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Arab leaders reaffirm peace aim

in CATRO—Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has told the Beirut
to Bazine Al Usbua Al Arabia that all possibilities must be considered

ai peaceful settlement of the Middle East conflict. _ oe
; bout 50,000 Egyptian demonstrators cheered Egyptian soldiers
Parade held near Cairo Sunday to mark the anniversary of the 1973

ca tousands of Syrians poured into the streets of Damuscus the

Syri day.-Traffic came to a halt for five minutes in memory of

H ins killed in the 1973 war. During an evening torch-light parade,

Mian leaders pledged to the people that they will take all steps
ner all territories occupied illegally by Israel.

jist yee, Arab leaders were renewing their committments for a

Middle East settlement, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz report-

t Israel will not return the Abu Rhodeis oil fields in Sinai as

vie the next phase of withdrawal in a future interim peace

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] y,.0% SHANE PARKHILL

Sep. Violence that took place
Tay, 02 Parliament Hill was
Pie, Nothing new. It was simp-
“tinuin More episode in the con-
to al 400-year-old campaign
} thy <P the Native peoples of
theip Continent from regaining
‘hg ,7i8hts and from. establish-
tite "trol over their own fu-

nat? Native Peoples’ Caravan,
Dickag®, {Om British Columbia
outa _UP People all along its
is 3 “'Tived in Ottawa to bring
®ve, @Mds to the Canadian
tt Patliamene” the opening day
than hen. the group of more
Mrters Native people and sup-
Step, @ached the top of the
foyng °" Parliament Hill, they
Cade a _RCMP-backed __ barri-
thei nding between them and
The , “lected representatives.”
Menta onstration paused mo-
Ctieg UY at the steps; someone
| thos Let's go through”, but
lime ° tried to reach the Par-
dack. buildings were pushed

bag! PPOximately two hours
Vaiteg’ While the demonstration
Or Prime Minister Tru-
udd Buchanan, minister

os

The tos

| ie pain liberties Associaiton has charged the

| Mo Ie nce on demonstrators and bystanders a
Ee. Were injured in the attack. —

NATIVE PEOPLE

WA GET

| RCMP ‘JUSTICE

of Indian affairs to come and ad-
dress them. Neither appeared,
nor did they give any indication
whether they would meet with
Indian leaders, :
Riot Police

Soon after Chief Justice Bora

Laskin left the Hill after reading

“the speech from the throne, the

Native peoples made another at-
tempt to push through to the
Parliament building. Approxim-

"ately 100 RCMP riot police sud-

denly appeared wearing helmets,
otis shields, and wielding 3-
foot clubs. They drove back the
demonstrators, hitting and kick-
ing indiscriminately, driving
some over the 15-foot embank-
ment and knocking others down
the concrete steps, causing 1n-
juries to more than 20. Even
those who had been knocked to
the ground and were trying to
protect themselves were beaten
and kicked.

Don Whiteside of the Cari
dian Federation of Civil Liber-
ties, reported that he was pene?
by the riot police when he trie
to explain who he was. wae
side also said that he saw an el-

woman pushed by an
ae Continued on page 10

YOUNG WORKER PHOTO
RCMP used exces-
like. More than 20

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Special to the Tribune

Parliament issues
back-to-work order
to grain companies

OTTAWA—The implementation, by Parliament, of the Perry Report, which the
grainhandlers on the West Coast have accepted, will bring their earnings closer
to those of longshoremen with whom they work practically side by side. In the
present inflationary situation, which robs workers of their buying power, the gov-
ernment has been forced to recognize the justice of the union’s claim that the Perry
Report is the rock bottom of any possible settlement. See

At the same time there are some grave dangers involved in legislative coercion,
as always, of which labor has to be aware.

Compulsory arbitration and strike bans are abhorent to workers as weapons in

the hands of the ruling class to coerce labor. The prese

YOUNG WORKER PHOTO

WELCOME TO CANADA’S CAPITAL—Trudeau’s legions bar entry
to Parliament as Native people step up demands for justice. The
RCMP riot squad, formed in 1967, were unleashed for the first time

last week.

nt bill now before Parlia-

ment to bring about the resump-
tion of grain movements in the
port of Vancouver bans strikes
for a specified period. This part
of the bill sets a precedent and
opens the door to employer
abuse and provocations, for
which the grain companies are
notorious.

At the same time the govern-
ment has been compelled to re-
cognize its duty to uphold its
own mediator and his report,
which: has long been accepted
by the union but rejected by the
companies involved. The com-
panies’ claim that the proposed
settlement is inflationary is pure
hogwash and irresponsible in
the extreme. The monetary set-
tlement proposed does not even
establish parity with the long-
shoremen.

The whoop and holler from
the Tory opposition about the
need for government impartial-
ity is pure demagogy to cover
its own anti-labor and pro-
company reactionary position.

It is the grain companies that
are guilty of disrupting activi-
ties in the port of Vancouver. It
is the companies that must -be
called to account and forced to
come to terms with the employ-
ees on the basis of the Perry
Report accepted by the union a
long time ago. If the companies
continue to obstruct a reason-
ab'e settlement they should -be
expropriated by the federal gov-
ernment and public ownership
and democratic control should be
established on thsee grain mar-
keting agencies.

The Perry Report, backed by

Continued on page 10

Scab grapes, lettuce hit

“Manitoba boycotts ‘hot cargo’

Special to the Tribune

The recent Manitoba Federa-
tion of Labor Convention in
Thompson, Sept. 27-29 unanim-
ously voted approval for imple-
menting a province-wide “hot-
cargo” of all scab non-UFW
grown California grapes and let-
tuce. This decision complements
the activities of the Winnipeg
Boycott Committee’s year and a
half long struggle to eliminate
the sale of scab grapes and let-
tuce in the province.

The boycott began here in
June 1973 when United Farm
Workers organizers Fred Schu-
macher and Leah Rogne came
from the U.S. to open up UFW
Boycott work here. Because of
the union’s lack of funds they
left the city in October ’73. The
boycott was carried on by local

trade unionists, Christian activ-
ists, and students. Last winter
Father. Dan Berrigan actively
worked with the -boycotters
while teaching here and helped
them organize a benefit for the
UFW which drew out some 450
supporters.

Members and friends of the
Manitoba Young Communist
League have actively picketed
and supported the boycott since
its inception. :

For six months a steelwork-
er, Doug Tottle, has been the
boycott’s chairperson and part-
time volunteer organizer. Re-
cently the committee has estab-
lished a boycott group on the
university which has agreed to
place UFW information signs in
the cafeteria. The Tribune was
told that the “hot-cargo” resolu-

“munity,

tion was submitted by Tottle via
his union local to the conven-
tion.

If successfully implemented,
labor action can eliminate the
bulk of non-union (UFW) pro-
duce imported into the province.
One of the retail unions alone
has contracts covering 50% of
the provincial market outlets
and it as well as all the other
unions involved supported the ac-
tion. The boycott picketers inter-
viewed felt that labor’s action
would be the decisive key to the
boycott. Coupled with continua-
tions of picketing and mass in-
formationals in church and com-
California’s corporate
growers and slave-labor exploit-
ers may~soon find Manitoba a
poor market for their scab
produce!

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