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present generations of working
people, demand a more and
more exhorbitant rate of profit
from labor to still further ac-
cumulate wealth in the hands of
the few. The rich are getting
richer and the poor are getting
poorer.

This is vivid confirmation of
the predications of the Commun-
ist Manifesto written 125 years
ago by Karl Marx and Frederick
Engels. It is this basic contradic-
tion which lies at the heart of
all the problems of the working
people of our province. More
and more, people are being com-
pelled to challenge this unnatu-
ral relationship and strike out in
the direction of fundamental
social changes.

Big monopoly control over the
economic, political, cultura! and
social life of Ontario is generat-
ing crisis on a broad front. It
results in widespread poverty
and growing impoverishment of
the entire working class; in-
creasing foreign control of our
natural resources and key in-
dustries, alarming environmen-
tal pollution which jeopardizes
the life, health and recreation of
this and future generations. It
also produces speed-up and in-
tolerable working conditions in
the factories where the neces-
sities of life are produced and
aunconscionable profiteering and
high prices which takes the food
from people’s~tables, the roof
from over their head, and de-
prives them of the right to ‘a
full social and cultural life.

At the level of the provincial
government laws and _legisla-
tion are passed which more and
more trample on the demo-
‘cratic rights of labor, and of the
entire community. There is an
assault on the health and educa-
tion standards of the province.
A serious erosion of municipal
democracy and autonomy and
an abrogation of power by
Queen’s Park in all areas is in
progress. The Davis govetfnment
is doing this because there is a
contradiction between the needs
of _ communities, the education
needs, the health needs, the cul-
tural needs of the people of this
province, and the policies re-
quired to increase the profits of
the giant corporations it serves.

Because of this there is wide-
spread discontent with the rul-
ing Tories who have their own
Watergate which is being parad-
ed before the people in uninter-
rupted tempo. Conflicts of inter-
est, Moog scandals, giveaways
to big corporations, brutal high-
handed imposition of regional
government, plus a legion of
other sins have led to growing

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ONTARIO FEDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTION

disillusionment with the Tories.
They can be defeated in the
next provincial election. -

The Liberals, who have no
basic differences with the Tories
on Ontario direction, also dis-
played their disarray at their re-
cent convention. With proper
work and direction the working
people of this province could
push the Tories out of Queen’s
Park and elect a progressive al-
ternative in the next provincial
election.

This will be decided in the
struggle between monopoly and
the people. All in unity is re-
quired to beat back the attempts
of monopoly to make the work-
ing people pay the costs of the
present crisis. This is a matter
of great urgency for all wage
and salary workers in Ontario.
It is also’ precisely this unity
and struggle today, and victo-
ries against the monopoly offen-
sive, which will set the stage
for the defeat of the Tories and
the election of a progressive
majority at the next provincial
election.

This mighty trade-union
movement, in action around a
program designed to shift the
costs of the present crisis onto
the big corporations, can be the
centre of such a united move-
ment. Our contribution to the
formulation of such a program
is as follows:

‘e Public ownership of all na-
tural resources.

@ Natural resource develop-
ment to take place under crown
or joint crown private corpora-
tions subject to general govern-
ment planning.

e Planned systematic repatri-
ation of major Ontario-based in-
dustries under U.S. control and
ownership. Guarantees against
any further U.S. economic pe-
netration into the province. _
@ Ontario energy plan. to pro-
vide:

Use of heavy water nuclear

energy to meet growth re-

quirements. Present Hydro

rates to be frozen and expan-°

sion to be financed through
long term provincial loans
and higher rates to corpora-
tions.

- Present Hydro Public utility
to be maintained and plans to
make Hydro a Crown Corpor-
ation be scrapped.

Natural and manufactured gas
to be brought under public
ownership and _ distribution
and operated as public utility.

"I got to admit
my inflation has
been curbed."

Gasoline prices be rolled back
to Jan, 1973 level and frozen
there ‘by Ottawa.

Ontario press for Canadian

public Petroleum Corporation. —

East-West Power Grid.

Oil pipeline connecting West-

ern oil with Eastern market. :

Export of oil, gas, electricity

to U.S. be based on long term

interests of Canada and only
exported after these needs
have been established.

@ Government industrial ex-
pansion plan to lead to the
creation of resources based in-
dustries in Northern Ontario to
bring about the industrial de-
velopment of the North and the
end of serious regional disparity
in resource rich areas.

@ A minimum wage of $3 per-
hour.

eA bill of rights for labor
which would protect workers
against the ravages of technolo-
gical change in the hand of
monopoly. Make certification of
unions easier and help to bring
those underpaid workers, many
of whom are new immigrants,
into union which can protect
them against brutal working

conditions and low wages and-

lack of benefits.

e@ Stop plant closures and
protect workers against lay-offs.
Provide the right to strike dur-
ing the life of an agreement on
matters not covered by the
agreement as an essential step
to curbing the unrestricted
rights of management.

e Establish equal pay for
similar work for women. Reduce

Tory government keeps park
safe for giant lumber firms

The current controversy over
Private logging in the 3,000
square mile Algonquin Park in
Ontario stems from public pro-

tests over rights handed out by
Queen’s Park to 19 companies
who hold leases to log two-
thirds. of the park and operate
a $50-million a year business.
Pressures by concerned citiz-
ens who want the park to be
used for people and not private
properties, ,have forced the
Davis government to develop a
plan which, though not yet an-
nounced, looks like the usual
Tory answer. Minister of Natu-
ral Resources, Leo Bernier,
s while paying: lip ‘service to: fan

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average man’s wilderness”, also
promised the logging monopo-
lies that their interests would
not be curbed — which is a neat
trick.

The Tory bunch announced
the establishment of the Algon-
quin Forest Authority to super-
vise the park and, supposedly,
to look after the interests of the
Ontario taxpayers. The catch?
Named to head the AFA is for-
mer Ontario premier, John Rob-
arts, who also happens to be a
director of Power Corporation
of Canada (Ltd.) which, strange-
ly enough, owns 40% of Consol-

idated-Bathurst Ltd., who, in-

turn operates seven leases for
timbering in Algonquin Park: ; }

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the maximum work week to 44
hours and protect workers from
compulsory overtime.

e Pollution control aimed not
only at protecting the commun-
ity at large but at protecting
working people in the plants
who are the first victim of pol-
lution.

@ Action to rehabilitate our
native people both economically
and culturally. :

e A provincial prices review
board, with teeth to protect the
people from profiteering in the
areas of food, housing, and
interest.

@ Tax reform which would
remove the cost of education
from property and shift it to the
corporations, through the meth-
od of income tax and Capital
gains tax.

e An expanded education pro-
gtam, providing stipends which
would end the class discr!mina~-
tion which now more and more
prevents working class children
from higher education.

e Democratization of educa-
tion in primary and secondary
schools where the process of
streaming into “academic” and
“factory hands” begins.

@ Move towards the elimina-
tion of all religious education in
the school system and the estab-
lishment of a total. public, se-
cular education system in
schools where religious educa-
tion during school hours is for-
bidden. This includes eliminat-
ing the build in waspish Protest-

_ portant sta

antism from the

present public
education system. R

@ Preservation of the family
farm by placing a $5,000 annual
net income floor under farms |
which Provide the main source |
of income for a single family.

° Break up the vertical integ-
ration system in Ontario agri:
business which has placed the
food monopolies in virtual com:
mand of our entire agriculture.

e Raise old-age pensions to |
$200 a month at once and pro-

vide comfortable housing for
our aged. ;

_ @ Make housing a public util.
ity and set a perspective of a
minimum of 250,000 public low
and medium rent houses Over |
the next five years.

e Subsidize mor
bring interest rates down to 5%
for working people.

e Eliminate all remi
Ad p emiums for
© Government to take ov

. e . si
automobile insurance. |
@ Earmark $100 million fo,
the construction and _ subsidiza.

tion of day-care centres over the
next five years, ’

This is ¢
the Ontario
May this ¢

tgagest.

he challenge facing
Federation of Labor
OnventiOn be an im
ge in advancing you, |
tario along that path
erest Of the workin:
, wish yOur great ¢
vention success in championiy
the real economic, social, pol:

tical and cultural :
pedple. u needs of th |

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