| CPC STATEMENT

“Alvan pple

“Now that the Government is
committed to the construction
of a pipeline, two questions re-
main unanswered. Will it be an
all Canadian pipeline? Will it be

publicly owned?,”
Communist Party in a _ state-
ment of its Central Executive
Committee under the signature
of William Kashtan, leader.

The statement continues:

“There must be no equivoca-
tion about it being an all Can-
adian- pipeline with an all Can-
adian route. This is the way to
ensure complete Canadian con-
trol from the source of oil and
gas to its destination in any
part of Canada. This is the only
way to ensure security and con-
tinuity of supply.

“There must be no equivoca-
tion either that it should be
publicly owned, for that is the
way to ensure Canadian control.

-“To hand over the pipeline to

the multi-national corporations, ’

as previous governments have
done with respect to oil and gas,
would be to compound the sell-
out which characterized the
Ottawa Valley oil line of the
Diefenbaker Government and
the continentalist policy of
Liberals and

asked the -

Conservatives -

alike. This same continentalist
policy is being pursued today
by the Lougheed Government in
Alberta, with respect to the
Athabasca tar sands, a policy
which the federal Conservatives
support. Premier Lougheed
claims to speak for Alberta and
for Canada. He does neither.
He speaks for the multi-national
oil corporations.

“Canada does not need a
Nixon continentalist line to re-
place the Diefenbaker line.
What it needs is a _ publicly
owned all-Canadian line and an
all-Canadian route as an in-
tegral part of a fully integrated
all Canadian energy policy
based on Canadian control and
public ownership of energy de-
velopment and means of distri-
bution.

“This has been the consistent
demand of the Communist Party
over the past number of years.
The blackout of this position by
the mass media has cost the
Canadian people dearly. It will
cost them even more until
agreement is reached that the
needs of Canada and her people
must be placed ahead of the
foreign multi-national corpora-
tions and their insatiable drive
for maximum profits.”

Does CUPE's program
pose real alternative

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strong and principled stand for
a united, independent and
sovereign trade union move-
ment, in one labor congress.
The resolution on the CLC
called on CUPE to embark on a
program of reform and revita-
lization to prevent further
breaches of faith on the part of

the CLC. It also called for full .

mobilization of CUPE for the
May, 1974 convention of the
CLC” at which time we will put
forth every effort in having the
program adopted. Failure to
succeed in this program will
serve as automatic direction and
authority for the National Ex-
ecutive Board on behalf of the
members of CUPE to withdraw
from the CLC.”

A preliminary program draft-

-ed by the senior officers of

CUPE, the Canadian Brother-
hood of Railway, Transport and
General Workers and the Pub-
lic Service Alliance of Canada
was distributed prior to the de-
debate on the policy resolution
in connection with the CLC.
Basically, it contained five
points:

A. Minimum standards for all
trade unions, to be enforced by
the CLC as a condition of af-
filiation.

B. Members of international
unions in Canada to have con-
trol over their union’s policies,
finances, services and elections
of officers. :

C. Rationalize the trade
union movement in Canada by
creating fewer, but more effec-
tive unions, Directly chartered
CLC locals to cease to exist
after a given time.

D. More co-ordination at the
national and international level
to meet the challenge of the

’ multi-national corporations.

E. The CLC machinery to

' be reorganized so as to give

more specialized assistance. to
affiliates. scets

~ «PACIFIC TRIBUNE-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1973-—PAGE‘10.,

Accept Viable Union

While these points have merit
separately, together they hardly
represent a program that will
inspire a new upsurge in the
ranks of Canadian labor. In
fact, the main emphasis is on
structure rather than policy.

Little struck an encouraging
note when he told the delegates
that it was too late to reverse
the decision on the three prov-
incial government employees’
associations, that CUPE would
be satisfied if the CLC created
a viable national union of pro-
vincial employees that CUPE
could live with.

Claude Edwards of the PSAC,
while pledging support for
CUPE, made it clear he was
against withdrawing from the
CLC. He also called for such
“progressive reforms” as volun-
tary arbitration and cooperation
with. the employers along the
lines of the United Steelwork-
ers in the USA in which the
leadership sold the steelworkers
down the river in one of the
worst sweetheart deals in the
history of U.S. labor.

Among the more positive de-
sions of the convention was the
rescinding of the anti-commu-
nist clause in the CUPE consti-
tution.

There is no doubt that many
active members in the trade
movement, both in Canadian ~
and international unions, will be
studying the program as it is
further elaborated. Will it really
offer the kind of policies re-
quired to revitalize the trade
union movement, or will it
merely -be a pressure play in the
fight for jurisdiction and posi-
tions on the executive council
of the CLC? To a great extent,
this will depend on the degree
to which the search for dynamic
policy is opened up to much
wider circles than a few senior
officers of a small circle of
unions.

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Canada allows entry

to Chilean refugees
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was a large advertisement in
the Globe and Mail for Decem-
ber 1, signed by hundrdeds of
prominent trade unionists, aca-
demics, church, political. and
community __ leaders,’ headed,
“Canada! Act Now to save

lives.” The ad calls on the gov-
ernment to waive immigration
proceedures in an immediate
humanitarian act and to in-
struct the Embassy in Santiago
to “take initiatives to free and
protect those trapped in prison
or seeking refuge from ‘hot
pursuit’ by the authorities of
this brutal regime. It also
asked that Canadian universi-
ties, schools and employers re-
spond in this emergency with
“jobs, tuition, homes and sup-
port for these refugees,” arid
appealed for contributions .to
the Canadian Fund for Refugees
from Chile.

By FILS DELISLE

BERLIN—West Germany and
the German Democratic Repub-
lic these days dramatically sym-
bolize the dislocations shaking
up the capitalist world and the
unceasing march of progress In
the socialist world.

As the so-called energy crisis
expanded in all developed capi-
talist countries, the opposite
trends in the two world systems
could clearly be seen by all open-
eyed observers in Bonn and
Berlin. :

In the capitalist Federal Re-
public of Germany, fourth larg-
est industrial power in the world,
storm signals were flying and
government leaders were forced
to confess that behind the im-
mediate energy crisis there stalk-
ed the spectre of broadly ex-
panding economic crisis. In the
GDR on the other hand, life con-
tinued normally, industry was
engaged in its usual year-end
spurt to overfulfill planned goals,
and a continued and planned rise
in national prosperity in the
coming year was doubted by no
one.

In the FRG, Chancellor Willi
Brandt had to warn that the
country faced not only a short-
age of oil but growing hardships
and a difficult winter.

Best Winter to Date

In the GDR, no matter what
stresses and strains industrial
growth might place on the ener-
gy system in the cold months
ahead, the coming winter will

Labor body tells CBC — |

face up to bargaining

OTTAWA — Donald Mac-
Donald, president of the Can-
adian Labour Congress, called
upon the Canadian Broad-
casting Corporation Nov. 27,
to begin bargaining in good
faith with its employees. The
Corporation, presently in ne-
gotiations with the The News-
paper Guild, has “failed to
face up to its responsibilities
as an employer,” Mr. Mac-
Donald said.

“The CBC management
bargaining team has come to
an agreement with the union
concerned on two separate
occasions, only to have the
understanding reneged on
by top management. This
kind of autocratic behavior
is unfortunately becoming all
too common in public em-

probably be the best enjoyed by
people here to date.

In the FRG, Finance Minister
Helmut Schmidt, a hard-shelled

‘social democratic rightwinger,

openly declared that the energy
crisis was only a harbinger of
what was coming, namely, a de-
cline in production, unemploy-
ment, lowered productvity and a
lower standard of living. In the
GDR, the planned socialist pro-

‘gram called for the maintaining

of a high level increase in pro-
ductivity achieved this year,
continuation of the production
program which had made pos-
sible a 10% increase in indus-
trial goods sales, and greater
national income.
’ In the FRG, the trade union
organization DGB declared:
“Pensioners (in West Germany)
and lower income groups are al-
ready living with fear that this
winter can turn out to be cata-
strophic for them.” In the GDR,
people were beginning to think
of a merry Christmas, of shop-
ping for holidays, of year-end
bonuses, at their places of work.
In Berlin, the spirit of the sea-
son was symbolized by opening
of the traditional new Christmas
Market Fair for children in the
city as a vast centre, a giant
month-long tevelry with tombo-
las, merry-go-rounds, 150 kiosks
selling hot sausages, and all
kinds of gift shops.

In the FRG, on top of “nor-
mal” skyrocketing of rents and
consumer goods prices, prices

civil rights of citizens.

CP headquarters bombed

TORONTO — Anti-Communist terrorists apparently were
prepared to take lives as well as cause extensive property
damage when they attempted to burn down the head-
quarters of the Communist Party of Canada in a fire-bomb
“attack on the evening of Nov. 27.

The attackers missed the front window with bottles of ex-
plosive liquid and it is mere coincidence that neither the
building proper nor the caretaker’s quarters was occupied
at the time. Flames from the explosive thrown by the fas-
cist hooligans, an antic previously engaged in by the West-
ern Guard, blackened the brick

Trade unionists at a meeting in the Steelworkers’ building
across the street saw the flames and David Martin, a Steel
staff rep, notified the fire department. Others had called
his attention to the fire, he said, and “when I turned around,
flames were engulfing the window. What it looked like was
a fire bomb,” he said. Mr. Martin then went to telephone
the fire department, who put the time at 9:07 p.m., and
when he returned the fire was out.

The Communist Party has on other occasions called for
greater police diligence in apprehending those guilty and
putting a stop to such violent attacks on the political and

s at the top of two windows.

.their employers,

ployee bargaining, ‘and serves
a oor Spe to private
ndustry Of a collectiv
gaining System, ie
‘The Guild, bargaining in
good faith, availed itself of
the federal government’s new
labor legislation and appeared
before a federally appointed
conciliation commissioner in
an effort to reach an agree-
ment. Their efforts have been
sabotaged by the top manage-

ment in the Corporation on

two occasions. The G
continually shown thei aa
ingness _to negotiate a fair -
and equitable agreement with
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been reflected by the mee

ment of the CBC»
Donald said, °°? Mi Mac-

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