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50 years ago...
HARVESTERS
EXPLOITED

VANCOUVER — Men returning
here from the harvest fields of
the prairie provinces report that
hundreds of men from all parts
of Canada as well as_ several
thousand newly arrived immi-
grants from the British Isles are
being dumped on the prairies,
often without a cent, in a con-
certed effort to make an easy
source of cheap labor available
for the harvest this -year.

Wages for harvesters this year
average $3 a day and board. A
day's work in the harvest in Wes-
tern Canada means from 14 to 16
hours a day. Board in many
places is without fresh vege-
tables, and sleeping accommoda-
tions are primitive.

Conditions in railway construc-
tion work are not much. better.
At Saskatoon, where men are em-
ployed to build the government’s
railway to Hudson Bay, 35 cents
an hour is the wage: paid. Out of
this the men are expected to
board and clothe themselves.

The Worker, Sept. 19, 1923

25 years ago...

STRIKERS VOTE
DOWN 12._CENTS

ST. CATHARINES — By a vir-
tually unanimous vote — 1,000 to
1 — McKinnon workers here
turned down the company’s 12-
‘cent wage offer and decided to
continue their picket line action
to win a 26-cents-an-hour in-
crease. Of this 16 cents is based
on the increase in the cost of
living; the other 10 is demanded
to bridge the gap in wages paid
GM employees here and those in
Oshawa.

In effect the overwhelming
vote to reject the 12-cent offer
was also a rejection of the at-
tempt by Mayor W. J. Macdonald
to have city council intercede in
the strike on behalf of GM via a
so-called ‘secret ballot” vote
which was supposed to have de-
cided whether McKinnon work-
ers wanted to call off their strike.

Union leaders‘ say that the
overwhelming rejection of the 12-
cent offer is ample evidence of
how the mayor’s proposition is
viewed by the membership.

Tribune, Sept. 20, 1948.

Worth quoting:

“Whether they succeed or fail, counter-revolutionary wars reveal
the same historic forms: the armies of intervention, if they come from
societies where the ruling elites fear social change, cloak their
support of conservative forces. of repression behind high-blown claims

of disinterested service to mankind's highest ideals ...

Spain: The Glory andthe Tragedy — Robert Colodny

ax, Pacific Tribune

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Editor — MAURICE RUSH
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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21,, 1973——PAGE 4

istration number 1560.

DEFEND CHILE!

Chilean democracy lives in the con-
science of democratic-minded people
around the globe. But that is not
enough.

Urgent action must be taken now,
without an hour’s wait, to deny the fas-
cist junta consolidation of its criminal
gains.

In Chile itself, the regime of traitors
is meeting fierce resistance from armed
defenders of the constitutional govern-
ment. Mass executions only deepen
hatred for the regime. There, proof of
the campaign of sabotage and subver-
sion is seen in the appearance of food,
hoarded by the plotters as a foul weap-
on against Allende’s democratic govern-
ment. With further grief, one hears the
rumor of the murder of Chile’s great
poet, Pablo Neruda.

We must forego the mourning and
act to behead the bloody junta.

The Canadian Committee for Solidar-
ity with Democratic Chile, headed by
Chileans in Canada, calls for swift
actions by Canadians. Each day’s delay
is a gift to fascism. The unity of all
democratic forces in this battle is deci-
sive.

It is vitally important to dissuade
the hypocritical government in Ottawa,
which promises the junta recognition
as soon as it shows it “holds sway” over
ti ees — no matter how deep the
blood.

There must be no recognition of the
Santiago assassins. We Canadians must
deny the government any mandate to
recognize the junta in Chile.

With equal speed and sharpness, we,

-heim, UN secietary-general, to direct

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‘defence of Chilean freedom.

now, today, must press Dr. Kurt Wald

all UN member states to refuse recog”
nition to the junta. : ;

Thirty-seven years of bitter history
attest to the need to strike now al
strike true. This is not the 30s. The
tragedy of the fascist rape of Spanish
democracy cannot be allowed in Chile.
In country after country vows al®
taken that this shall not happen.

The Chileans know what to do
their own country. ;

We must know what to do in Canada
— and do it! Warn the Canadian gov”
ernment with a deluge of message
Call for quick UN response. Demom
strate. Speak out. Win support for the
Send oan

ort pledges right now to the Canada
Contnailtee for Solidarity with Dem?
cratic Chile, which will soon call
Canadians for other forms of help. He

On August 29, the Tribune said ed!
orially: “Any flunky who could
thrust into the president’s chair lone
enough to have his picture taken be
be eligible for U.S. military aid. 1 c
offered $1-million to do Allende im}
1970; how much is it offering today: 4

Do we let the fascist militarists Me
their U.S. monopoly backers and a
CIA get away with it? Or do we ee
up with our Chilean brothers and §
ters and fight? ae

We choose to fight! — by making the
names of Chile and Allende ring 1” 4
streets and government halls, an 28
the ears of the press and airwave
barons in Canada, until Chile is 484

free. =

Munro’s stab in back

for railway workers

Would the Minister of Labor, John
Munro, “give consideration to breaking
up the bargaining unit (of the railway
workers’ unions) so that separate nego-
tiations can ensue between the railroad
unions and the two major ke
namely, the CNR and the CPR, in order
that in the event a strike is necessitat-
ed between the workers and either one
of the two major companies” the other
railway can, in effect, strikebreak? It
was the idea of Paddy Neale, NDP,
Vancouver East.

“Yes,” said Mr. Munro, “that is under
consideration.”

Yes, indeed! Mr. Munro and his
monopoly-serving cohorts intend to
break the working class, starting by
smashing the railway workers’ bargain-
ing unit and hence their bargaining
power. Their unity during the recent
strike gave the Liberal-Tory camp con-
niptions.

The continual efforts to muzzle the
labor movement and destroy collective
bargaining are now being stepped up,
and John Munro feels he has the per-
sonality to con the unions into self-
destruction.

Canadian Labor Congress president,

‘Donald MacDonald, said in Charlotte-

town a week ago that there had been a
dollar-a-week drop in purchasing power
of workers during April to June. In
view of history-making profits, that is

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highway robbery. And it adds welf:
fe fie necessity of workers defend
their rights, or facing serious u?
mining of their living standards. ll

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There must be no illusions about
John Munro, no matter how M;
papers.he may say he once sold; |
in the enemy camp. His side is © ow
whip the working class into line, “1ie8

ever it impoverishes workers’ fami”

; Be |

The answer is more unity, more er
tancy, no illusions about the class a) |
my—the people who forced the r@

workers back on the terms dicta

-big business.

Administering welfare

Liberal-Tory defence of the moun,
tainous profits of their sponsors ple |
monopoly corporations, is prewe™ =
and brazen. .

ho
Provincial welfare ministers, Pi ih |
met in Quebec City for two day® oo
10-11, rejected demands by threé “cay
governments — British Columb)" tye
katchewan and Manitoba — 2?
government of Quebec, for an ©
sive profit tax” on corporations.

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Of’ course the glutton-governitt by
of Ontario and Alberta, helP rt an
junior partners, would have no 2 pr
a proposal which would benefit #° oft
ple. All of their best friends are P
eers.

There is little doubt whose © ig
these “welfare” ministers have 1? ~

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