i ee to this photo, taken in Kamyanets-Buzky in the Ukraine to the eid of. 1941 when nazi Germany's armies were marching candida of the Soviet Union, the political career of at least ats Cate for Canada’s Parliament began overseas over 30 i 99 in Hitler's service. D. Kupiak, identified as second on the © Photo, is the Conservative choice in Toronto-Lakeshore. Nuebec’s strike ban | threat to all labor ) The. “A Sta tired Executive of the Communist Party of Canada issued FOnte in which it “protests strongly the reactionary stance _ Strike oto Quebec Bourassa Liberal government in dealing with LThe Jeo: Over 200,000 public service workers.” Pessive a lation adopted by the Quebec National Assembly is op- fe Worker: 8 legislation of a nature that deprives the public ser- },Stitutes Eze! their right to strike, the statement declares. It netic Bet ur attack on the right to strike as a fundamental demo- Ne econo of all workers in both the public and private sectors of f ; ie Not only in Quebec, but throughout all of Canada. : BP hoo advanced by the workers in Quebec of an 8% ~ NOst ie Plus a weekly $100 minimum wage, are not exorbitant jp! and Bee onable in face of rising living costs. The big indus- bec Cit Mmercial monopolies and government policies, both at sh Mploym., and Ottawa, are responsible for inflation..and mass i ee It is the deliberate government policy of subsidiz- Nd not th Monopoly profits which is responsible for rising taxes, some mac sitimate demands of the workers for a living wage ine fasure, of job securitys. iq) SUpport’ the Québec workers,” the statement con- ‘We. ‘ eo in aaeiest against’ your law of the bludgeon, dictated by the Otkers , Walists, to stifle the democratic right of all Quebec Wi Vi to prevent them from winning their just demands. Your porously struggle to offer the workers a real alternative h ernment, whose latest actions smack of neo-fascism— Ww Can represent the workers and the nation, a mass : Orkersg’ party.” May Day Greetings From Association of United Ukrainian Canadians FORT WILLIAM BRANCHES 203 Ogden St., Thunder Bay, Ont. by Bruce Magnuson May Day, born in the struggle for a shorter workday in Amer- ica nearly a century ago, will this year mark a new and higher stage of working-class struggle in North America. In conditions of technological change, advanc- ed productivity, layoffs and mass unemployment, the struggle for shorter hours is again becoming one of the main objectives to- ward the attainment of job se- curity. In conditions of the 1970's, however, the battle against class oppression is on a much advanced historic and poli- tical level, and of unprecedented scope and complexity. Today: imperialism, as an eco- nomic, social and political sys- tem based on national and class oppression, is mortally — sick. Faced by the growing size, influ- ence ‘and power of the working class and its new socialist world system, monopoly capitalism seeks to prolong its agonizing existence by strike-breaking, re- pression and neo-colonial wars for raw materials, markets and monopoly profits. In short, it seeks to turn history back to recapture old positions and old intiatives. Unable to solve its own inner contradictions, the ruling class resorts to various schemes to put the blame for all its ills on the working class, and to make labor pay the cost of keeping the monopolies and their govern- ments in power. For this purpose | it resorts to adventurist political manoeuvring and brainwashing - propaganda to hoodwink the public. Appropriating «for themselves the benefits of the new tech- nology and increased productiv- ity, the monopolies at the same time seek to restrict the income of those who work to produce all the wealth and provide all the services in our society. Mono- poly-rigged prices and govern- ment controls of wages become weapons in the hands of big business to rob the people. Dis- criminatory taxation policies place the heaviest. tax burden on the working people. The policies of monopoly, and of governments representing monopoly interests, come into direct confrontation with . the needs of the people. Because of the nature of our modern so- ciety and its ever-growing need LABOR SCENE Public employees picked first target of monopoly for more and more costly social services, the governments be- come large employers of labor. While the bénefits of all these services are made fullest use of by monopoly capital, invested in industry and business for private gain, the costs of these services are made a charge upon society as a whole, with the working people paying the major share. As. ever broader strata. of working people become involved in the collective bargaining pro- cess and the workers in public and civil services gain-the right to strike, it is becoming increas- ingly clear that this particular area of struggle becomes the fo- cal point for the sharpening class conflict. The strike of over 200,000 public service workers in Que- bec provides a good lesson in tactics employed by govern- ments. First the workers are granted bargaining rights, in- cluding the right to strike with- out which bargaining becomes meaningless. But then the gov- ernment refuses to bargain, which makes a strike inevitable. When this happens, a barrage of propaganda is let loose about es- sential services, along with in- timidation of workers and court’ injunctions to force workers back on the job. When the workers defy the back-to-work orders they be- come subject to impossible fines and vicious jail sentences. There is not the slightest doubt that the employees in the public sector of our economy have been singled out: as the guinea pigs for experimentation in union-busting and _strike- breaking. The reason is obvious. The in- convenience of a strike in a pub- lic service or institution makes the strikers vulnerable to at- tack and unscrupulous propa- ganda aimed at turning the pub- lic against the people who are on strike. The fact that the tax- payers may be called upon to pay any increase.in wages or salaries, makes the situation even more complicated. In the course of the ensuing propagan- da war, the justice of the work- ers’ claims is totally forgotten. While the Quebec general strike is the most: outstanding current example of such a strug- gle in Canada, it can be seen in repetition and at various stages across Canada. The federal gov- ernment has deliberately and for a long time enforced an unoffi- cial wage freeze on employees in its institutions by means of a cynical refusal to bargain in good faith, forcing workers to strike over long periods. It is happening in -British Columbia, in Nova Scotia and in Metro- politan Toronto in Ontario. Speaking to an Empite Club Club luncheon in Toronto on April 20, the former Ontario Pre- ‘mier John P. Robarts, sought to resurrect the long repudiated Rand Royal Commission report on labor disputes as a means of dealing with strikes in the pub- lic services, which in the words of Robarts are “directed against the total society.” There is unquestionably a challenge here for the whole trade union movement in Canada which must be faced up to by solidarity and action to beat back the unscrupulous attack of monopoly and governments on the whole working class. To meet this challenge calls for action along the whole front of collective. bargaining for a four-day 32-hour week with in- creased take home pay, job se- curity and a guarantee against layoffs, with no more singling out of women as the objects of special exploitation in our public services, and no restriction of the right to strike in public ser- vices or anywhere else. As far as tax increases are concerned, the answer to that is a basic reform of the tax system so that working people do not have to pay the whole shot, as they do now. Taxation based on ability to pay means that the corporate giants must pay their fair share, along with the specu- lators and profiteers. In other words, what we need is a com- plete about-turn in economic and social policies, leading us in the direction of a fundamental reorganization of our system along socialist lines. May Day 1972, must record this need, along with a firm re- solve to bring about the kind of united action of the political left within the working class that will heal the split and make the united working class master of its own destinies. a MAY DAY GREETINGS y FROM y United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America LOCAL 524 PETERBOROUGH, ONT. 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