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g The Communist Party greets Canada’s is Bill #38 which shackles the unions, emas- Every trade union this Labor Day should be
)- working people and pledges complete soli- culates the process of collective bargaining pledged to support the world-wide petition to
j- darity with the heroic struggles and aims of and threatens to make coercion a permanent STOP the war in Indo-China. The OUTNOW
organized labor on this Labor Day—1970. feature in labor-employer relations on the petition has already been endorsed by scores
We particularly welcome ‘the new and Quebec scene. This poses a threat to all of trade union bodies in Canada. The aim
higher level of trade union, class and political Canadian unions and labor from coast to should be to involve the whole working class
consciousness that flows from these struggles. coast. in this global campaign for millions of signa-
Labor has broken the first round of the com- The lesson must not be lost on Ontario ‘tures to bring peace to Vietnam, Cambodia,
bined employer-government assault on wages ‘labor which now faces dangerous amend- Laos, and to put an end to imperialist aggres-
and peoples’ buying power. This has been -ments to its Labor Relations Act in the form sion everywhere.
y done despite the most massive governmental of draft Bill #167. Even the capitalist press This, along with action to reclaim and de-
9 and state intervention in the processes. of has described this proposed legislation as “a velop our resources, to expand manufacturing
5 union-employer bargaining ever seen in guarantee to break unions.” While the edge under public ownership; to build an all-
3 peacetime. It proves beyond doubt the power of much of this and other provincial laws Canada power grid; to curb monopoly, for-
j of organized labor when united in struggle. seems directed against construction workers, eign control and domination; this is the way
; The class battles will intensify as capitalist it is in fact aimed at all labor. to our future. No sell-out of energy resources
ib governments move to guarantee super-profits Taken together with Mr. Trudeau's brazen to the US.
8 for the ruling class at the expense of the threat to take away the right to strike from Instead of subsidies and concessions to \
ar workers. Monopoly profiteers will continue to postal workers and other public employees, private profiteers and speculators, we must di- i
iN extend the area of poverty and human suffer- it is clear that only solidarity and unity of the vert more spending to social needs such as ii
ing. Farmers are being forced off their land. _ type exemplified in B.C., and in Nova Scotia housing, health, education and culture.
e Small businesses face ruin. Political corrup- in support of the fishermen’s fight for collec- Only private capitalist greed and exploita-
; tion and reaction threatens to destroy the tive bargaining, is the answer. Postal workers, tion of labor stands in the way of the good
A hard-won gains of the working class, includ- fishermen, construction workers, railway labor, life for the working people of Canada.
5. ing the right to strike and to picket. The big sug: Best men, woodworkers re and acore 2 ‘
monopolies are the enemies of real democ- others can point to unity in action as the only : . :
st) racy. The working class is the most powerful solution. al “1 Rich ae a8 eben of the private prot
ne and consistent force to defend the public Unity alone can abe abor Bill of Rights. system, and of state monopoly capitalism as
al ee : : : . the parasitic form of that system. For workers
d _ Labor's fight-back on the economic front At the same time as the economic struggle there is no other choice but to struggle for
"4 is taking on new dimensions. The growing finds reflection in politics, labor cannot afford pis Std h df
a mood among union members is not to retreat to leave that to someone else. Now more than OPE SAGE OOM eNO ene eee cee
g 9 rs - : : : : end to intolerable physical speed-up and
} but to advance. In British Columbia this de- ever the unions need to become directly in- eondiionecl wank
termination, coupled with unbreakable unity, volved in independent political action on be- NM ahatscine ene 3. anallusion to anink
k resulted in a great victory for labor in the half of the working class.
‘ battle for the right to strike and against Instead of austerity, mass unemployment bat ie censes SPS gud douns a “ga
af Premier Bennett's Bill #33 and ceatulaoty and growing poverty we have the means to wages struggle on bring any lasting solution
n My ass re : to the economic problems of the working
f arbitration. This is an example for all Cana- expand production and economic develop-. class or of our society
0 dian workers to follow. ment. We can fight for and win a million Th lution lies’; Sh litical battle b
i Unfortunatel in Quebec, where labor new jobs, as the Communist Party demands. e solution tes ay ane Pouce ee ey
2 Liars pee. WS Pola aiees tek ry the working class to win political power; to
of is not as yet united to the same degree, con- But we must restore Canadian control and a PoMuees z
: : ’ : : end class society and exploitation forever;
struction workers are being coerced to return assert our independence from United States and to build a socialist society in Canada
ot? to work. Premier Bourassa and his Quebec imperialism and its adventurist policies of <
ig National Assembly have succeeded in dividing aggressive wars, including preparation for Central Executive Committee
the unions by clever manoeuvring. The result thermo-nuclear world war. Communist Party of Canada

By MEL DOIG

“We're standing behind the
Shermen and their union,” de-
Clared Winston Ruck, president
of Nova Scotia’s most powerful
Union, the United Steel Work-
€ts Local 1064, speaking in Syd-
Ney last week. “The strike must
€ settled,” he said, ‘to the sa-
lisfaction of the members of the
United Fishermen and Allied

orkers Union.”

Referring to the decision of

© Cape Breton -Labor Council,
to which the Sydney Local 1064

18 affiliated, not to proceed.

With the August 21 general
Strike planned in support of the
Striking Nova Scotia trawler
and inshore fishermen, Ruck ex-
Plained: “As far as I’m concern-
&d, we just posponed the gene-
Tal strike to allow the fishermen
Ime to study Judge Green’s re-
COmmendations Nobody

Wants a gereral strike,” he said,
“but we won’t have any part of
posing a settlement on the
fishermen that they don’t believe
'S acceptable.” -

It’s when the chips are down

that labor solidarity counts.
When bosses and governments
and certain right-wing labor
leaders zero-in on workers strik-
ing for the right to choose their
own union to bargain for them.

And that’s why every union
and every local of every union,
in Canada should do what the
Sydney steel workers have done
—rally now to support the
Nova Scotia fishermen with fin-
ancial aid and public statements
backing their cause.

The publisher of the Sydney
newspaper, the Cape Breton
Highlander, summed up what’s

behind the fishing companies’

red-baiting campaign against
the UFAWU. (That’s the union
the fishermen of Petit de Grat,
of Canso and Mulgrave have
chosen to represent them, and
for which they’ve been fighting
on the picket lines. It’s the
union the two strikebound, for-
eign-owned ‘companies, Acadia
Fisheries and Booth Fisheries
Canadian, have refused to re-
cognize.)

Writing in the August 26
issue of the Cape Breton High-

_ Support NS. fishermen!

lander, the publisher, Sandy
Campbell says: “The fish com-
panies (all of them, not just
Booth and Acadia) don’t want
the UFAWU because its collec-
tive expertise about the indus-
try is equal. to their own. The
UFAWU would quickly become
the pacesettler in terms of
wages and wonksing condi-
tions 3522! :

The fishermen have long un-
derstood what the bosses’ red-
baiting was all about. Today
they stand solid in their defense
of the sacred right to organize
—to bargain collectively and
freely through the union of
their choice.

The UFAWU president, Ho-
mer Stevens, last week said of

them, “Their unity is strong,

almost unbelievably strong after
five full months of strike.”
Labor solidarity today in Can-
ada means solidarity first of all
with those workers in the front
lines of struggle. And that
‘means with the 27,000 battling
postal workers—and with the
brave 280-odd Nova _ Scotia
trawler and inshore fishermen.

Formation last week in To-
ronto of the Trade Union OUT-
NOW Committee has added new
and important forces to the
OUTNOW petition campain for

signatures of Canadian demand-

ing the USA stop its war against
Indochina.

The. Trade Union OUTNOW
Committee is issuing the peti-
tion in the following revised
form for use in the campaign
for trade unionists’ signatures:

“The Edmonton Convention
of the Canadian Labor Congress
adopted a policy which said:
‘North American inflation can
be attributed largely to two im-
portant factors: the massive
buildup of the’ American milita-
ry commitments in the Vietnam

war; and government policies in»

Canada and the US in the last

half of the 1960's. .

- “Canadians are paying for
American aggression in Viet-
nam with high prices, high tax-
es and growing unemployment.
Act against the war! Act for
jobs and stable prices! Sign the
worldwide OUTNOW Petition!

President Nixon—STOP THE

WAR! GET OUT OF INDO-
CHINA!”

Chairman of the Trade Union
OUTNOW Committee, Harvey
Murphy of the_ United Steel
Workers, has announced the
committee will circulate the pe-
tition widely at parades on
Labor Day, September 7. Trade
unionists in Toronto who want
to assist in the petitioning
should meet at 8:15 a.m. at the
northeast corner of Spadina and
Dundas.

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