Fascist thugs gather

A grim threat is embodied in
the current drive of ultra-right
extremists in Canada. Commu-
nist Party warnings of attempts
‘by these gangs to knock toge-
ther a unity of the far right are
shown to be valid by recent re-
ports in the Toronto press. The
infiltration into Canada of the
U.S. Ku Klux Klan and John
Birch Society aims at intensify-
ing attacks on _ progressives,

whipping up race hatred, and.

setting back the labor move-
ment by instilling a - fanatical
fear of the left.

A so-called “international al-
_ liance of the radical right” was

announced at a private gather-
ing in Toronto on the eve of
May Day, to which were invit-
ed: the Ku Klux Klan, John
Birch Society, Edmund Burke
Society (now known as West-
ern Guard), the neo-nazi Na-
tional Socialist Alliance, the
Christian Defense League of
Detroit, . and Breakthrough.
What a gang of vultures!

Only a few days earlier the
John Birch Society proclaimed

that it had come to Canada.

three months ago with a full-
time organizer and has now
lined up several Toronto area
school auditoriums for mouth-
ing its racist tirades.

The Birch group lectures, fit-
tingly, will feature a retired
U.S. army officer, Jack Mohr,
according to the Birchers, a
Korean war hero. Toronto, it
seems, is to be added to the

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‘itinerary of their 25 travelling
speakers.

The KKK’s Imperial Klud,
Rev. Robert Miles, charged with
bombing 10 school buses in
Michigan, told the press he
planned to set up “guerrilla
cells” in this country.

Canada, he explained, is the
“last stronghold of the white,
Christian, Supremist Culture
and a place for white Americans
to come if the struggle against
the Jewish conspired mongrel-
ization of white and black is
allowed to continue.”

The Western Guard would
gain advantages from the ar-
rival of the Birchers in Canada,
said Dr. Wm. Pearce, who edits
a neo-Nazi periodical in Wash-
ington, D.C. He said that peo-
ple start with the Birch Society
“and :they have only a_ short
jump to make to the Nazis.”

Paul Fromm of the Western
Guard, said that in five years
his gang of thugs had emerged
with a provincial political party
in its grasp, a reference to the
Social Credit Party. (A former
Guard is now head of the On-
tario Social Credit.)

“We know who our enemies
are, and what they look like,”
Fromm threatened. “Pierre Tru-
deau is only a puppet leader.
The real power behind the
scenes is the man who signs his
name on your one dollar bills.”

Does all this sound crazy? It
is crazy. But that’s what Mus-
solini talked like, that’s Hitler
‘talk—and it could happen here!

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Storm troopers and
fifth columnists

Together with Nixon’s trade aggres-
sion against Canada by dumping
goods subsidized by the U.S. govern-
ment through DISC, the American im-
perialists are sending in and financing
their fascist stormtroops, Birchites,
Ku Klux Klan and what have you, and
bringing up from the slime the Cana-
dian fifth column in the service of U.S.
and Canadian monopolists.

It was the false cry of “democratic
rights for fascists” coupled with anti-
communist prejudices that opened the
doors to. fascism in other lands and
brought untold suffering, horror and
bloodshed in its train. But isn’t that
what the Etobicoke School Board is
saying when it declares that it is rent-
ing a school hall to the fascists “in the
normal way”?

Isn’t that the game capitalist press
hacks and politicians are playing when
they smile at if not actually applaud
the antics of the ultras, find apologies
for them, pooh-pooh the danger that
fascism holds for our people and our
country? Didn’t they do that with
Hitler? :

Isn’t that part of the same trend
that permits the Conservative Party
to nominate for Parliament D. Kupiak,
a man wanted in the Ukraine for the
murder of 200 men, women and chil-
dren? Or “refugee” manufacturers
from Czechoslovakia Jelinek and Ro-
man? Or lets a federal cabinet. min-
ister bless with his presence and
speech a gathering of Ukrainian ultras
at a $1,000-a-plate dinner to raise funds
for anti-Soviet machinations?

Answer the anti-labor
conspiracy with action

Today’s incessant, sharp attacks by
the monopoly-controlled press on the
right of public workers to strike are
only the opening shots in monopoly’s
drive to smash this hard-won right of
all Canadian workers.

Dropping all their past pretenses at
being “neutral” and “objective” in labor
confrontations with bosses and govern-
ment, papers like the Toronto Star and
the Globe and Mail are openly collabor-
ating with governments on all levels in
efforts to break the strikes and deny

the just demands of public workers in
all sectors.

This “get tough with labor” line in
the capitalist press mirrors not only
the aims of the reactionary Conser-
vative party and its ultra-right asso-
ciates. It is also the reflection, and this
is a new danger in this anti-labor cam-
paign, of a move by right-wing Liberal
elements to coalesce with all reaction-
ary forces against the working class.

Organized labor, in the main, has not
been quick enough to respond to this
new offensive monopoly. The compla-
cency of certain Canadian labor leaders
was evidenced in the complete failure
of the Canadian Labor Congress execu-
tive to speak out itself and to mobilize

all CLC members in solidarity wil
Common Front of the 210,000 Qui
public workers. ;

The mounting conspiracy 4
labor, its cutting edge directed ¥
against the right to strike of Dm
workers, should at once evoke the
tant, united protest of all workel
first of all of the main body of ¥
dian organized labor, the CLC. ~

Raise labor's
voice for peace! ™

Declaring that “the Americal
ple insist that the war be ended
the people of Vietnam have the!
to self-determination,” Leonard ™
cock, president of the United ?
workers told the recent Internal?
Convention of his union: “Umidl
the socialist countries have made
overtures towards U.S. labor Of
ing this war... the UAW is res!
ing by sending a group of auto ™
ers to the Soviet Union and P0
this July.” “4

This is international solidaril
workers in the great cause of pe

This is the solidarity being 4
strated by Canadian organized
in its growing participation ™
leadership of the most momey
peace struggle of today: 1
peace to the heroic peoples of 5
china, to end this monstrous U:
gression, with its latest deg!
the murderous use of plastic? d
anti-personnel bombs. i.

Woodcock spoke for the uAW. i,
the Canadian Labor Congress ™
voice for an end to the U.S,
Indochina — raise it for peace
arity with the organized
with the peace forces of all col

Fire Otto Lang!

The prime minister of Canadh
one-time professor of law a?
libertarian, who never wearles ap
ing of his dedication to the Prat
that all citizens are equal bet? pl
law, that none should be the we ly?
discrimination, should immedl@ gf
lieve his cabinet of the noxious P*
of Justice Minister Otto Lang: ‘od

This arch-racist has just rule
no disciplinary action is to ‘je
against the federally appointé f
in Sudbury who slanderously 7
to an Indian appearing in his
“just another stupid Indian, Ona Ws
we already have too many ?
country.” vf

The Canadian Indians, like then
brothers in the North, have bet
centuries-old victims of the a y
baric exploitation and discr!™ acl,
The racist treatment. still Pas
against them by employers ® 5, @
ernments alike is a foul blot
country and its democratic pee

For his whitewashing 0 t In
bury judge’s vile attack on thé
people of Canada, the justice,,, p
Should himself be “disciplined ip
moval from his responsibiliti€>
government.

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