@ Continued from page 5 Against Racism, a recently-for- Ra “Organization composed of a School and post-secondary Students in the Toronto area. b e Committee was instigated s ae at SEED, and alter- ie ative school, where there had ; ay Ongoing discussion. on rac- een the Green Paper. SEED ats €nts contacted other high 1 ool Students across Toronto Pye ennize the committee and demonstration. stepomsors included the Black : : €nts’ Union (University of Tonto), the Scarborough Black peents’ Association, the one Communist League, the a Ck Workers’ Alliance, the Af- an Liberation March. Commit- € and the Ontario Secondary ““hool Teachers’ Federation. The speakers’ rally was chair- Vincial_ Labor Minister John “acBeth was not well received aa demonstrators when he anc € about the need for ‘“toler- Rees in solving racism, and that ib vit t immigrants, (as he labell- Most” of the audience), had by Michael MacKenzie, Pro- Action demanded on racism come to “one of the happiest countries in the world.” NDP representative Ross Mc- Lellan pledged his party’s . full support to the demonstrators demands. He said that they had a right to demand the federal government stop blaming im- migrants for Canada’s economic problems, and that the provin- cial government should begin enforcing the Human Rights Code and start programs to stop racism in the schools. © Liberation March Speaking for the African Li- beration March Committee, Pat Case stressed that one rally is not enough to fight racism, and asked for demonstrators’ sup- port and participation in the African Liberation March on May 24. get One of the demonstration'’s organizers, Lorne Greene, read messages of solidarity from various Toronto organizations, including the .Young Communist " League, and the Students’ Ad- ministrative Council of the Uni- versity of Toronto. Many speakers emphasized that the shooting of Michael Habbib was not an isolated in- cident, as many government and police officials claim, but, one incident in the racist activities that are increasing every day in Toronto. They stressed the need to stop racism before it grows even more dangerous. Myra Novogrodsky, a teacher at SEED, gave a moving speech in which ‘she described -the teaching of racism as an integral part of the Canadian school sys- tem. She reminded the audience that racism and fascism cannot be ignored, as they were before the outbreak of World War Two. “Many people say that this march in inflamatory,” she said, “but it is racism itself that is inflamatory.” Rosie Douglas was the final speaker at the rally. Douglas is presently under a deportation order which he is appealing to the Supreme Court of Canada. “Blacks have been tolerant for too long,” Douglas said. “The time has come in this country to take a new path.” He identified the march as an historic begin- ning to a tong struggle against racism in Canada and through- out the world. “Who is going to be next? in the outburst’ of racist attacks,” Douglas asked. ‘“‘How can our people develop a sense of worth, a sense of confidence when we are being intimidated?” Describing Canada’s foreign policy in the Carribbean, Doug- las said, Canadian corporations are stealing resources from there, and using Blacks for cheap labor. as Fs “Black people all over the world are tired of racism. We have suffered long enough.” He qucted the late Dr. Martin Lu- ther King Jr., saying: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” _ Douglas also announced that the issue of racism on the part of the Canadian government will be raised in the United Nations, urging that Canada be sanction- ed for its stand. He encouraged demonstrators to attend the Af- rican Liberation March, and an- nounced plans for a march against racism in Ottawa in June. The first meeting to organ- ize this march will take place at 5 p.m., May 28 at 33 St. Geoge Street, Toronto. Douglas ended his speech by calling for full employment, de- cent, low-cost housing, and an end to racism. : ? |} CPC condemns Bourassa’s union-busting — ee The Central Executive Committee of the Com- munist Party of Canada condemns Quebec Pre- mier Bourassa’s public declaration of war against the trade union movement following certain anti- labor recommendations in the report of the much publicized and, by now well-known, Cliche Com- Mission, ; ; The hasty moves to place construction workers’. unions under a three-year government trusteeship to serve the interests of the U.S. multi-national Construction companies, stands in marked con- trast to the Bourassa Government's refusal to force the U.S. multi-national United Aircraft to settle a 17-month old strike on the basis of the Rand formula guarantee against union and job discrimination. We now call upon the Bourassa government to take legislative action on this matter at once. The legislation that reduces union stewards to company agents, declaring them guilty of respon- sibility for any and all so-called illegal work, stoppages; when taken. together with the savage brutality shown in the assault on United Air- craft strikers; adds up to a clear expression of neo-Tascist corporatism. It shows the class bias and a-‘concerted drive to the Right on the part STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA the cover of cleansing the unions of corrupt ele- ments, while nothing is said about other seg- ments of society, including the government itself. The situation becomes even more serious in the face of the action taken by the Prime Min- ister. of Canada, Mr. Pierre Elliot Trudeau, ‘who has publicly endorsed Premier Bourassa’s stand. This raises the question whether Mr. Trudeau now stands ready to follow suit in dealing with the trade union movement in the same. way on the federal level? We declare our solidarity with Quebec work- ers, regardless of union affiliation, who unite in militant struggle against the threat to democ- racy posed by the actions of the Bourassa Gov- ernment. The way to-deal with corruption and violence is not to strangle, but to extend democracy. The root cause of these evils is the system of ex- ploitation of man by man practiced under capi- talism. The workers and their unions are not the source of corruption. To attack the unions as if they were, is a calculated political ploy to build up a smokescreen around the real gangsters and racketeers—the multi-national .corporations and their political hacks in government — to shield them from the wrath and just retribution by pub- lic opinion. We shall not pretend that trade unions, any more than other public institutions in our. society, can hope to be’ completely free from the. evil influence of a corrupt system. But the way to deal with that situation is to extend inner-union demo- cracy and to let the workers themselves deal with the situation. Most certainly there is nothing a corrupt government can do, that the workers can- not do much better by themselves, including steps to rid itself of corrupt governments. e e e We call on all Canadian workers, all democra- tic Canadians, and in particular, the Canadian Labor Congress to launch a country-wide cam- paign of solidarity with the embattled trade union movement of Quebec. The very life of the trade union movement of the whole country — the main defence of the workers — is at stake in this battle to save and to extend democracy. oh { of the Bourassa administration, undertaken under ' a Continued from page 5 Tol of most of the governments § The follow their directions. also have control of the _ 4, °homy, the factories, which 3 ad Operate, speed-up or close, “their whim and fancy. La a. © e es . ; that’ working . people have 4,.¢ Unions, their labor press, 4 political organizations. yh stra, have organization which ;,tetches into every commun- A the evening every aspect of adian «© 2nd problems of Can- k Tae Herein lies their : Unite: Working together, in y bees ‘for a common program ye ene the overwhelming fn lority of the people, they are tit one times stronger than. the £ ther rations, notwithstanding Capitalist media and ‘their ®COnomic control. _ Unity of the working class, 3 ns it all of the democ- ever rces in our country, how- t, does not just happen! It is J €asily come by, in spite of 16 = fact that our problems are 2 Seg and their solution con- i ned. Unity comes out of 8 truggle, common struggle for common aims, and common ex- perience in struggle. That is why this demonstra- tion is a bench mark in the battle for unity in the Ontario labor movement. It represents a breakthrough for united struggle. A new level of inde- pendent labor political action of the great organized trade-union movement in our province. It will act as a magnet drawing towards the working class all those forces in our society which are imposed upon by monopoly. © e ® The Communist Party, the party of scientific socialism in Canada, places. its unreserved support behind the struggles of the Ontario Federation of Labor for economic and social justice for its members. It, pledges its full support for the 9-point pro- gram recently adopted by the Canadian Labor Congress as the centre of the fight-back against the big business attempt to place the cost of the growing crisis on the shoulders of the working people. - 2 We warn the working people, if indeed any warning is. neces- UNITED LABOR p sary that an all sided attack on their hard won democratic rights is now in process in Can- ada as part of the campaign of monopoly. The attack on Que- bec labor is testimony to this fact: 24 Labor legislation in “Ontarig is the worst in Canada, and Canadian labor legislation is among the worst in the capital- ist world. Little or no protection is provided for the. worker on the job: employers take merci- less advantage of, the “sacred cow”, management rights, to ‘hassle and intimidate workers, fire, discipline and arbitrarily al- ter conditions of work. As un- employment takes its toll, speed-up in the factories is in- tensifying. A barrack like at- mosphere prevails in the major factories in this province. Thousands upon thousands of grievances, mostly dealing with working conditions, pile up while antiquated provincial laws make it possible for companies to stall them indefinitely. Scores © and scores of workers are dying _ of cancer, and other industries diseases. . 4 A bill of Labor’s Rights, re- moving once and for all such feudal rights from management and granting working people the right to strike at any time on matters not covered by a collec- tive agreement is absolutely es- sential. Control over the work place cannot be the final prero- gative of a handful of absentee owners. As part of the attack on la- bor and democracy, vile’ racism — is being fomented in Ontario. Racism is an important weapon in the arsenal of monopoly to weaken and divide workers in the face of attack. The labor movement needs to launch an all out campaign against racism in all its forms joining together with Black workers and all im- migrants who are being more and more victimized by racism and discrimination. : This demonstration can serve as a fitting curtain raiser for the Ontario election most likely in the fall of this year. If the unity, militancy and determination expressed in this action is carried back into the constituencies .around Ontario _and becomes the example for grass roots ‘organization and struggle at that level, it is. pos- sible to end the 32-year dyn- RALLY | asty of the Tories in Queen’s Park, to elect a large bloc of progressives, New Democratic Party, Communist and perhaps others, who could begin to turn that long time preserve of man- agement into a forum from which ‘abor could reach out to organize and mobilize people in struggle for their needs. Factory workers, — farmers, teachers, students, intellectuals, women, youth, all democratic people must unite in the strug- = gle for higher wages, better housing, jobs for all, better edu- . cation and health, an end to in- fiation, Canadian control of our economy, public ownership and of control of our natural re- sources. - Unity-struggle. Struggle-unity — for a new direction in politics in Ontario. This is the path ahead for the defeat of the Tories and the Liberals and sav- ing the working people from the disastrous affects of the develop- ing economic crisis. ; PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 23, 1975—Page 9 dueanuuensuueecuucegnsueugvocesuUeeaneneenuveguveessueegvueeguueeggsts SO0UUEOUCGOOOUOGOGOECEOUEOEEQOLOEOOUOESODNEGUUUEOAUUOEQOOGODL Re