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and a Labor Bill of Rights.
Urging the formation of “a

mass federated party of the

working people” to express
their aspirations—a party com-
posed of the trade union cen-
tres, the farmers’ union, the
Communist Party, the NDP-
Quebec and other groups — the
CPQ promises to “pursue this
goal during and after the elec-
tions on October 29.”
Liberal Record

Communist election literature
points to a cost of living “ris-
ing so rapidly that meat, milk,
eggs, vegetables, fruits and
bread are disappearing from the
table of the average Quebec
family, while the profits of the
big monopolies are swelling.”

It asks the question: “What
has the Bourassa government
done to stop inflation?” And
answers: “Nothing.”

When workers struck for in-
creases to keep up with costs,
the Bourassa government “‘used
the police, the courts, the media
to smash legal strikes like the
general strike of the public
workers. The courts imposed
crushing fines on unions and
their leaders and sent many to
jail for refusing to be strike-
breakers.

“Then the government threat-
ened to bring in the worst
strike-breaking law (Bill 89) in
all. North America. It even
called the election for October
29, anniversary of the great La
Presse demonstration, brutally
smashed by the police.

Premier Bourassa and Justice
Minister Choquette opened the
Liberal campaign with a savage
attack on the labor movement
and declared they would again
introduce strike-breaking legis-
lation.” :

Despite Liberal boasting, the
Communist election statement

CLAUDE DEMERS
says, “the number of unem-
ployed in Quebec has scarcely
decreased and is still twice the
Ontario rate.” It calls attention
to the huge wage cuts imposed
on teachers, and the tightening
of student loans.
Reactionary Instincts

Looking at other parties, one
sees Yvon Dupuis, new leader
of the Creditistes making “his

* appeal to the most conservative,

“The Parti Quebecois has vot-
ed against labor ever since it
elected members in 1970,” Ginet-
te Poirier, Communist candidate
in Terrebonne in the Oct. 29
election told the Tribune in an
interview scheduled for next
week's issue.

Jeannette Walsh, CPQ candi-
date in Mercier, charged that
Bourassa called the election now
“because he has not succeeded
in fooling the working people
into thinking that he has solved
the problem of unemployment.”
She gives insights into Quebec's
election battle in next week's Tri-
bune.

These candidates, along with
Claude Demers, in Prevost riding,
are carrying the program of the
Parti Communiste du Quebec to
the people in the battle to pro-
tect the living standards of the
working people.

most reactionary instincts. The
few measures that the govern-
ment felt obliged to adopt, such
as medicare, are attacked by
Dupuis as ‘creeping socialism.’
His attack on the government
in the field of education is real-
ly a call to return to the dark
days of Duplessis.”

The Union Nationale, who
“publicly admit that they fin-
anced Dupuis’ leadership cam-
paign with $100,000 hoping that
he would agree to amalgamate

S
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GINETTE POIRIER

with the Union Nationale,” is a
discredited party.

The Party Québecois, “in
every ‘confrontation with the
monopolies and the coercive
forces of the state, starting
from the La Presse strike right
up to date ...have always
expressed their ‘sympathy’ with
the workers — then supported
the government against the
workers.”

In the last election, in calling
for working people’s votes for
their social and economic poli-
cies, the PQ promised a special
referendum on_ separation if
elected. Their last convention
did away with this promise,
making a vote for the PQ a vote
for separation of Quebec from
Canada, although Mr: Levesque
wants electors to forget this
during the campaign.

“A vote for the PQ is there-
fore a very serious decision to
weaken the unity of the work-

ing people of English Canada’

and of French Canada in face
of the domination of both by
U.S. imperialism — the ‘im-
perialism of the criminal war in
Vietnam and Cambodia, the im-
perialism of the ITT in Chile—
none of which has been de-
nounced by the PQ.
I

The election material of the
Communist Party of Quebec
further points out that its name
is registered with the Quebec
government in the City of Mon-
treal. “Impostors,” it says, “have
tried to discredit us by provok-
ing stupid, violent confronta-
tion while using our name and
adding (Marxist-Leninist) to it,
knowing that the media are only
too glad to play their slander-
ous and confusing game.. .”

It warns that only those can-
didates named on the program
are candidates of the Commu-
nist Party of Quebec.

Venceremos ||

Poster in ‘Trud’ major Soviet trade: union paper, represents
the 100-million strong All-Union Central Council of Trade
Unions. The paper devoted considerable space to describ-
ing the acts of terror unleashed by the junta against Chilean
trade unionists and pledged its support to the world-wide
battle to restore Chilean democracy.

——,

Firm reply to firings

MALTON — Members of the
United Automobile Workers
Local 1967 voted last week to
seek a meeting for “hard nego-
tiations” with Douglas Aircraft
of Canada Ltd.

The vote came following ac-
tions by the company suspend-
ing the union’s nine-man ex-
ecutive board and firing the
local’s bargaining committee.
The provocative firings and sus-
pensions took place last week
after a walkout in which the
workers protested the earlier
suspension of three workers
who were late for work.

The 2,000 workers who at-
tended the meeting rejected any

idea of further walkouts as @

means of protest and settled 0M —

a course of “talk, rather than

falling for the company’s provO”
cation.” The membership als” .
decided not to appoint a Pro >
tem bargaining committe.

which the company _ insist é
upon and insisted upon the fe
instatement of the members a
its present bargaining co™
mittee. of
Jack Kirkby, president
Local 1967, said, “The company
is going to have to take a ue i
look at the support these 1
lows have,” referring to

the

membership’s decision to Pay

the wages of all those susP'
ed or fired.

Chilean CP press resumes

Chile’s Communist under-
ground resumed publication of
its banned daily El Siglo, defy-
ing the brutal repression of the
Santiago fascist military junta,
according to the British Morn-
ing Star. ~

At the same time the junta

U of T holds Day of Mourning for Allende

TORONTO — October 5 was
proclaimed by President John
Evans of the University of To-
ronto as an official day of
mourning for President Salvador
Allende of Chile on the campus.
To mark the day, students and
faculty participated in a moving
tribute to the Chilean leader at
Convocation Hall, sponsored by
the U. of T. Committee for a
Democratic Chile.

Peter Russell, principal of
Innis College, noted that the
day of mourning was the first in
the history of the university to
pay homage to a person from an-
other country. It showed, he
said, that students are interest-
ed in affairs beyond the cam-
pus, and “(it) is fitting that
those who care about these mat-
ters come here today to pay
tribute to free Chile.”

Brian Mossop, vice-president
PACIFIC TRIBUNE

of the Graduate Students Union,
listed the crimes against the
people that the junta has so far
committed: murders; denial of
political, democratic or trade
union rights; bombing of univer-
sities; abolition of the autonomy
of the universities where build-
ings still stand. The junta has
appointed six new rectors, all of

them military men, most of
them retired generals.
“But,” said Mr. Mossop,

“we're not just going to feel
sorry, but must act in support
of those resisting the fascist
junta. . . . We in Canada must
be part of a world-wide move-
ment of support for the people
of Chile. . . . We must leave
here determined to bring the
maximum number of people on
the U of T campus into action.”

Enrique Neuberg, a_ Chilean
graduate student at the’ univer-

— FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1973 — PAGE 6

sity, spoke on behalf of the As-
sociation of Chilean Students.
“The fascist coup,” he said, “put
an end to the dream of building
a just society by peaceful
means.” He described what had
happened to universities in
Chile. “For the military rulers,
to think is to be delinquent...
Univ. sities have been bombed
from the air or invaded by
ground forces; hundreds of stu-
dents and faculty have been
killed.

“There is a restructuring oi
education at all levels; second-
ary education has been purged
of all liberal thoughts. Every
book on politics has been
thrown out, mostly burned... .
Troops stormed and looted the
residence of Pablo Neruda...

“It is not only for Chile that
we mourn today,” he concluded,
“but for all mankind. We must

not allow humanity to take a
step backward at this stage...
Chileans have lost the right to
think, to express themselves,
even the right to live. But there
is still one right they have not
lost — the right to fight.”

Messages of support for the
meeting were received from the
president of the Victoria College
Student Union; Rita Nichols,
president of Local 1230, CUPE
(support staff at the university);
and Prof. W. H. Nelson of the
U of T Faculty Association. Bob
Anderson, president of the Stu-
dents Administrative Council,
also spoke briefly in support of
the people of Chile.

Gloria Montero, executive sec-
retary, Canadian Committee for
a Democratic Spain, beautifully
read several poems of Pablo
Neruda. The meeting concluded
with Chile’s national anthem.

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