Canadian workers are standing stronger
than ever against class oppression, carrying
forward with honor both recent struggles like
Sudbury steel, postal workers, public service,
and an honor roll of others, and labor’s
pitched battles of years gone by against the
ruthless corporations and their bought
governments.

Canada’s Chrysler workers are today show-
ing the courage and working-class tenacity
that can move the labor movement foreward
in its struggle to protect past gains and take
_ the share of values produced which rightfully
belong to the workers.

Quebec’s magnificent united front of
220,000 public workers, who have completed
a 24-hour strike against the Levesque
government's theft from legally-won con-
tracts, deserves the Canada-wide backing of
100% of workers.

Anything less than these bold, justified ac-
tions, no more than humane from the point
of view of challenged working-class families,
would fail to answer the onslaught on work-
ing people by the monopolies and their inces-
tuous government companions.

The Ford workers’ decision to double their
union dues for the duration of the Chrysler
strike to back their union brothers and sisters
should be an example to be duplicated a
thousand times. It should be raised on the
floor of every meeting of workers.

_ There is another aspect. Every Canadian,

_ whatever his or her position, has reason to

resent the insult against our country by
-Chrysler’s Iacocca.
In obscene allegiance to the U.S. head-

Every worker, every thinking person, who
is not caught in the propaganda net of world
imperialism has the advantage of being free
to evaluate the anniversaries currently being
celebrated by workers and progressive mil-
lions the world over. These anniversaries are,
_ in the first place, the joyous landmarks of the
Soviet people, on which are showered the
congratulations of the socialist community of
states, and millions in the developing and
capitalist countries. :

_ took’ place in Russia, establishing the power

of the workers, peasants and soldiers, and
freeing from bondage and exploitation more
~ than 100 nationalities of the former Russian
- empire. In December 1922 the Union of
_ Soviet Socialist Republics was formed, follow-

Flashbacks

25 years
PUSH A BUTTON

_ The political party that promised sovereign power

over Canada’s military formations and stumped the
hustings on a platform of the supremacy of Parliament
is found wanting.

The Progressive Conservatives are beating a hasty
retreat as they come under attack for continuing the
Liberal policy of surrendering command over Cana-
da’s armed forces to a foreign power.

- Defence Minister Pearkes has said the continental
air defence command is headed by U.S. Lt-Gen. Earl
Partridge who simply has to “push a button” to send
Canadian aircraft into action. This will be done at
NORAD headquarters at Colorado Springs and Par-
tridge confirmed the procedure later in a magazine
interview. Despite Pearkes’ protest that Canada would
be consulted, U.S. command says Canada would be
committed before consultation was completed.

Tribune,
November 18, 1957
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 19, 1982—Page 4

In November 1917 the socialist revolution

All-out support to strikers!

‘they don’t count. After the corporation has’

quarters of the Chrysler multi-national, this
“answering service” told Canadian workers

dealt with its U.S. workers, it may allow its
generosity to trickle down to Canada.

No way, said Canadian auto workers leader
Bob White; and Chrysler workers back that
position fully.

The two strikes referred to, Chrysler in
Ontario and, in Quebec, hospital workers,
teachers, school maintenance workers plus
civil service workers and nurses outside the
common front, defend more than dollars.
They defend labor’s principles and labor's
hard-won rights — and these, however haras-
sed temporarily, labor will never give up! The
bosses and the bosses’ governments should
learn that.

Escalating Cruise battle

While details filter in on the referenda on
nuclear.disarmament, indications are that in
those communities “permitted” to express an
opinion on nuclear disarmament, voters,
overwhelmingly, said “yes” — stop producing
nuclear mass murder weapons and start the
process of disarmament!

That, evidently is not the end of the fight.
The Cruise missile is a nuclear weapon. It can
turn every submarine in the seas into a nu-
clear sub because it’s built to fit standard tor-
pedo tubes! It is built to evade radar and
subject populations to choking and burning
radiation death on a mass scale. And the
Canadian Government wants the USA to test
it on Canadian territory.

Two workers’ anniversaries

ing civil war and intervention by more than
20 countries’ armies, including those of
Canda and the USA.

This year the Soviet people, and those who
wish them well in their program for peace,
rising standards, and the building of
communism, mark the 65th anniversary of
the Great October Socialist Revolution —
Ten Days that Shook the World — and the
60th anniversary of the founding of their
new state.

Rejecting the false propaganda of the
would-be nuclear warriors, the anti-
Sovieteers, the extremists of an obsolete sys-
tem, we join with the preponderance of hu-
manity in greeting these anniversaries which
are guarantees for the working people of a
future of peaceful fulfillment.

50 years
REMEMBRANCE DAY 1932

Reports are that in many cities units of the Workers’
Ex-Servicemen’s League will participate in the cus-
tomary Remembrance Day ceremonials and carry slo-
gans to expose the jingoistic propaganda employed.

Remembrance Day is supposed to commemorate
the deaths of millions of workers who gave their lives
in the last great imperialist slaughter. It is actually used
to foster militaristic sentiments and prepare workers
to go forth and fight for capitalism in the next great
war. :

The League will point to the hypocrisy of the boss
class which weeps crocodile tears over the dead while it
starves the living veterans of the “great war”. They
build memorials and cover them with wreaths while
cutting down relief and pension allowances for dis-
abled veterans who are unemployed. The majority of
veterans are today without work.

- The Worker,
November 12, 1932

MacEachen, has the effrontery to tell Cana~

‘Marathon? Nah. A dozen jobs opened up across town.”’

This outrage has to be stopped. Yet, the |
Minister of External Affairs, Allam

dians who want peace, not a nuclear holo-
caust, that their opinions, their demonstra-
tions, mean nothing. He has sold Canada out
to the Pentagon and we'll suffer the con-
sequences on his orders.

That kind of suicidal order is not accept-—
able. The fight to keep the Cruise testing out |
of Canada will not end until the traitorous |
acts of the Canadian Government are stop-_
ped; and Canada’s dedication to world dis-
armament is correctly expressed.

For Brascan Ltd., business was down for the nine months
ended Sept. 30. Revenue ws only $177.5-million and profit
a mere $36.1-million compared with $183.1-million fF
venue and $77.4-million profit in the same months a yea
earlier. Looks like shareholders will have to tighten theif

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CHEERS SEDITIOUS

The Worker Business Manager Trevor McGuire f
now resting behind the walls of Toronto's Don ju
having been found guilty on a charge of sedition at
ing out of a speech at Queen’s Park.

The offending speech, presented through the ey

of a police reporter (a euphonious term to describe * |
stool-pigeon) consisted of a number of disjointed sé
tences, some of which McGuire declared he W4
pleased to give, others which he denies knowledge of

His criticisms of the British Empire were decla
justified by the judge who said that the British Co
stitution was the greatest piece of political camoufla
that ever existed.

The real cause for the annoyance of the prosecul
was that the prisoner in his speech called for “Th
cheers for the Third International!”

The Wor!
November 15,