Arbitrator questions legality of Ontario's wage-cutting

Rhodesia charged with aggression

Mozambique has charged the racist regime in Rhode-
sia with organizing aggression against this newly independ-
ent nation and has closed off its borders and severed dip-

lomatic relations.

This was announced by President Samora Machel yesterday after
Rhodesian troops, aircraft and helicopters had been reported attacking
Mozambique settlements near the border. Machel added that UN eco-
nomic sanctions against Rhodesia would be fully applied.

In a nationwide radio address from Maputo, the capital formerly
named Lourenco Marques, Machel called for a ‘‘total ban on any form
of communication with the territory controlled by the racist regime’’

in Salisbury.

Saskatchewan leads
fight-back — Hartman

By W. C. BEECHING
REGINA — Nearly 500 Regina
unionists stormily cheered Grace
Hartman, president of the Cana-
dian Union of Public Employees
(CUPE), in a standing ovation
when she urged them to work to
defeat ‘Trudeau’s wage control
bill. The crowd spontaneously
rose when she concluded with:
““We have the will and the cour-
age, and because we have the
courage we will win.””

She had said in greeting the
meeting: ‘‘The campaign in Sas-
ka*chewan stands out in the labor
movemert. You are all pitching in
to make it a success. It is an

TORONTO — Ties between
the Ontario Secondary School
Teachers Federation and the rest
of the labor movement in Ontario
were strengthened Feb. 23 as rep-
resentatives of three Metro To-
ronto districts of the OSSTF
turned cheques totalling some
$4,300 to Bud Galley of the Cana-
dian Paperworkers Union (CPU).
The presentation appropriately
held at the headquarters of the
Ontario Federation of Labor was ,
made on behalf of 4,850 teachers
from Districts 14, 15, and 16 of the

OSSTF.
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example for all of us across the
country as opposition has taken
on a new element: to save and
protect some basic democratic
freedoms.” =

The meeting was one of a series
being called around the province
by the Saskatchewan Federation
of Labor. George Smith, chair-

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LONDON, ONT. — Prof. G.J.
Brandt of the University of West-
ern Ontario, a professional arbi-
trator and expert in constitutional
law, ruled March | that the deal
cooked up between the Provincial
and Federal Governments, plac-
ing Ontario’s 260,000 public ser-
vice employees under the juris-
diction of the Federal Govern-
ment’s wage-cutting - ‘‘anti-
inflation’’- program is unconsti-
tutional.

The test case involved 5,500
Ontario Government technical
employees who are demanding a

$20-a-week across-the-board in-
crease plus a 21% increase and a
cost-of-living escalator for a 15-
month contract.

Workers’ in the lowest
categories of this sector earn from
$109.60 a week to $150.55 after
five years.

Sixty thousand civil servants in
Ontario have been waiting for a
new agreement since Sept. 30,
1975.

The essence of the ruling is that
the Provincial Government has
no. authority to authorize the
agreement with the Federal Gov-

by 0.5 percent.

Consumer Price Index
All-items December 1975
All-items November 1975
Change (in points)

Change in quarter Sept.-Dec.

STATISTICS CANADA’S latest report on price movements
shows the lowest monthly rise since 1972. The all-items index of the
Consumer Price Index for Canada rose by 0.1 percent in December
to 144.3 (1971 = 100). Statistics Canada attributes the small increase
to a decline in food prices. Excluding food, the all-items index rose

Change in year Dec./74 to Dec./75
Purchasing power of 1971 consumer dollar:
Purchasing power of 1961 consumer dollar:

(1971 = 100) (1961 = 100)
144.3 192.5
* 144.1 192.2
0.2 0.3 pts. (0.1%)
3.7 pts. (1.9%)
16.7 pts. (9.5%)
69 cents
52 cents

TRIBUNE PHOTO

“TORONTO — City Hall was packed to overflowing Feb. 24, when Torontonians opposed to the increase in
transit fares heard three hours of debate on the question. A motion calling for reinstatement of previous
rates was voted down. See story on page 12.

‘MOSCOW CONGRESS WILL HAVE WORLD IMPACT’-

Canadians greet spirit of detente

It has correctly been said that
the eyes of the world are on
this historic congress. This is
true. The enemies of peace and

progress are watching the con-
gress. So are the working
people and all anti-imperialist
forces throughout the world.
This is so because the 25th
Congress of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union is an
event of major significance in
the lives of the people of the
Soviet Union, of the fraternal
socialist countries, indeed of

the whole world. There is no
doubt that the decisions of this
congress will have a profound
impact on world development.
This was so before when’ the
Soviet Union was much
weaker, and it is particularly so
today when the Soviet Union is
a powerful force for change in’
the world, and when a deep
crisis afflicts the capitalist
world.

Working people are looking
for a way out of the crisis in the
capitalist world and this con-

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 12, 1976—Page 4

William Kashtan,
leader of the Com-
munist Party of Canada,
spoke at the 25th Con-

ress of the Communist

arty of the Soviet Un-
_ion. This is his speech,
Slightly abridged.

gress Shows there is a way out.
Our delegation appreciated the
report presented by Leonid
Brezhnev. We were struck by

its deep revolutionary content,
by its profound analysis of in-
ternational developments, and
by the soundness of its conclu-
sions. All of this speaks highly
of the creative Marxist-
Leninist positions of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, of its Central Commit-
tee, and of its general secret-
ary.
Before we arrived in Mos-
cow there was speculation in
the capitalist press that the
25th Congress “would move

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ernment through an order in
council.

Opposition to the agreement
between the Federal and Provin-
cial governments has been. on the
grounds that only phe legislature |
could make a ruling that would
allow such an agreement, in effect
transferring authority from the
provincial sector to the federal
sphere.

The decision is the first legal
opinion on the validity of the
agreement. An earlier decision by
arbitrator George Ferguson in the
dispute between the University of
Toronto and the Canadian Union
of Public Employees (CUPE) on
behalf of the university’s library |
workers ruled that the library
should pay its. workers the full
amount of the agreement nego-
tiated. However this decision was
marred by a wishy-washy attempt
by the arbitrator to side-step the
constitutional issue by ruling also
that the agreement should be
lived up to ‘‘to the extent that is
permitted by law.”’

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By MARVIN GLASS

OTTAWA — Doctor Cheddi
Jagan, general secretary of the
People’s Progressive Party of
Guyana, and former prime minis-
ter of that country, told the
Tribune at a press conference
March 4, that his visit to Canada
is two-fold.

He has been invited here to in-
form the approximately 30,000
Guyanese living in Canada about
the situation in Guyana.

In addition, as a member of the
Presidential Committee of the
World Peace Council,’ he is here
to call for ‘‘full support for the
Stockholm Appeal’’. (The
world-circulating Stockholm peti-
tion for signatures calling for dis-
armament has been introduced
across Canada by the Canadian
Peace Congress.)

His party had been ‘‘a strong
critic of the ruling People’s Na-
tional Congress (PNC) party’s

Continued on page 5

away from the policy of peace-
ful co-existence and detente. .
The report disproves this, and
makes clear again and again
that the Soviet Union will con-
tinue ever more energetically
and consistently to uphold the
banner of peaceful co-
existence and detente, and
take concrete measures to
strengthen peace and disar-
mament. :

The whole world can see
that the Soviet Union’s.wise

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