TORONTO DAILY STAR, tecufive income zoomed in 69 The : — tby ahs elon Canadian union member last year raised his wage that oe ne But the boss did better. A new survey suggests ftutives raised their total income by from 10 to 11 percent. —— would cost the tidy sum of $4,000 if not more. Alderman Zuken suggested that the whole issue be shelved and—frankly—forgotten. For his courageous stand, Ald. Zuken should likewise be immortalized, hewn in stone and placed in the hall at the entrance to the council cham- ber. The inscription on his monu- ment should read: “‘From the downtrodden taxpayer who is usually the one who is being framed.” UNITY ACTION ON l aad YORK — The UE (inde- | che Nt—Editor) has received | AFL.Clo for $186,000 from the | Was th for the GE strike. This i Millio e Union's share of the $1 tibuteathich the AFL-CIO dis- 3 4 senting eae repre- tibue gusty the AFL-CIO con- Strikers $38,000 sto the UE Wee has F Pres, Albert J. Fitzgerald Dres; aten to George Meany, Presgi, nt Of the AFL-CIO, ex- ao the union's thanks tinea PPreciation for the assis- Strike, Siven its members on Th : : ‘beck (AFL-CIO has pledged to Nition © GE strikers in recog- fj be the fact that they are Collects a battle for the right to i ei bargaining which is icq, . Nterests of every Amer- Workingman. UE News, U.S.A. x ALMOST FRAMED? t, ‘beWw. | has bee innipeg City Council tepai; . debating whether to | Paintings” frames around the hang ia of our ex-mayors and the Unde whole collection in | Ween ovound passage be- Qnd th. © council chamber ing, ‘© Administration build- - Winnipeg Tribune WHAT PRECAUTION? Answering questions from New Democratic Party Leader T. C. Douglas about the second voyage of the U.S. tanker Man- hattan, External Affairs Minis- ter Sharp said the Canadian’ anti-pollution precautions the big oil tanker will be required to observe. He refused, however to, state the nature of the precautions. "NOT CAPITAL(IST) Spiro Agnew stressed the fact that the U.S. is a Pacific power. Yes, we know that, but we'd like the U.S. to be a paci- fic power. hile +1; | Sestun® ae may seem a nice Potton. the historical view, the undertaking Common Cause, Sydney, Australia eseceie ‘etetete setae | Pers ere TOM McEWEN Associate Editor-—MAURICE RUSH one ished weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Ouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Skea, North fption Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. All Saas South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. €r countries, $7.00 one year il Si d cl istration number 1560. eleteteleceterere! government has stipulated the’ Warm Greetings Progressive organizations of various national groups of the Canadian people have always played a prominent role in our country. None among them has a prouder record than the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, which is meeting in national convention this week-end in Toronto. s Ever since their societies sprang up at the dawn of the 20th century and their first Ukrainian-language revolu- tionary socialist paper, The Red Flag, appeared in 1907, Ukrainian workers and farmers have formed a militant and farsighted detachment of the Canadian people’s movement. The Rus- sian Revolution and the emergence of Soviet Ukraine enhanced that role, and progressive Ukrainian Canadians per- formed a signal service to Canada as a bridge of information and friendship. with their old homeland, where social- . ism was triumphant, and by developin a wide program of cultural-educationa activities that not only served to uplift both immigrant and Canadian-born Ukrainians but also wide sections of the Canadian people as a whole. The tradition of such leaders as M. Popovich, John Navis, M. Shatulsky and hundreds of others through the decades today falls on the shoulders of the younger generation. The heirs of the early pioneers that formed and trained the cultural groups—the Girls’ Mandolin Orchestra in Winnipeg under M. Popovich, the West. Toronto Chil- dren’s Mandolin Orchestra under Cris Dafeff in West Toronto, etc. — today are such as the members of the Shev- chenko Male Chorus and Orchestra in Toronto, led by Eugene Dolny, who are preparing to tour the land of their fathers — Soviet Ukraine — with con- certs later this year. The Canadian Tribune wishes the 14th convention of the AUUC every ‘suecess in marching forward along the glorious road which the predecessors, founders and thousands of devoted builders of that great organization paved through six decades of life and creative labor in Canada. United for new policies The urgent need is for farmers and workers to be united in common strug- -gle for new policies in the interests ‘of the people. The latest outrage perpetrated by the federal government against the farmers is called operation “Lift” (Lower Inventory for Tomorrow). It is the kind. of lift you get from a hang- man. It is economic strangulation for the farmer — low-level relief which the government hopes will keep the farm- ers quiet while they are being driven off the land. Paying six dollars an acre to ‘stop growing food is old and reactionary, _ reminiscent of the Thirties. It flies in the face of man’s capacity to produce — man’s marvellous knowledge which makes it possible for one farmer today to produce what it took 30 farmers to ‘produce three decades ago. It flies in the face of all that’s human, by turning farming into a useless and meaningless occupation, and by denying working people the basic right to work for a living. If the farmers don’t agree—if t fight back—then they'll be ee some typical capitalist democracy: no quota in the new crop year. The per- acre premium, plus a small delivery quo- ta, means that the medium-sized farmer could end up with as little as an old-age pensioner, and a large farmer with an income of around the official poverty line of $3,000 a year. Wheat farmers on the prairies would be better off on social aid. Unity of the workers and farmers is necessary, and it is possible because both are victims of monopoly exploita- tion. United, they can fight for and win new policies. There is no natural reason why we can’t have in Canada policies which provide for disposal of farm surpluses via profitable trade ex- changes with countries that need our produce. We have every right and every basis for full agsicultural production as well as for full employment for the workers. | A Maoist provocation Last weekend the Maoists showed up on Parliament Hill in Ottawa at the inspiring peace demonstration, about which a story is carried elsewhere in this paper. ; ‘The aim of the Maoists was disrup- tion and provocation. Their role was: anti-peace. They plunged the meeting into disorder—much ‘to the delight of the pro-war, reactionary forces in Can- ada. The capitalist press seized upon the incident with delight. Their disruptive actions were deli- berately planned and executed with militaristic precision and were in no wise the actions of misguided but well- meaning’ people. Such tactics must be assessed by their. effect, The Maoists came to that meeting to proclaim the peace supporters gathered there as the main enemy. The sum total of their actions was designed to destroy the effectiveness of the peace demonstra- tion, to confuse and split the peace forces. Most of the-participants in the peace demonstration, and there was a large number of them, were there in an effort to compel the Canadian government to act for an end to the war against Viet- nam, and to bring an end to Canadian > complicity. There were many different points of view because the peace movement is broad and varied. But no one, not even the Maoists, could miss the point that it was a demonstration for peace in Vietnam. _ By their disruptive actions, the Mao- ists have exposed themselves as enemies of peace and social progress. Modern history is full of similar examples,, where ultra-revolutionary phrasemongers have served the cause of counter-revolution, such as the role of Trotsky in the Russian Revolution and of the POUMists in Spain during the attack on the Republic. It is these anti-socialist forces that C i Maoists have joined. 2 2 gan