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Next Wedfiésday, No-
vember 16, is thé 75th’
anniversary of the exe-
cution of Louis Riel,
leader of the Metis in
the Northwest. He died
a martyr because he
fought for his people.
He led the struggle
for responsible govern-
ment which culminated
in the Red River Rebel-
lion of 1869. In 1885 he
came to the aid of the

Metis in Saskatchewan
and took part in the
rebellion of 1885 for

which he was executed.

He died as he lived, a
Canadian patriot, with a
dream of a great, free
Canada.

First Time in English—
Lenin Collected Works

V. I. LENIN: Collected
Works, Vols. 1 and 2. Foreign
Languages Publishing House,

Oscow, 1960.

There is not a person on

this planet whose life is not!

€ing influenced in one way
Clalist Revolution.

In that social upheaval,

Which set in motion the his-| §

ric process of the replace-
Ment of capitalism by social-
ism, V. I. Lenin played a vital

and action have set their im-
Print on our epoch.

Up till now, only a small |

faction of his written work
Was available in English, in
€ form of selections, prob-
ably less than a quarter of the

Ole. Now, with the appear-
Mee of the first two volumes
°f the Collected Works, there
88 begun the publication, for
€ first time, of the complete
Collected Works (55 volumes)
™ the English language.

. It is a wonderful thing that
WUst at this time, when there
.€ most lively, intense and
“idespread interest in ques-
AS of fundamental social
Goo when the debate and

Mpetition between the two
cial systems is the theme of
‘ tr era—there should become
Vailable all that Lenin wrote

Sut capitalism, imperialism, |
ie National-liberation move-|
ie socialism and commu-
~m. And the vast range of
= Writing embraces philo-
Scie Y and the crisis in natural

Nee, history and economics,
1 qd Culture, as well as prob-
Bair of working-class organ-

°n, policy and leadership.

poo Cite but two examples of
© timeliness of the material

V. I. LENIN

contained in these first two
volumes (covering the years
1893-97): :

The most ‘up-to-date’ argu-
ments of today’s “demolishers
of Marxism,” who become ever
more vocal as the influence of
Marxism - Leninism — spreads,
find a stinging rebuttal in one
of the first things Lenin wrote.
“What the Friends of the Peo-
ple Are” shows how Marxist
materialism makes possible for
the first time a science of so-
ciety: by enabling one “‘to dis-
tinguish the important and the
unimportant in the complex
network of social phenomena”’
(Vol. 1, p. 140).

Of absorbing interest, also,
especially for Canadian work-
ers who now are reading and
discussing the Communist Par-
ty’s program “The Road to So-
cialism ‘in Canada,’ are
Lenin’s Draft and Commentary
on a Program for the Party,
which he wrote while .in pris-
on in 1895-96 (published in the
second volume).

Publication in English of
the Collected Works of Lenin
is an act of friendship and in-
ternational solidarity; all who
are interested in social science
and the great struggles of our

How Supermarkeis

Fieece the Public

The recent Royal Commis-
sion on Price Spreads reported
that over the decade 1949 to
1958:

—there was virtually no
change in the weight of food
materials purchased per per-
son

—the increase in volume of
food materials sold by farm-
ers for use in the domestic
market was 36 percent (due to
population increase)

—hbut the increase in the food
marketing bill of Canadian
consumers was 149 percent

—the costs (and profits) in-
volved in marketing a basket
of food increased 84: percent,
because:

(a) a shift to more
expensive foods ___ 1%

(b) an increase in serv-
ices connected with
food

(c) increased _transpor-

tation costs

costs

What is the
freeworld?>

Australian Prime Minister
Menzies recently answered
that question.

According to him ‘the free
world is that part of the world
not under the influence or con-
trol of the Communist pow-
ers.”

Commenting on this state-
ment the Australian Tribune
writes:

“So we have it at last. The
guns and whips of South Af-
rica, the torture chambers of

fascist Spain, the royalist dic-)

tatorships of Persia and Jor-
dan, and Tshombe’s UN-pro-
tected terror reign in Katanga
have done nothing to deprive
their victims of ‘freedom’ as
Menzies conceives it.”

Also added to this list of
“freedom fighters” are Butcher
Rhee, Chiang Kai-shek, ‘Men-
deres of Turkey. And, of
course, the outstanding ‘‘free-
dom fighter’ of all would be
Adolph Hitler, if he were still
alive.

time will find here rewarding
answers to their search for a
sense of direction, for deepen-
ed understanding.

The appearance of these vol-
umes will prove a challenge
and an inspiration to every
fighter for socialism.

(e) increased  advertis-

ing costs

The Royal Commission Re-

|port also showed the increase

in profit for the chain stores
in the food industry. In 1949, |
the gross margin per sales dcl-|
lar (i.e., spread above cost of!
goods to cover operating ex-|
pense and profit of the chain}
store) was 15.6 cents, in 1957)
it was 17.4 cents.

' package

Moreover, the portion of
this “gross margin” going to
pay ‘wages and salaries in the
chain stores dropped from 52.6)
percent to 43.7 percent, while
the profit portion rose from}
16.0 percent to 20.6 percent.)
Over the whole period 1949-|
1957, the chain stores’ net
profits after taxes averaged a
return of 17.1 percent on in-|
vestment — compared with 9.8 |
percent for all food retailers
(including chain stores).

Here are some more of the
gimmicks used to fleece the
customers and line the owners’
pockets.

Shori-weighing—By includ-
ing the packaging material in|
the net weight of pre-packag-|
ed goods, meat for instance. A}
much more efficient way than!
using the thumb. :

Packaging to price at the
retail level_This means cut-|
ting the package weight but}
leaving the price the same.

Specials—Articles on the)
“specials” tables are often at)
the same or even higher price |
than the regular goods on the|
shelves. |

Deceptive packaging—There
are many variations of this
one: straight discrepancy be-
tween marked and actual con-
tents, bigger package with
more empty space, etc.

Deceptive bargains — The
common example of this one
is the “X cents off a package”
gimmick.

Deceptive multiplicity of
sizes—For example,
everyone knows the practical
impossibility of deciding
quickly whether a 534-0z. tube
of toothpaste for 83 cents is a
better buy than a 45-oz. tube
for 69 cents. The supermarkets

take advantage of this.

The United Electrical, ~ Ra-
dio and Machine Workers’
Union research bulletin, from
which this is taken, shows how
these gimmicks are used by
supermarkets to fleece the
public.

FBI finds

Murder every
hour in U.S.

There is one murder
every hour in the United
States, one rape every 35
minutes, one robbery every
seven minutes, one aggra-
vated assault every four
minutes, and one burglary,
larceny or auto theft every
23 seconds. These are offi-
cial figures provided by the
Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation,

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