Commonwealth trade policy, |
world market urged by LPP
to end U.S. dollar dictation

» An open letter addressed by
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent warns
U.S. economic royalists” and urge

in a single world market” at the
~ & similar view is expressed by the political committee of the British Communist party,

notes in its statement that “Canada
is becoming more and more linked
up, economically and politically,
with the U.S.,” and calls for a poli-
cy of firm resistance to the domina-
tion of US. imperialism, expan-
sion of trade relations within the
Commonwealth and Empire for mu-
tual benefit, and friendly trade re-
lations with the rest of the world.

‘The importance of these warn-
ings is shown by a report from
Ottawa appearing in the Wall Street
Journal which indicates that St.
Laurent is lining up with the U.S.
in seeking to remove remaining eco-
nomic barriers to penetration of
Commonwealth and Empire mar
kets by the U.S.

‘According to the Wall Street
Journal, two “plueprints” for de-
fense against U.S. penetration have
been under discussion in British
and other economic circles. |

The first “blueprint,” reportedly
favored by “a significant body of
opinion—ineluding the Council of
Europe and some members of the
British cabinet,” would create @
“self-sufficient” trading bloc of
non-dollar countries.

Such a bloc would increase trade
among participating countries and

ce trade with the U.S.-dominat-
ed dollar area. This would be ac-
complished by currency control and
establishment of barriers against
U.S. goods, and lowering of trade
‘barriers within the bloc.
~ ‘Phe second “blueprint” would en-
deavor to obtain a greater market
_inithe U.S. for British goods through
lowering of U.S. tariffs and long-
term guarantees for purchase of
commodities from the sterling area.

In brief, according to the Wall
Street Journal, the British govern-
ment sees two alternatives — either
a so-called “self-sufficient” trading
bloc exclusive of the U.S. or a
guarantee of some reciprocity in
trading with the U.S.’

The British Communist party’s
‘statement warns that the Common-
wealth prime ministers “are incap-
able of solving the problems” rais-
ed by U.S. attempts “to prise open
the markets of the Empire for Am-
erican exports, to lay hold of raw
material resources and to subject
the economies of the Empire coun-

tries to the penetration and domin-
~ ation of American capital” because
their policies are “tied to the dic-
tates of American imperialism.”

Instead, the statement continues,
the Commonwealth prime ministers
are seeking “to solve the serious
problems arising from this policy by

intensifying the exploitation of their
own people and of the subject col-
onial peoples in the Empire . . .”

‘This too, is borne out by the Wall
Street Journal’s report which states
that in opposing the two alterna-

tives under consideration by the
British and some West European
“governments, “Canada will be fight-

s him to come out

the Labor-Progressive party’s national executive committee to
him that Canada “cannot expect any ‘soft’ treatment from the
for “a truly Canadian policy of free world trade

London conference of Commonwealth prime ministers.

which

ing the U.S. economy’s battle as well
as its own.”

The report asserts that St. Laur-
ent’s approach to the trade crisis is:
“Free your currency and trade and
adopt more effective internal poli-
cies to boost production and squelch
inflation.”

Translated, that means:

@ Crack down on all social services,
with a policy of lower wages and

speedup for workers.

Relax import restrictions against |.

’ goods from the dollar area. The
Wall Street Journal reports:
“Qne authority here (Ottawa)
remarks that British workers
have little or no incentive to
work overtime and raise produc-
tion, for a worker desiring a par-
ticular luxury — even as simple

_a luxury as a can of Canadian
salmon — has no possibility of
buying it because of import
curbs.”

Make the pound sterling convert-
ible to dollars in current trans-
actions. “Investors,” the Wall
Street Journal points out, “would
be able to take out their profits
in dollars.”

The Labor-Progressive party’s
open letter sharply challenges this
U.S-line policy which can only
deepen the trade crisis at the ex-
pense of the interests of both the
Canadian and British peoples.

“It is clear that because of the
unwarranted and crippling arma-
ments expenditures, Canada is fac-
ing a-crisis of over-production. It
is not that the world does not want
our products. It is that our trade
is tied hand and foot to the U.S.
dollar and our natural resources are
at the mercy of the U.S. trusts.”

The statement points out that so
long as Canada is tied “to the nar-
rowing U.S.-dominated market, and
excludes herself from the growing
free market in the socialist sector of
the world, so long will we suffer the
-awful consequences of over-produc-
tion and restricted trade — unem-
ployment, high taxes, lower wages
and falling farm income.

“The paramount need in the
world today is reestablishment of
one single world market, as advo-
cated by the government of the
Soviet Union.” .

The open letter points out that
by coming out for a truly Cana-
dian policy of free world trade in
a single world market, this country
“could break the log jam not only
of world trade, but of world diplo-
macy” and contribute “to world
peace instead of economic crisis and
war.”

‘The open letter proposes:
@ Commonwealth trade agreements

completely outside the U.S. dol-

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lar bloc, to enable Canada and
other Commonwealth countries to
accept a Canadian dollar’s worth
of goods purchased in Canada
by any Commonwealth country.

Advocacy of a single world mar-
ket and the liberation of world
trade from the U.S. dollar iron
collar; and an end to the em-
bargo on trade with the 800 mil-
lions in the socialist part of the
world.

Extension by Canada of long-
term state credits to the peoples
of Britain, India, Latin America
and the countries of the Near and
Far East for the purchase of
Canadian food.

Demands industry pay share

Mrs. Luckock

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wins demand

TORONTO
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Women, to enter the U.S, to attend
sessions of the United Nations was
finally admitted by the U.S. govern-
ment last week. This admission was
the culmination of a five months’
campaign to secure her entry.

Mrs. Luckock had been request-
ed by the Women’s International
Democratic Federation (WIDF), an
international organization - repre-
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countries ,to act as its observer at
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B Status with the UN as a non-
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“I’m in this campaign to lighten
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property,” William Turner,
trical worker and independent can-
didate for Burnaby municipal coun-
cil in the coming elections, said this
week.

elec-

Three municipal council seats,
now held by two NPA nominees
and one CGCF’er, are: at stake in

the elections.

“What is the present council try-
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Turner would lighten
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away.”

Dealing’ with the municipal hall
bylaw, which comes up again on
election day December 13, Turner
said:

“I am definitely opposed to coun-—
cil’s action in bringing this bylaw
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citizéns turned thumbs down on the
proposition just a few weeks ago.

“One excuse given is that the
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the RCMP. Other things are need-_

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street lighting, for instance.”

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