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50 years ago...
TWENTY WORKERS’
UNIONS REPRESENTED
MONTREAL — Between three

-and four thousand paraders took

part in the May Day celebrations
in Montreal. They met at Prince
Arthur Hall and marched to the
Champ de Mars,’ carrying ban-
ners with slogans which pro-
claimed “Long Live Soviet Rus-
sia”, “Vive le Communiste Inter-
nationale”, “Down with Fascism”;
“Amalgamate Your Unions” and
“Join the Canadian Labor Party”.
The Amalgamated Clothing Work-
ers and the International Ladies
Garment Workers carried the em-
blems of their unions. Altogether
twenty different organizations
took part, including the needle
trades, the plumbers and steam-
fitters, Russian Technical Aid, the
Machinists Union, the French
section of the Communist Party,

.

‘the Canadian Labor Party and the

Workers’ Party.

In the evening a meeting was
held in Prince Arthur Hall and
was filled to capacity. Speeches
were interspersed with musical
numbers and were most enthus-
iastically received by the crowd.
At a late’hour the meeting broke
up singing “The Internationale”.

The Worker, May 16, 1923

25 years ago...

UNIONISTS PROTEST
GREEK EXECUTIONS

A demand that the King govern-
ment “vigorously” protest against
the execution of Greek demo-
crats has been voiced by coal
miners and auto workers.

Amalgamated Local 252, UAW-
CIO said in a resolution that. the
government of Premier Sophoulis
had carried out a “fascist policy
of terror and execution” during
its eight months in office and ask-
ed the King government to “pro-
test most vigorously against these
executions” and that those -sched-
uled to take place be stopped.

In. Alberta, the Bellevue and
Coleman locals of the United
Mine Workers of America (CCL),
protested “this - brutal . crime
against democracy and humanity”
and demanded that the Canadian
government immediately register
a protest with the Greek govern-
ment.

(Thus far 152 Greek democrats
have been executed and the pro-
fascist Greek government threat-
ens to execute an additional 830
more, the majority of them men
and women who fought against
nazis as partisans during the
Greek occupation.) =

Tribune, May 22, 1948

Worth quoting:

“The ‘International’ as it is called, is now coming to be understood
as the most wonderful organization of modern times, and those who
fancy that it has been killed off by the fall of the Paris Commune may
soon find themselves very much mistaken.”

—Toronto Globe, June 22, 1871

, Pacific Tribune

West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune:

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Edttortal Comment...

Job-seekers versus monopoly

Workers from one end of Canada to
the other know that the boss never tells
it like it is if he can twist the truth to
his own advantage. The same is true
of a bosses’ government — like the one
in Ottawa.

So when we’re told that having 570,-
000 Canadians unemployed is really not

so bad, we haye to consider the anti--

labor source from whence it comes.

Unemployment dropped (say the offi-
cial figures) by one-tenth of one per-
cent in April, a “sharp improvement”
in the opinion of Finance Minister John
Turner. What is more, he is watching
“with great care” the fact that 10%
of young people (14-25) are denied jobs.
A bold initiative indeed.

“State monopoly capitalism is show-
ing again that it cannot guarantee
stable growth, stable prices, rising stan-

dards for the people,” said the Commu-.

nist Party of Canada’s Central Com-
mittee recently. This was underscored
by Deputy Treasurer H. Ian McDonald,
who said “the prospects of stable
growth are non existent.” He should
have said:under capitalism.

The fact is that economic instability
is a characteristic feature of state mo-
nopoly capitalism, reflected most sharp-
ly in the twin evils of unemployment
and inflation which are its permanent
features.

There are ways, however, to give

Canadians employment and to offer a
measure of security even during the

life of this system. The use of our 1
source materials in Canadian secre
ary industry would create both vn
and the goods for serious trade W}

socialist and third world countries, 2”

so loosen the U.S. grip on our economy:

The introduction of a 32-hour week
with no reduction in take home Pa
voluntary earlier retirement at 60 nt
75% of the highest earnings, the "8

to strike during the contract on que

tions of technological change and wort
ing conditions — such measures wore
curb the precedence of monopoly pre

over jobs and job:security.

But neither the Liberal nor Too
wings of monopoly will make any cb)
concessions unless backed to the we
by an anti-monopoly force, whose et
is the working class. In such a for
the trade unions and New Democrall’
Party. must be propelled by their mem
berships into a leading role.

The question is: Who is to recelt!
the benefits of the increased product
ity admitted by big business — ”,
working people of this country, it
handful of U.S. moneybags and the
Canadian henchmen?

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The fight for jobs is a key part of »
struggle for improved standards of I
for the majority of Canadians, an a?

monopoly battle which has the potentia

of rallying vast numbers of Canadians

The fight for a full employment polity
is, for workers, the carrying forw4
of the class struggle. ‘

No legalized bugging

The public cannot afford to be lulled
by the fact that Bill C-176 on wiretap-
ping (given first reading on April 13)
has gone quietly to a committee of Com-
mons.

The Bill perpetuates and places more
tightly in the control of ruling circles,
the ruthless invasion of privacy by
electro-magnetic devices which inter-
cept private conversations.

No mistake should be made about it;
despite all the trappings of “protecting”
privacy, the Bill (which failed in 1971
and 1972) is a license for tated inva-
sion. It places the lives of all of us in
the hands of the RCMP, sundry other
police, and upper crust judges, under
direction of the hierarchy of the ruling
class, the people who gave us the War
Measures Act.

No trade union, no labor-oriented

association or political party, no move-
ment of protest, not a professional or
small business operator can be sure
of not being monitored in the interests
of those at the top.

The Watergate corruption scandal in
USA has shown that wire-tapping in
the hands of government and police is

"a weapon against political opposition,

the peace movement, and all expressions
of independent opinion.

As a deterrent to ‘organized crime,
bugging is exposed by former U.S.
Attorney-General Ramsay Clark: “The

FBI used electronic surveillance i
organized crime area from at lea
late 1950s until July 1965 .. . So far
is known not one conviction resU
from any of these bugs...”

No, not organized crime, but that
defined “any other subversive activ! |
— no doubt, such as union organizil. Fst
is the target of the War Measures

people.

Confidence crisis grow®

Amid the gloom and doom of watt
gate, a worried R. M. Nixon, the tht vet
of enforced resignation hanging °'
him, can find little encouragement thé
days in the monetary situation.

From the middle of May stock matt
ets lurched into a slum along a
confidence in the U.S. dollar; go dF:
to a record $113 an ounce; while
eral German Finance Minister He nef
Schmidt pleaded for “genuine trus

the Yankee dollar.

With the Watergate mess dra
closer to Nixon, “diverting his ad
tration from dealing with tough e
mic problems,” as one report PU) ios
fears are being voiced by U.S. busi?”
that the mounting credit. crunch, we
gravated by the U.S. Federal Rest.
Bank’s rate hike to commercial balaa
“may shut off both growth and 1”

tion, causing a recession.” ;
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The need for fundamental chang” nd
the system would seem to be kno¢
on the door.

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