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five being sold. If there is no
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CAMPAIGN VIOLENCE
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rooms in Port Arthur
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speed-up is becoming unbeara-
ble. What four men did before,
two or three men are forced to
do now. The speed-up has re-
duced the cost of a ton of paper
by $4, but the price of paper
has not gone down. On the con-
trary, the price is going up and
the company will pocket the in-
creased profits. This is not the
worst of it. As soon as the
speed-up is introduced men are
laid off. Speed-up and lay-off .is
the lot of the workers in the
paper mills.

I have never seen so much
misery, poverty and exasperated
men anywhere in Canada. Many
of them come into our Commit-
tee Rooms for conversation and
handouts. They are decent peo-
ple unable to find work. A young
student came in to see us and
asked him what he is doing. “1
am working as a dishwasher. Is
this what an education is for,
Mr. Freed?” he said.

The economic situation in the
Lakehead is very serious, per-
haps comparable to the Atlantic
Provinces. Unemployment is one
of the highest in Canada, over
3,000 men in Port Arthur alone;
a similar number in Fort Wil-
liam. The main cause for all the
problems in the Lakehead is the
sell-out of the rich natural re-
sources to the United States. As
is known, we have at hand one
of the largest iron ore reserves.
This ore is being dug up and
shipped to the U.S. instead of
being processed right here. We
are campaigning for the building

of a steel complex at the. Lake- ,

head to provide jobs and oppor-
tunities for the people. We are
also proposing the building of
plastics, furniture and (beet)
sugar industries. Recently a new
discovery was made of copper
and we also have great reserves
of nickel in this district. We are
proposing the building of a re-
finery in the Lakehead. It has
come to our attention that a
corps of U.S. engineers are
around here surveying our fresh
water, planning to divert the
water south to the U.S. We have
exposed this plot and demand to
know who gave authority to the
U.S. military to survey our
waters. Our campaign is having
an effect. The demand to take
back our natural resources from
the Yanks and create processing
industries is an immediate and
urgent necessity in the Lake-
head.

The young people are leaving

this district in droves. There is ,

no future for them, They have
not been educated to become
hewers of wood and diggers of
ore. They want to use their tal-
ents, vigor and enthusiasm to
elevate this district to a place
of prosperity, dignity and beau-
ty. This is a beautiful part of
Canada. It has everything re-
quired, natural resources and
talented people. What stands in
the way is the old line politi-
cians and their bosom pals, the
domestic and foreign monopo-
lies.

We have many Indian people
in our district. The other day
a young Indian told me a start-
ling fact which illustrates the
horrible treatment the Indian

people are subjected to by the.

Federal Department of Indian
Affairs. During the fiscal year,
1964-65, the cost for administra-
ting 331 Indians in the Prince

- Edward Island Reservation, came

to $97,000. Just think of it, the
federal bureaucrats spent $2,930

“Unemployment, poverty
issues at Lakehead

of the taxpayers’ mow, -- ad-
minister each person. If each
person had received the $2,930,
it would have been three times
the amount ..an Indian family
earns in one year. The average
Indian family earnings about
$1,000 a year. Is this the “Just
Society’ that Mr. Trudeau
speaks about?

_* DISCRIMINATION.

CHARGED —

"Unless this discrimina-
tion is ended, we shall ap-
peal to the Human Rights
‘Commission and the Chief.
Electoral Officer at Ottawa,”
said Norman Freed, Com-
munist candidate in Port
Arthur, in a protest against
radio station CKPR.

"AIL other candidotes
were interviewed ond their |
‘inswers given over CKPR
radio. But | was not given
the same democratic dont" |
he said. “In a democracy, all
viewpoints must be heard so
that people can judge for.

themselves.”

In addition to all the specific
problems confronting the Lake-
head all the major issues facing
Canada, find their reflection here
in dramatic and urgent forms. In
our five T.V. broadcasts and ten
radio spots, and through news-
paper ads, meetings and conver-

sations with .people, we dealt.

with the alarming growth of U.S.
control of our economy and its
detrimental effect on our com-
munity. We proposed the bring-
ing of new industries to the
Lakehead, to process our rich
natural resources, to provide
jobs and opportunities for our
people, instead of shipping it to
the U.S. We dealt with the re-
volt of our youth and proposed
free, creative education and
democratic participation in all
aspects of life. We proposed that
the voting age be reduced to 18.
We called on the youth to go
Left, to reject the bankrupt old
line politicians. We proposed
solutions to growing unemploy-

ment. We proposed measures to .

curb the profiteers who are res-
ponsible for rising prices and
soaring rents. We proposed a
solution to the housing crisis, by
treating housing as a_ public
utility. We proposed a new tax
policy, based on the Carter Re-
port, on the principle of ability
to pay. To stop protecting the
rich and punishing the poor. We
advanced proposals to end pov-
erty amidst plenty. We advanced
proposals to recognise the demo-
cratic rights of our Indian citiz-
ens, to grant them the right to
run their own affairs, instead of
being run by the bureaucrats.
We advanced a democratic solu-
tion to the Crisis of Confedera-
tion. We called for a new Cana-
dian Constitution to replace the
out-dated B.N.A. Act. We pro-
posed a made-in-Canada, inde-
pendent foreign policy of peace
and world trade; cut arms spend-
ing to meet the peoples need.
End Canada’s complicity in the
war against Vietnam. Our pro-
posals are sound, democratic
and urgent and can be carried
out now.

This

year the grain is piling up on the prairies and the an

head elevators instead of steaming down the lakes to the overseas

markets.

hem to take a similar stan
| : uP prenent Soehy McAninch and vic
ent Bob Enoch announced their resignation from
Enoch charged that Trudeau, in foiling to diseu

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