National anthem changes:

O Canada: We won't ‘stand
on guard as often

FOR THEE!

Strikes and the Star |

“Striking against the people”
is the heading of the top edi-
torial in the February 25 issue
of The Toronto Star. Sounding
off on the air controllers’ and
CBC technicians’ battles, the big
Liberal daily speaks out against
all strikes which “hurt the pub-
lic’. Actually, this is part of a
drive to prepare the public mind
to accept anti-strike actions and

‘legislation; And it is not just

being conducted by the Liberals
—the Tories and Social Credit-
ers are at it too, while AFL-
CIO chief Meany in the U.S.
gives comfort to the anti-labor
sharks and their politicians and
media by talking about strikes
being “‘obsolete”.

Why are the main blows dir-
ected at workers engaged in the
public services? Because not the
capitalist owner himself but the
capitalist | governments are
“boss”, therefore the illusion
can be created that the workers
are opposing “the people”. Be-
cause the effects of the strike
(and every strike must be effect-
ive if it is to be won) “pinch”
the public directly by one or

another service being withheld. -

And also because the public ser-
vice employees have only re-
cently been organized, only very
recently have won the right to
strike, and therefore might be
more easily intimidated.

But let there be no illusion:
the axe poised against the pub-
lic service workers is being
readied for all labor.

As to the “‘public’” — who are
the great majority of Canadians
if not those same workers? Pit-
ting the worker who has been
compelled to go on strike (work-
ers don’t strike because they like

a trick. long employed by the
bosses (and that includes those
in the governments) to divide
and rule.

Let’s be clear about it. The

_mess we're in, both in privately-

owned industry and in the gov-
ernment-operated sector, is nat
of the workers’ making. It is the
capitalists that have been run-
ning our country for genera-
tions, and it is capitalist inter-
ests that have been and are po-
licy.

They engineered things so that
it is the working people that
pay the bulk of the taxes for
education, public services, etc.,
and at the same time pay bil-
lions in tribute to foreign and
native financiers in debt charges
and interest. That’s on top of
the profits they make for the
owners of the economy.

It is thé’ capitalists that are
responsible for selling our re-
sources to the monopolists, sell-
ing our economy down the river
to the U.S. They are responsible
for the billions being wasted for
war,

The Communist Party and the
class conscious workers have
continually pointed out where
these capitalist policies were
leading and proposed alternate
policies. The workers aren’t re-
sponsible that they were — and
are — not heeded. We don’t owe
any allegiance to the exploiters.

No, the real “public” won't
listen to the Star. The workers
know that they always have to
fight for every bit they get. And
that real public stands by the
public service employees just as
the British workers stood by the
striking miners — and helped
them to win. (J.W.)

Editorial Comment...

‘We want bread and roses {0

In that slogan, carried by striking
textile women workers at the turn of
the century, the battle for existence,
for the daily bread to feed the family,
and the striving for a better life, a life
not darkened by war and indignity,
were poetically blended.

_ The modern women’s movement that
is epitomized by International Women’s
Day — March 8 — was born in working
class struggle. It was from the first
based on joint struggle of working men
and women, discarding middle-class
“feminist” separatist ideas. It tied the
emancipation of women to the struggle
for the emancipation of all humanity
from capitalism. And it joined together
the women of all countries, races and
nations in that great endeavor.
Whereas previous women’s move-
ments (and those similar to them which
are active in our time as well) raised
only one or another democratic demand
—there were heroines in the fight for
women’s suffrage, etc., whose devotion
and militancy can serve as a model for
us all—the modern women’s movement
‘while supporting partial democratic de-
mands and fighting for them, advances
the social solution, the fight for a new
order of society, where full freedom
and equality for women will be won in
a world without classes, without wars
or slavery, without oppression and
BINGE Cry ee
t is natural that women—the presen
and future mothers of the eect anid
especially fiercely oppose war and work
for a world of peace. It is also natural
that they should be most compassionate

to the welfare of children and the
needy. It is natural that they should

cry out for bread—and roses too!

_ They bring these specific qualities
into the common struggle and enrich

it thereby.

“Peace!” is the top slogan this Inter-
national Women’s Day. “The right to
work!” is blazoned on the banners
alongside the long fought for and not
yet won “Equal pay for equal work!” .
And to give practical reality to these
aims there are the urgent demands for
day care centers, other economic and

democratic measures.

The struggle for women’s rights i
not the task of the women alone: tt ef
the duty of the whole working class
all democratic Canadians. Without that,
the whole struggle will suffer. As the
Program of the Communist Party of

Canada sums it up:

“Women comprise half of the popu-
lation. Working women opnatitie Pa
ever-growing part of the labor force

| Clara Zetkin, Nadezhda

combat all expressions of male © ig;
macy, male chauvinism. Co
also criticize petty-bourgeois, S#
ist feminist concepts. The womal
tion is basically a social question
can only be completely resolved Ue
socialism.” (The Road to Socl#
Canada, page 37.) Bk:
On this March 8 we pay tril

Rosa Luxemburg, Maria
Curie and the host of others
names are written in letters of 8
the roster of the workers for 4
day. We extend our hands to .
Davis, Valentina Tereshkova,
sisters in Vietnam and on
tinents who each in her own Wit
helping to change the world. WY yr
our own Canadian women—tho® ia
made their contribution in thé if
and those who today are wor
the new Canada in a new world "it
there will be “bread and roses

all. mg
, Long live International wor
Day! we

Ultra-rightist mené

The Edmund Burke society }@
turned back an effort by ee att
McGillivray, provincial pres!
the national Social Credit Party 7
them from the Ontario party
tion.

McGillivray initiated th
lowing a meeting of the Socre™ gi
nal Executive in Regina whic yal
that the Burkers should be thYO™piy
While ideologically kindred, th® ‘ai
goons: were “embarrassing” the *
Credit politicos. 48

~ “Tt will be remembered that
the Edmund Burke Society dee
add “political action” to their 20;
goon-squad tactics directed oF
wide spectrum of meetings a?
organized in the interests of pea
democracy. They succeeded in oe
ing three of their well-known
Social Credit candidates — va
Geza Matrai who just before t Ny
tion assaulted Soviet Premie of
Kosygin on Parliament Hill. Th
found time to work for the el@
Tory cabinet minister John ne
who came forward as one of t
defenders of the Toronto mob gq
right-wing nationalists and ant ol!
eers which tried to break into ‘els
ing where the Soviet Prem\ —
speaking in Toronto. 10
Evidently, the Burkers, who ¥

af

it) against the other workers is sf ee EE , J
) ag . and suffer discrimination, inequality

and particularly intensive exploitation
The fight for the full participation of
women on equal terms with men is es-
sential for an effective struggle against

i 4
bune monopoly, for peace, democracy, econo-

Te une. mic advance and socialism. The fight for
sss all-sided equality for working women
is an integral part of the class struggle
in which the entire labor and democ-
ratic movement needs to be engaged.
“Communists make clear that the
emancipation of women cannot be
achieved by setting women versus men
but by uniting men and women in com-

mon struggle. Communists resolutely

Fromm addressed a gatherin&
Nazi Party in London also, 24
well entrenched in what there 18
Ontario Social Credit organiza, ‘0
the meeting that was suppos®, ij
pel them, they were able instead ¢|
through a motion censuring 44)
tional executive and expressin’
confidence in Dr. McGillivray:

The Burkers have also 2?
that they are changing their oW 4
to “Western Guard.” F

Democratic Canadians will he
difficulty in continuing to ree
them for what they are—an ugly
of fascists.

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Editor — MAURICE RUSH
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