Editorial Comment...

Controlling their own destiny

increasing fraternity is in the ;
of both. There is no reason fai a
that George Meany is concerned Leve
about the wellbeing of U.S. workeeel

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as much as he is ab ping the
Smoothly.

anti-labor

A Canadian labor spokesman last
week reminded the AFL-CIO’s Meany-
Lovestone leadership that Canadian
workers are aware that the Burke-
Hartke Bill being pushed by Meany
and Co. is a threat to Canadian jobs.

This has been a hovering threat ever
since the protectionist legislation was
mooted, But as Canadian Labor Con-
gress Vice-President Jean Beaudry em-
phasized at the AFL-CIO Florida con-
vention, the Bill’s attempt to siphon off
Canadian jobs to U.S. ey plants 1s
totally unacceptable to Canadian
Labor. , ane

The program for an independent,
united eg sovereign Canadian trade
union movement, ably spelled out by
the Communist Party of Canada (The
Canadian Tribune, April 25, 1973) is
clearly a concern for today. tee

The Meany-Lovestone group, in its
contempt for workers at home and
abroad, served as a vehicle of aid for
the CIA in plotting the coup in Chile.
That group has no more concern for
Canadians than for the Chileans whom
it helped to betray.

With this leadership apparently de-
termined to pursue 2° Policy which
threatens Canadian jobs, the CLC has

‘cracy’s cece
— crushing the worke : ;
worker’s interests poheeriotne a
future of Canadian workers im? The
be an in such hands, must not

In fraternity with maj :
bodies on an international ace union
cluding those of the USA Plane, in-
workers can best move forwar 2 nadian
basis of working-class prinoi On the
Bpionenee ihe extremes of Ciples —
ness, right-wing Collab ; ,
posses, and leftist iereop oa with the
there can be constructed a stp llity —
pendent, sovereign trade SEtORE, inde-
ment in Canada, capable lon
world trade union policy

This . a ane of ;

oly-instigated campg
workers? forward esas
life. Only unceasing efforts
by unions but by responsib]
organizations, and the <

CANADIAN TRIER NE

_ FLASHBACKS FROM |
| THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

ANOTHER VICTIM OF
CAPITALIST ‘JUSTICE’
Comrade Bernard Markson of

25 years ago...

ARAB, ISRAELI
PARTIES UNITED

the Toronto (English) branch of
the Workers’ Party is now in
Peterboro to meet the’ charge of
“spreading false information.”
This charge grew out of an ar-
ticle appearing in The Worker of
Feb. 15 in which the searchlight
Was turned on the Peterboro
slave pens and the facts as to
wages, hours and _ conditions
were presented,

So rotten are the conditions
under which Canadian workers
must labor that the capitalists
are frantic in their efforts to
clamp the lid down on the stink-
ing mess; and they are now res-

orting to the courts and jails in |

order to keep the workers muz-
zled.

There is nothing to the Mark-
son case except the rage of the
Peterboro Babbitts at having
their industrial methods expos-
ed. But employers, with their
servile minions of the law, do
not need much of a _ case
against a moneyless workers, so
workers will have to keep a

sharp eye on the frame-up now.

being staged in Peterboro.
The Worker, Oct. 31, 1923

TEL AVIV — The Arab League
of National Liberation, the only
Palestine Arab organization fight-
ing foreign invaders and native
reactionaries, has decided to join
the Communist Party of: Israel
within the territory of the Jew-
ish State. This historic decision
was reached after negotiations
between the Central Committee
of the Israel Communist Party
and the League of National Li-
beration. Unification will formal-
ly take place at an enlarged
plenum of the Central Commit-
tee of the Communist Party of
Israel next week. ;

By this step, the Communist
Party becomes the only political
party in Israel which unites
both Jews and Arabs. Arabs will
be included in all its leading
bodies and will be among its
candidates in the forthcoming
elections scheduled for some
time in December.

In a statement announcing the
decision to join the CPI, the
Arab Communists criticized their
former organization on the basis
of Arab separation.

Tribune, Nov. 1, 1948

Worth quoting:

“Marxists are. often accused of ‘always bringing up Russia’. But,
of course, ‘not to bring up. Russia’ is simply to. run away from
reality. The emergence of a socialist state power has colored every

major issue since. .

. Opportunists in the working class movement

have tried to avoid conflict with their own ruling class by dissociating
themselves from Soviet socialism and presenting themselves as pro-
tagonists against it .. . Once.a socialist state is established over a
considerable part of the world this issue must tend to dominate all

other issues.”

—John Eaton, An Introduction to Political Economy

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no choice but defend the interests of

Canadian workers.

In reality, the interests of the an
dians and U.S. workers are alike, an

with the Communists) e
people consolidate every ),
steel their unity for the b
be won.

Canada’s energy policy

The follo statement was adopted by
the startle pte! toms Committee of the
Communist Party on Oct. 20-21 following the
announced cutbacks of Mideast oil.

* . *

Late last week the Middle Eastern coun-
tries organized in the Organization of Petro-
leum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and most
of them involved in the wr, with Israel, oe
cided to cut oil exports bY 5% immediately
and a further 5% a month until Israel with-
draws from the Arab lasds seized in the
1967 war.

Even as the ceasefire wa5 being negotiated,
es es te 8 apt ins
oes on oil exports e U.S.
pro-Israel actions. And if Ol exports remain
contingent on an Israel withdrawal from Arab
lands, then the ceasefire does not yet solve
the ensuing fuel crisis.

The Arab decision may Spell a disastrous
emergency gasoline and eating fuel supplies
in that part of Canada est of the Ottawa
River. Fifty preent of the Crude needed in the
Atlantic provinces and one-third of the crude
needed in the Montreal smarket come from
OPEC countries in North Africa. The decision
to continue these exportS or to cut them
rests in their hands, depe®ding on how they
view Canada’s foreign policy vis a vis Israel.

Expecting the worst, t#¢ Federal govern:
ment through Energy Minister MacDonald,
talks of “contingency meaSures” and gasoline
rationing; pleads in the House of Commons
that “Canada is not pro-Israel” and during
the past week-end announێs that the govern-
ment has sanctioned an immediate and steep
increase in the price of g4SOline east of the
Ottawa River. This will #°t add a gallon of
gasoline to supplies, but Will add millions in
profit to the U.S.-base4 oil monopolies
through another round of Price-gouging. And
experience proves that the "ew price increase
will be applied across Car?4da very shortly.

_ These are chickens coming home to roost.
The bill for the years of Knuckling under to
U.S. foreign policy dictat©s and to the U.S.
monopoly drive for economic domination is
being rendered for payme®t. Canada is in an
energy crisis because is 4Y be lumped with
the U.S. as hostile to the Arab countries —
and for good Canada, by the end
of last June was being milked by the U.S. for

and the Mideast War

24% of U.S. crude oil ne ads
barrels a day—now faces aon at ‘1,367,000
for its own needs. . Ortage of cate
Underlined here is the can
development for Canada. It arise: of national
pely control of the economy cs from mono-
tion, as witnessed now hb d its distamt
international oil cartels ang py ottol of the
giveaway of natural Tesources © systematic
and provincial governmen; b © federal
by the resultant doubts x d erscored
pendence in foreign affairs nadian inde-
What is needed is an j,,. zs
anti-Canadian policies tree ate end to the
ed through the years, a
policies that not ni ae i
emergency but guarantee t
supplies in the long-term “
ment of Canada. To do this, E
tee peste oa “tees erge
2: ney,
cade oll supsy and day, the conto
in all parts. of Canada fo, © assure suppil
° Ngai acm action : is ng winter!
by the eral gove mm
Montreal oil pipeline sete to. buil ediately

d aS =
e That “contingenc “* Public awnatehit
y measur, oT) KS ip.

western Canadian crude nto es” to deliver

be not limited to shippiy, astern Ca

and the St. Lawrence beet the Great lake

freeze-up, but that it noy ict of impen

railways, roads, etc, C ude the use of
© That the 1961 apr

whereby no Canadisn ement

east of the Ottawa Rive; de

ern Canadian crude was,

mid-west, be now Cancelle, d

Bik Roe National nergy

im ate restrictions oy + Board place

ern Canadian crude int, tee XPort of Lie,

Canadian needs are met 2, d U.S. until all

the export of surpluses then allow only

inter Provincial PipelinS°¥*tAment bring the

that assure delivery of an Such conbae

needed in eastern Canaq, © oil supplies

diately the Construction t and besin im

pipeline through northern, C eo
e That no price increase

heating fuel be alloweg for gasolin

emergency, and that ause of .

back to the level of ace

It is un

an all.
Ontario. 242 oil.

oh ie a Peesee torn One eee
—— aeden