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At Tribune press time, as Defend-Chile rallies took shape
throughout the world, and only days after 800,000 Chileans
demonstrated in support of their legal government, conflicting
_ feports via Argentina said that the Popular Unity government of

Salvador Allende had been smashed by military force.

Unconfirmed reports from Buenos Aires quote the communique
of a rebel military junta claiming that the presidential palace
in Santiago had been stormed by troops and bombed by jets.
Some reports said that President Allende had resigned
to prevent the bloodshed of civil war.

The President recently warned his supporters among Chile's
Workers. and democrats to be prepared for any kind of right-wing
Gnd fascist attack. Initial reports, inspired by the military,

Gvoid any mention of public action.

_ The Communist Party of Canada, as recently as Sept. 10,
‘a message of support to Luis Corvalan, general secretary of the
Communist Party of Chile, pledged to rally Canadian opinion
‘support of the constitutionally-elected Allende government.

If reports prove true, and the people’s will has been smothered

Gnd their government crushed by militarists, few will doubt that

the mortal enemies of the Chilean people,

the international monopolies, are the instigators.

But it can be said with. confidence that the democratic majority

of Chile’s people will react with stubborn resistance
this attempt at military dictatorship

and will defend their democratic gains with honor.

WORLD NEWS

STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE SUDAN
KHARTOUM—A full state of emergency was declared in the
dan last week. The emergency—announced: by Vice-President
Ohammed El-Baghir Ahmed, deputizing for President Jafaar El
lmeiry—comes in the wake of student demonstrations against the

military regime.

Tanks had been in.the streets of Khartoum over the past few
8Ys amid violent clashes between supporters and opponents of the
Udanese military regime of Gen. Nimeiry. The university of Khar-
Sum was closed last week after riots, and other education insti-

tutes were also shut down.

The hard-fought strike of Canada’s
railway workers sharpened the focus
for the whole Canadian working class,
on the difficulties to be beaten.in the
struggle for a rising standard of life.
The railway workers have performed a
tremendous service in showing how a
fight can be carried out in changing
situations, against monopoly companies
and their lap-dog government.

As Dave Stark, a running trades
member, put it at the Port Coquitlam

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meeting: which wound up the hold-out
phase of battle against the railways:

We should “return to work en masse
to demonstrate to the company our
unity. It was a good fight, but more
important, we fought it together. We
must continue to fight together.”

That statement from a rank and file
member, and the standing ovation he
received for it, may well set the tone for
railway union action from here on in.

The west coast workers booed down
the first back-to-work proposals;
but with amendments providing
for dropping all charges against
rail workers, and agreement on
a work-to-rule- campaign, the
decision to return passed by a
Narrow margin.

The report by meeting chair-
“man Roger Butler, that “we’ve
heard nothing” on the requests
for Canadian Labor Congress
and B.C. Federation of Labor

For more on the
rail strike
see Labor Scene
Page 8

backing for the hold-out strike,
made the final decision inevit-
able.
Justified Bitterness

So Canada’s rail workers are
back on the job, more stréngly
united than ever before in their
unions’ existence, feeling justi-
fied bitterness towards the boss-
serving government, with un-
diminished determination to win
wages .and conditions from the

Vancouver railway workers are back after a week of defiance, rail bosses.

feeling justified bitterness towards the boss-serving government,
still determined to win decent wages and working conditions.

Roll back prices! Prosecute profiteers:

The railway workers’ battle
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The Trudeau Government’s “anti-in-
flation program” is a sham and a fraud,
Said the Central Executive Committee
of the Communist Party, in a state-
Ment critical of the government’s
Measures. Freezing of prices at the
highest level will not help the frantic

consumer. It will only help the profit-
eers,

The greedy profiteers have no morals
Or conscience. They raise prices on
bread, milk, meat, clothing, housing,

the main necessities of life. It is high
time that these public enemies were
rosecuted and an excess profit tax
introduced to reduce this robbery of
the public.

For real action to prevent price rises
and to roll back prices, the Communist
Party proposes:

e Invest the Food Prices Review

Board with regulatory powers to ROLL
BACK PRICES, PROSECUTE THE

-PROFITEERS and EXTEND ITS

JURISDICTION TO COVER ALL
CONSUMER GOODS.

e Nationalize the food processing
corporations, meat packers and milling
companies. Guaranteed and stable
prices for farmers.

e Reduce NHA Mortgages to 5 per-
cent under Government guarantee.

e A $200 per month pension for all
senior citizens.-Cost of living escalator
provisions on a quarterly basis for

pensions, family, allowances, mothers
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