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Aor. Se walk for peace’ and Courthouse rally last Friday even

FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1972

undreds who took part in downtown
ing to protest Nixon’s escalation of the

— Pat O'Kane photo

Grocery chain reports
43% rise in profits

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ther ¢ rates Super-Valu and

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. Percent in 1971, which

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tigures announcing the profit
Ouglas at $2,485,594, Kelly
at the . President complained

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glance €ston clan.
Tough the head-

lines on the financial pages of the
daily press for the past several
years tells the same repetitive
story — profits of all food firms
up, up, up. The same story is
true of clothing manufacturers
and retailers. Samples: “Hamil-
ton Harvey Sales Show Rise

(profits up 50 percent without
any increase in store sales area).
That story is from the Province,

July 7, 1970.

‘Simpsons Earnings, Sale,
Rise.” That is from March 3, 72
Sun. “Weston Sales, Net Profit
Increase:”” The Sun, March 18,
71. SO At 2oes; month after
month and year after year. And
the presidents of those
companies complain that “infla-
tion is not being controlled!” —
when they are a major reason
for it.

The latest rise in the cost of
living reflects the profiteering
that is built into the food busi-
ness. May 11th figures show food
prices were 4.5 percent higher
than a year ago. Increases were
shown in the price of eggs, meat,

poultry, fish, and fruit. Today
when labor on all fronts goes
after wage increases, it has
become a necessity because the
Kelly Douglas-Weston-Simpson
Sears;B.C. Packers monopoly
empires are able to mark up 43
percent profit increases in a one-

year period.

What is required to “eontrol”’
inflation where foodstuffs are
concerned is not the hounding
of labor, but a government
Prices Review Board which
would exercise some control
over unconscionable profit-
eering on the part of food mono-
polies such as Weston, Kelly

Douglas and their ilk.

Tribune

VOL. 33, No. 20

SOFT 50
See

Stop Nixon’s mad gamble
with world nuclear war

An urgent appeal to all Canadians to act now to
compel Ottawa to press U.S. President Richard Nixon to
end his reckless gamble with our lives and world peace
was made this week. :

The appeal, headed “Canada Must Act Before It Is Too Late,”
came from the Central Executive of the Communist Party of
Canada. Signed by William Kashtan, general secretary, the
appeal said:

| We urgently address this Appeal to the trade unions, the farm
organizations, the NDP, youth and student movements,
women’s organizations, professional and academic associa-
tions — to act now to compel the Government of Canada.-to
call upon President Nixon to stop his reckless gamble with
world peace.

The more recent illegal escalation by the U.S. Government
of its undeclared war against the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam provides more than enough proof that U.S.
imperialism seeks a military solution and, not a political
settlement — of its aggressive war in Vietnam.

The laying of mines in the waters adjacent to the ports and
harbors of the DRV, and the air and naval blockade of that
country constitute a flagrant violation of international law in
a criminal attempt to widen the front of direct involvement of
other states in the Vietnam war.

In a world armed to the teeth with a nuclear overkill of many
times over, this cynical international provocation by President
Nixon brought mankind right up to the brink of world war
three. Only the steady nerves and good sense of the staunch
friends of the Vietnamese people, particularly the Soviet
Union, have, for the moment, saved the day..

While the world totters on the brink, Prime Minister Trudeau
continues to excuse Nixon’s mad gamble with world war, and
the Government and Parliament sit on their collective hands
and refuse to condemn Nixon’s criminal acts. This official stance
must be changed.

In the name of world peace and security, we appeal to all
Canadians of goodwill who cherish life over death, peace over
war to put a stop to this insanity before it is too late.

We ask you to deluge the Prime Minister and his Govern-
ment, the Leader of the Opposition and Parliament with
telegrams, letters and petitions demanding that the Govern-
ment and Parliament call upon President Nixon, the U.S.
Government and Congress to Stop the Bombing, Lift the
Blockade, Return to the Peace Talks, and Get Out of
Vietnam.