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50 years ago...
WORKERS’ PARTY GUILTY

The Workers’ Party pleads
guilty to taking active part in the
struggles of the slaves of the
steel mills. It is our business to
assist workers everywhere in
their struggles against the bosses
and their Murdocks, and we are
more than pleased to learn that
we have been and now are of
material assistance to the work-
ers of Sydney. Unlike Murdock
we do not lament over the seri-
ous situation of the bosses, neith-
er do we care a damn about the
welfare of their stolen plant. We
will begin to worry when the
situation is serious for the work-
ers, not before.

The Worker, March 1, 1923

25 years ago...

$48 FOR 40-HOUR WEEK

HAMILTON — Stelco workers
here, member of Local 1005,
United Steel Workers of America
(CIO) rejected in a decisive 10-
to-l1 vote a company offer of a
10 -cent-an-hour wage increase.
The Stelco local made it clear
that it wants a settlement based
on $48 pay for a 40-hour week —

an increase of $3 over the 45-40 -

formula originally put forward
by leading officers of the Steel-
workers’ Union. :
Observers here see the decisive
rejection of the Stelco 10-cent of-
fer as a gloves-off criticism of
that section of the steel union’s
leadership whose policies are
directed at scaling down wage
demands.
Tribune, March 13, 1948

Worth quoting:

“1 die without remorse; in the insurrection | only desired the well-
being and independence of my country... To this day we have been
unsuccessful. Death has already decimated us. Many groan in
bondage. Many are in exile, their property destroyed, their families

abandoned without resources at

the mercy of the Canadian winter.

In spite of so many mishaps, my heart still keeps its courage and its
hopes for the future; my children and my friends will see better days.
Looking tranquilly ahead, | am sure that they will win freedom.
That is what fills me with joy when all around me is sorrow and

desolation...

“1 leave behind me children whose only heritage is the memory of
my misfortune . . . When you are old enough to reflect, you will
see in your father a man who has paid on the scaffold for his actions
such as have immortalized other happier man. The only crime of your

father was his failure.
—D. De Lorimier, 1838

(one of the patriots executed for his point in the 1837 rebellion)
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“Pacific Tribune

West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune:

Editor — MAURICE RUSH

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1973—PAGE 4

Scrap NORAD now

The oft-discredited North American
Air Defence Agreement (NORAD)
which puts Canada under the thumb of
the same blood-stained Pentagon gen-
erals, and their commander-in-chief,
who staged the murderous Christmas
carpet bombing of the city of Hanoi,
comes up for renewal on May 12, 1973.

Do we want to eat at the same table
with them?

Time is short, Patriotic Canadians
are bound to tell the federal govern-
ment: shun NORAD. Drop it. Forget
it. Tell the Pentagon generals to leave
us out of their crimes.

Serious Canadians resent this $40-
million-a-year hoax.

The Communist Party charges that
“the threat to Canada’s independence
comes from the south, not the north.
It is the great U.S. corporations which
have their greedy claws outstretched to
grab Canada’s energy and natural re-
sources. But NORAD directs our atten-
tion and defences away from the real
threat and towards a _ non-existent
threat to the north.”

The New Democratic Party’s defence
critic Douglas Rowland recognized that
threat. “There is the question that if
we don’t maintain our association the
United States will want.to move in and
do what we are now doing anyway,” he
said. “But this danger must be weighed
against the danger to our sovereignty
under NORAD. I believe that in our
defence arrangement under NORAD
we. have run too much risk in having
our element become so subservient to
the United States Air Force — in stra-
tegy, administration and equipment —

_that really it becomes an extension of

the U.S. forces.”

The Canadian Peace Congress, in a
country-wide petition, urges Prime
Minister Trudeau to “Scrap NORAD.”
It reads: “We the undersigned call
uvon your government not to renew the
NORAD agreement which places the
Canadian armed forces under the con-
trol of the U.S. Pentagon.”

Other organizations have protested
the U.S. military shackles. The Cana-
dian Labor Congress, in its brief in

ditortal Comment...

February, said it doubted that")
agreement should continue. Decist
affecting the sovereignty and peat)
Canada should, in the final analyst
made in Canada, the Congress state

We all have the opportunity ant
patriotic duty, to act well before
12, to break Canada’s subservien®
the Richard Nixon war machine

Let’s put it to Trudeau: Defend CH
ada by scrapping NORAD!

Live up to the job

Canada’s peace-keeping role Wit
International Commission of Oj
and Supervision in Vietnam has i
renewed by Ottawa, for final de@
at the end of May. ’

This open-end decision undertaken)
the Liberal government, under ae bs
pressure, contrasts with the preaPia|
New Democratic Party policy Mig
Canada to quit the ICCS in 90 nl
But to give the world communily y ,
cipled service, the Canadian Fy
ment must now rid itself of i
favoring the U.S.

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The two governments of south
nam, the Provisional Revoluiley,
Government, and the Nguye! ;
Thieu regime are meeting 10
set up a National Council of Ree |
tion. In South Vietnam they alon a
the new Joint Military Commis, inf

How, then, can Canada exP As)
recognition of only one of the
ties? Canadians want this aa ,
commitment fulfilled in_ the ae. i,
assisting Vietnam to achieve Per
in defence of U.S. imperialist

The NDP, to justify its 31 Sf)
Parliament and to recoup S® ing fe)
credibility in the foreign affal™ jai
should be demanding Canadian sh
nition of the PRG, should be 1 po ,
to condone the present lop-si0® tf

It should insist on fulfilmé |
Canadian recognition of the De xcne)
Republic of Vietnam through ©

of diplomatic representatives:

The opportunity is there — int)
ada’s Government, with the pac
spokesmen of the Canadian Pe
play an honorable role in 4
outcome in Vietnam.

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