Food prices galloping,

chains gouge

Big food chains predict that food
eke will a between 5 and 10%
y year’s end. In Toronto costs have

jumped 3.5% in the past eight weeks.
upermarket operators offer the excuse
that they fear that the government
may introduce price controls and the
food chains are therefore hurrying to
raise prices to “get in under the wire.”

$3.4 million

Two photos of the Ly Tu Trong primary school in the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam totally destroyed by the current devastating
bombing raids of Nixon's airforce. The section at the bottom is
obliterated, photo above shows the desks in one of the schoolrooms
tiddled with shrapnel.

public

These same operators complain that
their profit margins are unsatisfactory
even though the latest profit figures
prove the opposite — Steinberg’s shows
a 36-week profit of over $10 million, up
from just over $4 million a year ago,
Dominion Stores’ profits jumped from

to $9.5 million during the

past 52 weeks. Canadians now spend

one-quarter of their income on
food. :

As food prices, rents and
other necessities spiral upward,
Canada’s unemployment rate
keeps going up too. The July
figure rose to 6.3% from 6.2%
in June, and while the govern-
ment claims 270,000 more jobs
were provided compared to July
1971, 300,000 more people have
come into the labor force pro-
viding an extra 29,000 more un-
employed. The officially recog-
nized jobless figure is now
543,000 people. ;

Together with these chilling
facts for workers and their
families comes .the announce-
ment that the Unemployment
Insurance Commission will
plunge $400 to $500 million in
debt. Monopolies reap ever-
greater profits, causing rising
unemployment and _ increased
prices for the everyday neces-
sities of life while at the same
time forcing the public to pay
for its economic wreckage.

Government aids and abets
this monopoly drive in every
way it can. No stone is left un-
turned to give every conceiv-
able loophole, to fashion and
shape policies aimed at driving
profits sky-high at the expense
of the only place it can come
from—the worker, the unem-
ployed, the welfare recipients,
the student, the housewife. The
Trudeau sideshow of 1968 has
turned into a nightmare, with
the ghoulish Tory-Social Credit
politicians waiting to take over.
All the high-sounding platitudes
about the quality of life for the
average Canadian are drowned
out in the cash register clang.

Angela Davis on rights

must be one of its first priorities.

ANGELA DAVIS

I have been repeatedly asked whether I am an active sym-
pathizer with the women’s rights movement in the U.S. My re-
sponse is always clear-cut and, I hope, representative of the feel-
ings of black women and poor women in general. .

If the women’s rights movement is serious about its desire to
transform the status of women in the: U.S. today, it must break
out of its largely middle-class frame of reference and understand
that the fight against an oppressive and inhuman

Black: women today understand that it is impossible to dis-
cuss the oppression of women in this society without realizing
that the women who, throughout history and today, have suf-
fered the most from male-supremacist institutions and attitudes
are black women, women of color
women in gencral. And of course,
of pointing to men—regardless of their status— i
We understand that, like racist op anaes
women is embedded in the system by which this country is con-
trolled and governed, economically,

I know that the many sisters in N
movement which gave me my freedom (know) that there is a
whole apparatus of repression which
is most ruthlessly felt by black women

The vast majority of the women who are held inside the jails
and prisons are black and many of them have been victims of
the welfare system at one point or another in their lives.

of women

welfare system

and working class and poor
we never make the mistake

pression, the oppression of

politically and socially.
WRO who helped build the

, when it comes to women,
and other women of color.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1972—PAGE 4

MOSCOW — Soviet smog?
Many wonder about this, having
heard ‘that the Soviet auto in-
dustry is now turning out hun-
dreds of thousands of low-cost
passenger cars and that the
USSR is ‘entering the mass auto-
mobile efa.

The USSR is taking strong
steps to avoid exactly that.

For one thing, it recently be-
came the first nation to issue a
total ban on the use of leaded
gasoline in cities and recreation
areas. Lead, added to gas, pre-
vents engine knock, but it also
poisons the air, as many U.S.
cities have found out. The prob-
lem is, just plain gasoline with-
out lead, when ignited inside a
car engine, not only burns
but also detonates — causing
“knock” — and this can ruin the

engine. Lead dampens the igni--

tion process.

No-knock Manganese

Is there another ingredient
which could be used in place of
lead as a dampener?

Soviet Academician Alexander
Nesmeyanov suggested the use
of manganese. For the past year,
in the city of Oryol in Central
Russia, ‘all gas stations have sold
gas with manganese rather than
lead added. The results showed
that manganese is just as good
a dampener as lead, if not bet-
ter, and does not create toxic
exhaust emissions as lead does.
Since the USSR has a good sup-
ply of manganese, it can think
about replacing all lead in gas-
oline with manganese.

The Soviet Union last year
built a number of experimental
electric cars, but found that
their range before re-charging
of their batteries was around 30

on future form of Wa

By RICHARD ORLANDINI

LONDON—A weekend confer-
ence held outside London has
produced a split in the Ontario
Waffle. The split came following
arguments and voting on what
response the Waffle was to take
after being ordered to disband
by the Ontario NDP.

In a roll-call vote of 89-49, the
group supported by Mel Wat-
kins and James Laxer defeated

the proposals of Joe Flexer and°

Steve Penner. The option sup-
ported by Watkins and Laxer
called for the establishment of
an extra-parliamentary Move-
ment for an Independent and So-
cialist Canada (MISC). Although
supporters insist that it will be
extra-parliamentary, the new

' movement is to have many of

the characteristics of a politi-
cal party. It hopes to establish
a newspaper, collect dues, hire
organizers and conduct educa-
tional campaigns, but it will not,
the leaders say, run candidates
in elections. Although the new
movement will not be affiliated
with the NDP, individual mem-
bers can, if they wish, belong to
the NDP. -

The faction that lost on the
roll-call vote has vowed to stay
in the Ontario NDP, and as the
group’s leaders, Steve Penner
and Joe Flexer stated, “try to
move the centre of the NDP to
the left.” Many of the Penner-
Flexer option supporters insist

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scientists, technologists
government open up the
smog-free motoring in
in the future.

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nearly all of its truce
and taxis over from ga
liquified or compressed
gas in the current 197
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switch to natural g@
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taxis are now being ©
to use natural gas.

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