a ::.| nen ence reeeaieinnerenemmeae

“For ever and ever. Amen!”

Hospital

workers

fighting Bill 41

Hospital workers throughout
Ontario are on a collision course
against the Tory government
Over Bill 41 which prohibits
them from striking. Bill 41 clas-
Sifies these workers as “essen-
_ Hal” and now that hospital ne-
 gotiations are under way

throughout the province, the

Bill as a club over the heads of
© workers,

aiost of the hospital workers
k € province are represented

>y the Canadian Union of Pub-
1c Employees and in this series
of negotiations with the hospi-
_ tal administrations, they are
one for a “catch-up” of 40%
- that would put them on a pay

Scale Similar to other so-called
_ €ssential workers,”

tario government is using the .

Show of Solidarity

In a show of solidarity three
large Ontario teachers’ federa-
tions have issued pledges of sup-
port for Ontario hospital work-
ers and their bargaining de-
mands over salaries and- work-
ing conditions. The move by the
teachers’ federations followed
trade union support of the teach-
ers’ demands that the provin-
cial government withdraw the
infamous Bill 274 which would
take away any rights the teach-
ers had for collective bargain-
ing.

Robert Cooney, president of

the Ontario English Catholic
Teachers Association said-in a
telegram*‘to the provincial gov-
ernment: “It is most unfortu-
nate that the teachers have only

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Resources must

serve Canadians

The Canadian government’s crisis of -
energy policy, under fire from many
quarters, took a stunning slap from
former cabinet minister Eric Kierans

this week.

While the Liberals jockeyed and
jousted with the opposition over divi-
sion of the increased taxes on oil ex-
ports to USA, Kierans pointed out,
whether he intended it or not, the un-
tenable position of monopoly capitalism

in Canada.

In sharp words, the McGill University
economics professor decried the grip
of multi-national corporations over
sources and distribution of energy in

this country, and said it must be broken

should be e

iVariety of views on peace

TORONTO — Fourteen of the
delegates to the World Congress
of Peace Forces, from in and
near Metro Toronto, presented
their views of the world meet-
ing and its implications at a pub-
1¢ meeting in Toronto’s historic
ay, Lawrence Hall, Sunday, Dec.

The three main speakers were:
Helen Tucker, director, Canadian
Peace Research Foundation; C. S.
Jackson, president, United Elec-
trical, Radio and Machine Work-
ers; and Rey. Robert Wright,
chairman, Niagara Peace Move-
ment. The meeting was chaired
by the president of the Canadian

face Congress, Rev. John Mor-
gan.

Eniphasis at the Congress,
_ Mrs. Tucker said,’ was on the
_ heed “to plan for the future with

fresh approaches to detenté and
Cooperation,” whatever the pain-
uli experiences of the past.
: hope,” she said, “this meet-
Ing today is our first step in
Toronto of implementing the
Statement that most of the dele-
8ation signed, saying that we
*.+ + €xpress our individual con-
Viction of the need to broaden
© peace movement in Canada
' and also to cooperate for this
Purpose upon our return home’.”
Amendment Accepted
Delegates in .Moscow from

the Women’s International Lea-
gue for Peace and Freedom, of
which Mrs. Tucker is an inter-
national member, and from the
international YWCA, - “‘collabor-
ated with me,” she said, in draft-
ing an amendment for the report
of the Commission on Social
Progress and Human Rights, em-
phasizing that there should be
no discrimination on the basis
of sex in countries committed
to peace.

“Our amendment was accept-
ed,” she reported, and pointed
out that “wamen’s rights and
dignity are a basic issue in any
developing or developed coun-
try. That’s why the United Na-
tions- has called for an_inter-
national women’s year; and the

women at the Moscow Congress
agreed.”
Problems Similar

C. S. Jackson, who had attend-
ed a World Federation of Trade
Unions meeting in Bulgaria
just prior to the Moscow Con-
gress, stressed that, “The pro-
gram and papers that were pre-
sented in Varna (where dele-
gates represented 210 million
trade unionists) were quite sim-
ilar to those that were presented
in Moscow, because the prob-
lems that arise out of the strug-
gle for peace are the same prob-
lems that the working masses
have in their struggle for a stan-
dard of living; and without a
peaceful world that standard of
living cannot be secured in ade-
quate terms.”

He noted that “outside of this
country, the trade unions are
quite active in the peace struy-
gle.’And while there have been
“improvements in the positions
taken by the Canadian trade
union movement .. .” he said,
“as yet we do not have real or-
ganizational activities carried on,
by the leadership of the trade
union movement around the
excellent resolutions that were
adopted” at the World Congress.

“The breadth of the represen-
tation . . .” was “the most out-

standing thing that has happen-:

and fulfill

ed in the world over a number —

of years,” he said.
Faced with Proof

Referring to the suitability of
holding the Congress in Mos-
cow, Mr. Jackson added: “The
Soviet Union stands for peace
because socialism cannot exist
its aims without
peace,’ while on the other hand,
we are faced continually with
proof that imperialism can only
survive by destruction, aggres-
sion and war.”

He said that in Varna, the
trade unionists had examined
the role of multi-national cor-
porations and the effect that
these corporations have on
changing the life style of masses
of people, of forcing deportations
and emigrations from one coun-
try to another while driving
down the living standards of the
people. . .” At the Peace Con-
‘gress, “the same forces had to

_be given attention . . .” he said.

“Our job in coming back from
the Congress .. .” Mr. Jackson
said, “is to find the ways and
means of implementing the de-
clarations emanating from that
huge Congress; and this is no
easy task because we live in a
country whose government at
this stage is more dedicated to
the support of right-wing orga-

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if national interests are to be met.
Kierans told: Canadian Press: “The
real profits to be made are in the area
of control over the resources them-
selves and only political authorities can
make the long-term judgments on what
xported or kept for future

generations.”

That the federal government
is not strong on long-term judg-
ments favoring the people of
Canada is clear from the fact that
not until Jan. 22 will there be
an attempt to reach energy
agreements with the provinces
— agreements that should have
been on the books years: ago.

Delay in implementation of a
foreign-control Bill (remember
how quickly the War Measures

Act went into force?), delay now ~

in extending the Canadian oil
pipeline to Montreal, refusal to
face up to the fact that our eco-
nomy is already extensively un-
der U.S. control — all suggest
the political bankruptcy today
of parties of big business. |

When Kierans spoke of the
enormous sums Canada could
turn back into resources devel-
opment if industry were so con-
trolled as to serve the needs of
the Canadian people, he brought
into the open what old-tine poli-
ticians are at great pains to hide.

That capitalism is in deepen-
ing crisis has been stated before
by the Communist Party. The
establishment of effective mea-
sures of control over multi-
national corporations operating

in Canada, are demanded by the:

Communmist Party, along. with
nationalization of energy and
natural resources, under demo-
cratic control, including consul-
tation with the provinces. Urgent
reforms in this and other areas
must be enacted to protect the
people of Canada from con-
tinentalist siphoning of our ener-
gy resources.

ALTAMIRANO SAFE.

Carlos Altamirano, general

secretary of the Socialist
the country and arrived in
Havana, where he participat-
ed in the 15th’ Anniversary
celebration of the Cuban re-
volution Jan. 1.

. Altamirano, who headed
the junta’s wanted list, man-
aged to get out of Chile late
in December after being in
hiding since Sept. 11. His de-
claration to the people of
Chile, written before his de-
parture, appears on page &.

Party of Chile, has safely left §.

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