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MURDOCHVILLE

lines in front of the Gaspe Copper: Mines (a_ subsidiary of Noranda Mines).

Other prominent unionists present included Gerard Pi- card, persident of the Cana- ‘dian and Catholic Confedera- tion of Labor; Roger Provost, president of the Quebec Fed- . eration of Labor; and many representatives of the Nation-

al Metal Trades Federation (CCL) whose 6,500 Arvida, Quebec “local has been on

strike against the Aluminum

Company for the past three months.

As they marched a large _ §roup of professional goons,

hired by the company hurled Stones -at them from hilltop positions on company prop- erty. Six picketers were in- jured.. One_ Arvida_ striker, Mariel Tremblay, had his ndse torn off by a fist size rock. Provincial police were present but made no attempt to restore law and order.

The picketers were attacked several times by the mob of goons. According to press re- ports, at one stage “non-un- ion men on the hill, waving what appeared to be bleck- jacks, charged down the hiil. A general melee followed.” The demonstration broke up after police used tear gas against the picketers.

Shortly after the 450-man cavaleade had left town, re- ported the Canadian Press, “a howling angry band of 100 men wielding knives and sticks smashed the offices of the United Steelworkers Un- ion, and overturned and wreck- ed seven autdmobiles and a truck. The men entered the second floor union office, smashed windows, and _toss- ed out all chairs, filing cabi- nets and papers. They attack- ed cars and overturned them. With their knives they ripped and slashed upholstery. No one was placed under’ arrest.”

On August 20 Quebec pro- vincial police sergeant Rene Marchand and local police chief Guy Buckley warned three union leaders in Mur- dochville that “their lives were in danger and they would be well advised to leave town.” The union leaders refused bluntly, declared they would stay until the company signed - a union contract.

Despite every form of intim- idation and the importation of

German and Hungarian im- migrants and other scab labor, the strike remains solid. Of 940 men who went on strike last March, 850 are still on strike, according to the union.

An example of trade union solidarity was given recently by Mine-Mill, a union which has had to battle raids by Steelworkers in the past and which has-many current dif- ferences with USW. In: a statement issued by Mine-Mill president Nels Thibault, full Support was pledged to the Murdochville strikers.

“Canadian labor must re- gard the denial of Murdoch- ville .miners’ trade union rights as an action concocted in consort among mining op- erators throughout the indus- try,” said Thibault. “Such a threat to union rights of Can- adian workers overrides di‘- ferences, jurisdictional or otherwise, currently existing between Mine-Mill and Steei- workers. All such differences must be set aside .... Cani- dian labor must stand ready to fully support the -leader- ship of the CLC in their direc- tion of the defense of Mur- dochville miners’ rights and carry out actions proposed.”

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Asks profits tax for school costs

VICTORIA, B.C.

Ottawa should slap a 25 per- cent tax on profits from in- vestments to aid municipal- ities pay school costs, Ald. Donald Smith said last week, announcing he would launch a drive to lift the burden of taxation from the shoulders of “the man! with the lunch pail.”

Smith, a Socred MLA for Victoria, is conducting daily radio talks over stations CKDA and CJVI to win wide popular support. He says he is prepared to charter a plane and lead a delegation to Ot- tawa this fall to place his taxation plan before federal authorities for action.

Ha said he would like to see his plan taken up nationally and would welcome delegates for the Ottawa trip from such organizations as _ ratepayers, PTAs and trade fnions in every province’

Color TV slowed by U.S. pressure

TORONTO

Eleven out of the present 22 TV set manufacturers in Canada will cease production be: fore the end of the year, resulting in hundreds of workers being laid off their pobs 0 TV production lines, according to Canadian General Electric Company. = of

This company itself is discontinuing the manufacutre of TV sets for an indefinite perio

An emergency meeting of the members of the United Electrical Workers union in Toronto General Electric plants has drawn the impend- ing layoffs to the attention of Revenue Minister George Nowlan. Over the signature of Oliver Grant, president of the

Joint Board, the to the minister

- GE wire

UE union’s states:

“Former Liberal govern- ment succumbed to pressure from USA to hold back de- velopment of color TV here. (This) has restricted market for TV sets in Canada and

[PP will press gov't to fulfil promises

By NELSON CLARKE

TORONTO

Plans for vigorous public campaigns for fulfillment of the

Diefenbaker government’s

promises were

hammered out in

lively debate at the meeting of the Labor-Progressive party’s national committee here over the Labor Day weekend. “If the Diefenbaker government fulfills any of its election

promises to the workers and farmers it will be solely be- cause of the pressure of popu- lar demand,” Tim Buck, LPP national leader, told the meet- ing in his opening report. “If demoé¢ratic pressure is not ex- erted effectively there is ser-

lous danger that the govern- -

ment will feel completely free to satisfy the demands of the reactionary circles of big bus- iness.”

The committee decided to issue a statement for nation- wide distribution on the eve of the opening of parliament.

It pledged the LPP to do all in its power to encourage the widest expressions of labor farm unity in demanding ac- tion from the government on the pressing needs facing the Canadian people — peace and the expansion of trade; fullest use of Canadian resources for Canadian development; exten- sion of unemployment insur- ance benefits, adjustment pay- ments to farmers to meet soaring costs of production; $75 per month old age pen-

Continued

BYELECTIONS

this week. “Gidora has cam- paigned for policies that pro-

, Vide the only real alternative

to the giveaway policies of the Socred government.”

CCF candidate in the Cari- boo byelection is Jack Wasyliw of Quesnel, one-time Sudbury nickel miner and later a schoolteacher, sawmill opera-

tor and businessman.

sions, homes;

250,000 low rental a Bill of Rights,

Development of such popular pressure upon the government for fulfillment of its promises would be an important part of the LPP’s preparations for the federal election, Tim Buck em- phasized.

“The task to which thei LPP dedicates itself is to help or- ganize united front actions, even elementary ones, and al- liances out of which ‘united labor political action and labor-farmer unity indepen- dent of capitalist parties can develop.”

To this end the committee decided to launch electoral ac- tivity in constituencies across the country, including plans for nomination of 20 to 30 LPP candidates in the federal elec- tion expected next year.

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results in unemployment # industry, a “(We) draw your attentit’ to statement August 22, 199!) P, Burden, Canadian Westing house sales manager, that Can ada ‘can no more create demand for color TV with color programming than Y?® can for black and white TV ® an area where the owner ca? receive TV programs.’ { “Urge government immet iately begin converting #4 CBC TV to color in order 1 create markets for color / sets and prevent mass layofl in industry. Also requé meeting yourself (and) deleg* tion of this union to discu® this important issue. : “This telegram sent by 9 cision of an emergency mee” ing of CGE workers in 0 union who are faced with pros pect of no jobs this winter.

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