Continued from Page 5 €masculation of construction site af tg and the’ presumption feos euilt in case of an il- Bal strike, And, finally it is the 5 Ing from union posts of yone having committed cer- i crimes, to be “soft” toward the cor- as ‘and corrupted of the aa € and of the big construction Secs, it felt obliged to re- iis what was told to it during to nea But Bourassa | de- ot Ep nmeelf and his minister Sr r, Mr. Cournoyer, emerg- 8 lily-white from the report. oe Minister of justice, Mr. Sani, assistant director of the who me police, Mr. Patenaude a ailed to inform Mr. Bou- Sa . e000. bribe offered accep or hiring a non- Qualified political hack oe a key St controlling the hiring of MOusands of workers. QFL ‘Walks Out aa QFL reacted to all these seg with spontaneous walk- at oe several places, notably tion € Olympic Games construc- fea and demanded to be ; by the National Assembly : pe Passage of the three bills. Walk roauette, in face of the see ald said he was ready to # Ckmate some small groups thereers,” with the help of Police, } Clich CNTU condemned the € Report. The CEQ too. The (CsDy af Democratic Unions logy’ Of course, endorsed it ort of the CNTU while the Prisg Union presidents were im- Benes on. account of the fi to. Val Strike in the public sec- Libe © one doubts that the Tal Party had its hand in ‘at affair.) labor Main task for the whole Hew, Movement and for all but Ocrats is to unite in an all- re den weele against the bills in at T to force the Bourassa gov- aoa to withdraw them. For must the various union leaders ees aside their a ia ; ey sometimes display “With great bitterness. in In Who Sti becaus Countrj Felations, | Even if the Commission prov- Oquette, furthermore defend- . - (CSD was founded as a’ *S. senator McGovern in Havana recently as a member of the Nee Judiciary Comimttee invited to Cuba by premier Fidel Castro. get, reports from Washington suggest ; Ng ready to lift its 11 year trade embargo against Cuba. Quito, Equador, last summer 12 of the original 21 OAS states Pported the embargo voted to have it lifted. The move failed © a two-thirds majority is required. Several Latin American however, have ignored the U.S.-imposed policy and now with Cuba and have re-established normal ui CLC REJECTS FREEZE They must rid themselves of illusions one would have thought dead since, the appear- ‘ance of the union manifesto: “The State — Machinery of our Exploitation.” Fight for Unity For example,. why: did the CNTU insist on dragging in the bourgeois state to settle ac- counts with the QFL? Why did the QFL seek the aid of the state to create a union monopoly in the construction in- dustry One day there will have to be a single union for all building trades workers. But this cannot be achieved by slug- gings, nor by connivance with the state. It requires the crea- tion of an atmosphere of loyal working-class solidarity, of co- operation, of mutual interests between the trade unionists of the two centrals. The rank-and- file has been ready for this for a long time. The trouble is at the top. It is in the consistent and determined. fight for unity in action that the base can be laid for organic unity, and not otherwise. ; Why didn’t the CEQ resist the pressure from Laberge and Pepin and refuse the -participa- tion of their vice-president, Mr. Chevrette, on the Cliche Com- mission? He didn’t even have the guts to refuse to sign the report and submit a minority re- port refusing to deliver up the trade union movement to the state which acts for, and is in- tertwined with, the monopolies. And finally, why, after all the accumulated experience, accept the personnel of the Cliche Com- mission of which its president is a social democrat and former NDP-Quebec president. Another, Chevrette, is also a social demo- crat, Parti Quebecois-style, and a third, Mulroney is a conserva- tive. It would appear that the Bourassa government, which also likes to call itself social democrat, knows very well how to use social democrats to turn attention from the blots on its escutcheon due to recent scan- dals, and to do so at the expense of the working class. the United States may be diplomatic Continued from Page 5 abolish the high rate of jobless in this country. ¢ Positive evidence that pro- fessional fees will be controlled. e An increase in old age pen- sions. eA definite guarantee that any tax concessions made to corporations will be used for in- vestment purposes to create jobs and not end up in the pay- ment of higher dividends.” In a statement to the press immediately following the CLC program, Joe Morris made it clear that “there would be no further discussions with the gov- ernment unless the above nine points are incorporated into the discussions.” Steelworkers’ Conference Shortly after the CLC presen- tation of their program, more than 400 steelworkers met in Toronto fer their annual policy conference and , unanimously passed a_ resolution stating, “This conference rejects the gov- ernment’s ‘voluntary’ restraints proposals because they are un- fair and therefore unworkable. We cannot let labor play the role of ‘whipping-boy’ for a situation not of labor’s making and from which the corpora- tions, land-speculators ,and oth- ers have profited so handsome- ] ibe y The Steelworkers resolution also asked “the public to care- RACIST VIOLENCE Continued from Page 5 Black musicians’ group. - There were arrests and then acquital. This incident was quickly fol- lowed by the wounding ‘by gun- fire of two Black musicians — no arrests. Toronto’s Black community continues to bring case after case of harassment to the atten- tion of the police—people being threatened, bricks being thrown through windows. The police sit tight, apparently unable to track ‘anybody down. A day after the murder of Michael Habbib, a charge is levelled at elements of the Toronto Police department as racist. It’s alarming that, as the world marks the 30th anniversary of the victory over fascism and commemorates its millions of victims, Toronto should become a hotbed of resurgent fascism. Fifteen year-old Michael Habbib is now also a victim of fascism, as are the hundreds of thousands of citizens being insulted and attacked by. a few sick people. There is a growing outcry, and much more .is needed, to force the authorities to act im- mediately to stop these groups of hate and violence. Saigon troops on Guam want to go home Saigon troops on Guam pro- tested their forcible evacuation May 4 and demanded that they be allowed to return to their homeland. Their petition to Pre- sident Ford however, was reject- ed by the U.S. Navy. The Saigon armed forces personnel told re- porters on Guam they had either been forcibly evacuated against their will, or were deceived about the evacuation. JOSEPH MORRIS _ CLC president fully consider the following facts: 1. Mr. Turner’s proposals would tie wage earners down to cost of living increases while corporaticns would be under no pressure to reduce the rate of windfall profits they have reap- ed from inflation. Workers who have suffered decrease in real earnings over the same inflation- ary period would be forced to wait three or four years before trying to regain their lost pur- chasing power. 2. Mr. Turner proposes no ef- fective limits or special taxes . on dividends, interest rates or profits. 3. There are no_ effective measures against increases in - the cost of food, rents or hous- ing in the Turner. proposals. Food prices rose 37% over the last two years; new houses in Metropolitan areas went up 53% in price; and mortgage in- terest rose by 28%. These are items affecting at least half the average worker’s budget. — 4. Industrial wage increases over the same period, at 22.3%, were more than cancelled by in- creased consumer prices. of 22.7%. Profits of all industries increased by 78.5%: . 5. Under the Turner proposals the entire profit from productiv- ity increases would be retained by the corporations without any - share going to workers or per- sons on fixed incomes. These im- provements over the last two years have been substantial in industries where most of our members are employed. For’ ex- ample, productivity increased 15% in iron and steel mills and almost 8% in metal mining, Cur- rent bargaining in these indus- tries represents the only oppor- tunity for these workers to try to regain lost purchasing power and share in the increased pro- ductivity. ae 6. Mr. Turner’s so-called ‘catch-up’ allowance do not es- tablish any floor for those who have fallen most seriously be- hind in the inflation race. They are “allowed” to use the same lack of bargaining power which has placed them in that predica- ment. . ae 7. Mr. Turner’s idea of re- straint for professionals with in- comes of $30,000 per year and up, who set their own fees with- out the need to negotiate in the public eye, is $2,400 per year. This amounts to almost half the total current income of the ‘worker making $5,000 per year on a minimum wage. WORLD NEWS SOVIET AID SHIPS ARRIVE AT DA NANG DA NANG — Two Soviet aid ships arrived last week at Da Nang, 375 miles north of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). The Soviet transport ship, Nina Sagaidak, with a cargo of 4,000 tons of rice, flour and other food supplies, was the first foreign merchant ship to dock at Da Nang since its March 29 liberation, and was greeted by a cheering Da Nang public. Another Soviet vessel, the tanker Komsomolets Primorya, arrived later Sunday with a cargo of Diesel oil for use as fuel in power sta- tions in Da Nang and surrounding provinces. In Saigon — which also bears the honorary name “Ho Chi Minh » City” — the situation is being rapidly normalized. Vigorous meas- ures are being taken by the National Liberation Front and the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam to overcome the corrupt legacy of the former Saigon puppet regime. NICOSIA AIRPORT TO REOPEN ¢ VIENNA — Leaders of the Greek and Turkish communities on Cyprus have agreed to reopen Nicosia airport, closed since last summer’s war. A six-day conference held under United Nations auspices failed to produce mutual understanding, however, on what will be done with the 200,000 Greek-Cypriot refugees who fled invading Turkish troops. Glafkos Clerides, leader of the Greek-Cypriots, and Rauf-Denk- tash, Turkish Cypriot leader, told a news conference, they also decided to set up a committee to discuss the powers and functions of a central government acceptable to both sides. They also said they would meet again on June 5, in Vienna with UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who arranged and attended last week’s meetings. Clerides and Denktash said after the meeting that problems on the war-torn Mediterranean island are so complex that they could not agree whether Archbishop Makarios is still president of Cyprus. Denktash said No and Clerides said Yes. Makarios fled the island shortly after a coup last July 15. The coup touched off an invasion of Cyprus by 40,000 Turkish troops. ARGENTINE JOURNALISTS: STAGE WORK STOPPAGES BUENOS AIRES — The Association of Journalists of Buenos Aires voted to hold a series of staged stoppages in protest at death threats against 16 of its members on the part of the ultra right organization Argentine Anticommunist Alliance. They warned they will call a complete strike in the event that journalist Ana Guzetti, kidnapped last week, is killed. Guzetti was staff member of the outlawed daily El Mundo. Her whereabouts are unknown. The Jour- nalists Association is now under formal seizure (intervention) by the Labcr Minister but its members continue to meet. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1975—Page 9