Parliament must act for jobs

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9, threatens
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new trade curbs

The U.S. threatened Canada this week that it will impose new trade curbs on
Canadian goods if the government adopts measures to get around the 10 percent
surtax. This arrogant action once again underlines the need for Canada to extricate
itself from the U.S. grip or face economic disaster.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1971 Vol. 32, No. 37

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The warning came at a U.S.
Senate finance committee
hearing in Washington from
Paul Volcker, U.S. treasury
undersecretary. It was In
response to the Federal govern-
ment’s Employment Support Bill
now being debated in Parlia-
ment.

The warning indicates that the
US. is determined that Canada
and other countries bow down to
U.S. economic demands or face

sharpened competition in the
capitalist world market.

In any case the Employment
Support Bill does nothing for the
6.3 percent of the labor force
presently unemployed. The
crucial question of the expan-
sion of the economy is com-
pletely ignored as are the steps
required to cope with the longer
term effects of the crisis arising
from Nixon’s declaration of war

against the allies and trading
partners of the U.S.A.

The Government bases itself
on the false premise ‘‘that what
is good for the corporations is
good for the Canadian people,”
that “‘if $80,000,000 is given to the
corporations, it will trickle
down to the working people of
our country.” In practice, as in
the case of the regional develop-

See JOBS NOW, pg. 12

strong retaliation if action is
taken to meet the effects of the

Friday Pahaasts
Came within

At to notify the

osed to the test.
Eber on all sides of
the House voted for the
resolution. But under the
House rules it requires a
unanimous vote to pass.
Windsor Liberal MP Gene
‘Whelan was the single
‘“‘no’”? which defeated the
resolution.
See AMCHITKA, pg- 12

10 percent surtax imposed
recently by President Nixon.

Meanwhile the Liberal
government’s Employment Sup-
port Bill came under sharp fire
in Canada as not being the
answer to the Nixon Adminis-
tration’s 10 percent surtax.

In a public statement released
this week William Kashtan,
national leader of the Com-
munist Party, said it is
necessary to adopt new job-
producing policies which will
extricate Canada from the U.S.

nglehold.
SE inane is the text of the
Communist Party statement:

The Federal Government's
Employment Support Bill is not
the answer to the Nixon Adminis-

tration’s 10 percent surcharge.
What it does is underwrite
companies at the expense of
Canadian taxpayers while
giving no assurance that all
workers hit by the surcharge will

be able to keep their jobs.

Indeed Mr. Pepin, Minister of
Trade, declared this is not the
intention of the Bill, that
rationalization and new tech-
niques will make workers

redundant.
This suggests U

purpose of the “Bil

maintenance

but rather the

the export in

s that the main
] is not the

rationalization of
dustries to meet

of employment’

Stop the shutdown
of Woodfibre mill

EDITORIAL

Pulpworkers at Woodfibre,
near Squamish, are putting up a
strong fight to prevent this U.S.
company from closing down its
operations and throwing more
than 300 workers on the jobless
rolls. Their fight deserves the
support of the people of B.C.

Last Thursday the workers
picketed the offices of Rayonier
of Canada in downtown Van-
couver. This week they met with
the Squamish council seeking
support, and on Thursday a dele-
gation of 60 workers will go to
Victoria to lay their demands
before the provincial govern-
ment.

The time has come when
workers can no longer accept
mass layoffs without question.
The battle at Woodfibre could
well be duplicated all over* the
province in the months ahead.
There is a growing deter-
mination among working people
that they will not be the victims
of policies adopted bv the
monopolies and their govern
ments.

Woodfibre is a good place to

start the fight against mass
layoffs. This U.S.-owned corpora-
tion has profited for years from
the xploitation of B.C.’s raw
materials which it got almost
free. Now when it serves its
purposes to stage a series of
layoffs it feels perfectly free to
do so without any compunction
and without a thought to the
families of hundreds of workers.
Woodfibre is part of the
Rayonier corporation, which in
turn is owned by the giant U.S.
monopoly, International
Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
the largest of its kind in the
world, which also owns B.C. Tel.
Rayonier holds three Tree
Forest Licences (Nos. 6, 24, 25).
Are these huge forest
resources (supposedly owned by
the public) to be used by U.S.
monopolies only when they can
make profits, or do they also
have a responsibility to ensure
that jobs are maintained?
The union is insisting that the
forest licences contain an
explicit provision that com-
panies must guarantee work to
its employees. In that demand

: they should be fully supported.

See EDITORIAL, pg. 12