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Tory ‘tough’ line

We'll just have to “tough it out”, said Finance Minister
Crosbie, Sept. 11, seeing no economic improvement till
1981. Crosbie “toughs it out” on a $26;900 MP’s salary
plus his Cabinet minister’s $20,000, plus $2,000 vehicle
allowance plus a bushel of perquisites (perks for short).
But his government is fiddling with slashing a number

of categories from unemployment insurance benefits.

That government got elected by false pretences because
it promised a $2-bilion tax cut, and solutions to
unemployment and inflation.

A day after Crosbie’s tough talk his fellow Tory,
Sinclair Stevens, treasury board chairman, looking at
four-month expenditures of $1.2-billion on arms and

$2.6-billion in interest to money-lenders, decided that.

was the working people’s fault.
“We must put the brakes on spending or cut — literally
— the take-home pay of every Canadian,” said he, warn-

ing of tax increases.

Isn’t it time the working class taught these Tories a new
meaning for “toughing it out”?

25 years ago...

UAW — LET’S TRADE
WITH THE USSR

Removal of government re- -

strictions on exports of cars and
trucks to the Soviet Union,
Czechoslovakia, Poland,
Rumania, Hungary and “all
countries willing to use such
products” was demanded by the

__ Sept 1012 sessions of the Un+

ited. Automobile. Workers. Dis-
trict Council meeting in Toron-
to.

Representative of its 75,000
members now suffering mass
layoffs, the Council drew atten-
tion to the fact that the US.
Dept. of Commerce does not
include motor vehicles in its list
of goods barred export to the
Soviet Union.

It also noted that export pres-
ident Thomas of Chrysler Corp.
is on record declaring Chrysler

"is ready to sell its cars wherever
they are allowed entry, as»a
further argument for Ottawa to

_liftembargoes. Tribune,

September 20, 1954

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THE COMMUNIST PRESS

Profiteer of the week:

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IMPERIALISM CAUSES
PALESTINE SLAUGHTER

British imperialism and_ its
rich Zionist hangers on wish to
delude Jewish workers about the
present struggle in’ Palestine.
That struggle, in essence, is not
based on religious or racial dif-
ferences, but on a class_basis.
The Palestinian Jewish workers
and poor*Arabs both are the vic-
tims of British imperialism,
Zionism and rich Arabs.

British imperialism in its at-
tempt to subdue and ravish
Palestine, encourages the so-
called nationalist movement of
the Jews, known as Zionism. It is
waging a campaign to drive
from the land the Arabs so it can
be turned into vast plantations.
The conquest of Palestine, with
the aid of the Zionists, is part of
British police in relation to India
and the whole Arabian East.

The Worker
Sept. 21, 1929

in the first half of 1979, Roman Corp. Ltd.,

Toronto had a profit of $7,633,
million if you want to count a little tax credit of

_ $185,000. Tory governments are very gener-
ous with tax breaks to mines — not miners but
mine owners — and Roman Corp., under its.
president Steven Roman, one-time Tory elec-
tion candidate, derives a good part of that profit

' from owning about a third of Denison Mines.

Figures used are from the company's financial statements.

, or $7.8-

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE— SEPTEMBER 21, 1979—Page 4

PETROCAN 2

“WHO NEEDS IT/

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One of the actions of the non-aligned
summit in Havana was to remind Cana-
da, and like-minded members of
imperialist blocs, that Israel is an ag-
gressor which ravages the Middle East
with terrorism, killings, occupation and
the uprooting of peoples.

A resolution approved by the more
than 90 non-aligned countries, repre-
senting a third of humanity, positioned
the movement to “take firm measures”
against any country that transfers its
embassy in. Israel to Israeli-occupied
Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. It would be
used as a measuring stick to judge a
country’s sincerity in its professions of |
concern for the human rights of the
Middle East peoples.

The resolution was a well-deserved
slap in the face for the Clark govern-
ment which bought votes with a promise
of just such an embassy move. Amid
protests from Canadians and _noti-
fication from Arab governments that
they would see it as an unfriendly act,
Clark appointed former Tory leader,
Robert Stanfield a one-man commission
to come up with an answer. On Sept. 9,

Shun Carter oil ‘sharing’ :

President Carter of the USA is
scheduled to visit Canada on Nov. 9-10
to address parliament and discuss with.
Prime Minister Clark a wide range of
bilateral issues. You can bet your bottom
petrodollar that energy, i.e., oil and gas,
will be a priority. ss

There is little doubt Carter will pur-
sue the, “continental energy and re-

sources” scheme. so beloved of the
multi-nationals and imperialism’s
strategists.

It is in no way too early for Canadians
to start warning the slippery Clark

group against selling out Canada’s in- —

terests and the interests of all her
people.

Critical dama e will be done to Cana-

da’s future if the hand ‘that serves. the
multi-nationals and Canada’s
monopolies is not stayed. There is a
serious danger for several reasons, as
the attempted murder of Petrocan indi-
cates. =:

Carter is likely to go after a “sharing” .
of resources because the USA is re-
cklessly squandering them on military
and other ventures which make fast
dollars for the monopolies, and buoy up

Slap by third of mank

rial, saying “countries like the Nether

_gravy dish, might be a help. We'll liste?

-under. democratic contro

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Stanfield-left for Israel and other Mid

east countries to “study” the situation.
As an aside, the Toronto Globe an

Mail, which helped the Tories to pow
misled readers in a September 10 edi

lands” have their embassies
Jerusalem. True the Netherlands, pet
haps for the same reason Clark has, 8

ensconced in occupied Jerusalem. But)
_ the other 10 are all from Latin America
~“unlike” the Netherlands, and includeé

the regimes of Chile, Haiti, Uruguay,

Dominican Republic, Bolivia and

Colombia. a
More important than the Globes

deceit, is the fixation of the Clark Tories |

that once past the ballot box, they cal

take such unpopular stands.
The question is: Can they get a

with the embassy fiasco; and they cannot
be permitted to get away with othe
sell-outs they are openly espousing:
They cannot be allowed to cut Canada
off from the non-aligned third of the
world’s people, or to steer this countty
deeper into the swamp of imperial
intrigue. :

imperialism’s attempt at a world comé
back. At the same time the USA wants
more docile oil donor than it can find #
the Middle East. _.
Badly pummelled by public opinio
Carter needs anything to improve his
image. Canada on a platter, or its oil in a

carefully to what Carter says in Otta
But it may turn out that what he does?
say in public is our real problem. Can we
trust the Tory Cabinet to look out f0
the interests of the working people a2®
the democratic millions, when
monopolies are reminding him why hf
was put there?
“Any huddle between Carter and thé
federal Tories is tied inseparably to the
uestion of an energy policy to se?”
Canada, public ownership of resoure
P and the pr

tection of Petrocan. "e
As part of the fight to save Canada®
energy resources from a Tory sell-ov"
Canadian workers and the democra’y
majority, whose future is being play©
with, have an urgent right to tell Clark
No sell-out to U.S. demands on
resources.

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