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hs ie LON — Unity among
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digg comes of the second
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Unite etary William Kashtan —

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Communists step up
| Political struggle

It calls for a roll-back of prices
of food, rents, housing and
clothing and enforcement of this,
with the use of subsidies as an
aid. It demands free milk for
every school child to cope with
the rising price’ of milk.

Jobs Minus Inflation

Full employment without in-
flation requires reduced hours,
unemployment insurance - to
80% of earnings for the dura-
tion of unemployment, job-pro-
viding programs, low rental
housing (300,000 units annually)
an all-Canadian transportation
system, including a Merchant
Marine based on public owner-
ship; an agricultural policy
which assures markets and ris-
ing incomes for farmers, demo-
cratic tax reform based on abil-
ity to pay; a guaranteed annual
income. Other points call for
an all-Canadian energy policy
based on public ownership of
energy and natural resources,
the processing of raw materials
in Canada and building of sec-
ondary industry at the source.

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e Fight for the good of all
Canadians as a whole.-
Su in UN

A eae brought to the

Convention by a spokesman of

the Palestine Liberation Move-

ment, pointed out. that the PLO

By LIZ ROWLEY

WINDSOR — More than 200
workers walked the line at the
Hiram Walker plant here last
Friday (Oct. 11) in a show of
united and solid determination
against company attempts to
break the strike and the union.

Local 1 of the Canadian Union
of Distillery Workers is now
well into its fourth month of a
strike in which the issues center
on wages; COLA, pensions and
job security.

“We'll never break,” one wo-
man picketer said when asked

about the long winter head and

about the strike pay that has
been confiscated in.a dispute be-

These striking Saskatchewan CUPE workers typify the ‘growing

RKERS REFUSE TO SUBMIT

tween the. new union and the in-
ternational.

In an exclusive interview with
the Tribune, Local 1 President
Dick Tighe, outlined the issues
that prompted the Hiram Walker
workers to strike for the third

Thousands of working people
across Canada are trying to
catch up with the spiralling cost
of living through militant, united
labor action. Indicative of the
many strikes that are taking

‘place today is this one of more

than 200 workers at the Hiram
Walker distillery in Windsor, Ont.

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trend in Canadian labor to fight back against inflation.

is now supported by the over-
whelming majority of the mem-
bers of the United Nations (the
PLO was admited to discussions
of the Middle East problems by
a vote of 105 to four, including
the USA opposed, and 20 absten-
tions, including Canada). —
Reports of the disintegration
of the PLO, the statement said,
are Zionist propaganda. The
PLO is more united than ever. It
admits, the spokesman said, that
it does have a left wing, a right
wing and a centre, but so does
every other political movement.
. ... All segments, he said, are
agreed that all effective action

would take place through’ the.
- PLO only:

‘Having won the support of
Syria, Iraq and Egypt, despite
Jordan’s opposition, the PLO is
“particularly pleased with the
increasing support from Iraq,”

, the statement said. “The PLO in

future,” it said, would “conduct
most of its military’ operations
inside the occupied territories.”

_ Reports to the Convention
from its six workshops included
one on the role of young Arab

Canadians in Canadian society.
Even those who are born in this
country, the report charged, suf-
fer discrimination because- of
their descent. They are obliged,
it said, to suffer continual anti-
Arab bias in the means of com-
munication right from the time
they are old enough to under-
stand it. aa

They are subjected to anti-
Arab propaganda in the schools.
Ontario schools give approxi-
mately. one day of information
regarding the entire Arab world,
but 10 days to considering Israel.
Then they have to listen to anti-
Arab remarks by their teachers,
the workshop report stated. This
anti-Arab material must be re-
produced by them in examina-
tions. And after leaving school
they suffer discrimination from
pro Zionist employers.

In a workshop on community
organizations, social and politic-
al, James Peters, president of
the Federation of Arab Canadian
Societies, urged that “Arabs

should join. all redolant social
and political organizations in- -

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1974—Page 5

time in three contracts.

“It’s just an unfair offer. The
company gave us the wages in
the UAW package but forgot the
rest” the local president said. -

In dispute is the 37 cents dif-
ferential between male and fe-
male employees. Also a dispute
in seniority based on sex at the
time of lay-offs, which Tighe
branded as “outright discrimina-
tion.”

Falls Far Short :

‘In the area of pensions, the
company is offering pensions at
58 with rates ranging from $150
in 1974 to $555 in 1978 — an
offer falling far short of the
UAW’s “30 and out” plan, which
begins at 55 and goes from $550
in 1974 to $700 in 1978. Because
it is a six-year plan, the union
is unable to negotiate until 1980,
“The company absolutely refuses
the union the right to negotiate
for pensions,” Tighe said.

Hiram Walker has also refused

to budge on its, offer of 0.4%

COLA benefits with a 10 cent
check-off from COLA for dental
benefits. The UAW has 0.3%
with no check-off on the dental
plan.

Also at issue.are health and _

welfare benefits which are far
below. the inflationary price
ranges and are subject to tax re-
ductions. The company refuses
to negotiate on its policy of con-
tracting out work during its busy
periods.

All negotiations broke off
again on Oct. 10 due to a lack
of good faith in the bargaining
by the company.

“The support from organized
labor is astounding,” said Tighe.
The president of the Windsor
Labor Council fully endorses the
strike and has said that “all
organized labor will not allow
the strike to fail.”

False Labelling

An example of the solidarity
from organized workers in the
community was the action of the
Union Gas workers — members
of the Oil, Atomic and Chemical
Workers Union — who as Tighe

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PUT UNITED
AIRCRAFT UNDER
PUBLIC
OWNERSHIP

(Resolution passed at a meeting
of the Communist Party's
Central Committee, Oct. 12-13.)

The heroic struggle by the
workers of United Aircraft at
Longueuil, Quebec, to achieve

-@ decent income with job and

union security, is now in the |
eleventh month. It is in the
process of becoming one of the
most bitter and hard-fought
strikes in the annals of

_ Canadian labor.

The employer against whom
2,800 U.A.W. members struck
last January 7, the United Aircraft
Co. of Canada Ltd., a subsidiary
of the wealthy United States
United Aircraft Corporation of
Hartford, Conneticut — is
determined that the union shall
not win its demand for.

union security through

the Rand Formula check-off.
The East Hartford USA
headquarters of this wealthy
corporation has decreed that the
strike must be broken and -

“the way chosen to accomplish

this aim is to transfer the
production from Canada to the
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