: _ | workers’ press. scribers. n Jan. 13, 1924 the first issue of our brother paper in the U.S., the Daily Worker (forerunner of today's Daily World) made its appearance. For half a century the Daily has fought the geed fight and new carries on ever, holding a place in the front ranks of the international The Canadian Tribune, which keeps learning much from our U.S. fraternal paper, greets the Daily golden jubilee, wishes continued successes te its editors and staff, to its readers and supporters who: ane marking the anniversary by a special campaign for 10,000 new sub- than lorid on its Labor - IN BRIEE WINNIPEG TRANSIT WORKERS SIGN The members of the transit workers union in Winnipeg signed a two-year contract last “week that gives them a total package increase of 26%. Mean- while the transit workers in Ed- monton went into their seventh week of strike actions in their bid to achieve a wage settle- ment that is at least in line with the rapidly increasing cost of living. Both the strike, in Edmonton and the settlement in Win- nipeg are being watched care- fully by the transit workers in Toronto whose contract expires on July 1, 1974. The Toronto workers are expected to try to achieve wage parity with tran- sit workers in other major Cana- dian centres. MINIMUM WAGE UP VICTORIA — The minimum wage in British Columbia has been increased from $2 an hour to $2.25 for employees 18 years of age and over. For those un- der 18 the minimum wage was increased to $1.85 from $1.60. FARMWORKERS LAUNCH SUIT TORONTO — United Farm Workers’ leader Cesar Shavez has launched a $100 million lawsuit against Coachella Val- ley grape growers and the Teamsters Union. The = suit charges that Teamster contracts with the growers are not valid. Meanwhile, the boycott cam- paign is intensifying in major cities across Canada with Do- minion Stores as the main tar- get. The Union chose Dominion because it’s the largest of the supermarket chains and to date the least cooperative in with- PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1974—PAGE 10 FAAS -8 Ne CETERA SHR OAK drawing California grapes and lettuce from its shelves. About 600 UFW strikers and their families are spearheading the boycott in ‘over 65 cities in the United States and Canada. CNR BALKS AT SAFETY RULES OTTAWA — The Canadian Railway Labor Association has criticized the Canadian Na- tional Railways for its reaction to a recent report of the Cana- dian Transport Commission. The report predicted an increased accident rate unless immediate steps are taken. The CNR seemed to be con- tent with brushing aside all evidence concerning railway safety and “it relied upon vague statistics to claim an improve- ‘ment over the 1972 rates.” J. F. Walter, the Association vice- chairman said. The rail unions intended to continue pushing for closer reg- ulation of the railways to en- sure safety of the public and~ employees, The CRLA expected the com- mmission would issue new ‘re- gulations for movement of dan- gerous commodities, a revision of operating and air brake rules, new procedures for testing, in- specting and repair of rolling stock, standards for employee training and a review of com- mission rail rules. Beaver Transfer * Moving * Packing * Storage 790 Powell St. Phone 254-3711 HAM IAG A & OT AA e Continued from page 5 éd up charges, and had to go underground; one person related that he and seven others had spent two days in a house sur- rounded by soldiers, without eating, drinking, speaking or even running water in the sinks” because of fear that soldiers would enter the house. Luckily for them, the troops, thinking the house was empty, did not search it. When the soldiers moved, they left and went into hiding. Now that the refugees have finally reached. Canada, the task of getting settled here has be- gun. : Compared to the treatment handed out by Canadian immi- gration to Hungarians, Czechs, and Ugandans, the refugees from Chile are being short- changed. Those who did not go through the normal immigration procedures are here simply on ‘ministerial permits, and as of yet there has been little talk from government officials of granting them the relative security of landed immigrant status. Canadians authorities in San- tiago had also promised that English lessons would be pro- vided on (or soon after) arrival, as was done with the other “re- fugees”. Yet, it is now being said that the people who have just arrived will be put on the waiting list, as done with ordin- ary immigrants (the waiting list is more than two months long). The question of ample living allowances is also up in the air. Those coming from Chile (many of them with families; there are more than 50 children less than five years of age among them) are, it:appears, to be granted the usual minimum welfare rates —- $30 per “head of the family”, and $10 each per dependent. As most of the people came without personal belongings, without the type of clothes necessary for a Canadian winter (some came with only the light eee 7 i } ens ie -_ ta aniada = 4 ugees II clothes they had on, and no more), without any of; the items necessary for small children — adequate diaper supply, etc. — or for that matter, the fore- thought normally involved in emigrating, the financial assist- ance being offered by the gov- ernment is most unseemly. Church organizations have assisted financially,: giving a small amount of money to each of the refugees. However the Ontario government, through its agency Welcome House in Tor- onto, has attempted to spread the illusion that the money given by the churches comes from the government. At Welcome House itself, where the people are supposed to begin immigration procedures, all is in confusion. Although the problem of almost 200 refugees was foreseen, little was done to accommodate them. No extra Spanish-speaking personnel were added te the staff, nor extra in- terpreters found. Adding to the urgency is the fact that the government has threatened to terminate the re- fugees stay in the two hotels as The following telegram was sent by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada under the sig- nature of Alfred Dewhurst, na- tional organizer, to Robert An- dras, minister of manpower and immigration: We are told Manpower has in- formed Chilean refugees that no English language training can begin for two months. Ask that you intervene to assure that such training begin imme- diately so refugees can begin to seek employment and otherwise adapt themselves to their new country. ° We also ask assurance that no economic hardship be visited on refugees during period of neces- sary training and employment search. * Solzhenitsyn- a liar’ The following letter by Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, was pub- lished Jan. 8 in the Toyonto Star, which has been leading the anti- Soviet campaign around Alexan- der Solzhenitsyn: Alexander Solzhenitsyn’t big- _ gest giveaway, his chief expos- ure of himself as a liar, in his accusation that Lenin was ‘just as bad as Stalin.” One of Lenin’s personality characteristics was his amazing clemency. Two of those execut- ed after the Moscow trials were Kameney, and Zinoviev. Both these men had betrayed the Re- volution as early as. 1917. They continually were forgiven, con- -tinually professed to repent, and continually did it again. They were shot by Stalin only when Hitler was on the rise. The horror camps described by Sol- zhenitsyn did exist — only they were in Germany, not the Soviet Union. If the work camps to which Solzhenitsyn was confined were so awful, how is it that he’s alive? This is no rhetorical ques- tion. The recorded facts are that Stalin, by sending Solzhenitsyn to a work camp, inadevtently - saved his life. That man had cancer, and because he was in a work camp, under close medi- cal attention, the cancer was discovered early and cured. It was the Whites, not the Reds, who butchered hundreds of thousands of peasants during the Civil War. It was the Whites, not the Reds, who executed their prisoners: as a matter of course. The monstrous conspiracy to overthrow socialism in the Soviet Union did exist. Indeed Solzhen- itsyn was one of the conspira- tors. Whether you intended to or not, you have done a public ser- vice by serializing Solzhenitsyn's malicious nonsense. You will not affect the young. All this was long ago. You might as well publish horror- stories about Napoleon. : To those who are older, who followed the events and could not but be affected by the de- luge of anti-Soviet propaganda, you are causing a tremendous easing of the spirit. And many of us still physical- ly young. Revolutionaries stay youthful a long time. You have not only eased our spirits. You have mobilized us. “ment to rapidly solve many 9 of Jan. 16, although nothing of ficial has been said. Emergen¢ housing will be provided by committee working on the qué: tion which includes church 0 ganizations, the Canadian C mittee for Solidarity with mocratic Chile, Latin Ameri Working Group, and others. Many other problems ha arisen. There seems to be an tempt by the government, order to avoid giving languag classes immediately, at whi the students receive $55 week for a 20-week period, offer jobs through the Mai power department to the fugees. Naturally these will the lowest paying, most me jobs available. Aside from fact that with the exception three people, none of the rivals speak English, there ° be little if any regard for pé sonal and family needs, or pt fessional background, as government hastens to ‘get the hook’ financially and mo’ ly by providing just any job. Nevertheless the fact t any refugees arrived at all so what atones in the interim fé the massive confusion and of problems that will have to solved before the people begin to participate in Canadia life. Many organizations are n pressuring the Canadian gover | the problems facing the peop granted asylum here in Cana In a letter sent out today to 0 ganizations by the Canad Committee for Solidarity wil Democratic Chile, it is: pointe out: ; “Of those who have arriv the majority have spent the few months sleeping on the fl of the Canadian embassy ... | “Naturally they were unabl to flee with their personal longings and’are now lacking most basic essentials ... “.... only pressure from Call adians can compel the gover ment to act quickly on th questions. Andras . . . demanding: “T) Landed immigrant sta be granted to all who have yet received it. : “2) Additional allowances resettlement. “3) English classes immedia' ly arranged for all the refuge “4) Competent and quali day care facilities for the ¢ dren so that mothers can a learn English.” The Committee also as that increased pressure be on the government ‘‘to admit many thousands who still fi it necessary to leave Chile. long as camps are filled people who are forced by tl} continuing terror to seek asylul abroad we cannot say that ' ada has lived up to her obli, tions.” * Solidarity With Chilean Journalists CARACAS — The Venezue Journalists Association and t Mexican colleagues agreed sponsor a joint campaign on half of Chilean press people W: are persecuted and threate with death. Representatives the Venezuelan journalists sta that the two organizations si ed a joint statement undertaki to step up their solidarity W’ their Chilean colleagues.