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25 years ago...

THE RAILWAY CAN PAY

Can the rail corporations pay
the 45 cent pay increase de-
Mmanded by the 125,000 non-
Operating rail workers?

Take C.P.R. as an example. In
the past four years it has amas-
sed a profit on rail operations
alone of $113,884,324. Its re-

Serves have increased in the

Same period from $486-million
to $538-million and working
Capital has increased from
97-million to $103-million.
_ There is plenty here to pay a
living wage — even if it means a
slight reduction in dividends to
€w York and. London. -
CP has labelled the workers’
demands ‘‘armedrobbery’’. Well
first of all a living wage is not
Tobbery”, and secondly, CP
Should look at its own record of
larceny and graft before it starts
accusing anyone of anything.
Starting with the Indians, CP has
4 long list of sins to answer for.
The Tribune
July 14, 1952

50 years ago...

FACTORY PAPERS REVEAL

SWEATING
DETROIT — The June issues

of three papers written by work-

ers in Detroit auto factories pic-
ture the ever growing nervous

tension in the production

speed-up game.

PThe aeord Worker” in com-
menting on the coming new
model, says “in the final wind up
of production on the old car the
bosses are going crazy indeed.
They don’t care about quality, all
they want is quantity and still
more production.”

The “Hudson Worker” says:
“The Hudsons are replacing the
men workers with women work-
ers as fast as they can. They pay
the women about half the wages
the men were receiving.” __

The “Dodge Worker” says:
“While wages were constantly
being lowered the production
was growing daily until by the
end of 1926 we were producing
twice as much as in 1925.”

' The Worker
July 16, 1927

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EDITORIAL
COMIMUENT

The ‘human rights’ fraud

Amid the U.S. president’s clangour
about so-called human rights — not in
the USA, not with regard to the brutally
wronged Wilmington Ten, but sup-
posedly in the USSR — it was refreshing
to hear the more reasoned approach of
Prime Minister Trudeau and West Ger-
man Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, meet-
ing in Vancouver.

The comments of officials who at-
tended the meeting were that the two
“balanced detente and human rights and
accepted the fact that to push the rights
issue beyond a certain point might be
counter productive (to) support of those
rights.”

It is certainly true when the accusa-
tions against the Soviet Union are prop-
aganda inventions to befog the minds of
victims of the capitalist media.

It is clear that many in Western
Europe fear the consequences of U.S.
policy; otherwise, statesmen in Bonn,
Paris and other capitals would not have
ventured to criticize Carter’s. political
miscalculations.

The striking feature about detente is
that it has become an objective of the
official national policy of many countries
— East and West. It is the standard of
state relations as envisaged by the Hel-
sinki Final Act of 1975.

Carter’s attempt to pose as an inter-
national umpire — and neither an.im-
partial nor a guiltless one — is entirely
out of tune with world opinion. Let him

condemn the atrocities of Chile, of South —

Africa, of South Korea; let him disavow
the murderous Trident nuclear sub-
marine, the .deadly Cruise missile; let
him get his warriors out of South Korea,
out of the Indian Ocean; let him call off
the multinational vultures preying on
peoples in Africa, Latin America — yes,
and Canada!

_ Human rights? Who is the U.S. presi-
dent to speak of human rights? It’s a
moral insult to humanity.

Mr. Carter might put his mind to put-
ting a halt to political assassination by his
Central Intelligence Agency; he might
call off his. ghouls of destabilization.
whose successes bring starvation, torture
and fascist inhumanity.

The heads of state and government of
the European Community urged Chan-
cellor Schmidt of the Federal Republic of
Germany to sound a warning to Presi-
dent Carter. It is to be hoped that he will
follow up his agreeable expression to
that effect with Prime Minister Trudeau,

‘when he visits Washington.

_ Every Canadian and every working-
class organization in particular, is justi-
fied in pressuring the Canadian Gov-
ernment to turn the good sense expres-
sed at the Trudeau-Schmidt meeting to-
ward persuading the U.S.. administra-
tion to drop its interference in socialist
countries in the guise of campaigning for
human rights.

Detente — whose umbrella provides
peace, trade, mutual benefits, and arms
reductions — holds out the real promise
of “human rights.”

Why the NDP restraint?

The New Democratic Party Conven-
tion at the Canada Day weekend, while it
discussed such serious matters as the
crisis of confederation, and took a posi-
tive stand against wage controls, might,
in fairness, be called a convention of un-
derestimation.

Even on confederation, resolutions
which got to the root of the problem,
recognized the French Canadian nation
and saw the need for a new made-in-
Canada constitution guaranteeing
French Canadians the right to self-
determination, did not reach the floor.
Opting for a united Canada, in itself
commendable, the NDP offered no real
means of achieving it, limiting its prop-
osals to an extension of provincial rights.

On international matters it is scary
when a federal party so underestimates
the dangerous arms build-up, the thrusts
of imperialism, and Canada’s sinking
nearly $4-billion a year into armaments,
that no foreign policy resolution deals
with these problems. :

Those who steered the convention also
caused it to underestimate the threat to
working people in Canada’s socio-
economic problems — mass unemploy-
ment, inflation, and the consistent anti-
labor and anti-democratic policies com-
ing into force.

Finally, nothing was breathed of the
long-standing Communist Party of
Canada appeal for working-class and

democratic unity, including the NDP,

CPC, trade unions, farm and other or-

ganizations, to “defeat the drive to the
right and the crisis policies of monopo-
ive =

Failure to see and act on the need for
such unity leaves the working people
open to the ongoing attacks and de-
teriorating political position we witness
today.

While the capitalist press liked the
NDP’s restraint, many delegates obvi-
ously wondered why the restraint on
necessary measures. Their speeches
suggested the NDP has a responsibility
not to underestimate the machinations
of the ruling monopolies and their par-
liamentary representatives, but to make
every effort toward working-class and
democratic unity.

Basis for unity

The federal government’s national
unity task force, headed by former On-
tario Tory premier John Robarts and

former Anti-Inflation Board chairman.

Jean-Luc Pepin, will spend a year to
“help develop processes for strengthen-
ing Canadian unity,” and will advise the
government. The labor movement will
need a lot of input into the force if the
two leaders’ pro-monopoly bias is to be
overcome enough to allow for the
French Canadian nation’s self-
determination, and for labor unity, the
only mass base for Canadian unity as a
whole. —

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 22, 1977—Page 3