CITY LABOR DEMANDS:

‘Litt War Measures Act’

‘RECOGNIZE CHINA’. URGED ON OTTAWA

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1964 VOL. 25, NO.5

service In these former British possessions. Many African

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month commemorated Lumumba, first premier of the Conge.

Commenting on France’s re-

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Never mind speculationabout wheat and other trade deals with de Gaulle’sprivate opin- China ‘a

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tion - the action Itself is a posi-

‘It has come to a pretty pass when a country which has.

s taken an independent We should be thankful | * olow Canada’s ex-

acting illogically, as ~ Affairs Minister Paul Martinad-

mits we are.” the third anniversary of the murder of Patrice = France's ac ae the many other countries which

Must stop bowing to U.S. pressure

The time has come for Canada to recognize China! This emerges from events during the past week which saw France become the 49th state and the second major western power after Britain to recognize the People’s Republic of China. Only U.S. pressure on a subservient government in Ottawa is preventing Canada from recognizing the biggest country in the world which has become one of our largest trading partners.

already recognized China, puts tion’ - then hedged on diploma- the Pearson government on the tic recognition by adding: “We Spot. It cannot continue to side- do not believe we should take any step that would require any re- cognition of the rule of Peking

e he became prime minister, on Nov. 26, 1949, Pear- said: ‘Formal recognition

med and hawed, finally said.our. re a form of Sey

Fecouni (of China) will be extended ~ not to indicate approval of the form

One out of 21 | sexs in B.C. on welfare aid

VICTORIA — One out of every 21 B.C. residents got

for this ac.

and Chinese people—when Canada 1s convinced that the government 1s independent.

There should be little doubt in

is the fact that

1 expressions of opinion me from many quarters in support of Canadian recogni- tion of China and support for China being seated in the U.N.

Only last week a model parlia- ment at the University of Toronto

ease External in| Quite unrealistic without the par- ticipation of the largest nation on earth.?* See CHINA, pg. 8

along with

WOULD GIVE COLUMBIA RESOURCES TO YANKS

‘DAM BUILDERS FOR U.S.’ ROLE

‘ms of the revised Columbia “The : sday UESHBG. “*The price has just when he sald last Wednesday In Mica Creek", and that the power are insufficient to protect Cana-

NDP national leader T.C. —Dougla:

Premier Bennett, have claimad the U.S. payment will amount to ‘$591 million, or 5.3 mills a kil- owat how

However, U.S. officials andthe U.S. press report that the U.S. is paying about $344 million, or 3.7

fairs minister Howard Green, who was a key figure in theearty negotiations, said:

Vancouver that the treaty “re> now will be sold for a Gan teterests, m price that count the tnterest that will ‘be presents an attempt to sugarcoat will do little more than pay for McNaughton reiterated his op- earned on the cash payment of a bitter pill which the government — the storage dams. $275 million. It’s a fantastic bit. is trying to persyade the Cana- ; dian people to swallow.”

Position to the Arrow Dam and The revised treaty also came the Libby Dam in the U.S, which’ under sharp fire trom Gen. A. he charged does not adequately

'S added that “the only G. L. rotect Douglas presaged strong opposi- financial benefit B.C. will derive <

t his opposition to the tion from the NDP in the House will be from power generated on said that changes in the treaty “flows back into Canada.

pact. He on the Kootenay River which

‘RECOGNIZE CHINA’ says the headline on the above front page of the PT. Ever since the founding of the People’s Republic of China the Communist press has been in the forefront of the drive for Canadian recognition. Ottawa's recent recognition of People’s China must now be followed up with the demand for the seating of China in the UN and for increased trade. Canada’s recognition should also now be extended to North Vietnam and the German

Democratic Republic (GDR).

Jobless figure up again

The Manpower Department and the Bureau of Statistics in Ottawa are masters of the cover- up where unemployment is concerned, but the truth is hard to conceal. ;

The truth is that unemploy- ment in Canada is at a 9-year high, with all the economic pundits admitting there is no relief in sight.

Despite the fact thousands of students were off the labor market in September, the unem- ployment rate in Canada still rose to 6.9 percent last month.

Forty-seven out of every thousand workers are jobless this September. In July and

August, the rate was 51 out of 1,000, but at that time the work force was larger because of stu- dents registered for work.

In B.C. last week and this week, layoffs were announced in several key plants of the forest industry.: B.C. Forest Products announced a major layoff, and on the Island, several hundred men were given notice of job cuts.

Absolutely nothing has been initiated to take up the slack in the electrical and construction industry, as well as ship- building, where there are hundreds of workers still without jobs.

ANNUL WAR ACT NOW

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social, economic and constitutional crisis in our country.

Anglo-Canadian chauvinism is no answer to extreme narrow nationalism in French Canada. Each feeds on the other; each divides the people of French and English Canada who should be united against their common enemy— Canadian monopoly and U.S. imperialism.

The national, social and economic aspirations of the French Canadian people cannot and will not be resolved by the virtual military occupation of Quebec. They can only be resolved by far reaching measures of structural reform directed to overcome inequality in French Canada; by the adoption of a new Canadian Constitution based on a voluntary equal partnership of the two nations which will enable Canada to stay united and regain its independence as a truly sovereign, democratic

bi-national state.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1970—PAGE. 12

The Vancouver Labor Council Tuesday night in a strongly worded resolution called on the Federal government to immediately lift the War Measures Act and

restore civil liberties.

A recommendation brought in by the Council executive deplored terrorist activities of the FLQ and charged that the Federal cabinet had hastily invoked the War Measures Act thereby depriving Canadians of their civil liberties.

The Council also insisted that the Federal government immediately bring down legis- lation dealing with specific cases of terrorism. It called on the Canadian Labor Congress to check into any new legislation being brought down to guar- antee that it does not take away any of labor’s rights.

Council delegates voted to support the stand taken NDP leader Tommy Douglas and the NDP MPs who voted against invoking of the War Measures Act.

Charging that we are living now in what is virtually a police state, VLC secretary Paddy Neale said, ‘“‘This government doesn’t have to wait a month to bring in new legislation. What they did was panic. It’s the same as using the atomic bomb to smash a flea.’’

In the discussion delegates pointed out they had no sympathy. with the FLQ and wanted to see those responsible for the crimes brought to justice.

Neale told delgates that we have not got the real story of what’s happening in Quebec. He said that not only FLQ members

are being arrested but many -

others thought to be in sympathy with them. People just disappear overnight with no charges laid against them for 21 days.

The VLC secretary recalled

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that during the Second World War 22,000 Japanese in B.C. were removed from the coast and their property confiscated under the same War Measures Act.

Delegates expressed concern with the kind of legislation coming down and demanded that the CLC have a voice in this legis-

lation. It was pointed out that workers in this country have most to lose if bad legislation comes down. One speaker warned that Hitler and fascism came into being under the guise of democracy.

Council decided to send a letter to Mayor Campbell and City council condemning his totally irresponsible and insult- ing statements threatening to use the War Measures Act against young people and other groups in Vancouver.

Secretary Neale _ said Campbell’s views, which were expressed over national tele- vision, were idiotic. He cited Campbell as an example of how far some politicians‘can be trusted with sweeping powers. It was pointed out that Campbell not only opposes hippies but he also. opposes those who reject Bill 33 and compulsory arbi tration:

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In Toronto the 24,000-member

.United Electrical, Radio and

Machine Workers Union (UE) joined- with the Quebec Federation of Labor, the Quebec- based Confederation of National Trade Unions and the Quebec Teachers Corporation, in denouncing the action of the Federal government in invoking

the War Measures Act, which the union says has resulted in the “suspension of civil rights and the imposing of military rule.”

C.S. Jackson, UE national president, in a wire Monday Prime Minister Trudeau, said while his organization }5 strongly opposed to terrorism a5 a means of solving social and political problems, the failure of the Federal and Quebec govern ments to deal effectively with the desperate social an economic problems of Quebecers ‘“‘is the root cause for what has happened and will not be repressed by military rule.”

The union leader told Trudeau that enactment of the War Measures Act ‘‘will not reduce unemployment in Quebec which makes up 41 percent of the Cana- dian total. . . will not contribute one decent home to replace the vast, rotten slums in which

hundreds of thousands of French-

Canadian workers live.”’

Here’s how Labor Minister Peterson and Mayor Campbell © responded to invoking of the War Measures Act.

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This. campaign against every left wing opinion and dissenting group was best expressed by the outburst of Vancouver's mayor Tom Campbell. But not by him alone.

Mayor Campbell immediately welcomed the War Measures Act. He said he saw its use in the city in his war against what he calls “subversives” including hippies, draft dodgers and others “if they become involved in radical work.’’And to the mayor “radical’’ covers a very wide spectrum of the city’s population.

B.C.’s attorney-general and labor minister Peterson also lost no time getting into the act welcoming legislation to “deal with subversive groups.”

Urging tougher policies against all those he vaguely describes as “subversive,” Peterson sounded very much like Spiro Agnew when he said: “From the total reaction across the country, the silent majority is shouting that they want law and order, that they want better criminal legislation, they want the borders closed and they want emergency powers to deal with this present crisis, this civil war in Canada.

“Our full resources,” he said, “will be used in this province as in all other provinces in Canada to maintain law and order.”

‘One is inclined to ask what Peterson had in mind when he speaks of having tough legislation to deal with those who

challenge “the law.” Could it be he had in

mind the mass trade union movement in B.C. which this summer refused to-knuckle under to an unjust and oppressive anti- labor law — Bill 33?

After Peterson’s experiences of the past summer, and his frequent threats to labor: that they must live up to Bill 33 and accept slave labor or go to jail, there can be little doubt that is what the minister of labor was thinking of.

Now that the War Measures Act can be proclaimed with such ease, why should not the precedent be repeated again in the future to deal with trade Unionists who refuse to knuckle down to a 6 percent guideline or some anti-labor law which would turn them into slaves?

There is much cause for alarm here on the part of every working man and woman as well as everyone who cherishes democracy.

One of the more shocking aspects of the vote in Parliament was that three NDP M.P.’s from B.C. broke with their party's stand against the War Measures Act and voted with the government, the Tories and Creditistes, to impose the measure on Canada.

The three, Harold Winch of Vancouver East, Barry Mather of Surrey, and Frank Howard of Skeena, will undoubtedly hear from their constituents about their disgraceful action, and so they should. They have much to answer for.

The sooner the War Measures Act is

repealed the better it will be for Canada.