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An unlamented death...

the dagger. The “sympathy”
was remembered, the “dagger
forgotten—and the roll of Star
readers kept increasing.

Politics entered a stage of
flux in the 1930’s. Tory R. B.
Bennett bit the dust. Toronto
began to elect Communists and
other opponents of the old par-
ties to office . . . Feverish hunt-
ing began for a_ right-wing
“united front” alternative in
case the danger to the old order
became-acute. A young protege
of an old prospector who struck
it rich in the North Ontario gold
fields bought up the two morn-
ing papers, merged them into the
Globe & Mail, trumpeted for a
Leadership League of which he
was to be the Leader. The
people turned him down, but the
Con-Lib G&M gained the mono-

. poly of the morning paper field.

Competition between the two
evening papers became sharper,
with the Telegram losing
ground. A new owner took over,
tried to make it “mod.” Catho-
lic bishops and Zionist rabbis
were accorded lavish space. But
the synthetic smile on the old
harlot’s lips couldn’t lure back
the readers. It was the end of

the trail...

They write today about the
“tragedy” of it all. It 1s insofar
as the employees are concerned.
But the publisher got a cool ten
million dollars for his subscrib-
ers’ list — from that “arch-
enemy,” the Star, which also
leases the building and equip-
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The United Nations
General Assembly

The United Nations General Assem-
bly has commenced its 26th session.

From its foundation over 25 years ago

the United Nations has been the scene
of struggle between the forces of peace
and war, of national liberation and colo-
nial oppression. In the United Nations
the peaceful policies of socialism have
confronted the aggressive policies of
imperialism.

For Canada, the present session of
the General Assembly can see our coun-
try stand for peace by breaking the
choking grip U.S. imperialism has
maintained for so long on our foreign
policy.

Mankind’s demand that the United
States end its aggression in Indochina,
withdraw its troops, bases, allies, the
whole bloody barrage of its dirty war
from there, will come before the Assem-
bly. Canada’s delegation must speak

for it. eae

must also speak for the liquidation
re Deieaine Sianion in the Middle
East, by demanding Israel act in accord-
ance with the 1967 decision of the UN
Security Council.

Our country has recently and correct-
ly indicated its suppot for admission of
the People’s Republic of China to the
United Nations. This has always been
the position of the socialist countries.

The 26th Session of the General As-
sembly will have before it the momen-
tous proposal of the Soviet Union that
it consider the question of a World Dis-
armament Conference as an urgent
and important item.” Such a world con-
ference would be open to all states
without exception. :

should support this proposal.
Ler so it will act in the interests
of the Canadian people. who desire
eace, who want to live in friendship
vith all peoples — without the threat
of nuclear war and imperialist aggres-

sion.

ties : re

licies of peace and friendship, o
eae ie all nations, meet the urgent
needs of the Canadian people. The
scourge of massive unemployment is
the result mainly of U.S. imperialism s
aggression and of our country’s com-
plicity in it. ; a

da can go a long way to

hatin ahis session of the UN’s General

Assembly.

How reality confronts
the CLC at Calgary

1m and harsh realities often re-
E ast the best of planning be at
least amended, sometimes changed en-

tirely. . 3

Canadian Labor Congress 1
s Eeidog a four-day conference on
Health and Safety to take place Sept.
97-30 in Calgary. The conference, the

unces,
re 300 delegates representing 1,650,-

000 workers in 7,

is to bring together.
000 CLC-affiliated local

unions, provincial federations and labor
councils across the country.

The last such conference was held in
1969 in Montreal. Since then, no doubt,
much planning has gone into the present
Calgary Health and Safety conference.
The subjects are of vital interest to the
welfare of working people in general
and most particularly of industrial

‘workers.

The fact is, however, that next week’s
CLC conference was prepared far in
advance of the devastating increases in
unemployment in Canada. The release
last week of Statistics Canada’s report
of simultaneous increases in both un-
employment and cost of living confirm-
ed what was generally known by all
working people: Canada’s economic
situation had gone from bad to worse,
and that even before the impact of
Nixon’s economic offensive had com-
menced to be felt here.

Now, as brutal indicators of the mass
layoffs that are coming up, the jobs of
2,000 General “Motors workers and of
1,200 Toronto Telegram employees have
been destroyed.

In view of the extreme urgency of
the situation, the CLC leadership should
consider the advisability, indeed the ne-
cessity, that the agenda of its Calgary
conference be altered so that the 200
assembled delegates can give their con-
sideration to the main problem facing
Canadian workers—monopoly’s attack
on their jobs, wages and living stan-
dards.

The conference provides the opportu-
nity to do this. It can become, at the
same time that it considers Health and
Safety, the kind of conference that
trade union locals and councils (and the
Canadian Tribune) have many
times called on the CLC to convene: an
emergency conference to fight for poli-
cies to create iobs — not mass unem-
ployment as Trudeau and monopoly
have done.

In addition to hearing a government
official discourse on “Pollution—Quality
of Life,” the delegates should have the
chance to tell Trudeau and Benson:
Stop destroying the lives of workers
and their families! Jobs, not plant
closures! Increased wages! No wage
freeze!

“Safety education” and “industrial
diseases” are subjects of great impor-
tance to workers. The bosses don’t give
a damn about working conditions: as
they speed up production lines.

But the disease affecting the lives of
all Canadian working people is unem-
ployment. Wipe it out!

This critical moment, with the threat
that next winter’s unemployment will
be terrible in its deadly sweep—making
the misery of last fall, winter“ and
spring look like boom times—presents
the CLC leaders with the challenge to
alter the agenda of the Calgary confer-
ence.

The CLC leadership can prove worthy
of its grave responsibilities if it there
proposes to the delegates that the Con-
gress give a positive response to the
call of the Communist Party for a
mighty coalition of labor and democra-
tic forces to “Put Canada Back to
work!”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1971—PAGE 3