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MURDOCHVILLE

lines in front of the Gaspe
Copper: Mines (a_ subsidiary
of Noranda Mines).

Other prominent unionists
present included Gerard Pi-
card, persident of the Cana-
‘dian and Catholic Confedera-
tion of Labor; Roger Provost,
president of the Quebec Fed- .
eration of Labor; and many
representatives of the Nation-

al Metal Trades Federation
(CCL) whose 6,500 Arvida,
Quebec “local has been on

strike against the Aluminum

Company for the past three
months.

As they marched a large
_ §roup of professional goons,

hired by the company hurled
Stones -at them from hilltop
positions on company prop-
erty. Six picketers were in-
jured.. One_ Arvida_ striker,
Mariel Tremblay, had his ndse
torn off by a fist size rock.
Provincial police were present
but made no attempt to restore
law and order.

The picketers were attacked
several times by the mob of
goons. According to press re-
ports, at one stage “non-un-
ion men on the hill, waving
what appeared to be bleck-
jacks, charged down the hiil.
A general melee followed.”
The demonstration broke up
after police used tear gas
against the picketers.

Shortly after the 450-man
cavaleade had left town, re-
ported the Canadian Press, “a
howling angry band of 100
men wielding knives and
sticks smashed the offices of
the United Steelworkers Un-
ion, and overturned and wreck-
ed seven autdmobiles and a
truck. The men entered the
second floor union office,
smashed windows, and _toss-
ed out all chairs, filing cabi-
nets and papers. They attack-
ed cars and overturned them.
With their knives they ripped
and slashed upholstery. No
one was placed under’ arrest.”

On August 20 Quebec pro-
vincial police sergeant Rene
Marchand and local police
chief Guy Buckley warned
three union leaders in Mur-
dochville that “their lives
were in danger and they would
be well advised to leave town.”
The union leaders refused
bluntly, declared they would
stay until the company signed -
a union contract.

Despite every form of intim-
idation and the importation of

German and Hungarian im-
migrants and other scab labor,
the strike remains solid. Of
940 men who went on strike
last March, 850 are still on
strike, according to the union.

An example of trade union
solidarity was given recently
by Mine-Mill, a union which
has had to battle raids by
Steelworkers in the past and
which has-many current dif-
ferences with USW. In: a
statement issued by Mine-Mill
president Nels Thibault, full
Support was pledged to the
Murdochville strikers.

“Canadian labor must re-
gard the denial of Murdoch-
ville .miners’ trade union
rights as an action concocted
in consort among mining op-
erators throughout the indus-
try,” said Thibault. “Such a
threat to union rights of Can-
adian workers overrides di‘-
ferences, jurisdictional or
otherwise, currently existing
between Mine-Mill and Steei-
workers. All such differences
must be set aside .... Cani-
dian labor must stand ready
to fully support the -leader-
ship of the CLC in their direc-
tion of the defense of Mur-
dochville miners’ rights and
carry out actions proposed.”

GS

Asks profits tax
for school costs

VICTORIA, B.C.

Ottawa should slap a 25 per-
cent tax on profits from in-
vestments to aid municipal-
ities pay school costs, Ald.
Donald Smith said last week,
announcing he would launch
a drive to lift the burden of
taxation from the shoulders of
“the man! with the lunch pail.”

Smith, a Socred MLA for
Victoria, is conducting daily
radio talks over stations
CKDA and CJVI to win wide
popular support. He says he
is prepared to charter a plane
and lead a delegation to Ot-
tawa this fall to place his
taxation plan before federal
authorities for action.

Ha said he would like to see
his plan taken up nationally
and would welcome delegates
for the Ottawa trip from such
organizations as _ ratepayers,
PTAs and trade fnions in
every province’

Color TV slowed
by U.S. pressure

TORONTO

Eleven out of the present 22 TV set manufacturers in Canada will cease production be:
fore the end of the year, resulting in hundreds of workers being laid off their pobs 0
TV production lines, according to Canadian General Electric Company. = of

This company itself is discontinuing the manufacutre of TV sets for an indefinite perio

An emergency meeting of
the members of the United
Electrical Workers union in
Toronto General Electric
plants has drawn the impend-
ing layoffs to the attention of
Revenue Minister George
Nowlan. Over the signature of
Oliver Grant, president of the

Joint Board, the
to the minister

- GE
wire

UE
union’s
states:

“Former Liberal govern-
ment succumbed to pressure
from USA to hold back de-
velopment of color TV here.
(This) has restricted market
for TV sets in Canada and

[PP will press gov't
to fulfil promises

By NELSON CLARKE

TORONTO

Plans for vigorous public campaigns for fulfillment of the

Diefenbaker government’s

promises were

hammered out in

lively debate at the meeting of the Labor-Progressive party’s
national committee here over the Labor Day weekend.
“If the Diefenbaker government fulfills any of its election

promises to the workers and
farmers it will be solely be-
cause of the pressure of popu-
lar demand,” Tim Buck, LPP
national leader, told the meet-
ing in his opening report. “If
demoé¢ratic pressure is not ex-
erted effectively there is ser-

lous danger that the govern- -

ment will feel completely free
to satisfy the demands of the
reactionary circles of big bus-
iness.”

The committee decided to
issue a statement for nation-
wide distribution on the eve
of the opening of parliament.

It pledged the LPP to do all
in its power to encourage the
widest expressions of labor
farm unity in demanding ac-
tion from the government on
the pressing needs facing the
Canadian people — peace and
the expansion of trade; fullest
use of Canadian resources for
Canadian development; exten-
sion of unemployment insur-
ance benefits, adjustment pay-
ments to farmers to meet
soaring costs of production;
$75 per month old age pen-

Continued

BYELECTIONS

this week. “Gidora has cam-
paigned for policies that pro-

, Vide the only real alternative

to the giveaway policies of the
Socred government.”

CCF candidate in the Cari-
boo byelection is Jack Wasyliw
of Quesnel, one-time Sudbury
nickel miner and later a
schoolteacher, sawmill opera-

tor and businessman.

sions,
homes;

250,000 low rental
a Bill of Rights,

Development of such popular
pressure upon the government
for fulfillment of its promises
would be an important part of
the LPP’s preparations for the
federal election, Tim Buck em-
phasized.

“The task to which thei LPP
dedicates itself is to help or-
ganize united front actions,
even elementary ones, and al-
liances out of which ‘united
labor political action and
labor-farmer unity indepen-
dent of capitalist parties can
develop.”

To this end the committee
decided to launch electoral ac-
tivity in constituencies across
the country, including plans
for nomination of 20 to 30 LPP
candidates in the federal elec-
tion expected next year.

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