some eames’

_NORAD’S COST:

sovereignty, jobs
inflation, taxes

HAMILTON — Thousands of
Saturday shoppers took a serious
interest in the leaflets handed out
along the route of the march, and
in the placards marchers carried
— Canada Out of NORAD — as
opponents of the U.S.-Canada
military pact rallied here, April
19. Speakers ably made the point
that NORAD (the North Ameri-
can Air Defence agreement)
should not be renewed by Canada
when its term expires at the be-
ginning of May.

The march from City Hall, and
rally in Gore Park, was organized
by the Hamilton Peace Commit-
tee, backed by proponents of
peace, jobs, homes and an inde-
pendent Canadian foreign policy,
who converged on Hamilton by
car and bus from several southern
Ontario centres.

In perfect weather, participants
and passers-by listened to the un-

- challengeable arguments of

speakers from trade unions, labor
councils, peace organizations,
and the Ontario legislature. The
thrust of the entire action was
succinctly put in an accompany-
ingleafiet:

@ NORAD is giving U.S. gen-
erals control é6f Canadian air
spat ORAD is costing Canadian
taxpayers $200-million a year that
we can't afford.

e Itisa contributing source of
inflation for working people, and
super-profits for the arms indus-
eit is not a defence for Canada
put adds to the danger of our
needless involvement in war.
Wire to Prime Minister
Both the leafiet, which urged
ople to write or wire the prime

~ minister, and a resolution passed
_ by the gathering of about 200, cal-

led for an end to Canada’s partici-

ation in *
i Jim Young, chairman of the

Hamilton Peace Committee,

pointed to the need for Canada to
change its priorities toward
policies for world peace and
economic security at home, in-
stead of cold war and war

preparations which could make

Canada a nuclear battleground.

Speaking before a banner of ©

peace, Terry Fraser, business
agent Local 105 IBEW, drew ap-

plause when he said that Canada
-could not have control of its own 2
affairs ‘‘so long as our country is ?

tied to military pacts such as
NORAD and NATO.” He ac-
cused political leaders of allowing
our country ‘‘to be dominated by
a foreign country which is run by
the military-industrial complex
(with the result that) much of our
tax money is presently wasted on
useless armaments.”
Lost Construction Jobs

Fraser noted the present
scandalous 25% to 40% un-
employment among building
trades workers. If the money
going to armaments such as the
deal for between $4- and $5-billion
for U.S.-made fighter planes,
went to finance construction,
‘there’ is no doubt that un-
employment among construction
workers and all those workers
who. build the Supplies and
equipment for the construction
industry would be eliminated.

But Fraser put his finger on the
“pro-war psychosis” in both
USA and Canada, where
“thousands of authors, television
newscasters, newspaper column-
ists and editors are obedient ser-

‘vants to propagate”’ the psychosis

which abets the arms industries.

Bill Thompson, secretary of
the Hamilton and District Labor
Council brought greetings to the

peace rally, stressing labor’s af- -

finity for peace. But what labor
builds — including the lives of the
working people — war destroys.

“Every effort of labor depends
on world peace,”’ he stated.

*

%;
ORD

Placard waving demonstrators in Hamilton’s Gore Park April 19 call on the federal government not to renew
the NORAD agreement which terminates at the beginning of May. :

He referred to the danger of
labor not taking an active role in
the peace movement, and to ef-
forts in the USA to isolate labor as
part of the means of destroying
the mass anti-war movement.

Subservience to U.S. military
and economic planning could
only lead to Canada’s loss of
economic and political sovereign-
ty, he indicated. As for NORAD,
Thompson chided its architects, it
“will defend the key decision-
making areas for Canada:
Washington, New ~ York,
Pittsburgh, Houston, Chicago,
Los Angeles, and Colorado
Springs.”’

Spear Carriers for Carter?

Mac Makarchuk, New Democ-
ratic member of the Ontario legis-
lature for Brantford, received a
burst of applause when he de-
clared: ‘There is no reason why
we should be the spear carriers
for Jimmy Carter, just because he

‘wants to get re-elected.’ He

ticked off a series of instances
from Iran to the attempt at an
Olympic boycott as U.S. strategy
sie in no way enhances Cana-

Speaking as probably the only
Canadian elected representative
to have visited Afghanistan since
the 1978 revolution, Makarchuk

‘dismissed the idea of an Olympic

boycott. ‘If you want to talk

about Afghanistan,’’ he said, ‘‘I
suggest you support the Olympics
and go to Moscow and tell them
about it.”

On the sobering matter of nu-
clear missiles, and NORAD’s un-
comfortably close relationship to
the North Atlantic Treaty Or-
ganization, the Ontario parlia-
mentarian urged that, ‘The
fight against Canada’s greater
involvement in NATO ‘and
NORAD must go on: If hostilities
arise,’” he said, ‘‘it is something
less than a half hour to retaliate.
The Pershing missile (which the
USA is now frantic to deploy
throughout western Europe) al-
lows only seven minutes. If you
have only seven minutes to save
this world and all that’s in it you
do not have enough time!”

If life is going to be presserved,
Makarchuk said, ‘‘it’s because
people like you have taken a stand
when it needed to be taken.”

Joe Bouchard, greeting the
participants, spoke for both the
St. Catharines and District Labor
Council of which he is President
and the Niagara Peace Move-
ment. Bouchard is a representa-
tive of the Canadian Union of
Public Employees.

Both the International Associa-
tion of Machinists in the USA,
and the Michigan-based Public

Interest Research Group had
shown through studies, Bouchard
stated, that peace-oriented pro-
duction produces substantially
more jobs than those related to
war preparations.

Calling on Ottawa to redirect its
budget for NORAD to socially
useful expenditure, Bouchard al-
luded to the need for a Canadian
merchant marine, and added:
“The defence needs of Canada
should be limited to the use of
patrol aircraft for enforcement of
our 200-mile offshore fishing and
mineral exploration limits, as well
as the patrolling of our vast north-
lands.”

Canadian Peace Congress
executive secretary, Jean Vau-
tour, reminded the gathering that

Canadians had defeated an earlier -

attempt to foist a U.S. military
presence on Canada in the form of
the Bomarc missiles.

‘‘Through vigorous protests,
the Canadian people got rid of the
Bomarcs,’” Vautour said, ‘‘and
they can do the same with
NORAD!” She urged pressure on
Trudeau to remind him of his
election-time pledge that Canada
should play a part in preserving

- peace between the United States

and the Soviet Union, rather than
becoming an automatic vehicle
for U.S. war policy.

Monopoly — public enemy number one

Last week we took a brief look at

Evidence of how the monopolies use

state-monopoly capitalism — the final
stage of capitalism, which Lenin de-
scribed as a complete material base for
socialism. This week we will take an
equally brief look at how monopoly uses
the Canadian state, and its various
governments, as the principle means of
regulation and exploitation of the
economy, which includes the human re-
sources, i.e., the working people.
_ Paks ead rae

‘Some ten years ago Dr. Emil Bjarna-
son, Canada’s eminent Marxist
economist, compiled a list of ways the
monopolies use the state for their pur-
‘poses. We will be compelled to compress
the list for reason of space. They are:

To guarantee themselves a market
through government contracts and pur-
‘chases, particularly in the military

_ sphere; finance at the expense of the
people research, development and all —

other forms of expenditure which do not
directly yield.a profit; undertake through
capitalist nationalization those economic
activities which are least profitable or
even non-profitable to facilitate profit-
making in the private sector; regulate the
economy for the purpose of avoiding, or
‘mitigating, crises which threaten the
foundations of the system; suppress the
class struggle by the imposition of com-

Marxism-Leninism in Today’s World

‘ pulsory arbitration, certification: and

regulation of trade unions, strike-
breaking, etc.; undertaking measures of
capitalist central planning, financing and
integration called for by our modern

economy without encroaching on the pre--

rogatives of private property; facilitate
the international operations of the
monopolies which by their very nature
depend on state treaties, subsidies, tariff

regulations, financing arrangements and -

even military interventions.
* * *

Readers will find it useful to keep this

listing of areas in which the state inter-
venes on behalf of the monopolies. At
the same time it should never be for-
gotten that state-monopoly capitalism is

the direct union of the power of the ~

capitalist monopolies:with the enormous
power of the state which, however, oc-
cupies a subordinate position to the
monopolies. Of course, such relationship
is camouflaged behind pious statements
about “the good of the nation’’.
However, . whenever the federal or
provincial governments undertake sub-
stantial intervention in the economic
sphere, you can bet your bottom dollar
such intervention will be in the interests,
either in whole or in part, of the mono-

polies. The same assumption holds true
when such intervention is in the sphere of
worker-management relations.

* * *

For instance, let’s take the Ford-
Ottawa-Ontario deal which netted Forda
$68-million government give-away to
build a new engine plant in the Windsor

area. Once the deal was closed Ford

closed down its present plant, moving
production of engine castings to the U.S.

_ and dispersed the workers employed in

the old plant to other production depart-
ments on the basis of seniority which lost
850 permanent jobs for auto workers in
the Windsor area. It can be safely as-
sumed that once the new plant comes
into production there will be a further

_loss of permanent jobs at Ford.

Another instance, is that of the pulp
and paper industry in Ontario. That

industry received a series of grants total- -

ling $140-million by the federal and On-
tario governments. The grants, ac-
cording to newspaper reports, are “‘to
prod reluctant businessmen into moder-
nizing old mills’’. Once this is done, at
the people’s expense, it will result in a
net loss of approximately 800 permanent
jobs.

OK

‘maximum _ profits.

the state to gain their ends is presented
here out of the mouth of President Lee
Iacocca of the Chrysler Corporation. Ina
fit of boasting he said:

“Ford, when I was there, General
Motors, Chrysler, al! over the world, we
would pit Ohio versus Michigan. We'd
pit Canada versus the U.S. We'd get out-
right grants and subsidies in Spain,
Mexico, in Brazil — all kinds of grants.
With my former empioyer, one of the last
things I did was, on the threat of losing

2,000 jobs in Windsor, { got $73-million ~

outright to convert an engine plant. I’ve
had great experience in this.”’

gee ok

This is state-monopoly capitalism in
action on just one of its many fronts —
the sphere of state grants, subsidies and
forgiveable loans to further the expan-
sionist aims of the monopolies (funds,
mind you, taken out of the people’s poc-
kets) for ever-greater production and
This is achieved
through, rationalization of production
with its ineviable loss of jobs as long as
the means of production remain in the
hands of the capitalist monopolies; and
governments subservient to them remain
in office.

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