By JIM BRIDGEWOOD

OAKVILLE — The Canadian
Yvernment has done it again—
‘bed workers through devious
hods of their hard-won
Mins in wages and benefits.

ost poor and desperate peo-
who rob or steal for food
‘4d money for their destitute
Mhilies end up in jail. But it is
te apparent that the govern-
t can rob thousands of fpeo-
and legally get away with

After many years of struggle,
pugh long and_ enduring
ikes, workers have won
hge benefits, that is, com-
hies were compelled through
Negotiated contract to provide
Wpitalization, medicare, life
‘Surance, pensions, sick bene-
, bereavement pay, etc. With
Sadistic state monopoly gov-
ent, it was inevitable that
Would conjure up some way

hefits.

few years ago legislation
is passed placing our hospital
(Blue Cross, Green Plan,
8) under a government-
Snsored plan, and the pay-
®Snts made by the company
© such a plan became classed
income and so became tax-
One example is Ford
Stor Company, which paid for
arried man with two de-
hdants $11 a month for our
Bical plan. From then on an
Nitional sum of $3.40 was ex-
ed from our pay and paid
the federal government.

ow comes the grand finale.
government announced as
the first of this year, the two

robbing us of our fringe

medical services will be com-
bined and come under one gov-
ernment agency. This was done
“for the benefit of the public,”
to save the taxpayer money.
There were cutbacks in federal
employees performing this work.
What a way to save us money!
When we received our third pay
in January, the week when we
pay tax on our hospital plan,
lo and behold, the pay stub
revealed our taxable fringe bene-
fits had doubled to $22, and that
our tax payment had more than
doubled — $7 on my pay, but
on some in different categories
as high as $10.

When you work this out it
comes to four cents an hour on
a 40-hour week. ° |

I don’t know how much extra
revenue this comes to across the
country, but it must be millions
of dollars. Between the loss of
this four cents, and the cost of
living increases, we in Ford have
lost whatever wage increases we
gained in our last contract.

This is just another way to
make the workers pay, and to al-
low big business to get away
from paying its proper share.

The Oakville Labor Council
voted in favor of a resolution for
the Canadian Labor Congress
convention demanding that
fringe benefits cease to be tax-
able and that premium pay-
ments be deductible from our
income tax.

(The Council agreed that dele-
gate Jim Bridgewood of the
UAW, who moved the motion,
work in conjunction with the
resolution chairman in drafting
it.)

Harry Guralnick, who died in
Toronto on Feb. 4, was born in
the little town of Orgeyev, in
what is now the Moldavian
Soviet Republic, on Feb. 19,
1900. Coming to Canada as a
youth, he devoted his entire life
to the progressive movement
together with his wife, Annie
Buller, who lies seriously ill.

At the funeral, Communist
Party leader William Kashtan
after offering condolences to
Annie, their son Jimmy, daught-
er-in-law Grace and_ grand-
daughter Carol, said:

“This loss is not only theirs.
It is ours as well, for Harry was
a proud member = of a larger
family — the Communist Party
of Canada. He joined the Party
as a young man and for almost
50 years devoted all his talents
and his energy to the cause of
socialism.

“Harry’s talents were. many.
He was a well-read person, a
cultured person, an able writer,
a working man who used his
pen effectively to spread the
ideas of socialism, particularly
in the Jewish community. He
used his talent to expose bour-
geois nationalism and the right-
wing supporters of capitalism.
But Harry was no nihilist. He
loved the Jewish lahguage and
Jewish culture and used them
effectively and well to advance

community.

“To Harry, and his wife An-
nie, the Party was everything.
In his usual modest, unassum-
ing way he undertook whatever
assignments the Party gave him.
Nor did he make demands on
the Party — either for himself
or his family.

- Communist Party.

proposal.”

Seas

By ALF DEWHURST _

"Under cover ‘of. the slogan “Out Now” the

2 Trotskyite-controlled Toronto anti-war confer-

+ ence on Feb. 5 voted down a statement calling

+ for full ‘support of the 7-point peace plan of the

) Provisional Revolutionary Government of South

_ Vietnam. The statement was presented by Gor-
don Massie, Metro Toronto organizer. of the

_ Tronically, the Trotskyites placed the confer: rae
ence on the same ground U.S. President Nixon —
occupies when they used their “packed” voting
strength to adopt a statement presented by

_ George Addison of the Vietnam Mobilization. =

+ Committee, which charged that Nixon “has re-

+ fused to consider the reasonable 7-point peace —

In rejecting Massie’s statement the Trotsky- y
ites rejected also, like President Nixon, the prin- _
cipled positions of the Provisional Government
|. of the Republic of South Vietnam. These were
- summarized by Mr. Massie as being:

(1) The United States must put an end to its
war of aggression in Vietnam, abandon its policy.

_ of Vietnamizing the war, rapidly and uncondi-
tionally withdraw all its troops, its military ad-
visors and personnel, its arms and other war ma-
» terials, liquidate all American bases in South
' Vietnam, put an end to all air and naval activi-
_ ties as well as all other acts of war against the
' Vietnamese people in the two zones.

(2) At the same time the United States must

be obliged to respect the South Vietnamese

people’s right to self-determination, to stop all
support of the Nguyen Van Thieu group and
every involvement in this regard,

clear the way for the setting-up in Saigon of a

new administration which favors peace, inde-

pendence, neutrality and democracy, and which
will be disposed to enter into serious negotia-

in order to

Republic 0 South
: eh a. wae

ference called to’ consider forms: o)
against the U.S. dirty war in Indoch
enthusiastically endene: ‘the “peace aim

'» which the peoples. of: Vietnam, Laos and

- bodia are fighting” and dying. Apparently, ho

. ever, such an endorsement did not suit the ‘plans

. the VMC. Instead they enginee
hand dismissal of Mr, Massie’s statemen
~ grounds that the ‘T-point ‘plan ‘repre:

“ ete Ligntg : on the pa

~ Vietnam. —
Surely, if “the: etetie leaders of
were really interested in mobilizing the greate:
_ possible numbers of Canadians into joint actions
- to bring the U.S. aggression in Indochina
end they would have agreed to. incorpora e
correct positions of the’ Vietnamese peopl ;
vanced by Mr, Massie, into a join program
spring action. hast
_ The only conclusion that can be dra
the rejection of Massie’s statement by the Tr
skyites is that control of the Canadian anti-wai
movement and not unity is the real aim of
activity dl in this: ae pS

In the materieni ‘per. -by the confer
the VMC leaders by inference, claim credit for
mobilizing the tremendous opposition that swept
Canada over the U.S. Amchitka test. Nothing
could be further from the truth. What actually
took place at that time was a futile attempt by
the Trotskyites to latch on to the giant spontan-

HARRY GURALNICK

“These are rare qualities in a
person which can only arise
from an inner strength, from
strong convictions and great
loyalty to the Party and to the
cause of socialism.

“All of us who knew Harry
recall the firm principled posi-
tion he took at every sharp
turn in history. Where others
might temporarily waver or be
confused by events, Harry’ held
fast to a clear class position, to
a profound faith and confidence
in socialism and in the Soviet
Union. He never allowed. tem-
porarily difficulties and short-
comings to becloud his vision

_or his judgement. His profound
progressive ideas in the Jewish -

internationalism was a great
source of strength for our
Party in those difficult periods
when revisionist currents tried
to impose themselves on our
movement and take it away
from its historic responsibilities.

“Harry undertook many as-
signments for our Party. He was
Becreay of the Central Jewish

their

‘movement,

A tribute to an exemplary Communist

Party Bureau. He was Chairman
of the Central Audit Committee
of the Party. An assignment
which gave him and Annie great
joy and satisfaction was that of
representing our Party in the
editorial board of the World
Marxist Review in Prague, a
task which he fulfilled with
great honor and devotion.

“The devotion and dedication
Harry showed towards the
Party and progressive move-
ment was shown with equal
strength towards his wife. When
Annie took ill, Harry became
her companion and nurse. He
went daily to the hospital until
he became so exhausted the
doctor. insisted he must stop.
Even this did not deter him. He
attended to his wife while con-
tinuing his activities in the .
Party and progressive move-
ment. His wife, the progressive
the Party, these
were his life, his reason for
being. He continued being ac-
tive up to the moment of his
death.

“His death is a great per-
sonal loss to all of us who
knew him; a great loss to our
Party of which he was an active
member; a great loss to the
progressive Jewish movement
and press, and to the progres-
sive movement generally.

“Harry would not want us to

grieve for him. He would want

us to work: as perseveringly as
ever for the great cause he and
all of us hold dear, the cause of
socialism, a more just and
humane society, free from ex-
ploitation of man by man, free
of war, racism and oppression.
“We shall continue to work
for this with all our strength.”

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