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JOURNALISM

NHL brass to blame
in hockey pull-out

By MEL DOIG
The NHL governors have dic-

*tated Canada’s withdrawal from

all international hockey compe-
tition. By doing so they’ve gain-
ed a temporary, hollow “victo-
ry’—to be paid for by every
hockey fan—for big business in
sports. For that’s what profes-
sionalism in sports is, big with
a capital “B” business. And
that’s what this rotten Hockey
Canada (with the CAHA in its
control) decisionis all about.

The head-Soviet coach, Ana-
tole Tarasov, calls hockey “this
brilliant, incomparable game.”
Canadians agree.

But the time is here for us to
recognize that our great game
has now been taken over in
Canada and the U.S.A. by mono-
poly. All the sham and disgust-
ing hypocrisy of Canada’s Fede-
ral “Minister of Wealth and Hel-
fare” (to recall the CBC news
announcer’s boob) and of the
NHL bosses that they are the
real defenders of the people’s in-
terests in sports is for the birds!

What’s happened is _ that
hockey has become an interna-
tional sports attraction. The cal-
ibre and style of Soviet and
Czechoslovak hockey, of in-
creasing numbers of European
teams, have caught the interest
of growing numbers of sports
fans in North America. That, for
the NHL governors, spells one
thing—big dough!

You can almost hear David
Molson, J. Stafford Smythe and
Clarence Campbell — the whole
gang of governors of the so-

called Hockey League (2 Cana--

dian and 10 U.S.A. franchise
with headquarters in New York)
slavering over the _ lucrative
satellite TV contracts and gate

incomes they’d like to control—
on a world scale, no less!

The role of Trudeau’s govern-
ment in this whole business
reeks. The government which
boosts MP’s salaries and con-
demns Canadian workers to still
worse conditions of unemploy-
ment, wants us to believe, in the
words of Health and Welfare
Minister John Munro, that it’s
out to eliminate the “sham of
amateurism” which “goes back
to a time when the proficiency in
sport. was for the well to do!”
Trudeau and company stand for
the average guy and his kids?
Come off it!

Hockey Canada is the creation

of the NHL with the complicity
of their Ottawa “boys.” The
directors of Hockey Canada in-
clude David Molson, owner of
Montreal Canadiens, and Clar-
ence Campbell of the NHL. And
they’re fronting for all the own-
ers of professional sports in
North America. —

Socialist countries support
sports participation. Everything
is done, in hockey for example,
to provide rinks, coaches, equip-
ment for the youth. Commercial-
ism in sports which buys and
sells splendid athletes like
hunks of beef couldn’t exist in
socialist countries for one
second.

Let the NHL lay its reserve
clause on the line if it wants to
talk about cleaning up sports!
Let the “simoh-pure’” hockey
governors give the players the
right to play for whatever team
they want instead of making
them play only where the bosses
tell them to!

Canadian hockey players
themselves have had no say in

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Komsomolskaya Pravda:

a gap.

tween friendly opponents.

The Soviet view on the question of admitting profes-
sional players to world hockey championship games was
expressed by the following comment in the youth paper

“But the participation of professionals in the world
championships, their presence at that festival of amateur
sport, is the first step toward the merging of two different
sport worlds, two sport concepts between which there is

“On the one hand, there is the Olympic spirit of sport
mobility outlined in the well-considered rules of play be-

“On the other hand, there is the merciless clash of
teams, guided by profits, in the name of victory at any
price, the crude rules of play for the pleasure of the pub-
lic, bribery, and blackmail. .

“The decision of the international federation was lead-
ing to the liquidation of hockey as a sport, to transforming
it into a show, into an instrument for attracting people into
the stadiums. This is the essence of the matter.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JANUARY 9,-1970—Page 4

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and end to killings in US!

Union leader murdered, —

Black Panthers hounded

The pattern of “politics by assassina-
tion” —of presidents, civil rights leaders
and Black Panthers — in the United
States, which is the accompaniment of
U.S. military aggression and genocidal
war abroad, was carried into the trade
union muvement this week by the mur-
der of progressive miners’ leader Jo-
seph Yablonski, his wife and daughter
in their Clarksville, Pa. home.

Yablonski, 59, who went to work in
a mine at 15 and worked as a miner for

ternational

U.S. Labor

When news of the police murder of Black Panther Party leader
Fred Hampton in Chicago reached Regina, young people organized -
a torchlight protest parade through the city’s streets. Hampton had
addressed a student meeting and a public gathering called by a
group of trade union leaders, Metis and Indian spokesmen in Regina
just a couple of weeks previously.

Youth league built
in militant actions

“This is our declaration of war
against capitalism. It is our
declaration that we are an or-
ganization which fights for the

needs of youth,” the initiating.

committee to form a Young
Communist League declared in
discussing the draft of the mani-
festo for its founding conven-
tion. Struggle for the rights of
young Canadian workers, farm-
ers and students was the theme
of the meeting of the Committee
meeting in Toronto over the Dec.
27 - 28 weekend.

The proposed manifesto de-
clares that the YCL will actively
engage in struggle for the rights
of young Canadians to live a
full life with meaningful jobs at
decent pay, with adequate educa-
tion, culture and_ recreational
facilities, for the rights of the
French-Canadian nation, for
peace, independence, decent hou-
sing, and for equality of women.
Special attention was paid to
struggle for the rights of the Na-
tive peoples of Canada.

The draft manifesto states that
the YCL is an independent youth
league, based on the revolution-
ary political world, outlook per-
sonified by Marx, Lenin and the
Communist. Party .of Canada,
whose policies and program it
believes best represent the inter-

ests. of the working class of
Canada.

It declares that membership in
the YCL is the way for youth to
become Communists,. to learn
and apply Marxism-Leninism in
the struggles facing them today.

Communist youth leader
Chuck McFadden said that the
YCL is being built anew in Can-
ada, with determination to make
it a force in the struggle for so-
cialism. ‘We have a principle in
the YCL that in Canadian poli-
tics we will always be in the
open, and always where strug-
gles take place.” ;

It was a meeting full of opti-
mism and purpose. There was
already a sense of accomplish-
ment as the YCL is being born
in struggle. Pride in it was appa-
rent. Its members have already
participated in mass campaigns
under their own banner.

Karen McFadden ran for

school board in Toronto, and the ~

YCL was active in the entire
civic campaign. The Toronto
YCL participated in the Morator-
ium days, and marched in the
street demonstration on Nov. 15

- under its own banner. The To-

ronto YCL also organized a com- :

mittee in defense of ‘striking:

workers, and members were ac-
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35 years before being elected to the In

Executive Board of. tht

United Mine Workers of America, ral
for the post of president against right
wing incumbent president W. A. Boylé
He called for restoration of union dé
mocracy and improved safety ail
health legislation for the miners.

When the votes were counted 0
Dec. 9 Yablonski had 41,872 to Boyle!
85,056. He immediately called on tht

Department to seize tht
ballots and union records, cha!
ging vote stealing, counting ?
illegal ballots, and misuse dl
union funds. The Department fr
fused to act. Then Yablonski al!
nounced that-as a member, of tht
International .Executive. Boal?
he would continue the fight wit
in the union’s leadership... |
' The. - Yablonski. murder, - ha
aroused U.S: progressives to.new
efforts to stop. the . growiNh
nightmare of. naked _reactiol
Support of democrats through
out the world is needed, esp®
cially at this moment to halt tht
attempt to destroy the Blat
Panther Party by police killitf
plus court persecution.

In a world appeal, signed by
Gus Hall,. general: secretary %
the ..Communist Party,. of . thé

.U.S:A.,that party has, asked, tht
_fraternal.Communist, Parties @

join in.-a world-wide  campaig!
to halt the murder of. the Blach
Panthers, to call for an investig#
tion into the crimes commit
against them, and to arouse pu
lic opinion in their defense. Th®
statement reads: j
“The Nixon Administratiom
acting through the Justice D@
partment, the FBI and the poli
in the big cities of the. Unite
States, has unleashed, a. bru

‘campaign of physical exterminy
-tion - against. the _ leaders, al
-members: of. the: Black . Panth?

Party. a
“This is a black militant of
ganization which fights for
rights of the black people.
Was originally established as !
self-defense organization again®
police violence in the yhetto%
but it has been turning increa®
ingly in the direction of mas
political struggle, and towal’
socialism as the solution. !
seeks unity of black and -whil!
in these struggles. q
“Reaction has singled out th?
organization for such viciov’
assault because of its youthful

_ initiative and militance. The ail!

is to weaken seriously the black
liberation movement and thereb)
to strike a blow against th!
mounting forces of peace and
progress generally. |
“In recent weeks the Bla
Panthers have been the victim
of murderous attacks of unpara!’
leled savagery. In Chicago, at
4:30 a.m. on the morning of De@
4, the police, arms in hand, broke
into the home occupied, by *
group of Panther activists. The
killed Fred Hampton, age 21, a

Mark Clark, age 22, and. the
_ wounded four others. -Hampto!
chairman. of the’ Illinois {

“organization, was shot whilé
bed. The Chicago’ Black: Polic®
_men’s, Organization labelled, th

attack outright murder, ° ~ |
“In Los Angeles, in thé earl
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