een prepared to give you a very special price if you order 5,000.” 25 years ago... PAKISTAN NEEDS FOOD Pakistan’s hope of getting Wheat from. Canada to avert a food crisis affecting 80,000,000 People seems slim. Pakistan of- ficials have suggested, Canada Might consider a loan of $25 million with which she could buy Canadian wheat. However, Canadian officials said the Suggestion would have to be Submitted to parliament, which doesn’t meet until November 20. (A resolution submitted to the International Red Cross confer- €nce in Toronto called for aid to famine-stricken areas in Asia and could have been the basis Or assisting the Pakistanis. Owever, the resolution was wa- tered down by amendments Tom Canada and Austrialia and Tuled out reference to any Specific area.) August 18, 1952. CITY OF CHAMPIONS The Tribune a mca i 50 years ago... LABOR FEELS YOKE OF ANTI-UNION LAW . LONDON — The. 1927.con- vention of the British Trades Union Congress, to meet in Edinburgh September 5, will deal largely with the situation created by the new anti-union law and the reorganization of affiliated unions on an industrial basis. Resolutions condemning the Blackleg Charter, as the anti-union law is called, express the workers’ determination to maintain in their entirety the rights and liberties which the past efforts of organized labor have secured. An official resolu- tion will pledge the congress to work for the repeal of the measure. The Worker August 20, 1927. Moscow boast 5,500 sports facilities — Stadiums, gymnasiums and swimming pools, which cater to the sports minded. ELapeane One in every seven Muscovites takes part in group physical train ing. The Central V.I. Lenin Stadium (photo above) occupies an area of 445 acres and is the main sports complex in Moscow. eIDITORUUAIL COMIMUEINT Wages, profits and prices At least one-half of the government’s plan to fight inflation is working. In March’s budget speech, Finance Minister Macdonald declared his aim was to fight inflation and that economic growth to provide jobs came second. Big Mac has made good one the second half of his promise — Canada’s jobless rate is at 880,000 officially with the real figure well over one million. There is a sharp rise in adult male unemployment and a drop in jobs in goods-producing industries, espe- cially manufacturing. The “ant-inflation” fight? It’s up again. Consumer prices stand 8.4% higher than one year ago. Food, according to the Con- sumer Price Index rose 9.0% above July last year to a record 182.9 (1971=100), that’s almost double in six short years. For the jobless, the pensioner, the wel- fare recipient and the student — Cana- dians on fixed incomes — the situation ap- proaches disaster. For .the worker who Macdonald’s policies have not yet suc- ceeded in dislodging from his job, today’s figures are alarming. Working people are paying twice: first in restricted wage settlements due to Bill C-73 (an estimated more than $2.5-billion lost in wage “rollbacks” by the AIB) and secondly in highly inflated prices for the necessities of life. : Recently released U.S. figures show the average family spends 70% of its annual budget on four basic necessities: food, The hoax of Confronted with the shambles of its economic policies, the Trudeau govern- ment this week is trying mightily to em- brace organized labor as a “partner” along with business and government. Having shackled the labor movement with Bill C-73, legislated air controllers back to work, rolled back hundreds of negotiated contracts, allowed prices to rise to record levels and embarked on a major anti-people drive, Ottawa now proposes the victims join with the muggers to justify the mess. Bill C-73 is bankrupt and so are the government’s. phoney, 3-points being of- fered labor this week in Ottawa. Can you imagine the arrogance in asking working people to join with business to “restrain their demands on the economy” and join together in a “consultative forum” and a “monitoring agency to investigate excessive price and wage increases”? Prices and profits have shot sky high. Business never once “consulted” labor and never will when it jacks up prices. Profits are at record levels and government hand-outs to incustry are too. Canadians -are today being victimized by a govern- ment-business gang-up resulting in record inflation, record unemployment, anti-union drives and anti-democratic activities. Now labor is being sweetly invited to join in its own destruction. housing, health and energy. They reveal that inflation in these four areas was 44% higher than in “non-essential” components of the Consumer Price Index. A look at Canada’s CPI figures would indicate a similar trend. It’s the essentials, the basics of everyday life that are rising most sharply. It’s there that government policy is directed to assist business to reap the maximum profits. The U.S. study showed something else. “One of the major findings is that in all four necessities, labor costs are among the least important factors in the new in- flation”. Examples were given (in housing _ construction) to show that despite a sharp drop in labor costs per unit, housing prices continue to rise steadily. The report failed to mention the healthy corresponding rise in profits. What all this means is that wages don’t drive up prices — profits do. Trudeau’s “wage and price controls” are a smoke- screen to ensure huge profits. ‘Two years of Bill C-73 have stemmed wages, permitted prices to rise unchecked and profits to soar. The government answer is more of the same. Misled by clever public relations people many Canadians today believe the country’s economic ills can be blamed on excessive. wage demands. by..“big. labor”. The labor movement requires some public relations work of its own to help create a groundswell of anger against Bill C-73 and the government which imposed it. partnership’ This invitation should be rejected and exposed. All moves by right wing labor leaders to integrate the trade union movement into this unholy alliance should be defeated. “Tripartism”, labor- management “partnership”, or class col- laboration under any name is not new. Any illusion that workers and corpora- tions have the same interests and should work together in a team effort to “beat inflation” is sheer lunacy for the working people — that is why it’s being offered by the government-business alliance to or- _ ganized labor. The alternative? A mighty call by labor for united action to defeat Bill-C-73 as an ant-labor pro business law. The renewal of a Mass Campaign to put Canada back to work, to restrict monopoly and extend the rights of working people to participate in the running of the economy. This méans thatcollective bargaining mustnotonlybe restored it must be enlarged to include such questions as: economic and social pol- icy, technological change, investment pol- icy, safety, health, moving of plants, man- power training and manpower planning. A united labor movement has the power to bring such changes about. What is re- quired is the will, the determination to go on the offensive against the present con- certed government-business campaign and not to collaborate with it. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 26, 1977—Page 3 ss parang