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to the

bee has decreased drastically. They are now losing $100 per head
: Eeiued beef which will result in lower production. The resultant
ge. will be a further bonanza for speculators and further

**ploitation of the consumer.

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Hamilton labor sets
to organize Dofasco

By JIM BRIDGEWOOD
hag MILTON — At a meeting
a eek: of the Hamilton and
aa ct Labor Council, dele-
fan ppone to resolutions that
8ed from support of the To-

To .
santo hospital workers in their

- Str :
Ugegle against the Ontario

0
ry g0vernment, support for

ai
isenCanadian pipeline, to a
‘ ‘nang of the organizing of
oe asco steel mill workers.
from a McDonald, delegate
nion Ocal 167 of the Canadian
moved of Public Employees,
Support” resolution and received
UD the of the council to back
ale i, hospital workers’ strug-
6,000 Toronto. She said the
the eeowers involved were
ous | ms of vicious and cal-
. e8islation of the Ontario

cute ie Referring to the fiscal
Bove S made by the Ontario

™ment in Health and Edu-

Cation ;
“On in 1972, she said this has

the an four days of testimony,
Inter e. SeSSion of the Helsinki

iny “tional Commission of In-
Milita Ito the Crimes of the
Sted at in Chile has con-
Up of ; he Commission, made
has he lMportant world figures
from ard preliminary testimony
Bone ty witnesses, and has
Ments oe numerous docu-
the 3. al unanimous verdict:
of y 1 IS guilty on ali counts
trade ation of human, political,
Tights. Union and democratic

As it ;

of < 'S only the first session
teminatee ns Process that has
ated, there are as yet no
Ho ee ments or conclusions.
moe of the horror

ave emerged from
Missin! four days of the Com-
Support “ work bear witness to
demnat; Or the universal con-
10n the world has accord-

ed tj ‘
ve chilean fascists.
Stories Tint here some of these

3k te re

e * tt

Sla B gst Was told by Horten-

the murd de Allende, widow of

Dr, - €red Chilean president,
Vador Allende:

now resulted in compulsory ar-
bitration for the teachers and
the hospital workers. “This leg-
islation,” she insisted, “must be
changed and the need for sup-
port by labor is most necessary
in order to help them win their
battle.”

A resolution which was re-
ferred to the Canadian Labor
Congress for policy study came
back with an approval - stamp.
The resolution called for an all-

Canadian pipeline, under public ’

ownership, to be built - from
Winnipeg to Montreal.

The United Steel Workers of
America announced that they

were setting up a committee.

headed*by a USWA staff repre-
sentative to make a study to de-
termine the feasability of or-
ganizing. the 7,000 non-union
steel production employees of
Dofasco. If the study shows a

@ Continued on page 10

“Jose Toha (the former Min-
ister of the Interior and Defense
in the Popular Unity govern-
ment; reported by the junta to
have ‘committed suicide’ three

As the Helsinki Com
people around the wo

-anada-wide transport

policy needed to solve .

bungled to date.

Mr. Marchand, apparently sent to
face the lions alone and unmourned by |
his cabinet colleagues, set off in all

= RAILW: Y oaks

Transport Minister Jean Marchand’s
public confession that the Government
of Canada has no transport policy, that
after more than 10 years in office the
federal Liberals are waiting to see
whether an acceptable transport policy
can be developed, is the admission of
incompetence to top anything they’ve

directions, ready to quit his portfolio,
ready (he said rashly) to nationalize
the Canadian Pacific, ready to scrap
_the once-great Transport Act as a use-
less pile of paper.
While the political streaking of the
minister caused a stir, the internal rot
of Liberal policy comes as no surprise.

But Canadians are justified in demand-

matter of C

at

eS 3 aes

“It’s time to clean up the mess,” says Transport Minister Jean

Marchand, conveniently forgetting that it is Liberal transport policy
that has Canada splattered all over the tracks.

weeks ago in a Santiago hospi-
tal) was not only a close com-
rade-in-arms of Salvador Allen-
de; he was also a close friend
of our family.

mission into the junta’s crimes hears evidence,
rid, as here in Dresden, German Democratic

Republic, demand an end to the executions in Chile.

.

“Last December, the junta
was compelled to transfer Jose
Toha from the concentration
camp on Dawson Island to a
military hospital in Punta Are-
nas because he was seriously ill.
His wife, Moi was allowed to
meet with her husband for ten
minutes. She humbly pleaded
with General Torres de la Cruz,
commander of the military zone,
to be allowed to meet with her
husband once more. To humilate

cher, the general allowed a meet-

ing for eight seconds.
Back to Dawson

“Shortly afterwards,” Senora
Allende went on, “Jose Toha was
again sent to Dawson Island. A
meagre prison ration—a piece
of bread and slops called coffee
—was intolerable for a seriously
ill man suffering from a kidney
disease. Food parcels did not
reach him, although Toha was

- forced to sign that he received

them.
“In January, when the state
of Jose Toha’s health became
critical, the authorities were
compelled to transfer him to a
military hospital in Santiago.
' @ Continued on page 10

ing: What has the government been
doing all these years on the crucial

anada-wide transport, if it
is now waiting for a policy?

And ‘by what divine power did
the government imagine it was
ruling when it was incapable of
developing policy on this, one of
the fundamental needs of Can-
ada? The urgency: of a fully-in-
tegrated railway-air-water trans-
port system has been urged on
it many times.

It is worth noting that last
‘October — not for the first time
— the Communist Party called
upon the Government to face. up
to the anachronism of placing the
vital economic and social needs
dependent on a_ coast-to-coast
railway system, at the mercy of
a privately-owned, profit-orient-
ed organization.

“What is urgently needed,”
the Communist Party said, “and
in fact is long overdue, is a pub-
licly-owned and fully integrated
transportation system. Such a
system will depend on the rail-
ways as its base, and include all
other forms of public transport
on‘an all-Canada scale. The first
step that has to be taken to
bring about and to signalize a
complete about-turn in govern-
ment policy, is to nationalize the
CPR”

In the light of the transport
shambles now, the Communist
statements then gain stature.
They correctly demanded “that
priority be given to the public
interest and to community
needs” in the interests of the
“balanced growth and diversific-
ation” of the Canadian economy.

Protesting the abandonment
of “uneconomical” lines, the
gobbling of public subsidies and
railway efforts to hold down rail-
way workers’ just demands, the
Communist Party pointed out
then that “dieselization and
heavier equipment, automation
and computer techniques, have
raised productivity and company
profits to unprecedented peaks.”

That is truer than ever today.
And through it all the govern-
ment has ignored Canada’s
needs and succumbed to the rail-
ways’ drive for dollars in their
multiplicity of more lucrative
fields.

Such mishandling of what pro-
perly belongs to the Canadian
people must not only be answered
for, but must be corrected by
putting in force immediate, de-
monstrable policies along the
lines sketched above.

RAIL TONNAGE DOWN

A total of 308,218 railway
cars and 17 million tons of reve-
nue carload freight were loaded
during January, 1974. Notable
among tonnage decreases were
coal (-17.4%), wheat (-14.9%),
lumber (-14.1%), pulpwood
chips. (-13.5%) .and--iron. ore
(-12.7%).

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