25 years ago...

4,000 TAKE PART IN
TORONTO MAY DAY
Toronto workers wentinto the
streets May Day 1951, tostate the
largest and lustiest celebration
the city has witnessed since the
= e parade of 1939.

_ Over4,000 citizens gathered in
n’s Park to climax a parade
of over 2,000 which stretched for
blocks as veterans, housewives,
unionists, youth and folk from
the plants, factories and offices
marched from Dundas and
Spadina to the traditional out-
door meeting place of Toronto

“a
Peace was the main theme of
May Day 1951. Slogans carried
the message: “Canadians De-

mand Peace, No Yankee Wars!” .

and “Stop the Arms Race!”

- FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

A NEW WAY TO
FIGHT FASCISM

The Social Democrats of Po-
land have aqueer way of “fighting
fascism”.

They demand that Marshal
Joseph Pilsudski, former presi-

dent, who is now leading the or- .

ganization of Fascist troops, be
returned to the General Staff of
the Army.

They advocate this on the
grounds that “his return would
makeitimpossible for him tocon-
tinue his fascist activities”.

* KO

General Motors casually lays
off thousands of men without
warning. It wouldn’t seem to be
such anoffense forthe workers to
doalittle laying off themselves —

among many others. May Ist for example.
Tribune, Worker
~ May 7, 1951. May I, 1926
Youve DONE A
GREAT JOB. HATE se

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 7, 1976—Page 4

BIDITORIALL
COMIMUSINT

Call for a general strike

Unprecedented support for a general
strike, to turn back the increasing attacks

‘on labor, is mounting across Canada. ,

Workers and their organizations are
determined to hit back at the ferocious
assaults on living standards, health, col-
lective bargaining, the right to strike and
virtually every facet of workers’ lives.

There are two basic questions involved
— the repeal of Bill C-73 (to restore col-
lective bargaining and put a stop to wage
cutting), and the struggle to compel a
policy of full employment.

' Together with this, effective measures
must be demanded to curb prices. The

_ so-called Anti-Inflation Board does not

curb prices, and -was never intended by
the government to do so.

Calls for a general strike to drive home
the’ seriousness of these demands are
echoing across the country. The Tribune

supports a general strike unreserved]
It is a part of the continuing battle fo
workers’ rights and living standards.

This is also a priority decision for the
approaching Canadian Labor Congress
convention. The CLC should not on
endorse a general strike, but mobiliz€
labor all across the.country to guaranteé
its effectiveness. It should seek th
maximum of unity with the Confedera~
tion of National Trade Unions and all
labor bodies on this issue. A

Obviously, a general strike is not a final
goal of working people, but a part of thé
ongoing struggle aimed at bringing
about a change in government policies,
change in the composition of parli
ment. Until such changes are achieved)y
the ability of the working class to decide}
its own future will be blocked and under
mined. q

New AIB threat to labor |

Within three days of one another, two

full-time wage-cutters, who pull king- |

sized salaries out of our tax dollars,
warned working people to keep their
mouths shut, tighten their belts, and ex-
pect worse than the present attacks on
living standards.

Donald Tansley, the unelected ruler
of the “Anti-Inflation Board,” told his
buddies in the Edmonton Chamber of
Commerce on April 27 that unions so
bold as to appeal an AIB ruling “run the
risk of ending up with less than the
Anti-Inflation Board was willing to
grant.” He thinks he’ll show the workers
he’s boss.

His threat followed closely that of Fi-
nance Minister Donald Macdonald, who
reported to the Ontario Liberals on Ap-
ril 24 that his May Budget will likely
tighten the controls which are robbing
thousands of Canadian workers of
earned wage increases.

With some 750,000 unemployed, lay-
offs continuing, and the federal and
provincial governments on a wage-
cutting rampage, the crisis of the capital-
ist system will worsen — not improve.
And it is now clear to more working
people than ever before that the ruling
class will make every effort to force
workers to pay for that deepening crisis.

The labor movement has a different

approach — and not only the labo
movement but all those afflicted directly }
and indirectly by the wage-cuts, cutbacks
of social services, skyrocketing prices, all 4
the doing of the same clique — and that
approach is to fight back! 3
Again the key to victory is unity —
anti-monopoly unity — and in the first
place unity of the labor movement. In0
the words of the Communist Party o
Canada at its Central Committee meet™
ing in January: “No group of workers
must be left to fight on their own .. . The
trade union movement must counter thé
effort of monopoly and governments ©)
isolate it ... build alliances not only 1);
support of its legitimate demands, but 1”),
opposition to the government's restralM™ }
program ...” 1p
These words, true in January, are 4
veritable battle-cry five months latef >
when thousands of workers are havi an
their wages slashed, when the poverty ® | ¢
social cutbacks and unemployment »
overtaking countless families, whe?)\
more and more unions are challenging|4
the AIB’s authority, and the brass of th® |
restraints program. What worker is pr} it
pared to crawl for the glory of the syste®) q
of the monopoly corporations? 7
The working class and its allies ha¥)
chosen to stand and fight — not to kne@)
The call is for nothing less than 100%
labor and anti-monopoly unity. © |

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‘Kissinger credibility gap |

The cool reception for Henry Kiss-
inger’s African safari should be no sur-
prise in view of the U.S. record of brutal
interference in other countries — par-
ticularly in developing countries.

U.S. foreign policy put together with :

its racist, anti-Black domestic policy
makes ludicrous Kissinger’s mission to
help Black Africans.

Ludicrous it may be, but it is also a
menace to world peace. The U.S.-based
multi-national corporations, the Central
Intelligence Agency, the U.S. military,
and the local fascists they attract are des-

perate to hold their grip on strateg’]
parts of the world, whatever the cost

Their plans are doomed to failure; DU}
Kissinger’s slanders concerning Sovit)
aid to developing countries are a sinist®)
fraud aimed at blackmailing the wot
into a new cold war — and precipitatif
“if necessary,” fighting wars. 4

_Endangered by such machinatio!
people everywhere, including grow!
numbers of Canadians, are oppos!
and exposing by every means the 0)
going bloody plots of U.S. imperialis