They will kill Angela if we let them! . .. We have in Quebec our own victims of ruthless persecution —Michel Chartrand and dozens of others who are locked behind iron bars for holding dissident opinions. In Greece, Spain, Por- tugal, South Africa, Haiti, Bra- zil and other countries the pri- sons are full to bursting with the finest people, the groans of the tortured cry out to the world for justice. In the U.S. Bobby Seale and other Black Panther revolutionaries, other champions of peace, equal rights and de- mocratic liberties are hounded, beaten, jailed, framed, shot .. . Today the case of Angela Davis personifies, as it were, the cases of all the tortured and the persecuted of the earth. The people everywhere are deeply stirred over her fate. Angry voices of protest, the cry to ac- tion— “Save Angela!” — re- sounds in all the corners of the globe. This is because she herself, in her own person, is the quin- tessence of those who face the fury and frenzy of the forces of reaction in selfless struggle for the new world of freedom, bro- therhood and beauty. She is a brilliant young Black American who by her talents reached great intellectual heights and has waged a ceaseless fight against the Establishment that sought to keep her down. She is a true revolutionary who took her place unreservedly in the ranks of her own Black people fighting against racism and genocide, and marches arm in arm with all who defend the cause of peace, progress and decency. She is a Communist whose struggles in America in our own time are proudly and profoundly bound with the world-wide surge for peace and freedom, for the socialist future of all mankind. And she faces death at the hands of the most ruthless, most greedy and most cynical enemy of humanity, U.S. imperialism, the super-cop and super-execu- tioner that finances, arms and directs all the lesser local tor- turers and hangmen, from the colonels in Athens to the gene- rals in Saigon. Let there be no illusion, they will kill Angela Davis if we let them! They are the same brutal gangsters in power that shot Joe Hill, electrocuted Sacco and Vanzetti, burned Julius and Ethel Rosenberg — even though all the world knew that they were innocent of the crime as- cribed to them and cried in an- guish at the heartless frame-up. They are the criminals that pulverized tens of thousands of innocent men, women and chil- dren in Hiroshima and Nagasa- ki, who are continuing to de- stroy the lush lands and gentle people of Indochina. They have no heart or con- science. And they are out to get Angela Davis. But they can be stopped! We must act together with the decent people of the United States, together with the good people of all the earth, to stay the hand of the killer. Save Angela Davis! Editor—MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bidg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Conade, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South A 9 and C All other countries, $7.00 one year Second class mail rege tion number 1 h countries, $6.00 one year. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1971—PAGE 4 Quebec’s clear call “To all who still believe in justice...” The call to last Wednesday’s stir- ring demonstration outside Montreal’s Palace of Justice was answered first by Quebeckers who protest the interfer- ence by political powers at Ottawa and Quebec in the administration of justice. It will increasingly be heard and acted on by all democratic forces in Canada. “To all who still believe in justice, whether federalists, separatists, anglo- phones or francophones, workers or unemployed” — the call was clear, powerful, united. It was as broad and as urgent as the whole struggle in Canada today against monopoly’s attack — initiated and im- plemented by the Trudeau government — on the democratic rights and civil liberties of the Canadian people. Under existing repressive legislation, no demonstration can be held in Que- bee without permit issued by the Montreal police for the great demonstration on Jan. 20 stated the target of the demonstration: “political tampering with justice.” An open admission! But there’s nothing else “open” in Quebee society today. The climate of fear, created by the army’s occupation of that province last fall, and then by the massive police arrests and tyranny, is now deliberately maintained by the political powers’ use of the courts to stifle democratic expression, to silence political dissent and protest. In the merging of the democratic and national struggles in Quebec, the organ- ized labor movement is nobly discharg- ing its responsibilities. Its united call, the day before the Montreal demonstration, for immediate repeal of the Public Order Act, for beg tice for those still held in jail as politi- cal prisoners without the right to bail, inspired all Quebec’s democratic forces. It gave them labor’s mighty support and participation in reclaiming the streets of Quebec for the people. ‘Freeze — or starve No worker needs to be told the bosses play dirty pool. But what’s going on now is down- right filthy. Companies like Canadian Acme Screw and Gear in Toronto are using the fear of unemployment to freeze or drive down workers’ wages. Some of the bosses make no bones about what they’re up to. Like John P. Fleming, president of the Toronto Con- struction Association. He doubts “that the unions will make excessive demands In wage negotiations at a time when widespread unemployment can make a man thankful that he has a good job.” And this at a time when even the capitalists’ economists acknowledge that Canadian workers’ wages lag at least three years behind profits and productivity. The 1,000 production workers at Canadian Acme Screw, members of * .of the company’s ultimatum: olice authorization. The | . finances of the very. companies Weapon. UAW Local 984, have just voted cept a wage freeze for the ne months. They had gone on strik week to back up their earlier re) freeze for two years, or we close the plant.” UAW leaders counsel ceptance of the 18-month wage # after seeing the company’s books The 600 workers at the Whitby! of the Dunlop Company (the oné threw another 600 of its workers Toronto streets last spring) are! tiating that company’s threat: “2! a 10% wage cut, or we close § operations.” . In Maniwaki, Quebec, the ‘90 Limited wood products plant, owned by the same Quebec govell that promised 100,000 new Jov year, menaces its workers witi shutdown. 4 The score is mounting of comp that are shutting down outright,® threatening to do so unless W? now on the job take wage cuts 0 freezes. 7 The question is: Are Canadian! ers and their families to underw have sweated profits out of thé bor? The reply is the one the Cal Acme and the Dunlop worker® originally — NO! o But hunger is the bosses’ mé The workers’ answer is: U# defend our jobs. Unite to demal government protect the worké stead of monopoly. : Only mass actions led by 4 trade union movement can defé workers’ interests today. In the, of B.C. Federation of Labor pl Johnston, “that’s the only thi® government will recognize.” _~ 1 You can’t eat tall While Parliament talks above employment and federal and pro, ministers of welfare in confere™ cuss handouts to the jobless, the} are demonstrating and marchile The important element in they tion is the splendid role that © of the organized labor moves playing in these mass democl@ tions. 4 The B.C. Federation of Labor : : great demonstration for jobs Ge toria, and large numbers of B.Uj nized workers joined in it with — emplayer, the youth, and Peal welfare. In Hamilton, the 1& ? pledged full co-operation to ¥% munity organization sponsol™. oor people’s demonstration ts oronto, as in Hamilton, U fot joined in the people’s demand 7 now. 7 Government policy to create ployment in order to swell thé of monopoly won’t change with® pressure. And real mass press¥ organized labor’s leadership.