P TORONTO — Romesh Chandra,
€cretary-general of the World
Gece Council, told a rally here

Ctober 24 that the world today is a
New and different place, and that in
oday’s world people can win
“tories for human rights, in-
“pendence and peace because

€y are assured of wide support.
fs andra was in Canada for a

Sur-day visit during which he
ee Montreal and Toronto and
Rs €nded the executive board

€eting of the Canadian Peace

ngress,

Chandra told ‘the meeting in
yetto that the world peace
é Pees “are full of confidence and
pimism” but he warned detente
toa be fought for. ‘It is born in

Uggle; it can be maintained and
Ered forward only through in-

Msification of the struggle.”

“ne World peace leader said that

© Stockholm Appeal is a means
Y which today we can stop the

“ms race, But he said that im-
peialism opposes an end to the

Ms race, and attacks efforts at

nomic independence.
© Canadian Peace Congress

ROMESH CHANDRA

‘Intensified struggle
can win world peace

7

executive board meeting, in which
Chandra participated, heard a
report that 200,000 individual
signatures had been collected on
the Stockholm petition, while
organizations representing hun-
dreds of thousands of members
have endorsed the Appeal. The
board concluded that this repre-
sented an outstanding success, and .
decided on an intensified drive for
signatures and for endorsements
by organizations and individuals.

The campaign will be re-
examined at the board’s April, 1977
meeting, just prior to a world
conference of Builders of Peace in
Warsaw. Meanwhile, a delegation
of Canadian peace workers will
make an interim presentation to
the federal government during
November. The World Peace
Council also plans a preliminary
report in the world-wide results to
the United Nations in December.

The board meeting also endorsed

~a number of resolutions calling on

the Canadian government to

* support action for peace, including

a demand that Canada protest the
U.S. trident base in Washington.

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Oct. 14 analyzed —

Day of Protest marke
new stage in struggle

The October 14 National Day of
Protest marked a new stage in the
history of Canadian labor and
points to a growing political con-

‘sciousness and radicalization in

the ranks of the working class of
Canada, says a statement released
last week by the central executive
committee of the Communist

“7 Party.

Pointing to the ‘remarkable
development that 114 labor

councils became organizers of
united mass political action on a
hitherto unprecedented scale
across Canada, the analysis says
that despite the efforts of the mass
media deliberately to distort the
scope and political impact of this
historic event, Canada and
Canadian labor will never be the
same again after October 14.
“That day demonstrated anew
that the working class is the main
force in the struggle against
monopoly.” It points out that since

October 14 monopoly and its -

government have undertaken a
series of measures to cope with the
rising upsurge in labor’s ranks. On
the one hand it has undertaken
reprisals the aim of which is to
teach workers and their unions a
lesson and warn against a repeat of
the Day of Protest. On the other
hand the government has made
seeming concessions to the
demands for a change in economic
and social policies.

Stating that the government’s
proposals on unemployment are to
“share the work” and to “‘share the
misery” by agreeing to reduced
hours of work at reduced takehome
pay for 40 hours pay, the CP

“ executive says:

“The government pretends to
meet the demand that workers
have a say on all questions of
concern to them. But these turn out
to be proposals on health, safety
and works councils in a form which
would bypass the trade unions. Or
they turn out to be proposals for
consultations as a substitute for
decisions made by the trade union
movement. Not least, by con-
tinuing its wage contro] program
the government continues to un-
dermine collective bargaining.”

e proposals of the government
haveas their aim the integration of
the trade unions into the

‘mechanism of state monopoly

capital, warns the CP. ‘‘The trade
union movement should be alert to
these manoeuvres and proposed
measures; measures which some
right wing forces in the trade union
movement may support. Not class
collaboration but militant and
united actions is called for,’’ says
the statement.

Pointing out that the labor-
capital confrontation will sharpen,
not Jessen, and that a united fight-
back against the crisis policies of
government and monopoly is as
essential as ever, the analysis
points out that the coming year will
be one of continued high inflation
and rising unemployment and that
the effort of the AIB to impose a 6
per cent wage settlement will
result in a further deterioration of
living standards.

Posing the question: What about
theroad ahead? the CP statement
says that a correct combination of
the economic and political struggle
is of key importance to make the
fightback effective. It points out
that the day of protest was not a do-
or-die event to smash the wage
control program or bust, and
draws attention to the fact that the
May convention of the CLC
authorized ‘‘a work stoppage or

work stoppages. October 14 was

thus the important first step to a
higher level of fightback.”

The CP executive says:

® The CLC executive council
should convene ah emergency
meeting of all affiliates and of-
ficers and local councils and
provincial federations to map out
the next stage in the fightback;

® Immediate action should be
taken to defeat the efforts of
monopoly and governments to
penalize and intimidate workers
and unions. No workers or groups
of workers must be allowed to
stand alone. Solidarity and unity
should be the watchword.

The militant upsurge forced the
NDP right wing leader to come out
in support of the Day of Protest
while in some provinces NDP
governments failed to do so.

RANKIN

Cont'd from pg. 1

mittee of three people — the city
planner, the social planner and the
city engineer. Council has
delegated to them the right to
make decisions on such matters.
Today they have more authority to
decide development in our city
than have your elected representa-
tives! TEAM and NPA aldermen
can now wash their hands of any
responsibility and leave it to the
people whom they have hired.

I am not going to prejudge the
decision of the Development
Planning Committee. I hope that it
will be sensitive and responsive to
public opinion and public needs,

and that it will turn down the ap--

plication of the developer to
demolish the Huntingdon. But Iam
sure you will agree with me that
some things need to be changed in
council when a group of municipal
employees, hired by council, has
been given more authority than
council itself. But we won’t get this
kind of change as long as TEAM
and the NPA run council.

Although the Huntington has
been temporarily saved, it still
remains in danger. And the policy
of both TEAM and the NPA still is
to destroy perfectly good housing
in the downtown area in order to
make way for expensive ac-
commodation for the executive
elite. That is what needs to be
changed. :

The right of people to live in
moderate priced housing should
take priority over the profit-greed
of developers. That’s the real issue
involved in this case and a key
issue in this election campaign.

Workers are beginning to draw
lessons from the results of right
wing NDP policies. They have
become increasingly critical of the
NDP and some workers are raising
the question of continual support of
the NDP as “labor’s political ar-
m.’’ The CP statement warns that
monopoly interests and govern-
ments hope to use this situation to
draw workers away from political
action and back to support of the
direct parties of monopoly.

“We join in criticism of right
wing NDP policy, but we do not
join in any moves which would lead
workers back to the parties of
monopoly. The task is to move
forward with a democratic
alternative to the crisis policies of
state monopoly capitalism,’’
emphasizes the CP statement.

Pointing out that there is a
democratic alternative for labor,
the CP. statement says that to win
that alternative, politics in Canada
must be pushed to the left. This
calls for cooperation of all left and _
democratic forces in the struggle
for militant class policies and for
unity of action by all anti-monopoly
forces. ‘‘The key to achievement of
such an anti-monopoly coalition of
forces depends on cooperation of
the NDP and the Communist
Party.”

The CP outlines six minimum
objectives for the period ahead:

e Kill Bill C-73. Demand controls
over monopoly, including rent
controls; price controls and a curb
on monopoly profiteering.

®@ A policy of full employment.
eA 30-hour work week at 40
hours pay.

e Restoration and expansion of

collective bargaining rights to

include a say for labor in deter-
mining economic and social policy,
technological change, investment
policy, safety, health, moving of
plants, manpower training and
planning.

e Anend tothe arms race, which
distorts the economy and feeds
inflation.

e The coming weeks will provide
an opportunity through municipal
elections to strengthen labor’s
voice and that of the democratic
forces in general at the local level
of government.

“October 14is not the end but the
beginning of the battle for new
economic and social policies. A
united working class and its allies
can win them,”’ concludes the CP
statement.

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