FOLLOWING IN HIS FOOTSTEPS \ABon ™ ACTIWISTS - FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS 50 vears aao... DAVY JONES RECEIVES SCAB NORTH VANCOUVER — E. Schulters, a longshoreman em- ployed by the Dollar Company, is believed to have drowned in the waters of Burrard Inlet. Captain Peterson of the Cul- burra saw Schulters slip over the side while working on the deck. He rushed to the side of the ves- sel but could see nothing except the man’s’ hat floating on the water. There was a strong tide running when the accident hap- pened and the captain believes the man might have been swept down Burrard Inlet. Captain Peterson communicat- ed with the district police and they informed the crews of fer- ries and steamers in the harbor to be on the lookout as it is felt that the carcass will be intact as €ven the scavenger fish will pass up scab meat. The Worker, Jan. 5, 1924 CRU APPEALS PATTERSON CASE A request for protests against the exclusion from Canada of William Patterson, ‘executive- secretary of the Civil Rights Con- gress of the U.S. has gone to the International Committee for a World Conference on Human Rights, and an emergency appeal for funds has been made nation- ally, the Civil Rights Union of Toronto announced last week. The request to the Interna- tional Committee asks ali its member countries to add to the demand for free speech for numerous Canadian and U.S. organizations. Patterson's appeal for reversal .of the decision which refused him entry to Canada is pending with the CRU, which is planning a campaign of full support when the appeal goes before Mines and Resources McKinnon in Ottawa. Tribune, Jan. 3, 1949 Profiteer of the week: last year? Some people complain that farmers are getting a lot of money these days? Well, _they need much more if they're to keep up with Massey-Ferguson, from whom they buy most of their equipment. Massey’s profits for the year ending Oct 31 are $58,213,000 as compared to a mere $32,390,000 for the same period last year. (Dec. 20, 1972) And anyway, which farmer, or worker for that matter, saw his income jump by 80% in the Editor — MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Business & Circulation Manager, FRED WILSON Subscription Rate: Canada, $6.00 one year; $3.50 for six months North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $7.00 » All other countries, $8.00 one year North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $7.00 one year Prosser Second class mail registration number 1560. OTOVCAL saaimmimmE TOnnek... Fighting on our own ground When close to 40,000 Ontario teachers marched on the provincial legislature Dec. 18, shouting “no” to Tory serfdom, they struck a prophetic note for 1974. Rejecting Education Minister Wells’ feudal Bill 274, they dealt the Tory government a whithering defeat on the issue. The threat to subject teachers to com- pulsory arbitration, and prohibit resig- nations on threat of $500-a-day fines, stirred backing for the teachers by the Canadian Labor Congress, the Ontario Federation of Labor, the Communist Party, and the New Democratic Party, among others outraged over the threat. While the teachers postponed only until Jan. 31 their mass resignations over contract demands, it would be fatal for the Tories to re-introduce this repressive legislation then or anytime. The intrinsic democracy of 40,000 working people voicing rejection of 4 tyrannic Bill is lost on Tories like Mr. Wells who, seized with anger, accused them of “mob rule,” and said “proper” opposition was to vote against his party at the polls. Mr. Wells and his anti-labor cohorts ean het thoir lives that tha warlineg WAR NY veewen eet eR YEA thee, SY US Fass people will wage the sharpest of elec- toral battles to replace his ilk with labor representatives, In Queen’s Park and in Ottawa. But the working people are not so easily fooled or bludgeoned into giving up their own weapons — the strike, or in the case of the teachers, the right to resign, and the right to free, collec- tive bargaining. Nor are we prepared to give up extra-parliamentary action — protests, demonstrations. The Ontario teachers, in the fading days of 1973, gave a hint of the surging extra-parliamentary forces which can be mustered as labor’s militancy rises. On the threshold of this New Year — well aware of the efforts to keep the burdens of inflation and unemployment on the working people, well aware that in a federal election campaign Liberals and Tories would, as always, try to dupe working people inte voting against their own interests, well aware that struggles lie ahead as more than 275 union contracts expire across the coun- try — unity, and readiness for mass actions loom as decisive to the organi- : ratians af SCansdg’s wanli : : : : TRIE Manet Gavivlis Ul Vaiaus 5 Wua Ail Pcu pie. Admit the refugees! The undertaking given to the House of Commons on Nov. 30 by Immigration Minister Robert Andras that “hun- dreds” of Chilean political refugees would be admitted to Canada within a few weeks, and each given $650 loans was evidently a ruse to take the pres- sure off at a given moment. Three days before the New Year, representatives of the Catholic church and several Protestant denominations, - were still trying to wring from Exter- nal Affairs Minister Sharp some re- sponsible stand on the matter of Chilean refugees wanting to come to Canada. Despite 1,400 applications, many from people whose lives are in danger, Can- ada has admitted only 184. Such stalling is a breach of decency by the Ottawa Liberals; and the Tories who chortle over the refugees’ consternation are no better than jackals. As long as Ambassador Ross, a friend of the fascist junta advises Ottawa, de- mocratic Chileans will face death. Ross must be fired. Sharp must drop his double talk and for once do something worthy of his inclusion in the human race. Countless trade unions, churches and other Canadian organizations have already demanded that the government act now to save these refugees; but: it is evident that this government needs increasing pressure to make it live up to its word. James Bay ‘justice’ tramples on rights The Supreme Court of Canada has come down on the side of the develop- ers and the Quebec Liberal Government in the dispute over the James Bay hydro-electric project. Whatever the legal terms used to ex- cuse such behavior, anyone can see that the land damage is still being commit- ted; and long months of study show that this is destroying the basis of life of some 6,000 Indians and Innuit. Granting that Canadian laws were never designed to serve the interests of the Native peoples, Canadians as a whole cannot accept at this stage of human development, a decision so brazenly putting profit before human existence. Planned development for the benefit of this and future generations is wel- | comed — by the Native population too. But the indecent haste to accomplish the fact at the cost of thousands of ruined lives (not to mention disregard for the ecology) before the public is fully aware of the dangers, is a cruel -use of ruling class courts to trample, not defend, human rights. . In November, Justice Albert Malouf, in Quebec Superior Court, after ait | months of study and hearings, gran a temporary stop-work injunction to allow evaluation of the irreparable ‘damage being done. The Quebec Appeal Court (to hear an Indian group’s appeal in March or April) has agreed to let the work go on; and in this now has the support of the Supreme Court of Canada. Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chre- tien, pepresentinis the white rulin; class, talks of a “just and reasonable settlement for the Native peoples, but while he talks, unalterable changes are being gouged into the lands and water- ways, spelling disaster for the popula- tion of the area. This use of “justice” to wreak in- ~ justice must be brought to a halt by an even higher court, the people of Canada who, through their working-class and democratic organizations must exert tremendous pressure, if this miscarri- age of justice is to be reversed. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1974—PAGE 3