UNITED LABOR RALLY Greetings to Ontario workers at this mighty May 21 demonstration. As we gather here today a great battle is being fought out In our country, as it is in the entire “free world”. It is a battle to determine who will pay for the present crisis afflicting the World capitalist system. nd a sharp crisis it is! Two hundred and seventy five thousand are unemployed in Ontario. : More than 25% of our population lives low the poverty level. Seventy per cent of the taxable income farned in manufacturing in our province 80es to foreign corporations. ome ownership has been priced out of Teach of working people and rents are sky- rocketing. Two Portugal CP leaders killed _. Two leading members of the Portuguese Communist Party were killed in an automobile accident which Lisbon Police were investigating as ‘‘suspicious,”’ it was learned On- Wednesday. The two were killed were Pedro Soares. member of the PCP Central Committee, and his wife Ma- Tia-Luisa Costa Dias, a leading PCP militant and mem- r of the Executive Council of the Women’s International emocratic Federation ‘WIDF). res and his wife were driving home from a political meeting When their car was struck by a Mercedes which, according to eyewit- nesses, was driven straight into the Soares’ car at high speed. The two occupants of the Mercedes immediately fled the scene but were later tracked down and arrested in their homes by officers of the National €publican-Guard security forces. WARNS QUEEN’ Farmers are being driven from the land. Education is being curtailed. _ Health cut-backs are being instituted. In this greeting of solidarity with the work- ers’ May 21 rally at Queen's Park the Ontario Executive of the Communist Party of Can- ada.exposes the boss-class plans for increas- ing attacks on labor. Anti-labor legislation is being rammed through federally and provincially. The working class, and democracy are under attack. 6 oO e - Two sets of policies are being advanced, 5 PARK one by the big monopolies and their govern- ments ‘which drives down the wages and cuts back on the living standards of work- ing people, while raising the level of unem- ployment. It is a policy to keep up profits and make workers pay for the crisis. The other is a policy of increased purchas- ing power for workers, farmers and small businessmen, jobs for all, improved stand- ards of education; health safety; eradication of poverty, curtailment of inflation, decent low cost housing. That, of course is what this lobby is all about. In pursuit of their aims the big corpora- tions have control of the newspapers, the radio, television, magazines. They have con- Continued on page 9 A COMPREHENSIVE, CRITICAL BRIEF OFL presentation blasts government Rally demands gov t action against racism By JACKIE GREATBATCH TORONTO — More than 500 People marched through the Streets of Toronto May 15 to Protest the growing racism in he city, and in Canada as a Whole. The march centred around the Murder, May 6, of 15-year-old Michael Habbib, a Black Toron- tonian recently arrived from Jamaica, Habbib was a victim of € upsurge in racist and fascist actions in Toronto. chanting such slogans as Blame the Government, Not the Immigrants” (in reference to the federal government’s Green Paper on Immigration) and Down with Racism”, the de- Monstrators marched from City Hall to the provincial legislature at Queen’s Park. There they €ard speakers from the three Major provincial parties, repre- ‘es MILK DUMPED INTO MANITOBA SEWERS WINNIPEG — Milk was dumped - Wn sewers in Manitoba last ummer because of surpluses, griculture minister Sam Uskiw Old newsmen last month. to he Said processors had refused i uy milk at reduced prices, and . €n questioned said the dumping curred last July, but he did not ‘Temember how many tons were dumped, 5 The issue arose in the legislature Uring debate on a plant the 80vernment proposes to build in lkirk, M milk. an., to process whey and sees sentatives of various Black and anti-racist organizations and in- dividuals. The meeting was organized by the Committee of Stu dents Continued on page 9 TORONTO — The Executive Board of the Ontario Federation of Labor met with members of the Ontario cabinet May 21, and presented a comprehensive, 27- page brief that was sharply cri- tical of the many government policies. The brief covered a_ large spectrum of issues and dealt with measures necessary to im- prove the economy, control of foreign ownership, housing, agri- culture and farm labor, employ- ment standards, women - and equal opportunity, child care, labor relations, rights arbitra- tion. and the no-strike bar, occu- pational health and_ safety, workmen’s compensation, pen- sion and education. The section dealing with the — eccnomy noted “most of the economies of the western world are in a recession generated by the oil crisis and high prices.” In Canada and specifically, On- tario, “A depression of the calibre of 1929 is not to be en- tirely discounted. Nonetheless we do believe that a full scale recession is imminent and the corporations whose profits have been the highest since 1951 ex- pect the workers to carry the. main burden of such a recession. We will resist the attempts to erode workers’ living stand- ards.” “The cost cf living,” the brief said, “has gone up by 20.4% in the past two years. Food alone rose by 37% during that time. These price increases have caus- ed a rapid erosion of the pur- chasing power of the workers’ earnings. His weekly income of this year, although somewhat higher in money terms than two years previously, in fact bought Continued on page 8 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 23, 1975—Page 5 Ss