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In the meantime, fabricated spy scares, nomination of
Aways from Europe as Tory candidates, and vicious propa-

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Cause. Very important be- manager Bruce Magnuson also

progt na are entering a period spoke. John Weir of the Cana-
ability oe Struggles where the dian Tribune reported the pro-
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ate, Win, Remhtan. ae d Ans half were active trade unionists,
of Sto the biennial me eleg- one-third were under 35 years
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Pbec last week. muniste du active role (further underlined
as when seven of the 13 members
tuceg Policy resolution, intro- elected to the new National

"’Dorted Sam Walsh, will be Committee were women). While

e Peo our next issue.) French Canadians predominated,

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ada © Communist Party of strongly represented and: in-

OS eg Friday night had cluded Ukrainian, Jewish, Greek
Social i, wcott-warming house- and. other nationalities. A trans-
ri Which Its new headquarters, lation service was organized
t ay $1,300 was collected for them.

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Working class area.

MONTREAL—Quebec's 210,000 pub-
lic and para-public workers walked out
in a powerful one-day strike on Tuesday
to back up demands for $100 minimum
weekly wage, an average 8.3% increase
and progressive annual pay hikes. The
strike was called by the Common Front
of the three trade union bodies. Origin-
ally planned for last Friday, it was post-
poned on account of blizzard conditions

Kashtan exposes extremist

and in order to give the Bourassa admin-
istration a chance to get down off its
high horse. When the government failed
to conduct meaningful negotiations, the
strike was called, the unions permitting
the minimum hospital workers needed
for public safety to stay in. United Que-
bec labor stands four-square behind the
teachers, hospital, hydro and other work-

ers in their fight.

right-wing coalition plot

MONTREAL — The great
changes now taking place are
vividly illustrated by the fact
that for the first time in history
workers in Quebec can decide
to go on a general strike to
compel the government to meet
their just demands, William
Kashtan, general secretary of
the Communist Party of Canada,
told delegates to the 4th na-
tional convention of the Parti
Communiste du Quebec.

The demand for the right to
self-determination for Quebec
and‘a new confederal pact based
on equal partnership, which was
first projected by the Com-
munist Party, is now at the
centre of politics in Quebec, he
said.

The Communist proposal for
the working class to adopt, not
subservience to bourgeois na-
tionalism, but the line for work-
ers’ emancipation; to establish
a mass party of labor, is increas-
ingly at the centre of debate in
the Quebec working class move-
ment.

The situation in the province
is increasingly favorable and at
the same time more complicat-
ed. The ideas that were current
a few years ago that the work-
ing class is no longer the vital
force for social progress jhave
disappeared under the blows of
the great battles being fought
by Quebec workers, who are
advancing from economic strug-
gles to a new, higher stage.

Mr. Kashtan pointed to the
danger from the petty-bourgeols
Parti Quebecois, which is pro-
moting a neo-separatist line, a
policy of dividing the workers

ranks.

The Communist Party is lead-
ing the fight against allowing
the workers’ movement to be
submerged in bourgeois natio-
nalism, but to battle - for the
right to self-determination to-
gether with unity of the work-
ing class of poth French and
English-speaking Canada.

There are those who suggest
that the central slogan in the
election should be “Trudeau
must go”. These are of the ex-
treme right, who want to re-
place him with a coalition of
Tories, Caouette’s Social Credit-
ers and right-wing Liberals.
Such an alternative would not
be in the interests of the work-
ing class and must be defeated.

The alternative we advance
and fight for is the election of
as large a bloc of progressive
candidates as possible, including
NDP and Communist members,
to give a new direction to Can-
ada’s policies, to establish new
priorities — putting the interests
of the working people instead
of monopoly in the first place.
This new direction, .

Mr. Kash-_

tan said, demands the following
central points:

-@ Satisfaction of the pressing
economic needs of the working
people. (“If an unemployed
worker can get $100 a week
why can’t the employed work-
ers be given that as a minimum
as the Common Front de-
mands!” he exclaimed to loud
applause.)

e Self-determination for Que-
bec and negotiation of a new
confederal pact on the basis of
voluntary equal partnership that
would include a Bill of Rights.

e Canadian control of the
economy starting with public
ownership of the natural and
energy resources, and industries
based on them.

The Communist Party alone
has maintained a firm principled
policy on the national question,
he declared. The Liberals have
twisted from “one Canada—one

nation” to “bi-lingualism and bi- .

culturalism” and now to “multi-
culturalism!”’ The Conservatives,
evidently in an understanding
with Caouette, aren’t fielding
any candidates in Quebec. And

the NDP speaks with two

voices, one that opposes self-
determination in English Can-
ada and the opposite, with over-
tures to the separatist Parti
Quebecois, in French Canada.
This crass opportunism was il-
lustrated when David Lewis and
Rene Levesque embraced on the
platform at the Forum rally.
Why is Nixon coming to

’ Canada? Is it friendship? But he

has pointedly stated that there
are sharp differences between
Washington and Ottawa. The
fact is that “special relation-
ship” that existed between the
U.S. and Canada hitherto has
come to an end.

The working class is looking
for militant leadership, the kind
which right-wingers can’t pro-
vide, he concluded. The people
are interested in what we have
to say, what we say is meaning-
ful. Let us boldly press forward
to end monopoly power, to es-
tablish working class unity in
alliance with all democratic
forces to turn politics to genuine
voluntary Canadian unity, to
genuine Canadian independence,
to move forward to a Canada of
peace and progress!

The National Executive Com-
mittee of the Canadian Peace
Congress has announced the
calling of a National Peace Con-
ference to be held in Toronto
-on May 20 and 21. It has invited
all members of the National
Committee of the Canadian
Peace Congress and all support-
ing organizations and groups
“to send representatives and to
fully participate in working out
a peace action program for Can-
ada.” :

Commenting on recent diffi-
culties encountered by the Can-
adian Peace Congress, its Na-
tional Executive Committee de-
clared: “The main reason for
these difficulties lies in the fact
that Dr. James G.. Endicott, one
of the founders of the Canadian
Peace Congress and a prominent
international figure in the fight
for peace, decided to resign as
chairman of the Congress. Be-
cause of his belief in the cor-
rectness of the positions held
by the Chinese leaders, which
frequently have not correspond-
ed to the position and program
of action advocated by the
World Council of Peace, there
developed differences between
himself and substantial sections

— Congress leaders call
Canada meeting in May

of peace supporters through-
out the country over the active
promotion of his point of view.
The recent developments as a
result of the armed conflict be-
tween Pakistan and India, and
his public position on the con-
flict, only sharpened the issue.”
Describing as “regrettable”
the resignations of the chair-
man, vice-chairman, executive
secretary and treasurer of the
Canadian Peace Congress, its
National Executive Committee
affirmed that the peace move-
ment must continue, “and in-
deed be helped to grow strong-
er and more effective.” 5

The May 20-21 National Peace
Conference in Toronto will
adopt a program of action and
elect a new Canadian Peace
Congress leadership | whose
main task, as the National
Executive Committee defines it,
will be “‘to-rally all the widest.
circles of Canadians, young
and old, to build a broad, non-

Partisan peace movement in
Canada.”

The new office address of the
Canadian Peace Congress is:
Room 403, 2239 Yonge Street,
Toronto 7, Ontario.