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date Alf. Dewhurst called upon
consumers to organize and fight
now. to bring prices down. Dew-
hurst was speaking at an all
candidate meeting on Monday
evening at Pape Public Library
held under the auspices of the
Canadian Congress of Women.

Charging that today’s prices
are a crude expression of organ-
ized robbery of the consuming
public by the big food: monopo-
lies, -Mr. Dewhurst said that
Communist MP’s will fight with
the people in and out of parlia-
ment for the establishment of
price and rent review boards to
roll back prices and rents.

Stressing his Party’s readiness
to give every possible assistance

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in mounting a fight to bring
down prices, Mr. Dewhurst said
“T am at the service of the work-
ing men and women of the rid-
ing against this legalized
price robbery whatever the out-
come of the election. However,
I must warn you, to win the fight
for price and rent.review boards
with the power to roll back
prices and rents will require a
maximum organization of con-
sumers and tenants.”

Dewhurst emphasized that the
source of price gouging was
rooted in the capitalist system
which has created the giant cor-
porations. And sometime in the
none too distant future the
democratic and working class
forces will unite in a coalition
powerful enough to effectively
put a stop to monopoly price
gouging and exploitation. ‘‘But,”

he said, “this only points up the _

need to begin to fight now.”

The Communist candidate
pointed out that the giant food
monopolies alone were respon-
sible for high prices. He showed
that once food products left the
farm every stage of their pro-
cessing and manufacture, distri-
bution and retailing were tightly
controlled by such giant corpor-
ations as Weston, General Foods
and Kraft and embraced food
chains epitomized by Domi-

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think of a reason for raising prices this week?”

good, now can anyone else

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1972—PAGE 4

Old party policies mean "
candies for rich,
jobless and inflation

over of our economy.

This was the summing up of the
tion campaign by William Kashtan,
er of the Communist Party and its @
didate in Toronto-Davenport riding “
a rally Sunday night at Harbord C0

Voting day in the federal election is
practically upon us. While the con-
tinued rise in unemployment and cost
of living shows that the crisis of the
economy and politics in Canada _is
growing instead of abating, the parties
of Big Business have demonstrated .
their bankruptcy in projecting meas-
ures to solve the serious problems fac-
ing the Canadian people, and the pro-
posals of the right-wing leaders of the
NDP also do not get at the “guts” of
the situation.

Only the Communist Party and its
31 candidates present a practical plan
for winning full employment without
inflation, redistributing the national in-
come in favor of the people instead
of monopoly, strengthening ‘Canadian
unity by an equal and voluntary part-
nership of French and English Canada
in a new Constitution, asserting Cana-
dian independence by measures to limit
the extent of U.S. domination and-take-

legiate.

country.”

MTT CLL bob

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

SANTIAGO—A week of disorders and lockouts (mis-
named as strikes) organized by the Chilean reactionary
groups and agents of U.S. copper bosses, whose hold-
ings were nationalized when they sabotaged the econ-
omy, apparently ended in victory for the working people
of Chile and their Popular Front government headed by
President Allende. ;

MOSCOW — The people of the Soviet Union pre-
pared to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the October
Revolution in 1917 and the 50th anniversary of the for-
mation of the USSR as a free and equal union of sove-
reign nations in 1922, by strengthening pressure for
world disarmament and disbanding of military bloes.

HANOI! — North Vietnamese sources expressed the
opinion that some advance has been made toward the

ending of U.S. aggression in Vietnam by a political solu-
tion that. would allow the Vietnamese to decide their

destiny without foreign interference.
MTT CCC

Mr. Kashtan, who had just retunmet
from his second cross-country tour, ‘es
joined on stage by party candida i
from Toronto,
Catharines, Guelph and Windsor,
‘son Clarke chaired the meeting.
“Neither the immediate nor the © h
term issues have been presente
Canadian people by the other parr” al]
this election,” Mr. Kashtan said. © The
has been a deluge of words from 1),
on the hustings, over television, 1% 1)
press — words, words and words sigh.
fying nothing. This is not accide |
speaks of the growing crisis |
these parties, the growing crisis. :

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ing up for revision wi -
U.S. wanting changes that j
affect Canada and Cana i)
auto workers adversely,
whatever government 18 e
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to discuss and decide. _ tradél

Similarly U.S.-Canadian 3 wel i
relations are to be re rt}
with the U.S. governmem of
solved to compel Canada ord
vert to deficit trading. “In ole
to help the U.S. out 0 a iy he)
we have to go into the ole:
exclaimed.

“They talk of partne
the sphere of energy. ¥° i‘
think that what is meant ?
pooling and sharing of the
er resources of Canada a
U.S. to the benefit of DOM aot)
the fact is that we ee an
on the part of the U-».
ment i compel the Cane 4
government to acquiesc®

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