25 years ago... STRIKE THREATENED IF WORKER FIRED All 4,000° workers at the Ford-Oakville plant will down tools if management fires a worker who knocked down a German immigrant “with Hitler attitude” who refused to stop work during a two-minute Nov. 11 Remembrance Day silence in the plant. Plant chairman Edward Bruce for Local 112 of the United Auto Workers said the newcomer to Canada refused to stop work, along with his mates or even stop making a noise. He shouted in- stead: “I’m not going to shut up for any dead Canadians.” Mr. Bruce pointed out that “half the guys in that shop are veterans who saw their buddies or relatives maimed or killed in the war. You can’t possibly im- agine how they felt.” The Tribune, Nov. 21, 1954 FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 years ago... LUMBER WORKERS FIGHT LOW WAGES CRIFF, Ont. — Forty-five lumberjacks here have revolted against the miserable conditions their bosses have forced them to work under. The strike has spread to other camps and now over 600 men are off the job. If there is any section of the Canadian working class that is forced to work for low wages, and miserable conditions it is cer- tainly these workers. Most of them are getting $4 acord. Aver- age earnings are $10 to $14 a week and out of this comes a dol- lar a day for board and 10 to 30% for bad pulp. By the end of the week they are left with $5. On the picket lines, police ter- rorism is on the increase, while the bosses can use whatever methods they like in order to ship scabs into the camps. The Worker, Nov. 30, 1929 $56,336,000. Profiteer of the week: The people of Canada certainly are gener- ous with the resources of the country, which in reality belong to them. For example, they al- lowed Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co. Ltd., Cal- gary to siphoned off $78,692,000 in profit. A publicly-owned pipeline would have made that money available for public use. In the same nine months, 1978, profit was Figures used are from the company’s financial statements. Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN Associate Editor — FRED WILSON Business and Circulation Manager — PAT O'CONNOR Published weekly at Suite 101 — 1416 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9. Phone 251-1186 Subscription Rate: Canada $10 one yr.; $6.00 for six months: All other countries, $12 one year. Second class mail registration number 1560 ISIDITOUNLANL (COMIMIEINT Boise — a place to fight Of all the struggles of the working class being fought out in Canada today, none so much as the Boise Cascade strike puts the sharp question of solidarity to the labor movement. Where is there so blatant an example of a corporation, and the police (the On- tario Tory government’s police) combin- ing to try to smash a trade union. And the class battle being fought in Kenora and Fort Francis, is to be paid for by all workers through taxes. It’s CPR responsibility The clause in the waver reads: “I re- lease all claims against Canadian Pacific Ltd., in any way connected with the de- railment of CP train No. 54, at Missis- sauga at approximately midnight bet- ween Nov. 10 and Nov. 11, 1979.” Yet, the CPR was responsible for the derailment of that train, which led to the evacuation of 224,000 people. Now the corporation is trying to “cover its skirts”. The CPR was guilty of jeopardizing the public when it did not install elec- tronic sensors to detect “hot boxes” on a railway line which is one of the most heavily used for trans shipment of vol- atile chemicals. (Hot boxes is a term used when wheel bearings heat up and catch fire.) Company spokesmen say that the in- stallation at this time would have been “too expensive”. This from a company which is fourth largest in Canada in terms of profits, and first in terms of assets. . The CPR was guilty of putting its profits before people when it positioned Mideast policy perilous United States policy is at the root of the most dangerous problems facing the Middle East. Washington’s drive for military domination of the area matches its ferocious efforts to control Mideast oil. ; Strategic U.S. policies which have fed the flames of thee wars, backed brutal Israeli expansion and occupation of Arab lands, encouraged the annihilation of the Palestinians, and bankrolled the massacre of Palestinians and Lebanese in Israel’s genocidal attack on southern Lebanon — these are the fruits of U.S. “protection” of its interests. The U.S. Government, its military and its Central Intelligence Agency have played a major role in efforts to under- mine or crush liberation and indepen- dence struggles from Ethiopia, to South Yemen, to Iran. The loss of Iran as a sophisticated lis- tening post on the Soviet border, and the loss of the Shah as commander of the USA’s heavily-armed area “police”, burned U.S. imperialism’s fingers, but the message apparently did not reach its brain. The continued arming and program- ming of Israel’s expansionists and Egypt’s Quisling to try to put down re- | “_ that hatred. Boise Cascade is.a test for the trade union movement. It demands the fullest support from organized labor — from top to bottom, and from bottom to top. The bosses cannot be allowed to get away with destruction of the woodlands area loggers’ union. A win for the would mean another target tomorrow the corporations and their government. Unions must not be picked off one by one, but must stand united — and Boi Cascade is the bottom line, the place stand. a tank car containing deadly chlorine g next to a tank car containing propane a positioning which is contrary to t Canadian Transport Commission “Regulation Concerning the. Transpo tation of Dangerous Commodities b' Rail”. ; The CPR should be compelled by law to pay, not the minimum it can get awa with, but the full costs of the expense disruption, damages, and loss of incom suffered as a result of the derailmen explosion, and threat of contaminatio with chlorine gas. We welcome the agreement in parli ment for a full investigation of the fac concerning the Mississauga acciden and for a general improvement in rai way Safety. Weare not, however, satisfied with thi proposals for an investigation alone. We have called in the past for the pla ing of the CPR under public ownership | and democratic control; the events if Mississauga have lent urgency to th demand. . volutionary struggle, and the concoctin of the villainous Camp David “peace” a reements increased hatred of U.% policies. President Carter’s currem™ | threat of military intervention in Ira inviting new wars, can only compoun Not peace, not human rights, not coB cern for the Iranian people whom th€ USA degraded and used and stole fro™ | over the years has prompted the rende— vous of a U.S. aircraft carrier and mol = than 100 other warships close to Iran. The Iranians ask for the return of thé arch criminal of their country — Sh Mohammad Reza Pahlevi — to stam trial for a lifetime of crimes. But the US obstinately refuses, as it refuses to re ognize the right of Palestinians to se? determination and their right to armed struggle to achieve it. __ In stubborn refusal to meet th legitimate demands, the U.S. Preside presses on with the USA’s doom! Mideast policies. . There can be no support for su policies from responsible governmen” The Government of Canada should 4 sociate itself and warn the USA of | extreme peril in its current Middle course. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 30, 1979—Pa!