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country;

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conditions.

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( Guidelines
for Action

In accordance with the pressing need to defend living
standards national independence, the future economic de-
velopment, and world peace against the intensifying world-
wide activities of trans-national and multi-national corpora-
tions, the World Conference on Multi-National Corpora-
tions, meeting in Toronto, Canada, November 14-16, projects
the following guidelines for action:

We support the right of all countries to control their
economic,. pclitical and social life as expressed in the
United Nations Charter on the Rights and Duties of States.
In that spirit, we recognize the right and support nations
to claim control of their own resources through public

e to enter into regional marketing agreements for mutual
protection against multi-national repatriation of profits;

@ to close tax loopholes exploited by multi-nationals;

@ to resist the disruptions of indiginous cultures fostered

e profits shall be disposed of in accordance with the
wishes of the host country;

®@ prices of commodities bought and sold by multi-natio-
nals shall be established by negotiations with the host

@ prices of commodities exported by developing coun-
tries shall be indexed to the prices of imports.
We support the spirit of the UN resolution calling for a
new international economic order and program of action:
@ We call on developed nations to extend to the Third
World, 1% of their Gross National Product, for capital
investment, as agreed upon in the 7th Special Session

_ @ We support the call for a 10% cut in military budgets
of UN Security Council members, with allocation of
these savings for Third World development.

e@ We encourage and support trade union action to de-
fend and advance the interests of workers the world
over in their relations with multi-nationals, and to
work ‘toward the equalization of wages and working

e We urge labor of all countries to demand of multi-
nationals respect for their national rights, aspirations
and cultural heritage.We support labor’s right to organ-
ize unions, bargain collectively, strike, and participate
in other ways to protect themselves from multi-natio-

e@ We support guarantees to labor around the world and
the right of workers to protest. and reject multi-

@ Multi-nationals shall abide by the conventions of the
International Labor Organization (ILO), and the labor
and social legislation of countries where they. operate.
We urge the ILO to establish new international mini-
mum standards on job security, wages, social benefits

We ask the Economic and Social Council of the -UN to
support permanent representatives of the internatiopal
trade unions to the Advising Committee of the UN Com-
missions on Multi-nationals now being established. ;

- Under the heading — Action — the guidelines state:

1. We urge the world’s working people to make a central
theme on the coming May Day, a protest against the anti-
people, pro-war policies of the multi-nationals.

2. We call for movements in every nation to develop
tread coalitions against international monopolies — a coali-
tion to engage in parliamentary, extra-parliamen
educational activities, and wherever possible to build new
political instruments to curb the power of the multi-

3. We urge the establishment, by the peace movement,
of a centre for the gathering and dissemiration of informa-
tion on the activities of multi-nationals and to serve as a
co-ordinating point and information exchange for united

and

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Fire Mackasey’ says CPC

TORONTO—The Central Exe-
cutive Committee of the Com-
munist Party of Canada under
the signature of Communist
Party leader William Kashtan
sent the following telegram to
Prime Minister Trudeau on Nov.
14.

“Your labor and wages policy
which is in crisis is largely res-
ponsible for the difficulties the
country faces as a result of the
strike of the postal employees.

“Mr. Mackasey’s union break-
ing position is making it worse.
Instead of trying to break the
strike aided and abetted by the
mass media and CBC-TV, we
urge your government to bar-
gain in good faith with the pos-
tal union.

“Rather than keeping postal

-employees on the street we pro-

pose Mr. Mackasey’s services be
ended.

“He is doing great harm to
Canada.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 21, 1975—Page 6

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Defeat this ‘growing danger!

TORONTO — In its main re-
port, adopted unanimously, the
World Conference on Multi-
National Corporations, held at
the University of Toronto’s Med-
ical Sciences Building, proclaim-
ed a common aim, “to call atten-
tion to the serious threat to
world peace, national indepen-
dence and the basic rights of
working people posed by the
growing power of global or
multi-national corporations:

“These powerful corporations
have spread alarmingly through-
out the world,” the report points
out, “seeking to maximize pro-
fits on a global scale through
intensive exploitation of labor,
through plunder of the resources
of developing nations, through
manipulation of international
banking and currency systems,
through unconscionable inter-
ventions in the internal affairs
including
open duplicity in the overthrow
of the Allende Government in
Chile, support of the racist apart-
heid regime in South Africa,
through direct threats to the sta-
bility and independence of
OPEC countries (Organization of
Petrcleum Exporting Countries)
by Messrs. Ford and Kissinger
and, at this very moment, overt
and covert involvement in efforts
to stop the people of newly-
independent Angola from taking
control of their own resources.”

Utilizing Racism

The report denounces the
multi-nationals’ utilization of
“racism and apartheid to legalize
the use of cheap labor, non-union
labor, in an effort to maintain
the unnatural division in the
working class and to facilitate
the super-exploitation of labor.”
The report charges that the
multi-nationals have “utilized
assaults on the cultures and tra-
ditions of developing nations,
corruption of public officials, as-
sassinations (Allende, Cabral,
Mondlame, Col. Ratsimandrava,
and others) in order to manipu-
late and control other nations’
economies for their own pur-
poses.” (One might also cite the
murder of Patrice Lumumba in
the Congo—now Zaire.)

“The importance of the multi-
national threat to lives and con-

-ditions of working people is un-

derscored by the’ magnitude of
the growing economic crisis in
the capitalist world,” the report
says. “Plagued by massive cor-
declining profit
rates, inflation, and capital short-
age, the drive for global maxi-
mum profits through utilization
of the power and flexibility of
trans-national corporations is in-
creasing alarmingly.”
Wealth and Poverty

The report continues:

“In the search for increased
profits multi-nationals deliber-
ately shift production to low-
tax areas, defy regional trade
and tariff arrangements, dump
expensive technology and over-

developing. nations without re-
gard to indigenous need, seek to
impose monopolies and take con-
trol of the financial resources of
industrializing countries — in a
‘concerted effort to repatriate
profits to the cérporate giants—

Delegates to the conference on multi-nationals in Toronto.

no matter the cost in terms of
human suffering and an increas-
ing world wide polarization of
wealth and poverty.

“The capacity of multi-nation-
als to expand and operate suc-
cessfully in environments of ex-
ploitation is buttressed by the
interests of the governments and
the military-industrial complexes
therein of the more industrializ-
ed nations, especially the United
States. The interlocking relation-
ship between multi-nationals and

' the military-political forces in

governments is dramatically re-
vealed by the example of official

. encouragement to invest in South

Africa, Zaire, and Spain, to
build a new American mili-
tary infrastructure in the re-
source-rich Indian Ocean Basin,
in the ‘destabilization’ of gov-
ernments which resist the plun-
der of multi-nationals.
Contribute to Crisis
“Multi - national corporations
not only seek to undermine the
independence and living condi-
tions of the people of developing
nations, but also. are parasitic
within their own countries and
within other industrialized na-

-tions, constantly shifting pro-

duction to lower wage areas,
pitting the labor of one indus-
trialized nation against the labor
of another, extending the search
for cheap labor to both industri-
alized and under-industrialized
countries.

“Multi - nationals seeking to
maximize profits abroad become
responsible for credit shortages
in developed nations — contrib-

' political

uting to the acute crisis in hu-
man service areas — shortages
of capital for housing, health
care, consumer loans and vitally,
financing of municipal services.

“Multi - national corporations,
because they threaten sovereign-
ty, have become the major
source of danger to world peace.
Military spending, a vital part of
the multi-national strategy, is
just another burden placed upon
the vast majority of working
people, causing inflation, distor-
tions in the economic life, and
unemployment.

“The enormous power of glo-
bal corporations is not to be
denied. The $30-billion in annual
sales of the multi-national, Gen-
eral Motors, is greater than the
Gress National Product of all but
15 countries. Yet, despite the in-
tensified activities of multi-
national corporations to create
and maintain divisions in the
world, the democratic majority
of the world’s people have regis-
tered enermous victories — from
Vietnam to Mozambique to the
Iberian Peninsula — in the cause —
of justice and independence. A
democratic majority has been
able to impose some concessions
to sanity and survival upon the
servants of multi-
nationals, forcing them to accept
accommodation to the principle
of respect for national indepen-
dence and international coopera-

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New Economic Order

“The World Conference on
Multi-National Corporations calls.
upon all people, regardless of
political viewpoints, national and
ethnic backgrounds, especially
the trade unions, churches, civic
organizations to .unite across
national boundaries. ;

“This call to the new economic ~
order,
national corporations to respect
the rights of nations to deter-

mine their own destiny; it is not —

a specific call for capitalism or
socialism, it is a call for national
independence — to defend the
living-standards and rights of
workers, farmers, small busi-
nesses, all who are victimized by
the activities of multi-nationals.

“We call for actions — educa-
tional activities, pressure on po-
litical leaders and parliaments,
united trade union actions —
unity between labor of the de-
veloped and developing world.

is a call for the multi-