= oN Nixon summed up his Cambodian Invasion: “A VERY GREAT DEAL HAS BEEN ACHIEVED...” (TV interview 7/1/70) Nova Scotia fishermen | @ oman Catholic priest at Bras hiss ather Thomas Morley, in stee| ay worked in Nova Scotia ‘ fees and coal mines and in ae factories. He writes in Ashe 'ghlander on the Maritimes ‘ Tmen’s struggle: Vilege © time ago it was my pri- one of © join a trawler crew for Botimia: its trips. At the stroke a et under the cover of Weigh down-pour. of rain, we ey a anchor at North Syd- >a radared our way out of magi toward daylight. and the C of the sea for eight days é Nights. ; a Bee ce basis of that never-to- eeotten experience I can There the following statement: OF ste rr Not a unionized miner ae Worker in Cape Breton — Work pabere else who would aco successive trips on a Cient to One trip would be suffi- Obtaing Convince him that here tion o whe most foul exploita- ~ tant 3, man resources still ex- ~ 40 our land. ou ; nor mention 16 hours for a mal working day. Let no one ‘id irestion the fairness of that fig- 20 yah can work steadily for : Bean as long as the fish-find- A a Keeps pointing out fish. the py €n the fish are slack and th sa changes course, even : St is not assured. There the hat to be cleaned and put in botte Ches, ice to be shovelled, : Mendeq” damaged nets to be On his f One of our crew -was ss et for over 30 hours. frogt Sn this the wind and the Winter ;..S20W and the sleet of the reaWling, the open decks, Machine hands and the exposed SPeedin TY of running winch and 8 steel cables, and you get a faint idea of the hardest life by which men still earn their daily bread. ee. This is exploitation, We used to call it immorality. It is sup- ported by. discriminatory legis- lation and abetted by a court system that is rapidly becoming socially anachronistic. Personally, I believe that every dragger in Cape Breton should be tied up until what must be an award-winning eu- phemism, “co - adventurer” is struck from the statute books, until the fishermen win recogni- tion for the ‘union of their choice, the UFAW, as their bar- gaining agent. I would like to state here that I was very im- pressed with Mr. Homer Stev- ens, with his goodness, his will- ingness to suffer for a cause that should elicit the support of us all. We ourselves should be on the picket lines with the fishermen at Petit de Grat, Mulgrave and . Canso supporting them, and their wives and children whose sim- ple housing and skimpy table aresthe true subsidizers of capi- talists from Chicago and London who can call long-distance and threaten, with impunity, to run away with the people’s liveli- hood. I believe the matter is serious enough to warrant a sympathy strike by miners and steelwork- ers. The strong elements of la- bor should be helping the weak- er. A migrant Mexican grape- picker or a hired P.E.I. farm hand has as much right to a de- cent living as anyone else in the work force. And so does a Cape Breton and Nova Scotian fisherman. Publish, Editor —MAURICE RUSH : 'shed weekly at Ford Bidg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings Sty an Souver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Ss = 9 Ubscription Rate: ‘Ort! Allo nd South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one er countries, $7.00 one year Canada, $5.00 one year, $2.75 for six months. year. Settle with postmen The Trudeau Government is now threatening to lock out its postal em- ployees by closing down the post offices! A government that can callously plan to close down plants and create mass unemployment, and orders farmers not to grow wheat, is quite capable of that. Postal workers have patiently pre- -ented their reasonable demands. They have been confronted with wholesale firing, as at Montreal, with villification, with intimidation, with everything ex- cept elementary negotiation and settle- ment. All sections of Canadian labor stand solidly behind the postal workers and their just demands. The Canadian Con- gress of Labor has issued an appeal for financial support to the embattled post- men, who have been compelled to adopt the tactic of rotating strikes to bring pressure on their boss, the Government of Canada. Public sentiment is definite- ly on the side of the postal workers. The Government has decided to adopt the unprecedented measure of lock-out as part of its “the public can take it or lump it” policy. It is giving the lead to all employers in ruthlessness in dealing with the workers. Labor throughout Canada will reply by providing financial and whatever other support may become necessary to force this arrogant. Trudeau regime to negotiate and settle with the postal workers. : Manitoba's Centenary Next Wednesday—July 15—is being observed as the 100th birthday of Mani- toba. It was exactly a century ago that the Manitoba Act officially marked the province’s entry into Confederation, which was “Manitoba’s most important day in a century,” according to the Pro- clamation issued by Premier EK. R. Schreyer. The NDP premier does not mention in his Proclamation that the acceptance of Manitoba as a province into Confed- eration in 1870 was the result of heroic struggle of the Metis, Indian and white settlers led by Louis Riel. The Fathers of Confederation in the seats of power —the “seat” in Ottawa and their feet - firmly planted in the centres of mono- poly in Toronto and Montreal—showed no desire to welcome the province which Mr. Schreyer poetically describes as “the first Daughter of Confederation” into the Canadian family. The tycoons of Central Canada wanted to take the wealth of the province for themselves. When the people who lived there estab- lished their provisional government and sought recognition of their deeds to their farms and democratic rights, an army was sent down from Ontario to suppress them. It was only because the people were too united and too strong to be smashed that John A. Macdonald’s Federal Government finaily grudgingly agreed to grant provincial rights and other demands of the Manitoba folk. And even then it exacted a blood price —LLouis Riel, who was elected to the Federal House of Commons as Manito- ‘ba’s first MP, was compelled to leave the country... ' Wages, pensions an Louis Riel, the true Father of Mani- toba, is not forgotten—a stamp has been issued with his likeness, a statue is to be erected ... He is more remem- bered in the hearts of his people, the Indians and the Metis, the farmers and workers of Manitoba and the Prairies ue a are denied their heritage. o be sure, Manitobans hav celebrate their centenary aie al Coon, dians will celebrate with them. They have provided great examples to all the people of our country in the fight for self-government a century ago, in the labor of the pioneers that transformed a wasteland into smiling farmlands and built cities and industries, in the battles for labor rights that are written in letters of red in Canadian history especially the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919; in the building of the farm movements, in the early election of op- onents of the old parties and particu- arly the distinction of electing the first {oman a public office in North rica, in the contributions and progress today. ee es May the second century mov and be good to Manitoba aa the Wet tobans—in the tradition and spirit of Louis Riel, of the Winnipeg General Strike, of Bill Kolisnyk and Jacob Pen- ner, of the builders and fighters for people’s freedom and progress. — Dirty tactics Trudeau and all the big and little Trudeaumaniacs are trotting out the argument that in fighting for a decent livelihood the trade unions are some- how penalizing the unorganized and even more poorly paid workers, pen- sioners and others. How lower wages in organized industries would help the poor is not explained, of course. Nor is the inference that trade unions are in some way preventing the Government from raising pensions or the bosses on HODEOVDE conditions of the large ae of workers living below the pover- __ In fact, along with fightin increases the trade nee ee campaigning to compel the Government to improve pensions and social security measures, and organizing previously pone sections of the workers to in better wages an iti pe eee g d conditions for The Trudeaumaniacs claim th ‘ ganized labor is taking too ee share of the “pie” (the goods and sery- ices produced in our country) and that this allegedly doesn’t leave anything for ae ape and the poor. at cheek: It is the Trude - ernment and the monopolies iit fate shutting down plants and idling a mil- lion workingmen in Canada. It is the Trudeau Government that tells the farmers they must stop farming. That’s who is reducing the “pie,” while pulling out all the plums for themselves! Labor demands more pie policy of full emplo ment a services whose labors, past and eet. ose duce the whole of that pie — all the goods and the wealth of Canada. _The_ public won’t b if Ss eatrton eee es PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1970—P.