P TORONTO — Romesh Chandra, €cretary-general of the World Gece Council, told a rally here

Ctober 24 that the world today is a New and different place, and that in oday’s world people can win “tories for human rights, in- “pendence and peace because

€y are assured of wide support. fs andra was in Canada for a

Sur-day visit during which he ee Montreal and Toronto and Rs €nded the executive board

€eting of the Canadian Peace

ngress,

Chandra told ‘the meeting in yetto that the world peace é Pees “are full of confidence and pimism” but he warned detente toa be fought for. ‘It is born in

Uggle; it can be maintained and Ered forward only through in-

Msification of the struggle.”

“ne World peace leader said that

© Stockholm Appeal is a means Y which today we can stop the

“ms race, But he said that im- peialism opposes an end to the

Ms race, and attacks efforts at

nomic independence. © Canadian Peace Congress

ROMESH CHANDRA

‘Intensified struggle can win world peace

7

executive board meeting, in which Chandra participated, heard a report that 200,000 individual signatures had been collected on the Stockholm petition, while organizations representing hun- dreds of thousands of members have endorsed the Appeal. The board concluded that this repre- sented an outstanding success, and . decided on an intensified drive for signatures and for endorsements by organizations and individuals.

The campaign will be re- examined at the board’s April, 1977 meeting, just prior to a world conference of Builders of Peace in Warsaw. Meanwhile, a delegation of Canadian peace workers will make an interim presentation to the federal government during November. The World Peace Council also plans a preliminary report in the world-wide results to the United Nations in December.

The board meeting also endorsed

~a number of resolutions calling on

the Canadian government to

* support action for peace, including

a demand that Canada protest the U.S. trident base in Washington.

2679 E. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. 253-1221

THE COMPLETE TRAVEL SERVICE

We will professionally look after all your travel needs. We specialize in tickets, tours, passports, permits and reservations. Call us today—

for prompt personalized service.

Oct. 14 analyzed —

Day of Protest marke new stage in struggle

The October 14 National Day of Protest marked a new stage in the history of Canadian labor and points to a growing political con-

‘sciousness and radicalization in

the ranks of the working class of Canada, says a statement released last week by the central executive committee of the Communist

“7 Party.

Pointing to the ‘remarkable development that 114 labor

councils became organizers of united mass political action on a hitherto unprecedented scale across Canada, the analysis says that despite the efforts of the mass media deliberately to distort the scope and political impact of this historic event, Canada and Canadian labor will never be the same again after October 14. “That day demonstrated anew that the working class is the main force in the struggle against monopoly.” It points out that since

October 14 monopoly and its -

government have undertaken a series of measures to cope with the rising upsurge in labor’s ranks. On the one hand it has undertaken reprisals the aim of which is to teach workers and their unions a lesson and warn against a repeat of the Day of Protest. On the other hand the government has made seeming concessions to the demands for a change in economic and social policies.

Stating that the government’s proposals on unemployment are to “share the work” and to “‘share the misery” by agreeing to reduced hours of work at reduced takehome pay for 40 hours pay, the CP

“ executive says:

“The government pretends to meet the demand that workers have a say on all questions of concern to them. But these turn out to be proposals on health, safety and works councils in a form which would bypass the trade unions. Or they turn out to be proposals for consultations as a substitute for decisions made by the trade union movement. Not least, by con- tinuing its wage contro] program the government continues to un- dermine collective bargaining.”

e proposals of the government haveas their aim the integration of the trade unions into the

‘mechanism of state monopoly

capital, warns the CP. ‘‘The trade union movement should be alert to these manoeuvres and proposed measures; measures which some right wing forces in the trade union movement may support. Not class collaboration but militant and united actions is called for,’’ says the statement.

Pointing out that the labor- capital confrontation will sharpen, not Jessen, and that a united fight- back against the crisis policies of government and monopoly is as essential as ever, the analysis points out that the coming year will be one of continued high inflation and rising unemployment and that the effort of the AIB to impose a 6 per cent wage settlement will result in a further deterioration of living standards.

Posing the question: What about theroad ahead? the CP statement says that a correct combination of the economic and political struggle is of key importance to make the fightback effective. It points out that the day of protest was not a do- or-die event to smash the wage control program or bust, and draws attention to the fact that the May convention of the CLC authorized ‘‘a work stoppage or

work stoppages. October 14 was

thus the important first step to a higher level of fightback.”

The CP executive says:

® The CLC executive council should convene ah emergency meeting of all affiliates and of- ficers and local councils and provincial federations to map out the next stage in the fightback;

® Immediate action should be taken to defeat the efforts of monopoly and governments to penalize and intimidate workers and unions. No workers or groups of workers must be allowed to stand alone. Solidarity and unity should be the watchword.

The militant upsurge forced the NDP right wing leader to come out in support of the Day of Protest while in some provinces NDP governments failed to do so.

RANKIN

Cont'd from pg. 1

mittee of three people — the city planner, the social planner and the city engineer. Council has delegated to them the right to make decisions on such matters. Today they have more authority to decide development in our city than have your elected representa- tives! TEAM and NPA aldermen can now wash their hands of any responsibility and leave it to the people whom they have hired.

I am not going to prejudge the decision of the Development Planning Committee. I hope that it will be sensitive and responsive to public opinion and public needs,

and that it will turn down the ap--

plication of the developer to demolish the Huntingdon. But Iam sure you will agree with me that some things need to be changed in council when a group of municipal employees, hired by council, has been given more authority than council itself. But we won’t get this kind of change as long as TEAM and the NPA run council.

Although the Huntington has been temporarily saved, it still remains in danger. And the policy of both TEAM and the NPA still is to destroy perfectly good housing in the downtown area in order to make way for expensive ac- commodation for the executive elite. That is what needs to be changed. :

The right of people to live in moderate priced housing should take priority over the profit-greed of developers. That’s the real issue involved in this case and a key issue in this election campaign.

Workers are beginning to draw lessons from the results of right wing NDP policies. They have become increasingly critical of the NDP and some workers are raising the question of continual support of the NDP as “labor’s political ar- m.’’ The CP statement warns that monopoly interests and govern- ments hope to use this situation to draw workers away from political action and back to support of the direct parties of monopoly.

“We join in criticism of right wing NDP policy, but we do not join in any moves which would lead workers back to the parties of monopoly. The task is to move forward with a democratic alternative to the crisis policies of state monopoly capitalism,’’ emphasizes the CP statement.

Pointing out that there is a democratic alternative for labor, the CP. statement says that to win that alternative, politics in Canada must be pushed to the left. This calls for cooperation of all left and _ democratic forces in the struggle for militant class policies and for unity of action by all anti-monopoly forces. ‘‘The key to achievement of such an anti-monopoly coalition of forces depends on cooperation of the NDP and the Communist Party.”

The CP outlines six minimum objectives for the period ahead:

e Kill Bill C-73. Demand controls over monopoly, including rent controls; price controls and a curb on monopoly profiteering.

®@ A policy of full employment. eA 30-hour work week at 40 hours pay.

e Restoration and expansion of

collective bargaining rights to

include a say for labor in deter- mining economic and social policy, technological change, investment policy, safety, health, moving of plants, manpower training and planning.

e Anend tothe arms race, which distorts the economy and feeds inflation.

e The coming weeks will provide an opportunity through municipal elections to strengthen labor’s voice and that of the democratic forces in general at the local level of government.

“October 14is not the end but the beginning of the battle for new economic and social policies. A united working class and its allies can win them,”’ concludes the CP statement.

‘REE nee oe ae Caen tesa ae eee tet rete

~ CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

COMING EVENTS

NOVEMBER 27 — Report back of Mac Pap delegates to the In- ternational Brigades | con- vocation in Florence, Italy Saturday, November 27 at 8 p.m., Fishermen’s Hall, 138 E. Cordova St. Ausp-» Canadian Committee for a Democratic Spain.

NOVEMBER 28 — Variety Con-.

cert, Sunday, November 28 at 2 p.m., Russian People’s Home,

* 600 Campbell Ave. Everyone

welcome.

BUSINESS PERSONALS

RON SOSTAD, Writer-Researcher. Ph. 922-6980. .

Fe

MOVING? CLEANUP — Wanted articles for resale. All proceeds to P.T. Phone 526-5226. “THE: GOODIE BIN.”

HALLS FOR RENT

UKRAINIAN CANADIAN

- OULTURAL CENTRE — 805 East Pender St., Vancouver 4. Available for banquets, wed- dings, meetings. Ph. 254-3436. -

WEBSTER’S CORNERS HALL — Available for banquets, meetings, etc. For rates: Ozzie, 325-4171 or 685-5836.

RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME — Now available for rentals. For reservations phone 254-3430.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 12, 1976—Page 11