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By ALAIN PATRIE

MONTREAL — More than
10,000 workers and citizens last
Friday formed a living river of
humanity as they poured
through the streets of Montreal
demonstrating against the in-
human and anti-labor tactics of
La Presse. :

The march was organized by
the trade union centres: Quebec
Federation of Labor, Confedera-
tion of National Trade Unions
and the Corporation of Quebec
Teachers. It turned into a mo-
nument of united front strategy
when it was joined by represen-

United in solidarity support of the locked-out La

i tec tt
_ 29 for the right of all workers to pro
ec setn " | riot police savagely attacke

lut Canada back to work!

Assert Canada's economic

and political independence,
break U.S. stranglehold!

_A sharp turn in the direction of Can-
ada’s affairs is imperative, Prime Min-
ister Trudeau and the premiers of the
provinces are told in a letter by the
Central Executive Committee of the
Communist Party of Canada.

The letter concludes with the state-
ment that if action to end the disastrous
U.S. domination of the economy and

tatives of almost every spectrum
of Quebec society.

The demonstration was the
outcome of the most recent de-
velopment of La Presse which
arbitrarily locked out its em-
.ployees in a blatant effort to
break the strike as well as any
militancy among the workers of
that institution.

The conflict, which has been
simmering for several months,
flared into the open when La
Presse, Quebec’s largest and the
world’s second largest French
daily, decided to introduce new
automated equipment which

Ontario unionists meet

With a record 1,000 delegates
in attendance the Ontario Fed-
eration of Labor representing
700,000 organized workers _in
Canada’s most highly-industrial-
ized province opened its three-
day 15th annual convention on

_ 1 in Toronto. ;
one convention meets ata
time of crisis for Ontario ae
ers, with the struggle for Jobs
recognized in militant speech
by delegates as the number on
issue before the convention.

BILL 33 1S BIASED.

EMPLOVER LEGISLATION am

Plant shutdowns, layoffs, all the
ravages of mass unemployment
have hit and increasingly con-
tinue to hit Ontario workers.
The damning facts of the
combined offensive against the
working people by Canadian
monopoly and U.S. domination
of key sectors of Ontario’s
economy are set out in a survey
given each delegate. Prepared by
the OFL Research Department,
the survey reveals that in no de-
cade since the 1929 economic
crash have there been as many
plant shutdowns and layoffs 2s
in the one-year period ending
1971. ;
a delegates moved quickly
on the first day of the conven-
tion. to show..their_anger at this
situation, and the anti-democra-
@ Cont'd on page 10

Presse employees, thousands of Montreal workers
heir jobs. Pictured here joined in leading the mass
d the marchers are Louis Laberge, president
president of the Confederation of National Trade

f the Corporation of Quebec Teachers.

directly threatened the typo-
graphers. When they in turn de-
manded negotiations in so far
as conditions and security were
concerned,. La Presse refused.
They insisted negotiations be
conducted with the concerned
workers only. This naturally
would have led to jurisdictional
fighting. It. was rumoured that
La Presse wished to close down,
as it finally did with this week’s
lockout.

Some informed sources go
much further in describing the
struggle. They insist that the
real battle began seven years
ago when in 1964 La Presse
locked out its typographers for
seven months. This was the ini-
tial signal from an_ institution
which maintains the closest
links with the political powers
in Quebec. La Presse was to call
the plays for the establishment
which was bent on. extinguish-
ing the ‘quiet revolution.”

The tools necessary for the
job were twofold. “News mana-
gement” and ‘worker manage-
ment.” This assault on truth
and working conditions was to
have an ever-widening effect, so
that finally the Quebeckers
would be returned to the status.
quo of the Duplessis days.

It is in this context that we
can now see Mayor Drapeau’s
arrogant edict which prevented
the workers from demonstrating
around the locked-out building.
The mayor informed. newsmen

that he is the one person com, .

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1971—PAGE 5

present Canadian government policies,
and to embark on a practical course to
build Canada and provide work is not
taken, the workers will increase their
efforts to achieve those ends. Addressed
to Mr. Trudeau as chairman of the
federal-provincial conference of prime
ministers that is scheduled for Nov. 15,
16 and 17, the letter reads:

Hon. Prime Minister and Gen-
tlemen:

~ Your meeting takes place at
a time of growing anxiety and
anger amongst Canadians aris-
ing from the state of our econ-
omy. and the catastrophic rise
in unemployment.

This situation arises from
government policy which deli-
berately created mass unem-
ployment to slow down econ-
omic activity. Recent steps
taken by your government have
not overcome the near stagna-
tion in the economy nor pre-
vented unemployment’ from
continuing to rise.

An already bad situation is
being made worse by President
Nixon’s new economic policies
which are intended to export
U.S. infiation and unemploy-
ment to other capitalist coun-
tries, including our own, and
open the door to world-wide re-
cession.

In. this way the Canadian
people are being made to pay
for the U.S. war of aggression
in Vietnam and for, U.S. foreign
policy. Now the pressures are
on to export the U.S. wage
freeze into Canada also.

Must Act Now

- The time has come for Cana-
da to break out of the U.S
stranglehold and to assert its
economic and political inde-
pendence. Failure to take such
measures now means that Cana-
dians will be condemned to be-
come . “hewers of wood and
drawers of water, gas and. oil”
for the exclusive benefit of the
U.S... multi-national —corpora-
tions. Fuller integration with
the USA, including the forma-
tion of a common market which
some monopoly interests want,
will lead not only to the loss of
Canadian independence’ and
@ Cont'd on page 10

Labor delegates
cheer Elvira

1,000 delegates at the con-
vention of the Ontario Federa-
tion of Labor on Nov. 1
demonstrated their solidarity
with the 8,000,000 workers of
Spain with two standing ova-
tions for Carlos Elvira, repre-
sentative of Spanish Workers
Commissions at the recent Tor-
onto Spanish Amnesty Confer-
ence. Thanking the OFL
delegates Elvira, who has
spent 21 years in fascist dic-
tator Franco's prisofs, . told
them, “You can be sure that in
spite of all difficulties we will
continue our struggle until we

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