Feder wal roar
defiance on May 31

The biggest labor demonstration since 1872 is shaping up for Queen’s Park on

May 31.

alled to protest the Rand Commission Report and insist on a Labor Bill

of Rights, the rally will involve, according to Hamilton officials who initiated it, up

to 25,000 unionists.
In 1872, 10,000 unionis

with seditious libel. The mass
protest which followed that ac-
tion of the Tory Government of
Sir John A. MacDonald, forced
the government to pass the
Trade Union Act to provide for
the registration of unions.

Ninety-seven years later an-

other Tory Government, as re-
presentative of the big financial
interests as Sir John A. was in
his day, is repeating history in
an attempt to introduce legisla-
tion which would cripple the
rights of the organized trade-
union movement in Ontario and
drive a deep wedge into the en-
tire democratic structure of the
province.
, Just as they did in 1872 the
working people are proving
themselves equal to the task. A
groundswell movement from the
ranks of the mighty 600,000
member organized trade-unions
of this industrial province is
rising up to roar its defiance at
the arrogant Robarts govern-
ment at Queen’s Park.

A meeting of nearly 100 trade
unionists from Hamilton, Oak-
ville and St. Catharines met last
week to co-ordinate details and
plans for the march on Queen’s
Park on Saturday, May 3lst.

Hamilton Building Trades
Business Manager, Al Davidson,
said: “Our objective is set. We
will have one of the largest trade
union demonstrations this coun-
try has ever seen.” He said the
theme of the March is:

@ Halting the Rand Recom-
mendations,

e@ End the use of Injunctions
in Labor Disputes.

e A Bill of Rights for Labor.

The meeting heard reports of
endorsation of the May 3lst De-
monstration from the Toronto
Building Trades Council and
that they will Co-sponsor the
March on Queen’s Park. Other
organizations endorsing the de-
monstration are the United
Electrical Workers, (Nationally),
Joint Council 52 of the Team-

rotested at Queen’s Park in support of striking To-
ronto Printers. Out of that demonstration 24 unionists were arrested and charged

sters, St. Catharines Labor Coun-
cil and Local 707 of the United
Auto Workers, Oakville, Ontario.

Mr. Davidson said representa-
tives from Building Trades Coun-
cils, United Steelworkers, Team-
sters, Canadian Union of Public
Employees, Rubber Workers,
Street Railroad Workers, Can
Workers, Longshoremen, West-
inghouse White Collar Workers
(UE) and others planned strate-
gy for the demonstration.

The Hamilton group has
placed an initial order of 20,000
Anti-Rand buttons and 50,000
pamphlets for trade unionists
throughout the Province. It has
also placed three full time staff
people on duty to assist in the
organization of the Queen’s Park
March.

In Toronto the Building
Trades Council has announced
plans for total mobilization of
Toronto unionists in the demon-
stration.

Terry Fraser, Chairman of the
Hamilton Rand Committee stat-
ed: “We are out to make it crys-
tal clear to the Robarts govern-
ment and all concerned that
Labor will not tolerate impinge-
ment on our rights either
through restrictive legislation or
the use of injunctions in labor
disputes. Indeed,” he said, “the
time is long past when a Bill of
Rights for working people is
due.”

A Province-wide meeting,
sponsored by the Toronto and
Hamilton Building Trades Coun-
cils was held in Toronto on
Wednesday, May 14th, where
,trade unionists from all over the
Province gathered to finalize
plans for the demonstration.

An article in the Hamilton
paper quotes one of the organ-
izers of the march as predicting
25,000 unionists participating in
the demonstration.

Threaten detention
camps for students

Canadian university students
have read of the concentration
camps of nazi Germany. Today,
their brother and sister students
across the border are threatened
with the 1969 U.S.A. model, now
called “detention camps.”

Number two man in_ the
Nixon administration’s justice
department, today a close pre-
sidential adviser and in 1964 the
executive aide to the ultra-reac-
tionay Barry Goldwater, the
deputy U.S.  attorney-general
Richard Kleindienst has made
this threat. In an interview pub-
lished this month in The Atlan-
tic Monthly he declares, “If peo-
ple demonstrate in a manner to

Greet Israeli paper

The following letter has been
sent by the Canadian Tribune to
Al-Ittihad, Arabic paper of the
Communist Party of Israel:

The Canadian Tribune greets
your splendid paper Al-Ittihad
on the occasion of your 25th An-
niversary.

As the voice of the Commu-
nist Party of Israel for the Arabic
people in Israel, your paper has
always fought for the unity of
the Arabic and Jewish people in
the struggles for their common
daily interests.

Your consistent policy of up- .
holding the right of the Jewish
people to their own independent
state — Israel, while opposing
the reactionary, imperialist poli-
cies of the ruling Circles of Is-
rael aided by Zionist and Arab
nationalists, has won you a spe-
cial place in the hearts of work-

PACIFIC TRIBUNE22MAY 16) 1969

Bou tena SS a5

ing people around the world who
recognize the importance of a
correct national position corres-
ponding to the true aims of in-
ternational working class solida-
rity. ;

We are acutely aware of the
difficult circumstances under
which your paper has had to
fight for its position and its very
life. Your principled struggle has
helped progressive people in
Canada to meet and to deal with
the complex problem of the
Middle East.

On this your twenty-fifth anni-
versary, we salute your heroic
contributions to the cause of
Arab-Jewish unity; to world
peace and friendship, to the soli-
darity of working people
throughout the world, and to
that final realization of the hopes
and dreams of mankind, world
socialism.

—Page 10

ett That

interfere with others they
should be rounded up and put
in a detention camp.” The in-
terview was on the subject of
American student unrest.

The United States has been
described as “a nation racked by
a racist war abroad and racist
policies at home.” Today both
houses of Congress, and several
state legislative assemblies, are
stepping up efforts to silence
students who are demanding an
end to racism and the war in
Vietnam. Calls for “law and or-
der,” for “investigations into
student disorders,” are being
made by some of the U.S. legis-
lators who sent thousands of
young Americans to die in Viet-
nam.

The same type of blacklisting
that was turned loose in the
U.S.A. against democratic and
progressive people during the
cold war period of witch-hunting
hysteria is now reappearing. In
its present form it is directed
mainly against active students
and black freedom fighters.

Disclosed by the Washington-
based Institute for American
Democracy, which exposes ul-
tra-rightist groups, a_ blacklist:
ing service is offered to employ-
ers by the ‘“‘Church League of
America.” This reactionary out-
fit supplies a check on 50 stu-
dent-activist names for a “tax
deductible donation” of $1,000,
with additional individual checks
at $5 each.

The shadow of Joe McCarthy

is falling across U.S. campuses. °

The detention camps of Klein-
dienst, deputy attorney-general
of the U.S.A., recall. another,
more hideous menace. “This
brings to mind,” said Nigel Mor-

gan, Communist party leader in: + *rators. "Red Power’ in’ this/‘coun-
Ls GS Ce Me ae Fa ee , j : PAAR LARA R DA Sasickink

The totals vary somewhat,
but whatever source is cited
be it that fictional ‘source
close to the government,” or
a “government - spokesman
who declines to be identified”
or other mythical personages
so often “quoted” by a kent
press, the end result is in-
variably upwards.

Since the tabling of the
Glassco Royal Commission
report on the high cost of
government away back in
1963, with all its fine recom-
mendations for lowering the
ante totally ignored by its
Liberal promoters, the end
result has been that federal
administration costs have
almost trebled during the
past three years, and are ob-
viously still skyrocketing. To
quote the April 9 edition of
the Saskatchewan CCF Com-
monwealth, the “administra-
tive overhead of the federal
government now totals $1,-
760,000,000,” or nearing the
$2 billion mark.

That’s a lot of moola for
the upkeep of a gigantic bu-
reaucracy which produces a
minimum of social progress,
with a maximum of hot-air
brouhaha, An irate farmer
described the product more
succintly when he observed
that “one doesn’t require to
be a veterinarian to recognize
horse manure!” :

Be that as it may, and de-
spite all the ministerial pon-
tification about “holding the
cost of government down,”
just the opposite is happening
with astronomical results, and
no one in the seats of the
mighty gets unduly alarmed
about “inflation.” In fact it is
never mentioned, except when
organized labor or wage earn-
ers generally seek a minimal
wage increase. Then the Es-
tablishment “turns on_ its
thing.” It howls to high
heaven about the “dangers of
inflation” caused by that ex-
tra dime in the working man’s
pay-envelope.

We recall some time ago—
just about the time.the Glass-
co Commission was doing its
probing on the high cost of
government—how old caval-
ry horses down Petawawa
way got on to the government

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payroll, while a lot of the
military brass in the same
locale managed to wangle qa
lot of high class furniture for
themselves, for free. Of course

the obliging taxpayer, as
usual, footed the bill. But it
served to illustrate how ad- |
ministrative “costs” could be
upped at will.

While these lines are being
written our minister of na- |
tional defense, M. Cadieux, |
who pockets well over $25,000
annually in salary intake, is
toying with the idea of “re.
signing” if the administration
of which he is a part does not
come across with more mil- |
lions to keep Canada tied to |
the NATO-NORAD arms sink. }
hole. No hullabaloo about the |
“dangers of inflation” there |
either. Just keep pouring in |
the dollars—or M. Cadieux |
“resigns”!

Perhaps the best we've |
seen in many moons on how
administrative ‘“‘costs’” are |
“kept down” is in.the tenta- |
tive repair bill for refitting |
and repairing our navy’s air-
craft carrier Bonaventure. |

Some deserving Liberal |
pocketed $776.00 for fixing a |
desk drawer and putting a
couple of hinges on a clothes
closet, with an extra $258.00
for some repairs to an 18x20-
inch medicine cabinet.

Then there was $734.00 for |
fixing up_a wooden desk and ||
another $450.00 for patching
up a wardrobe door and lock.
Perhaps the most rewarding
job of all was a $700.00
charge for replacing a couple
of drawer handles.

Since these are only the |
minor repairs in putting old
Bona in ship-shape condition
for service on the high seas,
“defending” Canada’s shores,
we can only hazard a guess
at the total, as Auditor-Gene-
ral Maxwell Henderson seems
to be doing at the moment.

As a scientist delineates
the full outline of a giant pre-
historic mammal from a small’
piece of its bone structure, so
also may we construct and
appreciate to the full how
well M. Trudeau is “holding |
down” administrative costs
in the building of his “Just |
Society”—just for the few—_
while the many pay the shot!

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British Columbia, commenting
on the Vancouver Sun’s story
about Kleindienst, “similar an-
nouncements in Europe in 1938-
39 when fascism was taking
over, and I have no doubt that
a bit of research back to the
press of that time would turn up
some interesting analogies.”

In Canada, the forces of the
status quo that resist the strug-
gle to democratise universities
and education are mounting
their own offensive against Can-
adian students. It bears custom-
ary resemblance to that in the
U.S.A.

Testifying this month in Ot-
tawa before the House of Com-
mons Justice Committee, W. H.
Kelly, RCMP deputy commis-
sioner for operations, claimed
there are connections between
“disturbances” on Canadian uni-

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try,” he said, “is linked wl
Black Power in the Unile
States.”

Asked by a Committee mem
ber whether there is any
dence of subversive activity "
campus actiities in Canada, !
RCMP deputy commissioner #
clared, “We have a feeling, >
no particular proof.” 7a

An indication of the “feeling
of at least this Canadian Klell
dienst can be discerned as, )
tinuing his testimony before thé
House Committee, he proce
to “cite” developing conta®
between students and labor, 4
said there have been instane
of students joining — strikt
workers on picket lines.

Reactionary forces in Canade
are seeking, not to remove 4
causes of student protests, ©
to attack the democratic te
on the ‘university campuses