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50 years ago...

SUCCESSFUL MEETING
IN LONDON, ONTARIO

LONDON—The London Branch

: of the Party held a very success-

ful propaganda meeting on Sun.,
a 25. Comrade Buck was the
speaker of the afternoon and
gave a very interesting talk on

ing clearly how the disintegra-

tion of the Capitalist System in-

Europe and all over the world
was gathering momentum and

‘would eventually bring on an--

other world war.

At the conclusion of the speak-
er’s address several people ques-
tioned him on the tactics and
strategy of the Party in reference
to working in the AFL and other
reactionary organizations. The

policy of the Party on the ques-

tion was ably explained by Com-
rade Buck, who succeeded in con-
vincing these ex-members of the
Socialist. Labor Party that, fun-
damentally, our tactics were
correct.
The Party will hold propaganda
meetings now every Sunday.
The Worker, Dec. 8, 1923

25 years ago...
STOP AID TO CHIANG
‘B.C. CHINESE DEMAND

VANCOUVER — The Min Jong

Association (Chinese Workers
News Committee) called upon
the Canadian government to stop
further shipments of arms to
Chiang Kai-shek. The Chinese
group issued a statement which
declared Ottawa's claim that
sending arms to Chiang was part
of a “mutual aid agreement” was
false.

“This agreement was for the
common struggle against fascist
Japan; it has nothing to do with
the slaughter of the «Chinese
masses by the mercenary armies

_ of Chiang,” the Min Jong Asso-

ciation said. The

added:

“We call on all peoples’ politi-
cal groups, trade unions, church
and. women’s organizations, on
all peace loving people, to fight
against war by fighting against
the disastrous policy of interven-
tion in China by the Canadian
government.”

Tribune, Dec. 6, 1948

statement

Profiteer of the week:

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» Pacific Tribune

West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune:

With proper solemnity we report the sad
words of W. F. McLean, president of Canada
Packers Ltd. that his Canadian food pro-
ducts operation were only moderately better
than a year ago. In six months (repeat, six
months) ended Sept. 29/73, CPL booked
$8,577,000 profit, just a pork chop or two
above the $6,187,000 for April-Sept. 1972.
But our judges are intrepid where an honor
is truly merited, and were last seen pursuing
W. F. as he called out: but our non-food
profits were considerably better.

SSN

Editor — MAURICE RUSH
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Energy: The Big Squeeze

In the past week’s sound and fury
over oil, Parliament and its corridors
have rung with the noisy battle of the
ruling Liberals trying to stop the flow
of election fuel to the opposition.

Didn’t the Liberals, single-handedly,
reveal the “force majeure” clause in
contracts with multi-national oil cor-
porations, the clause that allows diver-
sion of oil en route to Canada at the
order of these corporations’ head offices
(mainly in USA)?

Then the shipment of oil to eastern
Canada via the St. Lawrence Seaway,
the Panama Canal, and the activation
of a leaky, 1961 Toronto-Montreal pipe-
line for gasoline and heating oil all
showed — didn’t it? — that the gov-
ernment was in firm control of the en-
ergy situation. The National Energy
Board even dared a minuscule cut in
oil shipments to the USA.

But the government, pricked by pub-
lic pressure, failed to offer an enetey
policy, and came up instead wit.
camouflage. This lack of policy, part of
which must be public ownership and
control of resources, has permitted a
new danger, slowing down of oil explo-
ration in Canada. Multi-nationals, to
whom Liberal and Tory governments:

have handed over vast tracts of Cana-
dian territory, now threaten to pull out
their crews and head for jucier offers
in panic-stricken USA. (That oil-short
country last week ‘increased its petro-
leum-guzzling fleet of warships in the
Indian Ocean, an example of what
Canadians are supposed to sacrific for.)

This intolerable situation demands
government action with no more delay.
There is no way the people of Canada
are going to shiver through the winter
or agree to our economy grinding to a
halt because weak-kneed governments,
federal and provincial, give in to the
big squeeze of the Washington im-
perialists.

There is now truly a potential for a
Canada-wide united front fight to con-
trol our own energy resources, to map
out our future. Rumblings have begun
in the labor movement. The collective
strength of people’s democratic move-
ments, the trade unions, New Demo-
cratic Party, Communist Party, farm
and urban organizations, together can

~ compel the Prime Minister and the pro-

vincial ministers to agree to an energy
policy that guarantees the Canadian
people the use of their resources in
the interests of Canada.

Ford strike issues—
and quality of life

The strike of 15,000 Ford Canada
workers has taken a stand on issues
directly affecting the quality of life of
working people. Two major demands
— 30-and-out, and voluntary (only)
overtime — which buttress the crucial,
ongoing battles for wages and hours
—also declare there is more to life than
selling one’s labor power to the boss.

In a time of immensely increased
productivity, when workers turn out
the same goods in a fraction of the
time, the right to leisure, fought for
over the generations, is within the
grasp of the working class,

Revenue Minister Robert Stanbury
announced Nov. 20 a _ government
amendment to legislation on pensions,
removing the bar to pensionable retire-
ment below the age of 55 years. The
move faces up to the reality of trade
union pension provisions, and opens the
door to retirement after 30 years’ ser-
vice regardless of age, as the auto-
workers have demanded.

Another major point negotiated was
overtime on a strictly voluntary basis,

. this challenged by the company because

maximum profits come more readily
from working employees long hours.
Other issues in contention include

dental care, better plant safety, pro-. .

cessing of a back-log of grievances, and
the posting of job openings in the plant
so that workers will have an oppor-
tunity at upgrading jobs.

Whether the strike ends on Dec. 10

or is drawn out as others predict, the
major issues here will continue to come
to the fore. Clearly on the\ agenda is
the right of workers to live lives in
which serving the employer is not the
end all — the consumer of all our prime
time and energy. A united labor move-
ment will have to press to ensure that

_ the issues become accomplished facts. ..

Tories wooing voters

Robert Stanfield, who is promoting
himself and his federal Tories as the
solution to all of Canada’s problems —
especially the absence of an all-sided
energy policy — will have his next try
at toppling the government Dec. 10.

A carefully-placed no-confidence mo-
tion will attempt to win New Democra-
tic Party backing in a vote to defeat
the Liberals.

With election talk rampant, whether

an election comes on the defeat of the
government, or by a surprise Liberal
election call, the Torv leader can be
expected to keep up his wooing of the
electorate.

An indication of what lies beneath
the current cosmetic speeches of Stan-
field and his crew is his open admission
that had he the power he would wipe
out the shaky voluntary freeze on oil
prices letting prices soar. This, by Tory
reasoning, would regulate the use of
heating oil, and gasoline for instance —
the rich would get all they want and
the poor would do without.

Similar Neanderthal reasoning went
into _Stanfield’s months-long shrieks
for a freeze on food prices at their
highest peak, and his campaign for a
freeze on wages at a time when work-
er are battling to keep their heads
above water.

The true nature of the Tories, as
always, is to facilitate greater profits
for monopoly, along with workers’
wages frozen at a poverty level.

The Liberal-Tory tussle for power to
see who'll control more of the loot is
traditional to those who have had
years to watch it. But unity of the
working people to defend their own
interests also has traditions. And it is
in these latter traditions that workers’
and people’s organizations must draw
together in the face of the growing
onslaught on our standard of living, to
defeat all moves to the right in Cana-
: dian politics. bEFE

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