a R a Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa SAIGON DICTATOR GETS FORD BACKING ..- SAIGON — president Gerald Ford cabled a strong support mes- Rov. 1 to Saigon puppet President Nguyen van Thieu. The ts, Was given wide publicity by lice’ tt Came shortly after Thieu’s riot Msands of Roman Catholic protesters, Thien’s official Vietnam Press police attacked and beat The police also invaded jig ertecked the Saigon Press Club on Oct. 31, beating newsmen, onal Assembly deputies, and club employees. leu’s official: news agency quoted the Ford cable, ie, American people continue t which said: © support your government and ayrorle of the Republic of Vietnam (the Saigon puppet regime) tir determination to resist aggression.” mouth Vietnamese Buddhists join hod Noy, 1. In a statement is ten a, the Buddhists said: ‘‘We call upon studce! ling all elements of the population to arise an tate the military dictatorship.” ed the Catholic protesters against sued from Saigon’s An Quang tudents, soldiers, police- d together to W decision to vite PLO ‘not lrected against "rge!’— UJPO nORONTO — Facts demon- Thite that the decisions of the “i Nations to invite repre- the tion of the Palestinians (to By cN debate on the Middle | ) Is not a decision directed Unit Israel,” states the 4 Jewish People’s Order of a. bw’ UJPO’s National Resident Oct 3 in a statement issued be 0, called for recognition of dle petits of the Palestinian peo- tet, 0 self determination and a a of their own; for guaran- ig Of Israel’s sovereignty and fo ent to exist. within secure mitiers; and that Israel should | Wi Its sole reliance on relations Poe USA. tlhe Statement by the UJPO, tly abridged, follows: © cause of the State of l is seriously harmed by Thi ion to the decision of the , -¢ Nations General Assem- Of October 14, to invite re- €ntation from the Palestine Station Organization, to voice Dal Views and grievances of the *stinian people. Yoter hundred and five nations fo €d for this decision. Only ' countries Israel, the United tes, Bolivia and the Domini- Republic voted against. ‘nty nations, Canada among thpq’,2>Stained from voting. By by Sing this UN decision and ‘ aunching a wide campaign jr iNst it an impression is wide- ips SSeminated to the effect that uy : Nations, the majority of the lira of the UN are against Sa This is false. ce the establishment of the (Continued on Page 10) > = . peau and his c MONTREAL — The recent wildcat which saw some 7,000 railway employ- ees walk off the job in Montreal is symp- tomatic of conditions both inside the union and in the economy at \arge. Ever since the union leaders failed to act on a rank and file request for a cost of living bonus several months ago, a strain of disenchantment had swept through the workers. When recently the various unions, comprising the United Transportation Union, the Bro- therhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Associated Non-Operators and Shop- (Continued on Page 10) in Montreal a Special to the Tribune express and _MCM captures 18 seats NTREAL — A political ay cilie Montreal Citizen’s Mo ning inroads made by election. Given a bloc of 18 council seats an mayoralty itself. In t slate of Drapeau’s candidate were swept away And to shatter precedence, one of the first women candi- dates ever to be elected to civic council was Ginette. Keroack, secretary of La Ligue des Fem- mes and active in social issues. There were enough issues in the campaign to strengthen the heart. of the opposition — these ranged from vital housing, 4 question of intense concern to thousands in Montreal, to wildly inflating taxes both on real es- tate and small businesses. An- other question revolved around the licence for speculators to annihilate the city’s remaining and precious green spaces with high-rises. : There is no doubt that Dra- lique still main- tain a majority, namely 36 seats to the opposition’s 19. But no longer will the mayor so easily ride roughshod over every histo- rically democratic principle won by citizens over the years. The phalanx of MCM councillors will erisure enough inquiry and com- motion so as to cause the Civic concern and care. Been: can no longer be the secrecy and diktat which pre- vailed at City Hall. Indeed, some of the Civic Party’s own council- (Continued on Page 10) 10,000 WINNIPEG — Winnipeg con- sumers, in numbers estimated anywhere from 6 to 10,000, gath- ered on the Legislature grounds on November 9 in response to a call from the Winnipeg Food Prices Committee to join in a Day of Concern over high food prices. Members of the National Farmers Union were present sell- ing food products ranging from potatoes, honey, eggs to chick- ens and meat cuts. The purpose of the demonstra- tion was to show the wide gap between what the farmer was .- getting for his products and what the consumer was paying in the supermarket. Signs carried by NFU members told the story — ‘ «packers Rip the Farmers,” “Chain Stores Rip the Consum- By ALAIN PATRIE and electoral lesson was to be learned from the stun- vement in the Nov. 10 municipal barely. four months of existence, the infant MCM managed to win d closely contest many other seats, including the he west end of Montreal, a residential quarter, the entire by MCM stalwarts. Shouts of joy by supporters greeted the announcement of each victory won by the Montreal Citizens’ Movement. Here Paul Cliche (left) hears that he has been elected in Saint-Jacques. slam food costs ers,” “Millions Starve While Farmers Go Broke” and “Subsi- dies Go to the Meat Packing Plants, Not Us!” In a leaflet distributed to those attending the NFU gave some “Food Facts” to back up their case. Between October 20, 1973 and October 20, 1974 the price the farmer received for steer calves under 400 ‘lbs. dropped from $62.30/cwt. to $29.00/cwt. — a drop of 114%. In the same period the price for heifer calves under 400 Ibs. dropped from $52.75/cwt. to $24.00/cwt. — a drop of 119%. : : ‘Cows in the hamburger class dropped in price by 73%. How- ever, in the same period the price for hamburger .in Winnipeg stores was reduced by only l¢ per lb., while sirloin steaks went up by 70¢ a lb. No wonder cattle farmers are going out of business and con- sumers are forced to find sub- stitutes for meat. -Roy Atkinson, NFU National President and Harvey Patterson, President of the Winnipeg and District Labor Council, address- ed the demonstration briefly and pledged the support of their or- ganizations to the effort of the Winnipeg Food Prices Commit- tee to put an énd to profiteering in the food industry; for an im- mediate reduction in food prices without reducing the real income of farmer or labor and the crea- tion of a publicly-owned retail outlet to sell Manitoba grown and produced basic foods. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1974—Page 5 ILDCATS HIT RAILWAYS | TORONTO — The wildcat strikes that closed Montreal’s railway industry last week spread to Toronto, where two locals conducted study sessions both as a demand for a better contract and in solidarity with the Montreal strikers. The study sessions, which began Thursday, Nov. 7 and ended Sunday, _Nov. 10, closed down most of the CN freight operations at the Maple yards just north of Toronto. Members of the two locals, 327 and 26, of the Canadian Brotherhood of Rail- way Transport and General Workers spent much of the study session evalu- ating the effect of the shutdown and by Sunday most agreed that the walkouts were useful. “J think the wildcats in Mon- treal and the study session in Toronto were helpful to our cause,” one freight handler from the Maple CN yards told the Tribune. “The combined actions put a real scare into the com- panies and probably forced them into a proposed settlement be- fore they were willing to sett!e.” Another worker atténding the study session told the Tribune, “Although things could have been better organized I believe that we showed the company that we are serious about get- ting more money.” The reference to being “bet- ter organized” came on the heels of mounting confusion among the workers attending the study sessions on Fri., Nov. 8. Largely through misunder- standings of the decisions taken, some of the workers returned to the jobs on Friday while others continued the study sessions. By Sunday, Nov..10, most of the workers taking part in the study sessions felt that they ac- complished much of what they. had set out to do and it was decided to return to work on Monday, Nov. 11. “We didn’t have complete solidarity,” a member of the union executive said in reference to two locals (Continued on Page 10) 10.6% October consumer. prices are up 10.6%, over last year. The October con- sumer price jump of 0.95 is the. biggest for the month since 19E0. Food prices are up 15.75, over October of 1973. Food prices advanc- ed 1.4%) in October. Sugar prices have more than tripled dur- ing the past year. There were 522,000 officially unemployed in October. For men over 25, the unemployment rate has risen.