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Which were eventually put down by tear gas attacks.

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Communists lead lobby for
one million new jobs

The Communist Party will
lead a lobby of members and
Supporters to Parliament Hill at
Ottawa on Monday, Nov. 16 to
demand that Parliament act to
°vercome unemployment. The
Party has written to all leaders
f the political parties repre-
Sented in the House requesting
Meetings to put forward the
Party’s program to provide one
Million jobs.

Members of Parliament will
~€ lobbied and presented with
J€ Party’s program to provide
lbs as well as the Communist

arty’s demand for an immedi-
ate parliamentary debate on
®hergy policy. ,
he crisis brought about in
Country by the enacting of

€ War Measures Act and ihe
threat proposed new repressive
®gislation poses to the labor
ovement will be taken up by

€ lobby. MP’s and the leaders
ee all parties will also be called
Pon to repeal the Wai Meas-
Ures Act and oppose any similar
Yee legislation.
. (Canadian Labor Congress pre-
Ident Donald MacDonald last
meek Predicted that there will
‘Xely be one million jobless in
fepada this winter, He said that

€ outlook is ‘‘bleak.’’)
c € program advanced by the

Ommunist Party to provide one

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Program of action

million new jobs includes:

e Build 100,000  publicly-
owned low cost homes. A vast
expansion of hospital, recrea-
tional and educational facilities.

e Undertake a genuine war
on poverty to give all Canadians
decent standard of life through
a guaranteed annual income and
a $2.50 minimum wage. Increase
pensions and family allowances
with cost of living clauses. A
32-hour work week with no re-
duction in take home pay.

e Democratic tax reform.
Lower taxes on wage earn-
ers — higher taxes on corporate
wealth. A capital gains tax.

e Restore public ownership of
all natural resources as the
basis for developing .secondary
industry. The first step in this
direction is a publicly operated
energy policy to build an east-
west all-Canadian power grid.
Build an all-Canadian oil pipe-
line. Build another, bigger all-
Canada gas pipeline.

e Develop Canada’s manufac-
turing industries—overcome re-
gional underdevelopment. Build
a modern machine tool-building
industry. Re-establish Canada’s
merchant marine and _ build

‘ ships. Expand the chemical in-

dustry to utilize Canada’s coal,
potash, petroleum, natural gas
and salt.

U.S. workless organize

SEATTLE — The city Rank
d File committee has drafted
4 Bill of Rights for the Unem-
Ployed, which includes these
Points:
“ The right to employment

OMpensation sufficient to pro-

de a standard of health and:

mney paid for from a fund
‘Sag up by employer contribu-
iota beginning the first day of
th €mployment and ending once

© worker draws a pay check.

‘is right is prior to and su-
ietior to the assumed “right” of
ie €mployers to fatten their
ae at the expense of such a

a The right to a decent home
“ to security in that home.
es Tight is prior to any pro-
Whi “rights” in that home to
fia mortgage bankers or land-
“+S may lay claim.

heh The right to a full range of
Beets Services for worker and
Ry This right is prior to and
. Perior to any assumed “right”

the medical establishment to

profiteer on sickness and infirm-
ity.

v The right to an open-ended
moratorium on mortgage and car
payments, installment debts, and
utility bills, until the unemployed
worker’s inalienable right to a
job has been fulfilled. This right
is prior to and superior to any
assumed “right” of creditors,
collection agencies, or public or
private utilities to browbeat, cut-
off services, repossess, or gar-
nish.

According to the Seattle Rank
and File Committee these rights
extend without exception to
each and every man and woman
who seeks productive work. It
includes all last-hired, first-fired
black and other oppressed work-
ers, historically discriminated
against in the job market. It in-
cludes all workers who have
been cheated of the training and
education needed for useful em-
ployment, as well as all young
workers just entering the labor

market.

Special to the Tribune

EDMONTON—On Friday, Oct.
23, David Fraser, Alberta organ-
izer of the Young Communist
League, encountered a picket of
right-wing elements at his place
of work, condemning him as a
Communist. :

David Fraser was employed. as
a beverage waiter at Branch 24
of the Royal Canadian Legion
here. He is a member of Local
579 Hotel and Restaurant Work-
ers Union and was also a mem-
ber of this branch of the Legion.

The immediate reaction of the
management was to fire him and
to lift his. membership in the
Royal Canadian Legion.

The matter is being taken up
by both the Union and a lawyer.

It is obvious that the Trudeau
government’s implementation of
the War Measures Act has creat-
ed a climate causing hitherto un-
known right-wing groupings to
emerge from the manure pile of
reaction. :

The Royal Canadian Legion,
which is made up of mainly
working-class people, many of
whom fought against Hitler fas-
cism, would do well to remember
that it was the Communists who
formed the first line of defence
against the fascists in Spain dur-
ing the 1930’s. Many Canadians
died in that struggle, many went
on to fight fascism during World
War Two. And in the last analy-
sis it was the Red Army and the
Soviet people who bore the brunt
of the war against Hitler fascism
and gave over 20 million lives.

We know that fascism is
monopoly capital with its back
to the wall and its teeth bared.
The Royal Canadian Legion
should not allow itself to be in-
timidated by elements that
threaten democracy — elements
that many Canadians died fight-
ing against.

GUELPH — National Farmers’
Union vice president Walter Mil-
ler says that the NFU has no in-
tention of recommending that
farmers accept the 25% rebate
on municipal taxes, as offered by
the Ontario government in reply
to farmers’ demands for a com-
plete revision of the system used
in raising money for educational
purposes.

He said a meeting of Ontario
NFU representatives has been
arranged with the Hon. Dary Mc-
Keough, Minister of Municipal
Affairs, and Hon. Wm. Davis,
Minister of Education, in an at-
tempt to develop a process of
negotiations to bring about an
end to: this unjust system of
taxation.

“You don’t cure a cancer by
cutting part of it away,” he re-
marked, referring to the stop-
gap rebate, or as many farmers
have already dubbed it, ‘elec-
tion bait.”

Mr. Miller said NFU farmers
made the decision to withhold
taxes, and that decision will pre-
vail, at least until a Regional
meeting scheduled for Nov. 9-10,

‘when members will be able to

evaluate government intentions
toward correcting a tax system

~ they know cannot be justified.

_ time,

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parades in Northern Ireland.

British building workers sit down during a protest march from
Hyde Park to Whitehall which wa

is demanding a ban on Orange

For women only

Philosophy of the bosses

By MABEL RICHARDS

For Women Only—the cynical
philosophy of the fashion world
which would haye us throw

-away millions of dollars worth of

clothing and rush out to buy the
midi, surely the ugliest fashion
of this century!

The midi-dresses which retail-
ers are desperately trying to un-
load on the hostile buyer will be
doomed to remain on_ store
racks, for woman the worm has
turned. They are no longer in-
clined to wholeheartedly support
the waste and frivolity of fash-
ion moguls who foist their wares
on the feminine world.

It could even be the manufac-
turers will rebel this time, for
they may well take a beating on
the latest monstrosity called the
midi. If they do, we can only
hope they will hang the man who
started it all on a hook in a dark
warehouse — along with his
“midis.”

<9 * *

‘For Women Only—the philo-
sophy of the Canadian Manu-
facturers’ Association which
says pregnant employees should
not be eligible for unemployment
insurance ‘“‘because they are not
available for work.”

We have words for this body
of rich men: Many pregnant wo-
men have to work because with-
out their pay cheque their fam-
ilies will suffer; secondly, a
pregnant woman is not a sick
woman, and thirdly, why should

the female sex be penalized for

a-borning- future Canadians?

They should be given a bonus—

not penalized!
* * *

For Women Only—the philo-
sophy inherent in many men,
T.V. hucksters, vacuum sales:
men, and Women’s page editors
that housework is strictly wo.
men’s work. “This idea,” says
Judy Edelman in her book Wo-
men on the Job, “is so commonly
accepted that even-if a woman
works all day she is expected to
come home and shop, cook,
clean and take care of the chil-
dren. Only sometimes does the
man in the house help out with
some of the housework.”

“So long as we have a capital-
ist system, the giant monopolies
which control the schools,
churches, communications media
and other institutions of our so-
ciety will flood the minds of all
men workers with male suprema-
cist ideological poison. They. do
this in order to divide and weak-
en the working class by setting
men and women against each
other in a false battle of the
sexes. This is but a diversion
from the real battle of the
classes. ... «

“This does not mean, how-
ever, that we should not fight for
the special demands of women
now,” continues Judy, “quite
the contrary! We should fight
constantly for women’s rights,
as one key step on the path to
full liberation of all workers.”

Solidarity with GM strikers

Hands across the sea

Expressions of international
solidarity for the 350,000 Gene-
ral. Motors strikers in Canada
and the USA have come from
auto workers in the USSR and
Western Germany. At the same
Emil Mazey, secretary-
treasurer of the UAW, in the
spirit of proletarian internation-
alism, has told GM strikers in
the USA, “If you want a quick
end to the GM strike, work to
end the war in Vietnam.”

Workers of the Liknachev
automobile plant, the “biggest in
Moscow, early this month ex-
pressed their solidarity with the
UAW-GM strikers. On October
20 more than 6,000 workers of
the Gorky car factory held a
meeting of solidarity with the
General Motors strikers in the
U.S. and Canada. Placards called
for solidarity of the working
class of all countries. A few days
earlier auto plant workers of

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-FRID

‘lution of solidarity with the GM

strikers, noting that the strike
was caused by the unrestrained
rise in prices, a slump in produc-
tion, and increased unemploy-
ment and military actions in
Indochina.

From the GM-Opel plant in
Russelheim, FRG, a “success and
good luck” telegram has been
sent the GM strikers by the
workers in the Opel plants.

Speaking last week in Pontiac,
Michigan, Emil Mazey, secre-
tary-treasurer of the UAW told
GM strikers there that “this
strike was caused by the war in
Vietnam, which brought on infla-
tion. . . . This is due solely to
this damnable war in Vietnam,
where we are spending $30 bil-
lion a year and where 50,000
lives of our youth have been lost.

“We should never have be-
come involved. We must bring
an end to it quickly and bring
an_end to inflation.”

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