bons.

Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau, wearing both Cal
gary and Montreal team rib-
launched the 1970
Grey Cup game today with
a 25-yard kick.

‘They do it deliberately!’

Bill and I watched the other
Bill and Louis delivering Com-
munist Party leaflets outlining
the position on agriculture, out-
side of the founding convention
of the National Farmers Union.
We were excited — Canada’s
first all-Canada national farmers
union was being born — the
farmers’ answer to the growing
attacks of monopoly on them.

“T don’t see many thrown
away,” remarked Bill, as we
walked through the main lobby.
Sure enough, they were- being
stuck in pockets, — briefcases
and purses.

“Let’s go for coffee,” said
Bill. We found a table in the
little, crowded coffee room, and
soon were joined by a farm
woman delegate from Alberta.

“May I sit here?” she asked.
“Sit down!’ we chorused, clear-
ing the table for her. I looked
at her, wondering who she was
— you'd have wondered, too. A
good-looking woman, approach-
ing 60 one would think, buxom
— with the Grand Manner —
a brilly blouse, oversize ear-
rings, hair of some brilliant hue,
glitter in her hair, every finger
bedecked with an enormous

ring. *
.True to type, she quickly
took over the conversation.

“And who might you be?’ she
asked. “I’m from the Tribune,”
I quickly rejoined. She immed-
iately assumed the Winnipeg
Tribune, not the Canadian Tri-

pune (viva la différence!). “Ah,
yes,” she said, “I know Mr. So-
and-So, your boss. I know him
well. How is he to work for?”

“Not bad, not bad,” I said
hesitatingly, looking up at the
ceiling.

“Have you seen this bit of
work?” she asked, tossing down
the Communist Party leaflet in
front of us.

“No, I haven’t,” said Bill,
picking it up. I leaned over his
shoulder, and we both read.

“I want your reaction,” said
our newly found friend. “Take
your time and read it all. It’s
typical of them!”

“T’ve read it,” said Bill after
a while, ‘and I don’t kno hat
to say. It sounds sort of \sen-
sible, sort of reasonable, I
wouldn’t know how to dispute
with them...”

“You said it!” she said. “You
said it- Aren’t they CUNNING?
They write like that! You can’t
find a thing wrong with it.
Aren’t they just CUNNING?
Aren’t they?”

We exchanged glances and
smiled at her as she raved on
about Communist cunning. It
was clear that this representa-
tive of reaction from among the
big ranchers of southern Al-
berta had no answers to the
farmers’ problems at all.

“Oh,” she said, ‘“they’re so
clever. They do it deliberately!”
(W.B.)

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The sell-out goes on!

The oil agreement concluded last
week between Canada and the USA —
as did the earlier natural gas sellout —
exposes the Trudeau government as
the willing accomplice of the United
States’ continental energy policy.

The deliberate export of Canadian
jobs in exchange for “fast buck” deals,
giving the U.S. control of our natural
energy resources, betrays our country
today and for the future.

The agreement to increase Canadian
oil sales by 100,000 barrels a day in
1971 masks the real deal. The joint
ministerial communique states that the
Canadian government has undertaken
to pursue talks with the U.S. “for an
increasing trade in-crude oil, petroleum
products and OTHER FUELS” be-
tween the two countries.

The increase in profits goes over-
whelmingly to the U.S.-owned oil com-
panies operating in Canada’s West.

But new jobs for Canadians? Zero—
or next to it.

Such a policy of exporting present
and future jobs is at any time a be-
trayal of Canada. With unemployment
now crushing Canadian workers and
their families and threatening to
reach the monstrous figure of 750,000
this winter, Trudeau’s complicity in
U.S. imperialism’s continentalist poli-
cies is a crime against the Canadian
people.

The price we paid ~

With the ruthless men in power
eagerly dumping our democratic rights
and civil liberties onto the scrapheap,
we should remember that the Canadian
people paid dearly for those rights and
liberties through generations of strug-
gle and sacrifice.

At this very time 143 years ago there
was the equivalent of the War Meas-
ures Act functioning. Quebec — Lower
Canada it was called then — was occu-
pied by a foreign (British )army and
French-Canadians were literally mas-

sacred with wanton brutality at St.

Charles and other places. The English-
Canadians of Ontario — Upper Canada
then — also were not spared military
occupation, hangings and persecution.

What is now Canada was then -sev-
eral colonies of Britain, exploited and
held back by the British monarchy,
mercantile capitalists and Hudson’s
Bay Company monopolists, together
with their Canadian satraps and privi-
leged classes, just as she is today being

looted and doomed to unemployment

and crisis by the U.S. and Canadian
monopolies.

The people in both the Canadas and
in the Maritimes had for decades sought
by every means at their disposal—from
humble petitions to angry demonstra-
tions—to win redress for their griev-
ances. They elected their representa-
tives to the respective Assemblies, but
the power of self-government was
denied to them. They organized in a
broad popular democratic movement to
secure their liberty and then in 1837
the ruling clique created a situation
where there was no way out but a popu-
lar rising—and ordered the troops to

deal with “apprehended” and develop-
ing popular r

evolution.

ce 0

The people were put down by force
of arms. It was another ten years be-
fore London relaxed the reins of desp0
tie government somewhat — and it |
wasn’t until 1867 that a curtailed form

of self-rule was achieved in Confedera-

tion,» Each step forward in extending —
our rights has been gained by bitter
struggles and our history is studded
with battles and martyrs—from the In- —
dian peoples who welcomed newcomers —
but defended their land, to the labor
struggles for trade union rights am

the movement for social change in ou
own day.

There are great lessons in that his-
tory. We see the example of the Pa-
triotes in Quebec and Reformers in On-
tario as comrades-in-arms, acting 1
full unison and harmony in 1937-38, re
specting each other’s national rights
while striving for a free Canada. Thal
is a lesson carried down to our times
when French and English workers are —
banded together in Quebec, when the —
workers of English Canada, albeit not
yet clearly and strongly enough, are
speaking up for the national rights of
French Canada, striving for a free an? —
equal union in a new Confederation.

We are the custodian of the rights
and liberties that were won at suc
great cost by Canadians over the many
generations. We must not let them be
abolished, even if the action is camou-
flaged as “temporary.” We need those
rights and ‘liberties more than evel
right now to beat back the attacks of
the monopolies on our living standards,

on the peace and security of Canada,

on its independence. We need all. the de-
mocracy we have had and more 1?
order to win a new life for the Cana
dian people in the truly just society that
must be built in our country.

The Trudeaus —those modern Bond
Heads — must be compelled to recog”
nize that the Canadians of the 1970's
are not going to give up their hard-won
rights no matter what subterfuge or
coercion is employed. We can’t. We
won't. siniiy

RIGHT ON!

Canadian workers — organized and
unorganized — will welcome the ca
for a federal Charter of Labor’s Rights
made last week by the national execu
tive council of the Canadian Labo?
Congress.

The Canadian Tribune and the Com-
munist Party of Canada have for somé
time const#ntly pressed for such 4
charter for labor.

The Trudeau cabinet has given every
indication it wants to do away with
labor’s sacred right to strike. With the
adoption in a number of provinces 0
anti-labor, compulsory arbitration
laws, danger signs have been multiply-
ing that the federal government is pre
paring similar legislation — over am
above its ruthless War Measures Act
and Public Order (Temporary Meas
ures) Act. :

The CLC call for a federal chartet

to guarantee labor’s rights to strike, t0

picket, to bargain and to the right to
strike during the term of a collective
agreement in matters not covered by
it, advances the democratic struggle 0
the whole trade union movement, of al
Canadian working people.

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