CP seeks Left unity

the Tory government
_ Park! In an all-day
a, held last Sunday in
it eeeonded by members
P ommunist Party in that
im. Ways and means of
i. about this task were dis-
a isa the context of the
Bai pratezy of the Com-
F arty in the upcoming
elections. William
Pay Ontario leader of the
» d the discussion.

4 Objective,” Stewart said,
defeat the Tory govern-
Ty forcor of all anti-mono-
Cboly around a broad anti-

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Micinal Be elish this. Our
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fies the nature of the transition
to socialism in Canada as the
Communist Party sees it, and it
indicates the kind of alliances
which are required at the pres-
ent stage ... It is also impor-
tant because it will strengthen
our hand in the struggle for
unity in the labor movement
and for forging the united front
of the working class, and also
will help heal the split in the
working class movement .. . It
delineates the anti-monopoly
and socialist stages of the revo-
lution, thus making possible al-

liances which could otherwise’

not materialize...”

Regarding the forthcoming
election campaign, Stewart said,
“Concretely, in this election
campaign where no such broad
alliance of an anti-monopoly
nature can materialize, our tac-
tic must find expression in the
election of as many NDP candi-
dates as possible, plus the fight
to elect Communists. We’ must
not, however, subordinate our-
selves to the election of the
NDP.

“The logic of our tactic of
supporting the election of NDP
candidates in most ridings,
while participating in the elec-
tion ourselves to the maximum
of our ability, finds us running
in marginal working class rid-
ings in many instances, where
candidates of the NDP left and
Waffle group are also running.
This is logical as they too are
unable to capture the nomina-
tions in the more prestigeous
NDP ridings, and, rejecting
upper middle class and rural
ridings, seek and in some cases
win nomination in such margin-
al ridings.

“I effect, for the Party to
decide against running in these
ridings would be almost tanta-
mount to ruling our party out
of the election campaign alto-
gether.”

Mr. Stewart explained that
for the Communist Party to va-
cate itself from the electoral
arena in favor of the NDP
places the fight for unity on a
false assumption—that by such

gestures it can win the support
of the working class and im-
prove the conditions for estab-
lishing unity with the left in the
NDP.

It was clear from Mr. Stew-
art’s remarks that the Commun-
ist Party is esential to the unity
of the left, to that kind of anti-
monopoly alliance which can
defeat the Tory government. By
running in the forthcoming pro-
vincial elections the party can
project its necessary policies
into the campaign, and help to
make labor’s voice really strong
in Queen’s Park. :

UE locals want
CLC jobs action

GUELPH — UE’s two locals
here have backed up the de-
mand of National President
C. S. Jackson that the Canadian
Labor Congress call an all-in
conference to grapple with the
country’s serious job crisis.

The following telegram was
sent by President E. Blythe
(UE-CGE Local 541) and Presi-
dent A. Parker (UE Local 533,
Lakeshore Die Casting) to Don-
ald MacDonald, president of the
Canadian Labor Congress.

“The Executive Boards of
Local 541 UE-CGE, Guelph, and
Local 553 UE-Lakeshore Die
Casting, Guelph, urgently re-
quest. that you immediately call
a conference in Ottawa of all
unions in Canada to deal with
Canada’s unemployment crisis.

“It is absolutely imperative
that you immediately express
the deep concern of the million
unemployed and the workers
about their desperate plight.

“This is in line with the re-
quest of C. S. Jackson, presi-
dent of the United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers

union.”

(Voice of the Worker-UE,
June ’71)

‘We want jobs, not talk’
Manitoba YCL demands

The following letter (abridged
here) has been sent to Premier
Schreyer at the Federal-Provin-
cial Constitutional Conference
in Victoria by the Manitoba
Young Communist League:

The youth of Canada, who
are presently unemployed in
large numbers all across the
country, are being denied not
only jobs but unemployment in-
surance and welfare assistance.

The current campaign in the
press, which has given wide pub-
licity to the decision of the
Halifax City Council and the
statements made at the recent
municipal conference in Ontario
to cut young welfare recipients
off the welfare rolls, is an omin-
ous development. What in effect
is happening is that the victims
of unemployment are being
blamed for the crisis of financing
that most municipal - councils
find themselves faced with. The
press and unscrupulous politi-
cians are trying to make the un-
employed youth scapegoats for
the current depressed economic
situation in the country, when
it is the federal government that
is responsible.

The overwhelming majority
of young people who are now
out of work would be working
if there were jobs to be had.
They don’t want to be a burden
on their parents or the public
purse. But what isthe real situ-
ation? Most do not qualify for
unemployment insurance  be-
cause they have not been in the
labor force or have not worked
long enough to build up bene-
fits. The federal government’s
Opportunities - for- Youth Pro-
gram, for which $57 million has
been allocated, had had little ef-
fect in overcoming high levels
of unemployment among the
youth. Also; recent disclosures
in the House of Commons re-
garding “mismanagement” of

_the program leads us to suspect

that this program is being used
as a form of political patronage.

While the press and political
spokesmen of big business de-
plore the alleged sponging by
the youth off the welfare rolls,

the public is informed that the
Defense Department in Ottawa
is squandering millions on its
various programs; that provin-
cial and federal governments
can find millions to turn over to
private investors for dubious
undertakings.

In light of what has been paid
out to private interests through
the Manitoba Development Cor-
poration to date, we consider
the small amount allocated by
the. provincial government to
fight unemployment as too little.

The upcoming federal-provin-

cial conference is an opportunity
for the provincial government to
speak up for the youth of the
whole country.
_ We call upon you not to be
rigidly bound by the formal
agenda—not to play the political
game of Prime Minister Trudeau
—not to be drawn into the ster-
ile polemics of old-line party
politics but to hit the real is-
sues and hit them ‘hard. We
want jobs! We want independent
economic development based on
public ownership and investment
of the rich resources of our
country! We want peace and a
cut in the arms budget! We want
jobs for graduates, opportunities
for young workers and a chance
for young farmers to stay on
the land if they wish! We be-
lieve the youth of Canada will
not agree to become another
lost generation, but that they
will organize and fight for their
rights.

Take up the challenge — the
fight for the future is now!

Mammoth discovery

YAKUTSK — The body of a
mammoth has been found intact
in an unnamed tributary of the
river Indigirka in Siberia. The
animal’s hair and the skin ‘are
well preserved, the newspaper
Trud reports.

Such mammoths populated
this area in the second half of
the glacial period.

The body jutted out of the
permafrost during a thaw and
was detected by a state farm
worker.

Canadian auto jobs in danger

-Minister that employment of sen-

ior workers at the Windsor en-
gine plant of the Ford Motor
Co. is in jeopardy if recent
work practices are continued
and accelerated. They told the
Minister that Ford officials in
the United States are purposely
realigning production runs to
create more employment oppor-
tunities at the U.S. plants. As a
result, Canadian workers face
potential layoffs or permanent
loss of jobs if the process 1s
allowed to continue. The union
spokesman said that such action
is technically possible under the
1965 Canada-U.S. auto pact.
The union pointed out that
the agreement has accomplished
its main objective, namely to
create and sustain conditions
for the most effective operation
of market forces to obtain the
most economical pattern of in-
vestment, production and trade
from the auto corporations’ point

-of view. “But how about em-

ployment and expansions, train-
ing and full utilization of skilled
and technical personnel?, the
union asked. “The benefits in

this sector are very dubious.”

It is imperative that Canadian
authorities take fully into ac-
count the fact that the parent
companies in the United States
determine the operations of
their Canadian subsidiaries. For
Canadian auto workers this
means, as the union correctly
pointed out, attrition of techni-
cal skills and prevention of
Canadian research and develop-
ment, not to speak of efforts to
seek and expand into new mar-
kets. As a result, employment in
Canada will suffer, despite the
fact that Canadian workers are
every bit as skilled and efficient
as their counterparts in the US.

The fact that an increase in
plants and equipment has taken
place in the last five years in
Ontario and Quebec, and that
Canada’s total export and im-
port transactions with the Unit-
ed States on automotive ac-
counts have been equalized up
to this point, is no guarantee
that this state of affairs will

inue. :

with unemployment high in
the U.S. and several automotive

plants closed or reorganized to
cope with declines in sales, and
with the steady growth of for-
eign imports now penetrating
both the U.S. and Canadian auto
markets, there is already much
pressure from the U.S. side to
bring about changes which will
benefit their side to the detri-
ment of Canadian expansion in
job opportunities. Added to this
is the relentless competition to
speed up productivity and to
cut costs, all of which will result
in layoffs, increased exploitation
of those who are retained on the
job, which is the main purpose
of the rationalization drive in

- the industry.

The workers in the auto in-
dustry have every reason to be
concerned over the obvious at-
tempts now being made to give
U.S.-based plants the lion’s
share, if not all, of any increase
in the Canadian and U.S. mar-
kets for automotive products.

The auto pact as it now
stands requires that vehicle pro-
duction in Canada be equal in
volume to 75% of unit sales in
Canada, the ratio prevailing in

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNCE 25, 1971—PAGE$. -

1964 before the pact came into
being. It also stipulates that the
dollar value of production work
done in Canada should not fall
below the level prevailing in
1964. Moreover, that manufac-

turers increase the dollar value ~

of production work performed
in Canada by an amount equal
to 60% of the growth of the
Canadian auto market, plus
another $260 million increase in
Canadian value-added, once the
60% increase had been reached.

What the U.S. now wants is
to remove these so-called ‘tran-
sitional’ provisions in the pact
and to create a completely con-
tinental integration in which the
Canadian sector would be whol-
ly smothered under by U.S.
imports.

This is a dangerous path. The
time has come to reverse course
before the ship runs aground.
Canadian UAW members should
insist upon a conference of all
Canadian members to discuss
the rapidly deteriorating job
prospects in the Canadian sector
of the industry and decide what
is to be done about it.

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