> CRISIS

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¥ CANADA MUST BREAK
OUT OF US. VISE!

President Nixon has decided fo increase the export of the two
evils of our time—inflation and unemployment—to Canada and
to other capitalist countries by his new economic policies. His
crisis-ridden system has an abundance of both social evils.

How will it affect the working people of our country?

It will cripple our manufacturing industry, our agriculture and
other industries, while permitting the free flow of our natural re-
sources to the U.S.A., so urgently needed by the U.S. corporations.

It will hit hardest those sectors of our economy,
pees manufacturing, which employ the
argest number of workers, hence place the main
burden on the working people and their families.

It will deprive tens of thousands of people of
their right to work and alarmingly increase the
wage mass unemployment in all parts of Can-
ada.

It will increase prices, rents and interest, thus further re-
ducing the declining standards of living and purchasing power.of
the working people.

It will further the aim of U.S. imperialism to turn Canadians
into “hewers of wood and drawers of water” for the benefit of the
US. multi-national corporations.

This is U.S. economic aggression against Canada. It may well
lead to a trade and currency war with ominous signs comparable
to the beginning of the “Great Depression” of the “Hungry
Thirties.” These are the fruits of Canadian-U.S. integration and
continentalism. These are the fruits of “U.S. leadership of the
free world.”

What are the main causes for the crisis?

Let us call a spade a spade. The crisis which Nixon has un-
loaded on the allies, on the U:S.A., and on the American working
people was not caused by “financial speculators” and is not of a
temporary character. ;

The crisis reflects the “sick society,” the out-
worn, inhuman social system of which President
Nixon is the head.

It stems from the greedy profit system of the

nate the world, to subjugate nations and states,
big and small, to their will by military and eco-
nomic aggression,
It stems from U.S. military aggression in Indochina. It stems
from the maintenance of about 2,000 U.S. military bases and
armed forces in other people’s lands.
It stems from the post-war drive to gain ownership and control
of the main levers in other countries by U.S. monopolies.

MESSAGE TO WORKING PEOPLE OF CANADA

The Canadian Tribune reprints here the text of the extremely an
important leaflet issued by the Central Executive Committee of
the Communist Party of Canada—around the slogans “Put Can-
ada back to work! Jobs or adequate income for all Canadians
as a right!”—which is being distributed in 90,000 copies, in both
French and English, across Canada.

billionaire monopolies in their mad drive to domi- ©

and tne! hew.

It stems from the relative decline of U.S. imperialism and
emergence of the Federal Republic of Germany and Japan i
strong imperialist powers challenging U.S. imperialism 0! ©”
world market and in its home base. id 3

It stems from a sharpening conflict between giant monoPy
which could bring the capitalist world to the brink of catastint ;
It underscores the fact that imperialism is in deep crisis an@ i
we are living in the epoch of transition from capitalism to §
ism. The time is approaching when the working class and ¢
cratic forces will take things into their own hands and ach
society free of exploitation of man by man—socialism.

What is the Trudeau Government doing to meet the crisis?

At best the Trudeau Government is applying band-aids ¥

a surgical operation is required. In face of the

grave danger to the Canadian economy and to the 4
well-being of the working people the Government. 2%
declares its sympathy with the economic aggres- Al

sion of the Nixon administration and pleads with
cap in hand for special consideration because of
our loyalty and support of U.S. world policies.

When all the pleading failed, as it was pound
do, the Trudeau Government is proposing to use taxpayers ™ ‘
80 million dollars as a start, to assure the profits of the co!

tions.
dow!

The government is adopting the old wornout “trickle F tho
formula, “he who has gets more” with the utopian hope tha ie
who have not “may get a little.” It has never worked befor op
evidenced in the give-aways to corporations in underdev™
regions in Canada. It will not work this time. It will not P bi
existing jobs and it will certainly not create any new jobs ™
for the present unemployed and for the young people comin

the labor force.

_ Monopoly in addition to the subsidies will adopt meas

take it out of the hide of the working people through + ti
automation, rationalization, speed-up and increased exp He ft
to reduce the unit cost of production, to meet competitiO? “7%
protection of their profits.

The plot to introduce an “incomes policy” and a “wage fh
is part of the aim to make the working class pay for the tere
the-U.S.A. crisis and the betrayal of the real Canadian Inv

by monopoly and its governments.

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What should be done to meet the crisis?

What is required are new policies directed to expand the f
market by raising the purchasing power ©
people. eclt
‘The Government must be compelled to 4%,
that no plants will be permitted to close dowre
no job or income lost as a consequence 0
per cent surcharge. aed
Crown corporations should be establish ts
: public ownership undertaken to keep plat” —
operation wherever there are threats of closure. ; git
If the Government refuses to act in this way, the worke! 5 ot j
their unions should organize “work-ins” and continue produ 5
If the Government, following the Nixon “model,” impr
“wage freeze” or “incomes policy” on the working Cl,
sections of the trade union movement should unitedly un re the.
whatever actions are necessary to defend the interests
working people and defeat such unjust laws. t oft
The measures undertaken by the Nixon Governme™ jj
phasize anew that the basic question for the Canadian peoP
the over-riding necessity of extricating Canada and its el!
from the U.S. stranglehold and embarking on the road to 8
Canadian independence. a
This will require a new political alignment, the forging
democratic coalition and a government based on it to un Cal
those measures which will defend the true interests of the ~
dian people. — t
The crisis cannot be met by the Employment Suppor
What is required is a restructuring and expansion of the ers
based on Canada-wide industrialization and public owt §
through the processing of our natural resources, as W:
restructuring of Canada’s trade policies to lessen dependet’
the U.S. market oy Spee Ine trade with the socialist COM
epenaent countries nee

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