ARAFAT GREETS USSR SUPPORT
MOSCOW — Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian Liberation
Organization said that “the Soviet Union is the loyal and sincere
tiend of the Arab people,” in an interview here. Nov. 27. Arafat and
jtther PLO representatives were in the Soviet capital for talks with

OViet leaders.

Arafat spoke about the gains won by the Palestinian people in
the United Nations debate on Palestine, particularly UN recognition
‘f the Palestinians’ right to self-determination and the granting of
Fermanent Observer status to the PLO.

' “And here in Moscow;’ he said, “I would. once again like to
‘peat my words of deep gratitude to the Soviet Union and to the
Other socialist countries and the non-aligned countries, to all those

Who took our‘side in this just and difficult struggle.”

The Palestine Liberation Or-
ization, condemning hijack-
& and hostage-taking as trea-
jn, announced Nov. 27 the
rest of 26 people suspected of
Involvement in last week's hi-
| Cking of a British Airways’ jet.
‘He suspects are members of
e@ previously unknown Group
Martyr Ahmed Abdel-Hafour,
; ich thas declared responsibil-
Y for the hijacking. The PLO
@Ns to hold a public trial to
“Cide upon the necessary pun-
Shment for the suspects.

The four men who actually did
€ hijacking are now in cus-
lody in Tunisia, where the plane
linded, and the PLO is asking
that country’s government to
Urn the men over for trial.

It is felt by PLO leaders that
ie hijacking was a challenge to
€ir position as official repre-

1 TORONTO — Immediately fol-
“Swing the Dec. 2 municipal
“lection, John Bizell, chairman,
““‘etro Committee of the Com-
Nunist Party of Canada and also
‘candidate in Toronto’s Ward 7,
Bsued the following statement
“an analysis of the election
Tesults. :
','m the face of a concerted
Ve by big business, through
ai Mass medid, to oust progres-
ho reform-minded aldermen
M city hall, the electorate of
te Toronto showed a mind
fits own; The drive to the right
stemmed.

ene composition of the new
| We and borough councils des-
le a few changes remained

sentially the same in its poli-
to composition. The main out-
pre of Monday’s vote is that

© electorate protected the
nces they made in the 1972

dva

PLO arrests 26

in hijacking terror

sentative of the Palestinian peo-
ple. The incident occurred one
week after PLO leader Yasser
Arafat spoke to the United Na-
tions General Assembly © on
behalf of Palestinians, and the
PLO was granted observer
status in the UN.

All Arab states have con-
demned the hijacking as being
contradictory to the principles of
the Palestinian revolution and
harmful to the Palestinian cause.
The hijackers had asked Arab
states for asylum, but were
turned down’ by all. They are
now seeking asylum in Tunisia.

PLO representative in Beirut,
Shafiq Al-Hout declared that the
PLO would attempt to .stop
future events, saying: ‘““We are
not a state, and if we become a
state, it is not good for us to
begin by setting up a prison.”

election against a concerted ef-
fort by reacting to turn back the
clock.

For many years the Commun-
jst Party of Canada has advanc-
ed the concept of alliances for
democratic civic advance as
essential to breaking the hold of
big business on municipal af-
fairs. This concept was once
again put forward by Commun-
ist candidates during this elec-
tion — a civic alliance with a
realistic program for civic ad-
vance. There are signs that this
idea has struck a _ responsive
chord among: left and progres-
sive candidates. The degree to
which such an alliance and such
a program can be forged, will
be the measure of advance that
the working people of Metro
Toronto can make in the next

two years.

Kogan wins

in York's Ward 2 .

TORONTO — Oscar Kogan, a
progressive who campaigned on
the slogan, “The people deserve a
people’s representative’ won the
aldermanic seat York’s Ward 2.

Kogan, who received a large
vote among Italian workers and
from the Ratepayers Association,
was chairman of the Borough of
York Board of Education and had
served as a school trustee for
eight years. In his campaign lit-
erature, which was printed in
English, Italian, Portuguese,
Greek, Ukrainian and Hungarian,
he stressed the need to bring

_ Jobs sacrificed
to monopoly’s

recession Crisis

The question of jobs has climbed high
on the agenda for Canadian workers.
How to cope with the increasing lavoffs,
the lingering long-term unemployment,
the mounting total of jobless across the
country, requires serious answers.

A big daily now carries a column
called Layoffs and Cutbacks covering
USA and Canada, headlined by auto

OSCAR KOGAN

school issues to the municipal
council.

“School taxes should not be
the responsibility of the munici-
pal taxpayer,” he said after the
election. “The province should
pay them.”

Kogan, who manages the print
shop where the Tribune is print-
ed has pledged himself to fight
for the establishment of a ‘“‘ren-
tal review board” in the borough
to protect tenants from greedy
landlords. “I‘m looking forward
to council work,” he said, “in
order to raise issues of concern
to the working people of the
borough.”

Aldermanic

e
campaigns
TORONTO — Eleanor Bro,
who ran as the tenants’ candi-
date in Toronto‘s Ward 2, told

GUDREWS

fa ly weet&

a

the Tribune that the 1,192 votes
she received in her bid for an

.aldermanic seat on city council

was a solid expression of her
work in the Ward.

The battle for votes in the
election was particularly bitter
in the West Lodge Apartments,
where Ms. Bro and the Parkdale
Tenants’ Association had organ-
ized the tenants. Phil Wynn, the
infamous. landlord of the build-
ings told Bro campaign workers
during the campaign that “Bro
wouldn’t get more than two
votes in the- whole building.
Wynn, who campaigned openly
for the right-wing candidates,
O’Donohue and Negridge, was
proven wrong when Bro topped
that poll with 136 votes.

John Bizzell, who ran in Tor-
onto’s Ward 7 and who was re-
cognized as a Communist
throughout the campaign said
that he was pleased with his
vete and “was happy that the
well-financed and_ reactionary

. campaign of Stamm failed to win

the support of the voters in the
Ward.”

“To some _ degree,”
said, “my program did move out
the forces and the issues that
otherwise would not have been
discussed.” He also said that he
would continue to work on com-
munity issues in the Ward
around municipal issues and try
to increase the vote for the Com-
munist Party.

Pat Case, running in Toronto’s

_ Ward 4, was pleased with the

533 vetes he received and said
Continued on page 10

Bizzell _

plants, but spreading out to part sup-
pliers and reaching foods, electrical,
forest products, and others.
Undoubtedly this will be in the minds
of Messrs. Trudeau and Ford, who will
be meeting as this appears in print.
What about jobs? It’s the question
that has always been valid in the sys-
tem of state monopoly capitalism,

where giant monopolies manipu-
late governments for their own
ends.

Answers to the problem of
jobs must be’ both short and long
range, many of the measures re-
quired are embodied in the de-
mands of trade unionists — in-
cluding those increasing num-
bers who want their leadership
to act more boldly, to shake

-loose from their fear of rocking

the boat. And in the long view,
more workers are looking to
working-class politics — which
consistently fights the system
that sacrifices jobs and living
standards to its own built-in
crises.

Headlines in the daily press
shallowly reflect the meaning of
more layoffs, more disappearing
jobs, fewer openings for young
people. What answers have we

had? Layoffs and newspaper
rantings against the trade
unions.

U.S. economist John K. Gal-
braith predicted in an interview
Dec. 2 that “sometime next year,
President Ford will . . . resort to
(wage and price) controls.” This
is what the Conservatives in
Canada campaigned for in the

. federal election. Yes, Labor Min-

ister Munro had to admit during
October, that, “In general, I
think labor has some catching
up to do... there has been an
erosion of the real purchasing
power of wages as a result of

inflation.”
Economists throughout the
capitalist world are offering jit-
tery explanations, but still infla-
tion mounts, unemployment
Continued on page 10

Native Peoples

Embassy charge
lax leadership

OTTAWA — A contingent of
approximately 50 people from
the Native People’s Embassy oc-
cupied the National Indian Bro-
therhood offices, 130 Albert St.,
on Nov. 26. The same afternoon
representatives of both groups
met to talk about the issues.

A spokesman from the Native -

People’s Embassy described
their position to the Tribune re-
porter as “pressuring our lead-
ers here because they are all
tied up with government affairs
and not taking care of their peo-
ple.” They intended occupying
the offices until the N.I.B. met
some demands and were expect-
ing another group from the
North Shore of Quebec and
more Caravans.

The spokesman _ explained
their aim as “a struggle for both
of us to work together.” The
main demand is for support for
the spiritual conference coming
up — “Many more people will
be coming in and they have to
be fed.”

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