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No trade-off

end wage controls

The growing political and
economic role of the bourgeois
state and governments go hand in
hand with the growth of
monopolies and concentration of
production and centralization of
capital. Their increasing. in-
volvement in managing affairs in
the interests of the big capitalist

are clearly visible at
both the federal and provincial
levels here in Canada today.

In a state-monopoly and
capitalist economic structure

such as ours, the public and pn- -

vate monopoly sectors are. not

parallel but profoundly interre-

lated processes that exert a most
imfluence upon each

powerful
_ other and show the close con-

nection between economics. and
politics. It is this privately owned

and contrelled economic struc

ture which forms the backdrop for
rising inflation and rising un-
employment.

It is the state-monopoly struc-
ture of the economy that enables
the powerful monopolies to con-

trol marketing and prices, while |

the government of each capitalist
nation uses the state power to
adapt monetary and fiscal policies
to serve the interests and the pro-
fit-greed of the capitalist
monopolies. All this is done at the
expense of the needs and interests
of the Canadian people, particu-
larly those who earn their living
by physical and mental labor.*
It is this situation which has
presented the working class with
new problems as it struggles to
defend living standards, jobs and
trade union rights. As economic
boom gives away to economic de-
cline, to rising inflation and un-
employment, the capitalist
monopolies seek to solve their
crisis at the expense of the work-
ing people. In the ensuing and in-
evitable fight-back the class
struggle takes on the form of a
rapidly rising strike movement,
while the corporate structure

seeks to use the state as the main
instrument through which to
pacify, resist and control the mass
pressure.

Class Struggle, a Fact

However, the class struggle is
an objective fact in our capitalist
society that cannot be eradicated.
No matter how hard politicians,
the news media, and other agents
of big business work to turn real-
ity up-side-down, their efforts are
doomed to failure. Even after al-
most two years of mandatory
wage controls, Canadian workers
remain defiant and once again are
interre- beginning to show a new wave of
resistance to corporate and gov-
ernment efforts to make them
bear the brunt of inflation and the
cost of capitalist crisis.

It is a bit strange, at the time of
deepening crisis of the private
profit system and of growing class
conflict throughout the capitalist
world, to hear the president of the
Canadian Labor Congress con-
templating a ‘‘wipe-out of two
centuries of conflict between
labor and business in this country.
Emerging from a tri-partite meet-
ing between government, big bus-
iness and labor in Ottawa last Ap-
ril, Joe Morris, however,
acknowledged ‘‘we are dealing

with serious problems and we.

have to take our time’’.

Asked later, whether labor
would be prepared for a trade-off
for an end to controls, Mr. Morris
replied he would consider all op-
tions *‘even those my head tells me
not to’’.

‘**But’’, as labor commentator
Wilfred List of the Globe and Mail
put it in his column last April 26th,
“the mission on which Mr. Mor-
ris has embarked is delicate and
sensitive. He cannot stray too far
ahead of his constituents’’.

Unacceptable Conditions

The conditions which the
Trudeau Government has ad-
vanced as a trade-off for an end to
controls are totally unacceptable

to the working class of this coun-
try. They would become instru-
ments of simply another form of
controls aimed to keep wage in-
creases well below increases in
the cost of living. Canadian work-
ing people will buy lower stan-
dards so that monopoly prices
and profits can continue to soar
with the aid of even more lavish
state subsidies.

It is to be noted that the Con-
federation of National Trade Un-
ions (CNTU) in Quebec has re-
jected the trade-off proposals and

will have no further talks with the

government until controls are
lifted unconditionally. At time of
writing, the CLC has yet to. an-

“nounce its stand on the Trudeau

Government’s proposals.

This would seem to be the time
for the trade union movement to
step out into the public arena with
a program for full employment,
backed up by a mass political ac-
tion campaign on a country-wide
scale.

Broad Coalition Needed

A broad coalition of all working
class and democratic forces, simi-
lar to that of last October, is
needed to impose an end to con-
trols, restore collective bargain-

ing, reverse economic policies ©

and provide a job with decent in-
come for every Canadian to live in
comfort and security.

Let labor’s voice ring out loud
and clear across Canada on
this Labor Day of 1977, for an
end to wage controls, for jobs and
the extension of workers’ rights
including a wider scope for collec-
tive bargaining. Demand a new
made-in-Canada constitution,
based on the right of self deter-
mination and a new pact of con-
federation to ensure the unity of
the working people of French and
English Canada. For an end to
national and racial oppression,
and for detente and disarmament
leading towards permanent world

peace.

An important civil rights issue

An Oshawa reader writes: ** The July

Concern over world disarmament is growing with the explosion of the
nuetron bomb, prompting more and more people in this country to sig” —
the Stockholm Peace Appeal. More than 300 million people havé
already signed the Appeal throughout the world—

Open sale of perversion
cause of child’s death

TORONTO ~— ‘‘We give our
full support to the efforts of
Mayor Crombie and other mem-
bers of the Toronto City Council
to clean up the Yonge street ‘Sin
Strip’, said Gareth Blythe, Metro
Organizer of the Communist Par-
ty. Commenting on the brutal
murder of the 12-year old Manuel
Jaques, he said “‘It is a shameful
indictment of the Provincial Gov-
ernment that a tragedy of this na-
ture has to happen before the
government even begins to
acknowledge the blight of the
Yonge ‘Strip’. Now that it has
happened, however, Premier
Davis owes an immediate com-
mitment to the people of Toronto
and, indeed, of all Ontario, to
clean up Yonge street once and
for all.’

Mr. Blythe added that a murder

on the ‘Strip’ was not uné
pected. ‘‘Just look at the placé

you have the open, storefront §
of sex, pornography and perv

sion. Is it any wonder that soft
one is murdered in a place

that?”’

He also noted that ‘‘it would
wrong to reduce what happe!
recently simply to the individu
involved or to think that the ¥
ues that produce places likes
‘Strip’ are’ restricted:
fly-by-night operators. The of
ducers of Playboy and Pentho
magazines (readily available
the corner store) are not any dil!
rent in their motives. Nor are ¥
giant TV corporations th!
capitalize on violence to atti
audiences. The whole matter’
sex and violence is big busine*

LoS ES

By ALFRED DEWHURST

ions, progressive organizations and 4

4 issue of the Canadian Tribune carries
an article on the Ed Ziemba case. The
article quotes the following from a
statement of the Communist Party:
‘Nobody should be forced to disclose
his source of information. It is up to the
authorities to prove their case, not
force third party involvement by an ac-
cused or witness’. Could you explain
why this is the party’s position on this
matter?”

The operative word in this case is
‘*forced’’. Ed Ziemba was sent to jail
for refusing to name his sources of in-
formation, in connection with a de-
mand of lawyers defending owners of
certain medical labs on trial for fraud.

* * *

This is a mighty important issue for
the working. class and -democratic
movement. Militant fighters for prog-
ressive social causes such as’ trade
union organization, peace, civil rights
and for social advance have been faced
with such demands for years upon
years. And not only in respect to
sources of information, but for names
of comrades and fellow-workers en-
gaged in democratic causes and re-

volutionary struggles.
* *

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 19, 1977—Page 6

Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World

Legend are the names of working
class heroes and patriots who- have
been threatened, cajoled, beaten, tor-
tured, and killed in attempts by law en-
forcement officers, secret police and
“red squads’’ to force disclosure of
sources of information, names of com-
rades and compatriots. Whenever such
attempts are successful the information
gained is invariably used as evidence in
court against those who have been
named.

Voices are sometimes raised sup-
porting the ‘‘right’’ of the police and the
courts to assert pressure to force wit-
hesses and defendants in court actions
to name sources and individuals in
order that the prosecution may make its
case in court. To substantiate this posi-
tion such voices argue that this power is
needed in order to combat the criminal
element. But this is faulty reasoning in-
deed. For the police are well equipped
to gather whatever evidence needed to
conduct a prosecution in criminal
cases. They have access to numerous
sources of information that is given
freely or is purchased.

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Working people should make no mis-

take on this question. In our capitalist
society the establishment of such pre-
cedence, or the maintenance of such
practice, is aimed not so much at the
criminal element as against the working
class and democratic movement. For,
ours is a class divided society, with the
ruling capitalist ready at all times to use
any and all means open to it, to ham-
string working-class and democratic
organizations and struggles.

During the more than a hundred
years of its history the working class
movement on a world scale has suf-
fered greatly from the methods of per-
secution, subversion and terror on the
part of the ruling class.

_ In the struggle for economic gains,
political and trade union rights many
thousands of working-class fighters
have been brutally murdered, hundreds
of thousands have been jailed and tor-
tured, and their unions and political or-
ganizations repeatedly driven under-
ground.

* * *

In our times the ruling capitalist class
continues to resort to police, court and
other forms of repressions against the
working-class movement, the trade un-

sociations. A recent case in point, is Ut

~ action of company thugs in shootifi

down strikers at the Robinhood Flo!
Mills in Montreal. Also, it is a wé
known fact that a special branch (sé
urity) of the RCMP uses methods 9
harassment, blackmail and intimidati?’
against active class conscious worke

These security forces visit su!
workers in their homes with the inte?
of questioning them about their politi@
affiliations and trade union activitie
They seek also information about th
neighbors or close associates. Th@ .
compile dossiers on individuals whi?
in some mysterious way sometimes f
into the hands of the employers of tho -
questioned.

* * *

For these reasons the Commun!
Party has always opposed methods *
forced disclosure of sources of infor™
tion or of names.

What Canada needs is an amendmé
to the Canadian Bill of Rights th?
specifically upholds the right of the
dividual to refuse to divulge sources ©
names, if that person considers sU@
disclosure constitutes a breach of c0!
fidence and of principle.