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Who picks up the tab?
Come September 1971, Ottawa plans to stop sending the Family
Allowance cheque to 80% of families.
With the cut-off at $10,000 combined family income (before
taxes) the “Just Society” will pick UP oo... $294 million
20% of the lowest income families will receive
slightly-increased benefits and this will use up ....... $100 million
The Public Treasury experts to clear on the deal $194 million
This is the Family Income Security Plan which would replace the
present baby bonuses in effect since 1945: 4
Combined Family Income Level Benefit per Child Under 16
$16.00 per mo.
15.00

9,501
Over 10,000

Families will be required to re-apply annually—in other words,
the hated Means Test instead of universal application.

“No more free stuff,” says Trudeau.

We declare the concept of a comprehensive universally applied
social security is not “free stuff.” Canadians fought long and hard
to pull Canada’s standards close to the levels of other advanced
industrial countries. ,

We believe the wealth of a country is best expressed in the way
it values its people. Those who have children contribute to the
building of the nation, and the concept of Family Allowances was
established to provide a measure of recognition of this special con-
tribution. (Modest estimates claim in costs a minimum of $25-$30
per week to raise one child).

The proposed $10,000 cut-off ignores family sizes and circum-
stances. It could presume two people each working for less than
the “average” wage. Since when is the average family income in-
terpreted as super security? Direct and indirect taxes eat up about

es aoc Of a dollar =<

- more if Medicare payments are included.

The White Papers pouring out of Ottawa these days expose a
sharp assault against the working people. Their plan is to protect
large private incomes and corporate profits.

Why should Benson’s new tax schedule propose to increase the
rate on the lowest bracket of taxable income by nearly 50%? Why
should there be no tax increase at all when income reaches $24,000?
And above that level, the rate be actually reduced?

It appears the rich and great wealth are not to be touched for
purposes such as income security for working people in need.

Funds to sustain the needy and poverty-stricken are to come
from others who are a little less needy and a little less poverty

stricken.

Benefits not needed by the wealthy can be recaptured through
a proper tax system based on ability to pay.
KEEP FAMILY ALLOWANCES FOR EVERYBODY!

Confront your MP about these

proposals.

Reject a “Means Test” society!

plans—urge him to reject the

End poverty — don’t polarize it!
—Issued by Women’s Commission,
Communist Party of Canada.

Bourassa worse than

By DON CURRIE

WINNIPEG .— Jean Pare, mili-
tant trade union leader, told 300
' at a May Day meeting here that
the reason why the Trudeau
government enacted the War
Measures Act was to divert the
Canadian people from fighting
for a decent standard of living.
Only the stand of NDP MP’s, the
public demonstration of the
Communist Party the day after
the legislation was enacted, the
many demonstrations and meet-
ings by trade unionists and de-
mocratic minded people, and the
opposition of the Parti Que-
becois prevented.a sharper, more

dangerous turn to the Right.
The UE vice-president said
that the action taken by Prime
Minister Bourassa of Quebec
was more extreme than that of

“Padlock Law” Duplessis had .

been. Duplessis used the police
to supress the workers, but Bou-
rassa used the police and called
in the army besides. Within
hours «after the WMA was en-

forced, 500 Quebec workers
were prisoners of war in peace-
time.

Pare observed that workers
unite readily to win economic
gains and to fight the boss but
have not yet learned the lesson
of uniting against the political
representatives of the boss. One
such political struggle involved
that would guarantee full equal-
fighting for a new Constitution
ity and self-determination to
Quebec, which was the only real
way to prevent separation.
“Unless this change takes place,
I don’t know how we can pre-
vent Separation,” he stated.

Ald. Joseph Zuken said U.S.
society is sick and people all
over North America are caught
in the squeeze between rising
prices and unemployment. The
governments- were trying to
meet this crisis with repressive
legislation. Pointing out that
there was a history of such tac-
tics by ruling class, he cited the
Winnipeg General Strike and

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY MAY 14, 1971—PAGE 10

Soviet films
are popular

A capacity audience attended
the first of a series of 10 pro-
grams of Soviet films sponsored
by the Cinémathéque of the So-
ciété culturelle Québec/URSS
on April 27. Feature film was
Crucified Island by the Georgian
director, Shalva Managadze.

Encouraged by the response,
directors of the newly-organized
Cinémathéque extended the
series to Mondays and Tuesdays
instead of the once per. week
schedule originally planned.

Discussion periods follow
each two-hour screening and
program notes are distributed

a week in advance of each pro-

gram. Programs begin precisely
at 8 p.m. in the Society’s Salle
de cinéma, #3124-1600, rue
Berri, Montréal.

eOn May 10-11 we saw Neuf
Jours d’une année (1961), Nine
Days of One Life, Mikhail Mik-
hail Romm’s drama of a young
physicist torn between nuclear
research and his personal life.

The following feature films’

make up the balance of the
series (every program also in-
cludes documentary shorts):

e@ 17-18 May — La Jeunesse
de Felix Dzherzhinsky — Bio-
graphic film about a Soviet re-
volutionary leader around 1900.

@ 24-25 — Petite’ chérie —
Sergei Kolokov’s treatment of
Chekhov’s well known short
story, Darling.

e@ 31 May/1 June — Torrent
de fer (1968) — Efim Dzigan.
Heroic march during the Soviet
Civil War period.

'@ 7-8 June — Octobre (1927)

—Sound version of Eisenstein’s

famous masterpiece.

e 14-15 June — Le Nord
(1968) — Gorin. Siberia in color
— living color. This is the “true
north strong and free” that Can-
ada could have.

e@ 21-22 June — Sur le che-
min de Berlin (1969) — Mikhail
Erchov. Human vignettes dur-
ing the final offensive of World
War 2.

e 28-29 June — I’m Twenty
Years Old — Marlen Khutsiev.
Sergei returns from military
service and learns how to live.
An intimate view of life in
Moscow.

The next series of 15 pro-
grams will begin on September
13. Co-directors of the Cinéma-
theque of the Société culturalle
Québec/URSS are Laurence
Nowry and Roy Kirkman.

Duplessis

Section 98, the misuse of the
Riot Act and the Unlawful As-
sembly Act, the Defense of Can-
ada Regulations all of which had
been used against Communists
and workers and democrats time
and again.

Ald. Zuken said he didn’t buy
the argument that the govern-
ment panicked when it enacted
the WMA. Rather it was the out-
come in practice of the idea that
workers’ struggles must be sup-
pressed by violence.

Zuken denounced the war in
Vietnam and lauded the growth
of the peace forces in U.S. and
called for mounting peace ac-
tions to put an end to this “vici-
ous, filthy war.” :

May Day greetings were sent
to Angela Davis and a resolution
called President Nixon and Gov-
ernor Reagan to release her and
all U.S. political prisoners. An-
other resolution called for the
defense and release of the poli-
tical victims of the War Meas-
ures Act.

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Canada’s first cultural visitors from abroad this srl
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to perform in 19 cities. Acclaimed by Vancouver's !¢
as “the greatest and most spectacular dance comp!
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Demand a moratoril!
on all plant closuré

A call for a moratorium on all
plant closures and layoffs, “until
alternative employment oppor-
tunities are found”, was one of
a number of demands for fede-
ral and provincial legislation ad-
vanced in the resolution on plant
closures adopted by the recent
Metropolitan Toronto Conven-
tion of the Communist Party.
The resolution states:

The issue of plant closures to-
day arises out of the sharpened
struggle of monopolies for high-
er productivity, lower costs and
more monopoly profits. In this
process monopoly strives to eli-
minate competition within par-
ticular spheres of operation by
means of mergers and domina-
tion of markets. This process in
turn leads to more and sharper
competition in general at a high-
er level and between the various
monopolies, on both a national
and international level. In this
process the aim and the results
are more profits for monopoly
and a continued squeeze on the
incomes, living standards and
needs of the masses of working
people.

Plant closures and layoffs hit
hard at working people. They
add to unemployment which to-
day is used by monopoly and by
the Trudeau government as the
main means to hold down wages
and salaries of the working class.
They affect whole communities,
and tend in the direction of a
halt to economic growth and ris-
ing living standards, made pos-
sible today by a new technology
which can be applied to our
abundant resources.

Therefore, one of the main
aims of the working class move-
ment today must be to put a
curb on monopoly, to put a stop
to its drive to deprive the mass-
es of people of a decent liveli-
hood, and to declare the right to
a meaningful and creative job to
be the inalienable right of every
Canadian. :

This Metropolitan Toronto
convention of the Communist
Party of Canada calls upon all
people’s organizations, and in
particular upon the trade union
movement, to join forces in a
demand for legislation at the fed-
eral and provincial levels along
the following lines:

_ & Legislation guaranteeing a
job and a decent livelihood as a
right of every citizen,

“ A moratorium on all plant
closures and layoffs in both the

private and ‘public sector until.

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alternative employme

tunities are foun
worker affected by
plated closures and ;

The Ontario g0Ve
establish a Public Be
mission with labor He if
tion to conduct a PU” of
gation into each cas
closures.

Wherever such a
found to be unavol “el
must be provision for “5
pay of a minimu™ io
month’s pay for each va
ployment for ever
be laid off. eg ci

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