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Canadian United Auto Workers
Council adopted almost unani-
mously a resolution calling on
the government “to take prompt
steps to revoke the War Mea-
sures Act”, and demanding “that
there be no amendments to the
criminal code or some new sta-
tute-which will be the War Mea-
sures Act under another name.”

The United Electrical, Radio
and Machine Workers (UE) had
early called for the immediate
revocation of the Act and oppos-
ed any legislation curtailing civil
liberties.

The labor movement of Que-
bec, through the voice of its
three major trade union centres,
had set an example to the whole
Canadian trade union movement
in its united opposition to the
War Measures Act and all at-
tacks on the democratic rights
of the Canadian people.

The right wing of the NDP in
the Ontario trade union move-
ment was openly split in the face
of support welling up on all sides
for the original position of the
16 NDP members of Parliament
who opposed the WMA.

The Trudeau government
moved to avert the certain de-
feat of its original police state
policies.

The OFL emergency resolution
on the new act was presented to
the convention delegates min-
utes before it came up for de-
bate Wednesday. morning. It sup-
ported the Trudeau govern-
ment’s substitute legislation.

Admitting the new act was
“still arbitrary”, the resolution
attempted to base its support for
it in the claim that it was “‘con-
fined” to dealing with the FLQ
and “is effective for only a tem-
porary period of time.”

How false this was the reso-
lution itself proved in its now

notorious “resolve number 6”
which dealt with “any perma-
nent legislation introduced to
deal with anticipated insurrec-
tion”, and made stipulations
about how such permanent anti-
democratic legislation should be
prepared before introduction in
Parliament.

No less hypocritically, the re-
solution, submitted by an OFL
leadership very conscious by
now of the feelings of support
for the trade unionists and work-
ing people of Quebec, paid lip
service to “its solidarity with
the workers of Quebec’, to the
expressed ‘“‘concerns with the ap-
plication of the WMA and regu-
lations of the OFL, the CNTU
and the Quebec Teachers Corpo-
ration.’

The convention microphones
had lines of speakers in front of
them as the debate opened. By
the time the “machine” closed
off debate, seven delegates had
spoken powerfully against the
resolution, four in support of it.

Of the latter, Eamon Park, ad-
viser to the Canadian director
of the United Steelworkers, was
the lead-off man. Park, who had
been opposed to the WMA, at-
tempted to reason that ‘‘to op-
pose this new legislation means
to support the War Measures
Act.” Fumbling as he concluded
his misleading speech, the con-
vention president, Dave Archer
had to help him formulate his
words.

For no more than two minutes
each, Terry Meagher, OFL sec-
retary-treasurer and Hugh Bu-
chanan, chairman of the political
education committee, kowtowed
to the machine’s decision and
muttered their support for the
resolution.

By obvious design, the last of
the four who supported the reso-

Canadian publishers demand

Cancel book sellout to U.S.

As we go to press a meeting
is taking place between Premier
John Robarts of Ontario, repre-
sentatives of the United Church
of Canada and McGraw-Hill
Company of Canada for the pur-
pose of discussing the proposed
sale of Ryerson Press by the
United Church to the U.S.-owned
publishing house.

The public announcement of
the sale has brought a vigorous-
ly outspoken opposition from a
wide range of people interested
in the publishing business, and
others.

A meeting called by an Emer-
gency Committee of Canadian
Publishers, endorsed the follow-
ing resolution:

“A vigorous and competitive
Canadian-owned book publishing
industry is essential to the na-
tion’s survival. The emergency.
committee of Canadian publish-
ers therefore urges,

“1. That legislation be enact-
ed to disallow the sale to foreign
interests of W. J. Gage and the
Ryerson Press.

“2. That future sales of Cana-
dian-owned book publishing
firris to foreign interests be pro-
hibited by law.

“3. That the federal govern-
ment immediately enact legisla-
tion creating a publishing deve-

lopment corporation or other in-
strument to enable Canadian
publishers to compete effectively
with foreign-owned firms.

“4, That representatives of the
federal government and provin-
cial governments of appropriate
jurisdiction meet immediately
with the Canadian-owned book
publishers to discuss additional
steps that must be taken to pre-
serve for Canada a Canadian-
owned book publishing indus-
try.”

Members of the Emergency
Committee are Gray’s Publish-
ing, of Sydney; Prism Interna-
tional, Vancouver; Sono Nis
Press, Vancouver; M. G. Hertig
Ltd., Edmonton; Coles’ Publish-
ing, Toronto; House of Anansi,
Toronto; James Lewis and Sa-
mule, Toronto; New Press, Tor-
onto; Peter Martin Associates,
Toronto; Progress Books, Toron-
to; Oberon Press, Ottawa; Har-
vest House, Montreal; Tundra
Books, Montreal; Fiddle Head
Books, Fredericton.

For some considerable time

now teachers across the country ~

have been protesting that the
texts used in schools are pub-
lished outside of Canada and
written by non-Canadians. They
have been asking for a reversal
of this policy.

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lution was Louis Lenkinski, exe-
cutive-secretary of the Labor
Council of Metro-Toronto. De-
magogically presenting himself
as a champion of democracy, of
civil rights, of the sacred de-
fense of freedom, he declared the
Trudeau new legislation does all
these things, and that support
for it was ‘‘the only way open in/
a free, democratic society to de-
fend liberty.”

Two speakers for the resolu-
tion—and two who “identified”
themselves with it—that was the
sum of the OFL machine effort
on the floor of the convention.

-Joe Grabek of the Toronto
Ironworkers denounced all and
any restrictions on civil liberties,
and called for the defeat of the
resolution. Chris Trower, a staff
member of the United Steel-
workers, warned that whenever
limits are imposed on civil liber-
ties, labor has always been
among the very first groups to
be attacked. Declaring that the
stand against the WMA by the
“NDP 16” had already been vin-
dicated, he condemned the reso-
lution for its support of the new
legislation ‘‘which takes away
the rights and civil liberties of
all citizens.”

Alf Campbell, president of
UAW Local 27 in London, and
Jack Kirkby of UAW Local 1967
in Toronto strongly opposed the

‘resolution. Daniel Heap, former

NDP candidate, stated, “By this
resolution we are opposing, not
supporting, our Quebec trade
union brothers.” Wally Majeski,
president of the Toronto local of
the IBEW, and Andre Bekerman
of CUPE Local 1000 denounced
the OFL executive’s resolution.

Complete unity against anti-
democratic legislation marked
the meetings of the left caucus.
On the convention floor that left
unity was carried forward to em-
brace large numbers of delegates
from the centre and right-wing,
so powerful is the growing uni-
ted opposition to all and any in-
fringements of civil liberties in
Canada. :

David Archer and Terry
Meagher were unopposed in
their re-elections as president
and secretary-treasurer respec-
tively, but there was a contest
for the positions of the 12 vice-
presidents. The OFL administra-
tion circulated a slate for the re-
election of all of them and they
were re-elected.

Gordon Lambert, UAW Local
199 delegate and chairman of the
UAW-GM negotiating commit-
tee, received 418 votes, which
represented the votes of more
than half of those present for the
voting. Christine Bennett of the
USWA in Toronto, who received
432 votes, and Andrew Silko of
CUPE in Windsor with 344, also
failed to be elected.

“ Now this is all voluntary and you needn't
sign unless you wish to be canned...”

New legislation similar |
to War Measures Act

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outlawed on this count, and then
the act adds to it “any group of
persons or association that ad-
vocates the use of force or the
commission of a crime as a
means of or as an aid in accom-
plishing the same or substan-
tially the same governmental
change .. .”

That is, not only the FLQ is
banned, but ‘any association”
that “advocates the use of force”
(thousands of workers have been
charged with the crime of exer-
cising their right to oppose the
powers that be by speaking,
parading, striking) can be out-
lawed. Thus the FLQ is extend-
ed to any anti-Establishment
group chosen as the victim, and
murder and kidnapping are ex-

‘tended to any action- those

powers may decide to bea crime.

It will be recalled that when
the leaders of the Communist

. Party were charged and sent-

enced under Section 98 of the
Criminal Code (a rather milder
predecessor of the act under
discussion) in 1932, the accusa-
tion of “advocating force and
violence” was based not on any
violent actions but simply on the
justification of social revolution,
with a quotation from the 1848
Manifesto of the Communist
Party by Marx and Engels as the
main “evidence.”

The whole world is in the
throes of a tremendous revolu-
tionary transformation, of course,
and revolution does not ask the
sanction of its enemies. But re-
volution does not automatically
mean civil war: it can be car-
ried out peacefully via parlia-
mentary elections or/and over-
whelmingly powerful popular ac-
tions that paralyze those: who

GM negotiations
at hot finals

- By WILLIAM ALLAN

(This despatch from Detroit by
Canadian Tribune correspondent
W. Allan was received just as we
went to press.)

DETROIT — According to the
rumors put out by the GM-con-
trolled public media, settlement
of the General Motors strike of
over 400,000 workers in the U.S.
and Canada, members of the
United Auto Workers, is immi-
nent.

However, UAW officials spok-
en to by this Tribune reporter
remained silent about any settle-
ment, as they went behind closed
doors today to hear a report
from UAW president Leonard
Woodcock and Irving Bluestone,
UAW-GM director, on the exact
situation.

From all available accounts,
the UAW has not won its de-
mand for the 61 cents hourly
raise in the first year of a three-
year contract. Nor is it settled
that the GM strikers will get the
cost of living clause without a
cap.

The corporation has agreed “in
principle” on the famous “30 and
out’”—the $500 a month pension
for 30 years seniority. But GM
adamantly demands that it will
not begin until Jan. 1, 1972, and
has some hookers to add to it.

The latest money offer GM
made, according to Tribune sour-
ces, is that the company upped
their offer of 38 cents in the first
year to 48 cents. That is the situ-

ation at the moment. BOR :

| present undergoing treatment

would use arms against the pe”
ple’s -will. It can—and in somé
countries, as in fascist Spain
racist South Africa, in all proba:
bility will—come through an a

surrection supported by
masses of the people. ‘
To legislate against revolt

tion, however, is like legislatine
against the rising of the sun.

If the authors of the projected
act had in mind conspiracy fo
a coup d’etat, or the use of
dividual terrorism (murder |
kidnapping) why didn’t they —
spell it out?

In what way is the new act
not as bad as the proclamation
of the War Measures Act? Is it |
worth accepting it just in orde! |
to lift the military occupation
of Quebec. a

But the act specifies that the
term “peace officer” also “if
cludes a member of the Cana —
dian forces.” That doesn’t :
as though the soldiers aren’t 8° |
ing to be used... : |

Even died-in-the-wool conserv’
atives are horrified at the pal
ticulars: _ —

e “communicate” includes t& —
lephoning, broadcasting “‘or any
other audible or visible means + _

e “statements” includes jus!
about everything you can thin
of, including making “gestures: |
signs or other visible represel
tations’;

e the guilt is made retroac’
tive and takes in everything
from attending a meeting at on?
time or another, contributing
money, renting “any building: |
room, premises or other place, |
and giving “any assistance with |
intent thereby to prevent, hinde! |
or interfere with the apprehen
sion, trial or punishment” of 4
person ‘guilty of an offence un
der this act” if you had “reason:
able cause” to believe he was
guilty . . . Who decides what iS
“reasonable cause’? The same
persons who decide what con-
stitutes a crime or guilt thereof!

e and of course a peace officel
“may enter and search without
warrant any premises, place,
vehicle, vessel or aircraft” if he
suspects he can find something
theres... '
e finally, a person may bé /

arrested without warrant, held
90 days without charges and s0
On.

“In what way is this preferable
to the proclamation of the Wat
Measures Act? And will smooth-
ing down some of the rough
edges, such as cutting down thé
detention from 90 to 60 or even
30 days, change the essence?

This is an act to provide a fig
leaf of legality for illegal actions
by the government of Canada
and its armed forces. It cannot
be accepted by the Canadian:
people.

We need neither the War Mea:
sures Act nor the Public Order
Temporary Measures Act! Moré
—not less—democracy is thé
watchword.

TIM BUCK’S HEALTH |
IS IMPROVING
We are pleased to inform:
the thousands of comrades
friends and well-wishers of |
Tim Buck, founding feader and
national president of our par-
ty, that he is improving from
the stroke which he su
| several months ago, and is at

and convalescing in the USSR.

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