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Orlikow affair

Cont’d from pg. 5
political developments, with-
out bias and without pre-
judice.”

The brief made reference
to McCarthyism without nam-
ing it as such.

NDP School Trustee Wil-
liam Raynor, however, was

not so hesitant in declaring -

that the whole _ business

McCarthyism

and that it appeared that

someone is 6n a witch-hunt.”
* s ~

Board Chairman Andrew
Robertson left his chair to
enter the fray. Cutting
through the guarded refer-
ences,to police snooping and
‘McCarthyism he denounced
the RCMP and chastised the
board members and petition-
ers for hedging on the ques-
tion:

“The RCMP hasn’t the right
to investigate Mr. Orlikow.
They are the ones to blame
for this controversy. \ We
should condemn the RCMP
which goes around investigat-
ing people on this basis.”

School Trustee Andrew
Bileski, commenting on the
controversy, warned that at-
tacks on Communists are the
first step to attacks on all
democratic forces. “The pres-
ent situation in South Africa
where 32 organizations are
banned for having any pro-
gressive ideas at all is an in-
dication where this sort of
thing can lead.”

The board in a 10 to 5
vote threw out the McCarthy-
ite motion and in another vote
of 13 to 2 expressed its full

confidence in Orlikow.
* * *

In a letter. to the editor
which was also carried over
local radio and TV, W. C.
Ross, Manitoba leader of the
Communist Party, denounced
Fleming’s manoeuvering and
excuses and charged that he
was withholding the truth
from the Canadian people,

Said Ross:

“The fact is that the Com-
munist Party
tinually harassed by agents
of the RCMP not because of
any danger of subversion, but

as-part of a deliberate policy -

of political snooping and per-
secution.

“What is being violated is
not only the right of the
Communist Party to carry on
its activities as a legal politi-
cal party of the working peo-
ple, but also the ‘right of
every Canadian to learn for
himself or herself about the
Communist Party and its pro-
gram without having to ac-
count to RCMP agents.

“There have been enough.
incidents of RCMP investiga-
tions not only of Commun-
ists but of members of the
NDP, peace _ organizations,
student groups, and cultural
associations to give the lie to
Mr. Fleming’s evasion and
whitewash. If permitted to
continue, no Canadian will be

safe from police snooping.”
* * *

The repeated warnings by
progressives that what begins
as an attack against the Com-
munists winds up a denial
of democracy to all forward-
looking people have been
brought home to Winnipeg
citizens in the past few weeks
in no uncertain terms.

Jan, 18, 1963PACIFIC, TRIBUNE—Page 8

is being con-'

Canada’s economy
GNP rise ‘brightly tinselled package

HE rise in the country’s

gross national product
(GNP) during the first nine
months of the year is not the
triumph the government is
trying to make out.

Writing in the Toronto

Globe and Mail, Bruce Mac- :
Donald compares the increas-*

ed GNP — total value of all
goods and services produced
— to a prightly-tinselied”
Christmas package which
from the outside ‘‘seemed to
hold promise of an economy
that was continuing to flour-
ish”

“On closer examination,
however,” continues Mac-
Donald, “the contents of the
package appeared to provide:
little cause for unbounded
Yuletide joy.”

A few. days before Christ-
mas the Dominion Bureau of
Statistics announced the GNP
stood 8.8 percent higher than
in the first nine months of
1961 to reach a seasonally ad-
justed level of $40,256,000,-
000 in the third quarter of
this year. This was 1.7 per-

cent higher than in the sec-
ond quarter.

One press report pointed
out that a large part of the
GNP increase represented

higher prices, so that the vol-—

ume of production was up one

percent.
Commenting on the DBS
figures, MacDonald made

these points:

“But as it happened, nearly
all the real increase in de-
mand for the goods and ser-
vices produced by Canadians
came from companies piling
up inventories at a seasonally
adjusted annual rate of $656,-
000,000.

“This compares with an ac-
cumulation of only $36,000,-
000 in the second quarter and
a liquidation of $480,000,000
in the first quarter, which
means that upward pressure
on the economy in the earlier
periods from the real demand
of Canadians for goods and
services had flattened out.”

MacDonald continued:

“When purchases for inven-
tories and exports are ex-

Upped foreign control Tory

HE extent of foreign in-
T vestment in and control
of Canadian resources and
industry came under’ sharp
attack in the House of Com-
mons recently by Harold
Winch, New Democratic MP
for Vancouver East.

Winch termed the growth
of foreign control in the past
four years a “betrayal” by
the Tory government. of
Prime Minister Diefenbaker
in 1957 and 1958, ostensibly
directed against the Liberal
policy of economic “integra-
tion” with the United States
which had by that time led
to extensive U.S. control of

“years

Canada.

But, he continued, foreign
control and investment have
increased in ‘the past four
under Diefenbaker’s
Tory government.

Winch pointed to figures of
the Dominion Bureau of Sta-
tistics which showed that by
1959 U.S. capital controlled
52 percent of Canadian in-
dustry. The growth of this
trend, he said, had been fur-
ther itemized by a recent is-
sue of the Financial Post.

It could only be considered,
Winch continued, that Diefen-
baker’s statements of four
and five years ago were “‘sole-

cluded, the final demand for
goods and services by Cana-
dians increased by only $12,-
000,000 in the third quarter,
compared with an increase of
$1.2 billion in the first and
$380,000,000 in the second.
“It was the smallest rise in
final domestic demand since
the first quarter of 1961,
when there was actually a
decline of $344,000,000.

“What all of this suggests
is that despite the apparently
healthy increase, in the third
quarter, the economy had run
out of steam. Whether this is
only a temporary halt in the
steady expansion that has
been taking place in the up-
turn in the business cycle in
the first quarter of 1961 or
the first sign of an oncom-
ing recession still remained
to be seen.

“But the flattening of in-.

dustrial production in Octo-
ber following a steady slow-
ing down in the rate of ex-
pansion provided, no ground
for optimism.”

‘betrayal’

ly for the purpose of political
expediency.”

The government, he said,
must do something to fulfill
the promises they made then
if they are to show “‘that they
were not a bunch of con-
founded hypocrites in 1957.”

An opportunity to discuss

the issue should be provided —

Parliament as soon aS pos-
sible so a clear enunciation of
government policy’ could be
made.

“Otherwise, we will be con-
firmed in our belief that the
government has not either
policies or principles.”

Foreign owners stunt Canada’s economy

Gea stunted growth

over the past five years _

has been examined by a
Canadian economist and de-
fined as the result of the
hobbling of secondary in-
dustry by foreign owners.

The economist, Prof. Roger
Dehem of Laval University,
states his views in an article
in the Canadian Journal of
Economics and Political Sci-
ence.

“T suggest that a basic fac-
tor inhibiting the growth of
secondary manufacturing in
Canada is not the smallness
of the home market, but the
satellitic nature of our most
important firms” writes Prof.

This historic photo shows a free speech
demonstration on Vancouver's

Dehem.

“These were established
here by big American com-
‘panies, thanks to the Cana-
dian tariff,’ he says. “They
were established not as com-
petitors in the world market,
but as obedient subsidiaries
expressly confined to the
Canadian market, or, in some
cases, to the Commonwealth
area.

“The Canadian market has °

thus been glutted with high-
cost, high-priced and often in-
ferior American products.

The inefficiency that is in-
herent in this structure seems
to be a main cause of our
stagnation in the past few

Powell a long time.

Street Grounds on Sunday, January 20,

- disappear

years.”

Canadian subsidiaries of

foreign corporations, he de-

clares, were deliberately re-
stricted to the doemstic mar-
ket rather than spreading out
into world markets. High pro-
tection made them inefficient
to compete abroad.

The lion’s share of the
blame for this had -to be laid
to the failure of Canadian
governments to provide the
framework for growth.

Prof. Dehem’s solution
would be a tariff and fiscal
policy to force foreign sub-
sidiaries either to expand or
through competi-
tion.

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