Steel Local 5629 of the Unite workers. Act now for world peace The United States invasion of Laos poses a grave threat to world peace. In the words of Pham Van Dong, premier of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, it “creates a direct threat to the security of the DRV and an ex- tremely dangerous situation in South- east Asia and the world... The United States has turned the three countries of Indochina into a single battlefront.” In this critical situation the Cana- dian Labor Congress spoke for the vast majority of our people when it declared that Canada should express its “abhor- ence” at what is happening in Indo- china. Donald MacDonald, ELC presi- dent, voiced the passionate demand of organized labor and all peace loving Canadians when last week before the Commons Committee on External Af- fairs he called on Canada to act to stop the shipment of war material to the United States for use in “a senseless, “~The resolution called on the” to give its leadership and full a to the establishment of a comm fight unemployment and to ® jobless workers. It was nar feated in a vote confused by pro wrangling. By their non-concurrence, th wing leaders of the Metro Toro bor Council chose to stand in. ugly isolation from labor coum provincial federations across To name a few: the B.C. Fe of Labor has organized a comm unemployed; the Vancouver, # ilton, St. Catharines, Thund Brantford, Brampton labor are militantly active in eithe organization of the unemployé ealling on the Canadian La gress to summon an emergency ence to combat it. The odds are good that mem the Labor Council in Metro will lose no time in telling its “This way home.”’ Women's rights The fight for equality The Report of the Royal Com- mission on the Status of Wo- men in Canada makes 167 rec- ommendations which in the opinion of the Royal Commis- sion would, if adopted by the government, ensure for women equal opportunity with men, a release by the Women’s Com- mission of the Communist Party stated on the eve of March 8, International Women’s Day. The Report of the Commis- sion must be understood as pri- marily an attempt .to. find solu- tions acceptable to the capital- ist establishment. It should be understood also that the Com- mission was established and its Report brought down as a result of great pressure from many and varied democratic movements, particularly women’s organiza- tions. Tabling of the Report in Par- liament should not be considered as a signal that its recommenda- tions, or any substantial portion of them, will be enacted into law. Rather it will take a power- mum level of pay for all estab- lishments, and rates set on job content only. 2. Government-financed nur- series and day care centers for every child as a right. 3. Maternity leave for 16 weeks with pay and without loss of seniority established in law for all establishments employing women. 4, Abortion removed from the Criminal Code and established in law as a private matter between patient and doctor. The fight for meaningful re- forms around these issues de- mands that all possibilities of participation and support be so- licited and encouraged. Wher- ever possible coalitions of wo- men’s movements should be striven for around these vital social questions. At the same time the role of organized labor is decisive and considerable ef- fort is required to win it for a positive and active support in the battle against discrimina- _ tion. revolting conflict.” This forthright stand of the 1,700,000- member Canadian Labor Congress would at any time have been of great importance to the struggle for peace in Indochina. Coming as it does at this extremely dangerous moment for the peace of the world, it can and will in- _spire a mighty upsurge in Canada from all sections of our people to demand that our paverament completely disso- ciate itself from the U.S.-Saigon armed intervention in Laos, from the whole aggression of U.S. imperialism against the peoples of Indochina. The 85,000 signatures to the Cana- dian OUTNOW petition represent the solid beginning of what can and should become a sweeping demand by our people for the “immediate withdrawal of all U.S. armed forces and weapons” ee Vietnam, from Laos, from Cam- odia. Time is pressing. Board whose interests they § serving. We have our own kind of ! in power in Ottawa. In the States, it’s repugnant “tricky For P. E. Trudeau, prime nil Canada, a number of descript!' tives come to mind. “Trickste of them, 4 Hints have been coming oub wa that there may be a federal called for this year, instead There are increasing signs, ed in separate comments by ™ inet members, “persons clos*® government,” and spokesme? other party of monopoly, the sive Conservatives, that th are having some misgivings “upturn” in the economy theJ prognosticating for this yea Is Mr. Trudeau calculating of a “trick,” snap election in oh one year of his deliberate } swell the numbers of Um workers? Or is he—and the ists who tell both him and ! leader Stanfield what to do— decide chances are better 10” ful and united movement. to compel government to enact any meaningful legislation covering the key areas of the status of women. The Communist Party of Can- ada singles out four areas in which the Report made recom- mendations and around which maximum democratic mass pres- sure can be mobilized. It is im- perative that the demands of the mass movement go beyond the recommendations of the Report on these issues. The Commun- ist Party advances the following demands: The U.S. puppet dictator Thieu de- clares from Saigon that a U.S.-backed invasion of North Vietnam is “only a matter of time.” Not satisfied with the murderous millions of tons of bombs the U.S. air force has already hurled’ on the peoples of Indochina, Nixon is now threatening to unleash unlimited air war on the socialist Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The “most monstrous war in his- tory,” as U Thant describes the U.S. aggression in Indochina, endangers all Trudeau urged to follow Nigeria lead Prime Minister Trudeau was urged in a wire from William Kashtan, National Leader of the Communist Party, to “fol- low the Nigerian lead and withdraw Canada from the eight-man Commonwealth Committee.” British Prime Minister Heath’s decision to sell arms to South Africa “clearly flaunts world public opinion and ren- 1. Enforceable equal pay legis- lation based on a common mini- ders the Committee’s work futile,” the CPC leader stated. Editor —MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, 8.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST - Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one yeor. All other countries, $7.00 one year Second class mail registration number 1560. of us. In wide united actions for peace, we should now act to stop it. Un-splendid isolation Whose interests is the executive board of the Labor Council of Metro Toronto serving? Not those of the or- ganized workers, nor of the tens of thousands of unemployed in that area. That’s the only conclusion possible after that executive board recommend- ed non-concurrence in a resolution sub- mitted to the Council by the Dosco 1972, after two years of ecOP aster for the people? Trudeau must not be all off guard all the pent-up ane dians who want to repudia his policies. The factors for a broad, poly alliance are objectively today in Canada. No time owed r lost in the working class M0” cisive actions to leadership Communist Party of Cana for: an anti-monopoly, 4? ist, national and democrat!