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rings no happiness

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fi y DER BAY — The com-
uaTy amalgamation of Port
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o exploded to 100,000 over-
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pense did city council
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ee more costly. Electric,
so telephone costs have
: : The city “by-line” or
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e eee The forests,
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4 mack Iron ore mines give
Bois Capital commanding
me; Over the economy
algamation has tended

to protect them from paying a
fair share of the tax require-
ments. ;

Abitibi Paper Co. is located
in park land area within five
miles of the city proper. Its
total tax bill hardly equals the
tax bills of the other two dozen
cabin owners located on the park
land.

A speculator’s land grab in
this area seems to have been
engineered by a cartel formed
among leading lights of the con-
struction industry, probably
with advance information on
amalgamation and regional de-
velopment plans.

There have been open rum-
blings that democratic control

of city council has passed under

arbitrary control of the admin-
istration. Some members of city
council have charged publicly
they have lost control of de-
cision-making.

Amalgamation is a reality.
We have to live with it. But it
demands that this predominant-
ly working-class district will
have to achieve a greater unity
around progressive candidates
for city council and begin the
long haul of wresting the dis-
trict and city council from U.S.
domination of our industrial
complex and to win new policies
for the people. ~

By N. E. STORY

1970 was the year of the big
stick—in Montreal, at least. It
was the year of apprehended in-
surrection, with lots of appre-
hensions but no insurrection.

Did the Canadian ruling class
gain or lose more by its War
Measures Act and Turner Law
(Public Order Act)?

The bourgeoisie is trying to
trade on it for permanent legis-
lature, ranging from Choquette’s
police state evolution intended
to be launched with ID Cards,
to demands for permanent fede-
ral legislation outlawing civil
liberties under the Criminal
Code. We must not forget Mon-
treal’s restaurateur-mayor Dra-
peau, who added machine guns
to other political trickery for
re-election. Finally, what a nice
firm boost for Anglo-Saxon
chauvinism!

But. did the ruling class gain
more than it lost? .

No, it has not.

More Alert

More Canadians were alerted
to the savage force which lurks
behind the pastel facade of
bourgeois democracy. Some of
those befuddled liberals who
saw in “liberal” Trudeau a left-
ward re-fashioning of the Lib-
eral Party have perhaps become
somewhat less fuddled by this
spectacle of a bureaucrat with a
steel trigger finger and com-
puter in place of a heart, this
animal for whom humans are
mere statistics.

Last but far from least is the
question of the national aspira-

tions of the French Canadian _

nation — which underlines not
only the dramatic events of the
year of the big stick but the
whole tendency of contempora-
ry Canadian politics. Quebec-
ois are not less but more sensi-
tized to national injustices, to
economic injustices like highest
unemployment in Canada and so
forth.

They have learned something
too, about the dangers of ter-
rorism and anarchism as poli-
tical philosophies.

But the Canadian bourgeoisie

Underwater

bulldozer

MOSCOW (APN) — An un-
usual machine has been devised
by the natural research insti-
tute of transport construction.
It is intended for work at great
depths of the sea. The hydraulic
drive provides a good manoeuv-
rability for this bulldozer.

Soviet designers and _ scien-
tists solved an intricate prob-
lem of building dikes and piers.
As a rule, they rest on flow-
through stone supports. It is not
easy to lay them, and divers
spend a lot of time on this work.
The new machine will replace
divers.

Having levelled out the stones,
the machine rises to its steel
“legs” and, slowly moving them,
gets to another spot. The posi-
tion of the working parts of the
machine is reported automatical-
ly to an operator who exercises
remote control from the panel
on the surface.

is as obtuse as any other ruling
class. They haven’t learned any-
thing from popular antagonism,
they won’t be taught—and they
are vindictive. Their latest gam-

bit is imposition of crushing
sentences for “contempt of
court.”
slapped a year on Marcel Char-
trand when, after nearly three
months incommunicado, he tried
to say something in court. 21-
year-old Jean Boisjoly got 15
months from the same judge.

The Indictment

The legal situation is sum-
marized in a request for habeas
corpus presented Jan. 14 to Jus-
tice Jean-Paul Bergeron of the
Court of the Queen’s Bench, by

Michel Chartrand, Charles
Gagnon, Robert Lemieux and
Pierre Vallieres. The request

states in part:

“Arrested without warrant on
October 16, the appellants were
illegally imprisoned for 21 days.
On November 5, they were
charged with seditious conspir-
acy and membership in an il-

Pees

Judge Roger Ouimet |

any one of us might

OCCUPIED MONTREAL: Corrupting the young—or

legal organization, the FLQ.

‘They were charged under pre-

ferred indictment which denied
them preliminary enquiry, pro-
test or statement. They were
informed of the charges only at
the moment they stood up in
court. Then they were thrown
back in jail.

“The appellants were arrest-
éd in face of an apprehended
insurrection whose existence
has never been demonstrated
legally or in fact ... j

“The state has arrested and
detained the appellants without
warrant, under an Act not yet
published in the Official Gazette
at the time of their apprehen-
sion. It has totally deprived
them of access to accepted legal
procedures. The state has acted
illegally and the appellants
should be released at once.”

One does not have to agree
with the politics in Chartrand-
Gagnon - Lemieux - Vallieres to
unreservedly enderse that last
statement. Prompt and militant
support is required. After all,
be next.

= a

apprehended insurrectionary?

World Marxist Review
in new pocket foremat

The world’s biggest circula-
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