By BEN SWANKEY

. THE expansion of the
Canadian economy con-
tinue for another five
years?

The Economic Council of
Canada not only believes that
it can but that it must be ac-
celerated. :

In its first annual report, this
28-member council, headed by
John J. Deutsch, former head of
the economics department at
UBC, spells out what must be
done.

It lists the following targets,
to be achieved by 1970:

e Create 1.5 million new jobs.

@ Increase the rate of econo-
~~ mic growth by almost 50 per-
cent, to 5.5 percent a year.

:. @A “realistic objective” of
employment for 97 percent of
the labor force; in other words
reduce unemployment from the
present level of five to three
* percent.

e Increase productivity by

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hat's involved in the economic

“Canada is moving toward
growth of Canada. And so is YOUP force expansion in its entire his-

one of the highest rates of labor

THE DEUTSCH REPORT

Will economy
still expand?

average increase between 1960 parently leaving this to govern-
and 1965. ment and business.

The report warned that “we T. C. Douglas, NDP national
are standing on the threshold of leader, hailed the report’s objec-
a period in which the pace of tives. “I think it’s possible,” he
expansion in employment will said. “If unemployment were
need to be very substantially reduced to three percent, it
better than our longer run ex- would pay for social security
perience if we are to avoid se- too.” =.
vere social and economic prob- e
lems and strains.”

The noted Vancouver labor
economist, Emil Bjarnason,
drew attention to some of the
report’s shortcomings. ~

The full impact of the “early
post war baby boom” on the
labor force “has been modified
and delayed during the last few
years by thetendency for young “Three essential matters seem
people to stay in school lon- to be missing,” he said.

ger,” declares the report. Call- “Apparently it does not even
roaniee oe cae eget mention the one greatest ob-
force of fae aatreace now 4s sale 2 plough ane scapes:
starting to be felt in the labor pene here cere bay?
force.” by arms spending.

It points out that the 20-24 “Secondly, it fails to deal

age group in the labor force will ,; .
increase by 57 percent between oy ik ee
1960-70; that the 10 year in- omy in recent years. I refer to
crease in this age group will be the fact that our economy is
270,000 in this decade compar- gubject to a higher degree of.
ed to 25,000 in the decade of foreign domination, especially
the fifties. American domination, than that
The number of working Of any other developed country.
women, the report states, will “Thirdly, the Council seems
increase by one million, from to feel that with correct govern-
1.5 million in 1960 to 2.5 million ment policies, the owners of in-
in 1970. Women will then com- dustry can be relied upon to

prise one third of the entire carry out the objectives it lays
work force.

Cont'd. from P. 6

THOMPSON BACKS
ULTRA-RIGHT GROUP

The s

ti ympathies of Socred Na-

aa Robert Thompson
eS Reve emir Manning for
Sete ultra-Right and Barry
Lae - are well known, Prior
Halles a election Thompson
leeacs Oldwater as the kind of

needed today and said he

Would like: d
Canada, ke ‘to see him speak in

ah recent months Premier
op a of Alberta and other
of the Teds have spoken openly
ie ae for a new party ofthe
neeau ight in Canada, Secret
Se eeons have been going on
nine time, with the aim of
mene ne about a new realign-
rece would give the ultra-
ee a larger political forum
which to operate,

one Obvious aim of the ultra-
use ee Tacist groups is to
in the. Ocial Credit Party much
Way the John BirchSociety

: a groups in the U,S, won
Sots See convention for
Political o: Their hope is to gain
Rational bower through using the
an inst Social Credit Party as
rument to unite all reac-

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D ary forces into a mass public
Ovement,

It is in this light that the letter
sent by Robert Thompson, on
House of Commons stationery, to
the uftra-Right Christian Action
Movement, comes as a shock to
all democratic Canadians, The
Pacific Tribune reproduces that
letter, dated May 21, 1964, inthis
issue,

In it Thompson praises the
Christian Action Movement and
its leaders, He describes them as
upstanding persons whose values
were “most important to the
preservation of democracy.” He
indicates that he is doing all that
he can “to fight for the principles
which are presented in the Chris-
tian Action Movement,”

What is the Christian Action
Movement? Above the photostat
of Thompson’s letter the Pacific
Tribune reproduces the full page
of the January, 1964 edition of
«Focus — the Canadian Social
Crediter,” official organ of the
Social Credit Association of Ca-
nada, This page ties together the
Christian Action Movement and
the Canadian Intelligence Serv-
cie, headed by Ron Gostick.

The Canadian IntelligenceServ-
ice is the organ of the Christian
Action Movement, Gostick is the
key person in both, Known for,
his ultra-Right views, Gostick is
a former editor of the national
Social Credit paper. The Cana-
dian Jewish Congress has de-
scribed the Canadian Intelligence
Service as anti-Semitic.

tory,” the report states. A 2.8

Pe uture, In this article Ben Swankey percent increase is predicted for
€xplains some aspects of the report.

the 1965-79 period. This would
be one third higher than the

Socred tieup with racists

The attention of. readers is
drawn to a leaflet being distribut-
ed in Canada which is reproduced
beside Thompson's letter on page
six, This leaflet is interesting
for two reasons, It has the fascist
symbol used in the leaflet shown
on page one which calls for the
organization of groups for vio-
lence, And also because it adver-
tises Gostick’s “Canadian Intel-
ligence Service” as distributors
of the notorious anti-Semitic
“protocols of the Learned Elders
of Zion,”

These are the people whom the
National Social Credit leader de-
scribes as having worthy* values”
and for which “principles” he
promises to fight, Is it any won-
der that the Toronto Globe and
Mail and The Telegram both
criticized Thompson for his as-
sociation with these ultra-Right
groups and his letter praising
their leaders?

NEED FOR ACTION NOW

The evidence presented on
these pages should prod every
British Columbian to demand ac-
tion now from Premier Bennett,
We urge our readers to clip out
the message at the bottom of
page one and send it to Premier
Bennett with apersonal message.
Write your MLA and urge him
to raise this matter on the floor
of the Legislature, Raise the
question in your organization for
action.

The report also forecasts a
decline of about 100,000 in em-
ployment . between. 1963-70 in
Canada’s primary industries —
agriculture, fishing, forestry and
mining. —

It is “reasonable to expect,”
it says, “that the Canadian fish-
ing industry would increase its
output by about three percent a
year, compared with two per-
cent since the war.”

The report also recommends:

e A “reasonable” restraint in
both wage demands and busi-
ness pricing policies.”

e Expansion of manufactur-
ing industries in Canada.

@ A much larger program
than now exists for urban re-
newal and low rental housing.

The report acknowledges that
to attain these growth rates, the
economy would have to grow
twice as fast as it has in the re-
cent past.

‘Failure to attain the basic
economic objectives set forth in
this. report,” it warns, ‘would
bring heavy costs in terms of
unemployment and slow gains
in living standards, or in terms
of inflation of economic distor-
tions.”

The report stresses the need
for “strong expansionary poli-
cies” to attain these objectives,
including lower taxes, freer
trade, easier money, greater
mobility and training of labor
and more social investment: But
it does not go into detail, ap-

down. This ignores the highly
monopolized character of our
economy and the need for the
curbing of monopoly and the in-
stitution of central planning if
our national objectives are to
be fulfilled.” :
—The Fisherman.

Freeze fees,
say students

in Ontario

RECENT week-end meet-

ing of delegates from the

Ontario region of the Can-
adian Union of Students adopt-
ed a_ resolution saying there
should be no universiiy fee in-
creases until a commrehensive
plan for university financing has
been adopted. The meeting took
place at the end of January in
Ottawa.

Delegates also approved re-
solutions for:

Adoption of French as an of-
ficial language in Ontario;

Elimination of Ontario Hos-
pital insurance premiums for
post-secondary-school students;

Lowering of the minimum
legal drinking age in Ontario to
18.

The fees resolution said uni;
versities need increased funds
from fees, but academic free-
dom can only exist if financial
handicaps do not hinder stu-
dents from developing their
abilities.

February 19, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7

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