John Weir nominated

| Defeat the sell-out candidates!

fae Peecion in Canada and
ie Icles of the capitalist
tral S are reflected in the cen-
oS of the day,” John
oa 4 well-attended meet-
x euch he was nominated
date in perunist Party candi-
ing. «A Oronto High Park rid-
condy Survey of Canadian firms
Se cted from Ottawa says
na * no hope for a let-up in
Ployment, though the Libe-
ec nment claims neverthe-
i aie the economy is sound
well ae words, the patient is
And th y he’s flat on his back.
Bover e Conservative provincial
in ect brings in a budget
a het it increases handouts
on th Tich and puts new taxes
€ working people.”

tet’ Meeting opened with a
y Na of the election front

Son Clarke, secretary of
oe €tro Committee of the

; Unist Party.
of oe Weir, production editor
Nominat anadian Tribune, was.
ist ae by veteran Commun-
Teealled John Boychuk, who
Novem Mr. Weir’s work in the
cludin €nt from early youth, in-
0 B his election to and work
tion for cronto Board of Educa-
ist < an terms. Trade union-
Meeting tabek, who chaired the
Years yy Spoke of the many
eqs, Clr had lived and work-
n High Park.

et dealing with the Com-
ing of Bey. to defeat the striv-
Cles fo € most reactionary cir-
the yj push Canadian politics to
P fe » and the party’s cam-
TeStilt Ee build unity that will
Rtessive. the election of a pro-
aaa bloc to Parlitment and
Weir pralitics to the left, Mr.
didates «eo to the type of can-
Toronta med by the Tories in
. Nto’s west end,

T .
Ot oy High Park they have named
€linek, who is being ad-

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Don Currie

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vertised as a refugee from
Czechoslovakia; his manufactu-
rer father brought him over to
Canada when he was nine. This
man is a skater, but he is also
a manufacturer in his own right.
He was in the news recently
when he sold out a majority in-
terest in his firm, where he em-
ployed 50 workers, to a U.S.
outfit because he had grown rich
so fast he needed more capital
to grow richer yet and the
American monopoly graciously
supplied it and took over the
business at the same time. That’s
‘a mirror of what is happening
to Canadian economy generally,
and Mr. Jelinek is the represen-
tative of sell-out capitalists and
politics. Well, the people of
Czechoslovakia turned the sell-
out artists out of their country,
and the Canadian people will do
the same.
“In neighboring Lakeshore
riding the Tories have nominated

Kingsway —

Winnipeg-North
Winnipeg-N. Centre

Toronto-Lakeshore —
Toronto-Broadview
Toronto-High Park
Hamilton-East
Hamilton-West =
St. Catharines

Montreal-Laurier — oe
Montreal-St. Jacques

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‘the wealthy restaurateur, Kup-

iak, whose extradition has seve-
ral times been asked by the
USSR to face the judgment of
the people of his native Ukraine
where it is charged, and docu-
mented evidence is produced to
prove, that he was guilty of the
murder of many innocent peo-
ple.”

John Weir recalled that the
Communist Party promoted the
first Canadians of Slavic extrac-
tion to public office in the city.
Several were elected in times
past and served the interests of
the working people. It was only
then that the capitalist parties
began to put up Slavic business-
men-politicians, who have
proved a disgrace to their people
and to all workers. Such are re-
cent runaway immigrants from
socialist lands with a terrorist
background. Such are the ser-
vitors of the high-rise develop-
ers and real estate sharks who—
or whose wives — benefit from
those transactions with the city.
Such is Ontario cabinet minis-
ter John Yaremko, elected with
the help of the Edmund Burke
gang. It is time, he said, that
High Park, a predominantly
workers’ riding, elected a work-
ers’ representative to Parlia-
ment.

“We must not forget the sit-
ting Liberal member, Walter
Deakon,” he added. “Mr. Dea-
kon accompanied Prime Minister
Trudeau to the USSR, he even
wept in Kiev, sentimentally af-
fected by the sight of the land
of his forefathers . . - and then
proceeded to intervene on behalf
of Ukrainian nationalists. Two
years ago he went to speak to
the Ukrainian Canadian Com-
mittee, which is a nationalist
body subservient to the ultras.
That same UCC organized a vile
demonstration’ against Soviet
Premier Kosygin in Toronto,
which necessitated police inter-
vention, Mr. Deakon, accom-
panying Mr. Trudeau, was treat-
ed royally in Kiev, in Moscow,
wherever he went in the Soviet
Union. But has he raised his
voice against that shameful ucc
spectacle during the Kosygin
visit?”

Speakers from the floor re-
called Mr. Deakon’s refusal to
receive a Communist Party de-
legation on the question of
peace, his advocacy of the wage
freeze, his “contribution” on the
committee on pensions ...

“We got four cents a month
more!” John Boychuk shouted
from his seat to laughter.

The election campaign was
launched. on_its .way with a col-
lection. for the campaign fund.

Federal labor code
bears bosses’ stamp

The Communist Party of
Canada sharply criticized the
new and amended Federal Labor
Code, re-introduced in _ the
House, of Commons by the new
Labor Minister Martin O’Con-
nell, as not an acceptable instru-
ment for dealing with bargain-
ing over technological change.
Under pressure of employers
representing the most powerful
corporate structures in the
world of big capital, what was
originally a mere token conces-
sion to appease labor has now
become a meaningless gesture
in that direction.

The April 3 statement of the
Central Executive Committee of
the Party emphasizes that the
real issue involved is labor’s
right to strike and the effort by
monopoly and governments to
deprive labor of this fundamen-
tal right. There is no justifica-
tion for restriction of this right
at any time if collective bar-
gaining is to have any meaning
at all. It is particularly vital on
the matter of technological
changes affecting workers.

There is nothing which more
clearly exposes government-
corporate collusion against labor
and the trade union movement
than the insidious plan to make
workers pay for the new tech-
nology which deprives them of
jobs in order to enhance mono-
poly profits.

While it is now nearly a de-
cade since the issue came clear-
ly into public focus in the rail-
way labor dispute of the early
sixties that culminated in the
Freedman Report, the govern-
ment has studiously avoided
coming to grips with this most
vital issue in the field of labor-
employer relations.

When the former federal La-
bor Minister Bryce Mackasey
introduced his token recognition
of this issue in Bill C-253 in
June 1971, a virtual howl eman-
ated from big industry and busi-
ness. The result is that the gov-
ernment has capitulated.

It is inexplicable, therefore,
when the Canadian Labor Con-
gress secretary-treasurer, Wil-

liam Dodge says in a press re-

Little people now pay

lease of March 28, “We are
pleased that the provisions pro-
tecting workers against the ef-
fects of technological change
have been retained in the new
bill.” This is simply not the
case, and the CLC is shirking its
duty to its members by failing
to severely criticize the govern-
ment’s concessions to big busi-
ness. In fact, had the CLC ori-
ginally conducted a_ strong
country-wide campaign on this
issue the situation may have
been entirely different today.
The government would have
found it more difficult to capitu-
late to big business pressure.

The dropping of the section
with regard to picketing in the
original bill is not a concession.
It is a gratuitous insult to labor
to consider it as such. Its inclu-
sion in the original bill merely
reflected the real desire by
monopoly interests to put more
obstacles in the way of collec-
tive bargaining and to deprive
labor of its hard won rights. It
had no place there in the first
place.

It is impossible to accept the
“initial reaction” of the Cana-
dian Labor Congress that the
Act to Amend the Canadian La-
bor Codé, as it now stands, “on
balance . . . represents definite
improvements.”

As Labor Minister Martin
O'Connell ‘has told Parliament,
on the occasion of the second
reading of this bill, the legisla-
tive manoeuvring has been un-
dertaken to reduce the “undue
emphasis’ on the employer-ém-
ployee relationships.” ae

The imortance of this bill is
not so much in the number of
federal employees covered by it,
as in the example it sets in the
matter of legislation governing
collective bargaining for Quebec
and the provinces.

The CLC ought to initiate a
campaign for public hearings
with respect to this bill to en-
able labor organizations across
the country to make represen-
tations with respect to its con-
tents before it is adopted by
Parliament.

for Tory campaign

HAMILTON — An anti-people
budget. This is how the new
Ontario budget is seen by UE
Local 504, the union at the three
major Westinghouse plants in
Hamilton representing close to
3,000 hourly rated workers.

The little people are now to
pay for the Tory election cam-
paign of last October, the UE
states.

Castigating what they term a
class conscious attack on the
working man, the union protests
the imposition of increased
taxes on beer, fags, housing and
holiday, gasoline, plates, etc.,
and charges elitism in virtually
prohibiting large numbers of
working class youth from at-
tending places of higher learn-
ing through the increase in tui-
tion fees and the reduction in
students’ loans. _

At the same time, says John
Ball, president of the local cor-
porations have been,handed an-,
other $125 million bonanza

through continuation of the 5%
tax credit. This credit is granted
to corporations that buy. new
machinery or equipment, and is
ostensibly designed to stimulate
the economy and create jobs.
These corporations would be
buying new equipment anyway,
says Mr. Ball, and he questions
whether even one new job has
been created by the tax relief.

With reference to Darcy Mc-
Keough’s rationale that the bud-
get provides for economic
growth and lower unemploy-
ment, Mr. Ball asks: ‘“Who’s
_paying the shot? The budget
says in effect that the lower. in-
come people must scrimp even
more so that jobs can be creat-
ed. Who’s kidding whom? Since
when did sharing poverty create
jobs, or expand the economy?”

The truth is, says the union
leader, the working man in On-
tario is now to pay the expenses

_ for his own electoral defeat.

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