Canadian Labor Coronas delegation are shown during their recent visit to the Soviet Union visiting the Electrsila Plant in Leningrad where turbines are produced. In the centre is Joe Morris, president of the CLC CP CHARGES: ‘Regulations rob workers, protect monopoly profits’ “The anti-inflation regulations proclaimed by the government on Dec. 18 actually constitute a guarantee to protect the high profits of the giant corporations at the expense of the living standards of the working people, the han- dicapped, the young and the aged,”’ said a statement issued by the Central Executive of the Com- munist Party of Canada. The CP statement said: “‘The government aims to reduce its expenditures in the coming fiscal year by $1.5 billion. It plans to grab $220 million of this amount out of family allowances due to go into effect on January 1 “This robbery of our children comes hard on the heels of a previous government decision to spend upward of $1.5 billion for new military hardware. In addition Crist hits housing inaction Ernie Crist, runner-up in last November’s aldermanic race in North Vancouver, has charged the district council with maintaining a double standard with regards to housing . and community ‘development. Crist made the charge in his regular North Shore Commentary following council’s rejection of a request from the North Shore Housing Association that some Jand be made available for a “cooperative housing project. Crist said that the reasons given by council for the rejection: the interests need to wait for a housing policy from: the new Socred government, a report from the planning department, and the lack of properly zoned land, are all ““phoney.”’ “The real reasons for turning down the request are not those given, but the fact that council wants to continue selling all land to real estate and big business, whose they serve,’ Crist declared. Crist pointed out that the district council has already stated that they are in favor of a big housing ANNUAL BURNS NIGHT SUPPER AND DANCE Saturday, January 24th — 6:30 p.m. Price $5.00 FISHERMEN’S HALL 138 E. Cordova Street Vancouver, B.C. For tickets call 937-3565 or 939-0245 fo Soviet Union. all inclusive tours We have tours to Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, anywhere you wish to travel to throughout the Drop in and see us. We will be Happy to discuss your personal travel needs. fee ' Toreserve space or for further information, please contact The experts in travel to the USSR 2679 Hastings Street East/Vancouver B.C./253-1221 | development for the foot of Grouse Mountain, even though there is no over-all plan for that area either. Crist said that this attitude which permits and encourages the building of more hundred thousand dollar homes for speculation purposes, even though there is already a glut of such homes on the market, is the district council’s answer as to how to solve the housing crisis.”’ “The real solution to the housing crisis is a district housing policy which would include -a .com- mitment that for every 100 homes built in the municipality, not less than 15 per cent would be built for low- and middle-income people. “This would be accomplished through a long-term, over-all plan for the community based on full neighborhood participation,” he OBITUARY VERA GILBANKS The labor movement has lost a long-time supporter with the passing of Vera Gilbanks in Port Alberni last November 28. She was 64. .Vera Gilbanks was born in rural Finland and came to Canada at an early age with her mother and stepfather. They settled in the mining district of northern On- tario, and as a witness to the terrible hardships which the working people of a mining town suffered, Vera soon became a staunch supporter, and activist in, the labor movement. She was an early champion of women’s rights, long before such an attitude became popular. Vera and her husband Jack eventually settled in Port Alberni where they soon became well known to the BROBreSsiye com- munity. A long-time reader and sup- porter of the Tribune, Vera Gilbanks will besorely missed, and we extend our most sincere con- dolences to her family in their loss. Beaver Transfer * Moving * Packing * Storage 790 Powell St. Phone 254-3711 the government is either phasing out or drastically slashing youth programs, and community make- work projects. “As a gesture toward its so- called policy of ‘equality of sacrifice,’ the government is imposing a 10 per cent surtax for 1976 on all incomes over $30,000 a year to apply equally to middle income people and _ billionaires. This measure is directed mainly at middle income brackets. This is a farce. If the government was sincere in fighting -inflation it would begin the collection of the $7.5 billion owed by the cor- porations under the deferred taxes program. “The government has increased unemployment. insurance premium payments, lengthened penalty time periods, and ‘cut off all workers over 65 from unem- ployment insurance coverage. “The anti-inflation ‘regulations lay down that fringe benefits received by employees be rolled into wages and salaries for the purpose of calculating hourly rates of pay upon which allowable in- creases will be based. ‘All of the foregoing is only a beginning. There will be more to come unless the working people act decisively. ‘On the other hand,” says the CP statement, “‘the regulations laid down for allowable upward revision of price and profit margins, and dividend payments provide loopholes big enough to drive a truck through. In actual life these regulations will not work. They arenot meant to work, for the Act is meant to protect and ad- vance the interests of monopoly. “Monopoly control is the real source of the economic crisis and inflation. Itis monopoly power that must be controlled not the working people and their children. “Working people must reject the Beef spread high in B.C, Vancouver consumers have been paying the highest prices for grade A beef than in the four other major Canadian centres during the first six months of 1975, despite con- siderably lower wholesale prices here. This fact was revealed in the third report issued by the food prices review board last week. The report points out that Vancouver meat retailers paid an _ average of 71.5 cents a pound for carcass beef and sold it for $1.13. This is a price spread of about 35 cents a pound. In Montreal the price spread between retailers and consumers was 20 cents; in Calgary 21 cents; and Toronto, 23 cents. bogus monopoly-inspired govern- ment anti-inflation program. “To this end the Communist Party repeats its call to the working class and democratic movement to unite in support of a genuine attack on inflation and the crisis policies of monopoly. The three-point program of the Com- munist Party and the 10-point program of the Canadian Labor Congress, taken together, offer a real alternative to the Trudeau anti-inflation plan. “Reject the wage cutting anti- inflation plan! Restore free collective bargaining! Demand the restoration of the 11 per cent COLA on family allowances! Roll back prices and profits! Prosecute the profiteers!”’ Mid-east appeal Drawing attention the drive by Zionist groups against the United Nations, the B.C. Peace Council this week released a letter from the World Peace Council pointing out that the UN Security Council meets January 12 to discuss the whole Middle East question. The World Peace Council calls in the letter for a flood of letters and telegrams addressed to the president and members of the Security Council demanding that the UN Security Council take immediate practical measures for the implementation of its resolutions 242 and 338 as well as the General Assembly resolution 3236 which calls for the withdrawal of Israel from occupied Arab territories and the national rights of the Palestian people. Mac-Pap dance Milton Wolfe, last com- manding officer of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War was guest of honor at last month’s Mac-Pap Dance: Wolff, from San Francisco, was representing the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the United States Committee for a Democratic Spain. In his brief comments to the crowd, Wolff spoke of the ac- tivities of the American Committees For a Free Spain and stressed the need for world- wide protest to speed the fall of Europe’s last fascist regime. The Veterans of _ the Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade announced the following as prize winners in their annual raffle: first prize went to Dr. M. S. Dettman of Vancouver; the second prize was won by Peter Black of Coquitlam and the third prize by Ron Guwick of Vancouver. (ee ea a a I i Re tea RS ti ail aR Sti CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING a AE WANTED TO RENT HALLS FOR RENT ROOM AND - BOARD or Housekeeping Room, Vancouver or Burnaby area — phone 826- 2784 starting February 1,. 1976. BUSINESS PERSONALS RON SOSTAD, Writer-Researcher. Ph. 922-6980 NORTHERN ' BUILDING MAINTENANCE - Complete janitorial services. Ph. office 879-2317, residence 531-7601. RUSSIAN -PEOPLE’S HOME. — Now available for rentals. 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