Cure i —— tage eek Move we rm SR MEYLL DESERVE RA SPACE WHEN hile counts its gains h;, telling facts are includ- New €xcellent article in the * 1971 World Marxist », entitled, “Chile: First iy, OPUlar Government.” \ them are new measures : oad contributed to the Ree UNE of the Popular , tinimum wage in Chile ij teased 66%; price con- /8ve been instituted and my S€ in living costs has ha Sharply decelerated. “ g Sing power is up 30% {sumption ‘up 20%. in nmodation is up 18% in iY Schools, 3.4% in ele- yay and 26.8% in second- Reg POOls with 1,800 more {le pons to’ be made avail- igs the end of 1971. 14, Ships will be increas- ing, 20% to 60,000. More theres as been allocated for My cs now ° open — to vere and their children. ky Sity enrolment is up Nyy The government has ‘tin Control of Zig-Zag pub- > COMpany which will t poublication of progres- Oks and cheaper text- Np 8. ‘w Pairs of shoes and ‘tg dantities of school sup- j lire Cibuted free to school in oe 1,800,000 lunches fi, 000 dinners provided fr, Plus a half-litre of milk Nay tY child. Vig Mortality from disen- My down 28%. Workers Ny employed now receive hy ™@dical care and medi- Nate Under the National Xin Service. Dental treat- Ne ard first aid are like- Ng and coal mining have ationalized and, having a; Pacific ine “Sey, Second closs mail registration number 1560. acquired the stock of Acero del Pacifico and Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Chile has started a large-scale metal- lurgical industry. Former mon- opoly-owned textile mills and a number of food industries are now under government control as is cement produc- tion. The government is tak- ing over trade in manufac- tured goods, liquid gas and oil products. Foreign trade is listed for nationalization — the state will supervise im-’ ports of industrial equipment and other goods formerly monopolized by North Ameri- can and British concerns. e More than half the banks have been , through purchase of their stock. The state now controls 70% of banking assets. The government is now in a posi- tion to restructure the entire credit system and provide more money for agriculture cooperatives, state enterpris- es, small and medium busi- nesses. All credits are being granted at lower interest rates to promote national pro- duction. e More than 1,000 estates to- talling 2 million hectares have been expropriated. A National Peasant Council on which peasant trade unions are re- presented has been set up. To more. fully appreciate what these changes mean 1n a Latin American country, com- pare these facts, a result of only one year of people’s PONS with the chilling story at monopoly-controlled Venezuela on page 9 of this issue acne zuela, the Black Gold Civiliza tion.” Editor—MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bidg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 €. Hastings St., “ncouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST : Subscription Rote: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six mays Ali and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one’ year. other Countries, $7.00 one year nscoterererecelersytetstatetstatenenececes SS aE nationalized No police state laws! When it comes to repressive legisla- tion, to the use of force against the people, what difference is there between the Prime Minister of Canada and any strike-breaking boss? None. The boss uses force—paid goons, scab agencies, wiretapping, the police club, the whole stinking mess of anti-labor legislation—in his attempts to destroy the workers’ right to strike. His profits come out of the workers’ sweat—no- where else—and when the workers strike for wages, against speedup, for 4 decent standard of living, the boss moves all hell to smash them. And Mr. Trudeau? On Nov. 8 in Lauzon, Quebec he stat- ed that his government is preparing new repressive legislation. In press con- ference questioning he admitted his willingness to adopt even a law like the French 1970 “anti-casseurs” statute. = This monstrous “anti-troublemaker law provides jail sentences of one to five years for all who organize or par- ticipate in demonstrations previously declared “illegal” -by the state. And if violence or property damage occurs during such a demonstration—hey ! see that police provocateur throwing a wc: by-four through that bank window !— then each and every demonstrator is i to jail sentencing. dehy ae the government of Canada intend to introduce—“worked out with the opposition,” as Mr. Trudeau hopes —legislation aimed to crush demoera- tic and civil rights in our country: The official answer is—to put down “eivil disorders,” and that means to crush any protest, any dissenting opin- Ly aoe now? The working people know why. It’s because, ravaged already by unemploy- ment that this winter will become worse than ever, with jobs disappear- ing and plants closing, the forces of labor are fighting back on an increas- ing scale against the onslaught of Cana- dian monopoly and U.S. imperialism. The historic unity of organized labor in Quebec in October 1970 against the War Measures Act and the military oc- cupation of that province set an iInspir- i ample. ine An is now, not tomorrow, for organized labor in all Canada, leading the great democratic forces of our country, to tell Trudeau: Hands off democratic and civil rights! No police state laws! Solidarity knows no protocol rotocol is for diplomats. Trade anne should scoff at it when the interests of workers are at stake. And ly they do. : ae the Grier Federation of Labor officers got themselves bogged down in it. deliberately or otherwise, last week. "The assurance Ontario Federation of Labor president Archer gave the feder- ation’s convention that a message of solidarity would be sent to the locked- out employees of La Presse in Mont- real boiled down to a message sent only to Louis Laberge, president of the . Quebec Federation of Labor, also part of the Canadian Labor Congress. The message was that “your cause is just.” Not that the message is unimportant. Laberge by his own assertion learned more on the night of the October 29 Montreal labor demonstration than he had in the previous 10 years, and he’s fighting today as a real labor leader should. But what’s called for—because the issue in Quebec’s labor struggle today is the right of workers to fight for their jobs—is recognition not simply that their cause is “just,” but that it is the struggle of all Canadian labor, with the Quebec workers in its vanguard at this critical moment. With the grain, not against it The irony of the news item could not have escaped the attention even of those so determined to remain blind as Messrs Stanfield and Diefenbaker of the fed- eral Tories and the bombastic Social Credit Premier Bennett of British Co- lumbia. Here they were, these cold war expo- nents, right after the historic visit of Soviet Premier Kosygin, fulminating and frothing against Canadian trade with the Soviet Union, against friend- ship and mutual exchange between ca- pitalist Canada and the socialist USSR. Then came the news from Washing- ton. The Associated Press last Saturday reported that the United States has concluded an agreement to sell the So- viet Union $186 million worth of U.S. feed grains—corn, barley, oats. Canada’s External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp also takes a realistic view of things. “In our economic poli- cies we should strive,’ he said this week, “to avoid unnecessary depen- dence upon the United States by pro- moting trade and financial links with the rest of the world.” He added that Canada must refuse to stay locked into cold-war attitudes that are fast losing their meaning. : Caught in the general crisis of im- perialism and the morass of its own bankrupt imperialist policies, the Unit- ed States by its sale of feed grains to the USSR has recognized the stability and strength of socialist economy. _ The most powerful and aggressive imperialist country has lifted its cold war ruling that east coast labor leaders have implemented for years—they have assured the loading of the grain ships. And not only U.S. ships will be the carriers, but vessels of any origin “of- fering competitive shipment rates.” What now Stanfield, Diefenbaker, Bennett? Will you agree that peaceful coexist- ence, that international cooperation through mutually beneficial trade and scientific and cultural exchanges be- tween countries with different econo- mic and socfal systems is not only pos- sible but essential? Well, whether you do or don’t, that’s - the way the Canadian people see the way to the future—and_not by the fir- ing up of cold war hatreds. ' PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1971—PAGE =}