Trudeau calls an election

Workers Press no. 859, 4 September 1972 · scan page 3

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CANADA'S premier, Pierre Trudeau, has dissolved parliament ana called general election for October 30. He took this action after rushing through legislation ordering striking west coast dockers to return to work immediately.

Trudeau's decision ends months of speculation about when he would go to the polls. His Liberal government has encountered great hostility from the organized workers for its attacks on basic Heralded when he took office as a Canadian 'Kennedy', Trudeau has implemented ruthless anti-strike laws-sending union leaders to jail for defying the courts.

His government has repeatedly been accused by the opposition of riding roughshod over parliamentary procedure.

Rise in US jobless UNEMPLOYMENT in the United States rose last month to 5.6 per cent of the labour force from 5.5 per cent in June and July. The Commerce Department gave the total unemployed at 4.9 million and claimed this was a drop of 300,000 on the previous month's figure.

Railmen to stop in Italy ITALY's 216,000 railwaymen begin a 24-hour strike this evening in support of a £10-a-month pay claim and against creeping denationalization of the industry. Their strike is one of a number facing the coalition government, which is also involved in a big parliamentary wrangle over which colour television system the country should adopt.

Senior civil servants are staging an indefinite strike against the blocking of their recent substantial pay rise by a government-appointed court.

JOHN SPENCER

UNION LEADERS and port employers in Colombo, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) have agreed 4,000 sackings of 'unwanted' dockers. The dock union leaders belong to the Communist Party and the reformist organization. the Lanka Sama Samaja