicle say “the automatic system can be controll

from earth or can be completely autonomous and act in accordance -
with a program set in advance” eliminating the need for constant —

communications with the earth. Lunokhod-1 was landed on the moon

Tuesday by Luna-17, the third Soviet aircraft to explore the moon in —
58 days and the second to land there. 2

Ford, Chrysler workers

By WILLIAM ALLAN

DEARBORN—Leonard Wood-
cock, president of the United
Auto Workers (UAW) admitted
to questioning newsmen that the
union leaders had signed a mas-
ter contract, good till Dec. 7,
1970, with the Ford Motor Co.,
which will include checkoff of
$20 a month dues, a piece of
which goes to build the union’s
depleted strike fund. Woodstock
also revealed that Doug Fraser,
UAW-Chrysler director was try-
ing to accomplish the same at
Chrysler negotiations, now going
on simultaneously with Ford. It is
also expected similar agreements.
will be reached in Canada at
Ford’s and Chrysler.

Back around Sept. 15, when
the UAW struck General Motors,
Ford and Chrysler, in lockstep
with GM, cancelled the union
contract and issued warnings to
the union no funds, such as
strike money to help GM work-
ers, could be collected in the
Ford plants, or Chrysler, the
union has been having a hard
time collecting the $20 special
strike money, assessed by a
special convention; in some Ford
departments at the Rouge plant
only 25% had paid.

At Ford’s it could mean $2
million for the UAW per month
as long as the $20 assessment is
in effect. The Ford workers re-
sented the news blackout con-
ducted by UAW top brass dur-
ing the recent GM eight-week
strike. The reaction was to not
pay the strike assessment, be-
cause they didn’t know either
what was going on in the Ford
negotiations.

demand GM type contract

It’s doubtful if the news of the —

master agreement (same as the
1967-70) pact being
would have reached the Ford

and Chrysler workers much be .

fore the dues checkoff this week,
unless newsmen had discoveré
the move by UAW.

With the signing of a contract
up to this Dec. 7, on work rules

and conditions in both Ford and —
Chrysler, this casts the die a5 —

far as any major improvement
in both contracts is concerned.
Ford and Chrysler would nevel
agree to bail out the UAW on

carrying out a dues checkoff, ~
which they banned .during the
GM strike, unless some serious —

concessions were made to them.

Ford and Chrysler wouldn't

offer any less. money than GM

did, but where they’d demand —

a pound ‘of flesh would be that

no demands be raised to radi-
cally alter the Ford and Chrysler”

pacts, on improving working
conditions, cutting down on
speedup, etc. The word from
Ford contacts is that Ford in-
tends and is gearing up for a 10-

20% increase in production quo-

tas right after the Ford-UAW

“pact is okayed by the workers.

Therefore if the union leaders,

Woodcock and Ford-UAW direc- —

tor Ken Bannon, have agreed tO
re-establish the 1967-70 contract,
up until Dec. 7, 1970 in order
to get $2 million in uncollected
strike funds, that’s the price
being paid. It’s the Ford work-
ers, however, who’ll really pay
the price with the continuance

of a lousy, speedup contract that ©

hasn’t seen a strike against
speedup in the Ford Rouge plant
for 20 years.

GM strikers adamant

@ Cont'd from pg. 5
of 15 cents more than in Canada.

Lambert pointed out that the
1967 settlement saw the union
make a concession on cost of liv-
ing to win parity. The time has
come now, hé said, for GM to
make the concession to its Cana-
dian workers, who demand they
have the 15 cents extra COL
paid to the U.S.-GM workers.

Parity also means adjusting
the U.S. pension plan to Cana-
dian requirements, It means that
GM workers in Canada are solid
in their demand that they have
the same right as their U.S.
brothers to strike during the life
of the agreement. -

The killing overtime that GM
has been forcing on its ‘workers

has made them resolute in theif
principled demand that all over-
time be voluntary.

These are the ‘gut’ issues out-
standing in the Canadian G
strike.

The militancy of the strikers
can be estimated by the way it
blazed up Nov. 20 at the giant
Oshawa GM plants. The strikers,
members of UAW Local 222,
blocked off all. the gates that
day, refusing entrance to over
4,000 GM office workers.

“We did this,” declared Ted
O'Connor, acting Local 222 pre-
sident, “as a demonstration of
support for our committee il

Toronto—to show the member: ©

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signed,

ship is still with them and sup —

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porting them.” ©