dscns ARCHER RAPS UIC GET TOUGH POLICY TORONTO — “At a time when unemployment has become a na- tional disgrace, the very agency set up to prevent a recurrence of the want and degradation associated with the relief agencies of the 1930’s is deliberately sabotaging the rightful claims of theose left jobless by federal _mismanage- ment’’, said David Archer presi- dent of the 800,000 member On- tario Federation of Labor, com- menting on recent reports that the Unemployment Insurance Com- mission is conducting a campaign to deprive unemployed persons of their benefits. Archer also predicted more price and profit increases and a rise in unemployment ‘‘which will make the present 700,000 look fair- ly tame before the winter is over.”’ CANADIAN TEACHERS BACK QUEBEC STRIKE OTTAWA — The Canadian Teachers Federation (CTF) de- clared its full support for strike action taken Oct. 1, by The Pro- vincial Association of Protestant Teachers of Quebec. Michael Heron, president of the 215,000-member CTF, issued the support statement Oct.1 after 6,700 Quebec teachers left their jobs, protesting refusal by the Quebec Association of Protestant School Boards to offer them the same workload as that offered to, and accepted by the province’s Catholic teachers. SHIPBUILDERS STRIKE OVER SAFETY ST. JOHN N.B. — A wild cat strike by over 700 shipbuilders at the St. John Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Ltd., continued Oct. 1 over safety procedures in the dry dock following an accident Sept. 28 in which a worker suffered a frac- tured pelvis when a section of hull he was working on collapsed. The walk out for better safety conditions began Sept. 29 and con- tinued while management and union met to discuss safety pro- cedures. MONTREAL — Demanding parity LABOR ™ BRIEF - POLICE CLUB STRIKING WORKERS MADRID — Baton-wielding -riot police charged and _ fired smoke bombs at several hundred demonstrators Oct. 1 150-200 thousand workers went on strike in Madrid’s industrial suburbs. The demonstrators chanting “tunity, liberty, and amnesty’, were marching toa university church for a funeral service for psychology student Carlos Gon- zalez Martinez, 21, shot Sept. 26 by nght-wing terrorists. STEVEDORES SEE THIRD OFFER HALIFAX — Halifax steve- dores and their bosses the Maritime Employers Association placed a third tentative contract proposal before union members for their approval Oct. 8. Two previous tentative agree- ments have been rejected by the workers in a dispute which began when the MEA locked the 500 -longshoremen out on Aug. 8. CKSO SAYS NO TO LABOR MONEY SUDBURY — Aradio station here, CKSO recently refused to accept any paid ads from the local Day of Protest organizing com- mittee. According to CLC spokesmen, this station is the only one in Canada to refuse to accept paid ads for Oct. 14. So much for freedom of access to the media where the working class is concerned. AUTO PACT READY FOR VOTE DETROIT — The United Auto Workers and the Ford Motor Co. reached tentative agreement Oct. 5, on a new industry-pattern con- tract that could end a three week strike by 170,000 U.S. Ford work- ers. Sources close to the talks have said key provisions in the three year agreement, include 13 addi- tional paid days off over three years, wage increases averaging about 3% a year, continuation of the current cost-of-living wage ad- justment formula and improved fringe benefits. with Roman Catholic teachers in Quebec, the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers and its 6,700 members went on strike Oct. 1. Parents and-students have joined the teachers on the picket lines to demand of the Quebec Association of Protestant School Boards, the same workloads and maximum class size given to 65,000 Catholic teachers in last month’s settlement. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 15, 1976—Page 4 EDITORIAL GOMOIMIEINT Oct. 14 — an historic day Every working man and woman, every Canadian supporting this Day of Protest can take pride in being part of Canadian labor history in the making. ‘The inequities and injustices piled one on top of the other have united the trade union movement, students, pensioners and many others to stand together against Bill C-73 and its terrible attack on working people. The Canadian Tribune has been cov- ering the preparations for this Day in every issue, reporting on support as it grew and multiplied over the past weeks. This newspaper has backed and fought for the widest united effort and, as a part of Canada’s labor press, will keep fighting in the days following October 14 in the best interests of our country and its workers. Unlike the big dailies who fear a un- ited labor movement the Tribune be- lieves this unity and power is essential to bring about the changes urgently needed in this country. Unlike the mass media who will try to play. down and belittle this Day of Pro- test, the Tribune will report on its achievements across Canada and con- tinue after the 14th to expose the government-corporation offensive against labor. Unlike the dailies whose livelihood depends on their big-monied advertisers and backers (the very companies and political parties who launched Bill C-73), the Tribune, supported by working people, stirs up public opinion, arouses public interest and proposes courses of action which correspond to the needs of Canada and its working people. : The Tribune’s interest and pride 1n © the Day of Protest, therefore, is far from — abstract. It is based on this paper’s consis tent policy and fundamental aim. The role and responsibility of the working — class press has never been clearer. : Canadian constitution The constitutional crisis, expressed in the contradictions seen at last week's federal-provincial conference, arises be- cause our governments refuse to face the need for a real Made-in-Canada con- stitution recognizing the two nation character of Canada and all that means. Instead, wé hear talk of patriation of the British North America Act with its built-in inequalities and denial of the rights of French Canada. We see the different sectional interests come out — Trudeau aiming for greater centralization and the provinces, espe- cially in the West, demanding more au- thority. Ignored in these debates, quite consciously, are the real basic issues. ‘The concept of bilingualism is substituted for an equal and voluntary partnership of the two nations in a bi-national state. Communists cannot accept the Leves- que concept of a Canada which is one of separation in the interests of French’ Canadian big business at the expense of the unity of the working people of En- glish and French Canada in their com- mon struggle. Communists oppose the Tory con- cept, which is one of hostility even to bilingualism and the fanning of chauvinism and racism. Nor can communists accept the NDP concept of sidestepping the basic issue — that of facing up. to the bi-national character of Canada. All these concepts lead to a further aggravation of the crisis of Confedera- tion, of further aggravation of relations between French and English speaking Canadians. We need a new Made-in-Canada Con- é stitution embodying the following basic principles: e A bi-national state with language and culture guaranteed; e Redistribution of the national in- come in favor of the working people; e Place our resources under the sovereign control of the people through public ownership; e Fundamental human rights to be guaranteed — including the right to free speech, assembly, to organize; to collective bargaining, to strike; e Establishment of new relations be- tween Federal, Provincial and Munici- pal governments; e The national rights of the Indian, Inuit and Metis people to be guar . anteed. ; No amount of the current federal- provincial juggling, which avoids these fundamental issues will begin to solve the crisis. The working people and democra- tic movements in French and English Canada have, in this situation, a great responsibility to adopt truly democratic solutions to the crisis of Confederation. — Secord’s sell-out The speech of outgoing president of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway; Transport and General Workers, Donald Secord could have come from Pierre Trudeau, Joe Clark or the like. Secord spoke of “union greed”, of “hard work”, of “self-discipline”. He blasted unions, government and bus! "ness equally for inflation. He rambled o? about some utopian mutual responsibil- ity and conveniently left out monopoly $ greed for greater profits — the re reason for inflation. Concluding his remarks, Secord eX- pressed his appreciation to the CBRT “for such a happy and rewarding career _and hoped that he had given them some thing in return. He did. He stabbed them in the back.